Word: subways
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sergei Ursulyak is a visually daring director, and his film features many arresting sequences. Misha meets a stunning mystery woman on his first night in Moscow and later encounters her again alone on the subway. Too dejected to speak, he stays in the car. The camera moves away with the car, filming the solitary woman until blackness engulfs...
Mary Lou Lord says she's finally letting go of the apron strings. Her first full-length album, set to hit stores in late January, will feature a greater proportion of the folksy-yet-punky original material that has become a fixture at the subway stations where she plays. After nine years of playing covers of other indie bands in prime commuter locations across Boston, the city's underground songstress is thrilled that she's finally getting the financial backup to explore her creativity in the studio. It feels good to know that others believe...
According to Lord, the five months she's spent in the studio have all but obliterated any uncertainty she may have had regarding the artistic feasibility of a studio recording of subway songs. She's done her time touring the country, made some friends and foes and brings less venomous alliances with her into the new effort: Stevie Nicks and Shawn Colvin sing backup up some of the tracks...
Colvin, in particular, has been incredibly supportive throughout Lord's progression from subway singer to indie artist. Lord refers to her as an "inspirator and guardian angel" and is psyched that Colvin has met with her own commercial success. "I've always felt that it's my mission in life to turn the world on to Shawn Colvin," she says. Lord calls Colvin's contribution to Got No Shadow "haunting," and remarks "It's very rare to love anything I do, but this...this is a beautiful record...
...sick of angry punks, rattling subways, and bricks (former governor Bill Weld '66 said the reason people don't look you in the eye in Cambridge is because they're trying not to trip on those treacherous brick walkways) then you need to get out of Harvard Square for a bit. Even a couple hours of respite will do wonders for your mind and body and give you a chance to clean out the soot from your lungs (I know Cambridge isn't L.A. but those old MBTA buses spew out their fair share of poisonous fumes). By getting...