Jack Beltane's Blog, page 38

This is kinda cool, actually. My year in music 2014, tracked by...

This is kinda cool, actually. My year in music 2014, tracked by #spotify

It’s about damn time! Congrats, #JoanJett And in her...

It’s about damn time! Congrats, #JoanJett

And in her words: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/joan-jett-hall-of-fame-induction-20141216

"Look at the entire canon of modern art in America: It’s paltry. It’s based on reputation, not merit...."

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Look at the entire canon of modern art in America: It’s paltry. It’s based on reputation, not merit. It’s based on savvy marketers, promoters, and agents, not on talent or spiritual worth. Not that what I write is some great artistic endeavor, but at least it’s mine, and at least it gives people something, if only entertainment. I’m sorry, but a canvas painted green is not art, any way you slice it. It’s idiotic, and it if it stands for anything it would be how stupid the current intelligent...

"So powerful is the impetus towards the collective fake that it is now rare to be a finalist for the..."

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So powerful is the impetus towards the collective fake that it is now rare to be a finalist for the Turner prize without producing some object or event that shows itself to be art only because the critics have said that it is…

There grew around the modernists a class of critics and impresarios, therefore, who offered to explain just why it is not a waste of your time to stare at a pile of bricks, to sit quietly through 10 minutes of excruciating noise, or to study a crucifix pickled in urine…...

I just realized that my latest book, about six friends trying to...

I just realized that my latest book, about six friends trying to survive the last year of high school, opens in December. Does that make it perfect holiday reading? No. But it would still be a good gift!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1929309171/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1929309171&linkCode=as2&tag=gravewormcom-20&linkId=K3S2NJ6BRSSK3PZK

AND it comes with a free soundtrack featuring The Cure: http://www.mixcloud.com/jackofbells/a-company-of-tatters/

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Robert Johnson may have been recorded sped up, Chipmunks-like

Robert Johnson may have been recorded sped up, Chipmunks-like:

I was always amazed at how high Robert Johnson’s voice was. In fact, a lot of recordings from that era sounded too high pitched to me… Well, I may not be crazy.

Peggy Cummins and John Dall as Laurie Starr and Bart Tare in...

Peggy Cummins and John Dall as Laurie Starr and Bart Tare in “Gun Crazy” (1950)

William Talman as Emmett Myers in “The Hitch-hiker”...

William Talman as Emmett Myers in “The Hitch-hiker” (1953)

RIP Mike Nichols

RIP Mike Nichols

When The Place That Raised You Burns

When The Place That Raised You Burns:

jumonz:

This won’t mean a thing to anyone who didn’t come of age at The Union, but I’m sure you can understand. There are places in your life that are just as important as the people who occupied them, because without the physical space, you never would have met your kind. A lot of ‘music people’…

Well said…