David Lynch Being a Madman for a Relentless 8 Minutes and 30 Seconds
Madman or visionary? A little of both? A genius? A brand? A mensch? David Lynch was all these things and more, and this fan-made video above serves as a quick reminder of the career and the consistency of the film director/artist/transcendental meditator who passed away last year.
How Conflict Helped Create Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” and Its Legendary Guitar Solos
Even among the most acclaimed albums ever recorded, not a single one is perfect. That goes more so for the releases of what I call the 'heroic age of the album,' which enjoyed its zenith around the late seventies.
How Talking Heads and Brian Eno Wrote “Once in a Lifetime”: Cutting Edge, Strange & Utterly Brilliant
https://www.openculture.com/2019/02/how-talking-heads-and-brian-eno-wrote-once-in-a-lifetime.html
How Talking Heads and Brian Eno Wrote “Once in a Lifetime”: Cutting Edge, Strange & Utterly Brilliant
Few albums of the late 1970s and early 1980s have held up as well as those by Talking Heads, but what to call the music recorded on them? Rock? Pop? New Wave?
Every Book of the Bible Explained in One Video
Whether we're religious or not, we can all agree that the Bible isn't just a book. In fact, it's at least 66 of them, 39 Old Testament and 27 in the New, and that's just in the Protestant tradition.
Kurt Vonnegut Diagrams the Shape of All Stories in a Master’s Thesis Rejected by U. Chicago
“What has been my prettiest contribution to the culture?” asked Kurt Vonnegut in his autobiography Palm Sunday. His answer?
Hear the First Book of Homer’s Iliad Read Aloud in the Original Greek
You can, of course, learn the Greek language as it's spoken today. You can also learn Greek as it was spoken in antiquity — and as it was, until fairly recently in historical time, taught to students in the modern West. But it's a fairly different endeavor again to learn Greek as Homer spoke it.
How Conflict Helped Create Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” and Its Legendary Guitar Solos
Even among the most acclaimed albums ever recorded, not a single one is perfect. That goes more so for the releases of what I call the 'heroic age of the album,' which enjoyed its zenith around the late seventies.
The First Live Performance of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)
It’s almost 35 years ago now that Nirvana’s video for “Smells Like Teen Spirit” debuted on MTV’s 120 Minutes and, for better or worse, inaugurated the grunge era.
An Introduction to the Islamic World: 1,000 Years of History in 19 Minutes
References to Islam in major media can make it sound monolithic and eternal. But it's actually a much younger and less unified phenomenon than many of us imagine, especially if we happen to live outside the Middle East.
Watch a Very Nervous, 23-Year-Old David Byrne and Talking Heads Performing Live in NYC (1976)
David Byrne told Studio 360’s Kurt Anderson in 2019, as they watched some of the above footage of his 23-year-old self fronting a live Talking Heads’ performance back in 1976.
Everything was pretty new back in that Bicentennial year.
