0h. mandrake, what say you? what about her? she should do. based on the novel by diana wynnejones and directed by goro miyazaki, son of ghibli s founding father, hayao miyazaki, earwig and the witch follows the adventures of a young girl from a children s home who is adopted against her wishes by a mysterious couple. i m a witch. great! it turns out they re enchanters, and earwig, renamed erica, who has magic in her blood, is keen to learn, but bella yaga only wants her to work. hang on, you actually talk?! of course i do, just not very often. it sounds like fun, and richard e grant lends entertainingly grim gravitas to the english language dub. but having first aired onjapanese tv at the end of last year, this theatrical release is distinctive only for being ghibli s first major disappointment, remarkable for being quite so unremarkable.
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Bob Koester, who died May 12 at age 88, knew what he liked and what you should like too. For nearly 70 years, he owned Chicago s Jazz Record Mart (and the Delmark label), and it was completely in character for him to snatch an album from the hands of an earnest young shopper.
In 1968, that shopper was me I d picked up a copy of Muhal Richard Abrams s debut LP,
Levels and Degrees of Light, whose surreal cover painting and saturated colors promised something exotic and strange made right here. I was more than eager to hear it, but Koester still black-haired, wearing glasses, not graceful, not yet 40 had other ideas. You can t understand
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