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College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #632 to #629

October 20, 2019 Dan Seeger

632. Santana, Marathon (1979) In many respects, the shifting trends of rock music in the late nineteen-seventies probably felt very accommodating to guitarist Carlos Santana. A master craftsman with his guitar, Santana had major hits with hard rock music as … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #632 to #629

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Outside Reading — Scene I: The End of October edition

October 19, 2019October 19, 2019 Dan Seeger

Angels in East Texas by Wes Ferguson Part reporting, part reminiscence and reflection, Wes Ferguson writes about the staging of Tony Kushner’s widely acknowledged masterpiece, Angels in America, at an East Texas college in the late nineteen-nineties. Validating a stereotype … Continue reading Outside Reading — Scene I: The End of October edition

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This Week’s Model — Beach Slang, “Bam Rang Rang”

October 18, 2019 Dan Seeger

Because sometimes nothing sounds quite as good as big ol’, messed up, slap and bash rock ‘n’ roll. The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City, the new album from Beach Slang, releases January 10, 2020. Continue reading This Week’s Model — Beach Slang, “Bam Rang Rang”

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My Misspent Youth — Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

October 17, 2019 Dan Seeger

I read a lot of comic books as a kid. This series of posts is about the comics I read, and, occasionally, the comics that I should have read. I bought Watchmen, the limited series written by Alan Moore and … Continue reading My Misspent Youth — Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

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Laughing Matters — League of Extraordinary Freelancers

October 16, 2019October 15, 2019 Dan Seeger

Sometimes comedy illuminates hard truths with a pointed urgency that other means can’t quite achieve. Sometimes comedy is just funny. This series of posts is mostly about the former instances, but the latter is valuable, too. If there was any … Continue reading Laughing Matters — League of Extraordinary Freelancers

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The New Releases Shelf — All Mirrors

October 15, 2019October 14, 2019 Dan Seeger

I don’t believe there’s another current performer who’s simultaneously otherworldly and vehemently down-to-earth in quite the same way as Angel Olsen. Part of the equation is fairly easy to work out. Olsen specializes in melding spare, airy music with words that … Continue reading The New Releases Shelf — All Mirrors

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Playing Catch-Up — La Pointe Courte; Boy Erased; Stan & Ollie

October 14, 2019October 13, 2019 Dan Seeger

La Pointe Courte (Agnès Varda, 1955). Three years before Claude Chabrol’s Le Beau Serge, the film usually cited as the beginning of the French New Wave, Agnès Varda delivered this film that certainly flaunts a lot of the hallmarks of … Continue reading Playing Catch-Up — La Pointe Courte; Boy Erased; Stan & Ollie

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College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #636 to #633

October 13, 2019February 8, 2025 Dan Seeger

636. Dead Milkmen, Eat Your Paisley! (1986) Any act that nabs a sizable amount of attention with a novelty hit faces a distinct challenge. The fundamental nature of a single that earns airplay because of its comedic uniqueness is a … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #636 to #633

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Outside Reading — The Orr Stratagem edition

October 12, 2019April 27, 2024 Dan Seeger

The cleverness of stupidity by Tom Whyman Drawing a few sharp illustrative examples from classic literature (including a ruse that leads to escape from the military for Orr in Catch-22), Tom Whyman shows how defiant rejection of learning is a … Continue reading Outside Reading — The Orr Stratagem edition

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This Week’s Model — Omni, “Courtesy Call”

October 11, 2019October 10, 2019 Dan Seeger

Hailing from Atlanta, the band Omni plays in a style that leaves me fairly helpless. In the most succinct description, Omni plays post-punk, placing their retro sound quite squarely in the chronological territory that loomed very large — and was … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Omni, “Courtesy Call”

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