Rupert Murdoch is Our Daddy

In the hottest news to come out of the Rupert Murdoch Water Sports Wall Street Journal takeover, they’re going to make the WSJ Online free!!!!
Say all you want about evil white dudes who wanna rule the world. Counter Critic’s about to get a whole lot more funner.

N. Korea Wants Visitation Rights

Terry Teachout, in a paranoid editorial published by the Water Sports Wall Street Journal Online, advises against the NY Phil’s proposed performance in North Korea. He basically doesn’t want the Philharmonic to dance like monkeys in front of Kim Jong Il, especially considering that most of the N. Korean population is barred from even entering [...]

Break On Through

Holy crap! Anyone read The Water Sports Wall Street Journal online lately!!!
Look who got a link, bitches! C.C. in da hooooooouse! (It’s under the “Blog Posts About This Topic” at the bottom.)
So who should we thank? Heidi Waleson? Terry Teachout? Jesus Christ?

High School Musical

Heidi Waleson bitch-slaps the Gotham Chamber Opera’s production of Piazzolla’s “Maria de Beunos Aires” in her Water Sports Journal review. basically saying that it reminded her of the 1995 Mercy High School production of “South Pacific.” She’s particularly spiky regarding the performance of the orchestra.
Too bad, cuz Gotham is like, one of the [...]

DUmb Critic Hack Award: Terry Teachout on Jazzed Up Classical

So Terry Teachout is getting the big old DUCHY today for his self-inflated and cursory stab at correlating an apparent drought in the number of pop-artists that include classical music in their songs and…the entire fate of classical music.
So, like, a few examples come instantly to mind:

Janet Jackson, “Someone to Call My Lover,” uses Satie’s [...]

Nostalgia Redux

If it ain’t the 60’s, it’s the 80’s.
Here’s Greg Sandow’s (of Arts Journal blogging micro-fame) Wall Street Journal piece on Pauline Oliveros’ gig at the Lincoln Center Out of Doors nostalgia fuck fest to the 1960s.
I guess nobody’s jonesin to get back to the 70’s or 90’s.
I prefer to look at all this scrap-book nostalgia [...]

Critics Agree

6 out of 7 critics agree that Gwyneth Paltrow should have played Claire Danes‘ role in Stardust.
New York Times
Wall Street Journal
Random blog
Yahoo
411 Mania
The entire region of West Texas