Tag Archives: Van Dyke Parks

fortune has it

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Dave

He tried for popular acclaim and never got there. It may have accelerated his undoing. Phil Ochs. A folkie of a time that now seems far removed from where we are today.He always seemed a bit marginal; not the archetype … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Bob Dylan, Chris Barsanti, Christopher Hitchens, Clement Greenberg, Cole Porter, Edgar Allan Poe, George Gershwin, Herman Melville, Jermoe Kern, Jim Glover, Kenneth Bowser, Max Horkheimer, Phil Ochs, Randy Newman, Theodor Adorno, Van Dyke Parks, Walter Benjamin, Woody Guthrie | Leave a comment

DIDDLERS: SECRETS HIDDEN IN THE SHUFFLE

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Dave

It’s what Griel Marcus termed ”the old, weird America.”; a peculiar terrain, a strange yet familiar backdrop to a common cultural history of America : the “playground of God, Satan, tricksters, Puritans, confidence men, illuminati, braggarts, preachers, anonymous poets of … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Boardwalk Empire HBO, Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Constance Rourke, David B. Kesterton, De Tocqueville, Edgar Allan Poe, Griel Marcus, Herman Melville, Jesse Bier, John Goodman, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Larry Charles, Luc Sante, Matt Goldberg, Michael Moore, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Fulford, Ruth Schwartz, Sinclair Lewis, Stephanie Zacharek, Stephen Matterson, Van Dyke Parks, Virginia Heffernan, William E. Lenz | Leave a comment

ST. JUDY’S COMET: She Stood a Wreck on Error’s Shore

Posted on November 14, 2010 by Dave

One seer pronounced her the victim of a deeply religious and spiritual nature perpetually at war with the flesh that overwhelmed it. As D.H. Lawrence said, ” it is hard to hear a new voice, as hard as it is … Continue reading →