Word: postalization
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...exciting as a Noh play. But the events leading up to September's Diet election had all the thrills of a sumo smackdown. In August, the Diet had voted down one of the most cherished reform projects of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi?a plan to privatize the government postal system, which, among other things, is the world's largest savings bank. Koizumi then made good on a threat many had considered a bluff. He dissolved the Diet's lower house and called a snap election, positioning the vote as a referendum on whether the people wished to cling to their...
...Such Great Heights” by The Postal Service. Couldn’t figure out where that cool quote in Karen Taylor’s AIM profile came from until these pleasant little bleeps showered all over me and gave me something to calm down to before every premed midterm...
...also strong and present—through slow, melancholy melodies like “Cinder and Smoke”Beam, who along with artists like Sufjan Stevens and Devendra Banhart is bringing the folk aesthetic to a modern, independent audience, gained widespread attention after his cover of the Postal Service’s “Such Great Heights” appeared on the “Garden State” soundtrack. Fittingly enough, he played a set full of inspired reworkings of his own catalog.A stripped-down, softly finger-picked version of “Southern Anthem?...
...there you have it: Fifteen Minutes. While it’s not quite good enough for regular postal mail, it might just make you want to screw your doorbox back on. At the very least, FM’s relatively handsome graphics and generous dimensions make for great wrapping paper. Now all you have to do is remove a CD from the cover of a music magazine and you can check “Mom” off the Christmas list...
...full project…We didn’t know we were going to make a full album but that’s what happened. Cat loves to listen to the Smashing Pumpkins, the Beatles, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Janis Jopplin, Joni Mitchell and even the Postal Service. But she thinks of her songwriting as very unique. Obviously you’re influenced by whatever you hear or that you like at the time. But I think when you’re songwriting it’s important to try to not draw from those influences and try to just...