So Canada won men’s and women’s Olympic hockey gold to the US’s silver (although to see the US men receiving their medals, you’d think all they’d all lost a puppy). Neil Young was lined up months ago to play at the closing ceremonies; though Canadian expectations for Team Canada were high, no one, last December, [...]
When talking about It Might Get Loud with some friends (see post for Feb. 24), the inevitable questions were raised. First: are Jimmy Page, The Edge, and Jack White really the logical choices to represent three “generations” of rock guitarists? Wouldn’t Clapton have been as interesting, or more, than Page? Slash is just four years [...]
Celebrity entertainers to play poker with? Where do I sign up? Or rather, how might one even start to think about this? I’m not a gambler, and so don’t fully understand the discrete charms of the table; but it’s hard for me to see why I’d want to play against a guy who looks vaguely like [...]
It has been said that an elegy is as much about those left behind as about those who have left us: The dangerous calculation of the form is always to pay tribute without calling too much attention to oneself. So too, it turns out, with the musical benefit, whether it’s a tribute like the Bob [...]
It Might Get Loud, Davis Guggenheim’s loving documentary about the guitarists Jimmy Page, The Edge, and Jack White, was released on Blu-Ray and DVD on December 22 and proved the perfect stocking-stuffer for the 2009 holiday season. Families that had tired of playing plastic guitars badly on their new HDTVs, via Guitar Hero and Rock [...]
New blog: first post. Hope y’all will like it. In brief: Some joyous occasional observations on contemporary culture. Literature, music, the media. Guiltless pleasures. Pure pop for now people. More soon– Kevin Tweet This Post
