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April 2011
The Archives
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04.27.11The eyes of Shaun TanThe Arrival, the third book from multi award-winning Australian illustrator Shaun Tan, was a wordless graphic novel that charted the immigrant experience through the eyes of a man who leaves his wife and child to find work in a strange country. The book set hyper-realistic depictions of an Ellis Island type naturalization process – the medical checks, the language barrier, the obtaining of the correct paperwork – against a fantastical steampunk cityscape somewhere between Lang’s Metropolis and Gilliam’s Brazil (one of the set-pieces is a panoramic view of a city shadowed by huge monstrous tentacles), where people commute to work ...
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04.17.11DFW: last wordsOur Irish Times review of David Foster Wallace's posthumous and unfinished novel The Pale King is now online: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2011/0416/1224294764959.html [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/DIjS4K2mQKY" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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04.13.11Husker FooIf we told you that the new Foo Fighters record Wasting Light was recorded in Dave Grohl's garage on analog gear with Butch Vig (Nirvana, Green Day, Garbage) producing and Alan Moulder (MBV, NIN, The Killers) doing the mix job, resulting in a heavy-heavy monster sound laden with hooks and overladen with a sort of radioactive mastering sheen, would you still respect us in the morning? Well, 'Dear Rosemary', featuring Bob Mould on guitar, is the best song Dave Grohl's written since 'The Best of You', a mid-tempo classic rock whatever-happened-to-you reverie that sounds like Boston played by Black Flag. [kml_flashembed ...
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04.10.11Napalm paintingnoun /napä(l)m/ 1. A highly flammable sticky jelly used in incendiary bombs and flamethrowers, consisting of gasoline thickened with special soaps noun /Ac·tion paint·ing 1. A technique and style of abstract painting in which paint is randomly splashed, thrown, or poured on the canvas. It was made famous by Jackson Pollock, and formed part of the more general movement of abstract expressionism [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/Pz_kHIBVdUc" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/7bICqvmKL5s" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]