BillHeise | April 26, 2010
I looked for this video when I first started my blog, but it was unavailable. But I finally found it this week. The sound quality is terrible, but it was one of my favorite songs when I was in high school. After Eric Clapton had joined the super group Blind Faith, he got sick of [...]
BillHeise | April 19, 2010
As usual, I am late.I intended to write and publish my second book review several Fridays ago. However, events (read fate) intervened, and I’ve only got around to it today. I will try to do better in the following weeks. My Approach to Book Reviews I found Ezra Klein’s article called “My favorite books—or not” [...]
BillHeise | April 19, 2010
This week, the news has been filled with reports of the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull Volcano. Now, there’s this image of the eruption from space.
BillHeise | April 19, 2010
BillHeise | April 14, 2010
A couple weeks ago, I was talking about the difference between Neil Postman’s certain vision of the past and his uncertain vision of the future. I had noted that he was worth listening to when he was talking about the past, but when it came to his vision of the future he was worse than [...]
BillHeise | April 12, 2010
Yesterday, HBO started airing Treme, a new series set in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. So, in honor of the (I quote from the series) tired old music of that broken down old city, I thought I’d go back to one of my favorite musicians of all time, Sidney Bechet. The History [...]
BillHeise | April 6, 2010
My feeling on Serge’s life is a little different than Joann Sfar’s on the life of Serge Gainsbourg. She seems to think that the scandals of his life will pass, but the legend remains. I tend to think that things pass into legend because human memory is so fallible. This is why we constantly have [...]
BillHeise | April 6, 2010
I didn’t know until this week that they’d made a movie of Serge Gainbourg‘s life called Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque): Obviously, their take on Serge’s ‘heroic’ life as ‘he reinvents music and love’ is rather different than mine.
BillHeise | April 5, 2010
BillHeise | April 1, 2010
I just finished my post about Serge Gainsbourg and I feel like I need to cleanse my palate. So here’s some comedy:
