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...Growing up, they listened to everything from ABBA (of course) to jazz, and their own discography reflects that eclecticism. They've done pop ballads (Because of You, for 98 Degrees) but they've also gone Latin (Una Noche, also for 98 Degrees) and sampled rhythm and blues (Gotta Tell You, co-written with Irish sensation Samantha Mumba...
...least for the first two of the four CDs, it's obvious why the Monkees were as big as they were. These are great songs, pure and simple - two words that describe them perfectly. "(Theme From) The Monkees" works just like the stroll down the street whose rhythm inspired its composition, a nice-guy "We're the Jets"; "Last Train to Clarksville" is a guitar-driven thing of pop splendor; "I'm a Believer" and "A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You" remind us what a distinctive stylist Neil Diamond was before he descended in the bathos-sphere with...
...unnatural," with procreation the natural purpose of sex. How exactly one determines the "purpose" of an act, or how one assigns that purpose moral weight (outside of the naturalistic fallacy that whatever is, is good) is difficult to discern. Even harder is how to justify in this context the rhythm method or sex with an infertile spouse; to do so, conservatives have fallen back on ennobling heterosexuality per se, calling it a "unique two-in-one flesh communion" or invoking, as did Salient publisher Bronwen C. McShea '02, the union of Christ and His Church. Looking for good metaphors...
Firstly, you barely need legs: a person in irons could win a parapara competition. A partner is superfluous, rhythm dispensible and improvisation antithetical. To excell at parapara demands a single skill, and one very prized in Japan: rote memory. You learn the hand motions for each song, in order. You can be a leader or, more likely, a follower. The moves are dictated by those magazines and parapara videos, which means that the dance going on in Kyushu is the same as that in Hokkaido. It sounds incredibly easy except for this final fact: there are 1,600 songs...
...March 1, I have successfully completed my thesis. After a little laundry, a lot of rest and a trip to the library with all my books in my luggage, I am feeling just fine, thank you. Looking back, I see the rhythm of the process, the things I did right and the mistakes I made. Everyone seems to get a little misty-eyed when talking about a thesis, but this aura is an unhelpful attempt to shroud the "capstone experience" in mystery. As a remedy, and with apologies to seniors who are still writing theses, I present...