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Upon his return, Cex entertained the crowd, occasionally rapped over background music he played from his laptop on such topics as bicycles and his love for them, and, in the style of Whose Line is it Anyway, freestyled about three themes suggested by the audience: Buddhas, babies and chainsaws...
...Information Travels Faster” or “I Was a Kaleidoscope,” when he played the keyboard, the song was a keyboard song. Although he was not a particularly overwhelming performer, the rest of the band pretty much fell into the far off background. Predictably, no one danced or jumped while Death Cab played but that didn’t seem to be their intention...
...heand-banging; he was actually dancing. Little details such as this gave the audience an incredible sense of exuberance that radiated throughout the crowded basement of the Middle East. The evening ended when, after two encores, Cex and Gibbard joined the Plan onstage. Gibbard immediately faded into the background, choosing his new role as assistant to the drummer. Cex, on the other hand, engaged Morrison in a freestyle rhyming competition/wrestling match as the rest of the band played an incredible, extended electric...
...attacks. The attacks would hit me at random times during the day, usually beginning with a heavy lurch of the stomach. Then came the short mental picture of the inside of a plane, oxygen masks down, plummeting to the ground while the plane gave its death rattle to the background of terrified screams. Infamous crash sites would pop up: a fireball consuming TWA Flight 800 to Paris that blew up midair; the smoldering ruins of the Concorde after a botched take-off; seeing the recent crash of the plane on the way to the Domincan Republic. All the while during...
Britney Spears was that person. The coincidence of her status and Timberlake’s affections for her was every publicist’s dream match: Pop’s royal couple. The background story—their years shared on the set of the Mickey Mouse Club—seemed almost too perfect to be true, and the fans and the media were understandably skeptical. The relationship was often labeled one of the most insulting phrases that can be hurled at public figures: “a publicity stunt...