There's a lot to read here, so make yourself comfy and enjoy!
Let me take a moment to remind those of you who are chosen that you are invited to submit your own pick for next week (due to space considerations, please limit it to one). Please feel free to email me your picks (including the URL) by next Tuesday.
MUSIC
From Music Editor Connie Phillips:
CD Review: Editors - The Back Room by Matt Freelove
Matt gives a thorough and comprehensive look at the new Editors CD. As usual, he leaves no stone un-turned and no angle un-examined.
Concert Review: Horrorpops - House of Blues, Sunset Strip - 3/24/06 by Fantasma el Rey
Reviewing live music isn't always as easy as it looks, but you wouldn't know it by reading this article. Fantasma el Rey gives the reader a front row seat.
Beat Farmer and Music Columnist Buddy Blue, Dead at 48 by Joan Hunt
Picking an obituary may seem a bit odd, but what Joan delivered is so much more. Thanks for this tribute to a music great who will be missed.
BOOKS
From Books Editor Natalie Bennett:
Stanislaw Lem, Writer and Critic Extraordinaire, Dead at 84 by Steven Hart
An informed and affectionate account of the author, which also clearly sets out his place in the science fiction canon. An entirely first-class obituary.
Then, moving from the old to the young, with Book Review: How My Private, Personal Journal Became a Bestseller By Julia DeVillers, by CallmeMaddy
CallmeMaddy explains that she has with this book, with its 14-year-old heroine, finally found a book "written by an adult that I can relate to". Her enthusiasm shines through in her review, and I can imagine my 14-year-old self wanting to read it.
TV/FILM
From Film Editor Erin McMaster:
Victor Lana's Disney's High School Musical: Teen Angst and Lots of Singing and Dancing is a fun look at an annoyingly catchy Disney movie.
CULTURE
From Culture Editor Diana Hartman:
John Spivey explores our internal landscape in the rich imagery of Energy and Imagination.
Article comments
1 - chantal stone
Great Picks....I recommend that everyone read John Spivey's article. It's full of depth and insight, extremely well written, I've read it several times already. I'm not sure why, it just really meant a lot to me.
2 - Jon Sobel
I second the motion about Spivey's article - it's inspiring. I also find the Editors' Picks extremely valuable in general - there's just not enough time in the day to be always checking Blogcritics and sorting through for the most interesting stuff.
3 - Lisa McKay
That's really great to hear, Jon - the editors all work really hard throughout the week to cover their respective sections and highlight what's best, and it's nice to know that the effort is worthwhile for folks who don't have the time to read everything.
4 - John Spivey
Diana-
I deeply appreciate your choosing this article. I hadn't checked in on BC for a few days so it was surprising to see the article featured yesterday and chosen today. I also thank Chantal and Jon for their comments.
John
5 - Howard Dratch
Thank you. It is nice to know that people read what you write and, with luck, enjoy it.
This honor means that I must admit that my blogging is providing virtual strokes from other folks. That beats masturbation.
I guess I am partly sorry I used the masturbatory metaphor. The puns and jokes flow too easily. But Lisa saw through it to the shared worries of the blogosphere.
Thanks.
6 - Joanie
Connie, thanks again for choosing one of my articles. You do realize you're raising the bar impossibly high each and every week, don't you?
7 - patty
you rock vanessa.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!