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May 2012

1 post

Hüsker Dü: “New Day Rising” (1985) I was just doing some Hüsker Dü fact-checking for work. I had known they took their name from the board game Husker Du? (without the umlauts), but I hadn’t known why: They owed their new name to a rather sloppy rehearsal of the Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer”. Unable to recall the French portions sung in the original...

April 2012

2 posts

Reblogged partly because it’s great, and...

March 2012

24 posts

Swell Maps: “Blam!” (1979) (A Trip...

The Hours: How Christian Marclay created the... →

At midnight, Marclay constructed a wicked trap. There is a sweeping build: an American in London howls like a werewolf; Gary Oldman howls as Sid Vicious. Orson Welles, in “The Stranger,” plummets off a clock tower. Finally, there is a shot of a clock that has loomed oppressively in the video, appearing dozens of times: Big Ben. It’s obliterated in a fiery explosion—a clip, from the wretched “V for...

February 2012

1 post

January 2012

2 posts

December 2011

2 posts

November 2011

6 posts

Crystal Stilts: “Converging in the...

October 2011

20 posts

Wire: “Mr Suit” (1977)...

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