Word: manning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Playing like a man possessed" may be a rock clich, but Poem Rocket's guitarist deserved the tag. He glared at the audience through fierce, bulging eyes, and at numerous times the veins on his head seemed ready to explode. He was certainly an intimidating presence on stage, but he became an even greater menace when during one song he jumped off the stage and stared various members of the audience down face to face as he shook a little shaker ball to the drummer and bassist's beat...
Playing music mostly from their last two albums, Lapsed and Set and Setting, Bardo Pond played a set that steadily increased in energy. Opening with "Tommy Gun Angel" and featuring "Walking Stick Man" and "Datura," they finally broke out the rock with a fine version of "Again." Unfortunately, the end of that song, occurred at 12:30a.m., closing time at the Middle East. So it was sad that at the pinnacle of energy for the show, it all came to a stop--a big disappointment for both an energetic band and the audience that came to see them...
...like that. When Burton first cast Michael Keaton as Batman, people were like, Mr. Mom as Batman, Come on! But I think Keaton is now regarded as the best Batman ever... and when you think about Ichabod Crane, in the novel, he's this gangly, thin, gawky, awkward-looking man with a big nose and big ears. In the novel, Christina Ricci (Katrina Van Tassel) flirts with him to make me jealous and to get my character to marry her, and it works; Brom ends up marrying her in the book. But in the movie, it's not this gawky...
...Park was pretty tough. . . and those bugs were pretty amazing... Id have to say the bugs, because I actually won with them. The other one made me half the man I am today...
...headed to boot camp in a week now, if the Army keeps its latest word, and we have been getting fat. Such things make a man beg for push-ups. Such things make a formerly lazy man like me sneak off for evening runs - highly irregular stuff and yet so bitterly satisfying...