Word: aesop
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...MUSIC | Aesop Rock...
...Rapper Aesop Rock squeezes every last drop of expressive juice from the English language by riddling his rapid-fire stream-of-consciousness flow with taught one-liners and idioms turned on their heads. He manufactures his songs from scratch, complimenting his urgent vocals with his own production. On his recently released Bazooka Tooth, he speaks on such topics as 9-11, violence in popular culture and mankind’s struggle against the machines of its creation. Ace takes the stage with Boston hip-hop legend Mr. Lif, and Def Jux collegue and collaborator El-P. $17.50 advance...
...album also faced the challenge of being released by an underground artist on a relatively obscure underground label—Definitive Jux Records, also home to Aesop Rock and Cannibal Ox. But years of experience in Boston’s scene have made Lif a master of getting word out on his music...
...radiator-pipe-sealing proves ineffectual, though, Coveney must resort to more coercive means—possibly including, but by no means limited to, the introduction of some really tough cats—to remove the mice from Lowell House. These displaced country mice must learn what Aesop knew so well: the city is no place for a mouse...
Rather like the ant in an Aesop's fable, people with thrifty genotypes--wisely, it might be argued--prepare for hard times by consuming and storing more calories than they expend. In this fashion, they create a reservoir of fat that comes in handy when food grows scarce. It's easy to imagine that repeated famines over the course of human development practically forced the biological system for regulating weight to skew strongly toward resisting weight loss rather than protecting against weight gain...