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...when he collapsed at the dinner table and died of a heart attack. The loss devastated Didion so completely that she entered a state of temporary insanity: She literally believed that she could bring her husband back to her. The Year of Magical Thinking is the story of her slow acceptance of what had happened, her journey from madness to the duller, deeper pain of mourning. To watch one of our most acute, acerbic social observers turn her attention to the collapse of her own psyche is to witness an act of consummate personal and artistic bravery...
...shocked at the stealthy power of West's storytelling. As for the music, one listen to Gone, built around an Otis Redding sample and some ecstatic string arrangements, and you might be persuaded that West is as good as he thinks he is. Best Tracks: Heard 'Em Say, Drive Slow, Gone...
...persuasiveness-Evil and a Heathen and I'm Your Villain would be musts on any syllabus of "Songwriting for Cads"-but he's also growing in ways that suggest depth. The fast songs have more than one musical thought (some even scoot past the 3-min. mark), while the slow ones have the courage to be pretty (Fade Together) and vulnerable (Eleanor Put Your Boots On). Best Tracks: This Boy, Do You Want To, Eleanor Put Your Boots...
...name for Florida singer-songwriter Sam Beam, began playing. “Wow, you guys are well-behaved,” he remarked at one point to a crowd mesmerized by Beam’s voice—warm and breathy, yet also strong and present—through slow, melancholy melodies like “Cinder and Smoke”Beam, who along with artists like Sufjan Stevens and Devendra Banhart is bringing the folk aesthetic to a modern, independent audience, gained widespread attention after his cover of the Postal Service’s “Such Great...
...They will get caught by Matt’s stripper friend who is working her way through law school. About 17 kinds of awkward.2. Trey will reappear, and Marissa, once done with both Johnny and Ryan, will fall for him. On their first date, they will slow-dance to Bon Jovi’s “Shot to the Heart”…and chuckle about it.1. Season four. You know you’re as concerned as I am. —Kevin FergusonI’ve never been stranded on an island, so I can?...