Category: The Untouchables

Measuring the Unmeasurable: Ranking One’s Favorite Music, Part 5 (My 100 Favorite Tracks)

In the first four essays in this series (here, here, here, here), I detail the evolution of the 434 music “mixes” I have created since August 1981. These mixes migrated from cassette to CD to 150-GB flywheel iPod, with a handful of videocassettes added along the way. As of April 2024, I have put 3,625 … Continue reading Measuring the Unmeasurable: Ranking One’s Favorite Music, Part 5 (My 100 Favorite Tracks) →

Matt Berger Data collection, Epistemology, Genesis, Jazz, Jerry Goldsmith, L.A. Confidential, Mark Isham, Measurement, Miles Davis, Music, New Wave, Pretty In Pink, Roxy Music, Rupert Holmes, Stan Ridgway, Statistical reasonsing, The Cars, The Public Eye, The Untouchables 3 Comments May 9, 2024May 9, 2024 14 Minutes

Grappling With the Instinctive – and Unnecessary – Fictionalization of History

I recently watched Michael Mann’s Public Enemies for the first time since its 2009 theatrical release. Based on Bryan Burrough’s excellent 2004 book of the same name, it narrows the focus of the sprawling book to the cat-and-mouse game played by bank robber John Dillinger and Melvin Purvis, special agent in charge of the Chicago … Continue reading Grappling With the Instinctive – and Unnecessary – Fictionalization of History →