Romanticism, Realism, Modernism, Post-Modernism… where on Earth are we? We are on Earth, and it is a very strange place. Read about movement and momentum building among the arts.
This morning I re-rediscovered the Cenci preshow CD that Travis burned me back in 1/2000. Almost every track plays. In fact, I almost jumped right out of my seat the moment that the trumpet blast from the end of the murder scene came on.
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I had my camera, but since I mostly just take street shots anyway, and there are plenty online (for example, through the Bridge and Tunnel Club, I’ve tried just to walk and take in the scenery. I started out at Yankee Stadium, since the main reason I’d come up here was to exchange last years rained-out Tigers tickets for this years hopefully-sunny Tigers tickets.
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If you run a Google search on “occlusion neighborhood” there are actually two results, facsimiles of each others.
They are as follows:
… Read the restBuyers shifting to a strange infinite metropolitan area may cleanly be doubts really confused over morose the best area decelerate to live Cunard in electricity , unless there is falls a desirable and reasonably priced occlusion neighborhood near their archangel place of work.
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PROJECT NAME: Notes for Students
GROUP: Third Family.
FORMAT: Prose Novel.
STRUCTURE: Cups, Part I, Part II, Part III, Platter
ANTECEDENTS: William Burroughs (writer), Italo Calvino (writer), Anne Carson (writer), Cicero (writer), The Cure (band), Depeche Mode (band), Ladytron (band), Orbital (band), Smashing Pumpkins (band), Underworld (band).
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I’ve now watched through the second season of Lost. It was certainly weaker than the first, although everyone had warned me of a decline, and I was expecting it to be much worse than it was. The strengths continue to be, week-to-week, a tight, imaginative, well-paced narrative, engaging, plausible characters, and mysteries that make my mouth water.
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I received Submission Rejection #1 in 1999, so it’s been a long time since I’ve been through this process. Within the next few months, I’ll probably accumulate a large number of rejections and, one hopes, a few acceptances. That’s the way it works.
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CONTAINS NO SPOILERS.
After finishing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, I wasn’t quite ready to separate myself from the subject yet, so I went to a number of websites reading reviews and the like. Among these I came upon the AV Club’s blogged-as-read report by Genevieve Koski and Tasha Robinson.
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The other day I talked about how I thought Zeitgeist was pretty sweet, and today Rolling Stone agrees with me. It’s nice not to be entirely in the minority on an artistic opinion for once.
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The cardinal sin that almost every review (positive and negative) of Zeitgeist has committed so far is interpreting it strictly as a referendum on Billy Corgan and his other efforts to date. Certainly that history is significant (you can read it all here), but it is an oversimplication to simply denounce the new album as Billy Corgan’s personal hand at work, or to rehabilitate it because the same has always been true.
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