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Book of Secrets: Alchemy and the European Imagination, 1500-2000
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From Chaucer to Harry Potter, this exhibition explores the curious centrality of alchemy in the European imagination from the early days of print through the present. From the sixteenth century, books of alchemical secrets were published in almost every European language. Terms such as the philosopher's stone entered into the popular understanding in the world of Harry Potter as in that of the sixteenth-century magus. Alchemy was chemistry, practiced by the leading scientists of the period; it was also mystical, seen by thinkers as prominent as Isaac Newton to be the means to understand the source of life itself. Skeptics like Ben Jonson satirized it in plays; poets from John Donne to Ted Hughes adopted its imagery. The twentieth-century psychologist Carl Jung based his theory of the psyche on his analysis of alchemy. Above all, people wrote, read, and thought about alchemy from the early modern period through the present day.
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Umami Burger, a gourmet burger restaurant from Los Angeles, � is taking over the old Valhalla Table� space at The Camp in Costa Mesa.
The� critically acclaimed burger eatery, which is also planning to open restaurants in Anaheim and Laguna Beach, could open by April, according to Lab Holding, operators of The Camp and The Lab.
"Both The Camp and The Packing House have great atmospheres and communities that we hope will embrace us," Umami founder Adam� Fleischman said in a statement about the Anaheim and Camp locations.
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Laguna Beach, at 610 N. Coast Highway,� is slated to open in the first half of 2012, the company said.
But will it be home to the first Umami in O.C.?
"Laguna and Costa Mesa will be first, probably about the same time, with Laguna scheduled to be first," company� representative� Veronica Rathbourn� told The Register on Tuesday.
Umami is a Japanese term used to describe the 5th flavor taste: sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami — or savory.
When the first Umami opened in Los Angeles in early 2009,� Fleischman described it� as a place� for burger lovers to experience affordable "fine-dining fast food."
The limited-menu packs "umami-rich" ingredients in every bite, from the Mideast Lamb burger to the sinfully rich Truffle Burger. Burgers cost $10 and up.
Umami's entrance into Orange County is creating pent up excitement from local fans. Social media followers have been asking for updates since I first reported in June that Umami was headed to downtown Anaheim.
"We still drive up to LA quite often for these burger, living in OC. I am just dying to be able to have them close," one fan wrote on my Facebook page this week.
In Anaheim, Umami is moving into the 2,500-square-foot restaurant space in front of the� Anaheim Brewery, which opened last summer in the old Packard building.
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I thought construction of that part of the Packard building was nearly done?
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You won't be able to buy a new catted pipe for under $200.
Anything's better than stock...
QT, my car is a full 2 seconds faster in the 1/4 with it!
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That looks good!
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Hoppy, how much did it cost you for the front and rear bumpers, paint, and filling the rear bumper in? Thanks :)
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You guys also missed the point that the 1995 DID NOT HAVE THE 4.6! 1995 was the last year for the 5.0 :)
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At the core of our business is our award-winning research, offering independent perspectives from some of the world's leading analysts. For almost 30 years, CLSA has built its reputation on providing global institutional investors the most original, tradable ideas in the market. Our 140 analysts are recognised for producing unparalleled research, providing differentiated ideas and insights into companies, markets and sectors from a unique Asian perspective. With our extensive regional footprint and on-the-ground presence, CLSA is first to spot emerging issues and trends driving regional and global growth.
To ensure our clients have the information they need to make strategic investment decisions, our research findings and thematic reports are packaged and published into 50 unique research products. CLSA research is available exclusively to clients when they login to our dedicated research website.
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CLSA's Christopher Wood is Asia's leading equity strategist and is consistently voted as Asia's leading equity strategist in industry polls. His weekly GREED & fear report has secured a loyal international following among investors and media. Chris also publishes a quarterly equity-strategy report Asia Maxima.
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CLSA's global economics team, led by Eric Fishwick, covers 11 Asia-Pacific markets, as well as Europe and the US. The team publishes Infofax Daily economic reports, plus quarterly regional forecasts: Eye on Asian Economies in addition to Infofax Special, covering ad-hoc special reports and reports on specific markets.
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Shadowbox JS and Platinum SEO are not playing nice. Anyone know a fix?
Shadowbox JS and Platinum SEO are not playing nice. Anyone know a fix?
Might want to provide more details than that. Like exactly what does "not playing nice" mean, and provide a URL to a site where we can see them "not playing nice".
Oh, sorry 'bout that.
The Platinum SEO Pack simply causes the Shadowbox JS to stop working altogether. When I deactivate the seo pack the shadowbox starts working again.
And the url: http://evalbydesign.com/latest-news/
I have a couple posts with pictures added, when you click on them now there is no shadowbox (but as I say, if I turn off the seo pack the shadow box, which is activated, will begin to work again.)
FYI: I've turned off Platinum and opted for SEO Ultimate. If you go to the page linked above then you won't experience the problem.
This is still an issue however and I feel should be looked into.
Platinum SEO Pack breaks Shadowbox JS. Hope I've helped.
Apologies, one more thing, in case someone wants to look deeper into it for their own sake: I'm using wp 3.0.4 and a child theme of thematic. It's in the back of my head that thematic may play a role.
I'm using Shadowbox JS and PSP with WP 3.0.1 and Shadowbox works fine. Like you, I suspect something else is the root of the problem though I don't know what it would be. Since shadowbox "tags" the appropriate links after the page loads via javascript, it's possible that another script is conflicting with this.
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The Arizona American Water Co. and Motorola Inc. are taking steps to ensure that a January incident at a treatment plant where TCE was released into the water supply will never happen again.
On Jan. 15, a malfunction occurred at the plant near Miller Road and McDonald Drive in Scottsdale that resulted in a three-day ban on using water. The ban affected nearly 5,000 Arizona American customers in Paradise Valley and Scottsdale.
Arizona American owns and runs the 10-year-old facility. It was designed and built by the North Indian Bend Wash Participating Cos.
The companies, Motorola, Siemens Corp. and SmithKline Beecham Corp., were identified as the source of the TCE contamination decades ago and are responsible for the cost of operating and maintaining the plant as part of a federally mandated Superfund cleanup site. TCE is an industrial solvent that is suspected of causing cancer.
Both Motorola, identified as the main source of the TCE, and Arizona American hired outside consultants to investigate what happened in January. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must review the reports.
A malfunctioning blower on one of three air stripping towers used to remove TCE from the water was cited as the source of the problem, allowing untreated water from a well known as PCX-1 to flow into Arizona American's public water supply. A trio of alarms failed to alert operators to the problem.
The report for Motorola cites operator error as the cause of the problem, while the one for Arizona American concluded that the treatment facility's systems and components were not designed or operated in an optimal manner.
The Motorola investigation, conducted by Tennessee-based Environ International Corp., notes that when the system was tested in automatic mode, it properly shut down.
According to the report, the plant operator reported that when he left the plant around 2 p.m. Jan. 15, the blower was still running. But the report concludes that the operator manually shut off the blower to Tower 3 where forced air is used to strip the water of TCE. The PCX-1 well, however, apparently was not assigned to Tower 3 so it would not have received a command to stop and shut down.
"The AAWC operator did not manually shut down well PCX-1 nor confirm that it stopped after turning off the blower," according to Environ's report.
But Phoenix-based Brown and Caldwell, which did the investigation for Arizona American, could not determine why the blower shut down, outlining at least three possibilities.
It did note that someone could have shut down Blower 3 by accident, via a computer screen that uses graphics to represent pipes, pumps, blowers and other equipment. The screen does not indicate prominently which blower it is controlling. Shutting down the blower in that way would allow the rest of the system to run without the blower and no alarms sounding.
In a letter submitted with the report, Arizona American president Paul Townsley said the evidence does not reveal how the blower shut down for Tower 3, while leaving the PCX-1 well pumping. He added that the evidence does show that the alarm, monitoring and other systems clearly failed.
