Word: maida
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...Maida S. Abrams, a great benefactor to Harvard Art Museums and to many art institutions throughout the country, died last Thursday at Massachusetts General Hospital after a bout with cancer...
...their honor, the Fogg renamed one of its curatorial positions as the Maida and George Abrams Curator of Drawings...
...shows how practiced Sidney is at hurting people; he can do it so acutely without hardly trying. Does he even know who's on the receiving end of his barbs? At one point he calls Sally "Sam," even as he sometimes addresses J.J.'s secretary Mary (Edith Atwater) as "Maida...
Spiritual Machines comes barely 14 months after Happiness...Is Not A Fish That You Can Catch, which went largely unnoticed in the U.S. and which the band itself has labeled too complex. "We were trying to make this masterpiece where there [were] just so many different sounds happening," Maida has observed. "A lot of it was over people's heads." Somewhat paradoxically, given its status as a concept-driven album, the mission behind Machines was to keep it simple, at least musically. OLP's signature hook-laden choruses are back, but this time their lyrics are a bit more mature...
...Maida himself admits that the band spent much less time laboring over Machines than with past releases. "With this record," he said, "it was much more about capturing a vibe, capturing an energy, leaving it and then going back to it." Recording took place between a grueling tour schedule that included two trips through Canada, club appearances in the U.S. and Europe, and a stint at the Summersault Music Festival. At one point the band recorded two songs in three days, leaving the mixing up to Brendan O'Brien, whose previous gigs include Soundgarden and Pearl Jam. Despite its conceptual...