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...Adored" is way better than the book's choice of "She Bangs the Drums,") that can be chocked up to a matter of taste. But for the most part, the project comes off like a personal message that High Fidelity's Rob Gordon might obsessively attach to a mix-tape...
...persona of the artist Kim Jones. In order to become Mudman, Jones coats his body in mud, pulls a thick nylon stocking over his head, puts on a foam headdress, and then straps to his back a large lattice structure made of wooden slats, tree branches, wax, wire, tape, sponge, and whatnot. Sometimes he also wears a glove on his left hand from which a number of long wooden spikes protrude all the way to the ground. The effect is visually and conceptually compelling, especially if you see him walking toward you in a city street. Mudman is a living...
...When a friend watched my audition tape, she was physically repulsed. Stunned, she didn’t speak for a few minutes. Instead she stared at me in befuddled rage. “An average kinda guy…Good Midwestern stock?!” she finally yelled, repeating my self-declarations. “You were born in San Francisco. Your fucking favorite book is ‘Ulysses.’ You are not average Joe.” In my defense, I never lied in my audition tape. I did exaggerate my Midwestern “As?...
...strangely undeterred. We spent the weeks leading up to the show trying to recalibrate our thought patterns to fit those of the elusive average American. By the time my plane landed in Los Angeles, I felt just like the gosh golly normal fellah from my audition tape. The taping started with an audition run. A lovely production assistant ran up to the stage and grabbed my hand, telling me I was not enthusiastic enough. “You need to be clapping and smiling more. ‘Coolness’ does not read on television. You?...
...last relatively reliable bin Laden sighting was in late 2001. A video that he apparently appeared in last year shows him with a dyed beard. More than a few Pakistani intelligence operatives who knew bin Laden scoff at the idea he would ever dye his beard. They think the tape was manipulated from old footage, and that bin Laden is in fact dead. But then again, they would have an interest in making Americans believe bin Laden is dead, since it would relieve U.S. pressure to find him by any means necessary, including going into Pakistani territory...