Mix Tape – Lm :
Limited edition official mixtape released to celebrate Jim Jones’ upcoming new album, Pray IV Reign.
Track listing:
1. Trippin (feat. Laylee)
2. Shorty (feat. Noe & Rell)
3. Religion
4. Medicine (feat. Noe & Chink Santana)
5. Fast Money (feat. Mel Matrix & Sandman)
6. Uptown (feat. Rell)
7. Precious (feat. Ryan Leslie)
8. My Life (feat. Chink Santana & Noe)
9. Catch Up (feat. Oshy) Mix Tape – Lm
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The Guards (Jack Taylor) Ein überaus bemerkenswertes Buch, in dem der Autor Ken Bruen vor allem mit einem ausnehmend feinen Gespür für Charakterisierungen besticht, das den eigentlichen (durchaus spannenden) Plot beinahe in den Hintergrund rücken lässt. Der Fokus gilt dem “Helden” Jack Taylor, einen überaus selbstironischen als Privatdetektiv (und Alkoholiker) tätigen Ex-Polizisten mit einem Herz, dessen Größe letztlich nur von seiner Fragilität übertroffen wird. Gerade den Alkoholismus fängt Bruen feinsinnig und von jeglichem moralischen Zeigefinger befreit ein, ohne ihn seiner Brisanz und Destruktivität zu entkleiden. Das Buch liest sich – um einen amerikanischen Rezensenten zu zitieren – “like simultaneous gunshots to the head and the heart”.
Ich möchte auf die Story hier nicht groß eingehen, sie ist für nen Krimi solide, wichtiger erscheint mir der Stil des Romans, denn eine (dank der Konzentration auf Dialoge) derart mitreissende, dynamische Stakkato-Prosa ist mir nur sehr selten untergekommen. Die etwa 300 Seiten hatte ich binnen zwei Tagen durch (wobei man erwähnen muss, dass der Roman extrem viel buchstabenfreien Raum zwischen den oft nur ein oder zweiseitigen “Einzelkapiteln” lässt, 100 Seiten bei Bruen sind letztlich nicht viel mehr als ca. 60 bei “regulär” gelayouteten Büchern)
Das Großartige an The Guards liegt meines Erachtens nach darin, dass der Krimi praktisch vollständig auf einen Erzähler verzichtet, ohne stilistisch einer postmodernen Beliebigkeit zu verfallen. Es entspinnt sich eine durchaus ausgefeilte Story, die der Leser jedoch nur mittels permanenter Dialoge (und kleinerer innerer Monologe) rekonstruieren kann, die ihm (einen Sinn für schwarzen Humor vorausgesetzt) sowohl jede Menge Lachmuskulatur, als auch höchste Aufmerksamkeit abverlangen, es wird ihm nichts auf dem Silbertablett präsentiert.
Um den Stil Bruens zu demonstrieren habe ich als kleine Kostprobe einen (stilistisch repräsentativen) Textausschnitt ausgewählt, mit dem das Buch praktisch beginnt. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt ist Taylor noch ein kleiner (auf Verkehrssünder angesetzter) Straßencop. Darüber warum er es nicht lange war, lässt der Textausschnitt einiges erahnen…
My partner was a Roscommon man named Clancy. He’d an easygoing manner and seemed to ignore my drinking. I had a thermos of coffee, near bulletproof with brandy. It was going down easy.
Too easy.
We were having a slow duty. Word was out on our location. Drivers were suspiciously within the limit. Clancy sighed, said
“They’re onto us”
“Sure are”
Then a Mercedes blasted by. The clock hit thermo. Clany shouted
“Jaysus!”
I had the car in gear and we were off. Clancy, in the passenger seat, said
“Jack, slow down, I think we might forget this one”
“What?”
“The plate… see the plate?”
“Yeah, so what?”
“It’s government”
“It’s a bloody scandal”
I had the siren wailing, but it was a good ten minutes before the Merc pulled over. As I opened my door, Clancy grabbed my arm, said
“Bit o’ discretion, Jack”
“Yeah, right”
I rapped on the driver’s window. Took his time letting it down. The driver, a smirk in place, asked,
“Where’s the fire?”
“Get out”
Before he could respond, a man leaned over from the back, said
“What’s going on? “
I recognised him. A high profile TD. I said
“Your driver was behaving like a lunatic”
He asked
“Have you any idea who you’re talking to?”
“Yeah, the gobshite who screwed the nurses”
Clancy tried to run block, whispered
“Jeez, Jack, back off”
The TD was outta the car, coming at me. Indignation writ huge, he was shouting
“Yah brazen pup. I’ll have your job. Do you have any idea of what’s going to happen?”
