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...been underdogs since 1812. We like to remember the Alamo because we fought long odds and had to give up an entire building; the Mexicans remember Texas. If ever a country's character demanded that it root against the underdog, it's ours. We are the country of crushing, monolithic corporations - of McDonald's, Wal-Mart and companies such as Aramark, Cendant and Sysco that are so powerful we don't even know what they do. We crush foreign dictators for looking at us funny. We are geniuses at supersizing the good stuff and McRibbing the losers. Underdogs...
...arrival. Eminem was right when he said they were “juggernauts of this rap shit / like it or not.” The song chugs along inexorably, wiping out any sense of forward propulsion—it only makes you want to stare downwards and crush the floor while 50 mutters commands in everyone?...
...these one board submittals, you are looking for a glimmer of magic...it’s like having a crush on somebody who is so far away you can’t see them,” he says...
...band drew substantially on its pre-album material, including the cute “It’s Tough To Have A Crush (When The Boy Doesn’t Feel The Same Way You Do),” for which they recruited two men from the audience to come and dance together onstage: “The first time we’ve had a same-sex couple for this song!” said Kulash gleefully. The set, like the songs, was short and sweet. “We don’t usually do encores...
...anecdotes that go beyond the standard cocktail party fare. Have you ever chatted with a female bullfighter in Spain? She has. Split your time between old-school rappers and dog show aficionados? Check. Written an article for an outdoors magazine that got made into the summer blockbuster Blue Crush? Waded through alligator-ridden swampwater in search of an elusive “ghost orchid?” And did Meryl Streep play you in Spike Jonze’s Adaptation? Orlean can boast all this and more...