Alt Classical: Cover Tunes
Nothing Else Matters – Apocalyptica (Metallica) Repost from 2014 When I was a child, my parents listened almost exclusively to classical music –it was years before I realized their radio could tune in other...
Category: Lists
8 Great Dance Videos
This week I present a highly subjective showcase of eight classic music videos where the dancing makes up a major part of the appeal: 8. “Uptown Funk” – Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars The...
“Why?” – Philosophical Music: Hip Hop
A philosopher, by definition, sees the world in a radically different way than everyone else. The real challenge, however, is not to see from an original viewpoint, but to successfully communicate that perspective to...
Children of Men
Top 10 Movies: #1 – Children of Men
Today, most people know director Alfonso Cuarón as the first Latino to win the Oscar for Best Director (for 2013’s space thriller, Gravity). Others may remember him for 2001’s bawdy road movie, Y Tu...
by MTO
Top 10 Movies: #2 – Do the Right Thing
It’s the hottest day of the year. Spike Lee is known as an actor’s director, and nowhere is that more apparent than in his masterpiece, 1989’s Do the Right Thing, an acknowledged classic of...
Top 10 Movies: #3 – Casablanca
What hasn’t been said about Casablanca? It’s a nearly flawless piece of cinema, and the crowning achievement of the old “assembly-line” system of movie-making, under which the studio would pull a director, a couple...
Top 10 Movies: #4 – Stand By Me
While Stand By Me (1986) is undeniably an excellent film, I’m not sure I can actually justify how high it ranks on my personal Top 10 list (it almost came in at number 3,...
by nthornborrow
Top 10 Movies: #5 – The Princess Bride
As frequent readers of this blog know, The Princess Bride, both as a novel and as the 1987 Rob Reiner directed movie, was one of the paradigm-shaping artworks that first led me to formulate...
Top 10 Movies: #6 – The Graduate
I have to admit, part of my deep affection for movie #6 on my personal Top 10 list, the 1967 Mike Nichols film The Graduate, comes from the fact that at my alma mater,...
Top 10 Movies: #7 – Eternal Sunshine (Reconstructivist Art)
I’m re-running my post on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to commemorate the fact that it’s not only an exemplar of Reconstructivist Art, it is also movie #7 on my personal top 10...
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