Word: attics
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...going to have a degree of permanence because it sounds so solid," says Murdoch, "and you can dance to it." The faithful need not worry, however. The album is filled with trademark tales of quirky outsiders, like Sukie in the Graveyard who secretly lives in the art-school attic, and the ode to an imaginary girlfriend, Funny Little Frog. And they are delivered with Murdoch's characteristic humanity and obscure wit - it's still thinking music, so long as you think while you dance. And the band has never remained static. When the late bbc DJ John Peel described their...
...sense of playful collaboration rewards more and more with each listen. Lyrically, Murdoch sticks to what has worked in the past: stories about misfits. The title character of the song “Sukie in the Graveyard” spends her time making grave rubbings, lives illegally in the attic of an art school she’s not enrolled in, and poses for life-drawing classes with “the grace of an eel, sleek and stark.” And when the narrator of “Funny Little Frog” sings to his love that...
...Sean Paul, ‘Give Me The Light’ video,’” she says. “I realized there was another aspect of dancing.” And that was that. She was hooked. The ballet shoes went to the attic, and while the soccer ball stayed out for another two years, Adigun’s course as a hip hop and reggae dancer was set. Today, she’s the Director of the Caribbean Club Dance Troupe, as well as the President of the Caribbean Club. “I first...
Playwright, singer, songwriter, cartoonist, Shel Silverstein was a jack-of-all-trades and the master of one--and the one was writing children's books. His freewheeling, provocative stories (The Giving Tree) and books of poetry (Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic), illustrated with his quirky line drawings, have sold more than 25 million copies. Thus a new Silverstein title is a signal event, especially if it comes six years after his death...
...search and rescue team had already searched the house because of the markings on the house that indicated no one was inside. However, my 79-year-old mother's car was in the driveway. I noticed that there was no visible hold in the roof for entry into the attic. Plus, the iron bars on the doors and windows were locked. No one could have possibly searched the house. My son, who is a New Orleans firefighter, agreed that no one could have entered the house for a search. I unlocked the iron bars on the front door. However...