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| + | "''[[Le Sec et l'Humide]]'' (2008) is a book-length [[essay]] by [[Jonathan Littell]], a corpus analysis of the prose of [[Léon Degrelle]] in ''[[Campaign in Russia: The Waffen SS on the Eastern Front]]'' (1949) which makes a clear distinction between the [[dry]] (the [[fascism|fascists]]) and the [[Humidity|humid]] (the [[Bolsheviks]])."--Sholem Stein | ||
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| + | [[Image:Bemd.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Photo from the ''[[Rendez-Vous Hotel]]'' series ([[2008]]) by [[Gert-Jan van den Bemd]] ]] | ||
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| + | '''2008''' (MMVIII) was the 8th year of the 3rd millennium, the 8th year of the 21st century, and the 9th year of the 2000s decade. | ||
| == Art and culture == | == Art and culture == | ||
| + | *[[Seduced, Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now]], Barbican Centre, London | ||
| + | *[[Eros au secret]] exhibition | ||
| + | *[[If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy we Would Be]] by Jake and Dinos Chapman | ||
| + | *[[Theanyspacewhatever]] by Guggenheim chief curator Nancy Spector | ||
| + | *[[Diana und Actaeon - Der verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit]], Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf | ||
| + | *[[2008 Universal Studios fire ]] | ||
| + | ===Music=== | ||
| + | ====Singles==== | ||
| + | *[[Blind (Hercules and Love Affair song)|Blind]] by Hercules and Love Affair | ||
| + | *[[Everyone Nose (All the Girls Standing in the Line for the Bathroom)]] by N*E*R*D | ||
| + | *[[Paper Planes]] by M.I.A. | ||
| + | *[[Gold Dust (DJ Fresh song)|Gold Dust]] by DJ Fresh | ||
| + | *[[American Boy]] by Estelle | ||
| + | *[[Strange Overtones]] by David Byrne | ||
| + | *[[Toe Jam]] by Fatboy Slim, Dizzee Rascal and David Byrne | ||
| + | *[[Sweet About Me]] by Gabriella Cilmi | ||
| + | *[[C'est Beau la Bourgeoisie]] by Discobitch | ||
| + | *[[Konijntje]] by Willie Wartaal | ||
| + | *[[I'll Kill Her]] by Soko | ||
| + | *[[Corporate Cannibal]] by Grace Jones | ||
| + | *[[Kalemba (Wegue Wegue)]] | ||
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| + | ====Albums==== | ||
| + | *''[[Everything That Happens Will Happen Today]]'' by David Byrne and Brian Eno | ||
| + | *''[[Going Places: The August Darnell Years 1976-1983]]'' compilation on Strut Records | ||
| + | *''[[Crystal Castles (album)|Crystal Castles]]'' by Crystal Castles | ||
| + | |||
| + | ====Writing==== | ||
| + | *''[[The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present]]'' | ||
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| + | ===Literature=== | ||
| *''[[Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex]]'' by Mary Roach | *''[[Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex]]'' by Mary Roach | ||
| - | *''[[Eros au secret]]'' was the title of an exhibition which is held from December 2007 to March 2008. | + | *[[Collapse Volume IV: 'Concept Horror']], issue of journal of contemporary philosophy |
| - | * [[Cliff Richard]]'s earliest material will enter the [[public domain]] in the [[United Kingdom]] assuming there are no changes to copyright law. | + | *''[[Feuchtgebiete]]'' by [[Charlotte Roche]] |
| + | === Film === | ||
| + | *''[[WALL-E]]'' by Disney | ||
| + | *''[[Be Kind Rewind]]'' by Michel Gondry | ||
| + | *''[[Moscow, Belgium]]'' by Christophe Van Rompaey | ||
| + | *''[[Tropic Thunder]]'' by Ben Stiller | ||
| + | *''[[Jumper (2008 film)|Jumper]]'' by Doug Liman | ||
| + | *''[[The Baader Meinhof Complex]]'' by Uli Edel | ||
| + | ====Video==== | ||
| + | *[[Pete the Meat Puppet]] | ||
| - | == Film == | + | === Visual art === |
| - | *''[[Be Kind Rewind]]'' | + | *[[Dadameter]] |
| - | *''[[Linkeroever (film)|Linkeroever]]'' | + | |
| - | === Expected films and books === | + | |
| - | * A film adaptation[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409379/] of [[Thérèse Raquin]] by [[Charlie Stratton]] is expected in 2008. ... | + | |
| - | * ''[[Bathory (2008 film)|Bathory]]'' ([[Juraj Jakubisko]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Hippie Hippie Shake (film)|Hippie Hippie Shake]]'', a film based on [[Richard Neville]]'s memoir | + | |
| - | *''[[Ways of Hearing]]'' by [[David Toop]]. | + | |
