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From 8 to 10 p.m. the stand-up comedians of the Comedy Studio and their modest audience form, as founder and emcee Rick Jenkins jokes, the only assembly gathered in an attic in Cambridge “not planning the overthrow of the government.” Instead, the comics are ousting the former static state of comedy and offering new and experimental material for the considerations of their small but sophisticated audience...
...government construction site to repair their (illegal) fishing boat. "To steal something from the North Korean government is immediately punishable by death," Jenkins said during his court-martial. "I think we all secretly wished we would be caught." Another time, they stumbled upon an array of microphones in the attic of their house and blackmailed their leader (who feared he would suffer if his superiors learned that the bugging had been exposed) into taking one of them into town to buy wine. On yet another occasion, Parrish sneaked out of the house one night to go looking for a girl...
...reality of their situation set in, the men started to despair. They began to take chances they knew could result in death. One day, for example, they went looking in the attic for electrical insulators to weigh down a fishing net they were surreptitiously making to help boost their meager food supply, and found an array of microphones instead. On another occasion, they traded dozens of socks they had saved over many months for a small fishing boat. Once, they swam across a river at night to steal a bag of coal tar from a government construction site. "We used...
...first shots of the film pan around a dusty attic, presenting bleached skulls and archaeological trinkets like a still life on a conveyor belt, until the camera settles on Henry Lair (Caine). Henry, the ailing patriarch of the fragmented Lair family, has just summoned his son Turner (Walken) to what he knows to be his deathbed...
Interpol recorded the new LP in an attic, a fact reflected in the claustrophobic underpinnings of each song. The murky, atmospheric production of their first album has been revived here, but the sound is warmer, and the band is more self-assured. The rhythm section has solidified, tighter and bolder now after long months playing together on tour. Drummer Sam Fogarino and bassist Carlos D lock into a groove right away and stretch it out easily for the course of a song. The often danceable bass lines add satisfying counterpoint to the darker, choppier guitar licks layered on top. Guitarists...