Tag Archives: Truman Capote

high in cold pop

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Dave

Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) … a cover of High Times from the 70s, with Truman Capote and Andy Warhol dressed up for Xmas. That’s mighty cool (and weird).

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged Andy Warhol, high times magazine, jesse marinoff reyes, Truman Capote | Leave a comment

Imagine, the history of the nation hinged on an art book. One of the most dangerous anti-apartheid activists was arrested while reading an art book? What book? Until we find out, we can only speculate, that either it was a … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged alexei remizov, arthur goldreich, Catherine Deneuve, denis goldberg, ernst kirschner, helmut newton, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Max Horkheimer, Nelson Mandela, slim aaron book, stephen dupont, Truman Capote, Walter Benjamin | 1 Comment

Heresy on the Guest list: too darn hot

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Dave

Heresy has always had many faces. The classic division has always followed the Voltaire pattern of speaking truth to power in order to be absorbed within the establishment, and accept the sacraments. Heresy has traditionally been seen as four faced: … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Benozzo Gozzoli, Charles Lindberg, Charles Lindbergh, Cole Porter, Dorothy Thompson, Ethan Mordden, Ethel Waters, Fred Astaire, Goethe, Grouch Marx, John Dos Passos, John Ford, John Wycliffe, Katharine Hepburn, Moss Hart, Pedro Berruguete, Simon Magus, Sinclair Lewis, Stefan Kanfer, Truman Capote, Voltaire | Leave a comment

HE COULDN’T MAKE THE HILLS

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Dave

I can’t make the hills The system is shot I’m living on pills For which I thank G-d I followed the course From chaos to art Desire the horse Depression the cart I sailed like a swan I sank like … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Bob Dylan, Bob Gruen, David mcgough, Dr. Arthur Janov, E.M. Forster, Eleanor Baird, Gina Serpe, Gregory Mansur, Henry Jenkins, John Lennon 70th birthday, John Lennon Real Love, Leonard Cohen, Levon Helm, Marlon Brando, Mikita Brottman, Oscar Wilde, Philip Norman, Sam Ford, Sean Lennon, The Beatles, Truman Capote, Yoko Ono | Leave a comment

WRESTLING WITH THE AESTHETIC OF VIOLENCE

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Dave

Masculinity in crisis as a black or absurd comedy. Society’s always seems to rejoice in a misplaced misplaced judgment that portrays violence as a reality principle, perhaps reflecting the influence of Quentin Tarantino. A video of a Halifax, Canada area … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Aesthetic of Violence, Caril Fugate, Charlie Starkweather, Daniel Craig, Daniel Craig Defiance, Griel Marcus, Henry A. Giroux, Josh Boutilier, Kathryn Bigelow, Ken Fells, Kevin Costner, Kevin Costner the Untouchables, Natural Born Killers, Oliver Moore, Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Robert De Niro, Sam Peckinpah, Samuel L. Jackson, Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg, Tarantino jackie Moore, Truman Capote, Truman Capote in Cold Blood, Violence in Cinema, Woody Allen | Leave a comment

BEATNIK CHRISTMAS: HOWLING DOWN THE CHIMNEY

Posted on December 21, 2009 by Dave

T’was the night before Yuletide, and all through the pad/Not a hipcat was swinging, and, thats nowhere dad/The kid’s was all hung, on that stocking routine/Hoping the fatboy would soon make the scene/I was ready for snoresville, man was I … Continue reading →