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Being the director of your own music school can have its positive results outside of work, especially if you front a band in your spare time. "I make music all day long with children and adults, and the enthusiasm from that energizes me to jam all night," says David Hall, who prefers to be addressed as Dirt when he's leading Dirt and Earthy Vibes. Hailing from Grapevine, Dirt and crew have been performing together since 2003, releasing a debut effort that same year. The band's varied sophomore release, Messages2Mine, released early last year, is the result of a more concerted effort. Boiled down from more than 40 songs, the extra work proved well worth it. Throwing together influences as diverse as Hendrix, Marley, Beck and Outkast, Dirt and Earthy Vibes succeeds with such a mixture when many bands would end up noodling their way to a deadhead nowhere.
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Plump, pregnant roses would be stripped from neighbours' bushes and brought to my back garden. It never amounted to much: one or two drips of rose oil for every velvety bulb, for every cubic litre of sweat, for every drop of blood from the thorns. The memory floods back to me in the perfume section of a Glasgow department store, familiar, like the faces on the walls. Sarah Jessica Parker pouts on one advertising board; on another, a dripping wet Gwen Stefani leaps from the bottle of her latest fragrance. "Might be the sweat from crushing all those roses," I think, but probably not. Celebrity fragrances form the fastest growing sector of the $2.9 billion (£1.42bn) perfume industry. Since 2004, their share of the market has soared by 2000%, and is now worth about £255 million in the UK alone.
TV Showman, Once Exiled, Returns With Video Site
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Sand, surf, and everything comes undone in Hong San-soo's Woman on the ...
Master of the beautifully modulated and devastatingly melancholy romantic farce, Korean director Hong Sang-soo has been a New York Film Festival fixture for most of the 21st century. Back in the day, he'd have been a familiar art-house presence as well, but Woman on the Beach is only his second movie to receive a theatrical run. Hong is nothing if not an auteur. There's a sense that the 47-year-old, American-educated filmmaker has been repeating himself since his first Korean hit, the wistful, dryly comic Turning Gate (2002). But then compulsive repetition is one of his major themes. In Turning Gate, a romantically maladroit out-of-work actor embarked on successive failed relationships with two self-possessed women; its follow-up, Woman Is the Future of Man (2005), somewhat inverted the triangle to have a pair of thirtysomething urban intellectuals searching for the woman each loved and lost; the self-reflexive Tale of Cinema (2006) offered a case study in male idiocy, focusing on a former film student who believes that his hapless love life has been appropriated as material by a more successful classmate.
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