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...Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” for the track “Stabbed.” As Allan recites a lyric poem of sorts, the repeated words “I’m gonna get stabbed” over the well-known piano motif create a chilling effect, and yet this enigmatic piece still fits into Glasvegas’s apparent mantra of beauty with an edge.In one track, James Allan asks, “What’s the story morning glory? I feel so low and worthless,” and though...
...haunting cover of Tears for Fears’ “Mad World,” this preview relies heavily on a song—DeVotchKa’s “How It Ends,” which is perhaps best known for serving as the main motif of the “Little Miss Sunshine” soundtrack. It’s an unexpected juxtaposition of music and content that works surprisingly well, conveying the upcoming game’s supposedly epic scale...
What inspired you to write a book about debt? We put it together about 3 years ago when none of this meltdown was happening yet, and what interested me in the subject was several things. Debt is a motif in 19th century literature, with which I'm quite familiar. The second thing was all the debt ads that were suddenly on the subway. They suddenly were appearing everywhere. They hadn't been there before, so it inspires one to wonder why there are suddenly so many organizations that are making their living by helping people get out of debt. That...
...introductions on the stump, South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham, who is one of McCain's closest friends, calls the Republican nominee "John The Fighting McCain." This fighting motif, which McCain debuted at the end of his convention speech in Minneapolis, now occupies the thematic center of McCain's message. "Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight. America is worth fighting for. We never give up. We never quit," he calls out at the end of each rally, raising his voice and building the excitement of the crowds...
...same, Hirst found early on an equivalent in his own work for Bacon's key motif: tortured figures writhing within a bright, clinical space. Hirst's meticulous glass tanks have some of the same feel about them, sanitary enclosures for something menacing (that shark), visceral (a bisected calf) or even putrid (that cow's head). In recent years Hirst has also begun to absorb Bacon's actual imagery into his tanks of formaldehyde. Two years ago he showed a work derived from one of the anguished triptychs Bacon made after the suicide of his lover George Dyer - with slaughtered sheep...