Word: mainstreamers
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...made Hollywood movies. Why come back to making independent films? Paul Moore, Boston I was really curious about how the studios worked, how mainstream movies were made and how I could use my sensibility within the studio system. Now I've come back to the indies because I got on that treadmill and I couldn't get off for a while...
...B.I.G. with the melody of Elton John's Tiny Dancer and expect an ear-pleasing result. But then again, most people don't have an ear like Pittsburgh native Gregg Gillis, better known as the one-man band, Girl Talk. The musical misfit and laptop magician broke into the mainstream with his 2006 hit album Night Ripper, whose 16 tracks sampled more than 150 artists, from Abba to 2 Live Crew to Aerosmith. His latest album, Feed the Animals, is already available online; the CD is out November 3rd. TIME spoke with Gillis about the art (and science) of sampling...
...band betraying their punk credentials are nothing new - it says so on page 113 of The Clash, their first official autobiography. In the words of front man Joe Strummer, "fanzine Sniffin' Glue wrote 'Punk Rock died the day the Clash signed to Columbia' [in 1977]." In reality, mainstream success didn't kill their principles: as the band recounts, when their week-long residency at Bond's Casino in New York City was oversold, they stayed on and played 17 shows until every ticket holder had seen them live. Filled with such details, the book erases any cynicism about...
...basso profundo bluster, Ventura waged a campaign well within the mainstream of Minnesota political thinking. Outsiders view the state as a bastion of liberalism--witness Eugene McCarthy, Vice Presidents Humphrey and Mondale--but insiders disagree. Carleton College's Schier says Minnesota "is actually a quirky populist state. It gave 24% of its vote during the 1992 presidential election to Ross Perot." Ventura's fiscal conservatism--no tax increases, the return of all future state budget surpluses to taxpayers--struck a responsive chord. So did his moderate-to-libertarian views on keeping government from meddling unduly in private lives...
...true cost of the energy poverty they are sustaining... The ability to develop clean power and energy-efficient technologies is going to become the defining measure of a country’s economic standing.” This argument may be forward-looking, but it has already gone mainstream. If Friedman is trying to become the Energy Climate Era’s Rachel Carson, Garrett Hardin, and Thomas Malthus all in one, he seems to have forgotten that figureheads like Al Gore have already made his arguments accessible to the masses and, perhaps, in an even more appealing fashion. Friedman?...