Word: gig
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...with a statuette for lifetime achievement. Plant's surviving bandmates - guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist?keyboardist John Paul Jones - turned up crisply suited at the awards ceremony in Los Angeles. But former frontman Plant didn't show; he was 9,000 km away, getting ready for a tsunami benefit gig in Bristol, England. He sent along a video greeting instead. His snub clearly hurt Page, who said: "It wouldn't have taken much just to pop over here and meet everybody, would it, really?" Two months later, Plant is still unapologetic. "It made more sense to join hands with proactive...
...didn’t really care. He would take almost any acting gig that supported his real love, directing. Almost all of Welles’ directorial work from his last twenty years was left unfinished, except for “F for Fake,” which has just been released on DVD in a special edition from the Criterion Collection. And it shows that Welles never lost his talent or relentless drive for innovation; the man characterized as a has-been could keep up with any Goddardian innovator/imitator given half the chance...
...three Midwesterners all eventually packed up and took their gig out east...
...soft power on the Middle Kingdom. Think of all those students, like Lily Liao, who say they've become "Australianized," who cherish the freedoms and friendships they've found in their second home. Or the brightest Australian graduates, who can't wait to pack their bags for a gig in Shanghai. When Beijing hosts the 2008 Olympics, Australians will have been behind the scenes there for years; a number of Games venues will have been conceived in Australian design and architectural offices...
...echoed everywhere like a buzzing amplifier burning through the air.” It’s worth noting that the liner notes sorely lack a lyric sheet; instead, we get two essays, one of which comically describes the band’s no-show at a nudist colony gig...