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Puddle of Mudd “Psycho” Dirs. The Goetz Brothers Horror movies and post-grunge have a lot in common. Both require yelling and screaming in abundance. Both have a tendency to make people cringe. Neither genre has really produced anything genuinely original in over a decade. Perhaps these similarities explain why Puddle of Mudd’s new video combines the two genres so cohesively. The story basically goes like this: Wes Scantlin, Mudd’s lead singer, drives down a dark road with several Scooby-Doo-esque characters. After running over Michael Myers from...
...science fiction aspects. Confused teen Donnie Darko sits on the brink of two realities, and he has to make an important choice. Helping him make the right one is “bunny-man” Frank. Stern’s interpretation follows a different thread from the common perception of the story’s dark messenger. “What Donnie doesn’t realize is that Frank is there to help him; he lays out all the clues for Donnie,” said Stern. When asked why he would adapt the film to the stage...
...sadly common enough for students of literature who harbor a passion for philosophy to find their curiosity rebuffed by arrogant university departments. Obsessed with their private jargon games, these faculties dismiss other disciplines as dealing with “pseudo-problems” at best and, at worst, fanning the flames of irresponsible politics. But in the late Richard Rorty, we have a philosopher from the analytic tradition who became its Judas, who boldly addressed continental thinkers like Nietzsche, Freud, and Heidegger, and writers like Proust, Yeats, and Nabokov...
...waiting for Iraq to heal its sectarian wounds, Baghdad is the wrong place to look. If reconciliation can happen anywhere, it may be in the country's war-torn margins, where some locals say they've had enough of the violence and are trying to come together around common goals with or without the central government's help...
...Babil to the south. A mixed region of Shi'a and Sunni, city and country, the mostly agricultural region suffers all the sectarian, economic and political woes of the capital. While the region's Sunni and Shi'ite tribes battled each other for land and primacy, they found a common enemy in the U.S. troops stationed there. But that situation changed about four months...