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...direct opening line: “Another perfect day / They keep piling up / I got happiness that I can’t maintain / so beginner’s luck.”The most successful contributor of the three vocalists, however, is unquestionably M. Ward. “The Sandman, the Brakeman and Me” is the best track on the album and serves as a melancholic insight into what could have been if MoF had produced a more carefully constructed album. The song breathes through the speakers at first, picked up by M. Ward’s croon...
...those Les and Mary singles - the density and clarity, the distinctiveness of his guitar voice and her intimate vocal instrument, the heart and the fun. It's a number that expresses the choral lilt of early-'50s pop and the electric drive of mid-'50s rock, as if "Mr. Sandman" had married "Peggy...
...exhibit attracted more than 10,000 visitors in its first three weeks - and perhaps as many reactions. A video projection - which features footage of soldiers storming compounds and firing machine guns, all set to the sounds of Metallica's "Enter Sandman" and the Cranberries' "Zombie" - drew particularly strong criticism. "The rock music played against the film strip made it seem like a commercial," one visitor wrote on the show's uncensored message board. Sundry messages crowd the board, coming from school children, war protesters, former soldiers and friends and family of the troops...
Gaiman broke out in 1988 with a comic book about a brooding dream god who haunts humanity's ugly collective unconscious. With its melancholy tone and startling literary intelligence, The Sandman was a landmark in the artistic development of comics, and it won Gaiman the passionate loyalty of a vast army of nerds and goths. Stardust, published 10 years later, is the story of a pleasant young man who crosses into a magical world in pursuit of a fallen star, which he has promised to retrieve for the pretty but rather demanding girl he loves. It's a fairy tale...
...turns out fake water is really, really hard to perfect. Just ask the thousands of CGI jockeys who have been hunched over their monitors around-the-clock for months on the 2,000-plus effects shots in the next Pirates movie. Oh, and the Sandman's sand fists in Spidey 3? Totally time-consuming...