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...things we can ever do. "Forgiveness doesn't come easily," says Piet Meiring, a professor of theology who was part of South Africa's postapartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission (trc). "You can't organize forgiveness and you can't force someone to forgive. Microwave-oven forgiveness - where you just pop something in and bing! - that will never last." Just take a look at the South African experience. The trc, a courtlike body open to victims and perpetrators of apartheid-era violence, held public hearings for more than two years in the mid-1990s. Intended as a compromise between...
...Alan Smithee Most videos in rotation on MTV are either promoting something else or desperately crying for attention. “Hold Me Down” manages to be neither—just a beautiful song with a beautiful video to match. Straying from your typical emo-pop-punk clip—which normally features a young TV starlet in an interweaving love story with the band’s homely frontman—the video is simply a well-filmed performance. Set in a vast open park with snow-capped mountains as a background, the group bundles...
...Montreal “Requiem of O.M.M.” Dir. Kirby McClure and Julia Grigorian Of Montreal’s psychedelic pop songs have always seemed to require psychotropic drugs for full enjoyment, and the same goes for their latest video, “Requiem for O.M.M.2.” Hallucinogenic drugs are necessary, despite the fact that the saccharine songs of the Athens, GA, indie-dance outfit sometimes seem geared toward six-year-olds, or at least those who are six at heart. And it’s not a bad commercial move either. Since Of Montreal?...
...Four” that we haven’t seen before stylistically. Here we find the same loose reverb and spacey harmonies, the same collages of cheesy Farfisa-type organ sounds, the same sometimes-baffling vocal lines that sound more like language-learning dictation exercises than pop hooks. This is an eclectic recipe that has worked for Stereolab before, producing 15 years of consistent and occasionally great music. “Fab Four” comes down solidly on the side of consistent. This is no “Dots and Loops” or “Emperor Tomato...
...prize as Most Canadian Non-Canadian to Live Outside of Canada.) While at art school in Vancouver in the 1990s, Case played drums in a couple punk outfits. Her upbeat alter ego from those days still surfaces regularly when she sings with the New Pornographers, Vancouver's indie pop-rock supergroup. And Case has also been in cahoots lately with Toronto twang-rockers, the Sadies, who share song-writing credit on a few Fox Confessor tracks and add instruments on a few more. Case's musical wanderings are no doubt part of what makes her talents so appealing...