Arizona American has physically disconnected its system from the PCX-1 well and no longer uses the water. Motorola has taken over pumping of the well to keep the groundwater plume of TCE in the North Indian Bend Wash Aquifer from migrating. The treated water now empties into the Arizona Canal.
Staffing also has been beefed up and modifications and improvements are being made to the plant's system's and operation.
"The bottom line on all of this is that we are committed, and, I have stated publicly from the beginning, that we want to make sure that the PCX-1 well does not affect our drinking water in the future," Townsley told the Scottsdale Republic.
Townsley said Motorola is responsible for funding any changes that need to be made to the plant, but it cannot do it without the water company's involvement.
"What will likely happen is we will meet with the regulators and with Motorola and come up with a plan of action based upon what they may wish us to do in addition to what we're already doing," Townsley said.
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i.e. don't expect the plugin to work instantly as amazon SES needs about a day to approve your account. Also don't forget to add the verified adress.
Else if you have issue my tip is to have a look at what is going on with wp mail log plugin as in my case it was always another plugin's fault that some emails were not delivered (some wordpress plugins seems to be a litle erratic on how they send emails...).
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I uploaded all of my files in the main site with this plugin. Now I'd like to set up download buttons in sub sites and am wondering if it is possible to use the shortcodes for the main site so that I don't have to go over all the setup process in each sub site.
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A few hours before we arrived the host informed us that we are supposed to stay in another apartment. The one at Franciszkanska wasn't available for some sort of reason. The alternative apartment at Rynek Nowego Miasto was not much more than a regular flat without any comfort for people who are on vacations. So to say: The facilities were in a pitiable condition. There wasn't enough space for three people at all. One of us had to sleep on an air mattress, the other one on a sofabed.
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Musicians stage tribute to America's first professional composer
Even if you haven't heard of Stephen Foster, you've heard his music. "Oh! Susanna" and "Camptown Races" are among the first songs a child hears and learns. Unforgettable melodies, and their place in the public domain, ensure that they have endured, in schools, in toys, in movies and commercials, 160-plus years after Foster wrote them.
Foster is thought to have been the country's first professional composer, and his songs were immensely popular during his lifetime. But the music publishing market soured during the Civil War, and Foster died Jan. 13, 1864, at 37, struggling with a fever and a head injury in his final days, with just 38 cents in his pocket. »Read Full Article
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Jerry Apps' nightmare arrived in the middle of the night in a setting Stephen King would have loved: an isolated Waushara County farmhouse buried under January snows.
This nightmare began in 1947 with what seemed like a simple sore throat, but the horror quickly seeped into Apps' right leg, paralyzing it at an angle. At age 12, Apps had been stricken with polio, and his world would never be the same. »Read Full Article
'Catch Me if You Can' has trouble getting airborne at Marcus Center
By the time he was 21, Frank Abagnale had cashed more than $2 million in bad checks, while passing himself off as a pilot, doctor and lawyer.
Not to be outdone, the low-budget "Catch Me if You Can," on stage at the Marcus Center through Sunday, spends more than two interminable hours impersonating various ideas of a decent show. True to the maxim that form follows content, it doesn't just tell the story of a fake. It also gives us one, at thrice the price of other shows now playing in town. »Read Full Article(8)
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The Noble, the popular tiny restaurant with the small menu and bohemian vibe at 704 S. 2nd St., has launched a campaign called "Save the Noble" on the crowdfunding site Indiegogo, with the aim of buying the building.
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Some of the most promising artists and designers in our city are at the jumping-off point in their careers -- and we are invited for a peek. If you haven't been to the senior thesis exhibition at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, today is a great day to pop in. Today is MIAD Define Day, a campus-wide event that involves discussions and inquiry. Much of that will be happening within the thesis show at MIAD, 273 E. Erie St. Gallery hours are from 10 to 5 p.m.
I checked in with the guys from The Disclaimer, which airs most Wednesdays at noon on WMSE (FM 91.7). It sounds like they are warming up to talk about issues surrounding a new stadium for the Bucks and also proposed new lighting for the Hoan Bridge. You can stream the show online, too. »Read Full Blog Post
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Summerfest officials have announced 10 headliners for the Cascio Interstate Music Stage, and a new title co-sponsor.
Presented this year K-Nation Entertainment, a Grafton-based business that nurtures musical acts, and longtime stage sponsor and instrument retailer Cascio Interstate Music, The K-Nation | Cascio Interstate Music Stage will again largely focus on local acts. »Read Full Article(16)


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Wichita's Slick and Slimy
The setting may be seedy, but in The Ice Harvest, the debut novel from Scott Phillips, the writing is top-notch all the way through.
It's Christmas Eve, 1979, but Charlie Arglist lives in a world where Christmas, family, and presents all take a back seat to the schemes of the people who inhabit the underbelly of Wichita, Kansas. Tonight, however, if everything goes according to plan, Charlie's getting out of Wichita a rich man.
Charlie is an attorney, but he's the kind of lawyer who spends much less time in the courtroom than he does paying off cops and holding compromising photos of politicians over their heads. His business associates own strip clubs, and his friends, if you can call them that, are the people he knows from the bars he frequents. When he bumps into his ex-brother-in-law, who is so drunk that he needs a ride home to the Christmas celebration being given by Charlie's former parents-in-law, Charlie realizes he can't even remember the last time he saw his kids and wonders if he should even bother saying good-bye to them before he skips town.
As Charlie moves through Wichita, trying to kill time before 2am, when he meets with Vic to finalize their quick getaway, planned for Christmas morning, it becomes clear that as vile as Charlie is, he's probably the most decent person he knows. Everybody he knows will gladly lie, cheat, and steal to get anything, preying on any weakness to take full advantage of people. Charlie is no saint, but his planned ticket out of town doesn't include hurting innocent people or murder. At least, that's not what he has planned. But as events spin out of his control, Charlie has to do whatever it takes to stay alive until Christmas morning.
It is a testament to Scott Phillips's writing and humorous irony that he has created a reprehensible protagonist you can't help but root for. The other characters who orbit Charlie range from worse to worst and definitely deserve whatever they get, but Phillips makes it fun to watch these people in action -- even if their actions are pretty odious. Phillips's easy style makes The Ice Harvest a quick and enjoyable read, but there are enough plot twists that the reader never has the upper hand. This sleazy, sexy novel is like a decadent sin -- the worse these characters behave, the more fun it is.
--Jennifer Jarett


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Goodra is my second favorite pokemon from the 6th gen right after gogoat
i may have a speed painting p if rec worked
i may have a speed painting p if rec worked
Very squishy and adorable.
Look at the sliggoo's face, it looks kinda creepy.
Looks soooo slimy I wanna hug it nooow! X3
Sliggoo's face tho <3 Good job ^^
(I squeal so much over this so much, it's not funny.)
Does anybody know if this Pokemon is good? Playing the game and can't decide my party.
it's actually pretty damn good
it evolves in the rain ^^
I know. It has the move rain dance
XD I got my goodra it's so good!!
I like how Goodra is always sminling.
Gods, I love your arts ^=^
Nice job!
It looks so atmospheric!
Pretty cool ! You did a splendid job with this artwork. (=
I will say this, Goodra is like they took one of the most awesome creatures in fantasy (a dragon) and mixed it with one of the most disgusting, (a slug). I'm not sure if Goodra is the cutest Dragon Pokémon or the most repulsive. Any way you slice it, spectacular art! Goodra is an awesome addition to the exclusive "Base 600" club.
Beautiful ;w;
got to love the slimy swamp dragons
;D You did a great job with that artwork.
aw cute :3
Yes! I love these guys xD No one knows why they're dragons, but they're just awesome that way.
Just like how European Knights would slay dragons, French Knights would slay snails.
because pokemon logic and it funny watching them use dragon pulse
Really nice! : D
And jelly dragons are the best dragons, of course.


