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...certain extent, any release from the Bootleg Series is useless to all but the serious Dylan fan. Over the years, Dylan’s studio albums have evolved into institutions of their own—even that commercial joke and critical gaff, 1970’s “Self Portrait,” looms mythic in the catalogues of completists—and the Bootleg albums that deal explicitly with rarities and outtakes smack, to casual listeners, of revisionism and recycling. And to that same extent, those listeners are right. The man’s catalogue is simply...
...flat, and crowded. The book tells a five-part story, à la Shakespeare, but it’s clear that the author neglected to borrow from the literary greats the necessary ingredients of creativity, sophistication, and substance. Reading the book means slogging through a wearing morass of self-aggrandizing anecdotes, utopian musings, and kitschy catchphrases, none used more liberally than “hot, flat, and crowded,” which appears in Friedman’s sermon so many times that it could give John McCain’s “maverick?...
...that the gloating is gone, too. “56 Bars (Intro),” “Every Chance I Get,” and “I’m Illy” are typical of the College Park swaggerer and self-styled king of the south. And what would a T.I. album be without some club burners like “Swing Ya Rag” or the synth-heavy “On Top of the World”? But it is with his more contemplative tracks that T.I. surpasses anything in his previous catalog...
McCain, John •difficulty in keeping self from exploding of •Letterman groveled to by • non-Bushness of is announced by •Obama attack ads in TV football game ruin the viewing experience of •Obama is called "Senator Government" by •Palin is described as a "bresh of freth air" by •planetarium projector is astonishingly mentioned again by •potential of ACORN to destroy the very "fabric of democracy" is noted by •potential women voters are repelled by inopportune use of air quote marks by •pride in "the people who come to our rallies" - even...
Crazy for Art. Following its popular 2007 retrospective of self-taught 20th-century artist Martin Ramirez - who produced the bulk of his work while he was a mental patient at the DeWitt State Hospital in Auburn, Calif. - New York City's American Folk Art Museum is now showing 25 newly discovered Ramirez works. These drawings and collages, of horseback riders, trains, landscapes, Madonnas and animals, were done in Ramirez's last years, 1960-63, and collected by a doctor who provided the artist with art supplies. See Martin Ramirez: The Last Words through Apr. 12, 2009. 45 West 53rd Street...