Word: humority
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...album, The Sound of Water. The British pop trio with the un-British sound has been together for more than a decade now, and it seems like they get better with every album. This latest recording, soon to be released on the Mantra label, follows 1998's fabulous Good Humor. It is a bit more subdued than the previous album, with fewer outright pop hits, but the songs play tight, and various electronic beats are mixed very well with lounge-style keyboarding and the traditional St. Etienne jangly guitar sound. And of course there is Cracknell's beautiful, melodic singing...
Whether or not a band originally formed by two gas-huffing eighth graders in suburban Pennsylvania needs greater insight into working class America is debatable, but the band certainly has some new insights into what makes humorous music. Gone is the penis humor and the sludge-rock sound of tracks like "Poopship Destroyer" and "She Fucks Me." Aside from the loungy swing of "Pandy Fackler" and the oddball Jimmy Buffett-meets-"Hotel California" sound of "Bananas and Blow," White Pepper's tracks either subtly ape the Beatles or not-so-subtly ape the alternaballad crowd that wishes they weren...
...Broadway Danny Rose. I had just come to live in America and all I had really seen was "The Facts of Life" on TV-I used to think those four girls are so big, they're gonna break the floorboards-and then I thought, "Oh God, this is humor in America." And then I saw Broadway Danny Rose which celebrates the loser. And that doesn't seem to be a lot of what I see in America. Everyone's like, "I'm a winner and I'm special and I'm great." It was so good to see someone different...
...smart, you know. She's the smarter one of the two. And I find that endearing. I always love characters that have the humor and the sadness. It comes out best in that dinner party scene - she has that obsession with being involved with the charities. It's not, "I want to be on the board," it's "I want to be a patron." I like people who know who they are because I'm obsessed with class - you know because I'm from England. There's not such an obvious class system here - though there does seem...
...lowlife, an impractical dreamer, who has to put up with the constant nags of his wife Frenchy (Tracy Ullman). Ray spends his days conjuring schemes - usually illegal ones (he's done some hard time - yes, yes, imagining Woody Allen surviving time in a jail cell is part of the humor, I'm sure). This time, Ray notices that a store next to a bank is up for rent and convinces his friends and Frenchy that they could tunnel into the bank's vault from behind the store. They buy the store under the cover of a cookie bakery, Frenchy churns...