The Oberlin Review
<< Front page Arts September 9, 2005

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>> Blair Tindall spins a surprisingly choice memoir for a promiscuous, freelancing oboist turned sought-after journalist. Sliced with her take on the classical music world, Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music reverses the stuffy classical musician stereotype. At age 16, Tindall was a serious music student at the prestigious North Carolina School of the Arts with a few enjoyable extracurriculars — namely, dealing marijuana and bedding her instructors. In Manhattan, Tindall’s career grew quickly by being “hired for so many of my gigs in bed” amidst the professional musician’s world of spontaneous cocaine get-togethers. Such trashy personal memoirs shock readers into looking past the onstage glamour of the concert hall. Blair Tindall writes effortlessly and offers a biting, but highly readable perspective on the classical music world.

>> googlewhack: when two words are entered on www.google.com and it returns one and only one hit.

UK-based comedian Dave Gorman presents his international smash hit at the Playhouse Square Center in Cleveland. Titled Googlewhack Adventure, the show takes the audience to the most remote corners of the Internet. Wanting to do anything to save his job, Gorman risks losing his sanity on Googlewhacking, an online game.

Gorman travels the globe at triple speed, leaving all surprises cleanly tucked away until the last millisecond. Hilarity ensues with a Bostonian nine-year-old ping pong champ, snake encounters too close for comfort in sunny California and cab drivers in North Wales. Audiences will roll from Ohio to Hawaii laughing. Tickets: (216) 771-4444

>> Let’s be honest: Bob Dylan is no Leonardo DiCaprio. While this statement may seem obvious, it takes on more meaning once you consider that Martin Scorsese (the mastermind behind recent DiCaprio vehicles such as The Aviator) supports Dylan’s most recent foray into digital media, No Direction Home. The DVD, slated for a Sept. 20 release, contains accoutrements not present during the PBS screening of the movie on Sept. 26 and 27.

No Direction Home promises to be a biographical account of Dylan’s life, complete with previously unseen footage, interviews and live performances. The soundtrack to the DVD is already available in stores, and publishers Simon and Schuster plan to roll out The Bob Dylan Scrapbook 1956-1966 on Oct. 1.

This multi-faceted media dump can only mean one thing: Bob Dylan is going to kick the bucket. Soon. So do yourself a favor and tune in to this multimedia orgasm of Dylan love. Ibet you it will be better than Gangs of New York.
 
 

   


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