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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does it slip into a coma when I'm surfing the Web on my home computer and a friend tries to call me on the same line? After all, a modem connection is just another phone call. But for all our high-tech wizardry, my friends still get a busy signal even if I'm just deleting junk e-mail or downloading a song. I may get a little drowsy at the keyboard, but I can still multitask--if only my PC will...
Talking to folk/rock/hip-hop performer Beck is like walking behind the food cart on an airplane. You just have to get in line and wait till it gets where it's going. Beck answers in digressive monologues that so completely exhaust a question that, by the end, you almost forget what the question was. Ask him about the comparisons his music has drawn to Bob Dylan's, and he replies, "I never really identified with him as a person... His art and music, they're undeniable, but... I'm probably more influenced by Leonard Cohen and Ramblin' Jack Elliott and other...
...noise and brassy horn-section blasts; the lyrics alternate between absurdist imagery and street jokiness. Beck isn't afraid to fail, and he sometimes does. But while other rock-hoppers adhere to a "keep it real" doctrine, Beck feels free to invent his own playful lyrical reality: "I wanna get with you/ Only you/ And your sister/ I think her name's Debra," he sings in the soul-ballad Debra. This is smart music with a smile...
...much grumpier can you old men get...
...including your publication) constantly referred to the political and social beliefs of the two murderers, giving them a national platform. A group of Ohio teens have a social message that they want the world to know about, and so they plan an attack on their school. Where would they get this idea? From video games? Movies? I believe they were inspired by the media's coverage of the Columbine incident and other school shootings, where every aspect of the murderers' lives is reported on TV and in the press, making them heroes to troubled teens. The media should devote more...