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...silver scarf, entertaining the whole venue. Sunburned took a break to announce “We’re the J. Geils Band, but there ain’t no centerfold fucking up here,” before heading back into their passionate self-indulgence. They were a modern-day Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, playing with delay pedals, riffing and rapping their sound into a violent moaning crescendo. Chief Hand convulsed in spasmodic ecstasy on the floor beneath the silver scarf of his tribal flag. “Now the secret’s out?...
...legions of this exalted flock can be fun, challenging, and most of all exciting. In order to do so without looking like a freak, I give you:THREE TIPS:1) Do not go bra-less. It’s painful and a bit too retro for the sensibilities of modern-day Granola men and women.2) Do not put random patches in your clothes if there are no holes.3) Do not put a “Stop Violence” pin on your back pack. No one will note the reference and then actually stop violence...
...It’s strange that a city 200 miles away has more of a presence on campus than one merely four T stops away, but it makes sense in some strange way. Boston’s colonial appeal takes a back seat to New York’s modern-day sophistication for the very reason that the fast paced life in the Big Apple mimics the constant onslaught of homework and extracurricular meetings. Nevertheless, too often, students descend on New York without considering the alternatives...
...film, the celebration is of the biblical Exodus rather than a settler/American-Indian dinner. “Ushpizin” is the first film made with collaboration between the ultra-Orthodox community and secular filmmakers and is aimed squarely at general audiences as an comedy anyone can enjoy. Set in modern-day Jerusalem, it follows the lives of poor, kindly Moshe Bellanga (Shuli Rand—also the movie’s screenwriter) and his wife Malli (Rand’s real-life wife, Michal Bat Sheva Rand), as they pray for God’s help to find money...
...this plotline only relates to the song’s title, without a deeper connection to the other lyrics in the song, more about a fanciful actor in some imaginary nineteenth-century play than the secret double life of a modern-day office worker. The editing is also pretty terrible; in the jump from the first shot to the second, a blanket magically disappears...