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...fairly chill music perhaps best suited to spacing out; many of the songs drag on far too long without significant changes in the form or feel. There is a degree of self-indulgence on many of these songs that may appeal to the hard-core Built to Spill fan, but will undoubtedly fall upon the deaf ears of the uninterested and uninitiated. In particular, the repetitive lyrics and limited chordal palette—Martsch’s familiar predilection for minor key resolutions is rampant here—exacerbating the mindlessness induced by long, formless instrumental breaks. The album does...
Bottom Line: If you are an Ejiofor/hard-core “Love Actually” fan, don’t miss it. Otherwise, “Kinky Boots” is only suitable as a brief pick-me-up on a rainy...
Like Brooks and Lewis, Viswanathan is not a fan of this approach. “You can put the girl in couture,” one of the Haute Bitchez tells Opal, “but you can’t put the couture in the girl.” Similarly, put the automaton in Manolo Blahniks and all you get is an automaton in uncomfortable shoes...
Army Major General John Batiste sounded like a big fan of Donald Rumsfeld's when the Pentagon chief dropped by the 1st Infantry Division in Tikrit on Christmas Eve 2004. "This is a man with the courage and the conviction to win the war on terrorism," Batiste told a gathering of 250 G.I.s...
...packed away with the pre-made championship T-shirts of the unfortunate loser.As an almost lifelong resident of Oklahoma, I’ve never been attached to professional sports. Franchises appropriately shun the underpopulated and geographically-dispersed Sooner State for the greener pastures of big cities and more loyal fan bases.Most of the time, I don’t really mind. The NBA lost its luster for me when Michael Jordan retired, and even the enormous Oklahoma City Hornets billboards on I-35 have trouble wresting attention from a populace rabid for college football.And the prospect of a summer...