By David D. Robbins Jr. A feature where I whittle down the world a bit for you, each week or so, by recommending some of the best topical links scattered across the internet … Let’s begin 2017 with two items I always look for on that last day of the year … 1. NYE 2017…
Happy 70th birthday to poetic badass and musical legend Patti Smith. “Birdland” is one of my favorite all-time songs. I could listen to it every day. I always wait for the wonderful, sad escapist verse where Patti belts out “where I am not human …” and the exquisite way she sings “a” in “It’s a…
Massive Attack Album: Ritual About: Dark, twisted, mesmerizing — and as engaging as ever. Vince Staples Album: Prima Donna About: “Smile” is one of the best tracks of the year. Burial Album: (Split) Young Death / Nightmarket About: Feels like a cool extension of everything that made “Rival Dealer” majestic. Wet Album: (Split) The Middle/Turn Away About:…
By David D. Robbins Jr. A feature where I whittle down the world a bit for you, each week or so, by recommending some of the best topical links scattered across the internet… 1. “Christians for a Moral America Pray for George Michael’s Death” By John Shore | The Huffington Post | 11-29-11 Yes, it’s good to remember…
David D. Robbins Jr. This is the list I submitted to the wonderful website DVDBeaver for its annual “Best of” compiling. (Which I might add, is the best list of its kind, featuring just us regular schmoes, a number of quality film critics, like Jonathan Rosenbaum and more.) This year it was “Pioneers: African-American Cinema” that stood out…
25. OLGA BELL Album: Tempo About: I love artists who can experiment with their sound on each record but the music always remains true to her voice. 24. CHOCOLATE GENIUS Album: Truth Vs. Beauty About: One of the few artists where it honestly pisses me off more people don’t know his work. Man doesn’t make bad records.…
By David D. Robbins Jr. This is the first of what will be a running feature, where I’ll whittle down the world a bit for you by recommending some of the best articles, podcasts, photos, videos and/or other links scattered across the internet. 1. “My President Was Black” By Ta-Nehisi Coates | The Atlantic |…
By David D. Robbins Jr. ▶ “What Belongs to You” by Garth Greenwell (Fiction) ▶ “Four of the Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers On Stage” by Robert S. Bader (Film history) ▶ “The Girls” by Emma Cline (Fiction) ▶ “Swing Time” by Zadie Smith (Fiction) ▶ “Zero K” by Don DeLillo (Fiction) ▶ “The North…
By David D. Robbins Jr. Just my quick thoughts on attending a Trump rally in Des Moines, Iowa … Inside the rally Let me give you my thoughts unfiltered, without self-editing, all from memory and off-the-cuff –which seems apropos after attending a Donald Trump rally. Where to start? I could tell you that I’m glad…
By David D. Robbins Jr. It is important to remember those Cubans who suffered under Fidel Castro too, so I thought I’d give you a glimpse of a fun Cuban novel you should read … Reinaldo Arenas, one of my favorite Cuban novelists, like many of his countrymen, was enthused by the early cause of…
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