http://www.thirdeyemag.com Using Creativity to Build Better Communities Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:03:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/loading-the-stone/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/loading-the-stone/#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:18:24 +0000 Caleb J. Ross http://www.thirdeyemag.com/?p=224 Right away, Loading the Stone doesn’t seem to be typical Depraved Press fodder. A non-fiction book about arrowheads buried in the Kansas Flint Hills feels misplaced, lacking the progressive political agenda for which Thirdeye is known. But like the subject matter in this, Harley Elliott’s twelfth book and first collection of non-fiction, there exists below the surface universal binds and shared histories from which the impetus of progression can be said to reside. [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/loading-the-stone/feed/ 1 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/angeldust-apocalypse/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/angeldust-apocalypse/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:56:57 +0000 Caleb J. Ross http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/angeldust-apocalypse/ Angeldust Apocalypse belongs to an emerging genre called Bizarro fiction, which holds disturbing imagery as one of its defining characteristics. I could focus on these often macabre situations in Angeldust Apocalypse — moments of human body modification, subcutaneous worm trafficking, corporate logo shaped scars — but to do just that would be doing this collection a severe disservice. [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/angeldust-apocalypse/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/film-review-the-cave-of-the-yellow-dog/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/film-review-the-cave-of-the-yellow-dog/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:22:16 +0000 Les Beldo http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/film-review-the-cave-of-the-yellow-dog/ When at its best, cinema transports its audience to another time and place, freeing the throngs of weary cubicle-dwellers from the throes of their everyday existence. A film usually does this in one of two ways: by providing a penetrating look at our own world that is somehow more real than the reality it portrays, or by offering entry into a fantasy realm—a world of imagination recognizable by virtue of its being unrecognizable. The Cave of the Yellow Dog, a genre-blurring docudrama about a real family scratching out a traditional existence on the desolate plains of Mongolia, does both.]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/film-review-the-cave-of-the-yellow-dog/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/skunk-a-love-story/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/skunk-a-love-story/#comments Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:58:31 +0000 Caleb J. Ross http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/skunk-a-love-story/ Skunk: A Love Story feels familiar. One can smell, if you will, a trace of recognition. Our antisocial yet romantic protagonist falls in love, suffers betrayal, adopts a simpler life, and learns a few lessons along the way – all while dealing with substance addition. While these broad events have been tasted before, Skunk does offer something distinctive: Damien Youngquist, an intelligent and socially crippled middle-aged office worker, is addicted to skunk musk. ]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/skunk-a-love-story/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/saul-williams/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/saul-williams/#comments Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:02:35 +0000 Paul Bickler http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/saul-williams/ Off the heels of Radiohead’s “pay what you want” digital distribution, Williams ups the ante, offering his latest album for free with the option to donate $5 to the artist. All this while being decidedly less established. After several tours, opening for Nine Inch Nails, Williams and NIN’s Trent Reznor hook up to collaborate on what can only be described as a monumental success in programming. [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/saul-williams/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/in-rainbows/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/in-rainbows/#comments Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:13:20 +0000 Paul Bickler http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/in-rainbows/ So here’s the thing. Whether you’re a fan of Radiohead or one of the few listeners who isn’t, it is absolutely, undeniably, without question that Thom Yorke and Co. have balls...big ones. The entire catalogue of Radiohead is soaked in dichotomy, [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/in-rainbows/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/the-dillinger-escape-plan/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/the-dillinger-escape-plan/#comments Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:02:24 +0000 Paul Bickler http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/the-dillinger-escape-plan/ With drummer Chris Pennie defecting to join prog, sci-fi rockers, Coheed and Cambria, TDEP’s return to the metal masses answers any concerns that they may be going the way of the buffalo. The album immediately launches into “Fix Your Face,” (featuring long-departed original vocalist Dimitri Minakakis) which chaotically swirls and slams into the drum blasts of “Lurch.” [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/the-dillinger-escape-plan/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/it-came-from-below-the-belt/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/it-came-from-below-the-belt/#comments Sat, 03 Nov 2007 19:22:56 +0000 Jeff Siwanowicz http://www.thirdeyemag.com/wordpress/2007/11/03/it-came-from-below-the-belt/ The bizarro world is a quickly growing literary genre. It's not that the storytelling style is new, it's simply catching on in the mainstream. The stories are not quite horror. Nor are they fantasy. In fact, many of the tales told in this subculture are flat out absurd. That's the whole point. They take place in worlds where anything goes and nothing is predictable. [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/it-came-from-below-the-belt/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/minus-the-bear/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/minus-the-bear/#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:26:19 +0000 Paul Bickler http://www.thirdeyemag.com/wordpress/2007/09/03/minus-the-bear/ Lost amongst the throngs of bands bubbling out of the greater Seattle area, MtB has consistently put out some of indie rock’s best records. Beautifully interlacing the indie songwriting spirit with subtle electronics, MtB has crafted a sound of their own amid a plethora of sound-a-likes. Despite the [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/minus-the-bear/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/aesop-rock/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/aesop-rock/#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2007 05:48:41 +0000 Paul Bickler http://www.thirdeyemag.com/wordpress/2007/09/03/aesop-rock/ Since 2001’s Labor Days, Long Island born and raised Ian Matthias Bavitz – under the AR moniker – exploded onto the underground hip-hop scene armed with razor-sharp, socially conscious prose. When you’re unofficially crowned the indie king of an entire genre, odds are [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/reviews/aesop-rock/feed/ 1