Word: frankenstein
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...back to its first album Junta, for "You enjoy Myself," the chorus to which is the often debate subject among "phans." ("What's Uffitze? Drive me to Firenze" or "Wash you Feets-e, drive me to Firenze" --the band won't say). Friday's version was a gem with "Frankenstein" sandwiched into the jam section. As the final section of the piece ended, (ana capella vocal improvisation), Anastasio cut into the bluesy, shuffle riff of "Julius," only the third pieces of the night from Hoist. The album version is one of Phish's best pieces of studio material, featuring...
...revitalized band showed a renewed commitment to the art of playing music that mattered to them and not to anyone else. Old songs that hadn't been played in years began to show up in their set lists (ok trivia buffs, here they are: "NICU," "Gumbo," "Tube," "Funky Bitch," "Frankenstein," "Letter to Jimmy page" and two weeks before the Great Woods run, "Gamehenge"). At the same time, songs from Hoist were beginning to find a home in the live setting and were no longer a chore to perform. At last the band was back on track...
Jonathan Marks, associate professor of anthropology at Yale University, says that there are two public images of scientists--the "avuncular Einstein" and the "malevolent Frankenstein." Both, according to Marks, can be defined as classic nerds...
...stars too. When Irons ages, he adopts an oddly strangled tone that should make you want to laugh. But it doesn't -- at least while the movie's on. Glenn Close as his ferociously virginal sister has to work pretty near Mel Brooks country (Remember Cloris Leachman in Young Frankenstein?), but she keeps burrowing toward the character's repressed pain -- and quite touchingly reveals it. And if Ryder is the headstrong heiress of a thousand movies, the simple clarity of her playing redeems the cliche...
...that Farrell is some Frankenstein's demonic creation--some rotisserie hockey freak who can actually play the game. In fact, one of his off-ice passions is about as far from "goon hockey...