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...tempo beats, but more importantly, the entire attitude of the album has shifted away from the shy “can’t you see I’m trying” desperation of the debut to a new, unspeakably enviable position of power, greed, and control that Julian can now genuinely exude without feeling presumptuous. “Please don’t slow me down if I’m moving too fast,” he sings on “Reptilia,” and inexplicably he has more longing in his voice this time...
Lyrically, Julian has only become more vague since Is This It, but this ambiguity makes the words all the more effective. Concrete storytelling is sparse, but the self-destructive, reluctant confidence radiating from the rest of the lyrics makes for a brilliant contrast in songs like “12:51,” which ends with a warm, softened Julian murmuring “Oh really your folks are away now? / Alright I’m coming / I’ll be right there,” with beer on his breath and a smile on his face...
...world's unofficial No. 1 seed, the guy to beat. But after his respectfully received The Information in 1995, Amis went on an extended excursion into journalism, criticism, memoir, short stories and genre fiction. Doubts crept through the world of letters. Shots were taken, publicly, by the likes of Julian Barnes and A.S. Byatt. People found his immense talent obtrusive and, frankly, kind of irritating. Now Amis' first big novel in eight years, Yellow Dog (Miramax Books; 340 pages), has arrived in the U.S., still charred and smoking from vicious attacks in the British press. Does...
...video is not as goofy as Andre’s, which is a relief: Julian Casablancas has far less in the way of big hair, six packs or James Brown dance moves to show off. Instead, we get Casablancas wondering around a stage, looking like a younger, drunker version of Robert Smith of The Cure, whom The Strokes increasingly resemble sonically as well as in fashion sense...
...there’s someone who can process all the bits of Harvard and synthesize and figure out nuances that need to be compromised and discussed, Jason can do that,” recalls former Crimson President Julian E. Barnes ’93. “When you’re dealing with all the egos of Harvard, you’ve got to have someone who wants to learn from people and treats people with respect...