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Dining hall tables abound with tales of overheard fire door sex. One friend of mine had to move her bed after her neighbor and his girlfriend discovered a new position that entailed ramming furniture into the wall. In another unrelated case last year, a friend of mine went so far as to shout sex advice through the fire door (“I don’t think she’s enjoying that!”). Moment of full and embarrassing disclosure: I once discovered that a friend was hooking up with my then-boyfriend’s neighbor...
...unique literary sensibility to each of the group’s records. Perhaps because of Berman’s strange proclivities, the Silver Jews have never achieved the (comparative) popularity of some of their alt-country contemporaries: Wilco and Ryan Adams especially. Berman savors the absurd, and his songs abound with bizarre characterizations and nonsensical turns of phrase. Berman’s genius is his ability to invest these caricatures with pathos and existential import: the freaks and geeks that populate Berman songs are transformed into emblems of desire and resignation. The band’s new album...
...first, the video appears to be the latter. In self-consciously amateurish animation (with the aesthetic of a hastily-assembled Flash project), brightly-colored creatures dance, birds flutter about, and flowers, rainbows, snowflakes, and polka-dots abound. There are even little animated penguins in funny hats, for God’s sake. It made the long-presumed-dead girly part of my brain come alive with cries of “Awwww” and “Eeeeeee!” It is Cute...
...relayering of sound, the album is packed with flashy, infectious tracks. Each song crackles with energy, underscored by Gab’s distinctly dense machine-gun flow. But there is something lacking; an album, especially today, can’t get by on sonic perfection alone. Well-produced albums abound, bedroom productions snap with digital precision, and even “mix-tapes” (now almost exclusively on CD) don’t have that basement low-fi growl anymore. The talent honed in dozens of dimly-lit teenage bedrooms is spilling out into independent labels, with amateur recordings...
...Still, it would be foolhardy to underestimate Miller, given his extraordinary record. And get this: his current perspective is profoundly at odds with that of almost everyone else. With oil trading at about $65 per bbl., fears abound that a further rise will hobble consumer spending and doom the global economy to recession. Yet Value Trust's latest report showed that the fund still doesn't own a single oil and gas stock because Miller, never one to run with the herd, expects oil prices to tumble...