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jfbFrom today's New York Times:
Blogs! An article in the style section about shifting boundaries of public and private contains this:
A dumbish article by Jon Pareles on 70's-influenced male singer-songwriters like John Mayer, Jack Johnson, and Jason Mraz ("Sweet Baby Jameses," says the blurb on the cover). Pareles, a music critic, asks, "Shouldn't they be shouting rather than whispering?" (No; they should be making the music they want to make, and then we can decide whether it's the music we want to hear.) "Collectively, as a movement, all those edgeless tenor voices and all that deference, self-consciousness, sublimated anger and self-pity just might get on your nerves." (Here's a tip: They're not a "movement".) When songwriters sing "I'm sorry," "They're atoning not only for their own romantic mishaps but also, in a way, for the surge of machismo in 1990's rock." (Wow.)
A musicological take on American Idol: Contestants have learned the technical feat of gospel-style melisma, but not the emotional vocabulary that makes it effective.
Daniel Lanois and his new album.
Frank Rich on William Bennett and Tupac Shakur.
Cornel West takes The Matrix too seriously.
Claire Peploe's The Triumph of Love, a stage play filmed with French New Wave style.
And from the op-ed section, Israel's tourism minister and "the strengthening alliance between those Jews who favor a Greater Israel and conservative Christians in the United States who are moved by the same ancient dream, based on what evangelicals call the 'Abrahamic covenant.'"
Blogs! An article in the style section about shifting boundaries of public and private contains this:
While blogging journalists like Andrew Sullivan, Mickey Kaus and Eric Alterman get a lot of attention, a vast majority of bloggers are average citizens like Mr. Bruner, who draw from their personal experiences - and often the personal experiences of relatives, friends and colleagues - to create a kind of memoir in motion that details breakups and work and family issues with sometimes startling candor.Of course, really, blogging journalists get all that attention from other journalists. Journalists are an important section of the blog world, but it's rare that a major media piece notices that they aren't central to it. A companion piece describes a "New York School of bloggers," which I suspect means "blogs run by friends of friends of this reporter".
A dumbish article by Jon Pareles on 70's-influenced male singer-songwriters like John Mayer, Jack Johnson, and Jason Mraz ("Sweet Baby Jameses," says the blurb on the cover). Pareles, a music critic, asks, "Shouldn't they be shouting rather than whispering?" (No; they should be making the music they want to make, and then we can decide whether it's the music we want to hear.) "Collectively, as a movement, all those edgeless tenor voices and all that deference, self-consciousness, sublimated anger and self-pity just might get on your nerves." (Here's a tip: They're not a "movement".) When songwriters sing "I'm sorry," "They're atoning not only for their own romantic mishaps but also, in a way, for the surge of machismo in 1990's rock." (Wow.)
A musicological take on American Idol: Contestants have learned the technical feat of gospel-style melisma, but not the emotional vocabulary that makes it effective.
Daniel Lanois and his new album.
Frank Rich on William Bennett and Tupac Shakur.
Cornel West takes The Matrix too seriously.
Claire Peploe's The Triumph of Love, a stage play filmed with French New Wave style.
And from the op-ed section, Israel's tourism minister and "the strengthening alliance between those Jews who favor a Greater Israel and conservative Christians in the United States who are moved by the same ancient dream, based on what evangelicals call the 'Abrahamic covenant.'"
Benyamin Elon, a minister in the Israeli government of Ariel Sharon, agrees [with the need for a Palestinian state]. But, reviving a vision long cherished by Israel's religious and secular hawks, he argues that the new Palestinian state must be Jordan.The argument seems to be that Israel should get the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (a) because God promised them to Abraham, and (b) for the Christians, because that will usher in the Second Coming. Help.
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What I sing / What I mean
Date: 2003-05-18 04:57 pm (UTC)"I'm sorry": I'm atoning not only for my own romantic mishaps but also, in a way, for the surge of machismo in 1990's rock.
"I'm angry": I'm atoning not only the difficulty I gave my parents in toilet training but also, in a way, for disco.
"I'm hungry": I'm atoning not only for the awful disparity between the rich and the poor but also, in a way, for houses with black trim.
"I'm tired": I'm atoning not only for the Republican excess of the Bush/Reagan/Bush years but also, in a way, for Bananarama.
"I'm all achy": I'm atoning not only for The Great War but also, in a way, for "Mairzy Doats".
A coming
Date: 2003-05-18 06:40 pm (UTC)I remember in The Omen, they were listing something like "Jews controlling the holy land" as one of the signs of the apocalypse, specifically in this case the coming of the antichrist. (How closely does W's birthday coincide with the founding of Israel, anyway?)
Well, it seems like something is slouching thattaway, in any case.
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Date: 2003-05-18 08:15 pm (UTC)anyway, i think people who write about other people (in possibly derogatory ways) are just asking for trouble. if you really have something that you need to get out, buy a diary and a pen and spend some time writing it down.
i have recently come across a site written by someone who wants to share her experiences with finding herself sexually but wants to remain anonymous, and i have to say, she's doing a really good job of it thus far. but the article is right - most people who are writing just want the attention and think that by making it gossip-y it's going to get a broader readership. probably true, but, not worth losing relationships over.
btw, the anonymous website i referred to is called metrosexual.
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Date: 2003-05-20 12:51 pm (UTC)more sex gossip!
--sean