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DON’T BRING THE NOISE Want to walk around enjoying all the intricate details of Dimmu Borgir songs without permanently damaging your eardrums? Cop a pair of top-of-the-line Sony MDR-NC60 Noise Canceling Headphones, which will cushion your ears like a late-model Cadillac.

LIFE LIVES AGAIN

Wouldn’t it be awesome if My So-Called Life hadn’t been canceled? If only! At least Shout! Factory had the decency to put together this box set (the original DVDs are out of print), which includes the first, and only, season and interviews with the entire cast, except for a certain eyeliner-wearing actor turned screamo dude.

SHUTTER TO THINK Monumental in subject matter and heft— lift with your knees or suffer a slipped disc—Rock and Roll (Harry N. Abrams) collects more than 200 photographs by Lynn Goldsmith, who’s been training her viewfinder on musical giants for 40 years.

GET GRAPHIC Ben Tanaka is a self-hating, under-motivated, sex-obsessed manager of a movie theater in California. In other words, he’s a sublime antihero, an Asian-American Alexander Portnoy who makes Adrian Tomine’s first long-form graphic novel, Shortcomings (Drawn & Quarterly), a devastating read.

THE JEANS GENIE Brit designer Keanan Duffty brings his limited-edition Bowie men’s clothing line to Target. The jet-black skinny blazers, lightning-bolt-stamped hoodies, and witty guitar-themed polos carry the Thin White Duke vibe through the collection with subtlety—the Aladdin Sane makeup is totally your call.

PHOTOCREDIT

CLOCK WISE FROM TOP LEF T: DAVIES + S TARR (4); LYNN GOLDSMI TH/CORBIS (DEVO)

42 NOVEMBER 2007

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