Word: homely
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...most beautiful. The novelist is Arturo Belano’s kindred spirit, a secret brother who seems to absorb the whole weight of his tragic experience—from his time in the Werhmacht on the apocalyptic Eastern Front to his haunting stay in a rest home for the demented—with a consciousness that remains totally opaque but for his books. But he’s more a symbol than a man: a silent, sage-like alien figure whose enigma never promises anything like life, let alone hope...
...behind the album—it’s very Cagean and shit. And that’s cool. But I rarely listen to Cage’s compositions. I read his books and talk his talk when I’m drunk at parties, and then I go home, and I listen to Weezer. In that sense, I think “In Rainbows” is just better music...Radiohead is a band, and popular music is popular music. Anyone trying to conflate it to more than that in order to sustain some wet dream is fooling himself...
Okay, here’s what I’m thinking: a big old beached whale wants to leave the beach again. A wizard comes to help. A coal miner empathizes. A local marine biologist, perhaps George Costanza, wants to take the whale home, but doesn’t know how to do it, as he isn’t interested in taking it in a box or a bag. Honestly, your guess is as good as mine. Check the YouTube “misheard” lyrics for a pretty astute play by play...
...home of Harvard’s bureaucracy and UHS, the Holyoke Center boasts an outward appearance as unpleasant as the experiences one can have inside it. This was Spanish modernist architect Josep Lluís Sert’s first contribution to Harvard, and one can only wish he had stopped there. Sadly, he didn’t, and his buildings populate 3/5 of this list...
...wants to work for Diddy. Diddy, go home. You’re trying too hard...