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Glenn Gould discusses his chair

By Earl Yazel
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 22:25 EDT
 
Screen Shot of Glenn Gould's chair

A staged clip wherein Glenn obviously feels some need to comment in formal terms upon the simple matter of the unusual –and low– folding chair that he always used whilst playing.

Not much explanation in this short clip, unfortunately, but we get to see him set it up and drop hints about the importance of the thing as implement, as well as allude to some obvious long-term annoyance with people’s bewilderment regarding it.

Rundgren on love

By Earl Yazel
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 22:20 EDT

Todd Rundgren is one of the more famous American producer/engineers from the golden era of rock and worked in that capacity on a lot of great recordings by a wide variety of acts (like The Psychedelic Furs’ “Love My Way“) . “If there’s a short-cut I’d have found it, but there’s no easy way around it.” So, here’s your sermon for today. It’s Todd Rundgren, who spent his very early years in and around Philadelphia,…

 

Damning with faint praise

By Earl Yazel

The right-wing blogger of note, Andrew Brietbart, I thought I’d heard, has apparently written from the Beyond this recent week to make comment that The Raw Story, our hospitable host site, is a “left-wing fever swamp.” But, of course, Andrew Brietbart hasn’t written that, because he’s up in Heaven. He…

 

The Stones of Constantine

By Hal Robins
Monday, April 2, 2012 16:15 EDT

In the days of the later Roman Empire, when much of the skill to create sculptures and bas-reliefs in the original, classical style had been lost, the builders of that time used to construct their monuments using stuff –ornaments, statues and carvings– removed from earlier buildings. They would transfer these…

 

When world-views collide

By Hal Robins

I have always liked monster movies, ever since I was a small child. My early imagination was often seized by their presentations of potential predicaments; in the films I’m thinking of, made in the ’50s, when everything was tranquil, indeed tranquil-ized– beneath that veneer seethed fears of Apocalypse and doom.…

 
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