Archive for July 29th, 2009
Apparently, Jon Hamm Agrees With Me
Posted by Nav in Cultural Theory, Pop Culture on July 29, 2009
Hey, remember my whole schtick about how I love Mad Men so much because it’s like witnessing the birth of ‘late-capitalist’ culture? Listen to what Jon Hamm has to say on the topic at a recent press event:
A reporter followed up with an observation about “Mad Men” reflecting the classy ’60s. Hamm had plenty to say about that.
“Buddy, I don’t know if they had class back then. I can send you a couple of links of stuff where guys are berating their wives for making their coffee badly. What I think happened in the ’60s is I think irony happened. And the idea of selling non-earnestly became cool. And obviously that’s not a mistake that that’s when the baby boomers started getting 18. We’re seeing a lot of it now, we’re seeing these cool hipsters, man …
“You can’t tell 18-year-olds anything. … That’s what happens. The irony happens. And it’s cool to be in a not-cool place. Get it man? And so that’s what the big shift was that our guys are trying to figure out.”
I mean, it’s a little clumsy and unclear, but… has Jon Hamm been reading contemporary cultural critic Frederic Jameson?
Owen Pallet at Hillside: ache as the storm washes over you…
I can’t embed this video, so you’ll have to head over to NOW to watch a video of Owen Pallet, a.k.a. Polaris Prize winning act Final Fantasy, play a new song at the Hillside festival while a summer storm sweeps in. As the crew tries to get him to stop and come off stage, the storm grows, the lightning flashes intensify and the song just gets better and better. Incredible.
