Monthly Archives: May 2007
“Why is someone so good not famous?”
Why indeed? This clip is long, and yet I never want it to end. See more of Brenda Bergman and the Bodacious Ta Tas on the Maury Povich show singing “To Sir, With Love,” circa 1995.
“Disco Manqué”
Jody Rosen testifies: Gibb is an old-fashioned song craftsman—a composer of beautiful, harmonically sophisticated pop songs who would have held his own back in the 1930s with Gershwin and Kern and company. This is the funny thing about the Bee Gees disco-era apogee: They were playing dress-up, shamelessly bandwagon-hopping, writing the same great songs that [...]
Stuck in the Middle
Always excited about new projects from Ariel Schrag. A recent endeavor: editing Stuck in the Middle, an anthology of comics about the trials of junior high school, with work from Ms. Schrag, Gabrielle Bell, Daniel Clowes, and others. “High Anxiety,” NY Times Book Review Stuck in the Middle on myspace
Tasty Zine
Over at Feast of Fools, John Q. Sanchez patrols the internet so you don’t have to. Check out the video bounty of Tasty Zine. Here’s a sample: Debbie Harry and the Muppets
The Gang’s All Here