Word: bandness
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...weeks later to raves, moved to Broadway, went on to win nine Tonys and ran for a (then, but no longer) mind-boggling 15 years. Its celebration of old-fashioned Broadway pizzazz combined with an astringent, character-driven intimacy - about the struggles, both professional and personal, of a band of aspiring Broadway hoofers auditioning for a new show - was something fresh in musicals. But a lot has changed since those pre-AIDS, pre-Andrew Lloyd Webber days. For one thing, the self-referential, show-about-a-show device has become the easiest and most insular of Broadway crutches...
...Highest Unit Re-enlistment Rate - Any outfit that has been in Iraq recently. All the danger, all the hardship, all the time away from home, all the horror, all the frustrations with the fight here - all are outweighed by the desire for young men to be part of a band of brothers who will die for one another. They found what they were looking for when they enlisted out of high school. Man for man, they now have more combat experience than any Marines in the history of our Corps...
...video for said single is the result of a similarly straightforward process, with the added philosophy of “why not?”—but these hypotheticals become so over the top that the video becomes entertaining through sheer effort. Why not stick the band on a float, followed by a bunch of people in skeleton makeup, and have them march down a post-apocalyptic road? Why not put a damn blimp above it with a sign that reads “The Black Parade,” just in case there?...
...unafraid of over-dramatization. He writhes and clutches his chest on appropriate lines like, “You sit there in your heartache,” Get it? His heart hurts. The song itself is decent, remotely danceable even. Borrowing heavily from The Cure and Bruce Springsteen, the band makes no attempt to incorporate any of the mariachi influences referenced throughout the video. It’s a pity, considering they went to the trouble of growing all that hair, but no big deal. What’s not to love about schoolgirls getting ripped off by sketchy older...
...despite their compositional nuances, Bujalski’s films are simply enjoyable to watch. Hearing the characters in “Mutual Appreciation” discuss death by “ass cancer” or watching Alan (indie rocker Justin A. Rice ’99 of the band Bishop Allen) play a small yet immeasurably passionate show provokes laughter free of analysis. ZACH WHO?Bujalski’s post-collegiate wanderers in “Mutual Appreciation”—filled with all the indecision and inaction combined with his own great talent—make...