William Heise | March 30, 2009
This week, I want to give you a comparison between the music I grew up with and the music my friends Larry and Charles introduced me to. This is part one. I will post part two on Wednesday or Thursday. —— I’ve been thinking about my past, and this has got me thinking about the [...]
William Heise | March 27, 2009
Having joked about Hitler with Spike Jones, I thought I would get serious about Hitler today. This is the last speech of The Great Dictator, certainly one of my favorite films of all time. Wikipedia has this to say about that: First released in October 1940, it was Chaplin’s first true talking picture, and more [...]
William Heise | March 26, 2009
An anime version of Stan Freberg’s parody of Harry Bellafonte’s “Banana Boat Song.” This film was entered in Fanime 2008, Mikomicon, Yaoi-Con, and AWA by Anneke of Baka Deshi Productions. “It’s too piercing!”
William Heise | March 26, 2009
The Sex Pistols Experiment When I was in graduate school in the English Department, the teachers had introduced punk rock into the curriculum as a way of jolting their complacent students out of their complacent attitudes. They would show a video of the Sex Pistols “God Save the Queen” at the outset of a writing [...]
William Heise | March 25, 2009
I’m not sure what is wrong with me, but I suspect everything’s my parents fault. Growing up my father had a great sense of humor, and one of the things he taught us to appreciate was the music of Spike Jones, a band leader in the 1940s who specialized in satirical songs. One of my [...]
William Heise | March 23, 2009
I’m planning on posting a piece this week on punk rock and education, so I wanted to start off the week focusing on my favorite punk rock singer/star, Nina Hagen. Nina Hagen is a major star in Europe, although she never really made it big in America, where I think she scared the children. Not [...]
William Heise | March 22, 2009
During the years 1983 and 1984 I read some of the most important works in my intellectual development. One of these works posed the problem that I would spend the rest of my life answering. The other provided the basis of my answer. This essay is about my confrontation with Modernism that posed the great [...]
William Heise | March 22, 2009
William Heise | March 21, 2009
