(Sisario) ★ BLACK MOUNTAIN, BON IVER (Friday) The squally Canadian group Black Mountain plays 1970s-influenced harockock at its most digressive, by turns ominous and bucolic.
At 9 p.m., Blender Theater at Gramercy, 127 East 23rd Street, Manhattan, (212) 307-7171; $20. (Sisario) BLACK MOUNTAIN (Wednesday and Thursday) This squally Canadian band plays 1970s-influenced harockock at its most digressive, by turns ominous and bucolic.
"Malone Dies" and "The Unnamable" are propelled by amusingly digressive stories told by parodically self-conscious narrators who claim to be physically powerless, possibly near death, but who elude fixed definition in fascinating ways.
Let's begin with Governor Rick Perry, of Texas, who gave a speech in Manchester, New Hampshire, that was so obscurely digressive, so marked by airy hand gestures and slurry intonations that it was as if Foster Brooks were playing a character called Rick Perry.
The book is a long, digressive journey that by the end of the trilogy will attempt to answer the question, "Just how did Peter meet Captain Hook, anyway?" That question, the legend goes, was asked by Mr. Pearson's 5-year-old daughter, Paige, one evening after listening to her nightly installment of "Peter Pan".
In Hiroshima he wrote his first novel, inspired by The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, a digressive 11th-century diary by a lady-in-waiting at the court.
Shawn's style is marked by long, digressive monologues, little dialogue, and even less action.
At the heart of the debate was a pointed belief that jazz had been stretched to its limits, or somehow diluted, by the digressive forces of free jazz and fusion.
Taking Ibn Battutah's lead, Mackintosh-Smith responds to the complexity of India by being digressive and nonlinear.
"The Diviner's Tale" is vividly imagined and carefully plotted, but it is also — sentence by sentence, page by page, chapter by slow chapter — oddly dilatory, digressive in ways that can't always be justified by the heroine's emotional confusion.
Directed by Michael Winterbottom and written by Frank Cottrell Boyce, the picture is digressive rather than discursive -- an illustrated history as related by Mr. Wilson.
