Category Archives: Music
It Was the 3rd of June
While we won’t ever know for sure just what she and Billie Joe threw off the Tallahatchie Bridge, Bobbie Gentry’s lazy, throaty delivery of the story makes us feel the weight of its secrets and innuendo. Why not click the … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Leitmotifs, History Lessons, Music
Tagged 3rd of June, Bobbie Gentry, Emmett Till, Fancy, Ode to Billie Joe, Tallahatchie Bridge
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Frankenstein
It seems a natural segue from all this talk of my obsessive preoccupation with body parts to a story about putting those parts together to create something new. And as I suggested — even if a bit obliquely — in … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Cultural Leitmotifs, Heroes, Monsters, Movies, Music, Reflections
Tagged Antony & The Johnsons, Antony Hegarty, Boris Karloff, Bride of Frankenstein, Carl Laemmle Jr., Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Thesiger, Frankenstein, Hope There's Someone, I Am A Bird Now, James Whale, Mary Shelley
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