An Analysis of the Use of Gyroscope-As-Metaphor in Antonioni’s Il Deserto Rosso

On October 7, 2011 · 4 Comments · In film criticism, Guided By Voices, John Keats, Jon Stewart, Maxwell's, The Failure, The Power of Suck, this is the modern world

Yeah, right. I mean, I could do that, but that would sort of be unweaving the rainbow, and everybody (and Keats) knows better.

And now, something from the archives:

I was so much older then. We went and played Maxwell’s in Hoboken after this taping, and ran through the entire list of songs we had learned at that point, somewhere around fifty (I know because I was in charge of the list). But the set-up at Maxwell’s was (and probably still is?) such that you had to go through the crowd to get offstage, and that seemed difficult even after two hours of playing, so we tried making a song up on the spot, which didn’t turn out very well (it had, to be fair, been a long day’s journey into New Jersey), so we did the logical thing: we started the set over again, from the beginning.

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4 Responses to An Analysis of the Use of Gyroscope-As-Metaphor in Antonioni’s Il Deserto Rosso

  1. b. says:
    November 9, 2010 at 18:34

    i was digging up old gbv vids last night, posted this one. bob looks great in that jacket.

  2. James Greer says:
    November 9, 2010 at 18:42

    Bob and I bought those jackets at a church thrift store in the Oregon District. Bob insisted that we had to have "rock jackets." His was better.

  3. Renato Braga says:
    October 7, 2011 at 23:35

    I love Mitch’s performance!

  4. MBGBV says:
    October 8, 2011 at 00:43

    It’s a good thing GBV had a talented and compulsive writer in the band so we can get all of these little morsels of written history that may have been lost to time… Thanks

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