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Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus
- Studio: IFC Films
- Release Date: Jul 12, 2013
- Starring: Agustín Silva, Gaby Hoffmann, Jos, Juan Andr, Michael Cera
- Summary: Jamie is a boorish, insensitive American twentysomething traveling in Chile, who somehow manages to create chaos at every turn. He and his friends are planning on taking a road trip north to experience a legendary shamanistic hallucinogen called the San Pedro cactus. In a fit of drunkennessJamie is a boorish, insensitive American twentysomething traveling in Chile, who somehow manages to create chaos at every turn. He and his friends are planning on taking a road trip north to experience a legendary shamanistic hallucinogen called the San Pedro cactus. In a fit of drunkenness at a wild party, Jamie invites an eccentric woman -- a radical spirit named Crystal Fairy -- to come along. What is meant to be a devil-may-care journey becomes a battle of wills as Jamie finds himself locking horns with his new traveling companion. But on a remote, pristine beach at the edge of the desert, the magic brew is finally imbibed, and the true adventure begins.… Expand
- Director: Sebastián Silva
- Genre(s): Adventure, Comedy
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Part drug comedy, part psychological drama, the movie is slight, but only superficially so. As the closing credits role, we're left not with a sense of a day at the beach, but of what might be swimming out there, in the dark of the abyss.
For a moment, Crystal Fairy looks like it's going to be a real fish-in-a-barrel satire, its rifles aimed at two very easy targets. But once a coked-out Cera invites Hoffmann on his road trip, a voyage he hopes will culminate with the consumption of a psychotropic cactus, the film gains a ramshackle quality that's difficult to resist.
The film is often beautiful and appealingly light. Every clear-eyed insight into why pushy people insist on pushing is matched by loose ensemble humor and lyric reveries.
Even with shaggy, semi-improvised projects like Crystal Fairy, there's a need for some kind of conclusion, and Silva devises one that's simultaneously terribly contrived and by far the most powerful scene in the movie.
It's the kind of movie that takes you by surprise. By the time it's done, the honesty of the performances and the depth of character that's revealed is exhilarating.
Chilean writer-director Sebastian Silva re-creates a youthful road trip with a head trip at the end in Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus, more character sketch than psychedelic sojourn.
Anything can happen when Michael Cera wanders around Chile without a script on a mission to get high on mescaline. Or, in the case of Crystal Fairy, nothing could happen, too.
Score distribution:
Positive: 2 out of 6
Mixed: 2 out of 6
Negative: 2 out of 6
Jul 13, 2013This is a comedy-drama masterpiece. This is with Pacific Rim the best movie of 2013 so far.Michael Cera is so great in this one and everyone else too.
Dec 26, 2014This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. "Crystal Fairy" is a road trip taken by two of the ugliest Americans to ever trod a cinematic foreign country. Their goal: Mescaline and spiritual discovery – or closer to the truth, themselves.
Comedy star Michael Cera, Jamie, showcases trademark Allenesque neuroses, whining and flat affect in a role based on the experiences of Director Sebastián Silva. The reversal is Silva was a native while Cera is an interloper of whom it is asked, "Did you travel to (beautiful) Chile just for the San Pedro (the cactus harvested for Mescaline)?" The answer is a resounding yes, and there is nothing he won't do to get it, including stealing cactus from a lonely, mentally challenged woman.
Gaby Hoffman, Crystal Fairy, is a pontificating Sixties throwback who wanders about in the nude and chastises people about their food choices (while drinking Coke). She's also an unwanted (by Cera) barnacle clinging to the trip which includes three native brothers. (The scenes of the brothers trying to look like they're not gawking at the nude Hoffman in a hotel room are hilarious.)
Cera's performance is admirable but his usual one-note. Hoffman easily outshines him.
The improvised dialogue adds immediacy and verisimilitude while masking the bitter subtext; Neo-Colonialism and Financial Imperialism. Like "Tony Manero" (a film crediting thanks to Silva), United States' influence and interference lightly greases this story's wheels.
Unlike "Tony Manero," "Crystal Fairy" adds character arcs: Cera departs his obnoxious head to find self-acceptance and a heart recognizing Fairy's inner beauty; Fairy discovers her healing powers cannot reanimate a dead animal and the world just might not end in 2012. She also finds acceptance of the sexual abuse leading her to a life as a strap-on wearing Dominatrix.
The Chilean brothers are antithetical to the Gringos. Their portrayals are a given as they're natives of the country of the film's origin, but their counterpoint makes Cera and Hoffman all the more ridiculous.
To say "Crystal Fairy" is a comedy (stoner or otherwise), twisted love story or angry gringo-invective is to sell the film short. This is a sweet, abstract film with multiple layers and a few very fine moments. The film plants itself in the psyche – much like Mescaline. Giving in to the film's charms results in a feeling you actually tripped along.
Multiple viewings may help in understanding off-the-cuff lines delivered sotto voce. And the abrupt, unsatisfying ending is a shortcoming. There is a movement to cut to black and end films with ambiguity. To feed post-viewing conversation and debate? Whether lazy, uninspired, unmotivated or ill-advised, an ambiguous ending cheats the audience. ("The Birds" notwithstanding.)
A welcome respite to noisy, tent-pole, superhero entertainment, joining this troupe on the road is definitely worth the ninety minute trip – straight or high.… Expand
Dec 28, 2013The movie is slight to a fault, but it's a kick to see Michael Cera finally cut loose a bit. It is to the film's credit that although almostThe movie is slight to a fault, but it's a kick to see Michael Cera finally cut loose a bit. It is to the film's credit that although almost nothing happens, the actors are never less than engaging.… Expand
Aug 18, 2013Michael Cera's movie characters are typically awkard nebbish types, so he must have been thrilled to play this obnoxious, pushy boor. He teamsMichael Cera's movie characters are typically awkard nebbish types, so he must have been thrilled to play this obnoxious, pushy boor. He teams up with 3 brothers in Chile for a road trip (literally) to ingest mescaline. Along they way they encounter a free spirit named Crystal Fairy (Gabby Hoffmann) and her name sums up her hippie/new age personality. The conflict between these 2 lead characters is pretty much all there is for plot. It's shot in a sloppy, handheld style with aimless direction. Basically, it's a showcase for Cera to act an … Collapse
Aug 15, 2014Michael Cera executed the role poorly , as always. There is close to no character development and the film will just be forgotten like allMichael Cera executed the role poorly , as always. There is close to no character development and the film will just be forgotten like all other drug comedies.… Expand
Nov 13, 2014"Crystal Fairy and the Magical Cactus" 10 Scale Rating: 1.5 (Terrible) ...
The Good: Nothing, really. Well, OK ... Michael Cera stepping"Crystal Fairy and the Magical Cactus" 10 Scale Rating: 1.5 (Terrible) ...
The Good: Nothing, really. Well, OK ... Michael Cera stepping out of his comfort zone was good to see.
The Bad: Pretty much everything. Typically a group of people wandering through the desert in a drug induced stupor is an entertaining premise ... if it's funny. Too stupid for words and chock full of rambling dialogue that feels like it was made up on the fly, "Crystal Fairy" fails at every level in trying to become a cult classic. "Fear and Loathing" it's not.… Expand
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Easy access to sightseeing in historic Old Town, an on-site restaurant and a business center attract guests to the Hotel Frances Santo Domingo - Mgallery Collection.
Hotel Features
The two-story boutique Hotel Frances is steeped in 16th-century architecture and features 19 rooms that all offer Wi-Fi access, cable TV, minibars with complimentary mineral water, work desks and hairdryers. You'll find a restaurant, bar and room service on the premises. A 24-hour front desk, business center, currency exchange, a concierge, babysitting services and laundry facilities are available, as is parking.
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In Old Town Santo Domingo, the Hotel Frances is a six-minute walk from the Museo de las Casas Reales, the Pantheon Nacional, Parque Colon and the Catedral Primada de America. The World Atlantic Casino is also a six-minute walk. The National Aquarium, Alcazar de Colon and Fortaleza Ozama are all seven minutes by car. Families enjoy Pargue Zoologico Nacional, an 18-minute drive. Las Americas International Airport is 17 miles from the hotel.
