There’s a remarkable sustained energy to this collection; its electronic textures thrum and shimmy, and wall after sonic wall is built up and torn down with impeccable precision. But there’s an odd tension throughout; Murphy sounds both all-in and like he’s keeping one eye on the exit—in no small part, surely, because he intends this album to be LCD Soundsystem’s last.
Jonathan Demme To Turn Dave Eggers Hurricane Katrina Story Into Animated Film
Zeitoun is a non-fiction story written by Dave Eggers about a Syrian-American resident of New Orleans named Abdulrahman Zeitoun. When Hurricane Katrina struck, the Zeitoun family stayed in the city, and Abdulrahman paddled through the flooded streets in a canoe, offering help and supplies to fellow residents in need. But days after the storm hit, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared, and his family eventually discovered that he had been arrested without a trial. Eggers spent three years researching and writing this book, which chronicles what happened to Zeitoun in the context of the political and cultural atmosphere of New Orleans and the U.S. in the aftermath of Katrina.
Inspired by the cover art, a line drawing of Zeitoun in his canoe, Demme told the New York Times that he wanted to create Zeitoun in a hand-drawn animated style…No word yet if Eggers will pen the script.
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ReSTART Internet Addiction Center Opens in Seattle
ReSTART, the world’s first internet-addiction residential treatment program, opened recently in Redmond, Wash. (ironically enough, the neighborhood where Microsoft was founded). The center offers a 45-day, $14,000 rehabilitation course that promises to help addicts ease dependencies on social networking, online video games, texting and a host of other technological time-wasters.
Individuals who enter the program will go cold-turkey on technology as a way of helping them overcome their compulsive need to blog and game, in addition to receiving psychotherapy and counseling. It’s easy to raise an eyebrow at the notion of physical or psychological addiction to leisure-time activities, but there’s evidence that these kinds of addictions can destroy relationships, end careers and even result in death.
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Dear Tumblrs… there’s help if you want it.
