Word: offbeat
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...keeping with Kon's taste for offbeat topics, Tokyo Godfathers follows a makeshift family of homeless people?transvestite ex-drag queen Hana, scruffy middle-aged bum Gin and runaway teenager Miyuki?who discover an abandoned baby in a garbage heap and embark on a search for its parents. It's a briskly paced comedy with a gentle core and a prickly surface. ("You can't get milk from an old queer's tits," yells Gin, mocking Hana's burgeoning maternal instincts.) Set during Christmas in a gorgeously detailed, snow-softened Tokyo, it's also one of the most affectionate, meticulous...
...Boring by Daniel Clowes (Pantheon; 2000) Best known for "Ghost World," thanks to the movie version, Clowes' "David Boring" is a more sophisticated novel of a guy in search of a woman while the world may be ending. Part of the "second generation" of comix creators, Clowes' flair for offbeat characters and sly humor has no peer...
...Cocky, offbeat choruses aside, Aesop’s style does not easily lend itself to performance. The congestion of syllables in his rhymes leaves little space for the declamatory style underpinning most rappers’ showmanship. At times, he seemed to struggle to keep up with the manic flow of words, his eyebrows leaping up while his lips worked furiously, though he never seemed to miss a beat. But he did run into trouble with the Yankees cap that he is seldom without, which he politely turned backwards in the face of the Boston crowd...
...think it’s cool. I think that this gives a sense of what [Yale] is becoming—more exciting, perhaps a little offbeat,” DeStefano said before the competition. “I hope the Yale guy wins, or else everybody else’s car is going to be towed,” he joked...
...actor." The series, God Please Give Me More Time, sizzled. It drew an astonishing 28.3% of Japan's viewing audience and was even credited with sparking a 62% increase in the number of Japanese getting HIV-aids tests. Kaneshiro followed up in 2000 with his third Japanese movie, the offbeat action-comedy Space Travelers, which broke box-office records in Japan. His latest Japanese movie, Returner, was the top-grossing domestic film last year...