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...best be able to inhabit a place when we are not faced with the additional challenge of having to be there." As travel books go, The Art of Travel is on the unconventional side. It isn't about traveling anywhere in particular; it's an extended philosophical riff on the act of traveling itself. De Botton's specialty is the metaphysics of everyday life--he is the thinking lad's Nick Hornby--and in The Art of Travel he takes on the how, the why and the what-it-all-means of wanderlust. Mining his own sometimes hapless experiences (watch...
...drum and instrumental samples, and then turn them into something beautiful. "Whenever I hit a wall," says Davis, "part of me always wishes I knew somebody who played bass, so that I could just call them up and have them come in and bail me out with a new riff to bridge things together. But that's not the discipline. When you hit a wall, the only thing you can rely on is your instrument, which in my case is a sampler...
...pound female Japanese bobcat of distinguished-merit parentage" before an elderly porter abruptly keels over in his room. That same night, Yoshimura ("Yoshi") Fukuzatsu, leader of Japan's most popular rock band, turns up dead in a run-down Tokyo love hotel, providing Adamson with ample opportunity to riff on every Japan clich? in the pop-culture canon...
...Blur’s “Charmless Man” and Redman’s charming lyrics like “Full of whiskey/ Looking for Lewinsky/ So I can get head.” Ever-captivating spastic Busta Rhymes joins Silkk the Shocker and a catchy bass riff courtesy of the Dub Pistols on “The One.” Groove Aramada delivers a silent nod to the Beastie Boys’ “Flute Loop” with their woodwind sample on “Gangsta Queens,” skilfully overlaid by Versace...
...haze of fuzzy, overblown guitars and driving drums with “Shot Shot,” the opening song and lead single. Harder-edged and more condensed than anything Gomez have previously done, the song runs less than two and half minutes. The insistent three note riff is reminiscent of Radiohead’s “National Anthem,” before Gomez subvert it with a wicked saxophone stab and a blues-flecked chorus...