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Here are brief comments on some interesting, not necessarily good, films that we've rented from Netflix over the past few months. My wife picked the majority of them. She has a pretty good record at this point. Children of Heaven: Iranian, by, I think, the same director who did The Color of Paradise, which is…
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Headline for a video news segment on MSN: Miss USA Out Of Rehab. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Mr. Martins, From The Other Side I had planned to write about something else this evening, but this afternoon my wife and I sat down to watch our latest NetFlix arrival, The Third Man. As I may have mentioned here before, I don’t, in general, take movies all that seriously as art. In particular, I…
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Creating that which should not be. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Loudon Wainwright III: History Here’s something different: an album for middle-aged middle-class men. Now there’s a population that’s, as they say, “underserved” by the popular music industry. Most middle-aged pop artists seem to see themselves as perpetual adolescents, or at any rate to write from that point of view. Even Dylan (who is really past…
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Is Wagner Bad for You? Returning to the discussion, postponed last week, of the E. Michael Jones essay “Music and Morality: Richard Wagner’s Adultery, the Loss of Tonality and the Beginning of Our Cultural Revolution,” from the December 1992 issue of Fidelity: There is a great deal to commend in this essay; I’m sorry it’s…
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This looks awfully interesting: a re-issue of recordings made by the Trees Community, an early '70s Jesus Freak group, drawing a rave review at AMG. The samples sound intriguing, a bit reminiscent of the Incredible String Band (a good thing, in my view, though the IBS is definitely not for everybody). I will be mildly…
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Buddy Miller: Universal United House of Prayer I’ve been hearing Buddy Miller’s name, usually along with that of his wife, Julie, for a while, but have only heard a little of their work. If the rest of it is in the class with this, I want to hear a lot more. (Although Buddy’s name is…
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A Couple of Miscellaneous but Not Entirely Unrelated Items Apropos the recent discussions of Wagner here, the reader who signs himself “rjp” kindly sent me a couple of back issues of Fidelity (December 1992 and May 1993) containing some interesting views of Wagner: a lengthy article by E. Michael Jones, who edited Fidelity, called “Richard…
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Bob Dylan: Modern Times Who would have thought that the latter days of Dylan’s career would see him emerge as primarily a great vocalist? His voice, always a triumph of manner over means, seems pretty well ruined as far as anything that would normally be thought of as singing is concerned. But he’s achieved a…
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