Since the corruption of absolute monarchs often facilitates their hedonistic license, revolutionaries tend to be moralistic; that's one of the strange themes to emerge from the history of radical leftism in post-1968 France — the most extreme and rigorous band of Maoists, who differed with the lot of ideologically diverse street protesters, turned out to be rigorously puritanical as well.
Since the corruption of absolute monarchs often facilitates their hedonistic license, revolutionaries tend to be moralistic; that's one of the strange themes to emerge from the history of radical leftism in post-1968 France—the most extreme and rigorous band of Maoists, who differed with the lot of ideologically diverse street protesters, turned out to be rigorously puritanical as well.
It's music that's easy to nod along to, but it also contains dark undercurrents gradually revealed with each listen in the same way Allison's visual art veils strange themes beneath bright, eye-stretching hues.
I felt the aesthetic made complete sense with the strange themes I had been obsessed with over the past couple of years..I was curious to see what my songs sounded like when synced with the images, which turned into a 2-day bender where I soundtracked the entire film, creating a weird collage of the ambient music I had made over the last 2 years.
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The installation is more like a stage set that has been opened for public tours, or even a strange, provocative theme park, in which visitors encounter a series of symbolic displays on the theme of modern life.
Strange Irish theme aside, these score highly on taste and value for money, and impress even chocolate sceptic Andrea.
He fixed on strange, fresh themes: skeletons, human grotesques, the carnival masks in his family shop.
In his best and most recent work, though (the novels "Remembering Babylon" and "The Conversations at Curlow Creek"), he goes beyond the stranger-in-a-strange-land theme to suggest with a few of his characters a beginning of wisdom, a rumor of reconciliation.
Performed on a strange jungle-themed set; part villain's lair, part bachelor shag pad, it was a fairly straight canter through the Canadian's many hits – though, in the frustrating style almost inevitable at hip-hop shows, many of them were truncated.
