-
Something which begins as a mild annoyance can become infuriating or maddening if it goes on long enough. Such is my reaction to the contemporary use of the word "iconic." At first it was applied to fairly significant things that over some fairly lengthy period of time have become a part of our cultural furniture:
-
All intellectuals take the strengths of their societies for granted, or do not even notice them: problems, by contrast, loom large in their imagination–that is why intellectuals are often destructive forces. –Anthony Daniels, in The New Criterion An advantage–though that's perhaps not the right word–of having a melancholy and pessimistic cast of mind is that one
-
Adele's Fungal Infection Has People Talking About Jock Itch Which people, we wonder? What percentage of the population were aware of this significant news? Of those, what percentage are talking about it? Never mind, I don't really want to know. And FYI I saw the headline on the Brave browser's news feed, which gathers stories
-
Dead Can Dance is a two-person group comprised of Lisa Gerrard (of the amazing voice) and Brendan Perry. As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Gerrard's solo album The Mirror Pool led me to this one. Or, I should say, back to it, because although I have it I had not listened to it
-
Some years back there was, in the comments here, an exchange about the tendency of political and other opinions to harden in older people. If I remember correctly, one person suggested that this was essentially a sort of ossification, with certain opinions becoming so much a mental habit as to become an unchangeable part of
-
If you weren't there, it may be difficult for you to grasp the effect that "The Girl From Ipanema" had on a young man of the mid-'60s. You needed only her voice to convince you that she was the girl from Ipanema, and to strike in you the deep chord of longing which the song describes
-
Listening to Mary Fahl made me think of this artist, another of those who helped make the name of the 4AD label revered for many years. Lisa Gerrard was one half of the duo Dead Can Dance who released a number of albums on that label in the '80s and into the mid-'90s. I'm familiar
-
I've been casting a cold eye on my CD shelves with the intention or at least hope of getting rid of a few discs. There isn't enough room for all of them, and there are at least a dozen that just sort of sit around here and there. A certain number aren't even really mine,
-
OnlyFans Now Has More Than 3 Million Content Creators A couple of months ago here I mentioned OnlyFans: And I'm informed by a commenter at National Review that many ordinary girls "from good families" are appearing on OnlyFans, a web service where men pay to see women be sexually provocative, a term which is apparently quite broad
-
The other day I was reading one of the many and frequent news stories that describe the decline in American education, as measured by basic competencies in reading, math, and so forth. This has been going on for decades, and everyone deplores it, and great sums of money are spent with at least the partial
-
Subscribe
Subscribed
Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
Light On Dark Water 