I, the Bad Man, like it when the bass is a prominent part of the music, rather than simply a throb (U2, Simple Minds, most bands). She Wants Revenge and Siouxsie & The Banshees are good examples, as are most gothy type bands – at least in terms of having the bass pushed forward in [...]
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So tonight I’m organizing yet another petulant interest; my art/math/anarchy literature library. I have tomes by all the heavy-hitters – Nietzsche, Sarte’s girlfriend, Freud, Marquis de Sade, Shakespeare, Hunter S. Thompson, Plato, Vonnegut, Kafka, Kant, William S. Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, Ken Russell; all fabulous trite.
And then there is the “art” wing. The focus there is [...]
A.D.D. film thoughts about Jan Svankmajer’s 1988 “Alice”
This weekend, upon recommendation from the BadMan, I watched the 1988 film “Alice” by Czech director Jan Svankmajer; a surreal, live action/stop motion retelling of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland (AIW). Imagine, if you will, Peter Greenaway, Tim Burton and Veit Helmer co-directing this classic AIW tale, with Hieronymus Bosch and Salvador Dali helming the cameras as [...]
Artist
Just to clarify something from another post, the word artist is grossly overused nowadays. The RIAA loves to throw that word around because they are motivated by greed, not art. Let’s get real. Is Britney Spears really an artist? The Jonas Brothers? Come on. You know the real answer.
Who in pop music is then? I’d [...]
Garden Temple
I’m drawing up the plans to my (Bad Man’s) château, Château 宝石で飾られた割合 in Japanese, aka замок драгоценность пропорция in Cyrillic or Château de la Proportionné Bijou in the Romantic language. The latter will be inscribed upon the mantle over the door, so you can refer to it as that in future communiqué. It will be [...]
A kinder, friendly argument on Objectivity in Art
I was conversing with Badman this morning about Objectivity in Art. I admitted that I can’t hold my own in Architecture, Wines, and a few other Art forms that we love. However, Music, I can. So I will use Music as my example of Objectivity vs Subjectivity.
At that age of 11, I got heavily into [...]
Art is Objective
This was argued in another post, but I wanted to revisit it. This is too important of a subject to let die out.
Art is objective. It is not subjective. Some art is better than others. Pablo Picasso is a better artist than Andy Warhol. Beethoven’s 6th is a better symphony than the 5th. The Romantic [...]
The Evils of Technology
Flamenco wrote me this:
Take a look at some of your favorite 80s albums. One thing you will notice is they’re considerably SHORTER. I’m noticing this with my Metal albums as well as non-Metal. I think the push to make albums longer has hindered music, as you end up putting crap on there that in the [...]
Uh oh, I’ve got my feminista showing…
I, The Bad Man, am all about the list. I am also all about hot chicks, brainy chicks, inventive chicks, fiery chicks, artistic chicks – you name it chicks. No, I’m not talking about Kentucky Fried Chicken chicks (yuck). So I thought I’d combine the two and you, oh kind and gentle reader, garner the [...]
Art Appreciation 101
OK fellow Royals- let’s talk art, and music, and literature and all things aesthetic. And by this I mean why we like what we like and why we debate so tirelessly about what is good and what is shite.
Let’s set the scene: turns out I might be a little low in my Malkmosity rating. Startling news [...]
