Category: Art and Music

Brief Thought (not a review): Falling Leaves Perceived by Snoopy and Cyrano de Bergerac

(Images are property of United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Borrowed from Let’s Face It, Charlie Brown from First, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York City, 1960. The thumbnail image originated in L’Illustration magazine in 1898.) Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Hagakure: Book of the Samurai For many years I’ve returned to some …

WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT NOISE? – AN XTC DISCOVERY BOOK – edited by Mark Fisher

Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Swindon Wasn’t Peyton Place I discovered INXS before discovering XTC. I delighted in the coolness of the former’s name sounding out “in excess” even more than the derivation of, say, U2, thanks to the sensual, epicurean current in the acronymed phrase. Likewise with the “ecstasy” in XTC, which half-inspired INXS’ name. But, if one …