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Between Pauley’s constant road trips—she’s a self-professed “urban hiker,” who confesses to live out of a bookbag—she’s put out two full-length CDs. The most recent one, “Elijah Drop Your Gun,” was funded entirely by fans, including seven $1,000 donations...
...mourned that kind of limitation, that kind of self-destructiveness within religions; and he recalled what Muslims have done to fellow Muslims. He spoke of "great cosmopolitan cities, great seats of culture - to see they way they've been destroyed. It leads one to say, there are many things for which one can blame the U.S., but the destruction of Muslim culture by other Muslims is a self-inflicted wound. And it's a grievous wound, I think." But the answer, he says, is not necessarily to end religion. There is, he said, "to my mind a more beautiful approach...
...thematic thread that Kaufman explored ad nauseum in his 2002 screenplay for “Adaptation.,” directed by Spike Jonze. For all its novelties, that film was a headache, a neurotic monologue whose paranoid refrains only compounded the pretensions of its obnoxiously self-conscious narrative loop. But to say that “Synecdoche, New York” revisits, or even improves, upon the more problematic aspects of that film is to overlook the sheer depth and ambition of the creative vision for which it strives. More to the point, “Synecdoche, New York?...
...Never Cried In Front of Me,” it’s the discovery of missed signals (the title says it all); in “Cabo San Lucas,” it’s a desire for a former squeeze to keep his lonely self company in a Mexican resort town. “Tell me you love me,” Keith sings in one representative, self-flagellating cut; “It’ll hurt a lot worse when you go.” The new heartbroken tinge is especially disappointing because the album...
...Religion,” in the sense of the word that Gibran understands it, is life itself and the way we choose to live it: “Is not religion all deeds and all reflection /...all your hours are wings that beat through space from self to self.”And yet, the final teaching of the work is sadly pessimistic. The character of the prophet speaks from Gibran’s experience of being multicultural and never quite fitting in anywhere. “We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have...