Word: versions
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...stage show adaptation of the kiddie-cult Pokemon (Japlish for "Pocket Monsters") phenomenon has officially begun its year-long national tour at New York's Radio City Music Hall. Flying completely under critics' radar, and presented with zero irony, "Pokemon Live" reveals itself as the 21st century's version of "The Magic Flute...
...good as Mozart's final opera - not even close. But consider that "The Magic Flute" began as an 18th-century version of pop-culture entertainment just like "Pokemon Live." Furthermore, "The Magic Flute" gets its imagery from the Masons, a no less enigmatic cult than the Pokemon series of video games, television shows, movies and comic books. Both "Pokemon Live" and "Magic Flute" are deeply rooted in the iconography of their time...
...Though the sport involves a great deal of posing and strutting, the women seem to have bypassed the posturing lessons and gone straight for serious concentration. Their version of the sport avoids the theatrics of some of their male counterparts and cuts straight to business. Out of the dressing room and onto the stage, alone in the glare of the spotlights, they plant their feet, carefully place one talcum-powdered hand at a time onto the bar, focus on some distant spot and lift...
...believe that when I see it. It seems inevitable that if an extreme football league created by a wrestling maven is to be successful, the circus act element that defines pro wrestling will eclipse whatever actual playing is going on. Otherwise, you've essentially got a glorified version of the Arena Football League, which most casual fans aren't aware even exists...
...Experience CDs take the listener out on the road, into the studio and almost into the head of Hendrix: there's an early version of Hey Joe in which we hear him tell his producer to turn down the backing vocals; there's an instrumental called Slow Blues, which is billed as the last multitrack recording he ever made. The song cuts off suddenly and too soon, like Hendrix's life. It's fascinating to compare early versions of songs like Foxey Lady with the takes that became famous. Hendrix was a wild spirit onstage--sometimes playing guitar with...