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...point where sampling culture, especially in my own work, I usually try to have the music act as a metaphor for plurality in general. And the music acts as a hypothetical space for all these different cultures of North America. I'm from New York. I live in Chinatown. You turn left the signs are in Hebrew, you turn right they're in Chinese, you go straight, they're in Spanish. And these are all cultures I'm into and I respect them. It's the whole situation of urban placement. We're all in this one area just doing...
...watch home videos of kin and country long left behind, for some as much as a decade ago. Others stare at the distant passion of porn tapes smuggled in from the old homeland. Each night the sounds of aching and loneliness drift down to the streets of Chinatown...
...lucky to get wages at all. Says Kwong: "Employers know that the workers can't complain, so they withhold wages, claiming manufacturers were slow to pay. It has become standard practice to withhold six weeks' pay or more." The vast numbers of new arrivals have depressed wages throughout Chinatown 30% in the past five years. Dishwashing jobs, for instance, which once paid $800 a month...
...Saturday, October 24, Shellac performedlive at 84 Kingston St., a loft near Chinatown,around 2 p.m.. The show had no publicity. To reachthe show, you had to wait in a line that wound itsway up stairs festooned with graffiti and oddsmells, like how you pass through a themed areawhile you're waiting in line for a ride at anamusement park. Victory at Sea opened. When theybegan to play, my friend said, "Oh no! They havefeelings they'd like to share with us!" And indeedthey did. Or I think they did. Lots of bands thesedays make it difficult to tell...
There's certainly nothing inherently wrong with a movie that suggests that the world is an evil and corrupt place where the men who realize this play dirty and survive while all the others are naive babies: Chinatown, The Godfather and a number of other fine movies create this kind of world. The problem with Apt Pupil, of course, is not its structure but its subject, suggesting that a former S.S. agent is knowing and mature while the Todd Bowdens of the world, striving after justice, are hopelessly naive. Toward the end of the movie, a Holocaust survivor spots Dussander...