As Jacques Lacan observed, after God is dead, nothing is anymore permitted. Or rather, although everything is permitted, it is hedonism devo...

Last time I wrote about the movies Diner (1982) and High Fidelity (2000), both of which suggest the way that the homosocial behavior of th...

Movies such as High Fidelity (2000) explore the perils of record collecting, the way that the homosocial behavior of the obsessed collector...

In Richard Brooks’ film, Blackboard Jungle (1955)—the movie that demonstrated the appeal of rock ‘n’ roll to Hollywood studio heads by virt...

Inspired by the title of Lester Bang’s June 1980 truculent review of Grace Jones’s Warm Leatherette album, titled “Grace Jones Beats Off” (...

Bob Seger’s song “Night Moves” is so famous that it scarcely needs an introduction. Having heard the song on the radio yesterday while runni...

Raymond Williams observed in his classic, The Country and the City , “’Country’ and ‘city’ are very powerful words, and this is not surprisi...

Yesterday, I came across this list put together by guitarist Jay Ferguson , in which the artist has assembled what he considers as the ten p...

The role of the teacher can be best understood as someone who provides the student with two kinds of knowledge. Following Gilbert Ryle , the...

An interesting comment left in response to my blog entry yesterday concerning popular musicians who have appeared in comic books indicated t...

Moments after posting my entry on Jack Kirby and Paul McCartney this morning, my friend Dion Cautrell sent me an email with a link to today’...

Early last month I wrote about the connection between comics and popular music, observing that it’s unusual to see a reference to comics in...