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...recent years, the process has sometimes been an exercise in endurance and strategy. In the bowels of the Science Center sits a book that contains years of hand-written movie requests, chronicling the clashes between groups hoping for the same film...
...purpose here isn't to try to explain the events but rather to encourage us to examine the instincts that may draw us to these pundits. The sort of knee-jerk analysis practiced in the past two weeks simultaneously gratifies and disturbs many of us. On the one hand, many of us have a powerful instinct to both seek and supply grand, sweeping and satisfying answers in the wake of tragedy. Immediately following a dramatic national or local event, at the time of greatest emotional distress and concern, some feel powerless. Theorizing is a source of comfort...
...loud, very impressive drumming, but to such an extent that the role of her accompanist, Philip Smith, was all but obviated. Glennie then played her own transcription of the Albeniz "Asturias," which did well in the transition from solo piano to solo marimba. The recitative quality of the right hand in the original blossomed in its new reverberating longevite. Glennie was especially sensitive in the subtler, quieter middle section, where she utilized different kinds of "rolls" to create beautiful textures...
...unplugged feel--college indie music in Australia isn't all joyful clatter, it seems. Flugelhorn Music, formed in 1997, is the self-proclaimed "new kid on the block as far as independent record labels in Australia are concerned" and "prides itself on the development of its artists through pure hand-on involvement." Even my mainstream music tastes can see that Flugelhorn is doing something right...
...rough-and-readiness can quickly acquire a shrill, desperate edge, and Marie is generally painful to watch. The two live in an apartment Marie (somewhat unofficially) looks after; the owners all perished except for a comatose girl, whose diary captivates Isa. Both in their early 20s, both living hand to mouth, perpetually between jobs, they strike up a friendship whose ups and downs are here faithfully and skillfully recorded...