Word: demonism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Both of us worked for both the Lampoon and The Crimson. We also wrote for the Advocate, Demon, the Harvard Gazette, Lighthouse and that magazine that the right-wing Asian lesbians publish...
...last Friday. I have been initiated into the cult; I could look around a room and tell who has also seen them play. There would be a secret handshake, or a sigil emblazoned on their forehead, invisible to all those without it and in the shape of that toothy demon from their album art. Because, you see, Radiohead are the best band in the world. And only those of us blessed to have seen them play live truly know...
...struggle between Western culture and technology. Though all hip-hop does this in a sense, Ace brings the topic into relief. The title track is a distorted dirge complimented by the arrhythmic plucking of an acoustic guitar. Before long the beat skips and stalls, as if some digital demon in the stereo were trying fervently to spin the disc the other direction. Later, over a beat that features an incessantly ringing cell phone, Ace warns, “Don’t get cooked by the pilot light / I can smell metal in the air tonight...
...that philosophy is something radical--the notion that the jury system, as it's currently constructed, can't be trusted to send only the guilty to death row. Most prosecutors wouldn't embrace that philosophy, which is why it may take an Earle, not a knight, to slay the demon of error...
...ensuring that the innocent never spend a day on death row and the guilty are sent there only after trials free of bias and vengeance. Earle hopes that by raising every conceivable doubt about defendants before he decides to seek the death penalty for them, he can slay the "demon of error" invoked by Governor Ryan and achieve total certainty in the capital system...