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He was the door out of the 60s into the 70s. You could be silly again
Alan Cardew • Lord Byron: The Perils and Glories of a Classical Education
Jimmy Van Heusen was a decadent womanizer, an Olympian boozer, a war hero, a daredevil pilot, and one of America’s best songwriters. Bogart may have been Sinatra’s role model for style, but for lifestyle, it was Van Heusen “All the Way,” the Oscar-winning song Van Heusen wrote with his lyricist Sammy Cahn. Sinatra called Van Heusen “Chester,” after
... See moreGeorge Jacobs • Mr. S: My Life with Frank Sinatra
It takes courage to enjoy it
The hardcore and the gentle
Big time sensuality
Big Time Sensuality, by Björk
Perhaps you allude to one by the name of Carwin. I will anticipate your curiosity by saying, that since these disasters, no one has seen or heard of him. His agency is, therefore, a mystery still unsolved."
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
Sell, Sell, Sell
youtube.com“Blame It on the Boogie” is confusing, because it’s a cover of a song by Mick Jackson, an English singer whose real name was also Michael Jackson. He had a version of the song out at the same time, and British newspapers and radio stations took sides: some of them liked the Jackson version, while others liked the Jacksons’ version.
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson • Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
In John Carey’s brilliant book What Good are the Arts?, he demolishes, one by one, all the lessons and rules and theories that people have applied to culture and its significance – their attempts to ‘prove’, through science or logic or philosophy, that great art does this to you, and is better than not-great art because it has that. Ostensibly clev
... See moreNick Hornby • Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius
Musical Mob’s ‘Pulse X’ and ‘Believe Me’ by DJ Wire (which came along a bit later) – those were the