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...fide dancers singing along with the raunchy divas, and dance neophytes feeling the immortal pulse of the 909 kick drum. The surprises continued when Simon picked up an acoustic guitar for “Rendez-vu,” and Felix (progenitor of incredibly cool music but ostensibly a geek behind a mixing board) rushed to the front of the stage with a microphone and, in true rock-star fashion, sang-screamed the lyrics to the spastic, Gary Numan-sampling “Where’s Your Head At.” The clear high of the night came...

Author: By Ryan J. Kuo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Basement Jaxx Rock The Whole House | 10/26/2001 | See Source »

...videos because he thought that Spike Jonze’s “Buddy Holly’” video was responsible for Weezer’s rise to fame. Only one video was made for Pinkerton—a straightforward three-minute ordeal panning over the geek boys playing “El Scorcho.” But now Cuomo seems to have re-evaluated the art of video—unless he sees the sumo wrestlers in the “Hash Pipe” video as a straightforward expression of a song about a teenage transsexual...

Author: By Thalia S. Field and Michelle Kung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: SEEN + HEARD | 9/14/2001 | See Source »

...moguls; Drew McWeeny thinks they?ve lost the dewy magic of moviemania. "So many critics these days are cynical," he says. "They?ve seen so much they?ve burned out on their love of films." Ain?t-it-cool regulars know McWeeny (itself a fabulous moniker for an internet geek) as Moriarty, the insider who has written nearly 300 reviews of movies and movie scripts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Web, the Masses are Critical | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...when the teacher scribbled a math problem on the chalkboard, shouting "chaiyo" (victory) when he inevitably got the right answer. He usually finished his homework in a matter of minutes. Still, the star pupil with the outsized cranium?his nickname among his buddies was Fat Head?was no geek. "He was popular with the other boys and not shy at all," says his second-grade teacher Srimoon Kantha. "I remember him flexing his muscles, saying 'I'm going to grow up and be a hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Clear | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...elite" crime-fighting unit in LA. The show, said Zucker, promises "an exciting, diverse team in front of the camera and behind it." Which means a white character, a black character, a Hispanic actor (Jon Seda) playing a guy named "Jake Shaw" and a nerdy crypto-Jewish computer geek (Jarrad Paul, who was outstanding as the screenwriter in Fox's short-lived "Action"). Most important, this looks possibly to be NBC's bid at creating its own "CSI." Hey, the initials won't hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Upfronts: Kickin' it Down a Notch | 5/15/2001 | See Source »

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