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...familiar Scorsese territory, most assuredly, though it's been transplanted from New York to Boston, and from Italian Catholics to Irish Catholics. The movie's title comes from a Catholic prayer for the dead - specifically, for those stranded in Purgatory, which is sort of a post-mortem car wash where the deceased have their lingering venial sins cleansed before they can get into Heaven. (The Prayer for the Souls in Purgatory, parroted thousands of times by distracted altar boys, goes like this: "Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls...
...suspected long ago that Woodward's newest book would not be good for them. Woodward had plenty of access to Bush and Cheney for his first two tomes. Not this time. "We had a sense that this was going to be a different kind of book," says one source familiar with the discussions on how to handle Woodward. "The third time is not the charm...
...Prince’ BillyThe Letting Go(Drag City)4.5 of 5 StarsBy ABE J. RIESMANCRIMSON STAFF WRITER Will Oldham, whether singing as Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Palace Music, or his own Christian name, likes his songs to exist outside of time.So, anyone familiar with his voluminous catalog—equal parts confounding and transcendent—will know that something strange is afoot in the opening line of his new album.“When the numbers / get so high / of the dead / flying through the sky,” he mumble-croons over soft strings...
...ERIC L. FRITZCrimson Staff WritersJunior Boys: “So This is Goodbye”At risk of taking the easy way out, I have to say that the most recent offering from Canada’s Junior Boys’ turns a neat trick: reestablishing and sustaining familiar tonal palette over the course of an entire album while eluding the joint specter of drudgery and repetition.Yet rather than a sprawling masterwork, “So This is Goodbye” is a cohesive album, whose melodic bass lines issue taut rejoinders to lazy keyboard echoes, delicate synth arpeggios...
Readers decided to stick with familiar titles. “Marley & Me,” the oddly popular memoir of a newspaper man’s ill-behaved dog, dominated the non-fiction section along with interesting and layman-accessible tomes by Thomas L. Friedman, Steven Levitt, and Malcolm Gladwell, respectively...