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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Folds played a fantastic concert last summer with Rufus Wainwright and Guster in New York’s Central Park. The singer-songwriter consistently engaged his audience from behind the keys, at times conducting them to hum the orchestral parts missing during his performances of old Five songs. But there’s nothing engaging, and certainly nothing to sing along with, on Super D, which only includes three Folds originals. Instead, the ever-innovative pianist tries his hands at addressing the demand for a metal piano arrangement of the Darkness’s “Get Your Hands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW MUSIC | 10/15/2004 | See Source »

...pain-killers (prescriptions cost as much as $2 to $3 a day), and many doctors felt the drugs were being hyped far beyond their medical value. "These agents have been the subject of absolutely intensive, unrelenting marketing," Wofsy says. Even if you don't have arthritis, you can probably hum the Celebrex jingle or Vioxx's It's a Beautiful Morning theme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Painful Mistake | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

...headlights faded into the vast expanse of emptiness. For a moment, I saw nothing. No trees, no bushes and not one familiar contour of a sheep or cow behind the fences of a paddock. The illuminated dials in the dashboard seemed all there was in the world and the hum of the engine its only heartbeat...

Author: By Silas Xu, | Title: Just Checking | 8/6/2004 | See Source »

...siren went off for a moment, quickly interrupted and replaced by the megaphoned voice of a police officer saying that the fire marshal had closed off the convention for the night. All hopes seemed to be dashed—and then a heavily accented voice rose over the hum of the crowd, and a rubber dog puppet rose over its heads...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Convention Doors Lock Out Delegates on Final Evening | 7/30/2004 | See Source »

General Motors bit the bullet in April and finally shut down its Oldsmobile division, freeing me to share a secret: despite the assertions of the famous ad campaign, it was always your father's Oldsmobile. The body styles were boring, the engines ho-hum, the seats fairly comfortable but blandly upholstered, and the radios seemed to be preset at the factory to play only stations called "the Breeze." Plus, most of them smelled like Pall Malls and cherry cough drops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Rules Of The Road | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

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