Word: humority
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...while Anderson and Wilson’s artistic tastes may correspond with each other, their sense of absurdist humor diverges from that of the pedestrian. Their past two feature films were far from mainstream, and have practically achieved cult status. However, both are also quick to avoid describing their work as quirky. Anderson elucidates, “I don’t like quirky at all. Quirky is the thing I want to not be. There’s no point in trying to be weird. But I think people think this [movie] stuff is quirky. [Owen...
Overall, Anderson’s third film The Royal Tenenbaums is much darker than his previous cinematic ventures, but the slight divergence is worth the effort. With its collage of complex familial and romantic relationships, demented humor and all-star talent, the film certainly lives up to its tagline: “Family isn’t a word, it’s a sentence...
While self-satirization through frenetic reproduction—as demonstrated by emergent movements at the end of the 1970s like photo-realism—remains a continual theme in the avant-garde art world, rock and roll has lost its sense of humor. The creation of MTV turned rock songs themselves into commercials, and the 1990s have seen the increasing importance of commercial success to rock and roll. At the beginning of the decade, athletes endorsed soft drinks; now that honor goes to Britney Spears. As seen by the reaction of the musical community to the current American war effort...
...enough magazines these days will substitute cuss words for humor. Fuck yeah, that’s what I appreciate about...
...them to a townhouse outside the city proper. Her best friend and roommate Danny writes for the Style section of the Sun and introduces Vicky to a man that he was once attracted to with the affirmation that this mystery man once wrote for Rumpus, Yale’s humor mag. Mystery man is a washed-out writer for Harper’s and the only man alive who knows more showtune lyrics than Vicky. They laugh a lot and dance ontop of bars. One year later at their orthodox wedding, Vicky sings “Nothing?...