by John RossZAPATISTA VILLAGES BECOME HOT TOURIST DESTINATION AS SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS'S POPULARITY FALLS TO NEW LOWMEXICO CITY (Feb. 17th) - The commodification of the Zapatista movement recently reached absurdist heights with the New York Times designation of rebel villages in southeastern Chiapas as a hot budget tourist destination. "Chiapas Is Cheap! … [Read more...] about POLITICAL PERFORMANCE
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Someone’s in the Kitchen
by Drew Kime Shouldn't I have performance anxiety?Man, those cameras are big. Lights are pretty hot. Do they really need that many people in here? I've never done this in front of so many people before. Okay, here she comes. She's taller than I expected. She seems really confident, I can tell she's done this with hundreds of people. Hope she thinks I'm … [Read more...] about Someone’s in the Kitchen
Rejected Film Scores: An Interview with Dan Wool
In 1996 Pray for Rain composed a score for an Alex Cox film called "The Winner." The film was re-edited and the score removed by the producers against the director's wishes - and subsequently re-scored by another composer. Here is a 2008 email-interview with Dan Wool by author Hubai Gergely, about that experience, for an upcoming book about filmscore, Torn … [Read more...] about Rejected Film Scores: An Interview with Dan Wool