DETEROIRATA X:4 | blog riley

QUOTES OF THE WEEK: “Oh How I Love Jesus” (Disc 30, Track 16): “…a tremendous amount, as it happens,” Jon Caramanica, reviewing Presley’s THE COMPLETE ELVIS PRESLEY MASTERS (30 CDs, RCA) (see completeelvis.com)

Holiday Gift Guide: Music Boxed Sets (nytimes.com)
Beethoven: Late Quartets – Tokyo String Quartet (guardian.co.uk)

David Thomson on Tina Fey: “If there’s anyone Fey reminds me of, it’s Elaine May (maybe the funniest woman in America in the early 1960s).” (Don’t resist that killer link, chuckles galore.)

Jack Shafer on Julian Assange: “…Oh, sure, he’s a pompous egomaniac sporting a series of bad haircuts and grandiose tendencies. And he often acts without completely thinking through every repercussion of his actions. But if you want to dismiss him just because he’s a seething jerk, there are about 2,000 journalists I’d like you to meet…”

The Karzai Brothers (le show parody), “From Afghanistan Public Radio: Where you give the tote bags to us!”

PROPS: to winners of the Deems-Taylor Awards (adjudicated by a team including “choreographic pianist/composer” Eleonor Sandresky), especially David Hajdu, for Heroes and Villains.