The big dogs of publishing might have Oprah Winfrey’s Book Club, but the little ones have indie rock. Unclear when the flirtation became a marriage, but the benefit concert held Sunday night at Beacon Theater for 826 NYC, the McSweeney’s-sponsored reading-and-writing program for kids, seems a good indication that independent literature and independent music are Read More
The group of young Germans who, in 1905, proudly called themselves Die Brücke (“The Bridge”) derived their name from Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra, one of the radical philosophical tracts of the period. (The key passage reads: “What is great about a man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.”) Die Brücke was Read More
The trench coat mafia, it seems, were admirers of Adolf Hitler. That is the man to admire if your goal is to murder lots of people. This time the Jews were the jocks. Go figure.
What did the dweeby misfits in my high school do? They smoked pot, and read Nietzsche. Nathan Leopold and Richard Read More
Friedrich Nietzsche, the Greil Marcus of his day, once noted, “There are two tragedies in a man’s life. The first is to have failed to have reached your goal; the second is to have reached it.” Arguments of eternal return aside, Nietzsche seemed to understand how the “world” of music is represented to the public. Read More
Socialite Cece Cord has been using her connections in the fashion world to make a little extra on the side. The blond-haired Texas beauty, whose 22-year marriage to designer hubby Barry Kieselstein-Cord ended in 1996, has also recently stepped down from her position as director of public relations at Barry Kieselstein-Cord International. For reasons undisclosed, Read More