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Drunk driver gets car stuck in ditch, police say
Published: Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 9:04 a.m.
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HOUMA — Deputies were responding reports of an SUV in a ditch when dispatchers received a call from its driver, almost incoherent, reporting it stolen, the Terrebonne Sheriff's Office reported.
Ryan Murtha, 23, 421 Cavaness Drive, was driving the Toyota 4-Runner Friday along Stone's Throw Drive. When deputies arrived, they said, he appeared intoxicated.
Murtha's clothes were wet and stained with mud and grass, officers said, and he told them he thought the SUV could make it across the ditch. He said he needed a tow.
After checking the vehicle, police jailed Murtha on DWI and other traffic and drug charges. He was also booked with having a firearm while in possession of a controlled dangerous substance.
Murtha is being held at the Terrebonne Parish jail in lieu of a $50,000 bond.
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Published: Friday, February 11, 2011, 8:17 AM Updated: Friday, February 11, 2011, 9:30 AM
Not everybody has dark fantasies, or twisted fictions, or sick addictions. But those of us who do would really rather have them remain in the dark. Shine a light (or all of the lights) on the fantasy, and you're liable to ruin what makes it compelling in the first place. If, in your fantasies, you're a terrible monster, a bloodsucker, that doesn't necessarily mean that you're an awful person in real life. It could be the opposite: you could be the sort of person who helps old ladies across the street and shovels your neighbor's walkway after a blizzard. The monster fantasy might be the safety valve necessary to make the rest of your personality work. As long as you're in the dark, you're okay.
Unfortunately (and this has happened in our lifetime), people are no longer interested in what you do at the crosswalk or after the snow comes down. They're only interested in what happens after the lights go out. Your public acts are the facade; only your private thoughts represent the real you. People don't want to know about what you have to say — they only want to know about what you don't want to say. Exposing, uncovering, unearthing, disenchanting, and demystifying the world has become an obsession for us. Cartographers are mapping everything that can be mapped, including the purported genetic basis of your behavior. You're part of the world; you may even be lost in the world. The unexplored regions in your brain are under scrutiny; because they're dark, they're suspect, fair game for curiosity-seekers. Are you ready for all of the lights to be turned on you?
Moralists who have never taken a psychology course in their lives are comfortable calling Kanye West a sociopath. The West of the popular imagination is the charming, talented, high-functioning villain whose dark motivations compel him to destroy everything he touches. He is a public success, but a private failure. Long before the "Monster" video, our criminal profiling of West was complete.
A persistent complaint about West's work is that it's all about him: his personality, his desires, his story. That may or may not have been true in the past, but it is definitely not true about My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. This time around, Kanye is rapping about you. Oh, he's the main character, of course; he's an egomaniac obsessed with his own tribulations, and that's not likely to change. But he's sensitive, too, and he recognizes that just as surely as all of the lights are on him, you aren't going to escape the high beams, either. Right now, you're getting profiled. You're on the Internet; you're going to be analyzed. There is intense interest in the private you — your hidden compulsions, your preferences, the "hard-wiring" of your brain. You're a data point in a sea of informative pixels. Take a step in an unauthorized direction, and you'll screw up the marketer's rubric. Or the government's. Or the rubbernecker sitting next to you.
Into this illuminated world steps the rapper, who throws the switch and turns off the lights. He is aware that the hell of a life he leads in the darkness is not a particularly enjoyable or rewarding one, but he can keep the searchlight from burning up his imagination like old film (pornographic film?) exposed to the sun. Again and again, he returns to his main themes, which aren't quite a dichotomy: darkness equals sex, debauchery, comfort, freedom, privacy, room for the artist to stretch out and do his thing. Light is classifying, arresting, destructive, something to run from. Light is an allegation. Kanye is aware of the racial overtones of his transvaluation, but he doesn't belabor them; a true prog-rocker, he refuses to insult his audience's intelligence. He travels fast, because he figures that you've got it, and if you don't get it the first time, he knows his choruses are catchy enough to bring you back again.
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy doesn't get hung up on negritude, anyway. Kanye knows that white people are under surveillance, too. He just wants to make sure that you get it that African-Americans have always been associated with the values he ascribes to darkness, and that when we talk about disinfecting, classifying, and mapping, on some level, we're always having a conversation about race. He might use a porn star's itemized bill for services to make his point, and if he can't reach you like that, he probably figures you're lost to him. So West takes his stripper metaphors and pushes the critique toward something that's genuinely Miltonic: here, the forces of light, truth, and accuracy are the destructive ones, and the devils are the good guys. Well, they aren't good guys, because there aren't any heroes in West's world. There are just ordinary people, burdened with extraordinary fantasies, some dark and twisted, but all valuable personal possessions; regular Joes and Janes with irregular thoughts, increasingly besieged, running out of places to hide.
Album of the Year
1. Kanye West — My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2. Francis & The Lights — It'll Be Better
3. The Wonder Years — The Upsides
4. Brooke Fraser — Flags
5. Joanna Newsom — Have One On Me
6. Drake — Thank Me Later
7. I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business — The World We Know
8. Taylor Swift — Speak Now
9. You, Me & Everyone We Know — Some Things Don't Wash Out
10. Of Montreal — False Priest
11. Tracy Bonham — Masts Of Manhatta
12. The Rocket Summer — Of Men And Angels
13. hellogoodbye — Would It Kill You?
14. Jamey Johnson — The Guitar Song
15. Kate Miller-Heidke — Curiouser
16. Ghostface Killah — Apollo Kids
17. Sarah Harmer — Oh Little Fire
18. John Mellencamp — No Better Than This
19. Sky Sailing — An Airplane Carried Me To Bed
20. Nas & Damian Marley — Distant Relatives
Album That's Getting Knocked For No Good Reason
False Priest. Look, I know Kevin Barnes has been extremely annoying for a very long time, and there's only so much discussion of his member we all can handle. But this is not where to get off the bus. First of all, he's rocking again, which should satisfy longtime fans who felt the funkmaster schtick was taking him over. He's also pulled out of the disassociative personality disorder that was sinking his humor — around the time of "Aldhils Arboretum," he was easily the funniest man in the pop underground, and his wit is recovering. Then there's the amazing moment on "Sex Karma" where he convinces Solange Knowles to call him something he's been wanting to hear about himself for a decade at least, but which I can't print in a family newspaper. His musicianship has never been in question, and his Bowie impersonation is getting more convincing. All bloomin' onions aside, if you like OM at all, you've got to engage with this one.
Album That's Getting Slept On Because Of The Absurd Need To Compile Top Ten Lists in Mid-December:
Apollo Kids. I like it better than Fishscale; I think it's his best album since Supreme Clientele. But you didn't hear anything about it, because the musical calendar flips around December 7. The Committee to Restore Rational Top Ten List Practices would like you to call this toll free number. For only pennies a day, the price of a cup of coffee, rappers like Ghostface can have new hope and a Banana Nutriment. Please, make a difference in the life of someone special.
Single Of The Year
1. Foxy Shazam — "Oh Lord"
2. Brooke Fraser — "Something In The Water"
3. The Narrative — "Fade"
4. Kanye West & Dwele — "Power"
5. Elizabeth & The Catapult — "You And Me"
6. B.o.B & Hayley Williams — "Airplanes"
7. Drake — "Find Your Love"
8. Kanye West, Rick Ross, Jay-Z & Nicki Minaj — "Monster"
9. Steel Train — "Bullet"
10. Taylor Swift — "Today Was A Fairytale"
11. Nas & Damian Marley — "As We Enter"
12. Belle & Sebastian — "I Didn't See It Coming"
13. Janelle Monae — "Tightrope"
14. The Rocket Summer — "Walls"
15. Taio Cruz — "Dynamite"
16. VersaEmerge — "Fixed At Zero"
17. Ke$ha — "Take It Off"
18. Wiz Khalifa — "Black & Yellow"
19. B.o.B — "Don't Let Me Fall"
20. Valencia — "Dancing With A Ghost"
Best Album Title
Fast Trains And Telegraph Wires by Trembling Blue Stars. Bobby Wratten is a beautiful title-writer. He should do headlines for a twee version of the Post.
