Amidst the terrible sadness sweeping the nation due to J.D. Salinger’s death, there is some humor to be found in the now-corrected version of the New York Times’ obituary of the reclusive author. Toward the bottom of the second page, the following sentence was to be found:
Quote TK from Salinger’s agent about surviving manuscripts, if any, and plans for them.
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recess’ film editor Charlie McSpadden is attending the two-day press junket for Martin Scorcese’s new thriller Shutter Island starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The film will screen in New York City tonight at 6:30PM and the press conference will take place tomorrow at 1PM in Le Parker Meridian hotel. Participating talent will include Scorcese and DiCaprio as well as Sir Ben Kingsley, author Dennis Lehane, screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis and producers Mike Medavoy and Brad Fisher.
Follow the action on Twitter and feel free to send in questions for the stars.
It’s typically tough to describe electronic music using the pop vernacular, but Four Tet has always been a unique avant artist whose music palatably synthesizes the best qualities of rock and electronic music.
In the past, the results have been as stunning as Rounds (2003), which was captivating in all the right ways, and cemented a standard Four Tet dynamic: rhythmic drum samples a la DJ Shadow, pacing more akin to a rock than electronic album and obscure vocal samples that led to the attachment of the dubious “folktronica” descriptor.
There Is Love in You doesn’t quite match the glory of Rounds, but it sounds fundamentally different and is equally essential. It’s easy to spot the influence of dubstep artist Burial whom Four Tet (aka Kieran Hebden) recently collaborated with on a 12″ single; Both find common ground in the use of tantalizing vocal samples and dark textures. But this new record points toward the techno and disco styles of Lindstrøm and The Field, respectively, in equal measure. There Is Love in You is by no means minimal, but it is subtle, resulting in a record that is more scintillating than it is catchy.
Opening track “Angel Echoes” sends a titillating female vocal sample reverberating through space for four minutes before picking up the rhythm with nine minutes of after-hours techno—“Love Cry” is the album’s single, and one of the standout tracks. “Sing” filters electronic videogame bleeps through Four Tet’s unique filter of sunny haze and atmospherics before “This Unfolds” lilts by for a blissful eight minutes.
Four Tet knows well the emotive power of a moving album closer, and “She Just Likes to Fight” is up to par—a stunning and stunningly simple finale to the album. With There Is Love in You, a lovingly crafted affair with a high level of sophistication and replay value, Four Tet has quickly set the bar high for a new decade of electronic music.
Duke’s WXDU did a count down of the Tarheel State’s top 80 musical releases of 2009. This is not only a solid countdown but also a really great compendium of North Carolina releases. Some (e.g. Midtown Dickens) are more Carolina than others (e.g. the Mountain Goats), but it’s all Carolina in some sense. We’ve posted it below and you can also check it out here.
1 – dex romweber duo – ruins of berlin
2 – various – compulation vol 3
3 – violet vector & the lovely lovelies – ep 2
4 – various – tobacco a-go-go volume three – 60s music in north carolina compilation
5 – wembley – keywords for robots
6 – bowerbirds – upper air
7 – megafaun – gather, form & fly
8 – western civ – shower the people you love with gold
9 – mountain goats – the life of the world to come
10 – love language – the love language
11 – soft company – ep
12 – polvo – in prism
13 – dexter romweber & the new romans – night tide
14 – reigning sound – love & curses
15 – billy sugarfix – summer tempests
16 – spider bags – goodbye cruel world, hello crueler world
17 – avett brothers – i & love & you
18 – north elementary – not for everyone just for you
19 – kingsbury manx – ascenseur ouvert!
20 – roman candle – oh tall tree in the ear
21 – birds of avalon – uncanny valley
22 – various – hear here: the triangle
23 – various – bain music project
24 – midtown dickens – lanterns
25 – des ark – live on wxdu, vol 2
26 – birds & arrows – starmaker
27 – superchunk – leaves in the gutter
28 – dynamite brothers – again
29 – greg humphreys – trunk songs
30 – the old ceremony – walk on thin air
31 – nathan oliver – cloud animals
32 – shipwrecker – shipwrecker ii
33 – hammer no more the fingers – looking for bruce
34 – calico haunts – after all
35 – tin star – bettie lane
36 – whatever brains – mount whatever 7″
37 – tooth/the claw – tooth/the claw split CD
38 – red collar – pilgrim
39 – lemming malloy – the return of the norfolk regiment
40 – polynya – crop rotation
41 – inspector 22 – hey man, i understand
42 – veelee – three sides
43 – felix obelix – s/t (ep)
44 – the loners – revolution!
45 – embarrassing fruits – community/exploitation
46 – all your science – volume 2
47 – reigning sound – live at goner 6-25-05
48 – resist not – just walking away
49 – citified – absence
50 – whole world laughing – 8 songs for cy
51 – my dad is dead – a new clear route
52 – floating action – floating action
53 – i was totally destroying it – horror vacui
54 – starmount – tyranny of the sphere
55 – ex-monkeys – being human
56 – americans in france – pretzelvania
57 – teh vodak – hot wednesday nights at the storage facility
58 – the beast – silence fiction
59 – new town drunks – the ballad of stayed & gone
60 – bombadil – tarpits & canyonlands
61 – gray young – firmament
62 – joe romeo & the orange county volunteers – joe romeo & the orange county volunteers
63 – red fox chasers – i’m going down to north carolina – the complete recordings of the red fox chasers 1928-1931
64 – free electric state – hawks/on&on
65 – grappling hook – . . . and those who would keep us safe
66 – bronzed chorus – i’m the spring
67 – horseback – the invisible mountain
68 – on the take – on the take ep
69 – jon shain – times right now
70 – potpie vs krzysztof – appalachia
71 – dan melchior und das menace – thankyou very much
72 – whatever brains – saddle up 7″
73 – pneurotics – second skin
74 – aminal – a face to fight/a will to fight
75 – dan melchior und das menace – mr. oblivion 7″
76 – impossible arms – ripped in no time
77 – inspector 22 – the waiting grave
78 – jeff rehnlund – gangnam basement
79 – lake inferior – pegasaur
80 – $tinkworx/kinoeye – mkb/mean old world 12”
America’s college students, considered yourself judged.
A report in The Chronicle of Higher Education reveals that college students aren’t that different from the rest of America in terms of literary taste. The report indicates that Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol was the most read purchased book in the month of November among college students. Superfreakonomics, Stephanie Meyers’ Eclipse, The Time Traveler’s Wife and Precious (the movie tie-in of the book Push) round out the top five. So much for all those scholarly texts.
What does this mean? Commenter bfrank1 (Barney Frank?!?) puts it nicely:
“Wow, that’s impressive. I’m not worried about our future anymore, that’s for sure. Now I’m certain.”
Then again, given the rush regulation’s of Cornell’s Pi Phis or Yale’s latest admissions tactic (or this blog), was there ever any doubt to begin with?