Word: lifes
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...best four years of his life were his sophomore year in college," Carville quipped...
Their new album is a collection of 12 songs, each written by Jones and Hayes. Recorded in San Francisco and New York (as opposed to the one-bedroom setup in rural Oz of their first album), Affirmation leans towards slow tunes, which show off the clever, real-life related lyrics and dynamic vocal harmony of the duo. The instrumental work is awesome as well, especially where the beat picks up in some of the faster dance songs...
...first single, "I Knew I Loved You," is a good ballad and shows off Hayes' falsetto nicely, but it's only a mild reflection of how poetic the rest of the album is. Affirmation deals not only with romance, but also with the real-life consequences of love and the pain that follows it. As their titles indicate, "I Don't Know You Anymore" and "The Lover After Me" aspire to this more reality-based love song, even though the soft beats and harmony make the melody very pretty. But it's "Two Beds and a Coffee Machine" that truly...
...another departure from previous Chinese cinematic practice, Zhang does not base his films on literature, but rather writes screenplays based on real-life. East Palace West Palace (1996) sprung from a newspaper clipping about police officers' interrogation of gay me. In all of his films, Zhang positions the marginalized of society at the focal point. Zhang argues that "by representing the marginal you get a better picture of society. It is through the marginal that the character of society emerges...
...Influenced by German artist Kthe Kollwitz (1867 - 1945), Zhang's films capture struggle and pain without victimizing the subject. Zhang reduces life to its most basic elements-the individual and the interpersonal--and makes moments timeless. Unlike China's more commercial directors such as Feng Xiaogang, Zhang is not trying to play to a popular trope but to create a work of art that "could be seen 500 years ago or 500 years in the future and still be relevant...