Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Think what a monster he might have been--what a corrupt, misshapen brat might have emerged from these 35 years of glamour, political power, tragedy, money, fame and relentless, drooling hype. A grotesque egotist might have been the best-case scenario...
R.E.M. has reached that zenith of supergroup super-ness that allows a band to create a completely new sound for each album, satisfying its by now numb zombie-fans and hooking in new ones. New Adventures in HiFi, R.E.M.'s latest, is millennia away from the hipness of Monster, substituting rock'n'roll swagger for the earlier album's cyber cool. The departure is so extreme, and the change in genre so overt, that one can't help sensing some irony in this flavor-of-the-week from everyone's favorite emperors of alternative ice cream...
...industry that made them millionaires can be tolerated, R.E.M.'s New Adventures in HiFi is a complex and layered album. And, yes, some of the songs have that trademark R.E.M. neat-and-tidy quality which promises much radio airplay. The album doesn't feel as innovative as Monster, musically speaking, but as the most recent footprint left by a band with seven-league boots, New Adventures in HiFi is inevitably fascinating...
...Fenway Park: This is a must-see for baseball fans, fans of "Field of Dreams" and those who, like me, grew up believing that baseball must be played in concrete monstrosities which seat 60,000 people. The Green Monster isn't quite as big as it looks on TV, but the small stadium makes this feel like old-time baseball. And since the Red Sox keep threatening to build a new, bigger stadium, check out this piece of Americana while...
...phone conversation he had with the President. Morris told her before it was made public, she said, that NASA had evidence of life on Mars, and he let her read an advance copy of Hillary Clinton's convention speech. He told her his secret nickname for Clinton--"the Monster," inspired by Clinton's temper. Morris told Rowlands that he calls Hillary "the Twister," because she stirs up trouble. In a notebook that Rowlands says is her diary of the affair, she recorded Morris telling her he also called Clinton "the blind man" because "he's super-intellagent...