Though that's hard to make a movie show about

[sovay]

I still have the hell-cold! It could go away already! It's like Monty Woolley on Kleenex.

I am nonethless going with ratatosk to see the Alloy Orchestra accompany a selection of short silent surrealist films at the Somerville Theatre tonight, because seriously, what about that program doesn't appeal? I am especially curious about Hans Richter's Filmstudie (1926), but I expect I'll come back raving about things I'd never heard of. Not literally, one hopes, but I suppose that will depend on how weird these things really are.

Before then—

Jeremy Denk on Charles Ives. The way he writes about the composer succeeds in making me want to hear how he plays him.

Evie Nagy on Miss Fury. I am not as familiar with superheroes of the 1940's as I am with most other media from that period, but I still feel I should really have heard of Marla Drake. I will be looking for this collection.

Vienna haunts William Boyd. (Look! There's Wittgenstein again!)

I am off to catch a bus.

Comments

[stfg.livejournal.com]

I actually just saw Jeremy Denk in concert a couple weeks ago. He played a bit of Ives as his encore and it is really interesting to read that article after the fact. It makes me want to hear it again.

The concert was part of a conference on music criticism at Oberlin College. I was not involved in the conference except to attend concerts, but there are ten or fifteen reviews of the evening on line if you are interested in seeing them. The link is here: http://new.oberlin.edu/office/rubininstitute/

Wild and Weird

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sounds brilliant. If only that could end up on disc.

I want to be a Rarebit Fiend too. Maybe carrot cake eaten after midnight will do just as well.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry for the hell-cold, and wish for its swift departure.

I hope you've enjoyed the films and their musical accompaniment.

I've not heard enough Ives to say anything about him. I live close enough to his hometown that I suppose I should remedy that. I do like how Denk writes on him.

Evie Nagy on Miss Fury. I am not as familiar with superheroes of the 1940's as I am with most other media from that period, but I still feel I should really have heard of Marla Drake.

Fascinating. I feel as if I should have heard of her as well. The idea of a superhero who relies on her own strength and skill, with supernatural abilities held in reserve, is fascinating. I find myself wondering what comics would look like in the alternate history where Miss Fury became an iconic character.*

*They might be even more interesting than comics in the world where Friedrich Nietzsche emigrated to the United States, turned from philosophy to popular entertainment, and became the father of superhero comics, creating such classics as "Zarathustra and the Legion of Overmen".

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

I still have the hell-cold!

:(

Note to self

[hylomorphist.livejournal.com]

Sorry about the cold, dear.

When I scroll around and see what you're up to, I'm getting really annoyed at not being in the Boston area anymore.

Thanks for the Vienna article. Reminds me once more that I really do need to read Musil's "Man without Qualities" at long last. I guess that's another one of those things on my to-do-list after that wretched dissertation is finished.

Greetings from ice-cold Erfurt!