Mike Doughty can be corny at times, and he shifts from serious lyrics to goofy crap at the drop of a dime, but he catches those melodies and rhythms that please the human ear.
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15 Aug 2008
13 Aug 2008
Died Young, Stayed Pretty
This documentary about indie rock posters and the art behind them looks interesting.
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11 Aug 2008
Maus- Art Spiegelman
After playing the Indiana Jones Legos game on the Wii and seeing the triology box set of the movies, my eldest son has become interested in WWII and the Nazis as bad guys. That reminded me of the seminal graphic novel Maus by Art Spiegelman. Since the Nazis portrayed the Jews as vermin to be exterminated, Spiegelman draws the Jews as mice and Nazis as cats. This cat and mouse metaphor makes the reader comfortable with the very serious material using seemingly harmless animal comic characters, but it also creates many levels of meaning dealing with racial stereotypes, nationalistic identities, and the commonality of humanity.
