November 2007
4 posts
HERE is a link to a helpful table showing all the 2008 Presidential Candidates and where they stand on relevant issues. If you can guess who I would vote for based on this table, you know me too well.
Spending a little time in Austin over the holidays, I was turned on to this movie, which is absolutely stunning. Rather than critique the music business for a flawed business model, it critiques the music business for creating a culture that ignores art and promotes easily marketable creations. Perhaps the fate of the music business is not just that people who shouldn’t be making money off of...
I will say Hallelujah when Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah is covered no more. I heard K.D. Lang’s horrid version of it today on Jools Holland and realized I never want to hear another cover of it again, ever. I capitalized her name as penance, since she seems to hate that. ps. of course, Jeff Buckley’s version that brought the song to prominence WAS indeed a cover, but it is the definitive cover, and...
Saw American Gangster tonight, and enjoyed it. Don’t know about the Oscar hype, but then again, I don’t know about the Oscars. I did, however, find this interesting article that features a conversation between AG’s main character Frank Lucas and his old competitor Nicky Barnes, conducted this year by New York Magazine. Interesting read.