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Zombies, Take Note!

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Good Friday 2013

Salvador Dalí. Surreal, surely, but this painting shows a powerful realism evoking Caravaggio. Compare this image with the Ocean Rain album-cover art. Haunting. To all the faithful, a solemn Good Friday. Continue reading →

30 Years…Still Here…

Rule of Seven…only a few more to go now! Continue reading →

‘The Greatest Album Ever Made’

As we do each Palm Sunday (well, the last two, anyway), we kindly remind you to pull out your copy of the album Ocean Rain and play it liberally during this Holy Week 2013. Hell, just put it on a continuous loop in the background. In terms of the whole Story of The Passion and springtime and such, no other modern-music collection captures the ups, downs and ups again, the whole manic-depressiveness of Holy Week, as this album does. (For cripes sake, there are songs titled “The Yo-Yo Man”, “Thorn of Crowns” and “My Kingdom” on it!) This is a springtime album; this is an album for Palm Sunday and Good Friday and Maundy Thursday and all of it. All the main characters are here too: Judas, Jesus, Pilate, the Disciples, God Himself, the Centurions, you name it. Gethsemane, Golgotha, Potter’s Field, it’s all here. If this album doesn’t put you in Holy Week, doesn’t put you in springtime, ah, well, as one of the better lyrics puts it, “Where’s the sense in stealing/Without the grace to be it?” Continue reading →

Saturday morning. We pick more winners (oh, OK, some winners?) when the familiar Metropolitan Opera live broadcast comes over the airwaves, sponsored by Toll Bros., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Brothers Koch. Not really on any of these counts, but yes to the opera sometimes. It keeps you honest. You get to hear something real and undoctored, music as was originally intended. Today brings an archival broadcast from 1977 featuring Leontyne Price and Placido Domingo. How can you not listen? Verdi was born 200 years ago this year. Who else will we be playing 200 years from now? Verdi? Of course. F-u-n-period, Gotye, Fred Mumford & Son? Ummmm…

Anyway, here’s a short film meant to entertain highbrow, lowbrow and, like us, nobrow alike. Kulture vulturesz 4-evah! Continue reading →

A lot of mopesz love their Call of Duty, Worlds of Warcraft, Super Mario Bros., Sonic the Hedgehog, and so might we, if we ever laid our eyes or hands on them. But before all that, there was the unquestioned Greatest Video Game of All: Circus Atari. Nowadays, we got drugged-up killers and ethnocleansing bombers and sex-hungry car thieves competing in the home-console wars. Back then, vintage early-1980s and the Atari 2600, it was all about two stick-figure clowns (ooh, scary!), a sliding teeter-totter (erm, see-saw, if you wish) and three rows of balloons — yellow, blue and red. Continue reading →