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Sparklehorse is weirder than dreams. Best known for his songs wrought with fragile creepiness, laden with nightmarish imagery and whispered ambiguities, Mark Linkous—the man behind the Sparklehorse curtain—can haunt with the best of them. In this sense, Sparklehorse’s latest album, “Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain” is more of the same—and, after a five-year hiatus, discovering more of the same was more than I could’ve asked for.Linkous’s drug problems?...
...hoarding classified documents in his suburban Washington home. Facing kail and with his marriage threatened, Keyser cut a deal, promising to tell all he knew about Taiwan's intelligence operations. But then the tale of the diplomat, his spook paramour and his wife--also a spy--got even weirder...
...hoarding classified documents in his suburban Washington home. Facing jail and with his marriage threatened, Keyser cut a deal, promising to tell all he knew about Taiwan?s intelligence operations. But then the tale of the diplomat, his spook paramour and his wife - also a spy - got even weirder...
...stage shows. Although magic and comedy occupy “different worlds,” Greenbaum’s ultimate goal is to “bridge that gap.”“Magic is weird and comedy is weird, and putting them together is even weirder.” Nonetheless, he says, “I want to be the guy that’s both.”Unlike OTI and IGP, Greenbaum does comedy with a safety net. “Most of my jokes are already scripted and written in advance...
Hodgman's humor requires a high cultural IQ. "I don't consider what I do comedy qua comedy," he says. "It's something much weirder." Nevertheless, his weirdness is in high demand, with gigs on NPR's This American Life and editing the Times Magazine's new "Funny Pages" feature--in addition to The Daily Show and the sequel to Expertise he's writing. "Like Tintin, I'm not one to turn down a good adventure," says Hodgman. "Even when my drunken sailor companion begs me to just stay home in the chteau for once...