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...road markings and the tarmac to reflect their beams, my headlights faded into the vast expanse of emptiness. For a moment, I saw nothing. No trees, no bushes and not one familiar contour of a sheep or cow behind the fences of a paddock. The illuminated dials in the dashboard seemed all there was in the world and the hum of the engine its only heartbeat...
...Gazing into the darkness, I felt enveloped in nature’s immense power and my presence vanished in its embrace. It was silly even at the time, but I could not help but imagine the consequences of my car breaking down. As the glow was extinguished from my dashboard, and as the sound of the engine faded, I was trapped in silence and eternal darkness. I could neither see my hands on the steering wheel, nor see my feet on the pedals. I reached out, there was nothing to touch; I called out, there was no answer. I floated...
...north-west of Thursday Island. On the bridge of the 38-m vessel, the skipper accepts the task. He informs crew members of the mission and asks for a chart of the course. Leaning back in his seat, feet plonked on what anyone but a mariner would call the dashboard, Cummins jiggles a joystick in the armrest that operates the boat's flaps and fins, opening up the throttle for a 90-min. dash to the target zone...
...easily filled arenas, he was dropped from his record label in 1997 and spent years looking for a new deal, fighting perceptions that he was petulant and that his audience had aged beyond its intense interest in his every thought. The rise of bands as diverse as Dashboard Confessional and Linkin Park, which have cited Morrissey as an influence, and the flood of Morrissey shrines on the Internet were enough to persuade the Sanctuary Records Group to give him a shot. "I never stopped writing," he says. "To be honest, I haven't stopped since I was 8 years...
Kansas City emo outfit the Get Up Kids perform their intermittently mellow and driving Vagrant pop for maudlin girls and boys. Label-mates with the more famous and even more sentimental Dashboard Confessional, the Kids just released Gulit Show, their follow-up to 2002’s subdued On a Wire. Joining them are Recover and singer-songwriter Rocky Votolato. The title of Votolato’s most recent album, Suicide Medicine, should give you a good idea of what to expect from him. Tickets $16. All ages. 6 p.m. Axis, 13 Lansdowne St., Boston...