Not Just for Nick Cave Fans

I'm not a Nick Cave fan. I found him tolerable in Wim Wenders Der Himmel über Berlin. Other than that, I don't have much to say.
Be that as it may, I find Carrie's latest post smashingly brilliant. She, on the other hands, LOVES Nick Cave. After reading her post, you will see that the caps are, indeed, relevant.
So, the paragraph of the day would have to go to her.
I do think that a true music lover truly gets it what it means to be completely overwhelmed and thrown on ground by certain music.
Read this. You will react.
"I love being a new witness. A convert. Sometimes, I want music to knock me down so hard that it's a struggle to stand up again. The best music, and especially some of my favorite live moments, are like this -- so forceful that I need to regain my balance. Yes, it's unnerving to be caught off-guard by a sound -- for it to unsettle as oppose to soothe. But it's not a bad thing, on occasion, to have music cause you to lose your footing. By the end of the Nick Cave show, it felt like I'd fallen hard."
If you haven't read CB's blog, do so. She is very, very readable.

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Music Info

Anticipated projects include Keane and The Killers.

I will be reviewing the much-anticipated album by Keane, Perfect Symmetry, during the second week of October.

Here is a list of all the new Fall releases.

The Killers are also scheduled to release their third, full album in November. Read more about the RS coverage of their recent pursuits here.
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Phrase of the Week

Well, folks, the phrase of last week had to be Katie Couric's "...not to belabor the point..."
Having in mind all the traffic, buzz, and attention her Palin interview engendered, I think it gets the cake.

Tina Fey Does It Again

Tom Tykwer's The International

Tom Tykwer can impress. He's shown good range and good overall cinematic judgment in the past. However, his upcoming The International looks like something I won't be making time for when it opens in February.
Clive Owen did so well in Closer.
Naomi Watts was brilliant in Mulholland Drive.
Obviously, the right directors know how to allow these talents to shine. I seriously doubt Tom Tykwer will with this new picture.

Here's the preview for you to consider:

Paul Newman, 83

Ohio's own Paul Newman died on Friday at the age of 83. The cause was cancer. The actor/director/philanthropist will be missed. And as Pauline Kael intimated back in 1977:

"“When a role is right for him, he’s peerless,” the film critic Pauline Kael wrote in 1977. “Newman is most comfortable in a role when it isn’t scaled heroically; even when he plays a bastard, he’s not a big bastard — only a callow, selfish one, like Hud. He can play what he’s not — a dumb lout. But you don’t believe it when he plays someone perverse or vicious, and the older he gets and the better you know him, the less you believe it. His likableness is infectious; nobody should ever be asked not to like Paul Newman.”

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