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    Spoon: Girls Can Tell
    This is a great, understated album that merits repeated plays. Spoon have made a literate, rocking, breakthrough record that occupies a funny place--the songs are not unconventional, per se, yet they're somehow really special. Girls Can Tell displays the emotional resonance and big rock power of, say, Thin Lizzy and Mott the Hoople; the sonically referential, indie-rock smarts of a band like Versus; and amazing hooks that recall Colin Blunstone of the Zombies. Like Jennyanykind, Moviola, and the Lilys, this Austin, Texas, trio has chosen to work on perfecting their craft without paying much heed to mainstream or trends. In spite of (but mostly because of) wrenching breakup-centered lyrical material delivered in a very real, matter-of-fact way, Girls Can Tell is one of those life-affirming pop albums you know you'll return to in years to come. --Mike McGonigal (*****)

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  • Michael Hardt: Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

    Michael Hardt: Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
    Empire (2000)—the surprise hit that made its term for U.S global hegemony stick and presciently set the agenda for post–9/11 political theory on the left—was written by this same somewhat unlikely duo: Hardt, an American political scientist at Duke University, and Negri, a former Italian parliament member and political exile, trained political scientist and sometime inmate of Rome's Rebibbia prison. This book follows up on Empire's promise of imagining a full-blown global democracy. Though the authors admit that they can't provide the final means for bringing that entity about (or the forms for maintaining it), the book is rich in ideas and agitational ends. The "multitude" is Hardt and Negri's term for the earth's six billion increasingly networked citizens, an enormous potential force for "the destruction of sovereignty in favor of democracy." The middle section on the nature of that multitude is bookended by two others. The first describes the situation in which the multitude finds itself: "permanent war." The last grounds demands for and historical precursors of global democracy. Written for activists to provide a solid goal (with digressions into history and theory) toward which protest actions might move, this timely book brings together myriad loose strands of far left thinking with clarity, measured reasoning and humor, major accomplishments in and of themselves. (****)

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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

The Happy Shopper: Jennifer Herrema, Rock Star

Jennifer_herremaWhenever we of Wit see Herrema we must pause, agog, and marvel at the fashion greatness.

1) What was the last electrical appliance you bought?
ANOTHER AIR PURIFIER

2) How many shoes do you own?
10 PAIRS OF HIGH TOPS
7 PAIRS OF PUMPS
32 PAIRS OF BOOTS

3) Thinking about only what you are wearing now and including your watch, jewelry and glasses if you wear them, how much would it cost me to get dressed up just like you? And where would I have to go to get the look
POWELL PERALTA – CABALLERO / BONES BRIGADE T-SHIRT….. $4.99 SAN DIEGO SALVATION ARMY
VOLCOM STRIPED BAJA HOODIE….... $65.00 FROG HOUSE NEWPORT BEACH
VINTAGE BLACK LEVIS CORDS….....DON’T KNOW, DON’T KNOW
BLACK NORTH FACE DOWN VEST…..... $180 NORTH FACE BERKLEY
CHARLIE ONE HORSE SNAKE SKIN BOOTS…....$250 TIJUANA MEXICO
IT’S KINDA COLD TODAY SO THE SHIT IS HEAVIER AN COST MORE CASH TODAY SOOO….TODAY IT COST U MAYBE $500

4) What are you going to be eating for dinner tonight?
FISH TACOOOOS!

5) What is the most you have ever spent on a bottle of wine or other alcoholic beverage and when and where was it?
RUSSIAN STOLICHNAYA ELIT $60 ON THE FERRY TO NORWAY

6) What and where is your favorite shop?
I DON’T KNOW

7) How do you get around town?
WALK,BIKE,SKATE,DRIVE

8) Where is your favorite place to holiday?
BAJA

Link: outsideleft: Happy Shopper #11: Jennifer Herrema.

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