On the border during the early twentieth century, two young horse thieves murder a a rancher’s son and are pursued by the father who is more poet than pistoleer in this look at nature, brutality, and male identity. This mix of crime novel and western haunts the reader like a fine murde...
As was true for many kids who grew up during the Seventies, of privilege, Louanne’s idea of rebellion centered upon hanging out with kids from “the wrong side of the tracks”, and in general, frustrating her parents’ ideas about whom she ought to date, i.e. a nice boy from the ...
while this time I wept hysterically on the floor of his closet, that I was to have had all his things moved to an apartment we co-owned with friends by the time he returned, and that he would never spend another night with me in our house. He...
These dams, we’ll later learn, are called “drowning machines” because of the way the re-circulating currents can trap people and boats, but in the ebullience of the moment, we’re carefree. Yes, there’s a dam. Get over it. There is nothing to do but clamber back into the boat ...
We wear our best seventies outfits in the color of tangerines and avocados. While Shannon and I have blank expressions because we’re too young to know what’s going on, the other four seem happy. Darren smiles as though he’s heard a joke. Lisa’s heard the same joke but won’t ...
Emergence of the Nation. The Cape Verde Islands were uninhabited until the Portuguese first landed in 1460. They settled in an area of Santiago which they called Ribeira Grande and which they used as a slave-trade post between Africa and the New World. Some Africans stayed on the island an...
Gone are the fresh faces and considered haircuts. Gone are the forced grins. Gone is the joy of popstardom. Five albums in and Blur look slightly less box-fresh than The Beatles do on that great, bleary-eyed sleeve that housesBeatles For Sale. Blur, the group’s lazily/eponymously-title...
was in its chaotic heyday during the seventies and eighties, but I guess that’s how the Williamsburgers like it. onFebruary 27, 2008 at 6:25 pmcubedweller I was born and grew up in Brooklyn; lived there until I was 14. Moved out 2 weeks before the ’77 blackout where all the st...
Brabenec also insisted that band sing only in Czech, as opposed to the English lyrics they briefly adopted with Wilson in the early seventies. All these songs were recorded in the homes of friends and family of the band including the first two tracks which are believed to have been recorded...
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