“Have yourself a merry little Christmas…” – the execution scene from “The Victors” (1963)
The Victors is a 1963 film depicting American GIs over the course of World War II. Portrayals of World War II now tend to be reverent and serious, ever since…
Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
The Victors is a 1963 film depicting American GIs over the course of World War II. Portrayals of World War II now tend to be reverent and serious, ever since…
Raiding the vast (and out of copyright) canon of classical music has been a recurrent theme in popular music, from Frank Sinatra to The Farm to Eric Carmen (though Carmen’s…
While the website Stomp Tokyo still exists, this particular review is on it no more…and I am not sure how well it fitted with Stomp Tokyo’s overall aesthetic of “B-movies, Godzilla…
New York has been much celebrated in song. In recent years, these songs have tended towards the unpleasantly grandiose; New York as an arena of near-unlimited personal fulfillment and narcissistic…
It’s a rainy morning and with numbing literality I am going to post three songs with the word “rain” in the title. Three songs which, in different ways, capture something…