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...first impression as Demon Days. The cartoon characters on the front cover, the irritatingly meaningless track names (Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head) and the menacing prefatory oboes (oboes!) make it seem like a concept album about global warming for kids. Since the lyrics remain a bafflement, it might well be. But give the songs a fraction of the attention that went into making them, and you will begin to catch bits of good stuff from rock, rap, dance and dub. Then, magically, it all comes together in your head and forms something like a unified theory...
...over who gets what. Last week the environment ministers of Spain and Portugal agreed on how to mete out scarce supplies. Portugal said it would use 15% less water from the Douro River, which flows from central Spain into the Atlantic at Porto. But such comity was met with bafflement by some; Portuguese farmers complained that while their Spanish counterparts can profit from the recently completed Alqueva Dam in southern Portugal, close to the Spanish border, no irrigation system yet exists to get water to their own parched fields and livestock. "They are going to give the Spaniards water...
...There's a children's choir and an appearance by Dennis Hopper in full freak mode-all of which is to say, Yuck. But give the album a fraction of the attention that went into making it, and it reveals itself as close to great. The lyrics remain a bafflement-although it's clear from titles like Fire Coming Out of a Monkey's Head and Every Planet We Reach Is Dead that in the future, according to Gorillaz, we'll need more sunscreen-but the music achieves the same kind of thrilling dislocation as vintage Sun Ra, without...
...opportunity it gives you to be always learning, always preparing. It's a very beautiful path of knowledge." But these days García Bernal finds it hard to catch a breath. "I'm 25, and I still cannot say how my life is," he observes with a charming, disarming bafflement. "I feel like I have nowhere to rest. I think about having a dog but know I can't, because it's impossible with this life...
...Towing, enters a BGA (Bad Golfers Association) tournament, investigates the Mothman legend in West Virginia, crashes the Exotic World Burlesque Museum & Striptease Hall of Fame, attends the Fruitcake demolition derby (that piece has to be retired) or just walks home the night of last August?s blackout. Stoic bafflement - a deadpan stare into the camera - is Geist?s usual game. But, when pressed, he can celebrate. For a wonderful ?CBS SM? show dedicated to New York City, Geist reported on Pale Male, the red tailed hawk who has lived for the past decade on a window ledge in a Central...