Word: listings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every week when the arts section arrives with the local paper, I am always tickled by the list of musical groups scheduled to perform in Connecticut. Perhaps a recent listing that promised shows this summer by three groups--named Leaf Jumpers, Two Ton Shoe and Gargantua Soul--shows...
...quick search on the Internet yielded a long list of alternative bands for which it would be plausible to believe that this naming method was used. The Alternative Rock World home page named top groups like Tragically Hip, Econoline Crush, Gravity Kills, Searching for 13, Sprung Monkey and Marcy Playground...
...name" game whenever we get together. To play is simple. Listen closely to everything you and your friends say. If you're quick enough, you'll pick out odd phrases that put genuine alternative band names--like Perfect Thyroid, Infamous Gnomosexuals, Accidental Groove and Burning Spear--to shame. Our list of outtakes from purely casual speech includes classics like Extraneous Stomach, Sneaky Bucket, Vomitous Swan and, my personal favorite, El Nino Lips...
Coming to college, I brought with me a long list of things to do, few of which had to do with academics. These were ambitions sparing in their creativity, the sort of thing that you giggle over into your fingers, wondering what your mama would say if she found out. There were societal strictures to be broken, and by god, I was going to hellblast my way though them. Just like any repressed and docile good Asian daughter would...
Look out, Leo: Prince William wants to be king. While Leonardo DiCaprio, America's most squealed-at name (and New York's most written-about club-hopper) once again topped the list of Pathfinder.com's most searched-for last week, Britannia's young lion -- on the strength of his Sweet Sixteen -- climbed the charts to a very close second...