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...kitchen to professional former star Danny Bonaduce's guitar collection in his rec room. HGTV has a raft of celeb-home specials and semiregular series like TV Moms at Home, where Estelle Harris (Seinfeld's Estelle Costanza), wearing about 10 lbs. of jewelry, reclines on the fainting couch in her cavernous living room: "It's the size of Lithu...
...little bit of a break. I wanted a summer vacation for the first time in, you know, forever." Macaulay says he didn't even have his own bed in the family apartment. "[Kit] had a king-size bed and a big-screen TV, and I was sleeping on the couch. It was just something he was doing to kind of break your spirit, I figure...
...answering machine messages. Following this is the illumination of a single neon light proclaiming that it is “open”—whatever “it” is. In the meager neon light are three simultaneous scenes: a young man reclining on a couch, a young couple in a restaurant booth and two friends in a movie theater. Then the light goes off, and the scenery is changed by comic book superheroes (the Incredible Hulk is the most recognizable...
...guess that the chiaroscurist contrast of beatific cover (an image of a pretty park with some distant peoploids in a pool) and judgmental album title means that Couch intend to say something while not actually saying anything (like Godspeed You Black Emperor!, but with less scrutable liner notes). What it is, though, I don’t know, and titles like “12 is only 4” (“12 sind nur 4”) and “Colour” (“Farbe”) don’t help. What?...
Like their minimalist Teutonic predecessors, Couch keep it simple. The instrumentation is piano, bass, guitar, drums, with occasional subtle strings or horns. Piano parts often serve as second bass lines, guitars pluck high harmonic, and drums are generally satisfyingly Zeppelin-like. The real beauty of the album, though, comes from the strong melodies—every track is pretty, and “Everything on Traces” (“Alle auf Pause”) and the opening “Plan” are gorgeous. Song structures may be straightforward, but never boring. As great minimalists from Steve...