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There's a perfect song on Gimme Fiction, the new album from the chronically underrated Austin, Texas, rock band Spoon. It's called I Summon You, and its narcotic powers are such that only after you have pressed the repeat button for the sixth or seventh time will it occur to you that there's not a single original thing about it. I Summon You involves a guy, a girl and a long drive. It's played at a wistful but assured mid-tempo on guitar, bass, drums and keyboards. The chorus goes, "Aww no, where are you tonight...
...member of Focus on the Family. Whatever hard-core Democrats may imagine, she has never been a nodding Stepford wife. Her bookshelves contain Gore Vidal and The Da Vinci Code. In Austin, Texas, she had out-there, colorful friends like Kinky Friedman, the writer-musician who toured with his band the Texas Jewboys. She told TIME last year that she had no problem with a gay couple staying at the White House, although she wouldn't necessarily know their sexual orientation because she's too decorous...
...safety of Pakistan's frontier towns, according to a Pakistani intelligence source. The source says the al-Qaeda fugitives often took shelter in mosques and seminaries along the way. The Pakistani Interior Ministry says al-Libbi was tracked down through monitored telephone intercepts and details extracted from a band of Pakistani militants arrested on Feb. 27 near Mardan, a town 40 miles north of Peshawar. A police source says al-Libbi may have stayed near a Muslim shrine there before his capture...
He’s also been a leader of three different campus bands: The Elegant Touch; the bizarre Information Wrecknology, which debuted at Arts First last year and which Pasternack describes as a “selectric hip-rok band that came back from the future to destroy your computer;” and his newest project, “The Motivational Speakers...
Despite the unfailingly kooky nature of his projects, Pasternack is serious about breaking down the barriers in Harvard’s art world. Last year, he founded Present!, an “ob-literary” magazine-turned-art-collective which Pasternack calls a “life band.” While they do produce a magazine—the premier issue was released last year and there will be a second release this month—the bulk of their activity involves staging “happenings” on campus...