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Guero’s influences stretch beyond old Beck material, embracing the inglorious lower tiers of pop culture and throwing them into the mix. Some of the electronic ditties, such as that of “Earthquake Weather,” recall the early 1990s childhood aesthetic of Super Mario Brothers or Sonic the Hedgehog. At other times Guero moves away from the standard beats and chord progressions of pop music to dabble in non-Western modes and rhythms; “Missing” is to Beck what “Within You, Without You?...
...Foer can mix the trials of growing up with the poignancy of grief because his novel is not a memorial to Sept. 11 in the same way that much of the artwork and writing on it up to now has been. Extremely Loud is not a supplement to the famous photograph of a firefighter who holds a flag amidst the rubble. It is a digested, reflective, and tender reworking of what happened into an active, contemporary context...
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...limited to what you saw on MTV this spring break? Just because your spring break lacked a little in the Cancun department doesn’t mean other people have to know. Cambridge has a number of tanning salons that’ll turn your alabaster skin to bronze. Mix that Piña Colada, put on some Bob Marley, and get ready to fake ’n bake...
Chocolate chip ice cream addicts may choose to seek “Chocolate Therapy” instead—a mix of chocolate ice cream, pudding, and cookies which is replacing the simpler flavor of yesteryear. B&J’s claims that it will provide therapy for any “discombobulated state” into which it may have inadvertently thown consumers...