Carl’s Rock Songbook #58: Revolution’s Rush—Oliver Stone’s The Doors

by Carl Scott

What other films do we have, besides this one, that really capture the exhilarating rush—and the decadent come-down—of the 60s culture-revolution? We have a number of fine literary portrayals, such as Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test , and shading out of the . . . . Continue Reading »

28 Jul 2012

Carl’s Rock Songbook #29: Cary Grant Did Acid

by Carl Scott

Okay, here’s a shorter way, for those of you who haven’t the patience for my full cinemascopic link-littered prose, to get at what I mean by Intermediate Modernity In Book VIII Republic terms, intermediate-modernity was the era of the self-repressing Oligarchic Soul, and “the . . . . Continue Reading »

25 Nov 2011