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June 29, 2009
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But he wouldn’t drive for Cosallostra Pizza any other way. You know why? Because there’s something about having your life on the line. It’s like being a kamikaze pilot. Your mind is clear. Other people—store clerks, burger flippers, software engineers, the whole vocabulary of meaningless jobs that make up Life in America—other people just rely on plain old competition. Better flip your burgers or debug your subroutines faster and better than your high school classmate two blocks down the strip is flipping or debugging, because we’re in competition with those guys, and people notice these things.
June 27, 2009
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October 1, 2008
A Wall Street Journal Reporter’s E-Mail to Friends
One could argue that Iraq is already lost beyond salvation. For those of us on the ground it’s hard to imagine what if any thing could salvage it from its violent downward spiral. The genie of terrorism, chaos and mayhem has been unleashed onto this country as a result of American mistakes and it can’t be put back into a bottle.
The Iraqi government is talking about having elections in three months while half of the country remains a ‘no go zone’-out of the hands of the government and the Americans and out of reach of journalists. In the other half, the disenchanted population is too terrified to show up at polling stations. The Sunnis have already said they’d boycott elections, leaving the stage open for polarized government of Kurds and Shiites that will not be deemed as legitimate and will most certainly lead to civil war.
I asked a 28-year-old engineer if he and his family would participate in the Iraqi elections since it was the first time Iraqis could to some degree elect a leadership. His response summed it all: “Go and vote and risk being blown into pieces or followed by the insurgents and murdered for cooperating with the Americans? For what? To practice democracy? Are you joking?”
September 26, 2008
Rap gems from a film noir geek
The Ritz a duo with high style
By Andy Downing | Special to the Chicago Tribune September 26, 2008
Local rapper Apoc (born Patrick Felsenthal) of hip-hop duo the Ritz has an interest in film noir that borders on obsession. “I have over 200 of them in my collection,” says the MC, who attended a year of film school at Columbia College and routinely works at the Telluride and Sundance film festivals. “I’m drawn to them because there are no heroes. Nobody’s totally clean. Everybody has some dirt in their past.”
These seedier elements inform the recently released “The Night of Day,” an album awash in drugs, booze and women. “All things I do well,” jokes the rapper. Buoyed by dark, evocative beats courtesy of producer/bandmate Rel (Rory Miura), a certified black belt (his father is renowned karate instructor Miyuki Miura) with a knack for constructing club bangers, the album also makes smart use of vocal samples, drawing on classic film noirs like “The Big Sleep” and “Out of the Past.”
Despite the inherent strength of the music, there were moments when the MC wondered if the record would ever surface. Though recording was completed in late 2006, the album was caught in purgatory when a label deal fell through at the last minute. “We considered just releasing it digitally,” says Apoc, recounting the brainstorming session that followed the deal’s collapse. “But we never talked about shelving it. Once the label thing folded we decided we could do it ourselves better.”
In the interim, Apoc kept himself busy recording; the rapper says he has five full albums at or near completion.
Even though Apoc began composing his own songs at 13, it wasn’t until he was a freshman at York Community High School that he first rapped in front of a crowd, trading freestyles with friends in the school cafeteria. In those earlier days, the MC garnered frequent comparisons to the likes of Slug and Atmosphere—a trend he didn’t necessarily embrace. “At first I was like, ‘I’m my own [rapper]. I can’t hear it.’ But I see it now. It was derivative,” says the rapper. “That really pushed me to over-saturate myself with music. Now I’m more comfortable. I know the direction I want to go in.”
August 26, 2008
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August 11, 2008
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August 4, 2008
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