“Oprah Winfrey” with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie
BillHeise | April 30, 2009
“I think we’d better take a vomit break right now.”
“Hello, we’re talking about language.”
BillHeise | April 30, 2009
What I’m Listening to This Week: Googoosh
BillHeise | April 28, 2009
In the late 70s and the early 80s, High Modernism was dying. Led Zeppelin offered to give us a cosmic view of the universe, one in which they could experience the mythic dimension as proxy for “the little people,” who remained frightened and clung to their middle-class existence. Jimmy page lived larger than the rest [...]
Yeat’s “Second Coming”
BillHeise | April 24, 2009
Yeat’s “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
BillHeise | April 24, 2009
More amazing technology. I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping [...]
Monty Python: Argument Clinic
BillHeise | April 22, 2009
My Dinner with André
BillHeise | April 22, 2009
What I Was Watching in 1983 I had dropped out of college in 1981, feeling that if I was not going to get a well-rounded education in college that I would pursue it outside. Two years later, I was still confident that my future would yield answers to questions that had been raised for me [...]
What I’m Listening to This Week: The Clash
BillHeise | April 21, 2009
A few weeks ago, I was talking about the destruction of the 1960s idealism by the worst sort of commercial fluff embodied in the movie Love Story. The music that I listened to in those years offered some hope. The Who made a statement of indifference to politics. Pete Townsend would “pick up his guitar [...]
Marshall McLuhan’s Rootless Roots
BillHeise | April 16, 2009
Required Reading on My First Trip to College I had been invited to take a class in The Anthropology of Television at Ripon College in 1981, and one of the books we were supposed to read was Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media. Now in all honesty, I didn’t get either the class or McLuhan. I thought [...]
“Does my nose amuse you?”
BillHeise | April 14, 2009
FOX Mad TV’s Raging Rudolph
