Sound: Lupe Fiasco's The Cool. The Chicago rapper collaborates once again with Kanye West to prove that his strong freshman outing was no fluke. The cuts featuring Matthew Santos are particularly noteworthy, and "Paris, Tokyo" will have you and your friends bopping your heads all the way to your after school manga club meeting. Purchase, spin, kick, push, and coast.
Screen: Jerome Oliver's Missing Pages. A seriously cool stop motion short film about regret and the dangers of technology. Mizutani Nobu is delightfully creepy as The Commissioner, and the butoh dancers from the legendary Dairakudan group are a joy to watch as the Core Units, a group of ghoulish, white-faced figures who haunt the protagonist. Watch it in it's entirety here. (24 min.)
Page: Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami. Like overseas counterparts Toni Morrison and Sherman Alexie, Murakami deftly blends the fantastic and the real in a tale that charts the evolution of a lost adolescent while exploring taboos both new and old. Never mind that the narrative borders on awkward and outlandish. Murakami is such a master stylist that by the time the whole thing unravels, you're just happy to be along for the ride. Call it Jane Eyre for the perverse and curious.
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