Tim Riley's Blog, page 21
August 4, 2011
KUTI AND GEOGRAPHICAL DESTINY
--From the Evolution of the map of Africa
--See also: Sean Kuti on how the West can't save Africa
July 18, 2011
July 4, 2011
July 1, 2011
FROM SPRINGSTEEN'S EUGAGOLIE
Image by AWKWORDrap via Flickr
...SO LADIES AND GENTLEMAN... ALWAYS LAST, BUT NEVER LEAST. LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE MASTER OF DISASTER, the BIG KAHUNA, the MAN WITH A PHD IN SAXUAL HEALING, the DUKE OF PADUCAH, the KING OF THE WORLD, LOOK OUT OBAMA! THE NEXT BLACK PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES EVEN THOUGH HE'S DEAD... YOU WISH YOU COULD BE LIKE HIM BUT YOU CAN'T! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE BIGGEST MAN YOU'VE EVER SEEN!... GIVE ME A C-L-A-R-E-N-C-E. WHAT'S THAT SPELL? CLARENCE! WHAT'S THAT SPELL? CLARENCE! WHAT'S THAT SPELL? CLARENCE! ... amen.Related articlesSpringsteen's final goodbye to Clemons looks back at long friendship (pbpulse.com)A Message from Bruce Springsteen on Clarence Clemons (929dave.radio.com)Clarence Clemons Funeral - Bruce Springsteen Performs Eulogy (laylasclassicrock.blogspot.com)Wikipedia: Clarence Anicholas Clemons, Jr. (January 11, 1942 - June 18, 2011), also known as The Big Man, was an American musician and actor. » [image error] [image error]
June 30, 2011
June 23, 2011
June 13, 2011
PENGUIN'S PANDAS
CHOICE QUOTE: "...When they saw that cover, one woman vomited and another guy poked his eyes out, then shot himself because he was so bored... [Penguin] said they had showed it to the salespaeople and the salespeople thought it was a great cover. So great it should go into a book of Penguin's most awesome covers. Crappy publishing jerks." 100 FACTS ABOUT PANDAS authors David O'Dohery, Claudia O'Doherty, Mike Ahern, p. 24
June 2, 2011
DETERIORATA XI:5
ZINGER OF THE WEEK: Mr. Tyler was a delight in the early audition rounds, like a Ritalin-starved grade-schooler let loose in a Twinkie factory. By midseason, though, he barely appeared to be paying attention, his flights of wild grammar more frustrating than novel. -- Jon Caramonica in the Nytimes Idol post-mortem.
How out of place did Marc Anthony look? Fiendish tokenism or fashionable opportunism? "Dream On" as power ballad plunged the overplayed Aerosmith rag even further into the muck. Tyler works so hard to embarrass himself, and succeeds in such a self-satisfied, over-deliberate way. It's almost like he belongs. Favorite moment: Randy Jackson kvelling about "Don't Stop Believing."
May 24, 2011
THOSE INVERTED SEVENTIES
OR: KIND OF LIKE THE OPPOSITE OF AN AERIAL VIEW: 
Unifying the conceptual approach to Day Glow Freaks is the particular use of names. The album's title is borrowed from the "Kid Charlemagne" lyric "all those dayglow freaks who used to paint the face / they've joined the human race..." and is tied conceptually to the song titles on the album. I interpreted the "freaks" as a group of people with whom you were once familiar but have since become estranged. Likewise, I saw Day Glow Freaks as an opportunity to tell the stories of Steely Dan characters we know little about--the supporting cast in the band's catalog of narratives. Each song on Day Glow Freaks adds a new, abstract dimension to a personality that was never fully defined. The details of these characters are free to be imagined by listeners...
-- from Gabe Is the Devil, Day Glow Freaks
