Word: bents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enough to be the Messiah. It is not enough to sing. It is not enough to replay politely the passion. What I in John can read I have no need to see again on the stage. I know that Pilate washed his hands of blood as, bleeding, Jesus bent under the whip. I know that Judas left him in the garden to deliver him to armed and angry men. To tell it again is pointless if you tell it in the same...
...accuses the Advocate of a kind of collective artistic pretension. It seems that FM's hell-bent desire to be sensational at the expense of objectivity has blinded it to the fact that the faults we find in others are often...
...simple truth is that near death, you have visions of what most preoccupies you in life. I am a skeptic to whom the idea that a benign God created us and watches over us is somewhere between a fairy story and a poor joke. People of a religious bent are apt, under such conditions, to see the familiar images of near-death experience--the tunnel of white light with Jesus beckoning at the end, as featured in the memoirs of a score of American K Mart mystics. Jesus must have been busy when my turn came: he didn't show...
...also couldn't see much. Which was good, because my mom wore a backless dress. Every other bride wears bows and bustles and basically a 3-to-1 ratio of fabric-to-woman, but my mom was bent on destroying my theory that this was one of those nursing home-companion marriages. I realized after seeing all that exposed flesh that there was no way Pamela Anderson's kids would grow...
Beneath the pop trappings, Stereolab remains Stereolab. The band's Marxist ideology (with a strongly feminist bent) still reveals itself in Sadier's lyrics. The poppy sounds offset the lyrics nicely: it's Marxism to fall in love...