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...began to thunder out of the amp wall. Opener Sunburned Hand of the Man was taking the stage. As the baby cried on and on, the Boston natives trickled out, until all nine members had donned instruments, electronics boards, microphones, and drum sticks. It was a motley crew of pseudo-lumberjacks while the keyboardist donned an Animal Collective-like mask. The sole female presence, dressed to impress in a business suit, clutched a cocktail during the entire set, serving the same performance role as the Butthole Surfers’ legendary nude dancer.The band’s chaotic sound may have...
...best of literary-metaphoric writers. Or are they? What does it all mean? A lamp that, when lit, turns day to night...a path beaten back and forth through birch trees...a burnished red suitcase succumbing to the snow? The weight of these metaphors is far beyond my pseudo-science concentrator capabilities. I’ll leave the interpretation to you, literati. . . suffice to say that the video is worth a watch, if just for the chance to hear the song for the first time. To top it off, the glowing winter-woods imagery might even remind you of sledding...
...laments: “My head’s getting bigger…squarer…more like a cube,” as Meg White comforts him. This makes about as much sense as anything else that occurs in the video. Fans of rock’s favorite pseudo-siblings may recall that the White Stripes played Late Night with Conan O’Brian for a week straight in 2003. The video plays out like a fever-dream retelling of one of their performances. All the real elements are there: in one uninterrupted shot, they play, they...
...mostly male—were eager to try Hufu. After eating several pieces, Wen Xu ’06 said that it tasted like a “cross between a chicken and a turkey.” Others were utterly repulsed by the idea of eating pseudo-human flesh; one young woman even called it “offensive.” Perhaps, but offensive doesn’t seem to be in Nuckols’ vocabulary. He is currently developing three new “exciting” products: Delicious Baby Seal, Endangered Panda, and Underprivileged Child...
...about a 30 percent hit since it moved to Sundays. But NBC has created a ratings scheme just so crazy that it might work. What we may be seeing here is a new evolution of the Reality TV genre at work, one which, rather than relying on hyperbolizations of pseudo-reality, aspires to some seamless fusion of the real and the really-well-written instead. Every topic addressed in last Sunday’s debate between candidates Vinick (Alan Alda) and Santos (Jimmy Smits) seemed unnervingly contemporary in its relevance, from war and oil to health care. And here?...