“The day the iPhone came out, June 29, 2007,” Tyler Cowen tells us, “I boasted to my wife that it would be one of the most important cultural events of our lifetimes, maybe the most important. I compared my purchase of one, which I wanted to justify, to going to see a “Don Giovanni” premiere…
Tag: Mozart
Who’s Cooler, Prince or—OK, Screw It
For a while I had a meme, comparing whichever pop icon was in the news to the first pop icon I encountered, Hopalong Cassidy. But memes get old, and, judging from the worshipful coverage Prince is receiving, comparing the late guy who was formerly known as Prince to a B-movie cowpoke like Hoppy, whose name…
Capitalism shaky, Mozart firm
OK, perhaps “shaky” is too strong a term, but consider: I recently ordered a high-end office chair from a high-end store for my high-end office, aka “my bedroom.” Yesterday the chair arrived. A hole had been punched in the box, and a handle used to make one of the many high-end adjustments had broken off….
New at Bright Lights
My take on Charlie Chaplin’s penultimate (and second-worst) film, Limelight, is available at the Brightlights Film Journal, along wtih a brief guide to Mozart’s operas on Blu-ray. The whole BL issue, NSFW as always, is here.My earlier reviews of Chaplin…