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| Zola Jesus’ songs grounded in philosophy - madison Posted: 02 Mar 2010 05:19 AM PST Of the up-and-coming musicians in Madison right now, Nika Roza Danilova is moving quickly to wider acclaim, getting frequent praise from Pitchfork and the national experimental music community alike. The opera-trained 20-year-old sings both solo and with a backing band under the name Zola Jesus, a nickname she gave herself as a teenager growing up in Wausau. Last year, Zola Jesus played just one showcase at South by Southwest in Austin. This year, the band is scheduled to play every night of the five-day music festival. Zola Jesus shows are short; Danilova wants to leave people wanting more. Her voice is ethereal and powerful, but it's cased in lots of noise and sludge and needs time to soak in. Despite her raw performances, she keeps her recording sessions private. Like all of her albums, she made her latest, the six-song EP "Stridulum," alone in her bedroom. It's her seventh recording overall and third release with the New York City-based label Sacred Bones. Named after an abstract 1979 Italian film, "Stridulum" is cleaner and more polished than her previous lo-fi material. She's celebrating the release with a show on Saturday at The Project Lodge. Danilova has intense drive: she finished high school in three years and is finishing up an undergraduate degree in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison while traveling to gigs on the weekend. After she graduates in August, she's moving to Los Angeles to live with her boyfriend and continue her music career. Zola Jesus is even attracting an international following. Last week, she performed at a fashion show in Milan for the Greek designer Angelos Frentzos, who said her music inspired his latest clothing line. She spoke with 77 Square on the phone from a bus en route to Chicago to catch her flight to Milan. Have you seen any of Angelos Frentzos' collection? I haven't yet. I'm very curious. He has a lot of men's wear, and my male friends say that they really like his clothing. Both you and Lady Gaga share the same influence: German experimental pop singer Klaus Nomi. Really? Wow, that makes me respect Lady Gaga a whole lot more. For me, it's almost like, "Aw, she beat me to it." She's doing the things I've been wanting to do for my whole life. You know, she's got this amazing aesthetic, but her music isn't ever as good as her aesthetic is. Sometimes her songs are a little too Eurotrash. But she's a performer and she's amazing. She's finally breathing fresh air into mainstream music. "Bad Romance" is so epic. What was your first concert? Britney Spears at Summerfest. I must've been ten, nine. It was really surreal because I was, like, so far away from her. It didn't seem like she was really there. She was like a little Polly Pocket, you know, one of those little dolls. How have you rejected or revised your beliefs since you started studying philosophy and how is it reflected in your music? When I was in high school, I really liked this philosopher (Arthur) Schopenhauer, which I still do. He believes that you need to suffer your whole entire life, that there's no reason to have enjoyment. I didn't believe in sexuality, I didn't believe in anything that could bring me pleasure because I didn't believe that I deserved it as a human being. Just actually very recently, when I did finally fall in love with someone, I realized that it's something hard to ask of a human to have them refuse to fall in love. My last record, I was still in that sense of having to suffer — it's very harsh, very cold, sad and melancholy. My new record is the same way, but it's lot more of a relief. So, pain for pain's sake versus cathartic pain? Yeah. It was cathartic before, but now the mood is different. It's a lot more optimistic. We're still suffering, but I'm suffering with someone else. It's a lot more of a team, "Let's get through this together," than "I'm just alone in the world." How does performing live change the dynamic of the music you recorded solo? It's really weird, especially now that I have live drums, because that really cold, rigid drumbeat I used to have from the drum machine is now human and dynamic. The songs can grow a lot more because the members of the band are so talented. (Recording) is a really personal process. The inception is very vulnerable. When I'm on stage, I'm in a whole other world. How have you been received in L.A. when you've performed there? People love it. It's funny, though, they kind of think I'm a little exotic because I'm a Midwestern girl. There's this mentality there of "Let's just hang out, relax" and I'm such, like, "Gotta go! On the go! We gotta do something!" There was that disconnect, but I think they thought it was endearing. What will you miss about Madison? Even though I hate winter — it goes back to the whole suffering thing — it makes me feel like I'm achieving something by suffering. IF YOU GO What: Zola Jesus, with Julian Lynch and Sonmi When: Saturday, March 6, 7:30 p.m. Where: The Project Lodge, 817 E. Johnson St. Cost: Tickets are $7, available at sinequanonlive.com Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Muhlenberg's 'The Other Shore' a stunning pageant of movement, music ... - Allentown Morning Call Posted: 02 Mar 2010 05:19 AM PST James Peck's stunning production of ''The Other Shore'' last weekend at Muhlenberg College was a unique theatrical work filled with wonder, surprise and at times, almost savage physicality. A collaboration between Peck, Muhlenberg choreographer Karen Dearborn and Muhlenberg composer and percussionist Douglas Ovens, ''The Other Shore'' was an extraordinary pageant of movement, raw emotional images and theatrical acrobatics. It transformed the Black Box Studio into a vortex of writhing bodies, all swimming with relentless