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...cell phones on busy street corners between swigs of bottled water--grab our attention and then quickly fade into the wallpaper of contemporary life. That is why the Rip van Winkle story and its many variants remain so appealing. We need, occasionally, someone who's been out of the loop for 20 years to point out everything we've long stopped noticing...
...that Sega classic Sonic the Hedgehog, which the company is marketing as the quintessential Dreamcast game. The visuals are 3-Delicious--Sonic's footprints appear in the sand as he zooms by, while the sun glints in the lens just as it should. But dismal attempts at midair loop-the-loops left me cursing at controls that always seemed a step behind the speedy blue hedgehog. Perhaps my synapses simply don't fire fast enough...
...floor quality of the single, however, Surrender is not especially focused on partying but on extending the scope of sounds. For example, "The Sunshine Underground," the album's halfway point, anchors the album with eight minutes of instrumental music, moving from an Indian-tinged opening to an insistent, psychedelic loop. The album closes with "Dream On" (featuring Jonathan Donahue of college radio favorites Mercury Rev), an impossibly beautiful song that begins with delicate guitar strumming before soaring into its synthesizer refrain: the perfect comedown after too many electric highs...
Coop: 1. Where tourists go to buyHarvard sweatshirts and key chains; where you willstand in line for hours at the beginning of eachsemester to buy overpriced textbooks. 2. Rhymeswith "loop" not "blow pop." 3. A massivebureaucrat that pays smaller and smaller andsmaller rebates to its members each year...
...nuts on the Dueling Dragons--two inverted, high-speed coasters that run in synch and, twice during the two-minute loop-the-loop, come within 2 ft. of crashing into each other. The Ice ride nearly skirts an adjoining castle. The Fire ride is even cooler; it has a camelback dip and lots more delirious twists. As a survivor giddily noted, "it catches you right in the back of the tonsils." And stand in the separate, front-row line to get the ride's full, giddy force; if you're going to fly, you may as well go first class...