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Category Archives: The Arts
Joel and the Giant Algorithm
Now the literary gatekeeper is a few thousand lines of code. Continue reading
50 Rock & Roll Songs That Increased My Word Power
Weeklings music editor Robert Burke Warren gets revved up like a deuce and reveals how time you spend “wasting” – i.e. listening to rock and roll – is not wasted time. Not at all. Readers Digest would be proud. Increase your own word power! Bismillah! Continue reading
Posted in 50 Greatest, Memoir, Monday Rock City, Music, Popped Culture, The Arts, Uncategorized
Tagged AMerican Pie, Beatles, bismillah, bustle, calliope, cunnilingus, fellatio, freddie mercury, Funkadelic, hare krishna, juju, kama sutra, labelle, Led Zeppelin, levee, lyrics, Masturbation, orgy, pederasty, Queen, readers digest, robert burke warren, rolling stones, scaramouche, Skynyrd, sodomy, springsteen, the streak, toe jam, troubadour, union jack, Weeklings, word power
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Monday Rock City: A Conversation with Jimmy Wayne — Good Things Coming from Hard Times
Abandoned by his jailbird mama in a Greyhound bus station at age 13, singer-songwriter Jimmy Wayne seemed destined for destitution and an early grave. But through the kindness of strangers – “God sends strange angels,” he says – Wayne rose to become a hit songwriter, author, and advocate for the homeless. J.M. Blaine gets some down-home philosophy from Wayne, plus tidbits about Ozzy, the Nashville song mill, and Daryl Hall’s indoor pool. Continue reading
Posted in Monday Rock City, Music, The Arts
Tagged ac/dc, Hall & Oates, Homelessness, iron maiden, Jamie Blaine, Jimmy Wayne, Ken Abraham, Ozzy Osbourne, Stay Gone, Walk to Beautiful
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Getting the Blues – Sex, Words and the Hues
How William H Gass’s take on the shade of blue, gives Tessa Laird the Blues – while examining sex, writing and the power of the color itself. Continue reading
Posted in Literature, The Arts
Tagged Blue, Derek Jarman, Maggie Nelson, Rebecca Solnit, William H Gass
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Razor Sadness, Wizened Eyes: Nirvana Unplugged, 20 Years On
Nirvana’s legendary last recorded performance, 1994’s MTV Unplugged In New York, was too painful for the Weeklings’ Robert Burke Warren to watch. Until now. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciations, Memoir, Monday Rock City, Music, Popped Culture, Popular Culture, The Arts, The Weeklings
Tagged charles r cross, cobain, courtney love, dave grohl, dgc, frances bean, geffen, heavier than heaven, heroin, in utero, krist novoselic, Kurt Cobain, lead belly, MTV, mtv unplugged in new york, Nevermind, pat smear, robert burke warren, robin williams, shotgun, suicide, unplugged
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The Road to Exile: Biographer Robert Greenfield on Life with The Stones in the Early Seventies
In 1971, the Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World was bulletproof, and biographer Robert Greenfield was there, reporting well and truly on the continued rise of the decadent, determined, devilish Rolling Stones. Our own J.M. Blaine chats with Greenfield about his never-boring third installment of Rolling Stones reminiscences and interviews, “Ain’t It Time We Said Goodbye.” Continue reading
