Word: drumfuls
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...Lahiri [May 26]. Her work provides a striking portrayal of the struggles faced by immigrant families in negotiating and attempting to reconcile their multiple identities while remaining engaged with all aspects of their new home. It reminds me of what my grandfather used to say: "Anyone can play the drum, but it is only an elder who can interpret the meaning of the sounds." Austine Duru, CHICAGO...
...McCain, in his own Tuesday remarks in Louisiana, assailed Obama's efforts to link him to an unpopular incumbent President and foreshadowed his party's brewing plan to define Obama on its terms, saying "[Obama] tries to drum it into your minds by constantly repeating it rather than debate honestly the very different directions he and I would take the country. But the American people didn't get to know me yesterday, as they are just getting to know Senator Obama...
...Lahiri [May 19]. Her work provides a striking portrayal of the struggles faced by immigrant families in negotiating and attempting to reconcile their multiple identities while remaining engaged with all aspects of their new home. It reminds me of what my grandfather used to say: "Anyone can play the drum, but it is only an elder who can interpret the meaning of the sounds." Austine Duru, Chicago...
...order to a combination of sampled and original material, here the band seems to revel in imperfection. The best example of this kind of self-conscious disruption is the first track, “Silence,” where a bizarre Portuguese radio monologue gives way to a primal drum line. Its time signature is only complicated by intermittent vocals, bass, and strings, sliding in and out of the song in a frustrating but fascinating pattern. Then, just as it all starts to build toward a frenzy, the song cuts out—one of several calculated mistakes that pulls...
...stillness sometimes. How happy I am is my fortune. I have a cycle of giving that I'm in. As I get, I give. What I'm given, I gotta give back and use it the best way I can, so that my celebrity is worthwhile. I can drum up support for things that matter because of my celebrity. My celebrity is useful...