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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 == | ||
| - | * A film adaptation[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409379/] of [[Therese Raquin]] by [[Charlie Stratton]] is expected in 2008. ... | + | *[[Seduced, Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now]], Barbican Centre, London |
| - | * [[Cliff Richard]]'s earliest material will enter the [[public domain]] in the [[United Kingdom]] assuming there are no changes to copyright law. | + | *[[Eros au secret]] exhibition |
| - | * 2008 - ''[[Bathory (2007 film)|Bathory]]'' ([[Juraj Jakubisko]]) | + | *[[If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy we Would Be]] by Jake and Dinos Chapman |
| - | * 2008 - ''[[The Countess (film)|The Countess]]'' ([[Julie Delpy]]) | + | *[[Theanyspacewhatever]] by Guggenheim chief curator Nancy Spector |
| - | *''[[Hippie Hippie Shake (film)|Hippie Hippie Shake]]'', a film based on [[Richard Neville]]'s memoir | + | *[[Diana und Actaeon - Der verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit]], Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf |
| - | *''[[Ways of Hearing]]'' by [[David Toop]]. | + | *[[2008 Universal Studios fire ]] |
| - | == Births == | + | ===Music=== |
| - | ==Deaths == | + | ====Singles==== |
| - | *[[February 18]] - [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]], French writer and filmmaker (b. [[1922]]) | + | *[[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)]] | ||
| - | ==Deaths== | + | ====Albums==== |
| - | {{main|Deaths in 2008}} | + | *''[[Everything That Happens Will Happen Today]]'' by David Byrne and Brian Eno |
| - | <!-- | + | *''[[Going Places: The August Darnell Years 1976-1983]]'' compilation on Strut Records |
| - | Please make sure all dates are linked even where repeated. This is required for date format preferences to work correctly. | + | *''[[Crystal Castles (album)|Crystal Castles]]'' by Crystal Castles |
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| - | {{Year in other calendars}} | + | |
| - | * [[January 10]] - [[Maila Nurmi]], Finnish-American actress and television personality (b. [[1921]]) | + | |
| - | * [[January 11]] - [[Edmund Hillary]], New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist (b. [[1919]]) | + | |
| - | * [[January 11]] - [[Carl Karcher]], American businessman (b. [[1917]]) | + | |
| - | * [[January 12]] - [[Adriano González León]], Venezuelan poet and writer (b. [[1931]]) | + | |
| - | * [[January 13]] - [[Johnny Podres]], American baseball player (b. [[1932]]) | + | |
| - | * [[January 15]] - [[Brad Renfro]], American actor (b. [[1982]]) | + | |
| - | * [[January 15]] - [[Jason MacIntyre]], Scottish racing cyclist (b. [[1973]]) | + | |
| - | * [[January 16]] - [[Nikola Kljusev]], Macedonian prime minister (b. [[1927]]) | + | |
| - | * [[January 17]] - [[Bobby Fischer]], American-Icelandic chess grandmaster (b. [[1943]]) | + | |
| - | * [[January 17]] - [[Ernie Holmes]], American football player (b. [[1948]]) | + | |
| - | * [[January 17]] - [[Allan Melvin]], American actor (b. [[1922]]) | + | |
| - | * [[January 18]] - [[Georgia Frontiere]], American businesswoman (b. [[1927]]) | + | |
| - | * [[January 18]] - [[Lois Nettleton]], American actor (b. [[1927]]) | + | |
| - | * [[January 19]] - [[Don Wittman]], Canadian sportscaster (b. [[1936]]) | + | |
| - | * [[January 19]] - [[Suzanne Pleshette]], American actress (b. [[1937]]) | + | |
| - | * [[January 19]] - [[Frances Lewine]], American journalist (b. [[1921]]) | + | |
| - | * [[January 19]] - [[Morris Maddocks]], English Anglican priest (b.[[1928]]) | + | |
| - | * [[January 20]] - [[Louis de Cazenave]], French veteran of World War I (b. [[1897]]) | + | |
| - | * [[January 22]] - [[Heath Ledger]], Australian actor (b. [[1979]]) | + | |
| - | * [[January 23]] - [[Andrzej Andrzejewski]], Polish brigadier general (b. [[1961]]) | + | |
| - | * [[January 24]] - [[Randy Salerno]], American news anchor (b. [[1963]]) | + | |
| - | * [[January 27]] - [[Anna Loginova]], Russian bodyguard and model (b. [[1979]]) | + | |
| - | * [[January 27]] - [[Gordon B. Hinckley]], American Mormon leader (b. [[1910]]) | + | |
| - | * [[January 27]] - [[Suharto]], 2nd President of Indonesia (b. [[1921]]) | + | |
