May 2012
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May 31st
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“The strange deficiency [of German silent comedy cinema] may be connected with...”
– Siegfried Kracauer, From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film (1947)
May 31st
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May 30th
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May 30th
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“It is noteworthy that, while the French and Americans succeeded in creating a...”
– Siegfried Kracauer, From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film (1947)
May 30th
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May 30th
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K-Pop Like A Rock Star: A rock-influenced K-pop...
maddieloveskpop: The idea of a rock-influenced K-pop mix was suggested by Trevor a few months ago, and it stuck with me. I thought a research-oriented approach would be best, starting at the beginning and working my way through to the present. As such, the tracks are arranged in more or less chronological order, with some fudging to accommodate the categories I want to discuss. Rock music...
May 30th
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May 28th
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May 28th
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May 26th
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May 25th
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May 25th
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May 24th
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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May 22nd
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“…He said that the older you get, the lonelier you become, and the deeper the...”
– Leonard Cohen
May 22nd
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“—Long enough to remember the girl who proposed love to me in the neon...”
– Allen Ginsberg, “An Atypical Affair” (1952)
May 21st
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“During the past few years strong movements have developed among women and among...”
– Huey P. Newton (1970)
May 21st
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May 21st
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"Gee," Female Subjectivity, and the Male Gaze
Here’s a brief essay about the use of doll imagery in K-pop, along with an excellent collection of additional resources. One of the videos mentioned here is Girls’ Generation’s “Gee.” It’s the first one that came to mind for me, and I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s true for many others. But watching the video—and I’ve done this countless...
May 21st
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“The colors in 16mm movies are denser and more concentrated while black and white...”
– J. Hoberman, “Sweet Little 16mm” (May 18, 2012)
May 18th
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May 17th
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May 16th
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May 15th
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Five K-Pop Songs I Loved in April 2012
Previously: 10 K-Pop Songs I Loved in March 2012 Five K-Pop Songs I Loved in February 2012 Five K-Pop Songs I Loved in January 2012 We Need to Talk About K-Pop (my K-pop mix) 1. 4minute - “Volume Up” Frank Kogan has already done a heroic effort in unpacking and analyzing this song in not one but two posts, and I suggest you read those. “Volume Up” has really grown...
May 10th
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May 10th
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May 10th
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May 9th
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May 9th
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“[The biographer did not] share Burroughs’s misogyny, which at the bottom was...”
– Ted Morgan, Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs (1988)
May 9th
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“Perhaps the most transgressive aspect of Cronenberg’s adaptation [of Naked...”
– Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Sex and Drugs and Death and Writing”
May 9th
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May 8th
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Marty Friedman's "What Is J-Pop?" →
Marty Friedman is a guitarist who moved to Japan, where he now works as a musician and songwriter and where he has been living since 2003. You might know him from Megadeth, the group he was in from 1990-2000. This is a transcript from a workshop he gave this year on J-pop. Reading through this, I recognize that a lot of what he is describing about how he fell in love with J-pop mirrors how I...
May 8th
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May 7th
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May 7th
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“I haven’t read “The Waste Land” for a year, and I never did bother to check all...”
– Barack Obama in a letter to Alex McNear, with whom he had a romantic relationship in college.
May 3rd
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