Word: john
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know about the troubles of sharecroppers or migrant workers? The lyrics of most blues songs read like a litany of unfaithful lovers, spiteful landlords and unsympathetic bosses. The song titles alone are enough to fill a therapist's appointment book: "My Baby Don't Love Me" by John Lee Hooker, "Please Send Me Someone to Love" by Luther Allison, "Born Under a Bad Sign" by Albert King. Whatever problems I faced in the cookie-cutter world of middle class New Jersey seemed to pale in comparison to the stuff of "the blues...
...radio station that's going to play across the board, from punk to techno to dub, but just underground music, because most stations in the U.K., they have advertising, so they have to find a mainstream audience, to sell adverts. [BBC] Radio One, evening-time, is bearable... you know John Peel? He's probably the most famous radio DJ in the U.K. He's always interesting, but I don't really listen to the radio or watch...
...unity that Yeremin orchestrates on a sensory level is downright astonishing. Scott Bradley's sets are a work of art in themselves, something of a cross between installation art and Isamu Noguchi's minimalist sets for the New York City Ballet. Add to that the light design of John Ambrosone, for whom no slant of light or subtlety of shading is unattainable, and the stoic formalism of Catherine Zuber's costumes, which make Chekov's rural social philosophers seem as though they could just melt into the landscape, and you have a two-hour-long painting on the stage. Yeremin...
...only means of expression is the fervent beat of a drum. Each member was as good an actor and dancer as percussionist. As a result, it is difficult to name the "star" of the show. The physically intimidating Shaka Opare bullies the meeker--but hilarious--Taro Alexander, while tough John Sawicki challenges Opare in a series of beat-battle-royales. The intense competition between the performers is guaranteed to whip the crowd into a happy enthusiasm. "Stomp" was specifically desgined to bring the fun to the audience, and it succeeds in the most literal...
...Berliner '02, an adamant supporter of herbal therapy, stocks her medicine cabinet with blue-green algae, Vitamin C and St John's wort, which is claimed to support a healthy mood and even help relieve mild depression...