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The Picture Show
11:31 am
Thu June 28, 2012

Moby's Other Pet-Project: Photography

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Moby takes pictures of The Hives guitarist Nicholaus Arson in 2002.
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Berlin: "There's something really comforting to me about office buildings at 4 a.m., when the lights have been left on for the cleaning crew."
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Toronto: "I believe she is the nun of the future."
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Lausanne: "A sea of people. I particularly like how the form of the crowd reflects the topography."
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"I look at a bleak fortress like this house, with its chain-link fence and fenced-in beat-up car and I wonder, 'What goes on in here? What has gone on in here? And what will go on in here?' "
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"All things considered, my favorite place in L.A. Architecturally it's pretty simple, like a humble little mission chapel. ... [It's] currently an L.A. outpost of the international theosophical society ... and in its past it was ... a directors club where Orson Welles staged plays [and] a little lecture hall where Carl Jung and Aldous Huxley spoke."
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"Maybe some people think that the old, run-down motels and hotels are eye-sores, and are representative or indicative of the seediness and faded glamor of L.A. But I love them."
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New York: "There was this little sign in this weird hallway. It said, 'unattended luggage will be destroyed,' but one word at a time."
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Originally published on Thu June 28, 2012 5:48 pm

Moby doesn't like proper punctuation. But he does like taking pictures. He writes:

"i don't sleep very well when i travel. and as a result, i tend to be awake in cities when everyone else is asleep. that's where this album, and the pictures that accompany it come from."

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Monkey See
11:25 am
Thu June 28, 2012

More Than Words: How Some Movies Wind Up With Lousy Subtitles

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When Alice's flamingo-cum-croquet mallet was translated as a "flamenco," I'd had enough.

Everybody makes mistakes, but whoever was responsible for the error-ridden subtitles nearly ruined my viewing of Alice, Jan Švankmajer's otherwise delightful adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

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NPR Story
11:12 am
Thu June 28, 2012

Health Care Ruling: Business, Legal Reactions

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Originally published on Thu June 28, 2012 1:03 pm

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RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:

We have been devoting this hour of MORNING EDITION to the Supreme Court's decision upholding President Obama's signature health care law that came through less than two hours ago. Within minutes of the court's decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act, health care related stocks swung up and then down.

LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST:

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NPR Story
11:09 am
Thu June 28, 2012

Health Care Ruling: Examing Dissent

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Originally published on Thu June 28, 2012 12:48 pm

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RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:

This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.

LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST:

And I'm Linda Wertheimer. In a momentous and long-anticipated ruling, the Supreme Court has decided to uphold President Obama's health care law. The decision is a major victory for the president.

MONTAGNE: His challenger, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, will offer his own response in a few moments. For their part, House Republicans have vowed to repeal the law.

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Television
11:08 am
Thu June 28, 2012

'Louie': TV's Most Original Comedy Returns

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Louis C.K. has written for The Late Show with David Letterman, The Chris Rock Show and Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
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Originally published on Thu June 28, 2012 11:50 am

A lot of stand-up comedians make us laugh, but only a handful, like Lenny Bruce, Woody Allen or Richard Pryor, actually change the way that comedy is done. It's too early to be sure, but another one of them may be Louis C.K., the paunchy, balding, ginger-haired comic who's something of a quiet radical. He has one of those comic talents that's at its best when it isn't worried about being funny.

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