Spoonfed AMERIKA: Consider it a _Queer_ State of the Union Address. This is our Amerika. The way we see it. The way we live our lives. It ?s Our reality,...
Craig Gidney
cgidney@xxx.xxxx
Dec 15, 1999 7:34 pm
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Psychology student, 24 yrs old. Bibliophile. Loves bibliomaniac book fiends, poetry, writing, spoken word readings at coffee shops, coffee & reading, twiggy...
toysindrag@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Dec 17, 1999 9:37 am
4
Lee has begun another series of novels, linked together by the alternate city Venice, called Venus, arranged around the 4 elements essential to alchemy. Book...
Craig Gidney
clgidney@...
May 26, 2000 5:26 pm
5
Tristran Thorn is about to come into his heritage in this charmingly antiquated Victorian fairytale for adults. He's such a dreamy, care-free fellow, that he...
Craig Gidney
clgidney@...
May 26, 2000 8:00 pm
6
Kevin Grierson comes from an Irish-American family that's cursed by violence, booze and shadows. The Shadows, in this case, are real quasi-people who embody...
Craig Gidney
clgidney@...
May 31, 2000 7:16 pm
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Stellamara, "Star of the Sea". Against shimmering electronics, brittle dulcimers, dolorous bells, and percolating poly-rhythms, Sonya, the lead singer's,...
Craig Gidney
clgidney@...
Jun 2, 2000 4:00 pm
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Rhodes is a singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist with an awesome 5-octave range and powerful story-telling skills. On this cd--her first major label...
Craig Gidney
clgidney@...
Jun 2, 2000 4:00 pm
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Emily Bezar, "The Moon in Grenadine" Emma Townshend, "Winterland" When I was 15, I went on a school trip to NYC, and we stayed in the apartment of a friend of...
Craig Gidney
clgidney@...
Jun 2, 2000 4:00 pm
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Dead Can Dance's Ethnic/Rennaisance fusiion conjures up a stately court waltz or perhaps an honoured, ancient ritualistic dance; the Changelings' new cd of...
Craig Gidney
clgidney@...
Jun 2, 2000 4:00 pm
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Faith & Disease, "Insularia". With this new release, Seattle's F&D move firmly into Cowboy Junkies/Mazzy Star phantasmorgic rural neighborhood. Dilapidated...
Craig Gidney
clgidney@...
Jun 2, 2000 4:00 pm
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Rhea's Obsession, "Initiation". This Vancouver-based duo features the classically-trained vocals of Sue Hutton and the crunchy, scraping guitar theatrics of...
Craig Gidney
clgidney@...
Jun 2, 2000 4:00 pm
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My friend Phil once said that you could judge the quality of the three This Mortal Coil (TMC) albums by the cover art. On "It'll End in Tears," woman made out...
Craig Gidney
clgidney@...
Jun 2, 2000 4:01 pm
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A twilight trip to an alternative version of the 20th Century Steve Erickson claims kinship with authors Philip K. Dick and Thomas Pynchon, and its easily to...
Craig Gidney
clgidney@...
Jun 5, 2000 4:01 pm
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Ali Azam and Greg Ellis have produced another hours worth of tranquil, Eastern-influenced music. This new work, their third, skirts the edges of New Age, but...
Craig Gidney
clgidney@...
Jun 6, 2000 4:21 pm
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The NYC-based group Basque is a duo made up of Maryasque on vocals and Brandt on bass. It's very open, airy music, with lots of silence written into the...
Craig Gidney
clgidney@...
Jun 6, 2000 8:27 pm
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Vaporous is the only word that accurately describes this collaborative effort between Sky Cries Mary vocalist Anisa Romero and ambient keyboard guru Jeff...
Craig Gidney
clgidney@...
Jun 7, 2000 5:56 pm
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Dreamchild, "Gates to the Sea." Rhea's Obsession, "Beyond Earth and Sky." What sets apart gothic horror from the more mainstream horror genre has been its...
Craig Gidney
clgidney@...
Jun 12, 2000 5:31 pm
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On the surface this reminds me of the best of the Carpenters, and those dreamy soundtracks from `70s After School specials. It's very placid, with Sarah...
Craig Gidney
clgidney@...
Jun 25, 2000 8:45 pm
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In many religions, the spirit possesses the truly devout. This manifests itself by the possessed speaking in tongues, and dancing around wildly. It is very...
The sub-genre of cyberpunk has a subtextual critique of advanced Capitalism. It is usually set in dystopian future, full of corporate monopolies,...
Craig Gidney
clgidney@...
Jun 29, 2000 6:15 pm
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One of the most vivid images of I have of my college years in the early 90s was going to Boston to participate in the Gulf War protests. A motley group of...
Craig Gidney
clgidney@...
Jul 17, 2000 6:24 pm
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Legend has it that when a 17th century alchemist was looking for the "philosopher's stone," he came upon a substance known as phosphorous. Ducornet's novel is...
Craig Gidney
clgidney@...
Aug 8, 2000 5:34 pm
25
The alchemical art-folk of Shannon Wright turns the familiar into the utterly alien. Sounds, bits of melodies, her voice-you swear that you've heard them...
Craig Gidney
clgidney@...
Aug 10, 2000 8:09 pm
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The debut CD from this female-male duo of Kit Messick and James Babbo comes in a digipak with two Mucha paintings. The cover is a picture of an idealized...
Craig Gidney
clgidney@...
Sep 15, 2000 2:15 am
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The Vintner's Luck, by Elizabeth Knox. Sexuality in general and homosexuality in particular is counterpoised to the sacred in our culture. Lust is one of the...
Craig Gidney
clgidney@...
Sep 20, 2000 5:22 pm
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Basque at the Metro Café, September 26, 2000 (Washington, DC) Basque opened their brief set with 'Wool and Water,' a piece off their debut full-length CD...
Craig Gidney
clgidney@...
Sep 27, 2000 1:44 pm
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Goldfrapp is the collaboration between Will Gregory and singer Alison Goldfrapp. It is clearly in the post-Portishead vein of electronica influenced...
Craig Gidney
clgidney@...
Sep 27, 2000 2:52 pm
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Bowery Electric, "Lushlife" Trip-hop is derivative of the most urban of art forms, Hip-hop. Most Trip-hop borrows the beats and sampling of hip-hop to create...
Craig Gidney
clgidney@...
Oct 22, 2000 10:17 pm
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Bel Canto, Images. Bel Canto's last album, "Magic Box", was simply dreadful. They had jettisoned their trademark delicacy for a homogenous dance-pop sound, ...
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