| - | == Births == | ||
| ==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
| - | * [[January 10]] - [[Maila Nurmi]], Finnish-American actress and television personality (b. [[1921]]) | + | :''[[Deaths in 2008]]'' |
| - | * [[January 17]] - [[Bobby Fischer]], American-Icelandic chess grandmaster (b. [[1943]]) | + | *[[September 16]] – [[Norman Whitfield]], American songwriter and producer (b. 1940) |
| - | * [[January 22]] - [[Heath Ledger]], Australian actor (b. [[1979]]) | + | |
| - | * [[February 10]] - [[Roy Scheider]], American actor (b. [[1932]]) | + | |
| - | * [[February 13]] - [[Henri Salvador]], French singer (b. [[1917]]) | + | |
| - | *[[February 18]] - [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]], French writer and filmmaker (b. [[1922]]) | + | |
| - | *February 18 - [[Teo Macero]], American record producer | + | |
| - | *[[February 21]] - [[Joe Gibbs]], Jamaican record producer | + | |
| - | *[[March 15]] - [[Mikey Dread]], Jamaican singer | + | |
| - | *[[March 19]] - Sir [[Arthur C. Clarke]], English science fiction author and inventor (b. [[1917]]) | + | |
| - | * March 19 - [[Hugo Claus]], Belgian Writer (b. [[1929]]) | + | |
| - | *[[March 21]] - [[Klaus Dinger]], 61, [[German]] [[musician]] of [[Neu!]] (b. [[1946]]) | + | |
| - | *[[March 24]] - [[Rafael Azcona]], 81, [[Spain|Spanish]] [[scriptwriter]] (b. [[1926]]) | + | |
| - | *[[April 5]] - [[Charlton Heston]], 84, [[United States|American]] actor | + | |
| - | *[[April 15]] - [[Hazel Court]], 82, [[United Kingdom|British]] [[actor|actress]] ''([[The Masque of the Red Death (film)|The Masque of the Red Death]], [[The Raven (1963 film)|The Raven]])'', [[heart attack]]. | + | |
| - | *[[April 17]] - [[Aimé Césaire]], 94, [[France|French]] [[Martinique|Martiniquan]] [[poet]] and [[politician]]. | + | |
| - | *[[April 20]] - [[Louis and Bebe Barron|Bebe Barron]], 82, [[United States|American]] [[composer]], pioneer of [[electronic music]]. | + | |
| - | *[[April 29]] - [[Albert Hofmann]], 102, [[Switzerland|Swiss]] [[research]]er, [[chemist]] and discoverer of [[LSD]]. | + | |
| - | *[[May 12]] - [[Robert Rauschenberg]], 82, [[United States|American]] [[pop artist]]. | + | |
| - | *[[May 13]] - [[John Phillip Law]], 70, [[United States|American]] [[actor]] (''[[Barbarella]]''). | + | |
| - | *[[May 23]] - [[Cornell Capa]], 90, [[United States|American]] [[photography|photographer]]. | + | |
| - | *[[May 26]] - [[Sydney Pollack]], 73, [[United States|American]] [[actor]] and [[film director]], [[cancer]]. | + | |
| - | *[[May 29]] - [[Harvey Korman]], 81, [[United States|American]] [[actor]] and [[comedian]] (''[[Blazing Saddles]]''). | + | |
| - | *[[June 1]] - [[Yves Saint-Laurent (designer)|Yves Saint-Laurent]], 71, [[France|French]] [[fashion designer]] | + | |
| - | *[[June 2]] - [[Bo Diddley]], 79, [[United States|American]] [[Rock and roll|rock and roll]] and [[Blues|blues]] [[singer]], [[songwriter]], and [[guitarist]]. | + | |
| - | *June 2 - [[Mel Ferrer]], 90, [[United States|American]] [[actor]], [[film director]] and [[film producer|producer]]. | + | |
| - | *[[June 7]] - [[Dino Risi]], 91, [[Italy|Italian]] [[film director]] (''[[Il Sorpasso]]'', ''[[Profumo di donna]]''), [[death by natural causes|natural causes]]. | + | |
| - | *[[July 6]] - [[Bobby Durham (Jazz musician)|Bobby Durham]], 71, [[United States|American]] [[jazz drumming|jazz drummer]]. | + | |
| - | *[[July 7]] - [[Bruce Conner]], 74, [[United States|American]] [[artist]], [[natural causes]]. | + | |
| - | *'''July 7''' - [[Hugh Mendl]], 88, [[United Kingdom|British]] [[record producer]]. | + | |
| - | *'''July 7''' - [[Dorian Leigh]], 91, [[United States|American]] [[Model (person)|model]]. | + | |
| - | *[[Thomas M. Disch]], 68, [[United States|American]] [[science fiction author]] (''[[Camp Concentration]]'', ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]''), [[suicide]]. | + | |
| - | *[[Evelyn Keyes]], 91, [[United States|American]] [[actor|actress]] (''[[Gone With the Wind]]''), [[uterine cancer]]. [http://www.times-standard.com/statenews/ci_9855253] | + | |
| - | *[[Janwillem van de Wetering]], 77, [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[writer]]. | + | |
