Word: metallism
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...about the metal: the exhibits on the lower floor whet your appetite with such everyday items as tools, pottery and fabric used by the societies that crafted the gold. But it's the bling that everyone finds transfixing, and on my visit, sure enough, I began to feel a little hot, a little giddy, a little loco - a classic case of gold fever. www.banrep.gov.co/museo/
...this, the headline act of Headbangers in Hell, a night that has featured Painkiller, Thrashline, Accidental Hero and 20 other bands. We're not at the Toledo Speedway or a dive bar in New York. This is JK7, the latest Jakarta venue brave enough to host the growing metal scene that forms just a small part of a burgeoning Indonesian alternative music scene that includes hundreds of indie pop, electronic and rock acts. More than 1,400 bands auditioned for the 12 spots on a recent compilation album called LA Lights Indiefest, all of them from far outside Jakarta...
...fact that independent bands are getting radio play and packing venues is a sign that things are really changing in the music industry," explains Ricky Siaahan, senior editor at Rolling Stone Indonesia and guitarist for Seringai, one of the hottest metal bands in the country. "Even my band is about to sign with a major label and there was a time when that was almost unheard...
...Buster Casey” is written in the form of interviews with everyone connected to the eponymous protagonist. The plot can be loosely defined as a look at Rant’s strange childhood (one in which his mother filled the family’s food with shards of metal and glass, and he purposefully subjected himself to the stings and bites of spiders and vermin), his involvement in “Party Crashing” (a form of tag played with cars), and his eventual spreading of a highly contagious form of rabies that wipes out large portions...
...first cultural fault line he's straddled. In 2002, he made it into the New York Times for exhibiting the compacted car wreck of expatriate art critic Robert Hughes, who'd narrowly survived a collision in Western Australia. For Post-Traumatic Origami, Kesminas placed 68 kg of crushed metal in a plastic vitrine with a beer can and fishing reel, among other objects. He still laughs at the memory: "Robert Hughes is really the champion of Modernism. Here he is in a cube. It's perfect." Nor was it much of a leap from his court-jestering with the Histrionics...