Peter Solarz
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Claire Keane
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Sade Olutola
trying on a metaphor
occasionally subtle
Janaina Medeiros
if i look back, i am lost
shark vs the universe
taylor price
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sheepfilms
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Sweet Seals For You, Always
JBB: An Artblog!
noise dept.
NASA
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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Brian Eno / Warm Jets
“Lacking any mentionable instrumental proficiency, [Eno] claims he ‘treats’ other musicians’ instruments — though the end product of his efforts would have to be classed as indiscernible… His record is annoying because it doesn’t do anything.”
- Gordon Fletcher reviews Brian Eno's debut album, Rolling Stone, 1974
Schindler's List
"A theme park ride masquerading as master's thesis"
Luke Y Thompson, New Times, 1993
Radiohead / OK Computer
"Radiohead wouldn’t know a tragic hero if they were cramming for their A levels, and their idea of soul is Bono, who they imitate further at the risk of looking even more ridiculous than they already do."
- Robert Christgau votes OK Computer by Radiohead his dud of the week, The Village Voice, 1997
Black Sabbath
"The whole album is a shuck — despite the murky songtitles and some inane lyrics that sound like Vanilla Fudge paying doggerel tribute to Aleister Crowley, the album has nothing to do with spiritualism, the occult, or anything much except stiff recitations of Cream clichés that sound like the musicians learned them out of a book, grinding on and on with dogged persistence."
- Lester Bangs reviews Black Sabbath's classic eponymous album, 1970
Wuthering Heights
"The book sadly wants relief. A few glimpses of sunshine would have increased the reality of the picture and given strength rather than weakness to the whole. There is not in the entire dramatis persona, a single character which is not utterly hateful or thoroughly contemptible. If you do not detest the person, you despise him; and if you do not despise him, you detest him with your whole heart. Hindley, the brutal, degraded sot, strong in the desire to work all mischief, but impotent in his degradation; Linton Heathcliff, the miserable, drivelling coward, in whom we see selfishness in its most abject form; and Heathcliff himself, the presiding evil genius of the piece, the tyrant father of an imbecile son, a creature in whom every evil passion seems to have reached a gigantic excess—form a group of deformities such as we have rarely seen gathered together on the same canvas. The author seems to have designed to throw some redeeming touches into the character of the brutal Heathcliff, by portraying him as one faithful to the idol of his boyhood—loving to the very last—long, long after death had divided them, the unhappy girl who had cheered and brightened up the early days of his wretched life."
- Anonymous review, Atlas, 1848
Seven
"So chic, studied and murky it resembles a cross between a Nike commercial and a bad Polish art film"
- David Ansen reviews Seven, Newsweek, 1995
Fear of the idiot box
"Television may teach self-interest rather than philanthropy, violence rather than gentleness, a disregard for human dignity rather than a respect for it.
It may not always teach the truth but teach it does, and it is more than time that responsible people both within and outside the broadcasting professions said boldly what is so obvious in commonsense terms — we cannot understand what is happening in international, cultural, economic, political and social affairs without coming to grips with the way in which television influences virtually all our behavioral and thought processes."
- Mary Whitehouse, The Spectator, 1974
Blade Runner
"A very dark and far too long thriller with many dull moments that would serve the film better by moving along a bit faster."
- Chris Hicks reviewing Blade Runner, Deseret News, 1982
- The Daily Mail launches an assault on the demon VHS tape, 1983
(via http://www.bookofthedead.ws/website/features_video_nasties.html - thx!)
Palczewski, Catherine H. Postcard Archive. University of Northern Iowa. Cedar Falls, IA.
(via http://thinkingaboutphilosophy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/vintage-anti-suffragette-postcards.html - thx!)
On Women Studying
"A girl could study and learn, but she could not do all this and retain uninjured health, and a future secure from neuralgia, uterine disease, hysteria and other derangement's of the nervous system..."
- Dr Edward Clarke on Women studying, Sex in Education, 1875
Comics
"I have known many adults who have treasured throughout their lives some of the books they read as children. I have never come across any adult or adolescent who had outgrown comic-book reading who would ever dream of keeping any of these 'books' for any sentimental or other reason"
- Fredric Wertham, Seduction of the Innocent, 1954
Stravinsky.
"The music of Le Sacre du Printemps baffles verbal description. To say that much of it is hideous as sound is a mild description. There is certainly an impelling rhythm traceable. Practically it has no relation to music at all as most of us understand the word."
- Review of Igor Stravinsky's 'The Rights of Spring', The Musical Times of London, 1913
Shoenberg.
"A regular Friday audience, 90 percent feminine and 100 percent well-bred, sat stoically yesterday through thirty minutes of the most cacophonous world premiere ever heard here -- the first performance anywhere of a new Violin Concerto by Arnold Schoenberg....Yesterday's piece combines the best sound effects of a hen yard at feeding time, a brisk morning in Chinatown and practice hour at a busy music conservatory. The effect on the vast majority of hearers is that of a lecture on the fourth dimension delivered in Chinese."
- The Philadelphia Record, review of a performance of Streichquartette I-IV by Arnold Shoenberg, 1940
All that Jazz, clearly evil
"Jazz originally was the accompaniment of the voodoo dancer, stimulating the half-crazed barbarian to the vilest deeds. The weird chant, accompanied by the syncopated rhythm of the voodoo invokers, has also been employed by other barbaric people to stimulate brutality and sensuality. That it has a demoralizing effect upon the human brain has been demonstrated by many scientists."
- The Ladies Home Journal, 1921
Current Quote: GTA V
"My students play GTA V instead of studying. It teaches them to kill prostitutes and demean women in the game - and beyond"
- Cassie Rodenberg, The Guardian, 2013
(via http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/27/grand-theft-auto-v-prostitutes-killed)
My comment: GTA V is an 18 certificate game not for sale to minors. You do not earn points for killing a prostitute. It may have been an idea to play the game before writing your article.
We do not (thankfully) have millions of Breaking Bad fans cooking up Meth due to watching it's often brutalized view of the reality of drug dealing but hey, video games are different aren't they?
Rock n' Roll Communism
"It took TWO YEARS to write this book that proves beyond any shadow of doubt: (1) the communist use of RHYTHMIC-HYPNOTIC music; (2) the communist use of BEAT music; (3) the communist use of FOLK music; and (4) the communist use of ROCK 'N' FOLK music.
This book proves that the riots in Berkely... the insurrection at Watts... were in part inspired by the jungle beat Communist planned music, and personally directed by the "generals" of this ungodly "communist music" crowd."
- The Rev. David Noebel Speaks on his The Marxist Minstrels Vinyl Disc about his forthcoming 'The Book That Can Put Out The Fire Of Red Inspired Youth Revolution.' book, 1968
(via http://www.conelrad.com/media/atomicmusic/sh_boom.php?platter=22 - thx)