Contemplations on Classic Movies and Essential Music

"He treats me like a woman." "He does, does he? How did I treat you, like a water buffalo?" Some twenty-eight years ago,...

Jackie Brenston / Ike Turner handbill, April 1951.   The pivotal rhythm & blues hit  "Rocket 88" was recorded and released in...

You don't have it? That is perverse, don't tell anybody you don't own f*****g  Blonde on Blonde ! --Barry Judd, High Fidelity A ...

  Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing,...

This post is part of the John Ford Blogathon , hosted by Krell Laboratories  and Bemused and Nonplussed . Oh, and there a...

At the end of “Lady Lazarus,” an episode from the fifth season of the superb cable TV period drama Mad Men , set in the 1960...