Gregor’s Bed: Nebraska by Wanda Waterman The Voice Magazine, Volume 22 Issue 33 2014-08-22 Film: Nebraska Director: Alexander Payne Writer: Bob Nelson DAVID: Hey, Dad, how about we go see Mount Rushmore? WOODROW: We don’t have time to see that! DAVID: It’s just 30 minutes off the interstate. And we’re right here. WOODROW: It’s just a bunch of rocks! – Dialogue from Nebraska Woody wants to go to Nebraska to pick up his million dollars in winnings. His family knows the “sweepstakes” he’s supposedly won is just a scheme to get people to buy magazines, but Woody is going to … Continue reading Not Your Average Black-and-White Existentialist Road Movie

Gregor’s Bed: Recent Discoveries From the Realms of the Experimental and Avant-Garde by Wanda Waterman The Voice Magazine, Volume 22 Issue 30 2014-08-01 Where Multiple Streams of Inspiration Joyously Meet and Mingle Album: Scatter My Ashes Composer: William Susman “The poems of his sister seem to arrive, first, from a melancholy soul and, second, from the common unconscious of a culture unnerved by rapid transitions, growing shallowness, and ignorance. A culture cut off from both history and the lessons of the past. In the track “Moving to an Empty Space” we explore the absurdity of postmodern solitude by means of … Continue reading Where Multiple Streams of Inspiration Joyously Meet and Mingle

Whose idea was this, anyway? Mike Patton, an alternative pop culture icon dabbling in the widely disparate fields of heavy metal and serious avant-garde music, has just produced and performed in a recording of Laborintus II, a work by the late Luciano Berio, an avant-garde composer with historical ties to pop culture icons. Berio’s three-act storyless opera was first performed at Mills College in California in 1967, the same year in which Berio appeared on the cover of the Sergeant Pepper album. http://www.voicemagazine.org/articles/articledisplay.php?ART=8681 Continue reading LABORINTUS II