Daft Punk – Alive and well If you haven't seen Daft Punk live, nothing we say here can possibly convince you of the power of their live show – it's sort of like the Matrix: you can't be told, you must be shown.
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Coachella 2008: Out of the Box Coachella 2008. Heat, hunger, filth… all the things you come to love about a music festival-- with one important difference: Coachella has consistently better, cooler lineups, out lolla-ing Lollapalooza, out forking Pitchfork, and we won’t even bother...
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Zeitgeist: the movie – Dare to Decide for Yourself Everything you know is wrong. That’s sort of the thesis for this Internet movie (it was first in independent theaters in June 2007), that shakes up common beliefs on everything from Christianity to September 11th to the Federal Reserve. And it all makes a
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First Person: Cloverfield takes down a city – and an archetype Monster movies are done to death – they're pretty much as old as the medium itself, right back to King Kong. They work on good, consistent levels, functioning both as escapism and showcases for the ultimate in filmmaking technology...
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Believe in the Dreams: Marjorie Stelmach's Night Drawings As the act of creation is sometimes like being lost in a sleepy, meditative prayer, so it is reading Marjorie Stelmach’s collection of poetry, Night Drawings [Helicon Nine], winner of the 1994 Marianne Moore Poetry Prize, judged by David Ignatow.
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