Automatic for the People was never my favorite R.E.M. album. Later, the inescapable ubiquity of “Man on the Moon,” and “Everybody Hurts” on radio tarnished the thing for me. Between the movie tie-in and the overly joyful “Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight,” it began to feel trite and commercially exposed. At least in comparison to the music I was … Continue reading Etude (Record Review): R.E.M., Automatic for the People
There was a grandmother who looked like what the Monty Python troupe called a “pepper pot.” Thick, wearing patterned clothing, some kind of kerchief tied over her hair. Most likely in her 60s, but she looked older; an old biddy. Some of those years had been war years, and war years count extra. People of … Continue reading Etude: Why I Don’t Read Memoirs
(A LP happens to be 1 square foot, which makes record reviews almost obligatory for this blog). Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘chapter’ of the 1989 anthology film New York Stories is about the relationship between a daughter, Zoë, and a father, who is a famous flautist. The only piece of it that’s stuck with me for all of … Continue reading Etude (Record Review): Hamza el Din, Escalay
There are two things about me that might come up in conversation if we talk freely at length. Actually, there are many, many things that might come up if you let me talk, these are just two. The first is that I have a terrible memory of my own past. People tell me stories about myself … Continue reading Etude (Spice Rack): Lawry’s Seasoning Salt, Amber Memories of Los Angeles
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