Word: ghosts
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...past month, the Loeb Mainstage has been host to a veritable menagerie of nature’s most ferocious beasts. On any given night, the stage will be crowded with a pride of lions, an ambush of tigers, a den of snakes and even the occasional ghost. But these creatures hardly ever make a sound, and they seem to appear and disappear at a moment’s notice...
...scarcely known Tennessee ghost town hid beneath the mountains rocks The Features, who’ve recently released their first full length album, Exhibit A, on Universal sub-label Temptation. At age 13, with nothing else to do, three of the band’s current four members turned to music and formed the band that is finally gaining the recognition they deserve. At less than 33 minutes long, the CD might just be too short to contain all the rock. Characterized by driving distorted guitar riffs, howling vocals and the old-school background subtleties of the electric organ...
...they’re touring in support of another evolutionary album. On this year’s A Ghost Is Born, Wilco flaunts their range of abilities. While some songs, such as “Wishful Thinking,” resurrect a gentle acoustic aesthetic, others, like “Spiders (Kidsmoke),” expose new layers of Wilco’s now larger instrumental base, showing off the talents of the band’s newest member, electronic specialist Mikael Jorgensen. Both songs comprised the heart of Wilco’s main set, which stuck mainly...
...Japanese anime director Mamoru Oshii has been perfecting his vision for a couple of decades now. Like the Patlabor series of videos and films and the original Ghost in the Shell (1995), his new movie takes a story of tough detectives tracking sophisticated robots and dresses it in some gorgeously painterly images. As Sky Captain is set in the proto-past, Ghost 2 is set in the retro future--Blade Runner territory. Like so many films inspired by the stories of Philip K. Dick, this one is awash in meditation on the basic Phildickian questions: In a world where...
...also static. French critic Michel Ciment called Ghost 2 "animation without animation"--a cartoon in which the images don't move much. On stolid figures and faces, only the mouths move, as in the old Clutch Cargo TV series. The action scenes don't move at a clip either. Sometimes Oshii preens a little, as when the camera tracks slowly around an object. It points out what's missing in his approach: fluidity of character line, the subtlety of expression that brought humanity to a Warner Bros. cartoon duck or rabbit...