BillHeise | May 12, 2009
“Rose Marie” Here is Slim Whitman’s version of Rose Marie: And here is Andy Kaufman’s version of the same song. If you find this on YouTube, you’ll find that Andy Kaufman’s version of the song has 175,000 views versus 19,000 views for the Slim Whitman version. What’s the difference? Andy Kaufman’s version is a pitch-perfect [...]
BillHeise | May 12, 2009
[This essay is a continuation of a previous article.] The Legacy of the Sentiment Such an intellectual appreciation of art goes further back even than Duchamp. It has its modern roots in the rejection of science as a guide towards art. René Descartes had managed—for the first time, according to René Descartes—to found our human [...]
BillHeise | May 11, 2009
Saw this on SNL last night, and I just had to have it. “If doing it is wrong, I don’t wanna be right!”
BillHeise | May 9, 2009
Found this on the internet today. Place your hand over one eye and click here. There are more than 3000 (3000!!!!) picture like this on the web site. I have no idea why.
BillHeise | May 7, 2009
I just read a review of Joel C. Relihan’s The Prisoner’s Philosophy, to which I contributed a chapter. I am always astonished that there is so much resistance to an idea I have always thought is so obvious. But, then again, I have changed my mind over the last 20 years about the nature of [...]
BillHeise | May 5, 2009
From the 1967 classic Bedazzled, starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
BillHeise | May 5, 2009
From tte 1967 classic Bedazzled, starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
BillHeise | May 4, 2009
“Now strecthing farther than ever before!”
BillHeise | May 4, 2009
The 1960s were the age of the flowering of electric instruments. Bob Dylan had gone electric in 1965, but jazz had gone from being progressive music in the 20s to being far more conservative in the 60s, resiting in particular the call of electric instruments. In 1968, jazz was dying a slow death in the [...]
BillHeise | May 4, 2009
Arlen Specter says that Jack Kemp would be alive today if the GOP would have followed up on Nixon’s war on cancer instead of following a conservative agenda. Mr. Specter [said]: “If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack [...]
