Wow-- I've really and truly been the laziest person on earth when it comes to updating this blog and website. I suppose I've had pretty good reasons for the silence, though: for most of November, I was busy finishing a...
After posting about Neville Brody, I began thinking about other possible album cover designers to write about. Then last week, I finally Netflixed the DVD of CONTROL, Anton Corbijn's moving biopic about Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis, and although I...
In the early eighties, I was into a lot of post-punk and early electronic bands whose album covers were designed by Neville Brody. Over the years, I've tried to follow Brody's career, mostly thanks to my designer friend Tony...
(I limited myself to movies released after 1968 or so. Maybe I'll compile an "earlier" list another time. And since I love it so much, I couldn't resist including the Australian poster for Mysterious Skin.) (Top to bottom, left to...
Lately I've been listening to a bunch of recent (and recent-ish) albums that owe various degrees of debt to 1970s sequencer-heavy disco, particularly some of the music and productions of the great Giorgio Moroder. Lindstrom; Spirit Catcher; Chromeo; The Emperor...
I'm still alive--really! It's been over a month since I posted last, but I've been insanely busy with a textbook-writing job (and also insanely boring). In case anyone is still reading this blog: I'll be back again soon....
I haven't uttered a peep on this blog for a damn long time. How about I promise to give a personal update of sorts within the next week? In the meantime, here's a smattering of music I've been listening to...
Some random writing-related things: (1) Below are a couple of photos sent by my photographer pal Michael Karo. I doubt the owner of this VW bus knows anything about my second novel, but it's kinda fun to think otherwise. (Plus,...
OK, so I've had this weird obsession for a long time, an obsession intensified by my iPod and the album cover art that constantly changes on its screen: I'm fascinated with album covers that resemble each other. So this extremely...
