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Johnson is chiller than a month of Sunday mornings, so it's not surprising that his debut album, Brushfire Fairytales, is doing a slow but steady sales burn in Southern California, Hawaii and other places where sand abounds. With a supersoft vocal style and influences ranging from Jimmy Buffett and Cat Stevens to Ben Harper and De La Soul, Johnson has perfected the admittedly picayune art of contemporary beach music. If the rest of the country hasn't yet heard of him, it is likely because he could barely muster the ambition to get a recording contract in the first...
...about 20 feet in any direction. You cannot see the sun you could just ten minutes earlier. The dust is so fine that even with a shirt pulled over your mouth, you can still taste it. The air smells acrid and charred. Your eyes instantly begin to sting and burn but there is no way to keep the dust out of them...
After a few seconds, it becomes clear that San Marco will not, after all, burn down. The fire is a reflection from a Plessi video installation “WaterFire” on the windows in the Museo Correr. For approximately three minutes, the windows are engulfed in images of flames, and then the flames subside into soothing violet images of the sea. The square becomes peaceful again as the blue hues dance off the gold mosaics of the Basilica, only to be illuminated by the orange flames three minutes later...
...reading and writing for too many years now…Sometimes I feel as if I should have a punch in time clock before I walk out on stage…I don’t have the passion anymore and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away...
...juxtaposition of struggle for personal control with self-harm, Cross paints a picture of a man would do anything to retain his control as a self-made Rock Star—even take his own life. And although it was true that Cobain truly wished to “burn out” rather “than to fade away,” his motivations for doing so were based upon self-retention of permanent superstar status, not upon disillusionment with selling out and abandoning grunge’s ethos of private alienation...