Word: funked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...loss--resulting from a lethal combination of breakdowns and shaky goaltending--sent Harvard deeper into its funk and extended its losing streak to five games, it's longest drought of the season...
Forrester (Connery) is a one-book novelist, fallen into an endless Salingeresque funk. From the window of his Bronx apartment, he watches black kids playing basketball in a vastly changed neighborhood. The best and brightest of them, Jamal (good newcomer Brown), penetrates his lair on a dare, and a mentoring relationship develops between the cranky old writer and the very bright teenager. The film's twists and turns are as predictable as the patronizing racism at the private school that grants the boy a scholarship. Something more surprising might have been made of this odd couple, but Van Sant, emptily...
Forrester (Connery) is a one-book novelist, fallen into an endless Salinger-esque funk. From the window of his Bronx apartment he watches black kids playing basketball in a vastly changed neighborhood. The best and brightest of them, Jamal (good newcomer Brown), penetrates his lair on a dare, and a mentoring relationship develops between the cranky old writer and the very bright teenager. The film's twists and turns are as predictable as the patronizing racism at the private school that grants the boy a scholarship. Something more surprising might have been made of this odd couple, but Van Sant...
...stage at the Orpheum, the musical mix tended to flip between head-bobbing, butt-shaking funk and loose soundscape jamming. The crowd, a mix of dreadlocked Berkelee students and buttoned-down middle-aged jazz fans, divided along the expected lines on whether to get up and shake it or keep to their seats and just enjoy the atmosphere during the first set. Once the second set dropped, though, it was clear that anyone not willing to get up off of that thing was going to be stuck looking at someone else's, and most everyone took to their feet...
...When you've been asked to describe your sound, one of the phrases you like to use is "wet, hard funk." Do you feel that maybe the dance music scene is becoming too interested in creating neat little genres? Are you afraid of your music being pigeonholed...