Word: humanityã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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Frontman Robert Nanna has a strong and plaintive, if somewhat unremarkable voice. The lyrics are mostly indistinct—which is not a huge loss to humanity??and wander mostly over onto the wrong side of the personal self-revelatory/Dadaist random incoherency divide. Nothing resembles a narrative, and characters underpin most of the songs. A fairly random sampling, from “Our Weekend Starts on Wednesday” yields: “Out of the darkness / Sings a signal to our sleep / APB for every dream / Dead within the week / Hooray...
...born of our parents’ generation, reached its apogee at the height of the Vietnam War, and survives to this day in tenured faculty positions everywhere. And it is the fantasies of that generation—its moral relativism, its cult of cynicism, its delusion that all of humanity??s ills result from either Western capitalism or U.S. foreign policy—that, in their death throes, kick and scream against the better angels of our nature who yearn to believe in an America that is both strong and good...
...Iran, Russia, North Korea, Libya, Syria and Sudan are all known to have biological weapons programs. The U.S. and the Russia have both worked on the development of anthrax, a bacterium that is spread among livestock and that poses significant dangers to humans. Terrorists could even reverse one of humanity??s greatest achievements by reintroducing smallpox, which has been eradicated by a sustained global health effort and which is no longer treated as a danger requiring immunization...
...shame in choosing to direct a silly film (Ants In Your Pants—the sequel) as opposed to a more somber choice (O Brother, Where Art Thou—the original). It was diversionary levity, and not “a canvas in the suffering of humanity?? that helped people temporarily forget their troubles, release their suffering and escape from the hardships of the world. In 1965, when America sent her first combat troops into Vietnam, the most popular movie of the year was The Sound of Music...
...publicists haven’t been able to market their films properly on television. The severe evilness of last week’s atrocity has forced the entertainment industry into uncharted territory–and before industry standards return to reporting the latest gossip, we should take note of humanity??s 20, instead of 15, minutes of fame. But while the thought of watching ridiculously overpaid stars parade down a red carpet in million dollar outfits, or even the thought of catching a comedy at your local cineplex may seem obscene now, eventually the time will return when...