Archives for 2007

Our Girl and I received our two millionth page view at 9:05 yesterday morning. (The lucky viewer, in case you’re curious, was from Lee’s Summit, Missouri, Pat Metheny’s home town.) That

Take a look at the right-hand column and you’ll see that the “Top Five,” “Out of the Past,” “Teachout in Commentary,” and “Teachout Elsewhere” modules have been extensively updated.

Enjoy!

A friend writes:

I’ve been interested in exploring films noir further, and have been meaning to ask if you could suggest the ten (or twelve, or whatever) essential movies that fall under that category. I saw that you included a couple of them on your list last month of the

The things that were coming to be talked about

Have come and gone and are still remembered

As being recent. There is a grain of curiosity

At the base of some new thing, that unrolls

Its question mark like a new wave on the shore.

John Ashbery,

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Yesterday was

“I don’t see dancing. I start with the music. I listen to a lot of music, a lot of the time. Loads of Bach. But for me to want to choreograph a piece, there’s got to be some twist to it, something odd. A certain weirdness. It could be rhythmic, or something about the orchestration, or some wrong chord nobody ever notices that makes me crazy. And the concept of ‘danceable’ music doesn’t mean much to me. A lot of music I choose is the opposite of what people would choose to dance to.”

Mark Morris (quoted in A Terry Teachout Reader)