Word: superealism
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...almost all of his life, but the past year has taken his street-recognition factor to a new level. Hutz's renown stems mostly from his front-man role in the New York City-based multiethnic band Gogol Bordello. They have toured continuously since their acclaimed fourth studio album Super Taranta was released in July last year. Rolling Stone hailed it as "an explosive album by a band whose shows wow orgiasts from Seattle to Kiev." That raucous live show - something akin to a traveling circus, with Hutz as the ringmaster - is packing in bigger and bigger venues and brings...
Gogol Bordello's lyrics are likewise peppered with exuberantly oddball Eastern European humor. In one song on Super Taranta Hutz sings: "Have you ever been to an American wedding? /Where's the vodka, where's the marinated herring?" He does deep too. The song Supertheory of Supereverything, Hutz explains, is a "humorous attempt to explain the universe." He then offers a lengthy elucidation exploring the intersection of philosophy and theology before concluding: "Basically, if you're asking am I with Carl Jung or Sigmund Freud, I'm with Carl Jung...
...Although the issue's success coincided with Obama's recent triumphant swing through Europe, Sozzani pulled the trigger on the idea back on Super Tuesday. Visiting the U.S. that first week of February, she says she experienced up close the enthusiasm generated by the first viable African-American candidate for the White House. "It's a sign," she recalls thinking to herself. "It's the moment...
...Sozzani isn't the only one taking notice of the Chicago super-couple's fashion sense. Michelle Obama recently made Vanity Fair's best-dressed list for the second year running, while Italian designer Donatella Versace says the presumptive Democratic nominee was the inspiration for her Spring 2009 line, as the new "relaxed man" look. One question no fashion maven can answer: Will Obama still meet that description after the rigors still ahead in the campaign...
...When fans got their chance to pose questions, there was a mass sprint to the microphone to pitch such hardballs as, "I just want to ask, how is it to portray a super-hot vampire...