Tim Riley's Blog, page 5
February 19, 2015
Norm Macdonald, SNL40, Paul McCartney, Eddie Murphy…
[View the story “Norm Macdonald on SNL40″ on Storify]
January 28, 2015
Ann-Margret, Spoon, and Your Soul
Can't find any video clips of Ann-Margret's Ray Donovan appearances (Season 2), but she stole every scene--Liev Schreiber just sat back and let her drive...
January 21, 2015
Pazz, Jop, Flop, Fly
Pazz & Jop went up, with these album results: 1 D’Angelo, Black Messiah RCA Points: 2008 Mentions: 163 2 Run the Jewels, Run the Jewels 2 Mass Appeal Points: 1734 Mentions: 163 3 The War on Drugs, Lost in the Dream Secretly Canadian Points: 1244 Mentions: 104 4 St. Vincent, St. Vincent Loma Vista/Republic Points: […]
December 31, 2014
2014 Book List
2014 BOOKS When America Turned: Reckoning With 1968, by David Wyatt (University of Massachusetts Press) Leaving the Pink House, by Ladette Randolph (University of Iowa Press) Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard on You?: A Memoir by George Clinton with Ben Greenman (Atria) No Easy Highway, by Peter Richardson (St. Martin’s Press, 2015) Can’t We Talk […]
December 11, 2014
Sorkin HBO Rape UVA Rolling Stone Snowden #Keywords
Lots of good ink on The Newsroom‘s rape episode, but it’s not like West Wing didn’t already prove this megalomaniac’s zeal for self-aggrandizement… Remember when he stopped production to compose his very own post-9/11 special episode, Isaac and Ishamel (Season 3, Ep. 3)? (Reminds me of Dylan saying “I want to be buried in an unmarked grave.”) […]
December 8, 2014
One-Hit Wonders, Soundtrack Blunders
Hanz Zimmer's exceedingly literal and pressing soundtrack to Interstellar throws Kubrick's borrowings for 2001 A Space Odyssey into relief -- makes his choices as witty and acerbic as his invention of Hal (the gay computer).
November 24, 2014
Spotify Lightning: Right Spark, Wrong Rod
COVERS Bill Murray, Dylan’s “Shelter From the Storm,” St. Vincent closing credits SPOTIFY COVERAGE STILL WEAK In The New Yorker, John Seabrook leaves the reader asking the single most pertinent, obvious yet invisible question coursing through this non-story: why would anybody rely on “record labels” to serve as fraudulent middle-men anymore? Does the next Rosanne […]
November 20, 2014
A LITTLE MORE GAUZE
Mike Nichols: "If zat woman comes back... Kill her."
November 11, 2014
BROTHAS… George Clinton book review
George Clinton, funk’s profane God-uncle, bandleader of both Parliament and Funkadelic, producer of legions more, was born in a lavatory in Kannapolis, North Carolina, so he “came by the funk honestly.”
October 23, 2014
Rand Paul, Plagiarism, and Time magazine
Ballad of a Tin Man: Rand Paul, Plagiarism, and Time magazine's sins of omission.
