GENERATIONS

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In which “Golden Slumbers,” “Carry That Weight,” and “The End” pretty much sum it all up. Created by Paul Boxs

Much of my rage is reserved for a predatory system of higher education and the failures of a generation that came before. I’m angry that a “state” university costs as much as it does. That many, if not most of the students who attend, treat the experience like a 4-year version of MTV’s Spring Break. […]

On a hot, muggy night, in the attic room of an old school administration building, I sit nursing a case of undergraduate angst: what am I doing with my life? Should I drop out? Get a job? Hair grows over the collar of my shirt. In the comer a small AM radio plays softly. I […]

Photo: Robert Altman Even before our world view guides us to discriminate between good and evil, it disposes us to discriminate between real and unreal, true and false, meaningful and meaningless. Before we act in the world, we must conceive of a world; it must be there before us, a sensible pattern to which we […]

“It’s a fragmented culture in a way that it’s never been. You know how baby boomers ask, ‘Where’s the protest music?’ and lament the lack of youth activities? There is protest music, but it’s so broken up into niche audiences that it doesn’t gain as much traction.”

“Dylan hit a nerve for me, opened a door into a trove of barely distant memories when I was a grade-schooler and would be told to huddle under my desk in case of attack. I had grown up with Fail-Safe and Dr. Strangelove and had lived through the endless grade-B Japanese horror films where everything […]

Living in Los Angeles in the heyday of music video I assiduously followed its development, watched it assimilate and remix the vocabulary of film and television, witnessed the introduction of the “shaky cam”, and the kaleidoscopic rush of image cut to music, freed of plot. Mostly lacking narrative content, we referred to music video as […]

“Martin Luther King had a dream. We had a dream, and it was, almost literally it sometimes seemed, a dream of a return to the Garden of Eden. It was a dream reinforced by visions, visions made immensely real through LSD. Because these were shared visions, there seemed little reason to doubt their authenticity. The […]

For FULL SCREEN click on video control bar far right. At first it was Meet The Beatles, but shortly it was “Have you seen the Stones?” Staring at you were five Englishmen, unsmiling, even stranger than The Beatles. Brian Jones! With his long hair to his shoulders. Jagger’s lips! Of all of them Brian leaped […]