Lo and behold, Partch’s Delusions of Fury (just review by C.C.) is on YouTube!
This footage apparently comes from an 1968 San Diego TV station’s broadcast of a filmed version of the work, in which Partch was involved. The staging is fitfully more serious, if dated. Oddly enough, the music sounds stranger in the videos [...]
Put down the remote control, and check out Alessandra Stanley’s morning television check-up in The Times. This is Stanley’s second Caddy, the first going to her coverage of Victoria Beckham’s one-night-stand reality ride.
It was really hard to pick a favorite passage from this lampooning of morning television’s feminine consumer-driven lameness. So we’re gonna give you [...]
Holy crap. Another critic makes the Gawker gossip spotlight (here’s the first one). This time, it’s hometown theater critic, Charles Isherwood, who apparently tried to tear certain striking playwrights a new hole, and ended up getting his own hole blown out by supposed layabout playwright, Jon Robin Baitz. According to Gawker:
Dreamboat playwright, blogger, and writer [...]
Try to resist (as much as you can) the sense of oh-fuck-what-kind-of-monster-have-we-created when you read (and you should) Greg Tate’s Village Voice review/rant on Kanye West and 50 Cent, and this account of a pair of Euro hip-hoppers’ mutual admiration for negro bling and cracker jingoism:
“On a recent PBS report about Europe’s love-hate relationship with [...]
Channel 13’s got Nuryev on the neurons.
So do the papers…
NY Times
New Yorker
NY Sun
Newsday
Yummy!
We haven’t seen the series, but Entertainment Weekly’s Dalton Ross was too cute on NY1 this morning, exlpaining that the new Showtime David Duchovny vehicle, “Californication,” is just too dirty to edit into PG:
“I can’t tell you how difficult it was to pull clips to go with this review of Showtime’s “Californication.” That’s because pretty [...]
Our favorite “unscientific” early morning news segment has to be NY1’s Snap Poll, which, as already mentioned, is an unscientific poll that lets you vote from your haze of grogginess with your Time Warner remote control.
On the menu today? OPERA!
A report released indicates that the Met broke its record for opening box office sales, so [...]
Okay, this shit sounds fierce. (God, is anyone using that word anymore? Oh. I guess we are.) But seriously, thanks to Mike Hale for giving us the heads up on the BET reality show, “Baldwin Hills.”
Here’s our favorite part of the show/review. We’ll try to add some context with brackets:
In one of the show’s main [...]
Stephen Holden at The Times gives a deservedly snarky thumbs down to an upcoming public TV series, “Lights! Action! Music!” which presumes to explore the relationship between the moving image and the musical score.
By Holden’s account, it’s a cursory, frivolous chip into a bigger, more fascinating iceberg.
I’ll go a step further and argue that music, [...]
It’s seriously a virtual civil war raging over at the TNT messageboards! If you ever wanna get a glimpse into essential conflict ripping our country into two halves–the average, channel surfing, hifalutin,’ Focus On The Family joinin’, GWB voting, Americans, and the rest of us–check out the forum for the new series, Saving Grace, which [...]
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