Category Archives: Fine Arts
Something Amazingly Cool for Halloween
I wanted to make this a Link of the Day, but I can’t figure out how to do that.
Instead – feast your eyes and ears upon:
Two great tastes that go great together.
Recipe of the Month: March 2008
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Philip Glass and Leonard Cohen, Together at Last
by Roasted Tomatoes
Last night, I heard a performance of the recently-debuted collaboration between Philip Glass and Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing. The piece provides a musical setting for some twenty poems. The poems are by Cohen, the famous Canadian singer-songwriter (who, for example, wrote the song “Hallelujah” that shows up in the first Shrek movie at the point when all of the main characters are separated and depressed) and sometime Buddhist monk. Glass, composer of various operas, symphonies, film scores (The Thin Red Line, Notes on a Scandal, The Hours, Kundun, The Illusionist, Candyman, etc.), and less traditional musical forms, supplies the orchestral and vocal score. Read the rest of this entry
Your favorite comedian
I don’t think Kathy Griffin is very funny. But I do find her entertaining. I especially love how she makes fun of celebrity. And some of the pranks she pulls remind me a tiny bit of Andy Kaufman. Of course no one could ever come close to his level of genius. But Kathy swore at the Extreme Home Makeover team when they beat her at the Emmys and stormed out. And she arranged a bunch of dates with other celebrities just for the publicity. This is good stuff.
But my favorite current comedian would have to be Jim Gaffigan.
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Now let’s create our own tv crimefighting drama.
How hard can it be? I’ll get us started.
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Jazz for Kulturbloggers II – Why You Should Listen to Jazz
by Sam B
Actually, I don’t think I want to ask why you should listen to jazz. Better is, why should anybody make the effort to give jazz a try. I think ultimately there’s an aesthetic payoff–jazz is both fun and challenging, and the challenge makes the fun that much better–but there are other musical forms that are also challenging, other forms that are also fun, and even some that are both. So let me offer two contradictory reasons, plus a third for United States kulturbloggers. Read the rest of this entry
Friday Afternoon Fun: Color Your Numbers
What color do you associate with each number? Do you think any are universal? Write your answers and compare with others.
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