Word: amnesiacs
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...what Radiohead are doing, releasing their third album in slightly over a year, particularly after a three-year hiatus between their triumphant OK Computer and the genre (and possibly fan-base) busting Kid A. And if Kid A alienated many during its stint as a bestseller, the companion album Amnesiac may have scared off even more with long periods of apparent downtime between opaque off-kilter songs exemplified by the single “Pyramid Song” and scarcely a decent hook on the album. By most counts then, this is hardly the ideal time to release a live...
...group may be the only contemporary rock act that matters, but its ambition often comes at the expense of warmth; the average Radiohead record is about as sweet as barbed wire. When live, however, the band opens up. The bells, whistles and scratches that dominated Kid A and Amnesiac are still there, but Thom Yorke's tenor is allowed to soar above rather than fight through them, revealing melodies in unexpected places. This set also includes the lovely True Love Waits, with its aching, Sarah McLachlan-esque chorus, "Just don't leave." What's next? A cuddly Rumsfeld...
...intersects film most lucidly in the dream sequence in Spellbound. Wanting to avoid the clichéd soft focus approach, Hitchcock sought out Salvador Dalí to help him depict an amnesiac patient's dream in the clarity of reality. "What I was looking for was the living side of dreams," said Hitchcock. "All of Dalí's work is very large with sharp angles, long views and black shadows." The result of the collaboration was grandiose - five different sets were built involving Dalí's painted decorations and miniature sets - but most of the scene ended...
...Losers COURTNEY LOVE Pop-vixen, robbed on Vancouver film shoot of jewels worth $100,000, says she'll keep drinking and punching paparazzi until she finds culprit "PHILIP STAUFEN" Canada won't grant multilingual amnesiac a passport. Forgetting he just applied for one, he gets back in line and applies again FRANK DE BOER Captain of Dutch national soccer team banned after testing positive for nandrolone. In Holland, that was the best he could score...
...union films is distant and irrelevant. The mills and factories that unionists fought to organize are now in China and Mexico. This is the postindustrial age, when most new-media employees do quite well without collective bargaining. So do most Americans. We are fat and happy--and socially amnesiac...