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...true that he played passionate minimalist rock in a time otherwise filled mostly with orchestral, pretentious crap and inoffensive James Taylor wimpery. Richman's influence is all over '77 punk, as you know if you've ever heard the Sex Pistols' massacre of "Roadrunner." And a cover of "Pablo Picasso" appeared in Alex Cox's brilliant movie Repo...
...album, which were much better live, and he also played many of his classics, like "I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar" ("Well the straight bar things were stop and stare/But in this bar things were laissez faire") and the hilarious "Parties in the USA." He played "Girlfriend" and "Pablo Picasso" ("Well some people try to pick up girls/And get called assholes/This never happened to Pablo Picasso/Not like you"), both from the first Modern Lovers album (to the delight of the crowd), which sang so loud they nearly drowned out the sound of poor Jonathan. Richman loves to swing...
...TIME; in New York City. Brine, an Iowa native who grew up skating on the Mississippi, opted in 1945 to begin her career at TIME rather than Newsweek because of its proximity to Rockefeller Center's skating rink. During her four-decade career, she interviewed such icons as Pablo Picasso and Maria Callas and conceived cover stories on women, crime and the elderly...
...Southern Comfort, go hollering down a road in a pickup truck with some loud rebel yells, bash some mailboxes with a baseball bat, and then go cow-tip-ping. (Quite an endorsement from a 5'4" Asian girl who mostly listens to Sarah McLachlan and likes to read Pablo Neruda poems...
...opera Carmen have led many composers to excerpt various dances and songs from the work. The flamboyant style of the melodies have made the work especially attractive to composers looking for virtuoso showpieces, and for no instrument has the opera been more metamorphosized in this manner than the violin. Pablo de Sarasota's Carmen Fantasy is probably the most famous, but there are also violin works by the German composer Franz Taxman and the Hungarian Jennie Hubby. Friday's concert marked a first in that Sham excerpted the most difficult parts from each of these three pieces and created...