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Length of the recent Spring Fling festivities at the University of Pennsylvania which included such popular acts as Busta Rhymes and Jurassic...
...contrast doesn't just make Williams' songs more accessible, it also allows her to communicate a more complete range of emotions. Those Three Days is about an apparently budding long-term romance that turned out to be just a fling. "I was pretty pissed off when I wrote it," says Williams, and her anger comes through in such screeching lines as "You found a hole and in you came" and "Scorpions crawl across my screen." Then the music rises and segues into a chorus--"Did you only love me for those three days?"--that wouldn't be out of place...
...It’s still rock ‘n’ roll to me,” and this year, more than any other, I finally understand how rock surpasses so many other genres of music in its ability to grab a listener, hold them transfixed and then fling them away completely changed. The Strokes inflect all their songs with the same disaffected, frustrated tone, and The Raveonettes use the same three chords in every noirish number they perform, yet the final product of both bands is undoubtedly raw rock music. Strip away overproduced backup and the extra three...
...much as I loved living in Paris, the Seine's heady cocktail of diesel oil and stagnant water was not enough to make me tie the knot. Eventually I moved on, leaving my boat for other affairs: a dalliance with a house in Berkeley, a fling with a high-rise in Hong Kong. But I still look back on my Parisian home with wistfulness and a hint of self-satisfaction. At any gathering of Iyer's global souls, a houseboat in Paris trumps a penthouse in Manhattan every time...
...clubs are hopping and its hotels are 90% full. Tourists from mainland China sniff suspiciously at local specialties served on banana leaves and gamble the night away in casinos. Local Romeos on the southern coast prowl for free-spending lady tourists?gentlemen, too?who may be looking for a fling. The country hopes to get 500,000 tourists this year, more than in any year since the war began...