ambition to reach the mythical other shore. The visuals were enhanced by Ovens' haunting and, at times, whimsical score. As performed by Ovens (keyboard and percussion), Betty Tang (cello) and Susan Charlton (flute), the music propeled the audience on a journey into a strange new landscape. The play was written by Chinese political refugee Gao Xingjian as a protest about the subjugation of the Chinese people by the government. At times the production became a brutal dance piece about an individual's desperate struggle for survival. Peck created many dramatic ways to illustrate Gao's thoughts. One of the most sophisticated and dramatic was a rope game played by Troy Dwyer with the rest of the ensemble. Dwyer used ropes as symbols of bondage and freedom and showed how these bonds can create relationships or isolate people. As Dwyer hurled out the coils of white ropes, the ensemble performed mesmerizing dances. While this was an ensemble piece, there were many standout moments, such as Rebecca Patterson's impassioned performance as an emboldened leader threatening the solidarity of group life by encouraging learning and the meaning of ''me'' and ''you.'' Sadly this exercise ends in a dance of survival, tragedy and savage vengeance. Peter Smith, Elle Barks and Monique St. Cyr also stood out in mesmerizing solos. One of the most exotic scenes involved a death cart filled with a jumble of bodies that were slowly revived by a puppet master into robotic dancers. Christopher Sczerbienski's lighting designs added to the enigma and the richness of the play's emotional insights. Myra Yellin Outwater is a freelance writer. Jodi Duckett, editor 610-820-6704 Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bezzitos.Com Launches a Re-Designed Website - PR.com Posted: 02 Mar 2010 01:33 PM PST San Francisco, CA, March 02, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Bezzitos.Com, the premier online retalier of fine quality shapewear and body shapers, recently launched a brand new, multi-language website focused on customers and ease of use. The updated Bezzitos.Com offers visitors an in-depth collection of shapeware with detailed descriptions and a wealth of images. The site also includes the addition of several new pages offering News, Articles and Educational Information on the latest models and trends within the shapeware industry. The website redesign goal was to really give customers an understanding of what a shapeware garments bring to their daily lives. At the same time, Bezzitos.com revealed an expanded collection of shapewear garments, including shaping jeans, powernet girdles and post-surgical body shapers. As always, these classy and unique designs are cut from quality materials and tailored to boast your best assets while minimizing trouble areas. All of Bezzitos' shapewear is available in a variety of colors, fabrics, styles and brands making it even easier to find the most fitting and flattering outfit for any occasion. Bezzitos.com carries one of the largest selections of women's body shaping products on the internet and because they only offer shapewear, their staff is thoroughly familiar with the garments and can help customers with their specific needs. The Bezzitos.com team is dedicated to providing the most up-to-date high quality products at competitive prices while also maintaining the most comfortable, simple and secure online shopping experience possible. The philosophy, "the customer is always first" is paramount in their daily operation and only helps to augment their already strong reputation for friendly, top-notch customer service. ### Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stocks Value Investing Legends Are Buying - Motley Fool Posted: 02 Mar 2010 12:00 PM PST Recs 4Scraping together enough coin to win the annual luncheon auction with Warren Buffett is probably beyond the means of most investors. With the proceeds going to benefit charity, last year's winning bidder forked over $1.68 million for the privilege. But many investors would love the chance to chow down with Buffett and pick his brain on his investment philosophy and stocks he's considering buying. The same could probably be said for many other value investing legends, too.
Feast or famine
Obviously, there are a few caveats with a strategy of piggybacking on the masters.
Contrary to popular opinion
Jean-Marie Eveillard's investing philosophy employs bottom-up fundamental analysis, broad diversification, and a long-term mindset. It can perhaps best be summed up by The First Eagle Funds core values:
Fund: First Eagle Investment Management Unlike some of the investing legends we've looked at, Eveillard's portfolio is highly diversified adding dozens of new positions at a time, but you can look at some of his best ideas below. These five companies represent completely new additions to his portfolio at the time of the filing and were some of the largest purchases relative to the size of the portfolio.
Source: SEC Filings. Naturally, we want you to look a bit closer at these stocks before buying. You can get low-priced appliances in the dent-and-ding section of your home-remodeling superstore, but their quality might not be so good. Same thing here: Make sure there's nothing seriously wrong with the company before you plug it into your own portfolio.
Price is what you pay
Considering he's not a fan of Fed chairman Ben Bernanke or his inflationary monetary policies, this isn't so surprising. Eveillard hews to the line of the late economist Peter Bernstein, that gold is "insurance against extreme outcomes." Bernanke now, but also Alan Greenspan before him, is leading us toward such extremes. You probably won't find any argument from CAPS member bottomtroll, who sees Northgate Minerals as being a key component of any investor's arsenal:
Value is what you get
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