Luc Sante likes him a great deal and I do like Sante. What I want to know, though, has anyone read Sonata for Jukebox: Pop Music, Memory and the Imagined Life, an unfurlingly sensorial memoir from poet, essayist and editor Geoffrey O' Brien? Although it has been a few years since its initial 2004 Counterpoint Press printing, I still remember the airiness of the reviewers' prose and just how w...
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Sonata for Jukebox - Has Anyone Read it?
Weekend DVD: Half Nelson
Half Nelson director Ryan Fleck possesses the sort of intuitable partiality that not only dictates a film score made up of 16 or so Broken Social Scene songs but a fairly transparent list of influences, including Paul Auster, thinker-writer-pacifist Howard Zinn, director Hal Ashby, John Lennon, the city of Brooklyn and his dad's website aimed at engaging the interest of kids in how things chang...
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San Francisco Noise Pop 2007: Make With the Dispatch, MOG (Especially That John Vanderslice Show)
Okay, aside from the robust selection of artist recommendations and the regardful give-and-take, I also depend on MOG for vicarious festival seating. So while some of you make real-life travel plans for SXSW or Coachella - maybe call in some favors to secure weekend accommodations at a friend's already small apartment - I, unfortunately, can only anticipate the colorful posts that will end up ...
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