Word: pods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...something" that turns the human system into a four-alarm fire is capsaicin, a chemical concentrated in the veins and seeds of the chile pod. A member of the nightshade family (as are tomatoes, potatoes and tobacco), the chile pepper is believed to have originated in South America. Incas and Mayans prized it for its vibrant flavor and curative powers, prescribing peppers for ailments as diverse as arthritis, epilepsy and the common cold. Pepper seeds carried back to Europe by Christopher Columbus eventually found their way to China, Korea, Thailand and India -- the last of which today leads all other...
...lead vocalist and guitarist, graces the album with her hardedged doll voice and infectious lyrics. Deal (also the bassist for the Pixies) sings with her twin sister Kelly and Josephine Wiggs, the Breeder's basist. The disc is a slim but promising follow-up to last year's remarkable Pod...
...first song on the four-track disc, "Do You Love Me Now," propels itself with a simple throbbing bass line, weird guitars and sweet vocals. It resembles Pod's catchy "Hellbound" and "Fortunately Gone," but adds more rough stuff to the sing-song melodies and snappy beats...
...unity. It makes for a coast-to-coast viewers' version of what Kurt Vonnegut Jr. called a granfalloon, a wholly artificial brotherhood. TV characters themselves, whatever good lines their writers give them, almost inevitably have the flat soulless quality of people dropped on earth and hatched from a pod. Maybe it's the electron dust on the screen...
...same time, it wasn't like living in a library. Hurlbut did have a preponderance of singles, but it also had "pods," hallwaysturned-common-rooms fully equipped with carpets and couches. There were ten of us living in the rooms around the pod on my floor, and we all got to know each other really well. Lee lived in one of the rooms around the pod on the floor below, so we became close with the guys who hung out there, too; we appropriated their pod as a sort of second common room...