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| Roight then, I'm guessing some of you clicked on this link anticipating seeing naughty pictures of me. Well, you should know by now -- assuming you've looked at the first two links above this one -- that things aren't quite what they seem in Dante's realm. By this point in the tour, you should have known better, so the lady at the front desk will not be giving full refunds at this point. (See 'I Saw the Sign' if that went whooshing over your head.) So, you are no doubt asking, what will I find on this page? Well I'm glad you asked. Herein you will find the hobbies, interests, and other suchlike and whatnot of Dante. (Is it just plain weird that I refer to myself in the third person by name? We're going to be getting a government grant of $10,000,000 for the express purpose to study this oddness.) Read on ... |
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| Nick Cave is an Australian singer-songwriter. Stylistically, his music is very quirky and idiosyncratic, with dark overtones. The majority of the songs that Cave has written and performed are love songs, which Cave has said must inherently be sad songs, as they are an expression of longing. By his own words, he reached an artistic apex with 1996's "Murder Ballads," on which each song is about one or more murders. Suprisingly, Cave is a very spiritual man, as evinced in his lectures "The Secret Life of the Love Song" and "The Flesh Made Word." Click on his picture to visit the official Nick Cave website. |
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| Stephen Sondheim is a composer and lyricist of musicals. Widely regarded as the pre-eminent artist of musical theatre, Sondheim's shows are often complex explorations of human nature, while still being highly entertaining works. His scores include "Company," an exploration of marriage, "Passion," an exploration of love, "Sunday in the Park with George," (for which he won a Pulitzer Prize) an exploration of the place of art in the world, and "Assassins," an exploration into the psychology of successful and would-be presidential assassins. Click on his picture to visit the Stephen Sondhiem Guide, a comprehensive website. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| One of the two finest hours of dramatic televsion on the air, "The West Wing" is compelling, dramatic, witty television. Aaron Sorkin's scripts are each highly polished gems of writing; the acting is superb, with the cast more than capable of razor sharp timing, intense drama, and heart-breaking emotion, often in the same episode; and the directing and cinematography breathtaking. Who knew a series about politics -- often straight-from-the-headlines -- could be this good? Click on the cast photo to visit a comprehensive website. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| The other finest hour of dramatic television on the air, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is unfortunately dismissed by many people as simply a teeny-bopper horror series. What they are dismissing is a series that brilliantly uses the horror genre as a metaphor for what teenagers and young adults go through in their personal, psychological lives. Quite similar to "The West Wing" in its perfect mix of intelligent writing, pitch-perfect acting, and excellent direction and cinematography. "Buffy" is amazingly frank and realistic about love, sex, death, and other things that are often on the minds of teenagers. Click on the cast photo to visit the official website. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Oh please. I'm going back to ogle his pictures. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| From Nick Cave to Buffy the Vampire Slayer? This guy is cool! What else does he like? | |||||||||||||||||||||