“See, I wish that gay marriage would be legal everywhere, but that no gay people would act on it. because, look. nobody wants to go to anybody’s wedding.”
Tag: 07.16.13
Alan Sokal Is Back
“British psychologist Nick Brown and two co-authors have just published an astonishing demolition of a top-ranked paper in the field of positive psychology … One of the authors of the critique is Alan Sokal, the physicist who, in 1996, famously wrote a parody of then-fashionable postmodernist theorizing and had it published as a serious paper in a sociology journal, thus sparking years of controversy.”
Mary-Louise Parker Threatens To Quit Acting Because The Internet Is So Mean
“I’m not really that into it anymore … The world has gotten too mean for me, it’s just too bitchy. All the websites and all the blogging and all the people giving their opinion and their hatred … it’s all so mean-spirited, it’s all so critical.”
How Art Schools Are Failing Painters
“You can see the evidence every year at any art college exhibition across the country. There is, without doubt, an unwillingness to paint; the medium is seen as too traditional, over and done with.”
Clearly Spotify Royalties Won’t Replace Album Sales
“I have met many fans over the years who are proud to find and listen to music on Spotify. They are under the impression that their subscription fees are helping to support us and that the ever-growing catalogue they enjoy is due to their subscriptions. But music fans have been sold a lie.”
What Channels Would You Pay For If Cable TV Offered Them Separately?
“According to Laura Martin, only about 20 cable channels would survive in an a la carte world. Industry execs have repeatedly raised the specter of niche-oriented and minority-targeted channels becoming unsustainable in such a marketplace.”
Is This A Better Model For Musicians To Make Money?
“The last piece that can’t be stolen and disseminated en masse is the experience, because even if you get it later on, it’s not in real time. What’s exciting is what happens now – that’s the very nature of Facebook’s business, of social networking. Musicians are fascinating while they’re working. When that ends, they’re just selling.”
Shakespeare’s Globe Wants To Tour Hamlet To Every Nation On Earth
“The Globe theatre is sending a production of Hamlet on the first genuine world tour in theatre history. Starting on 23 April 2014, the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, the company will spend two years travelling by planes, trains, boats and buses to visit every nation on Earth – 205 countries in all.”
Listen Up, You Naysayers: Alan Gilbert Has Been Terrific For The New York Philharmonic
There’s a sizable contingent that thinks Gilbert’s interpretations of the standard rep are dull. Anthony Tommasini counters that Gilbert is a hard worker, innovative programmer and dedicated public face of the orchestra – and that anyone who can sell out programs of Ligeti and Stockhausen in the U.S. must be a kind of genius.
Australian Theatremakers Begin Looking At Race-Blind Casting
“Theatre should never be about quotas, but it is odd that people who are neighbours, family and workmates – whether of European descent, or Aboriginal, Chinese, Vietnamese or Indian – are so rarely seen on stage. A nation as multicultural as Australia – the population comprises people from 250 different ancestral backgrounds – is conspicuously monocultural in the mainstage theatre.”