My review of Edna O'Brien's James Joyce: A Life ran today at PopMatters . A few years ago, I picked up Richard Ellmann's massive biography of Joyce, which is considered to be the best literary biography ever writtnn. I still haven't read it. It's so big, so imposing, I've yet to find an opportunity to fit it into my life. Someday. Order James Joyce: A Life at Amazon For now, Edna O'Brien's compact, 179-page biography will [...]
I'm going to do something which betrays the philistine in me and post up two extracts from Joyce's Finnegans Wake , recorded nearly thirty years after they were written. Philistine because I must admit I haven't read the book, but these recordings are quite captivating in themselves, as is the link to Joyce reading from Anna Livia Plurabelle . The cover of Nino Frank's translation of Anna Livia Plurabelle (1938) [...]
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In this edition: Kate Bush's latest, News from the Decemberists and Colin Meloy, and videos... Kate Bush Gets the Okay from James Joyce' Estate, Releases Director's Cut In 1989, Kate Bush conceived the title song of her album The Sensual World around Molly Bloom's soliloquy from Ulysses (don't feel bad if you didn't make it to the end of Ulysses , neither did I, and I've an M.A. in Lit) but, sadly, she [...]
Click here to view the embedded video. Detroit's ELzhi continues with his "Elmatic" project where he raps over various Illmatic instrumentals. This video is pretty slick, as a live band plays the instrumental of Nas' Halftime. Sidenote: I read an interview along time ago with Nas about Halftime. He said he was inspired by a quote in a James Joyce story, called A Little Cloud from Dubliners . The quote goes something like this: Little [...]
Filed under: News Getty Images Kate Bush has been given permission to use an extract from James Joyce's 'Ulysses' on forthcoming album 'Director's Cut' -- 20 years after she first asked. Rather than put out new material, the reclusive solo artist has reworked tracks from two previous records -- 1989's 'The Sensual World' and 1993's 'The Red Shoes'. All have new lead vocals, new drums and reworked instrumentation, Bush has [...]
Cutting through the romantic sap straight to the more explicit underpinnings of Valentines Day, we present to you the newest single by Vancouver's Apollo Ghosts, recently offered up for free on their Facebook page. Its a beatnik sounding experimental number with strings, sounding like a Joe Jackson loop spread out underneath some well placed effects and overlayed with some spoken word lifted right out of the exquisitely smutty letters of Irish writer James Joyce. While on his first return trip to Dublin from Zurich in 1909, James Joyce wrote a series of explicit pornographic letters to [...]
With Southern California black metallers The Funeral Pyre making this blogger's year-end list (again) in 2010, what better time to catch up with frontman John Strachan than on the cusp of another year, jam-packed for the band with new tour dates, new music, and new(-ish) releases? Plus, he's got a few picks of his own [...]
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Noted literary rockstar James Joyce seemed to know a thing or two about wooing the ladies, thanks to these newly surfaced love letters he wrote to his sweetheart. Nothing says romance like admiring the "stink that rises from the arse" of your special friend. To NORA Dublin 2 December 1909 ………………………… . My love for you allows me to pray to the spirit of eternal beauty and tenderness mirrored in your eyes or fling you down under me on that softy belly of yours and fuck you up behind, like a hog riding [...]
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"'History,' Stephen said, 'is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.'" - James Joyce Blanket Truth - Hanging Out
The Minutemen's Double Nickels On The Dime is one of the several weathered foundations of L.A. RECORD . Exactly twenty-five years later, it still starts bands and makes friends. Minutemen bassist Mike Watt meets for pizza at San Pedro's excellent Pavich's Pizza for remembering D. Boon and George Hurley and that guy Mike Watt in the summer of 1984. This interview by Chris Ziegler.
The Dead is a short story in The Dubliners by James Joyce. You can hear an audio version recorded by my Irish husband over at Librivox . Following is a haiku I wrote after recently re-reading the story: The Dead by James Joyce Snow on his shoulders Gathering, his heart bestirred Her secret sorrow Buy @ Amazon
Happy Bloomsday everyone. Another excuse to dress up in fancy clothes and get drunk. Sadly, the only time I was in Dublin, I missed the holiday by one day and I've regretted it ever since. And before any of you literary snobs get up in arms, I recognize that the above audio is Joyce reading from Finnegan's Wake and not oh, say, Ulysses , where the holiday is derived from, but we're working with limited resources and I really wanted to find Joyce's actual voice. Strange that his [...]
Beyond Failure blogger, Noot d' Noot drummer and Atlanta punk/hardcore archivist James Joyce offers up his ultimate mixtape
Turns out Britney has possibly read a book in her life. Well, that may be a slight stretch, but her team of songwriters certainly has. That dubiously clever pun in her new single, "If You Seek Amy", has been used, in one form or another, throughout literary history. Or at least going back to Shakespeare, according to Slate's research . Even Joyce toyed with it in Ulysses , taking the art of the dirty pun to even greater heights with "See you in tea." What's that spell? You heard me. But, in spite of the [...]
Luke Leitch of the Times Online rounds up the most successful literary sequels ever. And we're not talking about Harry Potter or Twilight or something from Dan Brown, rather an author's second novel. The authors listed didn't get the sophomore slump. If anything, their second act is what sealed their literary legacy. Jane Austen, James Joyce, Salman Rushdie, Charles Dickens, Evelyn Waugh, Yan Martel, and F. Scott Fitzgerald all make the list. Sadly, somehow David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and Jack Kerouac's progression from The Town and the City to On the Road weren't good [...]
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Art of This 02/17/09 8pm In conjunction with the mid-installation phase of Hardland / Heartland exhibit with Monica Canilao , this week's improvised music series will incorporate visuals and sound from members of HL/HL James Joyce pixelvisions by Hot Legs Mean Beep EC of HL/HL E. Yang's Smoldering Wreath mincerlunk John Marks projections by AA of HL/HL Not sure about the order, but I am guessing [...]
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