Word: jokes
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...everything else at West Point, even happy hour has a basic utility for the profession of arms. Far beyond the bright lights of the Firstie Club, there's a twilight war that West Point's class of 2005 will soon ride out to join. With each story swapped, every joke told, the cadets test the strength of their long gray line, that celebrated bond that is both lariat and lifeline, roping them into war and pulling them back out as safely as possible...
...Brian Burton's life was turned upside down by a joke. As a composer-producer-DJ working under the name Danger Mouse (often in a mouse costume to ease his stage fright), Burton had a solid career on music's experimental fringe when it hit him: mix the Beatles' White Album with Jay-Z's Black Album, and you get a gray album. "I was cleaning my house at the time," says Burton. "It wasn't my deepest thought ever." Still, he spent three cloistered weeks in his bedroom translating snippets of Beatles music into hip-hop rhythm and synchronizing...
...disappear again, blending until Demon Days feels like a unified theory of music (even if it never generates anything so rigorous or fussy as an actual theory). Burton says he hopes he gave Albarn "the metaphor he wanted." He did, and it's even better than his joke...
...this up-tempo heartbreak tune is so winning it almost sounds new. Akon Lonely Senegal-born, U.S.-raised Akon starts his tale of abandonment with typical woe. Then the chorus - a sample of Bobby Vinton's Mr. Lonely, played at Chipmunk speed - arrives, and the song turns into a joke about self-pity. A rare R&B hit with a hint of self-awareness. Goldie Lookin' Chain Self Suicide the funniest track by this intentionally moronic group straight outta Cardiff (yes, it's Welsh hip-hop) celebrates the commercial benefits of suicide with a jaunty clarinet sample and lyrics ("Committed...
...country that respects history ... [and] wins over the trust of people in Asia and the world at large can take greater responsibilities in the international community." But China is endangering the economic prosperity of a large part of the earth's people, making itself a pariah state and a joke. Sonam Rinchen Hong Kong...