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June 25, 2008
Prof. Soltan on Ms. Winehouse
Winehouse’s music gathers grief and pity. It may be a pleasure - an aesthetic pleasure - to hear her music, but the pleasure has to do with letting go of the natural noise of good for the sake of a free-fall into the perverse and malign. Along with Charles Baudelaire, Malcolm Lowry, and many others, Winehouse is part of the expeditionary team to hell. (my emphasis)
Well put.
Listen here - Back to Black. Baudelaire, but with a beat you can dance to?
Rehab (a live version from the Jules Holland show - actually an interesting contrast to the video issue version). Me, I like the skirt. So arch it's Huysmanian?
Posted by CrankyProfessor at June 25, 2008 11:17 PM
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"So arch it's Huysmanian" - I'm going to steal that.
Hmm, idea for a children's book just occurred to me "Durtal the Turtle".
Posted by: marc at June 28, 2008 2:03 PM