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Rolfe Horn: Mind Like Water

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Rolfe Horn: ‘Mind Like Water’

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Terraced Hillside near Noto, Japan

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The Beatles: I Feel Fine 1966

by on Dec.03, 2009, under music

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Leonnon c 1966-the period of their best music..


Fast Tube by Casper">Hey -they\’re not miming, are they?

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1966 -the period of their best 'look'

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Patrick Caulfield: ‘After Lunch’

by on Dec.03, 2009, under art, painting

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Karl Struss: City of Dreams (1926)

by on Dec.03, 2009, under photography, places

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City of Dreams (1926) Karl Struss

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Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste

by on Dec.03, 2009, under art, music

Why do I hate the music of Celine Dion? I enjoyed the book reviewed below, so I thought I’d share this with you -it may shed some light, but then again..

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Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste by Carl Wilson

I must admit some surprise that the best book I’ve read about judgement, taste, and aesthetics is a book about Céline Dion. Carl Wilson’s Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste is not only thoughtful and well-informed, it is also compelling in every sense of the word. (It’s part of the ever-surprising and wonderfully odd 33 1/3 series from Continuum Books.)

I don’t know where I first heard about Wilson’s book — probably via Bookforum — but it’s gotten plenty of press, including a mention by James Franco at the Oscars and an interview of Wilson by Stephen Colbert. The concept of the book is seductive: Wilson, a Canadian music critic and avowed Céline-hater, spends a year trying to figure out why she is so popular and what his hatred of her says about himself. I kept away from the book for a little while because I thought it couldn’t possibly live up to its premise, and that in all likelihood it was more stunt than analysis. Nonetheless, the premise kept attracting me, because I am fascinated by the concept of taste and I, too, find Dion’s music to be the sonic equivalent of a Thomas Kinkade painting.

What makes Wilson’s approach so effective and insightful is that it avoids the fanboy defensiveness marring everything from internet discussions to scholarly studies such as Peter Swirski’s From Lowbrow to Nobrow. Wilson isn’t grinding axes or settling scores; he’s more interested in exploration than proclamation, more inclined toward maps than manifestos. The result is one of the few books I know that is as likely to expand its readers’ view of the world as it is to provide the choir with an appealing sermon.

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via The Mumpsimus.

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The British Commonwealth of Nations

by on Dec.03, 2009, under art, history


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David Constantine: Photomontage

by on Dec.03, 2009, under poetry

Photomontage


Against a photograph of the two of them in their eighties

Into the bottom righthand corner of the frame

When he was dead and she was beginning her absence

She set a photograph of herself at eighteen

Black and white, she cut it out

From somewhere, she cut round

Herself so she was nowhere and alone

Laughing. Nobody commented

But there it is, and see,

It says, how I looked when you fell in love with me

And I with you and didn’t we bear it out

To the edge and over the edge of doom?

Her montage in the dying living room.

David Constantine

from: Nine Fathom Deep (2009)

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