Word: bummere
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...other venues of comparable size, so the idea of seeing them headline two weekend nights at Great Woods seemed, in a selfish way, to be some-what of an invasion of privacy. When you find a relatively unknown band that you really like, it's kind of a bummer when everybody else starts to like them...
...none other on earth. And having survived a mountain of troubles, veteran vintners can look upon something like PD as just one more hazard of the business. "What the hell," says Jack Cakebread of Napa's prizewinning Cakebread Cellars. "Agriculture has always been that way. But it's a bummer. I just planted 350 prune trees that host the wasps that prey on the sharpshooter." He pauses to sip from a glass of his 1991 reserve Chardonnay and laughs. "Now if I can just figure out how to make prune wine...
...screwed-up, about having your hopes and dreams dipped in disillusionment ! and then swallowed whole like so many Chicken McNuggets. "My mother says to get a job," vocalist-guitarist Billie Joe sings on Longview, "But she don't like the one she's got." Even romance is, like, a bummer. On Sassafras Roots, Billie Joe makes the proposition, "I'm a waste like you .../ May I waste your time too?" Green Day's punk nihilism works because it's delivered with self- deprecating humor, not with narcissistic rock angst...
...even a B, because then I can say, well, I really didn't do any work," Gretarsdottir claims. "I can get a B without doing anything. But if you get a B+, then you've tried...to do well but haven't succeeded. It's just more of a bummer to be close...
...really is a bummer--it's such a big game on our schedule, but there's nothing we can do about it," Karmanos said. "That's just the way it goes...