Word: epicent
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...leave the movie with Seussian anapests dancing in your happy head. Here's mine: A treat for the eye, an epic event/ This film is delightful, one hundred percent...
...Prolix! Prolix! / Nothing a pair of scissors can’t fix!”). The music built around this communicative breakdown is vaudevillian and full of overlong, hyperbolic verses that drop without warning into heaps of hissing chaos, only to begin again in spotty, amnesiac continuity.The truly epic “More News from Nowhere” closes the album with recurring allusions to Homer’s “Odyssey.” Again, Cave’s weathered vocals take center stage, but the narrative fits firmly between the faint white-noise background and the soft...
...Sufjan Stevens is present throughout, perhaps a result of the involvement of Alan Doucher (who helped mix Stevens’s “Illinois”). But the subtle incorporation of jazzy elements and the album’s more explosive moments—particularly on the epic track “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”—show that The OaKs have found their own identity. The musicians are clearly technically gifted. If every element of the album was stripped away until just the hi-hat remained, it would still be a thrilling...
...over Barton Springs to examine the issue of urban sprawl more generally. The end of the film loses its momentum as Dunn neglects her human subjects in favor of familiar generalizations about environmental conservation. The soundtrack switches from the bluesy sounds of Patty Griffin and Jeff Beck to generically-epic instrumentals.A more serious flaw is Dunn’s failure to fully explore the larger implications of Barton Springs’ story. Not all of those who transplanted to Austin are as unsympathetic as the couple she shows complaining about the lack of a McDonalds or Wal-Mart nearby...
...middle of its epic drought last year, Georgia decided to pick a fight. The state resurrected a 190-year-old cartographical mistake and passed a resolution forming a commission to negotiate with Tennessee on moving Georgia's border about a mile north to the 35th parallel - not coincidentally through a loop of the Tennessee River. The good people of Tennessee treated Georgia's move as a joke. Tennessee State Sen. Andy Berke, whose Chattanooga district would become part of Georgia under the other state's plan, proposed a winner-take-all wrestling match or football game to settle the matter...