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...considers lobby group GetUp "a gathering of the converted," but it's an e-gathering with punch. In two years it's amassed 211,000 members. Members sign petitions, write letters and donate: earlier this year, GetUp raised $250,000 in 72 hours for a TV ad campaign. And this week the group will launch howshouldivote.com.au, offering an online survey to match voters with the candidate who best suits their views. "We see our role as reducing the space between citizens and the people who want to represent them," says executive director Brett Solomon, who calls members "progressive" rather than...
...mixed and mastered nearly as well as vintage AC/DC; it sounds loud at nearly every volume level.Sure, a lot of “Rock N Roll” is shitty, but the same goes for the genre. Adams’ habit of simultaneously embracing volatile extremes leads him to write an incisive lyric in one verse and a terrible one the next. “Wish You Were Here” starts with the wonderfully evocative line “Cotton candy and a rotten mouth,” then devolves into boring rain imagery and whining...
...senior thesis on James Joyce can indeed pay real-world dividends.A wise teaching fellow once told me that the goal of analyzing literature is to do the opposite of the work itself: if the book is simple, use your argument to complicate it, and if the book is complex, write about it in the simplest terms possible. Like Joyce, modern classical music, with its clashing harmonies and deliberately inscrutable structure, has become a locus for dissent between intellectual elites and the hoi polloi. You either get it or you don’t, the conventional wisdom says, and neither side...
...time to work [the plot] together into something very condensed. I felt I was taking the reader to the edge; I might have gone farther than I realised.” Though Høeg may have had a decade to write the novel, now available in English thanks to a translation by Nadia Christensen, we unfortunately do not have as much time to decode it. The concept of an implicit criticism of the fast-paced world of today through an intricate plot is meritorious, but neither Høeg’s plot, nor his characters, nor even...
Before sitting down to write this column, the final edition of Around the Ivies stamped with my goofy mug (online readers, you’ll have to trust me), I watched Jeopardy! and put on sweats. But before that, I brainstormed, “What’s something special I can do to mark this last go-round?” I considered sending a coded message with the first letter of every paragraph, or peppering the prose with phrases in Spanish, or letting my 14-year-old sister write it to see if anyone would notice...