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...plot has Garner going into a European nightclub dressed like a hooker and blowing something up. But Abrams is the sort of storyteller who seems to want to tell every kind of story and have every job. He even composes music for his shows (he plays several instruments, including guitar, keyboard and cello) and not only wrote Alias' throbbing techno theme but also designed the credits sequence. In his spare time, he's directing Mission: Impossible 3 as well as developing a drama about bounty hunters and a sitcom starring Saturday Night Live alumna Cheri Oteri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to His Unreality | 1/10/2005 | See Source »

...Oscillation, whose behavior, he thinks, has been profoundly influenced by the leakage into the stratosphere of man-made compounds that destroy the ozone. Result: wind patterns are keeping the white continent's interior bitterly cold while allowing the outlying peninsula to warm. The young researcher may not be playing guitar for a living, but he has found new ways to rock the world. --By J. Madeleine Nash

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forecasting on a New Level: THE ARCTIC EXPLORER | 1/2/2005 | See Source »

...shared with just about everyone living in Yiwu, China's very own North Pole. Thousands of vendors offer whirling Christmas trees with glowing fiber-optic needles, chicken-feather angel wings and that traditional favorite without which no holiday living room is complete: the plastic statuette of Santa playing electric guitar on the moon. All this might have confused Chinese consumers a few years ago, but Yiwu is feeding a ravenous demand by mainland consumers who think that the height of contemporary urbanity is to festoon the living room in December. "I'd always heard of Christmas but never celebrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Santa's New Elves | 12/18/2004 | See Source »

...soft? The songs were inspired by the birth of Heinegg’s daughter, and much of these tender emotions are unveiled with simple melodic acoustic guitar and vocal solos in gently titled songs such as “Sway” and “La Belle Dame Sans Merci...

Author: By Mary CATHERINE Brouder, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CD Review - By June | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...primer for the uninitiated: the Pixies (Frank Black, a.k.a. Black Francis on guitar and vocals, Kim Deal on bass, Joey Santiago on lead guitar and David Lovering on drums) formed in Boston in 1986, put out five albums of genius pop/punk, influenced essentially every guitar-based band of the ’90s (Kurt Cobain once admitted that “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is just a Pixies rip-off) and gave real meaning to the word “alternative,” then imploded acrimoniously in 1993. Deal rejoined her previous band, the Breeders, Black...

Author: By Eric L. Fritz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pixies Back in Boston | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

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