| G21 NEWS: Inhumanity. Is that an academic label for the "indescribable?" What brings forth the inhuman?, one cannot help asking oneself. Revenge, relief of anger, retribution, frustration - all of these allow an attempt to trace the descent into the abyss. But such attempts at finding rational explanations fail in making sense of the story the nurse from the village of Aldi had told the Human Rights Workers whom I shared dinner with the other night.
Do these Russian conscripts discover the pleasure of annihilating life and then find that there are no restraints - but only find further encouragement? ...RENDT GORTER "Letters from Chechnya" - More -
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There's Gold in This Gal's LyricsBOB POWERS
One thing I noticed is that many of the songs sound alike. Gold's strong point is her lyrics, which succinctly state their theme without any meandering off or getting pretty for pretty's sake.
Poly TicksTHOMAS HART
Seems ole Tipper got her panties in bunch because Jim's movie, in her view, makes fun of schizophrenia and Tipper wants to be viewed as the 'Murrican Mother Theresa of Mental Health.
I just report this stuff, ya'll. Don't blame me.
PURGATORYJENNIFER BLUEA plaid-flanneled, tight-jeaned guy asks me "gotta light, sweetheart?" I hold up the flame emitting from my plastic chartreuse lighter. Peppy, boisterous music continues to insist upon a peppy, boisterous attitude from all patrons. We all must be interested in sports, too. There is no getting out of this interest in sports as it continuously slaps us across the face. Our needs are conveniently defined and requited.
My personal experience is that the more artificially peppy the ambiance, the more saddened and depressed I become --- I am often a pain in the ass in this way. The guy who needed a light stands next to me, occasionally flicking a cigarette ash into the tray on my table. He's a lonely guy. Everyone appears lonely to me. Airports are lonely. People leave, people come back before they leave again. I'm lonely; this place is hollow. The peppy music and continuous staccato visual stimulation cannot seduce the emptiness inside of me.
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Julie Gold is an outstanding composer, her best known song being the one made famous by Bette Midler, "From a Distance." Gold's new album "Try Love" (Gadfly Records) contains 14 of her compositions.
Well, let's start with how my favorite newspaper (and --- don't lie! --- I know it's all of ya'lls, too)