Even the most jaded postmodernist nerd-ophile surely feels a tug deep inside at the words of that classic introduction ( . . . more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings with a single bound . . .). The tug of a hero, pure of heart and motive, taking on impossible odds and prevailing by strength and wit.
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This music video for their song “The Fox, The Crow and The Cookie” captures the current spirit of mewithoutYou, playing out the song’s melodic moralism in beautifully executed puppetry — that also shows all it’s strings and wires.
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The Brothers McLeod rather brilliantly combine analog and digital techniques to create a unique animation style, which manages at times to be simultaneously endearing and a little off-putting with it’s surrealist edge.
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The sound they have dubbed “dark country folk/rock” caught at the pirates and wenches in our respective hearts. They manage a fine balance between the epic power of orchestral instrumentation and the plainspoken passion of folk vocals.
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Flanagan feeds detailed information into his machine in real time, using the physical motions and attitudes of his body. He manipulates the buttons, the tilt and the rotation of a pair of Wiimotes in a kind of dance that tells the instruments how he wants them to play.
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But there is a picture of my father standing in front of the Christmas tree playing his new violin; my teddy bear is pushed up against the tree behind him.
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I looked upon him with expressionless eyes while I previewed the scenario: We are being over-run. I presume the enemy is trying to blow its way through our steel door into the radio room. I am at the cul-de-sac end of the radio room, standing between two red-phosphorous slab grenades, and I am going to commit suicide by pulling the pins to the grenades. The sergeant assumed I would.
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This little gem introduced us to Ellie Goulding [whose] hauntingly vulnerable vocals and lyrical ballads were voted the “Sound of 2010” in the UK, made her the Critics’ Choice at the 2010 BRIT Awards, and — perhaps most importantly — melted our hearts half a globe away at RF headquarters.
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I jumped off and yanked the bag outward to get the drip off the pipes, in case not being in flames yet was a coincidence.
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I realized that I was 26 years old and had never read the classics, so now I’m catching up, one volume at a time. You can read the intro to this blog series here. Brave New World by James Roland I decided to bump Brave New World up my list because of some recent discussions […]
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