A Muslim has electrodes attached to his ears and is shocked until he names names, and gives vital information about the revolution. A band of children shout at an old man “drunkard” as they beat him and send him tumbling down a flight of stairs. A bomb explodes in a cafĂ©, killing women […]
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I first bought this EP, in tape form, from a used record shop for about $3.00. I wore the sucker out playing on my way to and from high school.
It is really more of a CD single than any real album. Though the sticker price would have you wish […]
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The first time I saw Steve Kimockplay was during the summer of 1998. He was one of twin guitarists (the other being Mark Karan) filling the big gap left by Jerry Garcia in the Grateful Dead reincarnation The Other Ones.
Kimock’s stage presense was slight. Sitting on a stool, guitar in his […]
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Once in awhile I’ll leave the movie theatre and head straight to the music shop, knowing I simply must purchase the soundtrack album. I leave thinking the music was just so perfect, so wonderful, that it would simply be a shame to not have it for my collection.
Usually the soundtracks […]
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His first acoustic album in seven years, Silver and Gold sounds shamefully thrown together. His last effort (not counting the MTV Unplugged release) Harvest Moon is one of my all time favorite albums. There is some lovely song writing in there, with some nice back up singing by the likes of James […]
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Unlike the other classic masters of crime fiction (Hammett, Chandler, and even Christie if you must) James M Cain wrote not from the perspective of the cop, or the detective, but from the side of the criminal. He wasn’t really interested in the methods of detection, but in the methods and reasons crimes were […]
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