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...traveled to the U.S., where Kinkade's work adorns everything from coasters to jigsaw puzzles to La-Z-Boy recliners, chances are you may not be familiar with his extensive oeuvre. Not yet, that is. Sure, his floral-hued landscapes and cozy cottage scenes may strike a vaguely familiar chord. Perhaps you've come across them on a greeting card from Hallmark, one of the nearly 50 licensees of his work. It's even possible that you already are something of a Kinkade fan but were unaware you could find his work outside the U.S. Not to worry...
Arab Strap's sound is a mix of programming and instrumentation, and the result has often been spare beats and a repeated chord that crescendos in silence, or sudden musical murk. This format is not at all abandoned on The Red Thread, but it is supplemented with strings and piano. In "Haunt Me," Arab Strap has perhaps their most crowd-pleasing song to date, a melodic work built around a few spare lyrics: "So haunt me / Cause I know / You'll keep me / In to," a double rhyme with gory details...
touches--a surprising chord change at the end of the chorus...
...evidenced by their performance, FinkFankFunk's talent is impressive and their appeal just as great. With the final chord of the evening played right at midnight, FinkFankFunk concluded the benefit concert of close to three hours of funk. Satisfied audience members filed out, asking, "When can we do that again...
...counterfeiters' tale struck a chord with many treasure-mad Filipinos. Newspaper classifieds routinely advertise the services of psychic fortune hunters, and the four governments since Ferdinand Marcos' regime have embarked on searches for Japanese war loot?reportedly worth billions of dollars in gold and jewels?that was allegedly buried somewhere in the archipelago when General Yamashita Tomoyuki's forces retreated before the Allied invasion in 1945. The "primitive" tribes of Mindanao are often the first to capitalize on this gullibility. Says General Ruben Cabignati, regional military commander based in the town of Cagayan de Oro in Mindanao: "I know...