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What will reconcile us is what has always restored our sanity, and that is the plain pleasures of the physical world, our common love of coffee, the world of apples, the movements of birds, the lives of dogs, the touch of skin. Music. Dancing to music. Shooting baskets. Shooting conservatively, scoring liberally. Lacing up our skates, gliding through the dusk. Having worked ourselves into a fever over the future of Western civilization, we will now begin enjoying our oatmeal again, with raisins, chopped apricots and honey from bees that grazed in meadows of clover. The beauty of engagement is disengagement...
...façade of humor—and is utterly unwilling to try to improve his situation. For example, on their trip, Jack and Miles hang out with a waitress named Maya (Virginia Madsen) who’s smart and warm and gorgeous and…into Miles? The plain, bitter, mopey Miles? Give me a break. And how does Miles react to Maya’s interest in him? By feeling more sorry for himself, a characterization flub which might be funny in a Woody Allen movie, but Miles isn’t bitterly sarcastic enough for this...
...version of The Rocky Horror Show. Leave your water pistols and rice at home, the producers want to keep the historical Eliot Hall in good condition. Call (617) 524-3200 for more info. Tickets $21. 8 p.m. Running Oct. 29 through Nov. 13. Eliot Hall, 7A Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain...
...songs into Frank Black’s covers. Where it isn’t always evident, unfortunately, is in the vocals, often coming across as either weak or too ornamental given the song material, and at times (“Where is My Mind?”) just plain silly. Particularly excessive is the disc’s final, whopping, fifteen-minute version of “Planet of Sound,” which expands the whirlwind-punch of the two-minute original into a lumbering hurricane (the phrase “fucking around” is repeated over forty...
...team. Few were surprised that rioting erupted around Fenway Park after the Red Sox won the American League Championship Series to send them to their first World Series since 1986. Indeed, when the Red Sox beat the St. Louis Cardinals, even greater pandemonium will occur. But it is just plain stupid to take out your excitement by turning over cars, pulling the sign off McDonald’s or setting fires. This kind of destructive misbehavior led to 16 injuries on Wednesday and, tragically, one death...