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...would think it was Christmas in August. But instead of at the North Pole, Santa's workshop is tucked away in a suburban Omaha, Neb., office park where a red-bearded elf named Chip Davis is getting ready for the big day. Creator of the phenomenally successful New Age band Mannheim Steamroller, he is arranging a 12-city Yuletide concert tour and the fall release of his new Celebration CD, a compendium of what has become the best-selling Christmas music in America...
...Clowes' latest issue of "Eightball" #23, their top-seller. Georgia's Top Shelf had a remarkable eight new releases debuting at the con, including "Blankets" author Craig Thompson's book of travel sketches, "Carnet de Voyage," which sold out. Another debut sell-out was James Kochalka's "American Elf," collecting all four volumes of his diaries (see TIME.comix review...
...legs get twisted in and bound by the sheets") or funny (June 6: "I gagged while brushing my teeth ? expelling red wine, venison, fillet mignon and hand made sausage?the color scheme was actually kind of beautiful?") Kochalka has a kind of childish charm - he draws himself as an elf with buck teeth and pointy ears - who finds magic in moments the rest of us would ignore...
...Elephant 6 Collective, it seems that the players involved have been content to leave behind the sound that made the group so popular in the musical underground: bombastic, psychedelic arrangements condensed into indie-pop gems, with alternating absurdity and striking poignancy. Athens, Ga.’s Elf Power continue to depart from this sound on their new release, an album striking mostly for its choice of Athenian forebears—abandoning the region’s mid-90s psychedelic boom, here the Elves seem to be doing their best R.E.M. The album has a warm, folksy sound, immersed...
...Elf Power has almost a completely different lineup from the time they cut their masterwork, 1999’s A Dream in Sound, and at this point it seems like a name-change wouldn’t be too much...