This post has nothing to do with Gone With the Wind or the South’s shameful history of chattel slavery. Instead, it’s your chance to sink your ears into “one of the most sublime transitions Phish has ever pulled off,” the set-opening Story of the Ghost > Slave to the Traffic Light from Atlanta’s Lakewood Amphitheater, [...]
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"A fast, complex, exhilarating roadster ride through history and time.... Kino is an intoxicating Euro-brew, written with enormous skill and dedication." — Frederick Barthelme
"Jürgen Fauth's deft mashup of genre and historical period is both a full-throttle literary thriller of ideas and a contemplative examination of film and fascism. Kino is a debut of great intellectual force."– Teddy Wayne
"A surprising alternative history. Kino brings the golden age of German cinema to light with loving, sometimes gritty, detail and great precision." – Neal Pollack, author of Jewball.
"A delirious melange of conspiracy, magic, sex, history, bad behavior, and cinema, Kino is a stellar entertainment, and Jürgen Fauth is a writer of rare, sinister imagination." – Owen King, author of Reenactment
"A light-hearted romp that leads straight into darkness and back through the shadows on the wall."– Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
"Movie nuts arise! A happy and felicitous debut."– Terese Svoboda
All posts tagged Music
Atlanta Slave Appreciation
Posted by Jürgen on August 31, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/08/31/atlanta-slave-appreciation/
The Week in Music
Dylan in Prospect Park, Wilco at McCarren Pool, Trey Anastasio‘s triumphant return to full-on electric shredding with Classic TAB at All Points West and the Music Hall of Williamsburg — and that’s just the stuff I missed. The shows I managed to catch weren’t too shabby either: Animal Collective driving a sun-blitzed afternoon crowd wild, [...]
Posted by Jürgen on August 16, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/08/16/the-week-in-music/
Playing the Building
(more photos) David Byrne’s installation transforms the Battery Maritime Building into a giant musical instrument, but the mysterious noises that emanate from all corners of the delightfully dilapidated industrial space have more in common with a late-80s Grateful Dead mid-set midi-freakout than whatever usually goes by “music.” Waiting and sweating in line for my turn [...]
Posted by Jürgen on August 6, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/08/06/playing-the-building/
My Morning Jacket @ Radio City Music Hall
Poster by Guy Burwell A much delayed post about this highly enjoyable show. Apparently, tickets sold out in 22 minutes, but I was lucky enough to score an extra the week of, having only just caught on to MMJ’s live prowess after their much-praised Bonnaroo set and via the Okonokos live album and DVD. The [...]
Posted by Jürgen on July 8, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/07/08/my-morning-jacket-radio-city-music-hall/
Yowza! Yowza! Yowza!
At times, blogging feels exactly like the marathon dancing competition in Sidney Pollack‘s 1969 They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? It’s cruel, unnatural, never-ending, and of questionable worth. Some are driven mad by it, somewhere behind the scenes an uncaring MC is counting his money, and the pregnant woman and the aging sailor never stood a [...]
Posted by Jürgen on June 26, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/06/26/yowza-yowza-yowza/
June Tunes
A few bands I’ve been enjoying lately to drown out the jackhammers going berserk outside my window. More at muxtape. Marco Benevento Budos Band Jackie Greene MGMT The Wood Brothers Tocotronic The KLF feat. Tammy Wynette The Avett Brothers and, for Bo Diddley, The Grateful Dead
Posted by Jürgen on June 4, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/06/04/june-tunes/
The 7th Jammy Awards
OK, so Matisyahu covered the Flaming Lips, Rose Hill Drive and Leslie West raged Mountain‘s Mississippi Queen, Sheryl Jones and Booker T did Born Under a Bad Sign (“and that’s fine”), that “smokeshow” Grace Potter got Warren Haynes to take her to the river, Big Head Todd and Squeeze‘s Glenn Tilbrook joined Tea Leaf Green [...]
Posted by Jürgen on May 9, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/05/09/the-7th-jammy-awards/
Last Tube
Tim Borman (from Belgium) created a mashup that combines last.fm recommendations with an automated YouTube feed for your very own personal MTV. Here’s my channel. [via] And if that’s no good, watch Trey playing Last Tube: “If I could surf in milk, this is what it would sound like.”
Posted by Jürgen on May 6, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/05/06/last-tube/
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