"A massacre is taking place".
Taking place on one of the closest private ranches to Mt. Hood, the vibe is set with awe-inspiring mountain views, a perpetually cool forest, and of course the other-worldly immersive environments the festival has become known for.
Brooks has chosen to have his story take place "perpetually in the current moment, the early twenty-first century," and this allows him to show how Harold and Erica deal with the world we live in now, with its customs, literature, technology, politics and morality.
Over in the US, the agenda for the final month of summer freedom included Caribou for Summerstage and Jamie XX for Verboten: two events that took place in the perpetually too-cool Lower East Side and the relatively too-cool Williamsburg, respectively, providing endless hours, in both cases, of blaring music and East River vistas.
The agenda for the final month of summer freedom included Caribou for Summerstage and Jamie XX for Verboten: two events that took place in the perpetually too-cool Lower East Side and the relatively too-cool Williamsburg, respectively, providing endless hours, in both cases, of blaring music and East River vistas.
Though set in a Taipei whose modern gleam is perpetually cloaked in mist and smog, "The Personals" could take place in any city whose residents have purchased material comfort and personal freedom at the cost of loneliness and anomie.
Just as one's dreams converge on the same situations (the pop quiz, the dentist's office), so "Star Wars" seems to take place in a dream world in which old friends are perpetually reuniting and nobody can find his or her parents.
They act as apt metaphors for urban decay; from her sculpture of the bankrupt and perpetually recovering city of Detroit, to the skyline of the overwhelmingly expensive city of London, the "melting" processes that take place look almost deliberate in their own natural decompositions.
Sexual intercourse took place".
A transformation takes place.
