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...would. He’s the kind of guy that spends his Saturday afternoons shopping downtown, dropping hundreds of dollars on designer jeans, shoes, belts and whatever other must-have accessories for the self-proclaimed metrosexual he can find. And what is most surprising is that this nameless friend??a football player for University of Maryland—doesn’t really fit the stereotype of someone particularly “fashion-conscious.” Yet, he’s still been sucked in by the trend...
...recourse has been to become a pop culture imposter. Through shows caught at a friend??s house, through tidbits garnered from overheard conversations, and through—God praise it—People magazine, I have cobbled together a false personal television history. I can smile and nod at the appropriate times. I can chuckle at the proper jokes. If I’m feeling really savvy, I can toss in the odd Friends reference. I become, in essence, a laugh track...
Regardless of which team advances to the ECAC finals with a win tomorrow in Albany, the loser will be in the stands cheering on his friend??just like always...
There are some tickling riffs. The lead single “Hey Now” opens with a single guitar tracing reverberating curlicues around singer Hugo Ferreira’s self-important basso declarations of incomprehension of a friend??s anti-social behavior. Tantric specialize in classic rock vocal harmonies, which they execute with aplomb, if not personality, and After We Go delivers these in spades. Tantric try for ominous, but end up sounding only sulky...
...Coral need to stop writing songs and convert to a mid-60s folk-rock cover band. There’s a substantial baby-boomer nostalgia circuit—my friend??s dad played bass for “The Grateful Dads”—and the Coral could own it. Seriously, the band has some fine musicians and competent vocalists, and they come across as very polished. I bet they’d do a rockin’ rendition of “The House of the Rising Sun,” but there?...