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GUIDED BY VOICES Vampire on Titus CD/LP (Scat) It's tempting to write that GBV has had "eight years to perfect their craft," but the truth is that they've been great from the start. The basic GBV sound is 1967 British pop filtered through basement-tape-recorder grime, and within its confines they're the best, and the most versatile, there is. Each of their seven albums includes vocal harmonies from Revolverera Beatles, scattered outbreaks of pure punk, flat despair, soaring hopes, noises like ovens exploding (immediately followed by familiar hooks), wisps of pot smoke over seaswell chords...
...Salam Mosque is a chill, bare room that begs to go unnoticed. Street light dimly filters through the thick layers of blue paint and grime that coat all four windows. Sound echoes off the barren walls, and the ceiling leaks so badly that buckets must be placed strategically when it rains. The only furniture is a single high-backed wooden chair, a place of honor for such spiritual leaders as Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman. For most of its eight years, the cavernous mosque on the third floor of a white brick building along Jersey City's Kennedy Boulevard has attracted...
...dispatch the calls. I don't want to get dirty and deal with the grease and the grime," Picard said. "You'd be surprised how many just don't get it, and get towed again and again...
...figured we'd miss the real Tommy's, and we were right. We'd gladly put up with greasy burgers in the dark and dusty grime. Tommy, come back. It's not too late to right this tragic wrong...
...fate of the universe. Viewers must believe, he says, that this morality play is "their own story." Slavutin's Student Theater at Moscow State University has dramatized the most tumultuous events of the Soviet demise in the language of vaudeville sketches. His success in turning the grit and grime into lyrical parables of universal meaning has attracted a dedicated following. "This is a theater of hope," he says, "not of dead ends...