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...hand, it might provide all sorts of suitably horrible material for another novel. What fresh hell will he invent next? "I haven't decided yet," says the bard of Shepperton. "I'm waiting for the next shift in the weather. I spend a lot of time looking at the sky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: His Dark Material | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

...exist outside of time.So, anyone familiar with his voluminous catalog—equal parts confounding and transcendent—will know that something strange is afoot in the opening line of his new album.“When the numbers / get so high / of the dead / flying through the sky,” he mumble-croons over soft strings and guitar strums, “Oh, I / don’t know why / love comes to me.”Is this most oblique of songwriters singing about the War in Iraq? But after that line, it?...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

...minutes into the album, when West’s unheralded guest and fellow Chicagoan Lupe Fiasco puts Louis Vuitton’s top spokesman to shame. Fiasco’s not really a power hitter; he’s more about finesse. On “Touch the Sky,” he confidently spits double-entendres, references “Thundercats,” and successfully imitates Cam’ron’s homophonic flow, all in the matchbook-sized verse he rents from West. It’s no wonder that Fiasco only gets a couple bars...

Author: By Jake G. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lupe Fiasco | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

...know, the air, the sky, just, like, the whole planet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 2, 2006 | 9/24/2006 | See Source »

When Carroll Day Kimble spotted the bubble-gum cigarettes nestled among the wax lips, strips of candy buttons and Sky Bars in the Groovy Candies assortment, tears sprang to her eyes. "I remembered being 10 years old and how a puff of powdered sugar came out when you blew on them," recalls the voice-over casting director, 45, in Los Angeles. "I loved my childhood. It was about family and friends, not about the horror of life and all the terrible things out there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retro Revival | 9/24/2006 | See Source »

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