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Adam Gopnik, a writer for the New Yorker, is exactly right when he says, in an essay in the catalog, that "the theatricality of Avedon's work" is not a barrier to authenticity but rather the path to a different kind of truth, which it reaches by inventing "a set of heightened poetic conventions." Avedon has never been interested in observing the rules of straight photography, in which the most honest picture is one that has been fooled with the least. He crops and retouches; he coaxes the sitter and takes multiple shots until the subject's self-presentation matches...
...emerging information highway: how to collect the cash. On a computer or telephone network, it's not easy to verify that the person whose name is on a credit card is the one who is using it to buy a new stereo system -- which is one of the reasons catalog sales are * rife with fraud. But if an order confirmation encoded with someone's public key can be decoded by his or her private key -- and only his or her private key -- that confirmation becomes like an unforgeable digital signature...
...About the song "Saturday's Cool": I was listening to it this morning, trying to go through and see whether the idea was to have a catalog of things people might have listened to growing up who are now listening to the Eggs record. Because one line is from a Blue Oyster Cult song, "Burn...
...music. I'll be at a party and they'll pull on Blondie records, just `cause it's funny, and nobody has any new music they like at all. I really don't want to encourage that in any way. I don't look at our music as a catalog of what has already happened...
...Flipper Go Home," by the way, was written by TKP's sometime third member, Chris Matthews, whose contribution shouldn't be slighted; he died only a few years after these records first came out.) Those pieces are really the "Sister Ray" and "The Gift" of the TKP catalog, the songs themselves being New Zealand's lonely, anguished closest answer to the Velvet Underground; in all honesty, anyone who thinks she or he likes VU would do well to check out these records. The double LP costs the same as the CD and has a very cool foldout lyric sheet...