Best Album Cover
It'll Be Better. It's all here: the school clock, symbolizing the meticulousness and economy with which Francis Farewell Starlite assembled these tracks, the old spinet, symbolizing the '70s piano singer-songwriters whose voices Starlite is channeling, the two drumsticks on the music stand, representing the artist's obsession with charting percussion, the partially-unbuttoned button-down vest, representing the narrator's struggle to break free from restraint; the half-light, representing the late-night vibe of the productions. Even the time on the clock is significant. It's 2:56 and 31 seconds, which either means that the club is about to close and the girl Starlite is talking to will need to make up her mind about who she's heading home with, or the bell is about to ring, and teacher is running out of time to make his lesson manifest.
Best Liner Notes And Packaging.
Have One On Me, and not because of the four pictures of Joanna Newsom putting her hair up. Okay, maybe those helped a little.
Most Welcome Surprise
No Better Than This. I guess when John Mellencamp said he didn't care about selling records anymore, we should have believed him. That was one of the gutsiest projects ever done by a veteran rock star. Cutting the whole record with a single microphone? Recording in hotel rooms? Putting the album out in mono? Grumbling through the set like a toothless, unemployed former factory worker who is half deaf from the clanging of steel on steel? My hat's off to you, you crazy Hoosier.
Biggest Disappointment
When I saw Mike Posner drive the girlies wild at Bamboozle, I figured there were two ways this story could go. Either he could leave the frat house behind and step with confidence into post-collegiate society, or he'd treat his success as a sign from the gods of Alpha Beta Zeta Theta that his laddish attitude was his moneymaker. But I didn't expect him to curse out an ex-girlfriend by name, on a major label release. Ugh. If only he had chosen NJCU over Duke, I'll bet the chair of the English Department would have knocked some humility into him.
Album That Opens The Strongest:
The Adventures Of Bobby Ray, which narrowly missed the Top Twenty. The acoustic number and the Vampire Weekend semi-cover are tough to take, and then there's the predictably scenery-chewing guest spot by Eminem to plug your ears through. But the first half of that record is gold.
Album That Ends The Strongest
Speak Now. All you really need to know about Taylor Swift is that the most passionate love song on her coming-of-age LP is the one she wrote about her band.
Song Of The Year
"Sailboats" by Sky Sailing. Woolgathering gets a bad name: not only does it guarantee you a pillow, but it makes the sheep feel nice, too. And dreams aren't always escapes. What you see in your reveries might not be real, but the emotions sure are. Adam Young's Bright Beautiful Fantasy is even more imperiled than Kanye's, because hanging out with strippers and porn stars can be justified by making recourse to the superficial allure of what you're doing. To the people behind All of the Lights, or a typical boring Bad Boy, Young just looks like an smiling idler. Me, I call him a freedom fighter. Taylor Swift, who always cuts to the heart of things and comes away with the mot juste, wrote "Enchanted" about Young, and that's the perfect word for him — because in a world addicted to disenchantment, he's determined to dream all he wants, and you can't shame him out of that. After listening to Owl City and Sky Sailing nonstop for the past two years, I've come to two conclusions about Young, and the realization that he is the bravest man in pop is the lesser of the two. Adam Young will entertain you and get you to sing along and skip through the flowers and paint dreamscapes on your bedroom wall, and all of that is great. But he will also show you where you are screwing up. Adam Young's work is a detector of spiritual problems. I have learned that the things about Owl City and Sky Sailing that make me uncomfortable almost always correspond to areas that I need to work on. I will give you an example. "Steady As She Goes" is a very sweet song in which Young expresses love and admiration for his sister. At first, I found this unbearably sentimental and borderline perverse. Then I had to admit that it wasn't perverse at all: it was beautiful, and the perversity I was ascribing to it was just a cover for my own feelings of inadequacy. Because I have a sister, too, and she's my hero, just as Young's sister seems to be his. And if I'm too ashamed to say so, well, I'm not worth much to anybody. I'll give you another example: on "Explorers," Young sings "pale gibbon moon." This really bothered me at first. The term for when the moon is half-illuminated is "gibbous," not "gibbon." But who cares? I knew what he meant. I was forced to concede that I'm the sort of jerk who gets pedantic when somebody mixes up his astronomical jargon. So even when he makes a mistake, he's showing me where I'm falling down, and how far I have to go. In this way, he truly is God's instrument. Adam Young remains who I want to be when I grow up; better yet, he always gives me faith that I'll eventually get where I'm headed. The earth doesn't care if we go up there — if we want to, just ask, and he'll take us along.
Best Singer
Bryce Avary of the Rocket Summer. Laura Marling is also a satisfactory answer in this category.
Best Rapper
Sorry, it's still Nas. You're bored of reading it, and I'm bored of writing it, and we all may be getting a teeny bit bored of listening to it, but that doesn't make it any less true.
Best Vocal Harmonies
Jenny and Johnny on "New Yorker Cartoon." Sometimes the narco-haze works for them, and sometimes, they're crushed by the big wave.
Best Bass Playing
Mickey Madden of Maroon 5. Songs About Jane was guitarist James Valentine's showcase, It Won't Be Soon Before Long belonged to synth player Jesse Carmichael, and Hands All Over was dominated by the bottom end. (Adam Levine doesn't need an album.) Just goes to show you: they're a real hydra-headed outfit, an old-fashioned, chopstastic funk-rock band that happened to luck into a Top 40 career.
Best Drumming
Jose Lopez, formerly of Houston Calls, now hanging with Ace Enders in I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business.
Best Rhythm Guitar
Forrest Kline of Hellogoodbye. The best rhythm guitar phenomenon is the curtain of KAPLOW that falls like a fist on Jimmy Eat World's "Evidence." Works for me every time, coz I am Mr. Troglodyte, and I like when jimmy man make big sound with big stick.
Best Lead Guitar
Marissa Paternoster. You could draw a straight line from Crazy Horse through J. Mascis and Thurston Moore, straight to her playing on Castle Talk.
Best Drum Programming
Francis Farewell Starlite. That is programming, isn't it? Don't tell me he played all of those crazy shaker and cabassa patterns himself.
Best Synthesizer Playing
James Murphy
Best Piano Playing
I'd love to vote for Sky White from Foxy Shazam, but the answer is the piano all over My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. My best guess is that Jeff Bhasker played it, but you never know, it might have been Mr. West himself. This is a guy who brought his MPC to the Video Music Awards. He's not just a concept-master, he's a musician, too. Sometimes we forget that.
Best Use Of A Non Traditional Rock Instrument
This one goes to that classically-trained musician who runs her orchestra-standard axe through all kinds of effects, double and triple-tracks it, and uses it to expand the sonic palette of her strange, ambitious, and wildly romantic songs. That's right, Tracy Bonham and her demon violin. Who did you think I meant?
Best Backing Vocals
Keir Nuttall on Kate Miller-Heidke's "Politics In Space." He sounds like a cross between the Big Bopper and Doc from the Seven Dwarves.
Best Instrumentalist
Kevin Barnes. I'd also like to acknowledge this year's unsung hero: Nathan Chapman, who plays just about every instrument in the shed on Speak Now. The bass parts on that album are quietly fantastic. Don't think the twelve year old girls didn't notice. They're wiser than you are, pal.
Best Instrumental Solo
Kevin Barnes on "Hydra Fancies."
