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The backwards birthday party
At the backwards birthday party, a donkey pins the tail on the guests, the ice cream is hot, and the candles are not.
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Chicago Tribune Howard Reich column
Among them: highflying duo passages for Maxwell's saxophone/flute and Victor Garcia's trumpet; serpentine ostinatos for Matt Nelson's piano and electronic keyboard; ample room for Junius Paul to stretch out on acoustic and electric bass (especially the latter).
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Planting Seeds
Cave's music has been known as accompaniment to scenes of self-destruction in films such as Richard Lowenstein's Dogs in Space, end-of-the-century desolation and decadence, as in Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire, or just plain depression, as in Shrek2 directed by Andrew Adamson, Conrad Vernon and Kelly Asbury. This chapter demonstrates Cave's spectacularly unlikely' words and rhymes become an incisive language of laughter' when put back in the Australian postcolonial context. In arguing that Cave was a chthonic' songwriter, Forster brought Cave to the attention of a wider Australian public, a public not necessarily looking for a serious artist in the guise of a rock and roll star. The seriousness of English poetry and its claims for attention in a culture of death' are humorously critiqued on Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus. Nick Cave also transforms this tradition by taking some of the persistent earnestness and elitism out of it: giving it hilarity and levity as well as dignity and gravitas.
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HSI-MEN CH’ING OBSERVES A BIRTHDAY IN THE EASTERN CAPITAL; SQUIRE MIAO FROM YANG-CHOU SENDS A PRESENT OF SINGING BOYS
The story goes that after Doctor Jen had palpated Li P’ing-erh’s pulse, he returned to the reception hall and sat down.4
Hsi-men Ch’ing then initiated the consultation by saying, “I do not know what your interpretation of her symptoms might be. Is it nothing to be worried about?”
“This illness of your wife’s,” said Doctor Jen, “is the result of inadequate care in the treatment of her postpartum conditions. That is the etiology of her ailment. At present, she is suffering from lochiorrhea, her complexion is sallow, she has an indifferent appetite, and she is easily fatigued. In your pupil’s
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