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...defined as Michael Bolton or someone else I'd never heard of--or Boyz II Men. The lack of relaxing music, like something from the Beatles or the Grateful Dead, was disturbing. I was nervous. Boyz II Men it was, though I couldn't stop thinking about the inane concept of Michael Bolton as a jazz musician...
...certainly one of the most frequently used and misused terms in scholastic, artistic, and intellectual circles, and the Web proves no exception; a search turned up 1,664 sites that use the word in one capacity or another. But the diversity of these sites illustrates how ambiguous a concept noir really is. Despite all the explications and corruptions of noir that occur in coffee houses and classrooms around the globe, conceptions of the genre prove more bizarre and unexpected on the World Wide Web than anywhere else...
After these relatively tame outposts of noir film and literature, things start to get a little bit shady. The music industry seems to have appropriated the noir concept quite vigorously. Carly Simon's album "Film Noir," a tribute to music from the 1940's, boasts an elaborate official homepage, complete with commentary from Billboard magazine. The less-mainstream Oregon group Duoglide offers up a "listening guide" for their "Song Noir" album, which they claim sounds like "cheap hotels, smoke, neon, martinis, and danger"; how they can produce this effect with two people and a banjo is a question...
...catch sullen moments such as the opening stanza of "Poem Noir I": "I'm in a bad mood/Fit to kill/One might say/Not that I would/Just don't give me a weapon." Perhaps not quite as arresting as Raymond Chandler, but at least killing things is a reasonably noir concept. Daring browsers can unmask this dark poet brash enough to call herself Catwoman simply by clicking on the little kitty, with anticlimactic results--Catwoman's portrait displays a homely sixteen-year old posing in front of a couple of butterfly stickers. Her frumpy red dress doesn't do much to complete...
...minute information on the penguin revolution; and a link to a "corporation" called "Penco," which offers "the best in penguin care products and penguin accessories." This company even has a very noir vision statement--"A penguin on every desktop, monitoring your every movement"--a definite allusion to the concept of surveillance, which is a fundamental tenet of the noir genre. Still, it's fair to say that at "The Penmaster's Place," the line between noir and nuts is seriously blurred...