Archive for August 2007

Campari and Fellini

Thursday, August 16, 2007

There is the summer pop song, the summer blockbuster, and for some, the summer font, so of course there is the summer drink. In recent summers, it’s been Campari and soda—which should not be confused, a friend tells me, with Campari Soda.
A little research reveals that the deep crimson color comes from carminic acid extracted […]

“Cause it goes on and on”

Monday, August 6, 2007

I remember watching Celine Dion perform Phil Spector’s “River Deep, Mountain High” on MTV’s first Divas Live extravaganza in 1998. I was full of contempt at the time, having endured a roommate’s long-running obsession with “My Heart Will Go On.” But then Celine took the stage. She wore a dark duster as though she were […]

Lee Hazlewood, 1929-2007

Monday, August 6, 2007

“One of the most ingenious, inspired and impressively stubborn sons-of-a-bitch the music industry ever saw”
That’s from Lee Hazlewood’s obituary on myspace. Hazlewood died Saturday in Las Vegas, but right now in the lefthand corner of his website, the little orange figure is blinking away: “Online Now!”
Hazlewood probably would’ve enjoyed the absurdity. He titled his […]

Michelangelo Antonioni, 1912-2007

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Trailer for Eclipse (1962).
“Modern Life is Rubbish: Antonioni on DVD,” Benjamin Strong in Fanzine
“A Chronicler of Alienated Europeans in a Flimsy New World,” Stephen Holden in The New York Times
“Hold That Shot: The languorous, achingly hip films of Michelangelo Antonioni,” Dennis Lim in Slate