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Catching Up With AJ Weberman
Bob Dylan has been the main focus of many a assume piece during the last month or in order A Full Unknown, the movie overlaying his life within the mid Nineteen Sixties starring Timothee Chalamet, has unspooled in theaters. Most of these items are value determinations of the movie, or Dylan’s profession, however this one caught our eye for its deal with AJ Weberman, a counterculture determine whose life has run parallel to Dylan in some ways. Within the parlance of our occasions, you may name Weberman an obsessed fan, or perhaps a stalker. He got here to some small fame within the 60s and 70s for his distinctive model of “Dylanology,” growing wildly detailed interpretations of Dylan’s typically inscrutable lyrics. He additionally, famously, picked via Dylan’s rubbish searching for perception into his private life. Completely regular stuff. Anyway, he’s nonetheless on the market, he’s seen the film, and he’s nonetheless a bit of too obsessed.
Had been We Incorrect concerning the Pono?
Bear in mind the Pono music participant? A decade in the past, Neil Younger helped launch the iPod competitor as an alternative choice to what he deemed a era of moveable music units that have been incapable of reproducing compressed audio recordsdata with a constancy that met his requirements. It’s true: iPods and iPhones (and lots of related units) have by no means actually been audiophile favorites. When the Pono was launched, it was ridiculed by many for its value, it’s unusual triangular design, and the notion that our audio recordsdata have been inferior within the first place. Now, ten years later, the panorama has shifted. The main streaming companies supply lossless audio choices that even an untrained ear can decide sound markedly higher than extremely compressed MP3s of yore, the democratization of top quality noise cancelling headphones has many listeners extra thinking about audio high quality than ever earlier than. This look again on the Pono in Stereogum is an interesting snapshot of the temporary Pono period, and has us considering we would not have given it a good shake.
Jesse Armstrong’s Subsequent Undertaking Revealed
In the event you’re something like us, you proceed to really feel the void left by Succession when the hit HBO sequence ended practically two years in the past. There’s been a ton of hypothesis and simply plain ready round for an announcement concerning showrunner Jesse Armstrong’s subsequent undertaking, and we lastly received information of what he’ll be as much as this week. As Deadline and others report, Armstrong can be writing and govt producing a film for HBO Movies together with Frank Wealthy, additionally a Succession producer (each are beneath total offers at HBO). The premise is described as overlaying a bunch of associates who meet up throughout a world monetary disaster. So, not rather a lot to go on, however given Armstrong’s pursuits and the subject material of Succession, there’s sufficient right here to get excited.
