by Mackenzie Patel Classical music is no longer limp background of funerals and study sessions: it’s turning people on. Roman Coppola’s Mozart In the Jungle is getting audiences hot and bothered with the operatic sex of middle-aged divas and angsty composers. Yuja Wang is reinventing what it means to be a classical musician one skin-tight… Read More
by Mackenzie Patel Dear Musical Phases, I’ve head bobbed and thrashed, lip sung and terribly crooned. I’ve sketchily downloaded and pretentiously paid. But throughout this maze of guitar cries and electric synth, a few addictive “musical phases” have emerged. The ocean of obsession has drowned me on several occasions, the landmasses of sanity and normal… Read More
by Mackenzie Patel Hello World Travelers! I’ve been watching several music-oriented films in the past couple of weeks, and I’m thrilled to share/review some of these for LTA. Although the movies are relatively antiquated (i.e. from the 1990s), their depiction of the musical crowd is poignant, spot-on, and beautifully entertaining. The three movies I snatched… Read More
by Mackenzie Patel Hello my adventurous world travelers. Another thirty one days, another 44,640 minutes, and yet another 2,678,400 seconds have elapsed, dragging out the stories of our lives with more nouns, adjectives, verbs, and punctuation along the way. My particular novel was bursting with chapters this month because so many different events changed in… Read More
by Mackenzie PatelHello world travelers! I just finished A Clockwork Orange, and I must admit, I was profoundly disturbed while reading it. I thought Lolita was unsettling to the point of full-blown pedophiliac weirdness, but this novel took crazy to a whole new level. Basically, it told the story of a young man’s journey… Read More