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With eight albums under its belt and a ninth, the fine Story of the Ghost (Elektra), coming out later this month, Phish seems on the verge of breaking into the mainstream. Phish's musical essence resides more in its live shows than its discs. The band's concerts are known...
Catharsis, self-improvement, escapism, ignorance...but if you are going willingly to watch Urban Legend, the latest teen scream flick to hit the shallow-entertainment market, here are some suggestions for what to say when others ask you why on earth you did so.
There are all kinds of interesting ways to confess. Long ago, Jimmy Carter startled America by admitting, in a Playboy interview, to "lust in my heart"--not a confession at all, really, but coy, juvenile exhibitionism. Playboy would not be a good forum for Clinton. Jimmy Swaggart wept and chewed...
Lodge 2 may be too good to be true; New York is anomalous in so many ways. But it's a thought worth playing with. Are you attracted to club chairs and Montecristos but find the swingers' scene a bit weak on moral discourse? Are you tempted by the camaraderie...
And what about the gender aspect of it? We haven't come as far as we should on the role of women in America. Monica is a woman in the path of a male agenda. The question I continually have to ask myself is Why is she the target rather...