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...There's a paradox there. His movies are no more stimulating visually than the cable docs they ape. Their sophistication comes from somewhere else. But they get under your skin - OK, we'll skip the dog-with-fleas joke - and make you think about something most movies have forgotten: the ineluctability of American innocence. Odd that it takes a sardonic nobleman to remind us of that. Odd but exhilarating...
...makes humorous music. Gone is the penis humor and the sludge-rock sound of tracks like "Poopship Destroyer" and "She Fucks Me." Aside from the loungy swing of "Pandy Fackler" and the oddball Jimmy Buffett-meets-"Hotel California" sound of "Bananas and Blow," White Pepper's tracks either subtly ape the Beatles or not-so-subtly ape the alternaballad crowd that wishes they weren't just aping the Beatles. Though Dean and Gene are as keen in their satire and respectable in their musical skill as ever, something from Ween's past albums and raucous live shows is missing...
...struck us that breaking bottles was very childish and set a bad example for our younger fans. We have a trained ape which accidently swallowed a halogen lamp and now projects images of its insides wherever it faces. We have the ape dancing to our music, which is something no human has been able to achieve...
When the Kansas Board of Education voted recently to eliminate evolution from the state science curriculum, the sophisticates had quite a yuk. One editorial cartoon had an ape reclining in a tree telling his mate, "We are descended from the Kansas School Board." The decision has been widely derided as a sign of resurgent Middle American obscurantism, a throwback to the Scopes "monkey trial...
...ubiquitous that it makes me think I don't have a sickness at all but simply a desire to evolve (or as they like to say in Kansas, "create") past my base animal nature. Maybe the days of Austin Powers are over, and Kim Basinger will leave that ape of a man she's married to and run right into my baby-smooth chest. I mean that in the manliest way possible...