Proverbial

Since this is supposed to be my personal blog, and considering the post draught that’s been afflicting it lately, I think it’s only fair to start posting mini-reviews on books, records and movies I’ve purchased recently. So, let’s begin this with my three latest music purchases:
Jewel - Goodbye Alice in Wonderland: I used to [...]

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The choice is obvious and also inevitable. Rest in peace, Maestro.

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If someone still had any doubts about the Arcade Fire’s renown as a rock band, I guess this five-page NY Times piece on them might help settle the matter:
Four years ago, when the Arcade Fire first started performing its songs from “Funeral,” it took the band six months to create the kind of show that [...]

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Even though it seems like the song was pasted over miscelaneous footage, what you see is what you get: Peter Frampton doing an instrumental cover of Soundgarden’s Black Hole Sun, with help from Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready and Matt Cameron. Great stuff.
It’s part of Frampton’s latest - and first all instrumental - record, Fingerprints, [...]

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