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Long before Bergman and Antonioni died, the mystical art-house film experience faded to black. Plus: How rock can rehabilitate, and a vote for Kelly Clarkson.
  • And but so no she didn't.....

    Wait, what? Did she just like, pretty much crown Kelly Clarkson the current and future savior of music (and the fine arts in general.) as a vital art form?

    Wow – just wow.

    What a hack – she slips closer and closer to self-satire with each and every column.

    Irvine:

    Are you there?

    Are you watching me?

    As I lie here on this floor

    They say you feel what I do

    They say you're here every moment

    Will you stay?

    Stay 'till the darkness leaves

    Stay here with me

    I know you're busy, I know I'm just one

    But you might be the only one who sees me

    The only one to save me

    Why is it so hard?

    Why can't you just take me?

    I don't have much to go

    Before I fade completely

    Can you feel how cold I am?

    Do you cry as I do?

    Are you lonely up there all by yourself?

    Like I have felt all my life

    The only one to save mine

    How are you so strong?

    What's it like to feel so free?

    Your heart is really something

    Your love, a complete mystery to me

    Are you there watching me?

    As I lie here on this floor

    Do you cry, do you cry with me?

    Cry with me tonight

    Are you there?

    Are you watching me? - Kelly Clarkson

    Visceral intensity and exquisite poetic shadings?

    Hardly.