Image via Wikipedia I've decided the Obama inauguration was the apex of post-modernism and we are headed in a different and hopefully better direction. When the conservative David Brooks accuses the Republican Party of nihilism, clearly we are in a time of change. Back to music, consider the John Wi...

Not that this is any great surprise, but word comes from Upcoming Film Scores that frequent Steven Spielberg collaborator John Williams will be doing the score for The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn . Confirmation comes from Williams’ agent. I’m not sure if this implies that...

Mention Superman II to Superman fans and you open up a whole can of worms that you were never expecting. First of all there are the true fans who, like myself, were there at the theater when it first came out and loved it. In fact, dare I say, it rules! Next are the fans who were there but thought i...

Oh noes, the performance of John Williams' Shaker hymn-biting "Air And Simple Gifts" at the Inaugural on Tuesday was, um, finger-synced because it was just too damn cold out! “Truly, weather just made it impossible,� inaurgural flack Carole Florman told The New York Times. “No one’s trying t...

The great danger for Barack Obama, with his natural charm and grace, is that he will try to please everyone. But he began his presidency with no glad hands -- avoiding the easy applause lines and instead telling people things they might not want to hear....

Barack Hussein Obama took the oath of office as the nation's first African American president yesterday, summoning a vast crowd and a watching nation to the task of reviving a country in crisis....

Barack Hussein Obama took the oath of office as the nation's first African American president yesterday, summoning a vast crowd and a watching nation to the task of reviving a country in crisis....

Wow, it felt so good to write that!! I hope you all took some time this morning to watch or to listen to the inauguration of our new President, Barack Obama. Here’s a recap if you didn’t get a chance. First, MSNBC’s coverage of the inauguration: .msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-fa...

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I admit it: I have a bias against literary novelists who write about music. It has to do with my appetite for immediacy. That’s what I like about pop, and pop writing, and it’s not a tendency always shared by literary fiction writers. So I see detailed explanations of milieu that I take for gran...