Tag: Tim Buckley

• Driftin’ back to Buckley

  Simon Joyner once said to me I wish I could sing like Tim Buckley, but I do what I can with what I have.  I said I felt the same way.  This morning I was looking for something irrelevant to listen to while nearing completion of Gnawing on The Bone, an instrumental project I’ve been…

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  May 25, 2019

  Music, New Releases, Record Reviews

  Afghanistan, Alfred McCoy, Federico Garcia Lorca, Folk Implosion, Gnawing on the Bone, Live at the Troubadour, Lorca, Procrastination, Simon Joyner, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, Tim Buckley

• Dirty Harry Does Diversity.1: Magnum Tucked In Tweed

  One of the weirder phenomena of early 21st century cinema has been the emergence of Clint Eastwood as would-be spokesman for various groups marginalized by the white male power structure his famed ’70’s character Dirty Harry once defended with a famously long phallic symbol.  Million Dollar Baby (2004) concerned itself with issues of gender and…

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  February 18, 2015

  Dirty Harry Does Diversity, Film, History, Series of posts, Uncategorized

  ANC, Angela Y. Davis, Berkeley CA, Black Panther Party, Brezhnev, Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry, Ed Sanders, Films, Gran Torino, Invictus, J. Edgar, J. Hoberman, Jack Kerouac, John Wayne, Magnum Force, Million Dollar Baby, Nelson Mandela, Other John Davises, Pauline Kael, People’s Park Protest, Politics, Race, Reds, Roger Ebert, Ronald Reagan, The Enforcer, The Ex, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Tim Buckley, Too Many Cowboys, Warren Beatty, William F. Buckley