Toy Story: “The Boy Is Mine”
I’m still not entirely sure if editing videos will become a second avocation for me, much less replace this first one. But a few days ago, this idea came to […]
Tag Archives: pop
Double Feature: High Noon and Cléo from 5 to 7
A straight stretch of train tracks extend into oblivion, their iron rumbling with a whispered threat. In the gentle town nearby, two solemn and innocent ceremonies take place at the […]
Uh … 3 ½? — To Sir, With Love
The Introduction The first of three films in which Sidney Poitier starred in 1967, To Sir, With Love is a modest, workaday film that quickly withdrew before the trumpeted ambitions of In […]
M2: The Thousand Songs
Music has always hit me in a place deeper than my critical faculties. The goosebump effect is the kind of private pleasure that is thoroughly good and affirming. The enjoyment […]
5 Film Directors Who Got Their Start Making Music Videos
The music video is one of the youngest art forms in the world, so young that calling it an “art form” might still raise eyebrows in some quarters. Next we’ll […]
“I’ve Never Seen the Old Age New” — Revisiting WOW Hits 2001
Few things that I heard in college have stuck with me better than what a professor in a music appreciation class my freshman year said about the development of musical […]
Double Feature: Spice World and A Hard Day’s Night
This is musical blasphemy, of course, and cinematically dubious to boot. But this is probably the funnest double feature idea I’ve suggested in several months, and “fun” ought to be […]
My Favorite Movies: Moulin Rouge!
A screen on a stage. And then another stage. And a typewriter. Stories of stories of stories. The postmodern playfulness of Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! has been commented upon endlessly, but […]
Crossovers, Millennials and Stacie Orrico
It’s ten years old, and that’s a pretty lonely age to be for a pop single — way past its moment in the sun, but perhaps still too young for […]
What I Read the Week of August 12
This is the start of a new feature on this blog. Having just decided to stop writing word study posts every month, I’ve immediately come up with a new “placeholder” […]
