Word: leos
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...game at MTV headquarters were nervous too, though they had varied musical credentials. Christopher Porterfield, TIME writer and editor emeritus, had played jazz in college and, as a young TIME staffer in 1964, traveled with the Beatles on their first American tour. He played bass. On drums was Leo Sacks, a Grammy-nominated music producer of vintage R&B who is making a documentary on the New Orleans gospel icon Raymond Myles. TIME writer Gilbert Cruz, the only participant who knew his way around the Rock Band platform, took lead guitar. The vocals were shared by TIME Arts editor Radhika...
...Chris, Leo and Gilbert assaulted their instruments, which take some getting used to. After the first song, Chris said, "I'm so concentrated on getting those notes, and loving it when a note comes through as it should, that I'm not really into the song. If I did this for a while, I'd relax a little more and probably miss a few notes. And it'd be worth it." Same with the vocals. Radhika and I dutifully read the lyrics passing before our eyes - until we realized, hey, these words are in our muscle memory. Then we could...
...guitar. Mercifully, Rock Band doesn't record your amateur Beatling (though an incriminating video of our session will be available at time.com/video) But even if your performance is less Beatles than dung beetles, it's hard not to get into the spirit of the game. Leo told us, "I'm going to be a first-time father at 52 in a few weeks, and I can really see this as a wonderful teaching tool in our home." And video-game veteran Gilbert announced, "I'm going to buy the game the day it comes out." That's three - make...
...From Leo Tolstoy: “Vegetarianism is the root of humanitarianism...
...ethical. Instead, Hopkin advocated an approach to animal rights that focused on the social contract instead of utilitarianism, and on leveraging consumer power to work for better farming practices instead of abstaining from eating meat. Friedrich, however, argued by using quotations from vegetarians ranging from Paul McCartney to Leo Tolstoy to Cameron Diaz—who compared eating bacon to “eating my niece.” During the question and answer session, audience members asked questions such as, “Is it ethically permissible to eat the meat leftovers of your friend sitting across the table...