The Duchampian pointlessness of Bryan Ferry's new album

[Note the Andrew Sullivan-esque post title]

Okay, so Bryan (or Brian, as the one person you know in your office who knows about Roxy Music thinks it's spelled) Ferry has a new album out that takes old Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music songs and has them arranged like jazz age recordings; instrumental, no less.  His last album, Olympia, was my fave BF item since Bete Noire way back in '87: actual songs, he sounded awake/alive and the whole thing just felt like a walk through a fat 1980's issue of Vanity Fair (this is a good thing).  So, to follow that with this is both/either a.) a dada-esque prank, bordering on KLF-style "hey, let's set a stack of money ON FIRE!" shenanigans, and/or b.) so relentlessly cucumber-sandwiches-and-Pimm's cup that it misses me completely.  I have to admire the sheer waste, though.

[a translation of this post is available for a nominal sum].

"Can anyone today make the saxophone not shitty?"

(This has been a Smells Like Sullivan post, wherein thoughts that pop into my head that sound like Andrew Sullivan topics are thus commemorated/enshrined/remembered/recorded/entombed)

"Could pleats come back?"

(This has been a Smells Like Sullivan post, wherein thoughts that pop into my head that sound like Andrew Sullivan topics are thus commemorated/enshrined/remembered/recorded/entombed)

"Who decides what records libraries buy?"

(This has been a Smells Like Sullivan post, wherein thoughts that pop into my head that sound like Andrew Sullivan topics are thus commemorated/enshrined/remembered/recorded/entombed)

"Why are McDonald's commercials so bad?"

(This has been a Smells Like Sullivan post, wherein thoughts that pop into my head that sound like Andrew Sullivan topics are thus commemorated/enshrined/remembered/recorded/entombed)

"Is the Internet Unfair to the Illiterate?"

This part of a new series we're adding called Smells Like Sullivan. It's where I'm driving or sleeping and a post heading enters my brain that sounds like an Andrew Sullivan non-political post heading.

Some others might be (these are non-organic; that is to say I'k thinking them up for the purposes of this post and they didn't occur to me out in my yard or somewhere):

Drowning in Lego, Ctd.

Rupert Murdoch's Peanut Problem

Goldwater's Ghosts

Skater Face