Best Songwriting
The year's most acrobatic melodies were penned by Forrest Kline. But it's not a melody contest. This one goes to Sarah Harmer, the part-time Canadian environmental activist who finally got around to putting out another set. Half of the songs on Oh Little Fire aren't anything special, but then there are the ones that are, and those are built to subtly wow those who've never tried to write a song, and to thoroughly destabilize those of us who've tried. "Late Bloomer" is a sauntering country-pop ballad in which Harmer lets some fibster rake play yo-yo with her heart; "One Match" is pure post-Vega grown-up storytelling; "Captive" is a coy cat-and-mouse game. The best by far, though, is "The City," which is one of those rainy trolley-window dreams, with all the elements of a town's architecture and a failed relationship thrown up in the air, only to have it all scatter on the tarmac until you can't tell which is which, or why you wanted to know in the first place.
Best Production
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Every year, there's an easiest question on the Poll. This is it.
Best Arrangements
Kate Miller-Heidke. If you can integrate opera singing into your pop songs and not make your listener want to rip her ears off with her bare hands, you've got a sense of balance worthy of an Olympic gymnast.
Best Lyrics On An Individual Song
John Mellencamp, "Easter Eve." When the father and his angelic son blunder into a bar fight, you think you know where this is going. The boy will get killed on Resurrection Day, and the moon of bitter irony will break through the Midwestern clouds. Instead, the kid beats the heck out of the evil drunk, everybody goes to jail, and they all have a bloody good time. Mellencamp's narrator even gets the girl in the end. There's no moral, but there sure is a message: although the stars may be aligned against you, fighting back is worth the risk. It's a hardass narrative for tough times, and a nice substitute for the tales of tragedy we've become resigned to.
P.F. Rizzuto Award For Lyrical Excellence Over The Course Of A Full-Length
Dan "Soupy" Campbell over Joanna Newsom, because I will always prefer the person who says "I don't know why I'm here but I know who my friends are" to the person who disconnects and retreats to where she's most comfortable, only to find that she still can't sleep at night.
Band Of The Year
The Kent Hardly Playboys, Jamie Johnson's misleadingly-named cowboy outfit.
Best Live Show I Saw In 2010
Prince @ the Izod Center.
Most Disappointing Show
VersaEmerge/Anarbor/Dangerous Summer at Highline Ballroom. Bad vibes, bad sound, and a very bad outcome: members of Versa got into a fight with the Dangerous Summer's Cody Payne after the show, and the tour fell apart. These Warped Tour vets come into the Big Apple with two strikes against them, and a nasty ace pitcher named Weblog Consensus on the mound. Nobody wants to believe you're any good, guys; if you don't hang together, you're sunk.
Best Music Video
Janelle Monae's "Tightrope." She didn't have much competition.
Most Romantic Song
Drake's "Shut It Down." I had a long conversation with a little bird about this number. The bird did not care for Drake's gender politics. Her argument was that while Drake is not the virulent misogynist that other more reupholstery-type emcees might be, the woman in the song was still fully objectified, and only granted value by the male gaze. I said, well, yes. So I lost the argument, but much to the little bird's chagrin, that didn't change my opinion of the song. I still believe that Drake's excitement upon seeing his girlfriend is, while not politically progressive, still kinda beautiful. I'm a showbiz kid at heart. I do believe you have to work the crowd and look good for the camera, and that goes for boys as well as girls. If the clock doesn't stop when a gorgeous person walks into the room, then the minutes just tick on toward five o' clock in their slow, dull, monotonous rhythm.
Funniest Song
Liz Phair's mock record-industry conversation in "U Hate It." I am sufficiently juvenile to find the genius/peenius rhyme funny, and so, I guess, does Phair, so I consider myself in excellent company there. The funniest moment of the year involved reupholstering. That howling sound you heard across the sky on release day was America getting its first listen to "Blame Game." Or maybe it was just me. I'm pretty sure I woke up most of Harsimus Cove.
Scariest Song
Joanna Newsom's "Baby Birch." Why is there bunny blood all over your arms, Joanna?
Most Moving Song
"Ice On Her Lashes" by Brooke Fraser. If "Albertine" was Fraser's version of "Mere Christianity," "Flags" was her "Grief Observed." She won't specify because she's not the kissing and telling type, but she clearly went through something terrible. By the end of the record, she's pieced herself back together, no small thanks to her faith, but the scars are all still visible.
Sexiest Song
"Leaves" by Gregory & The Hawk. If you can't be with the SuzyV you love, love the SuzyV-wannabe you're with.
Most Inspiring Song
"A Bigger Point Of Pride," by the deeply sympathetic Ben Liebsch of You, Me & Everyone We Know. So here he is, working in a copy shop and taking crap, but he won't get down. Everything he owns fits in a single bag, and he's toting it from crash pad to crash pad, but he's not giving up. The heat's been turned off in his place and he doesn't have a girlfriend, but that's bound to change, eventually. Time is on his side, for now. He can hear the sands hissing through the aperture in the hourglass, but he's going to try to block it out. Okay, he can't block it out, but maybe he can drown it out with his singing. He's got his smarts, he's got his passion, and he's got his band. That'll have to do for today, because it's the only day they're giving him.
Meanest Song
Jenny Lewis gets her new boyfriend to beat up on her old boyfriend on "My Pet Snakes." It's a duet, because two on one is the only way to administer a critical beatdown in a place as unfair as Silver Lake. Note to anybody in a band: when you are told "all the best of luck with your career," that's sarcasm. We don't mean it; we hope you'll never get booked again, and that your name will become mud, and that you'll be poisoned in your sleep. The drugs only seem to have made us laid back; really we're seething inside, and determined to chart higher than you, and smooch in front of you while you're searching for your name in Billboard and finding only ours, together, having lots of fun.
Rookie Of The Year and Hardest Album To Place:
It must have been an accident, or an unauthorized leak, or a mistake by an overworked intern. This July, I was sent a CD from Universal called Silver Threads & Golden Needles. No press release or album notes (or album cover), but I caught the reference to Johnny Cash, so I threw it on. What I got was two siblings with terrific voices singing country standards in close harmony, and tossing in a pair of nifty originals. It reminded me of the album by British folksingers Maddy Prior and June Tabor: here were a couple of young-sounding female traditionalists singing standards associated with men, and slyly altering the meaning of the songs. I tried to write Universal for more information about the group, but nobody there would get back to me or acknowledge the album's existence. If they had a website or a mySpace page, I couldn't locate it. Flash forward to the autumn, when I discovered that T-Bone Burnett had signed a group called the Secret Sisters to his new label, Beladroit. I was sent two copies of the Secret Sisters LP, also called The Secret Sisters — and lo and behold, it turned out to be Silver Threads & Golden Needles. Only the songs were all out of order, and there was a new, crummy track stuffed in the middle of the sequence. A few of the songs had been re-cut: much of the gorgeous piano had been removed in favor of standard country hokum. The Sisters themselves re-did some of their vocals, turning in performances that were noticeably more subdued than the ones on Silver Threads & Golden Needles. The basic tracks were the same, the repertoire was the same, but everything felt different. If Silver Threads & Golden Needles had ever been released, it would have made my Top 20. The Secret Sisters is a nice little album, but the world is never going to know what could have been. I can't even say that the Sisters have potential, because that potential was already fully realized on the album that didn't come out. I tell this story to underscore a point: small changes made to a recording are enormously significant. Magic really does get lost in mastering, or remixing, or in last minute alterations that seemed imperative at the time, but were wholly unnecessary in retrospect. That extra polish you add to your record can sink the whole enterprise. I also tell the story because I've got no place else to complain. I lost a great album in translation from a language I knew to one that I only thought I did, and I really wish I'd been in the room to set Universal straight, and to tell the suits in charge that they were about to make a terrible blunder.
2010 Album You Listened To The Most
Oh Little Fire
2010 Album That Wore Out The Quickest
Kathryn Calder's Are You My Mother? I never got tired of "Castor And Pollux," but those ethereal tracks on the record never did cohere. She needs to trade in some of those Pornographers and Immaculate Machinists for the genuine pop-punk musicians who play the music she's not-so-secretly itching to make. Before she gets too old to make it, I mean. Ditch the zeroes and get with the heroes, Calder.
