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...first time in college, I felt that I had some wisdom to offer and the obligation to pass it on to younger students. Moreover, I finally felt comfortable enough at Harvard to lead visitors on tours of campus and regale them with anecdotes about the QRR and Primal Scream...
...geography, the place where God reaches down to connect the human and the divine. From the time nearly 4,000 years ago when men first settled Mount Zion, a hill that stood out dramatically from its surroundings to betoken the "holy," all successive conquerors have found there an unshakable primal attachment, however different their rites and rituals. But instead of living up to their sacred ideals, the religious conquerors always fell into warfare for sole possession of the place, a battle that goes on unabated as the city enters its fifth millennium...
...right, look. We possess no special dish about Lovett and Roberts. As for the primal emotions on The Road to Ensenada--feelings of guilt, betrayal, failure, vengefulness--these can also be found in something like 95% of all country songs written by people who were never married to Julia Roberts. But only about 5% are as potent as the tunes here--whoever inspired it, this is Lovett's solidest package in a long, ornery career...
...called Free Willy, and you dozed in your seat as your child sat rapt in communion with a lonely lad and his pet whale. Now it's Flipper, a remake of the 1963 film that spawned two sequels and a TV series. But it's still the same primal kitsch: boy finds dolphin, boy loves dolphin, adults wonder what's the big deal with the boy and his dolphin. Jeez! Adults don't understand anything...
...possessive frenzy about his "John B. Stetson." 'Promises,' meanwhile, is naked Lyle, skin flayed, soul raw with grief that could be whispered from a jail cell or an unquiet grave. The melody is plain, the guitar accompaniment plaintive: the song enshrouds you in its desperate beauty. "The primal emotions on 'The Road to Ensenada' -->