Dominik Pucek

Back in the 90's everyone in the Tri-state area found out who Radiohead was before anyone knew who Radiohead was thanks to (at that time) the new Q104. I remember Julie Slater saying before playing them - which was not a corporate decision but hers - that she really liked this new band. It was a mecca for all things rock, and the last place rock in new york would have a healthy place to exist. It was cool because they played everything. At night around 10 or 11 they used to have Mandatory Metallica. And it was always the "old Metallica." So, in thinking about my project I've complied a short Mandatory Metal Book List.

Prevalent in Ishiguro's work (having read A Pale View of Hills) is the role of memory in the narrative. In Pale View the work leans more towards the reiteration of pain to produce a state of melancholy along with its reflection on loss, Never Let Me Go's Kathy (and clone collegues) constantly revisit memory in nostalgic lust for the charm of days past and articles lost in order to evaluate who they are supposed to be in the now. However, this story seems more focused on the value of those things lost and the pain they must face in its wake rather than recalling a painful event. As we learn, these clones are the sort of "spoiled children" of the organ trade.