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...noises in our lives, there would be something kind of frightening about the silence that remained. After all, we’d be left with nothing but our thoughts, echoing noisily in the caverns of our oversized craniums. And yet, this is exactly the sort of thing that religious folk and philosophers have always done. Prayer, meditation, and deep self-reflection require a stillness that is hard to find amidst the hubbub of the world outside. That’s probably why monks escaped to monasteries and philosophers shut themselves up in studies with big armchairs...
Concentration: Probably English or Folk and Myth. He might even be a language concentrator of some sort, but I don’t see any particularly ethnic or foreign music on here. Then again, with a hard drive this size, he could just be a computer science...
...many Laboristas, Latham has revitalized his party - and politics. The buzz he generates goes beyond Canberra. Ordinary folk are curious. Latham has even got Prime Minister John Howard's pulse racing - something his predecessors rarely managed over the past eight years - thanks to Labor's turnaround in opinion polls and Latham's honeymoon with the press. A general election is due this year, and if it is fought on leadership and experience, voters will be asked to choose between a fresh-faced father of two young boys and a Prime Minister at the height of his powers who has reached...
...like as good a place as any to put the Microphones to rest, or at least their name. The anesthetized neon hotel rooms of Sofia Coppola’s Tokyo are the 21st century analogue to the lonesome Washingtonian shores from whence comes the music of Phil Elvrum, elfish folk matador behind the Microphones...
...some it’s more intimate than for others. According to longtime dancers, many people have met their “sole” mates on the contra circuit. One of these lucky men describes his whirlwind romance in the context of folk dance: “We knew each other through local events and then took a Lindy workshop up in Saratoga Springs in February of ’99. Something just clicked and three years later we were married...