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...only draw on jazz for musical inspiration, he lists his influences as “everything, from Chinese opera to Korean pansori… to TV and movie themes and soundtracks.” He focuses on authenticity in music, claiming, “I have a fairly developed bullshit detector, so I don’t accept anything that is not sincere.” He distinguishes himself from today’s stagnant jazz world, which for him is dominated by “the regurgitators, young people who have tremendous technical proficiency, but no imagination, and worse...

Author: By Sophie O. Duvernoy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Jazzing Up a Revolution | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

...referring to those Harvard artists who use drugs. “They like to get high and get out of this bubble that is Harvard, that is oppressive and socially limited and makes you jump through hoops all day and sometimes you need to get out of your own bullshit and just shoot the shit...

Author: By Noël D. Barlow and Eunice Y. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: High Art | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...wonders starry-eyed Darren Shan (Chris Massoglia), the newest vampire-adolescent to hop aboard the young-adult bloodsucker bandwagon. “No,” replies his vampire mentor, the cloaked and mysterious Larten Crepsley (John C. Reilly), “that’s bullshit.” This is not the only instance in Paul Weitz’s new film, “Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant,” in which Crepsley correctly associates his young apprentice with tedium, puerility, or just bullshit. In fact, the film is driven...

Author: By Alex E. Traub, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...business quickly. Meetings have to achieve something tangible, notes a colleague. In private briefings before he took on his new job at the beginning of August, Rasmussen was "very focused," says Fabrice Pothier, director of the European office of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "There's no bullshit. It's 'Give me some concrete, doable recommendations.'" Two days in, Rasmussen, who at 56 is just four years younger than the military alliance itself, headed to Afghanistan. A trip to Turkey and Greece followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO's Reformer: Anders Fogh Rasmussen | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...respect the sentiment, but I think it’s bullshit,” said Adams resident Ashley “Aja” Jovanovski...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Campus To Unfold New Seats | 9/2/2009 | See Source »

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