About halfway through his two-hour set Friday night at Royce Hall, Randy Newman lost track of his own song. Granted it was one of the newer ones, “Laugh and Be Happy,” from his 2008 album “Harps and Angels,” but it was still his song, and it wasn’t the first mistake he’d made.
Author Archives: Alex Goodman
Movie reassures those with phobias
Immersion therapy, in the language of psychology, refers to a treatment approach such that patients confront their phobias head-on, with increasing intensity.
The story behind the filmmaker
Atop the pantheon of Russian artists, alongside Fyodor Dostoevsky and his psychological novels, sits Andrei Tarkovsky.
Soundbite: Wale and Audible Mainframe
A suggestion for any aspiring rapper: Turn the volume down a bit.
Screen Scene: “Saint John of Las Vegas”
The title “Saint John of Las Vegas” is an odd phrase: Vegas is as much a place for saints as Disneyland is for college students.
Soundbite: Spoon
Britt Daniel, Spoon’s delightful front man, sounds more like a Brit than any other singer in Texas. But the fact remains that he is ours, America, and we should milk that fact for all the nationalist pride it’s worth.
Decade in Review: Albums
The last decade never clearly tied itself to a single musical trend, the way hair metal defined the ’80s or grunge the ’90s ““ if anything, we saw the emergence of hip-hop and its reliance on the hit single.