Some things promise growth, but many others are still in flux – and the next era, while showing some signs of being just around the next corner, is not quite upon us. Not quite. But still…It’s getting closer… The Studio sign is on the right, at the bend in the road. Synclaire...
When I was in high school, I saw a touring exhibit of plaster casts that had been made of actual inhabitants of the city during their final moments – in the poses they struck upon their deaths. Those frozen figures were both distant to me and yet very real all at the same time. When...
“He’s a hedgehog, and he’s really fast” instead of the owl mother, teleportation backstory. Not everything has to be Tolkien.) But that ambition doesn’t match the lack of ambition in the comedy, which depends upon really hackneyed setups and structures. Guiding Jim Carrey to full ...
Craig shut all the window shades, locking the world outside, and opened the nip bottle of Old Forester he had stashed in his jacket pocket on his way out of the office.
Upon hearing this, I wasn’t sure if it was a voice that I heard or a thought that I noticed. I opened my eyes, possibly as if to see if someone was there with me. I did not know the meaning of the word “beget” and wasn’t even sure if I had ever heard it before, so ...
” The chorus is punctuated with open, ringing chords from Andy Summers and a relentless bass line that arpeggiates down a diminished minor chord. The impact of all the touring the Police had done is apparent in the performance; this is a tight ensemble, but when they let loose, as Andy...
A traveler stands upon it, gazing at the distant towers of the city of Arles. Although it might pass for a work from nature, the Red Vineyard had a visionary mood about it. It could be read as a post-Protestant parable. The workers in the vineyard toil virtuously; all around them ...
Wait upon the conclusion, And look what you determine, And for the most part decide on. O, well-away that I was born! For through you my name is gone And all my actions told and sung, Through all this land, on every tongue. ...
It starts as a jazz fusion piece along the lines of the Average White Band's "Cut the cake", with a distinctive theme which is developed and improvised upon. Later the introduction of vocals signals a complete change in the track, as it becomes a highly appealing ballad with building ...
Discovering how to draw a wing, how to build a cantilevered shelf into a tower of building blocks, how to articulate passages on the tuba, how to figure out the chords to a melody on the piano, how to nurse a hen with sour crop. Together, Elihu and I have become good at figuring ...