Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Essential Online Reading

Alex on Kiss Me Deadly, noir, Los Angeles, and the military-industrial complex.
Over at Antigram, Tom Cruise, Scientology, and Mission: Impossible III (with spoilers!).
Kevin Le Gendre on Alice Coltrane at
Wax Poetics (I just recently purchased my first AC album).
Robin Carmody: "The Lost Lineage of Rural Liberalism."
Tony Conrad on duration (2004), to expand a bit on my comment on The Flicker in the post below.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Alice Coltrane, right on! She's a personal favorite of mine and I don't understand why her contribution to jazz is not better acknowledged. All the albums she did with drummer Rashied Ali in the 70s are vast, dynamic masterpieces (I listen to some part of 'Monastic Trio' weekly). The things she does with musical space! On 'Monastic' she turns a blues phrase into the whole universe...

Anonymous said...

Alice Coltrane, right on! She's a personal favorite of mine and I don't understand why her contribution to jazz is not better acknowledged. All the albums she did with drummer Rashied Ali in the 70s are vast, dynamic masterpieces (I listen to some part of 'Monastic Trio' weekly). The things she does with musical space! On 'Monastic' she turns a blues phrase into the whole universe...

Anonymous said...

Alice Coltrane, right on! She's a personal favorite of mine and I don't understand why her contribution to jazz is not better acknowledged. All the albums she did with drummer Rashied Ali in the 70s are vast, dynamic masterpieces (I listen to some part of 'Monastic Trio' weekly). The things she does with musical space! On 'Monastic' she turns a blues phrase into the whole universe...

Anonymous said...

Alice Coltrane, right on! She's a personal favorite of mine and I don't understand why her contribution to jazz is not better acknowledged. All the albums she did with drummer Rashied Ali in the 70s are vast, dynamic masterpieces (I listen to some part of 'Monastic Trio' weekly). The things she does with musical space! On 'Monastic' she turns a blues phrase into the whole universe...

Alex said...

Thanks for the link there; your check is in the mail! (just kidding).

Anonymous said...

Also essential: Adrian Martin has a new piece in Screening the Past; 'Ticket to ride: Claire Denis and the cinema of the body'.