Word: daft
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...were chewed out for being all talk and no action. Nonetheless, they still got up on the tables at the late late hour of midnight to give a toast to “doing what you want” and then fled as the young set started grinding to Daft Punk and RJD2 (who made an appearance at WHRB this weekend)...in case you thought Third Eye Blind was bad, Yale booked Sister Hazel for their Spring Fling this year. Unfortunately for us, they also booked T.I. and emo heartthrobs the Format. Further proof we all should have gone...
...sequencing shows restraint, the song’s bombastic multi-tracked vocal harmonies suggest that Murphy may even be taking on Freddie Mercury. “North American Scum” is this outing’s silly bootyshaker, the equivalent of yesteryear’s “Daft Punk Is Playing at my House”—but that song’s teenagers have matured into musicians on an uncool continent, jabbing back at the accented discotheque acolytes across the Atlantic. Which is funny, since Murphy owes a lot to European influences. They...
...Park's day at the zoo with talking animals, and his short films with Wallace the cheese-loving suburban inventor and Gromit his mutely heroic dog, can match any animated films of the past 20 years. But the process cannot be delightful. Most American animators would say it's daft, all that precision-toying with clay, when, these days, computers can do so much of the work...
...Anyway, I figured he's appreciate that some I typed up the lyrics and presented them to him with the midwifely pride Ezra Pound might have felt after seeing T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland in print. Mr. Morris read the text and looked at me as if I was daft. This wasn't poetry, his mournful look said; it wasn't even English...
...film) of atonement. Among the mourner-scrubwomen are two sisters, Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) and Soledad (Lola Dueñas), tending the grave of their mother Irene (Carmen Maura), dead these four years. Visiting Irene's older, failing sister Aunt Paula (Chus Lampreave), they hear the daft woman's claim that she has been cared for by Irene's ghost. This is dismissed as sweet dementia, until Sole, returning to Madrid, opens the trunk of her car and finds Irene, the corporeal ghost, scrunched up inside. Mom expects to "live" with her daughter; and Sole, ever dutiful, obliges...