S6.10 (162): “Perfect Days” and “Anselm” by Wim Wenders
Remembering Grateful Dead Lyricist And Internet Activist John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow was an advocate for a free and open Internet. Wired magazine called Barlow the bard of the Internet. Barlow was also an occasional lyricist for the Grateful Dead, writing songs with the Dead's guitarist, Bob Weir.
Perfect Days: Where the Light Comes Through
By Bilge Ebiri
“Perfect Days lives, in essence, between these two tableaux. It’s a city symphony about a man who appreciates the patches of nature and light he can find in his concrete world, and it’s a film about how everyday existence drifts into our dream lives.”
The Ultimate Guide to Cassette Tape Hunting in Tokyo: A CityNomix Journey to Find Analog Treasures
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This article is a comprehensive guide to the cassette tape and record shops in Tokyo that I’ve personally explored, and a record of my own journey.
Anselm
Wim Wenders creates a hypnotic portrait of Anselm Kiefer, one of the most innovative and important painters and sculptors of our time.
Chuck Ramirez, American, 1962-2010
As an artist and art director, Chuck Ramirez examined and deconstructed the media world he inhabited.
Community Church of Boston
Where Jim's show will be, or was, depending on when you read this.
The Guns of August, by Barbara W. Tuchman
In this landmark, Pulitzer Prize–winning account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the century, and ultimately our present world.
Mike Wallace And the Triumph Of the Gotham Trilogy
The first volume, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, written with Burrows, won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for History. and other awards.
The second, Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919, with Mike as the sole author, won the 2017 New York Society Library Prize for Book of the Year.
The third volume, Gotham at War: A History of New York City from 1933 to 1945, was published in October this year.