Endless Rain Into A Paper Cup

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I'm itching to begin the next phase of the Book Pricing/Great American Hardcover debate, but the next post won't be ready till late tonight or tomorrow morning. I'm working as hard as I can!

Till then, you can skip on over to NewCritics.com and read my review of the new Beatles movie, Across The Universe.

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Why They Call It A Tribe: The New Quest Movie

by Levi Asher Tuesday, August 9, 2011 10:14 pm

Phife Dawg onstage with Q-Tip and A Tribe Called Quest

Review of the hiphop film "Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest".

Ken Kesey's Mobile Transcendentalism

by Levi Asher Wednesday, August 24, 2011 07:44 am

Magic Trip, a new film about Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters

Magic Trip, a new film by Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood, tells the story of novelist Ken Kesey's 1964 road trip across America in a painted bus with a troupe of fanciful hippies and legendary beatnik Neal Cassady at the wheel.

Tech Lives: Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs

by Levi Asher Monday, January 23, 2012 09:42 pm

I waited a couple of months before letting myself open up Walter Isaacson's acclaimed new biography, Steve Jobs. Given Isaacson's known gift for storytelling and my own penchant for computer-age pop culture history, I knew I'd be in for an obsessive reading experience once I cracked it open. This is a book I needed to clear away some uninterrupted time for.

The most enjoyable part of Steve Jobs is the first section, in which two delightful Silicon Valley counterculture tech nerds named Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak grow up and invent the world-changing Apple II, the first commercially viable personal computer, in 1977. Here, the book offers the familiar satisfying thrill we look for in the early pages of every celebrity biography: those achingly pregnant moments in which the players stand at the precipice of greatness ... and then finally step over.

On The Road: Sal Paradise Hits The Silver Screen

by Levi Asher Sunday, October 28, 2012 11:30 pm

Sam Riley as a sickly Sal Paradise in On The Road

Levi Asher reviews the new Walter Salles/Francis Ford Coppola film version of Jack Keroauc's On The Road.

David Amram on Wonderama

by Levi Asher Thursday, November 15, 2012 06:49 pm

Jazz composer David Amram appears on 1960s kid show Wonderama

While we're watching counterculture moments on television from the 1960s, here's something else I just stumbled across: an appearance by the joyful jazz composer and performer David Amram on the kid's show Wonderama. He demonstrates his favorite world-music instruments, and naturally leads a jam session with the kids, who are way into it.

Rompin' With Dave Van Ronk

by Levi Asher Friday, January 25, 2013 07:42 am

Dave Van Ronk, quintessential Greenwich Village folksinger, inspired the new Coen Brothers movie, "Inside Llewyn Davis".

The Awful Movie Dr. Seuss Made in 1953

by Levi Asher Wednesday, February 27, 2013 08:47 pm

Scene from 5000 Fingers of Dr. T., a Dr. Seuss movie

In this dream, the kid wears a glove on the top of his beanie, is chased by weird chubby thugs in brightly colored suits who resemble proto-Oompa-Loompas, dodges a pair of roller-skating old men who share a common beard, and is forced to participate in a 500-kid piano performance on a swirling 5000 key piano.

I assure you that I just made the movie sound better than it is.

How Baz Lurhmann's 'Great Gatsby' Surprised Me

by Levi Asher Tuesday, May 14, 2013 10:38 pm

The odds were no better with me than 50-50 for Baz Luhrmann's 'The Great Gatsby' this weekend as I donned my plastic 3D glasses and entered the dark theater. I really wasn't expecting to like the movie very much.

Ted Joans

by Sean Daniel Singer Friday, January 12, 1996 08:21 am

Ted Joans was born Theodore Jones on July 4, 1928 on a riverboat in Cairo, Illinois. His father, a riverboat entertainer, put him off the boat in Memphis at age twelve and gave him a trumpet. He is a painter, a trumpeter, and a poet.

Jim Morrison: A "Serious" Poet?

by William Cook Saturday, July 12, 2003 09:48 pm

An extensive study of the poetic influences, traditions and radical ideals about nature, modernism, shamanism and native culture that inspired Doors singer and lyricist Jim Morrison.

Exit, Pursued By Bear

by Levi Asher Monday, February 27, 2006 03:38 pm

Grizzly Man, a documentary film by Werner Herzog, is an astounding and unsettling study of humanity and nature. It was pasted together from videotape left behind by Timothy Treadwell, a somewhat goofy and hippy-dippy outdoorsman who spent thirteen summers in a row communing with grizzly bears in Alaska.

Don DeLillo’s Game Six

by Levi Asher Tuesday, March 14, 2006 11:16 pm

Don DeLillo has written a movie about baseball, 'Game Six', which is strange for several reasons ...

Poker and Postmodernism: The Cards I’m Playing

by Levi Asher Monday, January 15, 2007 04:36 pm

Pete Townshend, playing a song about the cards he's playing

What do Texas Hold'em poker and postmodern literature have in common, and how does a song by the Who help explain it?

Great Chick-Lit of the 70’s (or, the Books That Raised Me)

by Levi Asher Monday, February 12, 2007 06:52 pm

Three novels I picked up from my grandmother, mother and sister when I was a kid that have influenced me to this day: Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York by Gail Parent, Diary of a Mad Housewife by Sue Kaufman, Kin-Flicks by Lisa Alther.

John Osborne’s Angry Looks

by Levi Asher Monday, March 26, 2007 09:20 pm

John Osborne's signature work is 'Look Back in Anger', which opened in 1956 and gave the "Angry Young Men" their name. It's the story of a fuming, flannel-shirt wearing London bloke named Jimmy who slaves away at a candy stand all day and plays hot trad jazz saxophone all night.

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