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Zookeeper: Becoming All Things
2007-11-06 19:33:00 Zookeeper: Becoming All ThingsNot many people have a resume like Chris Simpson. He was in Mineral, the leaders of the post-punk emo revolution. Mineral disbanded shortly after signing to a major label. Next Simpson resurfaced in the Gloria Record, one of the most underrated shoegazing bands. Midway through recording their fourth record the band went on hiatus and Chris Simpson disappeared. Two years later, he resurfaces in Zookeeper.Zookeeper is something no one has every described Simpson's music as. Zookeeper is a party.Chris Simpson assembled an all star cast from his native Austin, TX. Zookeeper is comprised of Brian Hubbard and Ben Houtman from the Gloria Record, John Hoover, Seth Woods and Alex Dupree from the Trapdoor Band, Alex Lyon from Zykos, and Ben Lance from the Sad Accordions. It is also of note that this is Simpson's first project without Jeremy Gomez.The record sounds like Chris Simpson listened to Springsteen's We Shall Overcome and thought "hey, I coul...
The Zookeeper?s Wife: A War Story
2007-09-16 19:00:00 Grady Harp is an Amazon Top 10 Reviewer There are many stories that continue to come out of the WW II experience, stories of courage, love and survival in the face of near hopeless situations inflicted upon the globe by Nazi Germany, and, thankfully, biographies of heroes whose moral convictions were stronger than the destructive forces ...
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Croc Bites Zookeeper!
2007-04-13 00:00:00 A 200kg kilogram has bitten off a zookeeper’s arm - but surgeons managed to reattach it after reclaiming the limb from the reptile’s mouth. The male crocodile severed Chang Po-yu’s forearm at the Shaoshan Zoo in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung. Mr Chang, a zookeeper and vet, had been trying to retrieve a tranquiliser dart ... |
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