Word: drift
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Enter DJ Craze, bearing a turntable. You won't find him performing at Carnegie Hall. Like the early jazz musicians, who performed in speakeasies and brothels, he plays for an audience that's out for a good time. Like the early novelists, his primary source material is in the drift heaps of mass culture. But from those things he produces work that's not just enjoyable but also edifying: his abrupt couplings of borrowed sound--a riff sampled off an old 45, a scrap of dialogue from an old movie--point us to connections we've never made before...
...think you catch my drift, and I certainly hope that my fellow interns also understand my underlying message. Obviously, work in general can be a royal pain, and monotonous office work is even worse. That’s why we all feel the same sympathies for Peter in Office Space. We understand his work-related depression and cheer for him in his post-hypnotic awakening and liberation from the horrors of his boring job. But, like Peter, I hope that other interns who have been fortunate enough to come to D.C. and enjoy its sights and sensations will snap...
...hard worker: he prepared and directed The Shape of Things while editing his film Possession, based on the A.S. Byatt novel. "I needed a night job," he said at the opening. The new play is a night story, a cautionary tale to tell the naive young before they drift to sleep dreaming of the perfect mate. It flicks references to other fables of sexual predation (Fatal Attraction, Play Misty for Me), while stirring a mood of increasing emotional dread. And at its heart is the notion that an artist-anyway, a novelist or playwright?is essentially a vampire, draining friends...
...meant for serious computing. Checking e-mail is easy, but a 56-kbps modem makes for pretty poky surfing. The touch panel is fine for sending quick messages, but pushing the on-screen buttons is tedious for anything longer. And it has a short leash: airboarders can drift only 30 m from the base station, a distance that may be fine for Japan's rabbit-hutch homes but is too weak for many rambling American houses...
...thoughts of a Knick fan like myself inevitably drift back to the game, and how fate has done it to us once again...