Word: lyricism
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...most immediately striking aspect of Ani DiFranco’s new double album Revelling/Reckoning is the packaging. The CD case is a multi-colored colored box of yellow and blue, folded intricately to cradle the two compact discs of similar colors within, with accompanying photo and lyric booklets. At first, it is a bit difficult to open, but unlike many situations in life, the cover does allow for an accurate judgment of the content within. The original packaging is a tangible manifestation of the original and catchy style that Ani exudes in the 29 new songs that she offers...
...brightest new poet for a decade” (Peter Forbes in Poetry Review), Glyn Maxwell is curiously unknown in the U.S. I had attributed this to the same sort of infuriating blindness that means none of my British friends have heard of Jorie Graham. Perusing his last book of lyric poems (The Breakage, Mariner Books) before Wednesday’s reading only seemed to confirm, though, that here was the most English of poets; formal, in the perversely lax manner of late Auden: Colloquial and ironic to the point of self-effacement...
...wrote the play for Hill, who co-starred in an early version staged in Belfast in 1994. Campion was recruited later when the play was remounted at Belfast's Lyric Theater in May 1999. The two actors have been joined at the hip ever since, as the play traveled to Dublin and Edinburgh and eventually to London's West End. (During one break, they co-starred as the tramps in Waiting for Godot. What's Irish for "busman's holiday"?) Hill, 36, the pudgy, cherub-faced one, grew up in Ballycastle, on the northeast coast. Campion, 41, the angular, rugged...
...SITE SEEING Excuse Me While I Kiss this Guy... You know that part in U2's [She Moves in] Mysterious Ways where Bono starts singing about "Shamu the Mysterious Whale" and ... Wait a minute! Chalk up another entry on KissThisGuy.com(as in Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze lyric "kiss the sky"), the archive of misheard, misunderstood and mangled song lyrics. Perplexed by the Ramones' "I want a piece of date bread"? What they really sang was "I wanna be sedated." If this doesn't change the way you hear music, then "the ants are my friends is blowin...
...through my telephone line, a route I especially recommend during the dinner hour. You can eat along with, say, the moody jazz and classical music of The Blue of the Night, which airs from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. Dublin time on Ireland's Lyric FM, and thwart pesky telemarketers at the same time. Talk about the wonders of world music...