Susan Sontag’s "On Photography" (1977)
Another older piece I’m exhuming. More new shit next week. Susan Sontag, discussing Chris Marker’s landmark short film La Jetée, wrote…
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December 2022
Month
December 2022
Twenty-six Thoughts on Tori Amos’s “Boys for Pele”
Written in January 2016 for the album’s 20th anniversary No anniversaries to prompt me exhuming this older piece, but these…
2022 Grab Bag O’ Fave Raves (Pt. 2)
Records An incomplete and unranked sampling of records I liked from this year: some popular, some less popular. Cate Le…
Kraftwerk, “Pocket Calculator” (1981)
There’s a delicate and almost imperceptible fracture in Ralf Hutter’s voice on Kraftwerk’s “Pocket Calculator” when he so delightfully Sprechstimmes…
We'll Never Forget Tonight: RIP Christine McVie
I had a dream once about Christine McVie. She’d gone quiet for a while, on extended sabbatical from Fleetwood Mac,…