Monday, August 25, 2003
The most highly recommended lengthy reads of the day (and on into the evening):
1. Robin Carmody's moving, consuming epitaph for music writer Ian McDonald
(at The House At World's End).
(via rockcritics daily)
2. PopMatters Top 100 Songs of 1977-2003. Compiled and briefly talked about by the staff at the magazine of global culture. Whatever you might think this seems to be on the surface, this is not just another list.
(I threw my number in a hat and won the privilege of writing about David Bowie's "Heroes". I confess, I couldn't make myself stop at the 200 word mark.
You know, we have really good writers at PopMatters. A person just wrote me, still thinking about one of his pieces on the Top 100, and said he could easily have gone on for pages about that song and its significance. I hope he'll do that some time.)
3. Proper grammar, Pop-a-grammar, Propaganda, Prop-agenda
Brian Eno sounds out the "p" word and explains how this might work in these modern times.
(via the fine folks at mediachannel)
¶ 8/25/2003 07:52:00 PM
1. Robin Carmody's moving, consuming epitaph for music writer Ian McDonald
(at The House At World's End).
(via rockcritics daily)
2. PopMatters Top 100 Songs of 1977-2003. Compiled and briefly talked about by the staff at the magazine of global culture. Whatever you might think this seems to be on the surface, this is not just another list.
(I threw my number in a hat and won the privilege of writing about David Bowie's "Heroes". I confess, I couldn't make myself stop at the 200 word mark.
You know, we have really good writers at PopMatters. A person just wrote me, still thinking about one of his pieces on the Top 100, and said he could easily have gone on for pages about that song and its significance. I hope he'll do that some time.)
3. Proper grammar, Pop-a-grammar, Propaganda, Prop-agenda
Brian Eno sounds out the "p" word and explains how this might work in these modern times.
(via the fine folks at mediachannel)
¶ 8/25/2003 07:52:00 PM
