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Remember the big masturbation scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho? The shot of a George Jones-Tammy Wynette record? The visions of a naked woman and a sheep during one of the murders? The spider crawling out of Mother Bates' mummified mouth? All these are in Gus Van Sant's new version of the 1960 horror classic--which suggests he hasn't been quite so slavish as expected...
...Sweets may don more elaborate sequin patterns than the average prom queen but the stars of the show are the adorable animals. The repertoire of the dancing bear (danced by Zach Grubbs, Marc Estrada or James Mills) rivals the average Olympic gymnast's. The smaller fry--the four sheep and tiny mouse in particular--do not do more than hop and scurry across the stage; nonetheless, they win more squeals of delight from the audience than the Sugar Plum Fairy does...
...help but love those little kids in the sheep costumes...
...disconnect is a form of stupidity or of moral carelessness. How can anyone object to hunting but also eat meat raised in misery for the slaughterhouse? Who has clean hands? Surely not the consumers of the 38 million cows and calves, the 92 million hogs, the 4 million sheep and 7 billion chickens killed last year, to say nothing of the animals slaughtered to give us our belts, shoes, wallets, handbags, and fur coats. The saint, of course, may forsake meat and leather. But virtue always comes with its ironies. Hitler was a vegetarian...
...Cake says, "Sheep go to heaven, goats go to hell." Well, maybe so. But they take a little bit of everything and make music with a fresh and original perspective--something rare and beautiful in the music industry. This band has always been a little different from everyone else, in a wonderful way. Don't ever call them standard or normal. At least, not yet. Raw energy and anger were more evident in earlier Cake music. Their two most widely-known songs, "The Distance" and "I Will Survive," stood out and were filled with intensity. Not so with this album...