After all this time to believe in Jesus, after all these drugs I thought I was Him
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Author: Dan Seeger
Greatish Performances #16
#16 — John Cameron Mitchell as Hedwig Robinson in Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell, 2001) It’s almost unfair to celebrate John Cameron Mitchell’s performance as a transgendered rock singer in the film version of Hedwig and the … Continue reading Greatish Performances #16
Great Moments in Literature
“‘I wonder,’ she was fond of remarking, ‘what they’d say if they knew that we two old tramps were going to be the most marvellous novelist and the greatest actress in the world.’ “‘They’d probably be very much surprised.’ “‘I expect we shall look back on this time when we’re driving about in our Mercedes, and think: After all, it wasn’t such bad fun!’” –Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin, 1939 “THEY WALKED ACROSS THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE AT DAWN, STOPPING HALFWAY TO WATCH THE RISING SUN> PAINT THE MONOLITHIC OFFICE TOWERS OF LOWER MANHATTAN IN STREAKS OF FIRE. THEY’D STARTED THE … Continue reading Great Moments in Literature
My Writers: William Shakespeare
I’m not so arrogant as to believe that I’ve got something profoundly novel to contribute to the vast ongoing discussion about the most important writer in the history of the English language. I can only do what the title of … Continue reading My Writers: William Shakespeare
College Countdown, The First CMJ Album Chart, 11
11. Blondie, Parallel Lines “Heart of Glass” was the fourth single released from Blondie’s Parallel Lines. Okay, technically it was the third single released in the United States, their label, Chrysalis, opting against issuing “Picture This” as the opening … Continue reading College Countdown, The First CMJ Album Chart, 11
From the Archive: Sneakers
As with all writing from the early nineteen-nineties that touches upon computer-based technologies, the limited grasp of the information revolution on the way is adorable. This was written from the student newspaper The Pointer. I think it was one of my earlier pieces, which might explain why we evidently hadn’t settled on a style choice for the title of the films (in quotes? italicized?) leaving it simply capitalized, which looks wholly inadequate to me know. I left that formatting in place, but I did fix the editing mistake the printed the name of a certain Academy Award-winning trailblazer as Sidney … Continue reading From the Archive: Sneakers
One for Friday: Ryan Adams, “Come Pick Me Up”
When I embarked on my second journey through the magical land of student-run radio, as the supervising adult instead of one of the rabble-rousing kids, I was all too aware that I had a lot of catching up to do. Despite my desire to stay current on music, to avoid being the guy who was calling up the college radio station requesting the songs and artists I’d been listening to for twenty-five years or more when the deejay really wanted to play that brand new thing on the shelf, I had done poorly. This was in part attributable to putting … Continue reading One for Friday: Ryan Adams, “Come Pick Me Up”
The New Releases Shelf: Turn Blue
(Picture) The backlash, it seems, is officially underway. While plenty of the more venerable publications have predictably lined up with dutiful raves, befitting the Akron duo’s new status as the last great hope of rock ‘n’ roll in a Miley Cyrus pop flare universe, there have also been equally expected kneejerk naysaying, led by a scalding from Pitchfork severe enough to prompt drummer Patrick Carney to sarcastically reference it during an appearance on The Colbert Report. The truth between these markedly different reactions, as it so often does, lies somewhere in between. Turn Blue is unmistakably a Black Keys record. … Continue reading The New Releases Shelf: Turn Blue
Top Fifty Films of the 50s — Number Thirty-Three
#33 — Clash by Night (Fritz Lang, 1952) By the time Fritz Lang sat in the director’s chair for Clash by Night, he’d been a filmmaker for some thirty-five years. In his early sixties, he was also going through something of … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 50s — Number Thirty-Three
That Championship Season: The Ben Stiller Show, Season One
Lorne Michaels has said that everyone’s favorite era of Saturday Night Live is whichever one was taking place while they were in high school. That may very well be true. Similarly, I think it may be possible that everyone’s favorite … Continue reading That Championship Season: The Ben Stiller Show, Season One
Coffee for Two 