http://arts.hurryupharry.org Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:38:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There was a happy little story on the BBC news this morning - between the depressing weather report and the even more depressing current affairs. Yes, in the gap was a story about seven inches of joy that, after sixty years, is still with us and apparently experiencing something of ... http://arts.hurryupharry.org/2009/01/05/sixty-and-still-single/ I'll miss Eartha Kitt http://arts.hurryupharry.org/2008/12/26/i-want-to-be-evil/ The last few days have seen the death of significant figures:- Conor Cruise O’Brien, Bernard Crick,  Davy Graham and Adrian Mitchell. They all made their mark.  They left something they created behind, which is why they are mourned by people who never met them. Here’s an extract from a poem about the ... http://arts.hurryupharry.org/2008/12/24/lament-for-the-makers/ This is a guest post by Cornelis Gijsbrechts El mismo escritor a que vengo aludiendo dice que las catedrales, sin ojes que las contemplen, carecen de valor y que son los ojos que hacen las catedrales. ... Hasta cierto punto - y no más - esto es verdad, pero ¿no lo ... http://arts.hurryupharry.org/2008/12/23/the-vermeer-killers-episode-four-crimble-vermeer/ Stereogum is giving away legal free mp3s from top bands like British Sea Power, the Fleet Foxes, MGMT, Sigur Ros, Stereolab, the Kooks and Radiohead. Go for it! http://arts.hurryupharry.org/2008/12/23/stereogums-50-most-popular-mp3s-of-2008/ This is a guest post by Cornelis Gijsbrechts (Continued from last week) The above painting by Frans Francken II (1581-1642) is an imagined scene in Brussels of the abdication of the Holy Roman Emperor, King Charles V. In 1555 and 1556 Charles V divided the empire between his son Philip II and his ... http://arts.hurryupharry.org/2008/12/15/the-vermeer-killers-episode-three-frau-marthes-broken-pitcher/ Well, it has finally happened. Spotify is basically a huge online music service, with pretty much everything I want to listen on it that allows me to listen at will, pause,  and repeat. It is like having the largest MP3 collection in the world. It has about 200 tracks by the late ... http://arts.hurryupharry.org/2008/12/13/spotify-is-what-we-have-been-waiting-for/ I started watching The Devil’s Whore with a sense of annoyance.  I’m all for Civil War dramas, but why have a female central character, (Angelica Fanshawe, the whore of the title), when the Civil War was made out of those two traditionally masculine pursuits, fighting and politics?   Then, when Angelica was ... http://arts.hurryupharry.org/2008/12/13/the-devils-whore/ Hello dear Harry's Place Arts reader.  As you will have noticed, there have been no reviews by me the last two months.  This has not been a capitulation to the enormity of the task, merely a re-grouping while I was enjoying adventures in the housing market.  These now completed, I ... http://arts.hurryupharry.org/2008/12/13/one-sentence-reviews-update/ In the recent thread on Christmas songs, it occurred to me that nobody mentioned what is sure one of the most class-conscious holiday tunes of all time-- a song about the possibly-illegal expropriation of goods so as to distribute them equitably among all sectors of the population. I refer of course ... http://arts.hurryupharry.org/2008/12/09/and-bring-to-all-the-kids-who-dont-have-none/