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ASPHALT TANGO
PRINCES AMONG MEN/various: A fatly tracked companion set to a book about Balkan gypsy music, this wonderfully offbeat collection serves up a dancy, bouncy, sparkling for jaded world beat ears. So densely packed with so much good music, the collection has a visceral, visual feel that’s sure to really please the open eared. The kind of set that’s purely ethnic without being too ethnic, it welcomes listeners looking for a new experience with open arms. Fun stuff for when you really need a first-class diversion
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MICHAEL BLOOM MEDIA RELATIONS
JOAN JEANRENAUD/Strange Toys: One of the ferociously singular talents of our time, the woman who brought a punk attitude to classical music, continues to break new ground by coming out with her first album of her own compositions. After a career of forging her way as the first lady of the cello by bringing attention to other people’s works, she has leisurely recorded and composed this set of her own making that finds her using the studio as an instrument as well as her cello and other artifacts and methods to go well beyond the pale of what you might expect at this point in her career. Anyone who’s followed her work up to now can’t go wrong by continuing to stay the course. This is one seriously wild set the open eared are sure to appreciate.
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DVD SUPPLEMENT
PARAMOUNT/COMEDY CENTRAL
TV FUNHOUSE: TV Funhouse, the place where no holds are barred; where Robert Goulet can marry a chimp, and animals can eat their own poop, and pandas explode. You first got a taste of it on Saturday Night Live and that taste went over the top when Comedy Central gave the TV Funhouse gang of freehand to go wild and create, create, create. There is comedy and then there’s comedy but enough people like comedy with that edge that goes slightly beyond the edge and this is the kind of stuff that provides water cooler talk for them the next day. Nice collection of over-the-top fun that leaves you wanting more because this is one of those things were too much of a good thing just isn’t enough.
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RENO 911 Complete Fifth Season: Comedy Central might be the home of South Park but this insane take on cop reality shows is the channel’s number one show. Making the most of that status, the fifth season finds it chock full of guest stars, nutty situations and the crazy kind of stuff that makes you shake your head and wonder did they just do that. At the kind of stopping point were a lot of shows begin to jump the shark, Reno 911 seems to be picking up even more steam and putting itself in position to deliver even more laughs. Once again it delivers the kick in the pants that reality TV so sorely needs. Check it out, laugh it up.
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PARAMOUNT/SPIKE
MANSWERS Best of Season One: It looks like one of the things video is going to have us kiss goodbye is the glorious bathroom book. It these times when guys need somewhere to turn as an antidote to the Oprahization of America, Manswers is the latest in a long line of places where the perplexed, contemporary male can turn for guidance. Somewhat funky and tongue-in-cheek and somewhat based in reality, this show provides more than enough good laughs along with things to think about under the radar. With Jimmy Kimmel having moved on to greener pastures, this is a good place for a young man to turn to for answers (wink wink).
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Volume 31/Number 259
July 16, 2008
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