Wednesday, January 20, 1999

Will Work for Food

Corporate recruiting is at its best slightly fun, but generally pretty wretched. Imagine a college interview administered by the Marquis de Sade and you'll get some kind of an idea.

Dazed, Confused, and Cold: Hanover Teens

I was in Lebanon District Court earlier this year to contest a parking violation, and so was slated to appear before the judge on the same day as a host of other semi-professional criminals.

Beer and Loathing in New Jersey: Earth Crisis in Concert

Karl Buechner is not one of these musicians. Lead singer of veteran vegan straightedge band Earth Crisis and lyricist of the above song chorus, Buechner explains, "We're not writing pop songs. We have no interest in that. We are into aggressive powerful music...with a message."

Jackson Pollock: 'Superstar'

How nice it used to be, to discover Jackson Pollock through the Modern's permanent collection, now temporarily disassembled. The collection presented a seamless artistic narrative, Cezanne to Picasso to Pollock, the anxiety, fragmentation, and demolition of pictorial space.

Rules of Attraction: Ram Murali Reviews 'Glamorama'

Bret Easton Ellis is the self-appointed poet laureate of the shallow. His novels deal with the world of the beautiful and damned, those bright sparks who manage to be in seventy magazines at once without having any kind of talent or intelligence, people who name-drop and whose names are dropped.

Memoir: Schooled By Stalin

Mornings in Leningrad could always be counted on for their gray skies, the kind of industrial gray that was oppresively ubiqitous, eliminating any kind of sunlight. Everyday at about 7 am, I, along with thousands of other schoolchildren awoke to this dreary sight.

Backstreet with Liz and Courtney: Investigation Into the 'Boy Bands'

Both Backstreet and N 'Sync are cookie-cutter boy groups that contain as many cliches as the latest big summer blockbuster at your local multiplex. They both have the magic number of five members (just like the New Kids). Also, all the "boyz" thank God "first and foremost" for being blessed with the "talent" that he has given them.