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...concert in Holland. It proves rather clearly that the Pixies were meant for the studio. On top of that, it contains several lower-quality repeats of many irritating tracks on the first CD of Death to the Pixies. How many times do I need to hear "This Monkey Gone to Heaven"? Even Black Francis sounds disinterested. The other songs on this disc, similar to the first, are truncated, with many cuts halving the length of the original version. According to those subtle folks at 4AD, "this collection shows why the Pixies were one of the most respected, acclaimed and influential...
Other songs on the album work better. Doll has a fleeting, folksy loveliness, Monkey Wrench throws effective pop punches, and Hey, Johnny Park! has an ingratiating melody. But none has much ambition beyond making a blunt impact. If you're going to spell "colour" with a u in your album title, shouldn't you at least try for pretentiousness...
...victory broke a string of five straight losses to Princeton. With the tiger, err monkey, off its back, the Crimson closed out the series in commanding fashion the following afternoon, winning 22-4 and forcing an NCAA Regional best-of-three play-in series with Army...
Keller's book, Comfort Woman (Viking; 213 pages; $21.95), is one of a trio of powerful debut novels by Asian-American women to arrive in bookstores lately. The others: Monkey King (HarperCollins; 310 pages; $24) by Patricia Chao (of Chinese and Japanese descent) and The Necessary Hunger (Simon & Schuster; 365 pages; $23) by Nina Revoyr (whose mother and father are Japanese and Polish-American, respectively). Although these books share some themes--all of them deal with parents and children in conflict over such issues as cultural and sexual identity--each author has a sharp, specific vision...
Chao's intermittently witty and highly readable Monkey King also deals with mental illness, mysticism and sexual abuse. The narrator, 28-year-old Sally Wang, is a Chinese-American woman who has just suffered a mental breakdown. The book's power comes not from some wild psychological portrait of a mind in turmoil but from its careful detailing of Sally's life at the mental institution in which she attempts a recovery. Sally's family history is also nuanced and believable; small observations add up. Recalling her childhood, Sally says, "Because my parents had not been prepared for a girl...