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Posted on December 20, 2018February 14, 2019

“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…

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Posted on August 18, 2018

Play That Funky Classical Music White Boy

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…

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Posted on July 26, 2018

Review of “Guys and Dolls” from StompTokyo.com 1999/2000-ish

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…

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Posted on March 15, 2017March 15, 2017

New York songs: Liza Minnelli, Carey Mulligan, Lou Reed, The Clash, Lang Lang

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…

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Posted on September 3, 2016September 3, 2016

Rain songs: Sinatra, The Go-Betweens, Linda Perhacs

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…

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