1. "The Last Nonprofit?": By S.T. VanAirsdale at The Reeler.
["How hard is it out there for film and video nonprofits right now? Hard enough that Renew Media, the New York granting organization (née National Video Resources) that's survived the better part of 20 years as an offshoot of the Rockefeller Foundation, is folding into the Tribeca Film Institute. The news was reported early today by The Hollywood Reporter and indieWIRE, then officially announced a few hours ago in a glossy statement from Tribeca:"]
2. "Girl, You'll Be a Woman...Never": Ross Ruediger rants on The Ultimate Coyote Ugly Search.
["This is what we’ve become, eh? I gotta give credit to Ugly founder Liliana Lovell (pictured). Her true talent - despite what the photo may lead you to believe - is in how she turned bullshit into an empire. Did you know that “being a Coyote is all about making the transition from girl to womanhood”? She tells the hopefuls variations on this theme over and over. Really, Lil? Here I thought the Coyotes were essentially a bunch of glorified pole-dancers. Not so! This is all about – in the fabled words of Helen Reddy – “I am woman, hear me roar!”"]
3. "The Golden Gate: A Bridge Too Deadly?": A feature from the Washington Post.
["The day Ken Baldwin decided to kill himself, he drove past his office and proceeded directly to the Golden Gate Bridge. Gazing at the Pacific Ocean over a railing only four feet high, he found the sole remaining impediment to his death was his own willpower, which turned out to be fleeting. "I counted to 10, and I couldn't do it," Baldwin said. "And I counted to 10 again, and I vaulted over. "And my hands were the last thing to leave, and once they left, I thought: 'This is the worst decision I've ever made in my life.'""]
4. "45 Books for the Literate Music Fan": From Bullz-Eye.com. (Hattip: Ross Ruediger)
["Yes, we know that writing about music is like dancing about architecture (even if we’re not convinced that Elvis Costello said it first), but let’s be realistic: if you’re a music fan who likes to read, you can achieve a very special level of bliss when you get the opportunity to dive into a book about music. The Bullz-Eye staff knocked their heads together and came up with a list of 45 books that span several musical genres and include autobiographies and biographies, histories of record companies and music magazines, essay collections, and straight-up reference tomes. It’s not intended to be all-encompassing, nor would we presume to call it a definitive list of the best music books of all time. It’s simply a selection of some of our personal favorites, none of which would be out of place on a music fan’s bookshelf."]
5. "Author admits gang-life 'memoir' was all fiction": More memoirs-as-fiction news. Click here for The New York Times article reporting the fabrication. Click here for the Times profile of the author published before the news hit.
["The gripping memoir of "Margaret B. Jones" received critical raves. It turns out it should have been reviewed as fiction. The author of "Love and Consequences," a critically acclaimed autobiography about growing up among gangbangers in South Los Angeles, acknowledged Monday that she made up everything in her just-published book. "Jones" is actually Margaret Seltzer. Instead of being a half-white, half-Native American who grew up in a foster home and once sold drugs for the Bloods street gang, she is a white woman who was raised with her biological family in Sherman Oaks and graduated from Campbell Hall, an exclusive private school in the San Fernando Valley."]
Quote of the Day: Mark Twain
Image of the Day (click to enlarge): A protester lights a flare in defiance of the recent Moscow elections. Click here for the news story from The Sydney Morning Herald.
Clip(s) of the Day: 1st Clip: Star Wars meets Saul Bass... 2nd Clip: ...then gets Special Edition-ized
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Links for the Day (March 4th, 2008)
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What, no Up and Down with Rolling Stones by Tony Sanchez? Or Faithfull: An Autobiography? Or 24 Hour Party People: What the Sleeve Notes Never Tell You by Tony Wilson (instead of which the list features Mick Middles's mindblowingly middling, middlebrow drivel)? Or World of Gene Krupa: That Legendary Drummin' Man by Bruce Klauber? Or What'd I Say: The Atlantic Story by Ahmet Ertegün?
Lists... Boy, I don't know.
Oh well. Here are some kids songs sung by rockstars.
The last thing I expected to see here today was the link to the Coyote Ugly rant! Thanks Keith...
"...we know that writing about music is like dancing about architecture..."
Even though I don't spend a lot of time reading about music, I really hate this notion. I've had a hard time finding really worthy music discussion and criticism, but just because few people can do it, doesn't mean it's an invalid enterprise. Writing about music is like writing about architecture, which makes perfect sense.
Re: 5 Here we go again! Now the media’s gonna lump Misha Defonseca (who really lived through the Holocaust, though not literally in the way she wrote that she did) with this 50 Cent-wannabe in the same way Laura Albert wrongly got thrown together with fabricator James Frey. Using metaphor to grapple with issues bigger than oneself (“making art from terror,” as Laura puts it) is much different than piecing together hearsay and calling it memoir.
Re: 3 The Golden Gate’s heavenly beauty, captured majestically in Eric Steel’s doc “The Bridge,” goes a long way to explaining its allure.
Is that Tribeca Film Festival logo the cheapest and ugliest thing since tj maxx signage?
john d. moore: I have never understood why some people think a proper critical response to architecture should not include dancing. I'm serious.
lauren: I'm glad you mentioned "The Bridge," which I think is a magnificent and deeply disturbing documentary, and the most profound exploration of suicide I've ever seen on film.
Jim: "I have never understood why some people think a proper critical response to architecture should not include dancing. I'm serious."
Take it one step further: dancing + architecture = Busby Berkeley.
Another film that tackles the Golden Gate Bridge suicide allure, albeit in a completely different way, is Jenni Olson's the Joy of Life. I wrote a piece on it here.
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