I said
“I know exactly what’s going to happen”
And punched him in the mouth. : There’s something about the job that leads (fictional) cops and PIs to drink, which is why booze always seems to be a minor character in the genre. This is certainly the case in Ken Bruen’s debut thriller about melancholy Irishman Jack Taylor, whose luck at finding things keeps him in beer money after he’s kicked out of Ireland’s Garda Siochna. When the mother of a young suicide victim asks him to investigate her daughter’s death, Taylor discovers that Sarah Henderson isn’t the only teenager to take a long walk off a short Galway pier. His search for the perpetrator gets his best friend killed, destroys his nascent relationship with his client, and sets him up for a final betrayal few readers will see coming. This promising writer doesn’t need all the tricky punctuation and excess quotations from other writers to punch up his sharp, lyrical prose, but these are minor quibbles–he’s a newcomer to watch. –Jane Adams The Guards (Jack Taylor)
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Rumi: Persian Poet, Whirling Dervish Demi’s RUMI: WHIRLING DERVISH is also a winner, telling of a 13th century Afghani poet who became the great poet of all. From his early scholarship to his religious introspection, RUMI provides a fine survey of his life and poems. Both hold Demi’s signature drawings in full color. : Born in Afghanistan in the thirteenth century, Rumi settled in Turkey
and became a great mystical poet. Although he began his adult life
as a highly respected scholar, he found his true calling after being
mentored by a holy man, Shamsuddin. From “Shams,” he learned to listen
for the sacred sound of God within himself. When his creative spirit was
awakened, he recited more than 50,000 rhymed couplets. He also wrote
about the love that resides in the soul of everyone regardless of religion or
background. He founded the order of the whirling dervishes who believed
their spinning dances put them in touch with God and brought peace and
love into the world. Although Rumi died 800 years ago, his poems are more
widely read now than ever before. To honor the 800th anniversary of his
birth, the United Nations declared 2007 The Year of Mawlana Jalaladdin
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The Crossing Guard The Crossing Guard marked Sean Penn’s second outing as a writer and director. Even today, The Crossing Guard receives a cool reception from those who stumble upon it. While almost all agree that the film is not a masterpiece, some go so far as to say it’s not even a good film. It’s not perfect, it’s not a masterpiece, but I can’t tell you that The Crossing Guard is not a good film that proves Sean Penn is a true film director.
Jack Nicholson plays Freddy, an alcoholic jeweler whose daughter was killed some years ago by a drunk driver named John Booth (David Morse). Booth has recently been released from prison, moving into a trailer in his parent’s driveway and Freddy plans to kill him. Since the death of his daughter, Freddy has nothing. His ex-wife Mary (Anjelica Huston) has re-married and his two sons call him by his first name; his nights are spent drinking and socializing in a strip club. He’s hit rock bottom and has nothing worth holding on to. When Freddy finally attempts to kill Booth, he has gun troubles and tells Booth he has 3 days. Booth is still suffering from the guilt that he no longer fears his own mortality.
This synopsis makes the film sound like a cheap, conventional, and contrived thriller. There are parts of Penn’s story that are contrived, without a doubt…But this a strong, character-driven piece that allowed me to slightly overlook blemishes in the story.
The film is driven by Nicholson and Morse, two vastly contrasted performances, with Morse giving a subdued performance as Nicholson immerses himself into the character, once again crating a memorable character while essentially playing a variation on himself. The fact that Sean Penn is an actor greatly helps him get great performances out of his actors. 20 minutes in there is a scene between Nicholson and Huston (who had gone through a tumultuous breakup only a few years earlier) which seethes intensity. Quite late into the movie, they have yet another scene together and it’s easy to see both of them drawing from their personal history to get through the scenes correctly. While both Freddy and Booth are appropriately fleshed out, I felt that Penn didn’t fully flesh out Huston’s character and Jojo (Robin Wright), Booth’s love interest. They felt more like devices of the plot rather than actual characters.
I do find it funny to note (due to Penn’s famously hot temper) that, despite playing Booth’s love interest, there is not a single scene of Wright and Morse kissing.
Penn proves himself with this film that he’s a strong director and a strong writer, but he still hadn’t fully matured as one. His script is “good,” but would not have worked as a film without the cast he chose to populate the movie. The saddest thing about The Crossing Guard is that it’s not a great film, although it certainly had the potential to be just that. The contrived story, specifically the happy ending, is what killed it for me. In the end, I felt the film would’ve worked better as a grim story about revenge than a dark tale about redemption. There are great scenes in the film, but others that are just too forced and predictable to ignore…The paradox of Freddy in particular. I saw that coming from the very beginning of the film. The Crossing Guard has great performances, great direction, and is entertaining enough but it could’ve been so much more.
GRADE: B Disney: Academy Award(R)-winner Jack Nicholson (1997 Best Actor, AS GOOD AS IT GETS) drives this suspenseful, critically acclaimed action thriller about one man’s unquenchable thirst for revenge! For six agonizing years, Freddy Gale (Nicholson) has waited for John Booth (David Morse, THE NEGOTIATOR), the man jailed for a crime that destroyed Freddy’s life. Now, Booth is out of prison and Freddy’s giving him three days before he returns … to even the score! Directed by Sean Penn and starring Academy Award(R)-winner Anjelica Huston (1985 Best Supporting Actress, PRIZZI’S HONOR) and sexy Robin Wright (MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE), THE CROSSING GUARD is an intense, emotionally charged thriller that delivers! Sean Penn wrote and directed this character-driven drama about a divorced couple (Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston) whose relationship never recovered following the death of their daughter at the hands of a drunk driver (David Morse). When the latter’s character, a deeply regretful and changed man, gets out of jail, Nicholson, as the vengeful dad, decides to go after him. As a director, Penn is not so good with fluid storytelling and camera clichés, but he is amazing as an actor’s director. The onscreen reteaming of former real-life lovers Nicholson and Huston is more than just a voyeuristic exercise: Penn ingeniously uses the duo’s palpable friction to bring an often horrifying reality to the pain of a dead relationship. –Tom Keogh
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