Word: personae
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...loads of banal domestic tasks, a husband who imbibed a gallon of eggnog and hit on her brother, and snobby, demanding children home from Swedish boarding school, the comfort of Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) is a great way for your mom to unwind. Aragorn’s hunky, old-fashioned persona, combined with his well-groomed beard and slavish devotion to his muse, Arwen (Liv Tyler), is more than enough to make up for another crappy holiday. Conveniently, LOTR: ROTK is available this week in a four-disc box set complete with over 50 minutes of footage not shown in theatres...
...strangest releases this year came from guilt-drenched indie wunderkind Will Oldham, a man noted for his reluctance to pin down one poetic persona in his career. April saw the release of Bonnie “Prince” Billy Performs Greatest Palace Music, on which Oldham as B“P”B covered his own alternative persona as one of the Palace Brothers. The album was a sine qua non for any of Oldham’s fervent and widespread followers and showed just how potent and productive a force schizophrenia can be on rock music...
...devoted to taking over the world; a recluse, never appearing in public without his trademark metal mask; a mad genius, never sleeping so that he can work in his lab all day and night: these are the images maintained by MF Doom. While every aspect of the comic book persona may not be true to life, the description of his work ethic is: MM..Food? is his ninth (ninth!) LP in the last two years, all released under various aliases. Even more impressive than the quantity has been the quality, as all of these have been anywhere between good...
...Game 2004 (Fuck Harvard)”—featuring classic lines such as “We don’t need to talk shit about Harvard, just read The Crimson”—isn’t quite as gangsta as his tough-guy persona suggests. MC Platano, a.k.a. Gabriel Hernandez, a sophomore, says “a lot of people call me Yale cuz I’m so well-endowed,” but one fan on his website’s online guestbook might as well call him Muffy...
...largest musical figures in America, the current Dylan persona has a less-than-domineering presence on the stage. The 5’5” mysterious man in a cowboy hat stood to the extreme left of the stage, crouching over his piano and harmonica allowing his four-piece band to take focus on the center of the stage. Dylan’s expressionless face and his band’s stoic cool while performing (except for one humorous break in countenance during “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright...