An enjoyable and surprisingly succinct summation of Jacques Derrida’s key concepts, albeit highly reductive. The School of Life Series is a wonderful “idiots guide”to the history of ideas. Their more recent output seems to be now centered on emotional and socio/cultural phenomenae, but still features their clipped, intelligent and wryly humorous bent.
A TRIBUTE TO JOHN FAHEY
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian psychoanalytic philosopher, cultural critic, and Hegelian Marxist. He is a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, and international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities of the University of London.
Personnel:
John Zorn: Alto Sax
Bill Frisell: Guitar
Wayne Horwitz: keyboards
Fred Frith : Bass
Joey Baron: drums
Yamatsuka Eye: vocals Continue reading JOHN ZORN’S NAKED CITY live @ The Puck Building, New Years Eve, 1989
Jack Kerouac reads his piece October In The Railroad Earth from the 1959 album Poetry for the Beat Generation, accompanied by Steve Allen on the piano.
October In The Railroad Earth is a memoir recounting Kerouac’s memories of his experiences as a “student brakeman” on the Southern Pacific Railroad in California. Its structure is episodic: its fifteen sections are loosely linked together by being set in the month of “October” and by focusing on his early career on the railroad. The piece was originally titled The Railroad Earth, first published in 1957. Continue reading JACK KEROUAC reads October In The Railroad Earth
British composer/arranger known for his TV theme tunes and to American audiences for his “Funky Fanfare” sampled by Danger Mouse.
from the album: “The Decline And Fall Of….”
In 1964, Hopper did three screen tests at the Factory: ST153, ST154 & ST155. In his screen tests, Hopper doesn’t sit still and is found smoking a cigar at the end of the video, but in each it is clear how Warhol manipulated light during his screen tests and tried to show the individuality of Hopper.
Hopper on his screen tests: “I was in another film that Andy did called The 13 Most Beautiful Boys in the World… Andy just told me the title and turned on the camera and walked away… Being the egomaniac that I am, I sat there and did a Strasbergian emotional memory”.
The Incubator 