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...fact that electronica duo Daft Punk has recorded a live album called “Alive 2007” begs two questions. One: why should we care about their bleep-blooping in general? And two: what’s the point of a live electronica album, besides pointing out the performance’s inherent irony? (Yeah, we get it: you’re two humans making “live” robot music. That’s funny.) With regard to the first question: because they’re popular and they’ve affected popular culture...
...doddered down to the lobby for a complimentary breakfast and a second rude awakening. My illusions of Paris were quickly shattered during that meal: not only by the stale croissant, but by the horrors of MTV France.I had arrived in the patrie of Edith Piaf, Serge Gainsbourg, and Daft Punk—and in the summer of Justice, no less, the Parisian duo whose “D.A.N.C.E.” was omnipresent in America at the time of my departure. This was the land of baguettes and Bizet, and I, a professed Francophile, was gagging down processed pastry...
...last three quarters is mildly disturbing, but start the song over and everything’s alright again. Grade: B Kanye West – “Stronger” Even though the song it samples is only three years old; even though the idea of sampling Daft Punk should not have survived “Touch It”; even though the execrable Mark Ronson talks all over the only mp3 of it I can find; I still enjoy this song. Kanye’s on some mid-1970s David Bowie shit–he doesn?...
...Admittedly, you might have more fun at The Valet, a deft, daft, totally unbelievable yet somehow totally engaging comedy, in which a rich guy (Daniel Auteuil) tries to fool his wife into believing that his drop-dead, supermodel mistress (Elena Simonsen) is really in love with Fran&ecedil;ois (Gad Elmaleh) a not too smart parking boy at a posh restaurant. It's totally preposterous, but everyone is really rather reasonable, patient and lovable in an idiotic situation. Tales like this used to be known as boulevard comedies and, you have to say, Paris has the boulevards to sustain them...
Given the importance of this coming weekend’s Mather Lather to the undergraduate community’s social well-being, nearly everyone expected broad community support for the Lather. The Undergraduate Council’s (UC) daft refusal to pay (even partly) for one of the two requisite foam machines, therefore, struck a chord of disappointment among already socially disenchanted students. With this final straw on Mather’s back, the Mather House Committee has decided to declare its independence from the UC—effective 11:59 April 28 (i.e. the midpoint of this weekend?...