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...languages, German (subtitled in English): a guttural voice observing that in the U.S. 10,000 people are killed each year, most of them by guns. "Americans," the voice sneers, "they have no imagination." The title came on - Hostel Part II, a sequel to the horror hit about an abattoir for unwary humans - and the audience erupted in cheers...
...celebration of obscenity, and an assault on the values and institutions that most people consider sacrosanct, and that’s precisely why it was so thoroughly enjoyable. Some plays slaughter sacred cows—“Maude and Harold” turned the stage into a veritable abattoir.—Reviewer Bernard L. Parham can be reached at parham@fas.harvard.edu...
...given a running head start before the machine guns are fired, their reward being a delayed execution if they?re not hit - he at first refuses to run. What?s the point, he asks in voice over? He?s no more afraid of death than an animal in a abattoir and he?s sure that its coming to him sooner rather than later...
...another, shipments of endangered species to China will inevitably start to decline. In a worst-case scenario, supply will simply dry up as animal populations shrink. Right now, the Chinese "take everything we have," says Hendrawan, who runs the reptile abattoir. "They always ask for more, but snakes are getting harder and harder to find, especially the pythons. The minimum size is 2.5 meters. It used to be we could find many of even 7 and 8 meters but now we are happy with 4 meters." WildAid's Galster says a better solution is to eliminate demand. "If we could...
Musically, Abattoir Blues also muddles reading any clear intentions. At times (“Cannibal’s Hymn” and the title track in particular) this is rock and roll in all its arena-mystic-pot-cloud 1970 glory; drummer Robert Donahoe must have found John Bonham’s drumset on eBay. Elsewhere, the album sounds like over-drugged outtakes from Exile on Main Street—a narrow distinction, perhaps, but one which hints at how Cave & Co. never make it clear if they are trying to say something profound musically or just rock the fuck...