Word: halen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...certain songs and albums to certain points in my life. I mentally prepared myself to play lacrosse to the driving rhythms of the Nixons; Van Halen played before my wrestling matches and Miles Davis has been known to make appearances in my room before midterms, soothing my mind and allowing me to penetrate denser material...
...What do you think of Eddie Van Halen...
...more remembered for featuring Alicia Silverstone in their videos, but these hits also kept the power ballad alive in the '90s. The soaring melody and shamelessly hackneyed lyrics of Bon Jovi's 1994 hit "Always" made it one of the most perfect power ballads ever. And in 1995, Van Halen chipped in with the confident "Can't Stop Lovin' You." Still, with Steven Tyler headed for membership in the American Association of Retired Persons and with Jon Bon Jovi headed nowhere, given his quiet 1997 solo single "Midnight in Chelsea," arena rock is rapidly nearing extinction. In its absence...
Flowing easily through a series of hauntingly imagined passages, the story is told by Toru Okada, a guy in his 30s, out of a job, cheerfully bewildered and wandering around in a "yellow Van Halen promotional T-shirt." One day, as he's cooking spaghetti, his life suddenly falls through a rabbit hole of sorts. Spooky strangers call up with cryptic messages, women named Nutmeg and Malta enfold him in weird schemes, his wife disappears, and another woman appears in her clothes and in his bed. Reality plays like a TV program--but one showing on a channel Toru doesn...
...Tommy's isn't just a pit stop. With speakers blaring Van Halen or 70s disco and video and pinball games in the corner, Tommy's is a busy hang-out spot and a favorite tool of the expert procrastinator...