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Everybody in Electric Six has a made-up name (the guitarists are the Rock and Roll Indian and Surge Joebot), but if the band is full of ironic knuckleheads, at least they're ironic knuckleheads with talent. Tracks like She's White and Improper Dancing have a lunatic energy that starts with singer Dick Valentine, whose over-enunciated roar makes him sound like a postmodern Tom Jones. The music is guitar pop, but Electric Six are liberated or lazy enough to steal ideas from anywhere, so disco beats and power chords get sprinkled in. Most tracks sound as if AC/DC...
Danny, while writing for Seinfeld, included “Festivus”—his father’s made-up holiday loosely based on Samuel Becket’s play Krapp’s Last Tape—in a 1997 episode, “The Strike...
...recent night, three sergeants from the American Midwest sit at a table in a pizza joint downrange with a heavily made-up, platinum blonde Russian in a tight T shirt and pants. She sips mango juice and says nothing. Dressed in T shirts and jeans, the men swig Budweisers from the bottle and joke with each other. They do not want to give their names. "Just chillin' out," says one, his brown hair cropped on the sides and brush-cut short on top. He likes the Army, he says, though he can't wait to get home...
...home. Depending on the club (there are nearly a dozen in Hong Kong alone), the amount of drinking varies from an optional cold one at the finish to a supervised "down-down" of several beers in quick succession, due to some violation of an obscure?and quite possibly made-up on the spot?hashing law. While the rules vary from group to group, one is a constant: anyone caught wearing new sneakers will be punished with an extra large serving of beer?drunk from the offending shoe...
...stock of each other’s outfits, whispering cattily to their friends when spying a particularly heinous ensemble. Guys, some surreptitiously, others not so much, eyed the female contingent with interest. Glitter and sequins were out in full force, adorning tiny tank tops, suction-tight pants and intricately made-up eyes. For the males, jeans and button-downs were standard, though a few took the dance’s Greek theme to heart. Wrapped in a white sheet masquerading as a toga, Jesse M. Burros ’05 gave his take on all the fuss...