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...child is quick to learn, slow in the forgetting. So many images and impulses of our youth, their sounds and smells and emotions, stick with us for life, as a comfort or reproach. They have an indelible immediacy: the room you were in the first time you heard That Song, a school outing that revealed fresh pleasures, the weight of an early crush on some boy or girl, the thrill or shiver at a favorite movie - all these are embedded in muscle memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Time and the City: Terence Davies' Liverpool Memories | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

...Beatles made Liverpool the world's pop-cultural Mecca, yet Davies sees "John, Paul, George and Ringo: as "not so much a musical phenomenon, more like a firm of provincial solicitors." The smooth crooners of the previous decade quickly faded, "the witty lyric and the well-crafted love song seeming as antiquated as antimacassars or curling tongs." As an appraiser of public buildings he is no less a conservative than Prince Charles. Davies rails against the New Brutalism, a style that incarcerated generations of the English working-class in structures of almost defiant ugliness. "Municipal architecture [is] dispiriting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Time and the City: Terence Davies' Liverpool Memories | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

Around 2 – Downtown Fever plays Flo Rida’s “Right Round.” The song is appropriate. Most heads in the room are likely spinning at this point, FlyBy’s included...

Author: By Loren Amor, Aparicio J. Davis, and Esther I. Yi | Title: BALLin! FlyBy's Formal Reviews Pt. II | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

...began as a tribute act: Woody Guthrie reinvented, down to the studio photos in which he pooched his lips like Woody and held his guitar the same way. On his first, eponymous album, Dylan sang mostly other people's songs--except for one talking blues and the haunting "Song to Woody," which was an exercise in folk classicism. He wrote new lyrics to the tune of Guthrie's "1913 Massacre," just as Guthrie had applied his lyrics to the ancient ballads he'd learned from his mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bob Dylan: Time For One More Change? | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

What about "Bring me My Machine Gun?" Zuma's theme song? It's a little insensitive to have a tribal war song as your campaign anthem. But, ach, man, the Marseillaise? Read those lyrics. Bar a little residual union militancy, the French turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zuma's First Moves as South African President | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

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