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...scene set in a chaotic emergency room or in the junk-filled scrubland between a black housing project and a shabby white neighborhood, that yes, this is what such a backwater would look like, sound like, smell like. And that this, as events of Price's long, heavy narration grind toward resolution, is how people sheltering in such a place would claw at one another and disintegrate...
...according to Shames, even for the most academically-oriented pre-frosh, two days is simply not enough to fully understand the daily grind Harvard students face...
Listening to a new Sonic Youth CD is like taking a holiday. Not an easy vacation like, say, skiing in Vail, but more like an adventure tour, the musical equivalent of climbing a particularly high peak without bottled oxygen. Traditional rock can be a sad grind--for example, on Eric Clapton's wan new CD, Pilgrim, one of the few listenable songs, Sick and Tired, turns out to have disturbing lyrics about threatening to blow out a woman's brains...
...contrast to the Currier Ten-Manbump-and-grind raging on across the street, thePforzheimer Battle of the Bands ventured to exposean original display of musical talent to an eageraudience. The show opened up with theharmonica-wielding Voodoo Crabs, an organic rockband complete with a reservoir of superchargedenergy that overshadowed such drawbacks as afailing trumpet and a shameless prance around theaudience by the lead vocalist. The Voodoo Crabs'exuberance was most likely what earned them thirdbest performer of the evening honors, although thegroup did not deserve the designation. Theharmonica solo during "Perched" was the shininghighlight of the set, but nothing else...
...only four days after spring break and I'm already swamped. Among other things, I have a psychology thesis prospectus to write for Monday, a seminar paper due Wednesday, the usual FM layout grind all weekend, and HRTV commitments out the wazoo. Celebrating my 21st birthday today isn't the most pressing thing on my mind right now. In fact, I didn't even go to the Border Cafe for the traditional "you-just-turned-21" midnight margarita. "What? How can you not live it up on your 21st birthday?" you ask incredulously. Am I such a loser that...