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...want of a light saber, a toy drum, a doll, a jigsaw puzzle and a Slinky, Elizabeth Bernard almost stopped believing in the e-commerce Santa Claus. The Louisiana mother of three and veteran online shopper chose her presents at Sears' wishbook.com way back on Dec. 6--well within the holiday-delivery comfort zone. But by Dec. 14, her $250 box of goodies was still stuck in cyber limbo. She dialed customer service, and a cheery representative told Bernard that her order didn't exist. More than 10 anguished calls later, she clicked on FAO Schwarz fao.com) which rushed...
...signature track, uses minutes of wavy keyboard woven in with guitar and cymbals to introduce a rhythmic fusion of rock and elecronic music. Soon half-chanty, half-punky lyrics join in and there are occasional whistles and bells. But ultimately the sound is full of relentless waves of guitar, drum and keyboard...
...intentions upfront, kicking off with a long, looping guitar introduction (courtesy of guitarist Duane Koh '00) filled with feedback and distortion. The dreadlocked lead singer, Alvin McCottry '00, unfortunately sounded muffled throughout, drowned beneath a sea of distortion from the sometimes overly self-indulgent guitarists. Still, the group's drum-intensive cover of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" inspired manic pogoing among some of the faithful who had remained, even though their sped-up version lacked any of the slow, simmering moments that had made the original so menacing. Perhaps it was McCottry's intensity: he jumped into...
...recent Nobel Lecture I was struck by two things: it's rather disjointed--like it was written in a hurry--and it's wrong in a predictable way. The triteness of it took me by surprise. I haven't read any of Grass's books, not even The Tin Drum (heck, I haven't even seen the movie), but it was my understanding that he was one of the best living writers and that his Nobel Prize for literature was long overdue. Maybe so, but his Nobel Lecture strikes me as the sort of thing that wouldn't command much...
...While Belle and Sebastian fans might equate the trendy British band's tight pin-wheel melodies to guitar-and-drum approximations of electronica rhythms, it really just sounds like the Beach Boys redux. Listen to B&S' 3..6..9..Seconds of Light or the piano on "Seeing Other People" or the guitar on "If You're Feeling Sinister" and then go to the library and check out "Sloop John B." from Pet Sounds. Such musical similarities can't be a coincidence, considering the thematic overlap between, for example, Pet Sounds and If You're Feeling Sinister. In the former...