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Kathleen
 Kathleen's Shaken Dreams (A Life of Faith: Kathleen McKenzie Series) $6.99 i LOVED this book!!!! kathleen is really exciting, and you really learn to love her! shes spunky and always has ideas. i thought this was a great book, full of lots of fun, and i like how she met her best friend. if you think you might get this book, i say get it! it was a 5/5 story and it makes you want to read the rest!  In Other Words $14.98 The Kathy Madigan received on this live stand up show does not have the momentum and energy as we have experienced in the past. Several of the jokes are re-told, perhaps more politically correct, but certainly bumbling. I was amused at her family story telling of liberal parents, then flopping into their "ignorant" right-wing stereotypes. Again, Madigan's own disdain of relationship guru Laura Schlessinger and her opinions of others, are matched with Kathy's own slant. With that, her stereotypes against southern people have gone from the previous pointed cute idiosyncratics, to down-right hateful assasination of Southern character. Listening to the marginal response of the Denver audience, you may understand their own confusion as-to-whats-up-her...? No, I'm an Arizonan, folks.... In all fairness, it has its moments, the earlier audio DVD is much more entertaining. I really looked forward to seeing Kathleen live, but now I'll pass. If your from the "Deep North", within all of it's glorious elitism, then you'll enjoy the portions.  Asking for Flowers $17.98 I was given this cd by someone who thought I'd "love" it because I like Indigo Girls, Leonard Cohen, Cheryl Wheeler, and Richard Shindell. Prior to this, I'd never heard of Kathleen Edwards. Frankly, I didn't find anything special here. I don't know anything about the artist, but these are the sort of songs I'd expect from a 20-something girl who hasn't gotten everything she wanted the way she wanted it -- maybe singing on open mike night at the trendy coffee shop down the road from her flat. The melodies are simplistic, repetitive, slightly hypnotic (but not in the good way). I suppose you could compare her vocally to Lucinda Williams. They both have that breathy, slightly flat, bored and a little depressed tone. Maybe I'm not angry enough at men, at society, at life itself. Maybe I'm just not determined enough to be bitter, angry, depressed, and angsty. Whatever it is, I just don't get the appeal. I gave this cd a half dozen listens, thinking maybe it would grow on me or I'd at least understand why the person who gave it to me liked it. All it did was make me feel tired, bored, and irritable. I don't listen to music to be depressed. I'd give it three stars for the songs alone, but the artists voice just doesn't strike me as very good, so two stars it is. |
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