bummer. been reading army of phantoms and the dream life, and they're fantastic, super entertaining cultural histories.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
omg
― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:43 (twelve years ago) link
why did he get fired? b/c he is 'old guard'?
― gnome rocognise gnome (remy bean), Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
I was always surprised (happy, but surprised) that he somehow dodged the Christgau/Eddy/Hentoff/etc. layoffs.
― clemenza, Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
Yes
― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 January 2012 01:10 (twelve years ago) link
― gnome rocognise gnome (remy bean), Wednesday, January 4, 2012 7:46 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
prob cuz he was making too much money
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 5 January 2012 01:12 (twelve years ago) link
:(
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 5 January 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
http://books.google.de/books?id=yHcIp0sa6MkC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false
"Not exactly trekking to the one-room schoolhouse six miles across the tundra but a schlep nonetheless for the Teenage Me to find the one newsstand in Flushing (and later, Binghamton, New York) that carried the Village Voice."
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 5 January 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
via http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/the-voice-lays-off-j-hoberman
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 5 January 2012 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
bcz people like me (but not me) will write Voice reviews for $50 a pop, and bcz most young people only look at Metacritic/RT scores for films, if that.
xxxxp
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 January 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
people like me (but not me) will write Voice reviews for $50 a pop
Umm...
― dor Dumbeddownball (Eric H.), Thursday, 5 January 2012 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
Hoberman's dismissal comes as I'm in the midst of reading the Paul Nelson biography. To indulge in a little gratuitous nostalgia, it always resonates with me when the world I'd constructed for myself back in university--all the music and film critics who had such an influence on me--gets chipped at a little more.
― clemenza, Thursday, 5 January 2012 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
ummm wha?
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 January 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
no offense to maura or other ilxors who pop up there on occasion but i can't imagine i'll ever have reason to look at the voice again
― balls, Wednesday, January 4, 2012 11:32 PM (Yesterday)
― jhøshea nrq (nakhchivan), Thursday, 5 January 2012 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
titty pics of juggalettes aren't free, something had to give
― goole, Thursday, 5 January 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
as Kenny commenters mention, the final insult is the elevation of that dingaling Karina Longworth.
http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2012/01/a-j-hoberman-top-ten.html
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 January 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
Par for course
― Lady Writer, Male Seether (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
Das Jackass
― TEH PNINFOX aka the veen driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.indiewire.com/article/post-voice-j-hoberman-lands-gig-at-blounin-artinfo-will-attend-sxsw
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 05:19 (twelve years ago) link
Currently enjoying Hoberman's new book, Make My Day, the third installment in the line of The Dream Life and Army of Phantoms. This one covers the years 1975-1988. The first chapter contrasts Nashville with Jaws, with the author delivering the line, "Nashville was supple while Jaws was rigid, but Nashville was superficial while Jaws ran deep."
Later Hoberman rips into Reagan-era Hollywood product, bringing back the horrors and dipshit fraudulence of that decade all too vividly. He regularly refers to the films Reagan personally screened in the White House, so it's a bit like "Reagan at the Movies."
― Josefa, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 01:05 (four years ago) link