Mixed Meters

September 15 was the eleventh anniversary of Mixed Meters.  I must have started this blog for some good reason.  Right? In my very first ...

Here's a movie poster I snapped today at a bus stop.  ( View a high-res photo .)  Can you guess why it interests me? Mind you, I'...

American culture is just chock full of fun holidays which combine the celebration of competition with crass consumerism. For example ther...

Banksy is the name of an anonymous artist.  At this moment this little essay about advertising, attributed to him and probably from his boo...

Recently I was surprised to hear operatic singing from a television commercial.  There was even a bass voice. You never hear basses sing on...

(If you have time to watch only one of these videos, definitely watch the last one, Beer Vivaldi.) In the museum-like world of classical m...

Last night I came across the nine-minute 1956 movie Design for Dreaming .  This particular bit of Fifties Futurism is a big-budget General M...

Fine music: Fine dining: Fine art: All items found here . Here's the text of the first picture: Andy Warhol doesn't play second base...

I expect this will be my last Wagner(*)-LA Opera-Ring Festival related post. That's because Supervisor Antonovich's now failed reso...

I read this review of Michael Casey's book Che's Afterlife, the Legacy of an Image . Here's the image in question. It shows r...

Classical music sells product - in this case the Queen of the Night aria by Mozart and a feminine lubricant. Read an article by Tom Serivce ...

This is an advertisement from today's LA Times, page A11, whose red ink is elsewhere in the news today. This ad is part of a series o...

In March, 2006, a Mixed Meters post entitled On the Religion of the Past and the Future included this picture from a perfume ad, a scratch...

About a year ago the music world was abuzz with bloggers bragging of the bargains they had brought home from Tower Records. The chain was ...