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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1934
Song of the Day: Blinding Lights features the words and music of Max Martin, Oscar Holter, Belly, DaHeala, and Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, known to the world as The Weeknd. This uptempo song recently displaced “The Twist” as the longest-charting song in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, having spent…
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Continue reading →: C4SS: Enough with The Isms!
I enjoyed an Alex Aragona article published on the site of Center for a Stateless Society: “No One is Talking About Capitalism — In Your Sense“. Alex points to many of the problems that I, myself, have noted with using the word “capitalism” in so many different ways that it…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1933
Song of the Day: Bring Back the Time, words and music by Lars Jensen and Donnie Wahlberg, is a throwback tribute to 1980s pop, and features New Kids on the Block, Rick Astley, Salt-N-Pepa, and En Vogue. It’s a hoot to watch this collaboration, which made its video debut on…
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Continue reading →: Paul Cantor, RIP
I was shocked to learn today (H/T to FB friend Shal Marriott) of the death (on February 26, 2022) of Paul Cantor, the American literary critic who was the Clifton Waller Barrett Professor in the English Department at the University of Virginia. Paul was 76. Born in Brooklyn, New York…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1932
Song of the Day: The Untouchables (“Soundtrack Suite”) [YouTube link], composed by Ennio Morricone, is one of the highlights to this 1987 prohibition-era crime film, directed by Brian De Palma, and starring Kevin Costner (as Eliot Ness), Robert De Niro (as Al Capone), Andy Garcia, and the Oscar-winning Sean Connery.…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1931
Song of the Day: In the Line of Fire (“Soundtrack Suite”) [YouTube link], composed by Ennio Morricone, provides a musical landscape of tension that undergirds this 1993 political action thriller starring Clint Eastwood, Rene Russo, and the maniacal Oscar-nominated John Malkovich. This is the first of two back-to-back suites from…
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Continue reading →: Classic Insult Humor
After a recent discussion on Notablog that examined cancel culture and comedy, I was watching the film “Touch of Evil” (1958), starring Orson Welles, and I got a kick out of the fact that Welles—who also directed and wrote the screenplay for the film—incorporated a jab at his own weight…
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Continue reading →: Ukraine & Moral Outrage
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I have read quite a few articles by libertarians and fellow travelers who are understandably concerned about US intervention overseas. An article at antiwar.com highlights US hypocrisy in its stance toward the Putin regime, while other writers express the hope that President Biden will show…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1930
Song of the Day: The Adventures of Robin Hood (“Soundtrack Suite”) [YouTube link], composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, features grand themes from the Oscar-winning score to this rousing 1938 swashbuckling adventure, directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley. It stars Errol Flynn in the title role, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains,…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1929
Song of the Day: King Kong (“Soundtrack Suite”) [YouTube link], composed by Max Steiner, is credited as the first score written in a way to parallel, enhance, and support the narrative to a film—and “movie music” has never been the same since. So singular was Steiner’s achievement for this 1933…
Chris Sciabarra, April 2022 Coney Island Parachute Jump, Brooklyn, New York
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