Word: everydayness
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...attained without the presence of favored chemicals. The blend of familiar and friends with drugged-out and dangerous is a hallmark of Pills ’n’ Thrills, and the perversion is a musical statement of drugs’ effect on the band: all mundane aspects of everyday life become amplified to levels of great excitement, but tainted by an air of suspicious artificiality. No other drug album as honestly deals in music with narcotics’ dual nature, and as such no other album could be my pick...
While it is true that insults such as “suck” and “swallow” have been incorporated into everyday speech to the point where, in certain contexts, their origin meaning is lost. This is not one of those contexts. The reference to oral sex rings loud and clear. How much more explicitly homophobic must a slogan be before it is no longer acceptable. What about “Yale and Jeter are cock-suckers,” or “Yale and Jeter are fags”—does everyone...
...they’re at. Just ask a Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender (BGLT) friend, and she/he will tell you that when she/he was coming out, it didn’t take any explicit explanations for her/him to figure that being BGLT in the eyes of society is unequivocally bad. Everyday conversation makes it all too clear...
...those familiar with Tsai, this is not a surprising statement. From his 1992 debut, Rebels of the Neon God, to later films like the Hole (1998) and What Time Is it There? (2001), Tsai’s lens focuses on the minutiae of everyday urban life, from walking to eating to urinating, with fixed shots that can last excruciatingly for minutes on a single motion...
...Kensington, N.H. native started rowing competitively when he transferred into nearby Phillips Exeter Academy in his junior year of high school—as soon as he could legally drive himself from home to school everyday. His brother Neil ’03 had also rowed at Exeter, notably, and then also at Harvard as a senior captain under head coach Harry Parker...