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...flee to the familiar. Perhaps it's because the repetition of a fairy tale--or one told from a different angle--validates an underlying message: that in a world full of knotty menace, someone who cares will always be there to tell us the same story and rock us into sweet dreams...
...Items in Chanel's fine jewelry range usually come with six-figure price tags, while Dior's Provocante white gold?and?diamond necklace sells for around $70,000. Now Vivienne Westwood, the British pioneer of punk fashion, is designing a line of "affordable" jewelry called Hardcore Diamonds, her first rock collection. The pieces, available in Westwood stores from July, are for the mass market. The characteristically unconventional collection includes white gold-and-diamond safety pins, as well as paper clips, arrows and her trademark orbs. "A safety pin is the most useful pin and has a successful relationship with people...
There's a perfect song on Gimme Fiction, the new album from the chronically underrated Austin, Texas, rock band Spoon. It's called I Summon You, and its narcotic powers are such that only after you have pressed the repeat button for the sixth or seventh time will it occur to you that there's not a single original thing about it. I Summon You involves a guy, a girl and a long drive. It's played at a wistful but assured mid-tempo on guitar, bass, drums and keyboards. The chorus goes, "Aww no, where are you tonight...
...Daniel's irony stems from an excess of feeling, not an absence of it (think of the difference between Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum), and his cadence makes words feel hard earned and universal. Being beaten down by love is an old act, of course, but then so is rock 'n' roll. Gimme Fiction has an amazing way of making both feel new. --By Josh Tyrangiel
...Items in Chanel's fine jewelry range usually come with six-figure price tags, while Dior's Provocante white gold-and-diamond necklace sells for around $70,000. Now Vivienne Westwood, the British pioneer of punk fashion, is designing a line of "affordable" jewelry called Hardcore Diamonds, her first rock collection. The pieces, available in Westwood stores from July, are for the mass market. The characteristically unconventional collection includes white gold-and-diamond safety pins, as well as paper clips, arrows and her trademark orbs. "A safety pin is the most useful pin and has a successful relationship with people...