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...quotation-sound-clips and the words or vocals they generate themselves takes on different forms. In “be good to them always,” there is a mirroring effect: the band’s vocals overlay the same lines spoken by various other voices in found audio clips. Recorded readings of “The Jabberwocky” and lines spoken in various languages are followed by vocals singing out-of-order lines from Carol’s poem in “vogt dig for kloppervok.” Some songs consist almost entirely of spoken...
These lines tersely describe the band’s ars poetica of sorts—to catalog and re-combine disparate particles and fragments of language into a synthetic whole. The cut-and-pasted audio material creates a surreal sort of ‘exquisite corpse’ effect, not so much relating an explicit story as exposing an unconscious mood or psychic backdrop. In extreme cases, their own lyrical contribution is literally reduced to mere finger-snapping, as in “it never changes to stop...
...unit has a solid feel, a sharp, white-backlit screen and an easy-to-understand menu rivaling Apple's famously user-friendly interface. At $250, the 6-GB version costs the same as a 6-GB iPod mini; it's also smaller, plays tunes in the Windows Media Audio format as well as MP3, and when you throw in the radio and recording features, it might be a better deal...
...Mona, 1970: The Jazz Singer of fuck films, Mona was pretty sure of itself for a lonely pioneer. It had a busy soundtrack: clavichord, old pop tunes, harmonica and jug band music, an Indian raga and a long audio extract from The Taming of the Shrew. It revealed Mona as a kind of fellatio virtuoso: when a guy she has solicited for a back-alley blow job tries to pay her, she replies daintily, "I didn't do it for money. I have a taste for these things." It boasts a piquant blend of tease and sympathy...
...while, they were right. The name-brand hosts, comics Al Franken and Janeane Garofalo, were audio amateurs. In their on-the-job training, three hours a day, they learned that comedy is easy, radio is hard. The most persuasive hosts were radio veterans Randi Rhodes and Rachel Maddow. But Air America came close to folding for a reason the right couldn't have guessed: it ran out of liberal fat cats and went broke in two weeks. When its checks bounced, it lost stations in Los Angeles and Chicago. As the documentary Left of the Dial (on HBO this week...