| - | * [[January 28]] - [[Christodoulos]], Archbishop of Athens (b. [[1939]]) | + | |
| - | * [[January 29]] - [[Margaret Truman]], American writer (b. [[1924]]) | + | |
| - | * [[January 30]] - [[Jeremy Beadle]], English television presenter (b. [[1948]]) | + | |
| - | ===February=== | + | ====Writing==== |
| - | * [[February 1]] - [[Beto Carrero]], Brazilian businessman (b. [[1937]]) | + | *''[[The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present]]'' |
| - | * [[February 1]] - [[Shell Kepler]], American actress (b. [[1958]]) | + | |
| - | * [[February 2]] - [[Earl Butz]], American government official (b. [[1909]]) | + | ===Literature=== |
| - | * [[February 2]] - [[Barry Morse]], Canadian actor (b. [[1918]]) | + | *''[[Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex]]'' by Mary Roach |
| - | * [[February 3]] - [[Sheldon Brown (bicycle mechanic)|Sheldon Brown]], American bicycle mechanic (b. [[1944]]) | + | *[[Collapse Volume IV: 'Concept Horror']], issue of journal of contemporary philosophy |
| - | * [[February 4]] - [[Harry Richard Landis]], American World War I veteran (b. [[1899]]) | + | *''[[Feuchtgebiete]]'' by [[Charlotte Roche]] |
| - | * [[February 5]] - [[Maharishi Mahesh Yogi]], Indian spiritual leader (b. [[1917]]) | + | *''[[The Three-Body Problem (novel)|The Three-Body Problem]]'' by Liu Cixin |
| - | * [[February 6]] - [[John McWethy]], American print and television journalist (b. [[1947]]) | + | |
| - | * [[February 7]] - [[Tamara Desni]], German-born British actress (b. [[1913]]) | + | === Film === |
| - | * [[February 7]] - [[Hoang Minh Chinh]], Vietnamese politician and dissident (b. [[1922]]) | + | *''[[WALL-E]]'' by Disney |
| - | * [[February 7]] - [[Guy Severin]], Russian academician and engineer (b. [[1926]]) | + | *''[[Be Kind Rewind]]'' by Michel Gondry |
| - | * [[February 8]] - [[Chua Ek Kay]], Singaporean painter (b. [[1947]]) | + | *''[[Moscow, Belgium]]'' by Christophe Van Rompaey |
| - | * [[February 8]] - [[Phyllis Whitney]], American mystery writer (b. [[1903]]) | + | *''[[Tropic Thunder]]'' by Ben Stiller |
| - | * [[February 9]] - [[Jazeh Tabatabai]], Iranian artist and writer (b. [[1931]]) | + | *''[[Jumper (2008 film)|Jumper]]'' by Doug Liman |
| - | * [[February 9]] - [[Mindrolling Trichen|Trichen Jurme Kunzang Wangyal]], Tibetan spiritual leader (b. [[1930]]) | + | *''[[The Baader Meinhof Complex]]'' by Uli Edel |
| - | * [[February 10]] - [[Ron Leavitt]], American television producer (b. [[1947]]) | + | ====Video==== |
| - | * [[February 10]] - [[Roy Scheider]], American actor (b. [[1932]]) | + | *[[Pete the Meat Puppet]] |
| - | * [[February 11]] - [[Alfredo Reinado]], East Timorese rebel (b. [[1967]]) | + | |
| - | * [[February 11]] - [[Tom Lantos]], American politician (b. [[1928]]) | + | === Visual art === |
| - | * [[February 12]] - [[Imad Mugniyah]], Lebanese militant (b. [[1962]]) | + | *[[Dadameter]] |
| - | * [[February 12]] - [[Badri Patarkatsishvili]], Georgian businessman and politician (b. [[1955]]) | + | |
| - | * [[February 13]] - [[Kon Ichikawa]], Japanese film director (b. [[1915]]) | + | ==Deaths== |
| - | * [[February 13]] - [[Henri Salvador]], French singer (b. [[1917]]) | + | :''[[Deaths in 2008]]'' |
| - | * [[February 15]] - [[Steve Fossett]], American adventurer (b. [[1944]]) | + | *[[September 16]] – [[Norman Whitfield]], American songwriter and producer (b. 1940) |
| - | * [[February 18]] - [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]], French Writter (b. [[1922]]) | + | |
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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 |
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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
[edit]
Music
[edit]
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)
[edit]
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
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Writing
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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
- The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
[edit]
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
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Video
[edit]
Visual art
[edit]
Deaths
- September 16 – Norman Whitfield, American songwriter and producer (b. 1940)
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