“Lucy O’Donnell, the woman who inspired the classic Beatles song Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, has died aged 46. “The song [was] featured on the ground-breaking 1967 album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. “John Lennon’s elder son Julian said it was inspired by a picture he drew of his classmate Lucy O’Donnell when [...]
Archive for September, 2009
R.I.P. – Lucy O’Donnell, aka “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” (1963-2009)
Posted in Counter Culture, Obituaries, Popular Culture, Popular Music, Rock 'n' Roll on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What’s a Culture Snob to Do?: The Future Aesthetic of Snobbery in a Digitized World
Posted in Books, Human Behavior, Literature, Popular Culture, Popular Music, Science & Technology on September 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Pity the culture snob, as Kindles, iPods, and flash drives swallow up the visible markers of superior taste and intelligence. With the digitization of books, music, and movies, how will the highbrow distinguish him- or herself from the masses?” (James Wolcott, via Vanity Fair)
R.I.P. – Jim Carroll (1950-2009)
Posted in Books, Counter Culture, Obituaries, Poets & Poetry, Popular Culture, Rock 'n' Roll, Writers & Writing on September 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker in the outlaw tradition of Rimbaud and Burroughs who chronicled his wild youth in ‘The Basketball Diaries,’ died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 60. . . . “As a teenage basketball star in the 1960s at Trinity, an elite private school on the Upper [...]
Travel Photo of the Day: Tarnow, Poland (9/11-Related Graffiti)
Posted in American History, Europe, Foreign Travel, New York City, Photography on September 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Stencilled graffiti on wall in Tarnow, Poland ”celebrating” anniversary of destruction of World Trade Center towers on 9/11 (May, 2008). [Click image to enlarge]
