Word: conscious
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...They became big and plastic, and their messages lost out to corporate hype and photo badges of 8-year-old softball players. Until now. Yes, the classic aluminum beauties are back. Kitschy slogans and retro cartoons decorate the small, round pins that reign again on the streets of fashion-conscious England and Holland. But no country has embraced the retro buttons?and their message of '80s-style youthful exuberance?as completely as Japan. Tokyoites have flocked to purchase kanbacchi, sporting their own distinctive anthems on their identical denim jacket lapels. Wait till they rediscover thin, leather neck ties...
Only a nation as acutely conscious of the opinions of others as Japan was in the 1930s could have felt so betrayed by foreign criticism. After a mild censure in the League of Nations of Japan's annexation of Manchuria, the Japanese Foreign Minister, Matsuoka Yosuke, walked out of the assembly and likened Japan's fate to that of Christ on the cross - an odd comparison coming from an ultranationalist Japanese who advocated an alliance with Hitler. It was, of course, around that time that the Western image of Japan began to darken; no longer comical copycats waltzing in evening...
...some intensely boring presentations. Fortunately, C60 didn’t disappoint, with blistering guitar attacks and wild gyrations injecting energy into a flagging atmosphere. I noticed however, that all their rebellious posturing seemed very much like a pose. Their “spontaneous” thrashing appearing self-conscious and rehearsed...
...opening “Plan” are gorgeous. Song structures may be straightforward, but never boring. As great minimalists from Steve Reich to Chuck Berry have always known, the beauty of repetition comes from slight variations and shifts that sometimes don’t even register on the conscious mind. This Couch do to perfection—there are combinatorial variations of arrangements and melodies and just enough crafty developments to keep songs captivating. Brilliant stuff...
...opening “Plan” are gorgeous. Song structures may be straightforward, but never boring. As great minimalists from Steve Reich to Chuck Berry have always known, the beauty of repetition comes from slight variations and shifts that sometimes don’t even register on the conscious mind. This Couch do to perfection—there are combinatorial variations of arrangements and melodies and just enough crafty developments to keep songs captivating. Brilliant stuff...