Wilfrid
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Could have avoided trouble by (1) calling the book The Masters of Rock and (2) not saying stupid stuff. Hard to argue that Joni Mitchell, Nina Simone or James Brown should be in a book with that title. I am also wondering whether he ever interview Black or woman musicians in any case.
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I don't even remember reading interviews by Wenner in Rolling Stone, assuming that's where they were published. And I was a regular reader in the 1970s. Maybe these came later.
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I do like "menu as menagerie."
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10 hours ago, Sneakeater said:
The night I went Joe Ely opened and the crowd liked him just fine.
So maybe they were just reactionary.
Very, very intolerant audiences following that generation of punk bands.
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Racism is speculative. Support bands of all kinds got a bad reception from punk audiences. Suicide had shit thrown at them when they opened for The Clash in the UK and they’re pretty white.
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Cool, Helen is a good writer. Will settle down and read it later.
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Always a fool outside of his business acumen. Histories of the magazine tell the story. The new fools are the people who would publish this.
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1 hour ago, Sneakeater said:
To be clear, I'm complaining about the video, not the song. The song is fine.
No, you’re criticizing the video. Complaining would be asking for your money back.
Happy to have cleared all this up.
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I think I can help here. Mitch might be saying either of the two following things (or he might not be distinguishing between them).
1. If you know something is going to be bad but you spend time and/or money on it anyway, then you should not complain about the waste of time and/or money.
2. If you know something is going to be bad but you spend time and/or money on it anyway, then you should not criticize it afterwards.
The first is "complaining," the second is "criticizing." If Mitch is saying 1, he has a point. If he is saying 2, then I would disagree.
I can think of many occasions, including restaurants, where I have embarked on something I expected to be bad. I shouldn't complain about the waste of time and/or money but I am entitled to tell people how bad it was.
(I did realize, when I was going to restaurants for the Pink Pig that I expected to be bad, that it was not a good idea to tell my dinner guest "This is going to be dreadful.")
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I would not have bothered to watch the video had I not come across the comments here. I don't expect the Stones to have much to offer at this point. They were great at Earl's Court in 1976 (and I was at an age where having sweaty teenage girls crawl over me to get to Jagger was a delight. Come to think of it, I might still be that age).
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In better news, Lepore’s review of the new Musk bio is savage; brutal to Musk, not kind to the author. Suffice to say that the person who comes out of it all best is Douglas Adams.
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That is great but the scope is appropriately narrow. I really did take frequent music, art, movie etc recommendations from the New Yorker, but if they are listing just one movie instead of six, it’s rarely going to be useful.
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Maybe I am right about the paper.
It's not just that a currently useful resource has been ruined. It's that the rich, priceless archive of city life, going back to 1925, has simply been turned off.
Not enough to make me unsubscribe, but plenty enough to make me angry.
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You have to read the Rosner piece online. The paper copy includes a hideously truncated version in the miserable ruins of Goings On About Town.
I can't imagine why the New Yorker destroyed a genuinely useful section of the magazine. The paper feels cheaper too.
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I was drinking Marques de Riscal verdejo with pulled pork tacos last night. These things happen (it was open and needed to be drunk).
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I have added Bronx River to my rotation. Found it in the Harrington book. Very nicely balanced.
- 2 oz gin
- 1/2 oz sweet vermouth
- 1/4 oz lemon juice
- Dash of simple syrup
I am using a very low carb Agave syrup as simple syrup. A very small amount will sweeten a drink, but there's no strong flavor to it.
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Whither I could understand...
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QuoteThe entire 2023 Fall Wine Program at Instituto Cervantes in New York sold out in less than an hour. Within ten minutes there were only a handful of places left and soon after it sold out completely.As most of you know, the 2023 FALL SEASON is a special one for me because it marks the 25th anniversary since I moved the Wine Program to the Instituto Cervantes in New York.
The Taylor Swift of Spanish wine tutors.
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21 hours ago, Sneakeater said:
I'm sure I've said this before, but in the early '80s I saw this play called A Soldier's Play.
It had one of those classic great ensemble casts. But even so, two actors, then unknown to me, stood out. One was named Denzel Washington. The other was named Samuel Jackson.
I remember hoping I'd be able to see each of them acting again.
Little did I realize.
I have one of these stories. 1986, Jack Lemmon starred in the London stage in “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.”
To my surprise, my father bought tickets. He would not know O’Neill from a pork pie and indeed spent the long evening paging through his program. He just wanted to see Lemmon, who he did know.
Lemmon was great but I was impressed by the then unknown actors playing his sons. Would I ever see them again?
Kevin Spacey and Peter Gallagher.
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But you are not flying economy, right?
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I did enjoy Rosner's piece on Cecchi's.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-food-scene/the-eternal-question-of-food-versus-service
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"Ghost Light," latest episode of Only Murders in the Building, both hilarious and quite intense. At least one jump-out-of-your-seat moment. And no Streep/Rudd.
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I mentioned he was self-taught. He started late after a career in something completely different (advertising and PR). He was about 40 when he started cooking in a restaurant kitchen, which is obviously very late. So a case of the Deborah Harry Phenomenon.
Adding from the Guardian:
QuoteHe stood out from his peers on many counts, but two deserve especial mention. He came to his profession much later in life than most, not cooking for the public until he was nearly 40 years old; and he was entirely self-taught.
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I would not have guessed the fermented rhubarb.
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Yep. Nice little summary here: https://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/suicide.htm#:~:text=While by 1978 the band,In Plymouth The Nazis...
Interesting to think that in a few years bands consisting solely of guys with synthesizers would be common. Suicide (and Kraftwerk) way ahead of their time.