Archive for August, 2008
MEDIUM COOL
Saturday, August 30th, 2008With the 2008 Democratic National Convention just behind us, and a newly unified and stronger-than-ever Democratic Party rallying behind the charisma and inspiring voice of Barack Obama, we are wholly embracing the urgent message of change. Haskell Wexler’s 1969 film Medium Cool, set in the summer of 1968 and leading up to that year’s tumultuous [...]
MILK PLUS SOMETHING ELSE
Saturday, August 16th, 2008Post Ludovico technique: your nights sipping moloko plus at the Korova Milkbar with droogies Pete and Georgie are all over. These days, you’ve traded your tower block fascist dystopia for a comfy modular Shangri-La, whiling away the hours listening to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and exercising your free will with clean lines and geometric liberty. In [...]
THE PATAPHYSICIAN
Saturday, August 9th, 2008We’d like our library to be filled with only volumes as fascinating and finely crafted as those from Exact Change. Musicians and publishers Damon & Naomi always bring intelligence and elegance to all things they do, and the Exact Change repertoire is no exception. A culmination of the dreamiest (and almost lost!) works of modern [...]