Prevailing Regrettable Theme Or Trend Of 2010
Concept records that did not cohere. How about that My Chemical Romance album set in an apocalyptic wasteland? The one about the battle between superheroes and the forces of repression? Which is why they sang about… the same stuff they always sing about. Then there's Janelle Monae's Metropolis suite, which sounds great on paper, but has yet to translate to much actual sci-fi content in the songs. Clare Burson's set was supposed to be about the holocaust, or her grandmother, or European history; I listened to it ten times, trying and failing to tease the World War II narrative out of the songs. The Titus Andronicus album was advertised as a meditation on Civil War and New Jersey. Great!, but what about the Civil War and New Jersey? You can't just string together proper nouns; eventually, you either throw in a verb or you become Billy Joel in "We Didn't Start The Fire." These are all good albums — I like them all, and I'm happy that I engaged with them. Ambition is great, and big talk is cool, and strong words in press releases do get the attention of gullible types like me. But at some point you've got to back up the blabbing with specifics; otherwise, you're just a tease, and will make me angry, and growly, and green, and poised to destroy Tokyo. Rock and roll and cola war, I can't take it anymore.
Best Cover
Maroon 5's live version of Alicia Keys' "Ain't Got You." The recorded version on the deluxe edition of Hands All Over does not compare; you had to be there, man, you had to beeee theeeeere.
Best Guest Appearance
I don't mean to be contrary here, or take anything away from Nicki Minaj, but my answer is The Game on Apollo Kids.
Most Convincing Historical Recreation
This one comes with a big, fat, Cee-Lo-sized asterisk. The Lady Killer is a letter-perfect Philly soul record from '74 — except for the silly, profane single that ran its tire-marks over the rest of the album. I recognize that Cee-Lo thought that he had to put out the single to get people to pay attention to the songs that were important to him, because that's the crass, no-faith way he's has been behaving ever since he ditched the Goodie Mob. But he ended up making sure that nobody would listen to The Lady Killer in the right spirit, and disappointing the many fans of gratuitous profanity who'd picked up the album expecting more of the same. Years from now when Anderson Cooper is dropping F-bombs on CNN like it ain't no thing, we will look back on the Cee-Lo phenomenon of 2010 and wonder what all the fuss was about. Then, and only then, somebody's going to spin The Lady Killer, and say, hey, the rest of this joint is pretty tight. Take away the novelty song, and you've really got something special here. But by then, Cee-Lo will be a black Republican senator from Georgia, and he'll have banned his own records just to be perverse. To drive up their value on eBay, too; dude is always looking for an angle.
Crappy Album You Listened To A Lot Anyway
Beast Mode. I wade through eight tracks of indifferent production and uneven rhymes to get to the moment where Juvenile says he lives up in a bull's ass. Also, I spun the Kelis album numerous times, and for the life of me, I do not know why I did such a thing. On first listen I had the good cans on, and I think I convinced myself that the synthesizer parts were inventive. I've spent every subsequent listen trying to figure out what gave me that impression. Bad headphones are a blessing. Lousy speakers: only the strong survive.
Artist You Don't Know, But You Know You Should
Miranda Lambert
Album That Felt Most Like An Obligation To Get Through And Enjoy
By now, you are probably wondering: where is the Big Boi album? Well, it's here, sad to say. It never clicked for me, and I'm not entirely sure why. I always love Big Boi's rhyming, and some of the individual tracks are fantastic, but I find the second half of the record a real chore. I admit that I could never get into the tracks with Janelle Monae and Jamie Foxx, and they're back to back, and right after that there's the George Clinton song that I don't understand. I zone out around there and only re-engage when "Shine Blockas" comes on, and that type of thing never happened with an OutKast set. I adore them to pieces, and I will happily pay money for anything they put out, but I'm convinced now — Andre and Antawn really do need each other.
Album That Sounded Like It Was The Most Fun To Make
Jenny and Johnny, and maybe they should have had less fun.
Album That Sounded Like It Was A Chore To Make
Cruiserweight's Smith Tower. The band was breaking up, and Stella Maxwell sounded incredibly bummed about it. The songs were about giving up on dreams and justifying your existence and life choices to invisible interlocutors, and the Maxwell brother (Cruiserweight was basically a family act) who jumped ship right before the boat went down. Even the cover was illustrated in heavy greens and browns. It's an interesting companion to the explosive Big Bold Letters, but I don't think I'll be returning to it very much, and I'd advise the band not to spin it before Christmases and Thanksgivings at the Maxwell house.
Man, I Wish I Knew What This Song, Or Album, Was About
I know the exotic sound of the language was part of the point — disorientation and destabilization in a different land, and all that — but I'd still love translations of the Chinese pop songs on Cowboy Junkies' Renmin Park. Also, Roky: "think of as are"? In his uptight liner notes, Will Sheff said you never sang any songs the same way twice, so I guess there's no reconstituting that one, but it's a head-scratcher, and you sound inspired enough to make me wonder.
Most Inconsistent Album
Audrey Assad's The House You're Building. The great Christian rock numbers were the blatant Brooke Fraser rewrites. The weak ones sounded like limp '70s folk-rock; all Kumbaya my lord and major seventh chords. Assad is a very good singer, though, and her relationship to the divine is sufficiently tormented to have the ring of true belief. I'm worried she won't get another chance. I hear Sparrow Records isn't exactly inclined to turn the other cheek when the sales numbers don't add up.
Most Consistent Album
Apollo Kids. Really, guys, it's great. Best Ghost since Supreme Clientele.
Song Or Album That Should Have Been Shorter
Every song on Speak Now could have used a little pruning. Swift's junior year was a bit like Oasis's third: she went on and on because she could, and because nobody gives the cane to the country's top seller; and because, mmm, that spotlight feels so nice. I am blonde and awesome, did I mention that? Long live me and my awesomeness. Also I always write a bridge and they're really really good; here, take two, and bring one home to your momma.
Song Or Album That Should Have Been Longer
Hey Monday. As one of the few young women working this territory — and one who writes her own material — Cassadee Pope deserved more than six songs.
Album That Turned Out To Be A Whole Hell Of A Lot Better Than You Thought It Was
I'm going with the in crowd here, and voting for Belle & Sebastian, but only provisionally. My initial impressions of Write About Love weren't wrong: it's definitely going to go down as a minor entry in a major discography. But after God Help The Girl, Stuart Murdoch probably felt the need to reassure his band that Belle & Sebastian was a real band, and not just a vehicle for his May-December sex fantasies. So I think he eased up on the accelerator just a bit, and let some of his mates shine — and they do, especially the rhythm section. Sarah Martin gets to kick the album off and sing the big production piece toward the end. Mick Cooke plays more trumpet than he has since Tigermilk. Everybody gets into the game — it's like one of those late Creedence records where, to avoid a mutiny, John Fogerty turned the band into something like a democracy. Mr. Murdoch, remember Tris McCall axiom #1: nothing good ever came of a vote.
Album That Was The Most Fun To Listen To
Some Things Don't Wash Out
Most Overrated
Sufjan Stevens. I keep hoping somebody will slip that guy the magic truffle fry.
Worst Song Of The Year
And speaking of the magic truffle fry, here's "Teqkilla," from Maya. Six and a half minutes of absurdly-loud synthesizer, the "innovative" garbage can beats by some overhyped jackass from fascist Britain, and an intoxicated dilettante reciting the names of brands of booze. "When I met Seagram/ he sent Chivas down my spine." UGGH. Hearing "Teqkilla" was like being trapped in the basement of Luxx during a Berliniamsburg party, and having to listen to the show through the ceiling while being pinned to the vomit-stained sofa by a wealthy Connecticut girl who'd had one too many of every drug ever invented. I'd thank God the empress now has no clothes, but believe it or not, seeing M.I.A. naked is not high on my list of NYC things to do.
Worst Video
"Earl," by Earl Sweatshirt. Man, that's just gross.
