Could Be Good, Hard To Tell

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Enjoyed this review of James McWilliams’ Just Food. Reviewer Rebekah Denn gives credit for intelligent, challenging ideas which can be found in the book, but calls McWilliams on the flawed arguments, shallow support for assertions and patronizing tone.

Just Food | csmonitor.com.

So Her Hair Was Like That Then

That’d be Laurie Anderson playing her Viophonograph in days of yore. Wait now: in 1976, to be precise, before the watchful photographic eye of Bob Bielecki. She is one of the many awe-inspiring names on the list of Duke’s Nasher Museum’s vinylphile show “The Record” planned for 2010/11. Christian Marclay and Ed Ruscha are a couple of others. You now have just under a year to plan your attendance at the opening, or if that date is already blocked out on your calendar, you will have six months more to at least get in to see the show.

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Crafty Spot

Wanted to give this spot props for its manipulation of our understanding of how to identify whose story it is we are watching. The whole thing turns on that, and I don’t think I’ve seen much exploitation of it before. At least not without dialogue insurance.

Any Major Dude Will Tell You

Sometimes it seems like I am always in a near-dustup defending the honourable pastime of Steely Dan fancying. So know, as you prepare your eye-roll or snarky reply to this post, that I have seen it all before and care not.

In case you can’t bear to tear yourself away from EVEN MORE LEGENDARY right now to get this sweet news, here is the upshot: they are performing classics Aja and Pretzel Logic in their entirety currently on the Rent Party tour.

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Steely Dan sets albums free on Rent Party tour :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Music.