Word: cools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...concert, planned by the Tufts Concert Board, will feature rap superstar L.L. Cool J, with jazz-funk artist Maceo Parker and ska band Less Than Jake opening. In the past, the Spring Fling has featured such well-known bands as George Clinton and P-Funk All-Stars, Barenaked Ladies and A Tribe Called Quest...
...town and followed the earthen canal back through small fields to an area known as the royal baths. The 700-year-old watercourse speeds alongside a walkway before dipping underground to re-emerge over a huge cut stone with small man-made channels that project two cascading spouts of cool, clear water. Above, a young couple claims rights to the day's first ascent of the terraced ruins. For a moment I imagine what it might have been like to live under the Incan lords. Later my guide and I travel up a dirt track through a side valley...
...muddy pulp. The overall artistic effects of the grassy Commencement Yard greatly outweigh the currently blue Yard. With the return of Blue is the return of that smell, the smell of that fertilizer which embodies for so many of us springtime and summer at Harvard. (You know the cool, acidic smell--the blue smell). There is always a day in springtime when one wakes up and finds the grass green for the first time, but it is only at Harvard that the magical springtime moment happens when one wakes up to the blue Yard...
...album's first single, and a seven-minute opus where Weiland throws in every studio trick the Beatles ever used, and then some. Unfortunately, Weiland has forgotten the difference between noise and tune--sift through guitars more processed than New York City hot dogs in "Desperation #5" and "Cool Kiss," and you'll be hard pressed to find a decent melody...
After this mostly promising start, though, Weiland's album is spottier than a leopard-skin fur coat. None of the songs outright suck, but the album's second half is too little musical creativity spread over too much time. "Cool Kiss" and "The Date" combine blinding flashes of white noise with lyrics ("Keep your hands up off of my lips / Capsize just like a tanker / Kill Kill Piss Piss") that are an amateur Freudian's wet dream. "Son" is a gently motoring ode to Weiland's new son, a la "Kooks" off Hunky Dory. "Jimmy Was a Stimulator...