NYT breaks big story today-- Creed Bratton, "The Office" curmudgeon, was a guitarist in the hit '60s rock group The Grass Roots, and is still rocking, with a new album (that also features Ed Helms on banjo). Here's the group on the old Jimmy Durante Show (dig his intro), with Creed the young guy on far left.
Greg Mitchell on media, politics, film, music, TV, comedy and more. "Not here, not here the darkness, in this twittering world." -- T.S. Eliot
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
My Favorite Creed
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Sunday, March 28, 2010
Sunday Morning in the Church of Beethoven
My weekly feature. This week: new trailer for my friend Kerry Candaele's projected movie feature, "Following the Ninth." Contact Kerry, or me, if you wish to help fund. Also: I am heading to NYC in a few minutes for the Sixth and the Ninth at Avery Fisher, thanks to writer who I have met only on Twitter!
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Yes, We Can't
Hysterical mash-up of will.i.am classic Obama campaign call with Rep. John Boehner's losing "Oh no you can't" this week.
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Monday, March 22, 2010
Day After Passage of Health Reform: Dudamel, "Ode to Joy"
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Second Episode of My Rock and Roll Series Arrives
And it covers the day I helped discover Bruce Springsteen--at Sing Sing Prison in 1972. Or as Merle Haggard might say, "Sing Sing me back home/With a song I sued to hear."
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Second Week of my The Nation Gig Arrives
Media Fix blog not launching until April but Twitter feed up and running and catching on.
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Friday, March 19, 2010
Back in the Days of Shock and Awe
On 7th anniversary of Iraq war onset very little media coverage, so we look to Neil Young, who recorded still the best antiwar album of this period. "History was a cruel judge of over confidence."
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
My Official Welcome
Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher, does the honors. Twitter feed for my new blog has almost 1000 followers in less than 4 days.
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Box Tops, 1969
RIP Alex Chilton. "The Letter" was #1 for, like, five weeks.
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R.I.P. Alex Chilton
Paul Westerberg does "Alex Chilton." Dead of heart attack today in NOLA at 59. I saw Big Star at fabled rock critic convention in Memphis in May 1973.
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Trailer for NOLA-based 'Treme' Coming to HBO
From David Simon.
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Amy Ryan as Judy Miller
Good portrayal of a Judy Miller figure in Green Zone, except character works for WSJ, not NYT. Key scene has the Matt Damon WMD-hunter confronting her about the lies in her articles in a hotel room. Couldn't find that on Youtube but here is a much earlier scene where she tries to find out why Damon hasn't been able to find the WMD she promised in her pieces. Note that Matt's name in flick is ....Miller.
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Monday, March 15, 2010
My New Gig Announced!
The Nation magazine has just announced my hire to write their first super-active media blog. You can read their announcement, my own piece on it being "40 years in the making," and go to the Media Fix twitter feed. More TK. -- Greg Mitchell
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
Questioning WMD Intel in Iraq
Matt Damon in the must-see Green Zone -- with cameo by my old pal, vet leader Paul Reickhoff.
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Friday, March 12, 2010
Slipping Them a Mickey
The NYT Magazine Q&A this Sunday hosts longtime blogger Mickey Kaus, who has decided to run for the Senate in California -- to the right of incumbent Barbara Boxer. On the subject of other writers/bloggers he complains: "Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line. I think he knows that it’s wrong but feels it’s his duty to fight the good cause." He also reveals that he once made $90,000 as a blogger for Slate but now has taken a pay cut. Also: It's unclear if he can keep writing for Slate as he runs for office.
Here's an excerpt:
Are you married?
No. There must be something wrong with me.
Can your campaign survive the collective attacks of bloggers?
I’m pursuing the dense-pack strategy. You do a missile-defense system where you’re completely open to multiple missile attacks. But the idea is that the incoming warheads will knock each other out.
The opposite could happen: with bloggers deciding to seek office.
I guess the larger point is we’re in an age where the barriers to politics, like the barriers to journalism, are collapsing. There’s this whole notion of a party in a laptop that got credence when Howard Dean ran.
Here's an excerpt:
Are you married?
No. There must be something wrong with me.
Can your campaign survive the collective attacks of bloggers?
I’m pursuing the dense-pack strategy. You do a missile-defense system where you’re completely open to multiple missile attacks. But the idea is that the incoming warheads will knock each other out.
The opposite could happen: with bloggers deciding to seek office.
I guess the larger point is we’re in an age where the barriers to politics, like the barriers to journalism, are collapsing. There’s this whole notion of a party in a laptop that got credence when Howard Dean ran.
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Colbert Takes a Stab at Karl Rove
Cuts him up over new memoir. Finds out he is a sweet guy.
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
The 'Seedy' Glenn Beck
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Glenn Beck's Massa Peel
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
I'm Back from London...With Some Bullshit
Funny or die, indeed:
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
London Calling
Probably no, or little, posting the next few days as I head to London to offer morale support for my daughter, who is six weeks from producing her first kid, a boy. Wish all of us luck! Will be attending the supposedly great new play Enron on Saturday starring one of my favorite Brit bad guy actors Tim Pigott-Smith (Jewel in the Crown, V for Vendetta, Bloody Sunday, etc.) There's a great Van Gogh exhibit in town (letters matched with art) but beyond that mainly doing family stuff.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Sexy Sadie, Revisited
Bizarre editor's note in tomorrow's NYT, obviously after legal action, going back to 2008 article on guy who worked with Beatles, at center of their controversy with Maharishi--Times agreed to post on Web long, long statement by guy.
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An 'SNL' Presidents' Re-Union -- for a Cause!
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Bunning: Hall of Shame Pitcher
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
OK GO Meet Rube Goldberg
If you love falling chains of dominos and much beyond, dig this:
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"Hurt" So Bad
We brought you the fun parody of Avatar (below) so here is not quite equal time for joshing at Hurt Locker, via (believe it or not) guys from Jersey Shore.
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Best "Avatar" = "Pocahontas" MashUp Yet
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Stewart Sends Bunning to Bull Pen
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We're Baaaack
After losing power, heat, online thanks to snow storm (heavy stuff, not that so much of it) bringing down limbs in front of house, finally fully back -- tho with car needing repair, tree man coming to remove wood, etc. Thanks for your patience...
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