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Overall, though, Rapp presents us with a sympathetic and memorable character. This is Rapp's first major production, and moments of naivet and self-consciousness in the work show it. Fortunately his pinpoint accuracy with language makes it an aural delight. Expect much more, and much better, from Adam Rapp in the future...
...first talkie sensation (The Jazz Singer) wallowed in racial derision, personified by white actors in blackface. Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, Fred Astaire and Bugs Bunny defaced themselves in minstrel cork. Egregious stereotyping can still be heard, most mornings, on Don Imus' and Howard Stern's radio shows--aural blackface. Somebody had to shout, "Enough," and, whaddaya know, it was Spike...
...from pop's rich past while carrying an attitude which points boldly towards the future. Cracknell's solo LP, Kelly's Locker, isn't particularly bad. However, as an electric pop record, it tries too hard to be eclectic and lacks the cohesion needed to make for a satisfying aural experience...
Nearly as astonishing as Nawahi's achievement is his obscurity. He is not to be found among the 3,300 musicians listed in the Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. A thrilling new 23-tune set, Hawaiian String Virtuoso (on the Yazoo label), gives ample aural proof that King Bennie deserved his royal honorific as much as jazz gents named Duke and Count. One listens to the set, culled by Armstrong and Sherwin Dunner from rare originals, and the '30s guitarist in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown comes to mind--the one who was right up there with Django Reinhardt...
...more mathematically intricate imagination. In David Cronenberg's recent movie eXistenZ, squidgy pink packages called bioports plug directly into special jacks at the base of players' spines. The upshot is rather like what happens to your TV when you connect it to a VCR and press PLAY. Visual and aural information from the real world is overridden; your bioport provides all the sensory stimuli you need. Technically, it's just a question of getting the right hookups. If there's anything we already know from playing games, it's that our brains eagerly adapt our physical responses to the onscreen...