Mass fashion is a form of invisibility. The clothes that everyone wears on the street are rarely the clothes we notice. T-shirts, sneakers and jeans are so common that we can no longer see them at all. Let's dissect and play with the two ultimate common-places of global dress: jeans and message t-shirts. If clothing is a form of mass consent then what is it that we are conforming to when we wear ‘basics’? Tom Ford recently cited the combination of jeans and a white t-shirt as the greatest style classic of all time. But I think he was thinking of vintage Marlon Brando in that moment and not an ageing Neil Young.
It takes a very special kind of genius to make vibrating strings bring a audience to screaming seething mass. Rock guitarists are effective conduits for the visceral emotions our lizard brains respond to.
The classic John Coltrane ballad "Naima" is captured in the most typical, but best possible format here, featuring Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner and Jimmy Garrison.
One you get a sense of what Miles Davis is really about, listening to a wide spread of his work, certain records stick out as better than the rest, no matter what genre you may classify them in.
Auerbach twists the the 'Minor Blues' knob up a couple ticks on The Black Keys 2008 album Attack and Release, relentlessly unleashing yet another soulful tirade.
Charles Mingus had multiple sides as a composer and performer - many classic recordings are in a small group context - but here on Let my Children Hear Music, he is featured composing for a large and varied ensemble.
Playing two roles in this ridiculous film noir knockoff about a man with memory loss, Jim Carrey is not the funny man that we know and love OR the serious man from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Schifrin composed cool music for hot flicks -
Once a Thief (1965), Murderer's Row (1966), Bullitt (1968), Cool Hand Luke (1967), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Dirty Harry (1971) and Enter the Dragon (1973).
Look at me - I'm invisible
Mass fashion is a form of invisibility. The clothes that everyone wears on the street are rarely the clothes we notice. T-shirts, sneakers and jeans are so common that we can no longer see them at all. Let's dissect and play with the two ultimate common-places of global dress: jeans and message t-shirts. If clothing is a form of mass consent then what is it that we are conforming to when we wear ‘basics’? Tom Ford recently cited the combination of jeans and a white t-shirt as the greatest style classic of all time. But I think he was thinking of vintage Marlon Brando in that moment and not an ageing Neil Young.
