Word: deadpan
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...serious, or sending himself up yet again? It can be hard to tell. One thing Kaufman’s frenetic characters do not share with their creator is his nearly-constant deadpan...
...with their art credentials well and truly established, and a gallery show for the album in the offing (seriously), what does the music sound like? Susman’s deadpan delivery and the occasionally cerebral music are a little arch at times. On “Oh Sombra,” Susman’s voice appears deliberately quavery, overpowered by the gathering waves of chiming guitars and snowballing drums. Yet the album never abandons the ideal of pop music, taking some surprising and ambitious turns in order to keep the pretensions light-footed. The garage strut...
...Then, like Harvie, he had a carpe diem call - and seized the day by enrolling in film at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1996. (Elliott's friend and former classmate Glendyn Ivin took out the Palme d'Or for short film at Cannes last year with another deadpan tale about a suburban misfit, Cracker...
...conversation, he releases a dizzying arsenal of cultural allusions and florid vocabulary in deadpan. As regular readers of his reviews know, Mitchell habitually shreds dichotomies between high and low culture...
...enters a BGA (Bad Golfers Association) tournament, investigates the Mothman legend in West Virginia, crashes the Exotic World Burlesque Museum & Striptease Hall of Fame, attends the Fruitcake demolition derby (that piece has to be retired) or just walks home the night of last August?s blackout. Stoic bafflement - a deadpan stare into the camera - is Geist?s usual game. But, when pressed, he can celebrate. For a wonderful ?CBS SM? show dedicated to New York City, Geist reported on Pale Male, the red tailed hawk who has lived for the past decade on a window ledge in a Central Park...