Archive for the ‘Old Music’ Category

Types Of Music

Jazz: Five men on the same stage all playing different tunes.
Blues: Played exclusively by people who woke up this morning.
World Music: A dozen different types of percussion all going at
once.
Opera: People singing when they should be talking.
Rap: People talking when they should be singing.
Classical: Discover the other 45 minutes [...]

June 8, 2010   Posted in: Old Music  No Comments

The Magdalene Sisters

This extraordinary film is celluloid incendiarism, rabble-rousing cinema with a delirious, delicious edge of black comedy which I estimate to be about 90-95% intentional. Director Peter Mullan’s debut feature Orphans had the same explosive seriocomic combination. Then, as now, he’s putting out the fire of emotional pain with the gasoline of satire and scorn.
The Magdalene [...]

May 14, 2010   Posted in: Old Music  No Comments

The Matrix

It is easy to confuse the concepts of “virtual reality” and a “computerized model of reality (simulation)”. The former is a self-contained Universe, replete with its “laws of physics” and “logic”. It can bear resemblance to the real world or not. It can be consistent or not. It can interact with the real world or [...]

May 13, 2010   Posted in: Old Music  No Comments

The Truman Show

“The Truman Show” is a profoundly disturbing movie. On the surface, it deals with the worn out issue of the intermingling of life and the media.
Examples for such incestuous relationships abound:
Ronald Reagan, the cinematic president was also a presidential movie star. In another movie (”The Philadelphia Experiment”) a defrosted Rip Van Winkle exclaims [...]

May 13, 2010   Posted in: Old Music  No Comments

Greetings from Desperation, N.J.

You know the obligatory “chick flick” scene in which the cute, young, unlucky in love but at least they have each other heroines succumb to the rousing rhythms of a Motown favorite and get down, get down until they whip themselves into a girlish frenzy that climaxes with a feather-strewing pillow fight?
That scene never [...]

May 13, 2010   Posted in: Old Music  No Comments