Worst Singing
I can deal with Katy Perry's screeching on "Firework." I don't like it, but I can deal with it. Regine Chassagne, however, I cannot listen to, and I would much prefer it if you'd point her in another direction. "Sprawl II" sounds like a gang of first-year Tisch students invaded the karaoke bar, cued up a Blondie record, and decided to art-damage it to prove a point that none of them will remember when the X wears off. I know, it is a beloved record for many. I don't understand you people.
Worst Rapping
Tickets to Kid Cudi's concert at Terminal 5 go onsale at 4:20 on Friday. DO YOU GET IT? Because I do. I value Scott Mescudi's contributions to Kanye's records, but at this point, it no longer matters to me whether he'd begin to rhyme with some semblance of meter, or confidence, if he wasn't stoned. This is because he is up there and he's not coming down. He's like a poorly-inflated mylar balloon, and his raps are the equivalent of a slow helium leak.
Worst Instrumentalist
If Jonathan Rice could do anything on the bass guitar besides hump away on rudimentary eighth note patterns, I'd wager he would have done so by now. Also, no matter how much reverb you throw on his guitar signal, he is not going to make anybody forget about Blake Sennett. In concert at Maxwell's, he wore a Jenny Lewis t-shirt just like any other fan. I'm glad he's self-aware; otherwise, this story would definitely end in tragedy.
Worst Lyrics
The 1900s are a cool band from the Midwest with excellent musical ideas. Stevie Jackson is a fan, which makes good sense, or maybe bad sense, since they enjoy ripping off Stevie Jackson. But the lyrics are terrible. Here is a sample chorus for your examination: "I would like to dance/ from Nola to Yahweh/ drinking soda from a paper plate/ Bmore/ Bmore amore." Go on, guys, kick the next one in Esperanto. It can't make less sense.
Worst Lyrics By A Good Lyricist Who Should Have Known Better
Dan Purcell beat me to this yesterday. He disliked "Committed" for exactly the same reason that I did, and he put his objections to the song so forcefully that, for once, I've got nothing to add. A couple of you have asked me about Dan, since you enjoy reading his reflections on the year in music as much as I do. Dan was my college roommate, and we showed up at our freshman dormitory with virtually identical cassette collections in virtually identical wooden cassette racks. We were the two biggest music nuts on campus, and we probably did influence each other's tastes more than we realized at the time. That said, Dan was more into the Nuggets collections and garage rock in general, and I drove him crazy by spinning nonstop Nick Drake and Sandy Denny. He lives out in Oakland (California, not Bergen County), but he pulls for the Kansas City Royals, which is another weird thing we had in common. Oh, and Dan introduced me to Bill James, without whom you probably wouldn't be reading any of this, since I doubt I would have become a pro writer, or just a pro jerk, if it wasn't for James's influence. Therefore, based on some geometric or mathematical principle, Dan is responsible for this Poll; direct any complaints to him. Just kidding, I love Dan. Everything here is my own fault.
Worst Song On A Good Album
"Hands All Over" by Maroon 5. This sub-Def Leppard stomper just kills the album dead.
Most Unsexy Person In Pop Music
Waka Flocka Flame
Best-Sounding Album Of 2010
Thank Me Later
Most Thoroughly Botched Production Job
Nicki Minaj. Allow me to turn this one over to R. Lee Ermey, in the role of Gunnery Sergeant Hartmann: "Private Minaj, you're not a singer! You're a killer!" "A killer, sir, yes sir!"
Song That Would Drive You Craziest On Infinite Repeat
Ludacris, "Get Low." I mean, he's done, right? Please?
Song That Got Stuck In Your Head The Most This Year
Ke$ha's "Take It Off." That song made me want to be ten years old, and at a block party, jumping around in a ball pit, and trying to count the number of jellybeans in a jar.
Thing You Feel Cheapest About Liking
Frat-rap and electro-rap in general. Sam Adams, K. Flay, Mike Posner, MC Lars; jerky fellows on the mic and being oh so clever. At least I seem to be immune to MC Frontalot.
Young Upstart Who Should Be Sent Down To The Minors For More Seasoning
Christofer Drew of Nevershoutnever. I like him, though.
Hoary Old Bastard Who Should Spare Us All And Retire
Rivers Cuomo.
Good Artist Most In Need Of Some Fresh Ideas
Carl Newman. At the very least, he's got to shake up the running orders on his albums. First comes the frenetic, upbeat one, then the Neko Case ballad, then the radio single, then a group singalong, then we hear from Dan Bejar, etc.: he's fallen into a rut so deep that all he can see is peat moss and earthworms. He's also become awfully reliant on a few songwriting crutches — on "Together," he keeps shaving beats in the choruses, jumping back to the verses before you'd expect in an attempt to restore a little urgency to his writing. He needs to do a death metal album, or collaborate with Lil Jon. Well, yes, that would be horrible, but it might switch his lightbulb back on.
Most Overplayed Song
Probably "California Gurls."
Song You Identified With The Most
Take it away, Gerard Way: "You only live forever in the lights you make/ When we were young we used to say/ That you only hear the music when your heart begins to break/ We are the kids from yesterday." Indeed.
Place The Next Pop Music Boom Will Come From
Nashville, since country music fans still actually buy the albums.
Will Still Be Making Good Records in 2020
Taylor Swift
Will Be A One-Hit Wonder
Neon Trees
Biggest Musical Trend Of 2011
The rap floodgates open, and everybody gets on the mic: big-hatted country singers, sorority girls, toddlers with YouTube access, housewives real and fake, science teachers, politicians and civil servants, grandmothers and Godfathers. It's the full democratization of hip hop, and it'll be… um… well, we'll all be pining for the days of yes y'allin'.
Forbidden Concepts for 2011
No emcee is allowed to claim that he is stuck in the Matrix. No emcee (or non-emcee) is allowed to have a name with dollar $ymbol$ in it. Also, can we stop featuring Rihanna on songs about domestic abuse? And let's cool it with all the tattoos, guys. This is pop music, not a circus sideshow. MTV is starting to look like the Ringling Brothers Channel.
Best Album Of 2011
All Things Bright And Beautiful
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This does not find the property and I get a Null reference on the "GetProperty". I hope the syntax is correct.
Any thoughts on how to get hold of these property values?


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Fabry Disease
What Is Fabry Disease?
Fabry disease runs in families. It can have lots of different symptoms, including pain in the hands and feet and a specific kind of rash.
When you have Fabry disease, a certain type of fatty substance builds up in your body. It narrows your blood vessels, which can hurt your skin, kidneys, heart, brain, and nervous system.
Your doctor may call Fabry disease a "storage disorder." It usually starts in childhood and is much more common in men than women.
There are treatments that can make a difference in how you feel, day-to-day. Getting support from your family and friends is key, too.
You get Fabry disease from your parents. It's passed down through genes.
The problem is that your body can't make an enzyme called alpha-galactosidase A, which you need to break down fatty substances like oils, waxes, and fatty acids. When you have Fabry disease, you either were born without that enzyme or it doesn't work right.
You may notice things like:
- Pain and burning in your hands and feet that get worse with exercise, fever, and hot weather or when you are tired
- Small, dark red spots usually found between your belly button and knees
- Cloudy vision
- Hearing loss
- Ringing in the ears
- Sweating less than normal
- Stomach pain, bowel movements right after eating
Fabry disease can lead to more serious problems, especially in men. These can include:
- Higher chance of heart attack or stroke
- Serious kidney problems, including kidney failure
- High blood pressure
- Heart failure
- Enlarged heart
- Osteoporosis
Getting a Diagnosis
It can take a long time to get diagnosed with Fabry disease. That's because the symptoms are common and can affect so many different parts of the body.
Many people who have Fabry disease don't get diagnosed until years after they first had symptoms. They have often seen several different doctors for various symptoms and sometimes get the wrong diagnosis.
If your family history suggests you could be at risk for Fabry disease, you may want to ask your doctor about getting genetic testing.
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