The world’s biggest Scott Walker fan?
This is a new upload to Youtube and it came with no description. I’m reticent to post something without a bit of background on what…
History Archives: 01/2011
Electronic music pioneer Milton Babbitt (1916-2011)
Composer Milton Babbitt died yesterday at the ripe old age of 94. I have always adored his piece Ensembles For Synthesizer, composed from 1962-64 on…
Ayn Rand was a hypocrite!
I never pictured John Galt wearing a baseball cap, did you? Far-right ideologue, Ayn Rand wrote of moral absolutism: “There can be no compromise on…
Ghosts Before Breakfast: Dada masterpiece by Hans Richter (1927)
Dada artist and filmmaker, Hans Richter made Ghosts Before Breakfast (AKA Vormittagsspuk) in 1927. In it, inanimate objects come to life and rebel against their…
The CIA funded the famous animated film of Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ you saw in school
Until videotapes replaced 16mm film projectors in the classroom in the mid-1980s, there was a very good chance that if you were British or American,…