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True Sailing Is Dead: “Horse Latitudes” by the Doors (Distant Listening #6)

By Rob Horning ⋅ December 29, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

Morrison seems to have sincerely wanted to launch his drunken boat like a latter-day Rimbaud, but he neglected to register that little in the cultural zeitgeist could support such a self-image. The Whiskey-a-Go-Go was not fin-de-siècle Paris; the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (on which the Doors performed “Touch Me”) was not Le Mercure de France. As much as he may have wanted to will himself into becoming a poet from another age, nobody can make the era amenable by fiat. So he became a sad anachronism.

All the News That’s Sh*t to Print: TMZ First with TMI

By Anton Steinpilz ⋅ July 3, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

Levin certainly drives a hard bargain. Fifty bucks seems a miserly price to hang on bombshell revelations of celebrity death and dirty dealing. But he appears to have found the perfect informants, those of great enough leisure and small enough means to malinger around Hollywood, their weather eyes open for scandal.

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