Word: musicalization
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...been known to throw inflatable sex dolls into the audience and inspires fans to tattoo his name onto their arms. The novelist's official fan site boasts over 47,000 crazed Palahniuk-heads who openly refer to themselves as the Cult and sell book-tour T shirts the way music acts sell concert tees. His latest book, Pygmy, follows the terror plot of an adolescent foreign-exchange student/secret assassin as he infiltrates and tries to destroy middle America. Palahniuk talked to TIME about the new novel, how he accidentally offended the entire nation of Germany and what he really thinks...
Beloved Reading Period is here (FlyBy uses two benchmarks: the last of the formals, and the last day the Owl or Fly is blasting music at 5pm (crossing our fingers on the second one, we suppose)). And it's real. Yeah, those papers/projects last week were cute and all and oh did they take a lot of time, but finals are where legends are made. Sure, a little teamwork can do you good, and practice (please practice) makes perfect, but when it's gametime, it'll just be you, the blue book, and that cute little old lady...
...Highway 61 Revisited (1965) and Blonde on Blonde (1966)--in which cascades of surrealistic, high-art lyrics were married to the most elegant rock-'n'-roll musicianship. That was brought to a violent stop by Dylan's near fatal motorcycle crash in 1966, and when he resumed, the music--even the sound of his voice--was different...
...still true, even now, with Together Through Life. It will not go down among his best albums, but the music is good, and the mood is poignant to the point of intoxication, the wheezy nostalgia anchored by David Hidalgo's magnificent accordion work. Dylan can still get frisky, as he does with the last track on the album, "It's All Good," in which the banality of that expression is demolished in escalating scenes of horror...
...representatives from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine instead got a European straight-arm designed to keep them at a safe distance. Indeed, given the manner in which the courtship has begun, some observers now wonder whether any of the parties involved can ever hope to make beautiful music together...