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Via Pitchfork comes David Byrne musing on the uneasy symbiotic relationship between commercialistic pop art and pop art with artistic pretensions through which the big sell out acts make possible investment in the smaller ones which retain some credibility. A parallel situation can be found in the film industry where low budget indies are made [...]
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David Byrne On U2′s Excesses
July 29th, 2009 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Arts, Cutural Criticism, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Pop Culture 
Tags: David Byrne, Live Nation, Sell Outs, Stodola, The Late Show With David Letterman, U2 
No Comments »Is Privacy The New Nudity?
July 24th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Jennie Yabroff offers an interesting theory as to why a grainy spy video of a nude ESPN anchor, Erin Andrews (who they say is barely identifiable in the video), brushing her hair is in such high demand on the internet given the wide array of available high resolution porn on the internet: What’s really provocative [...]
Greenwald: Media Praises Conkrite But Lacks His Integrity
July 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Greenwald is scathing on the media in general and takes the late Tim Russert to be the avatar of all that is wrong with them: Tellingly, his most celebrated and significant moment — Greg Mitchell says “this broadcast would help save many thousands of lives, U.S. and Vietnamese, perhaps even a million” — was when [...]
“The Myth of Sexual Spontaneity”
July 14th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Greta Christina attacks what she calls “the myth of sexual spontaneity,” defined as the idea that “for sex to be good and meaningful, the desire has to strike both partners out of the blue and be acted on immediately” on the grounds that arises from and implictly reinforces negative views of sex: Our culture tends [...]
Feminism and Vampires
July 14th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Feministing breaks down Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Twilight, and True Blood for their implicit (and explicit) views on sex. While comparing and contrasting True Blood and Twilight, Latoya Peterson drops this tidbit, which is the first thing to make me curious to peek at Twilight (though I’m 99% sure I still won’t): In both series, [...]
Posted in Cutural Criticism, Feminism, Pop Culture, Sex, TV Tags: Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Feministing, foreplay, HBO, Novels, S&M, True Blood, Twilight No Comments »“Fed up with all this ‘I want to make out with my boyfriend Jesus’ music.’”
July 13th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Rod Dreher stresses that he has nothing but good will towards Evangelicals and does not mean to bash them but nonetheless relays these interesting critiques of the movement from a couple of former Evangelicals who wound up becoming Orthodox after disaffection with contemporary Evangelical marketing and practices: I pointed to a particular megachurch, and told [...]
What About Him?
July 7th, 2009 Daniel Fincke A couple clips of Rebecca Walker’s article on meeting Michael Jackson at 14, on experiencing life to his soundtrack, on gawking at his sordid personal implosion, and, finally, on responding to his death: Why Michael approached me in a room full of superstars after the show I will never know. Perhaps because I was the [...]
Posted in Cutural Criticism, Music, Pop Culture Tags: Celebrity, Fame, Michael Jackson, Rebecca Walker No Comments »
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