Word: mellowness
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...Beercan” was one of the emblematic “slacker-raps” from Beck’s 1994 album, “Mellow Gold.” He played it early on in his thrilling set at the Bank of America Pavilion last Thursday, with microphone held high and confidence in his voice...
...suburbs and the American education system, the twenty-something members of Sore have the uniquely Indonesian capacity to sound optimistically world-weary. On their debut album Centralismo, the group has written romantic songs inspired by the old corners of central Jakarta where they hung out as kids. The mellow blend of guitar, piano and strings evokes a retro sound from the late '60s without being derivative. It's an album perfect for those rainy days when all you really want to do is lie back and dream of a simpler time in your life...
Ellis wears all black--black polo shirt, black slacks, black shades--and is surprisingly physically imposing, tall and broad. He's handsome in a nerdy way--he's like a larger, fleshier Greg Kinnear. He's also surprisingly smiley and sunny of outlook: the brooding wunderkind has become a mellow wundergrownup. "I'm 41!" he says. "I just want to get my Zyrtec [his allergy medication] and my nice cheese [this is during the cheese course] and take...
Perhaps because he's in Austin, or because he's so mellow, or because he still looks like a postcollege mop-topped, ex-jock vegetarian from East Texas, or because other than School of Rock's $81 million box-office take, his movies don't make much money, people think of him as the official spokesman for the slacker generation. "I had my chance to do that, and my instinct was to back away. 'Kurt Cobain just died, do you want to go on ABC tonight?' No, I don't. I don't want to speak for my generation that...
...Nowadays, however, he is more likely to exasperate his own party: on a visit to Pakistan last month, he praised its founder, Mohammed Ali Jinnah. Brahma Chellaney, strategic studies professor at the New Delhi-based Center for Policy Research, says this broad change in the Hindu right has helped "mellow" relations between India and Pakistan. "Even if there is another major attack, there will be no major reaction in India," he says. Which is another way of saying: people want peace...