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Cultural critic Howard Hampton's collection of essays on pop culture (mostly films and music) is a kind of underground history of the republic; a jet fueled, slightly mad connect the dots between fringe dwelling films, underbelly bands, and cracked b-movie auteurs. Hampton's catholic tastes include Japanese maverick director Seijun "Branded to Kill" Suzuki, Elvis movies, Ohio oddballs Pere Ubu, Buffy, porn, HK cinema, and D.H. Lawrence. Occasionally dazzling, always provocative and opinionated, sometimes exhuasting, Hampton's writing is a mixture of Lester Bangs's (he even includes a rather one dimensional appreciation piece) hot wired, blazing guns prose and Greil Marcus's high-brow erudition. Like Marcus, his intelligence sometimes gets in the way and sometimes his point gets lost in a muddle of esoteric references and bad puns, the most egregrious of which is "chickens come home to Proust." He's generally stronger on films than pop music, spending too much time on Pere Ubu and the Mekons and sourly dimissing both Radiohead and Bjork and showing much interest in what's current. While never boring, it is best read in small doses.
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lukas, May 30, 2007
Cultural critic Howard Hampton's collection of essays on pop culture (mostly films and music) is a kind of underground history of the republic; a jet fueled, slightly mad connect the dots between fringe dwelling films, underbelly bands, and cracked b-movie auteurs. Hampton's catholic tastes include Japanese maverick director Seijun "Branded to Kill" Suzuki, Elvis movies, Ohio oddballs Pere Ubu, Buffy, porn, HK cinema, and D.H. Lawrence. Occasionally dazzling, always provocative and opinionated, sometimes exhuasting, Hampton's writing is a mixture of Lester Bangs's (he even includes a rather one dimensional appreciation piece) hot wired, blazing guns prose and Greil Marcus's high-brow erudition. Like Marcus, his intelligence sometimes gets in the way and sometimes his point gets lost in a muddle of esoteric references and bad puns, the most egregrious of which is "chickens come home to Proust." He's generally stronger on films than pop music, spending too much time on Pere Ubu and the Mekons and sourly dimissing both Radiohead and Bjork and showing much interest in what's current. While never boring, it is best read in small doses.Terms and Conditions
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