| - | *[[Larry Harmon]], 83, [[United States|American]] [[entertainer]] ([[Bozo the Clown]]), [[heart failure]]. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25520824/][http://www.boersenblatt.net/211382/] (German) | + | |
| - | *[[Harald Heide-Steen Jr.]], 68, [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[actor]] and [[comedian]], [[lung cancer]]. [http://www.vg.no/rampelys/artikkel.php?artid=507797] (Norwegian) | + | |
| - | *[[Noel Sayre]], 37, [[United States|American]] [[violin]]ist and co-founder of [[The Black Swans]], apparent [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]]. | + | |
| - | *[[Simone Ortega]], 89, [[Spain|Spanish]] [[writer]]. [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/simone-ortega-bestselling-cookery-writer-861314.html] | + | |
| - | *[[Natasha Shneider]], 52, [[Russia]]n-born [[United States|American]] [[actor|actress]] (''[[2010 (film)|2010: The Year We Make Contact]]'') and [[musician]] ([[Eleven (band)|Eleven]]), [[cancer]]. [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003824001] | + | |
| - | *[[Elizabeth Spriggs]], 78, [[United Kingdom|British]] [[actor|actress]]. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2242457/Elizabeth-Spriggs.html] | + | |
| - | *[[Mel Galley]], 60, [[United Kingdom|British]] [[guitar]]ist ([[Trapeze (band)|Trapeze]], [[Whitesnake]], [[Phenomena (band)|Phenomena]]), [[cancer]]. | + | |
| - | *[[Robert Harling (typographer)|Robert Harling]], 98, [[United Kingdom|British]] [[typographer]]. | + | |
| - | *[[Ruslana Korshunova]], 20, [[Kazakhstan]]i [[Model (person)|model]], apparent [[Suicide methods#Jumping|suicide by jumping]]. | + | |
| - | *[[Ronnie Mathews]], 72, [[United States|American]] [[jazz pianist]]. [http://www.jazzpianists.com/RonnieMathews/] | + | |
| - | *[[July 14]] - [[Björn Berg]], 84, [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[graphic artist]], [[illustrator]] of [[Astrid Lindgren]]'s books. | + | |
| - | * [[Henki Kolstad]], 93, [[Norway|Norwegian]] actor. | + | |
| - | *[[Hugh Lloyd]], 85, [[United Kingdom|British]] comedy actor. | + | |
| - | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2008 Deaths_in_2008] | + | |
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"Le Sec et l'Humide (2008) is a book-length essay by Jonathan Littell, a corpus analysis of the prose of Léon Degrelle in Campaign in Russia: The Waffen SS on the Eastern Front (1949) which makes a clear distinction between the dry (the fascists) and the humid (the Bolsheviks)."--Sholem Stein |
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2008 (MMVIII) was the 8th year of the 3rd millennium, the 8th year of the 21st century, and the 9th year of the 2000s decade.
Contents |
Art and culture
- Seduced, Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now, Barbican Centre, London
- Eros au secret exhibition
- If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy we Would Be by Jake and Dinos Chapman
- Theanyspacewhatever by Guggenheim chief curator Nancy Spector
- Diana und Actaeon - Der verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit, Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf
- 2008 Universal Studios fire
Music
Singles
- Blind by Hercules and Love Affair
- Everyone Nose (All the Girls Standing in the Line for the Bathroom) by N*E*R*D
- Paper Planes by M.I.A.
- Gold Dust by DJ Fresh
- American Boy by Estelle
- Strange Overtones by David Byrne
- Toe Jam by Fatboy Slim, Dizzee Rascal and David Byrne
- Sweet About Me by Gabriella Cilmi
- C'est Beau la Bourgeoisie by Discobitch
- Konijntje by Willie Wartaal
- I'll Kill Her by Soko
- Corporate Cannibal by Grace Jones
- Kalemba (Wegue Wegue)
Albums
- Everything That Happens Will Happen Today by David Byrne and Brian Eno
- Going Places: The August Darnell Years 1976-1983 compilation on Strut Records
- Crystal Castles by Crystal Castles
Writing
Literature
- Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
- Collapse Volume IV: 'Concept Horror', issue of journal of contemporary philosophy
- Feuchtgebiete by Charlotte Roche
Film
- WALL-E by Disney
- Be Kind Rewind by Michel Gondry
- Moscow, Belgium by Christophe Van Rompaey
- Tropic Thunder by Ben Stiller
- Jumper by Doug Liman
- The Baader Meinhof Complex by Uli Edel
Video
Visual art
Deaths
- September 16 – Norman Whitfield, American songwriter and producer (b. 1940)
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