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...There's a personality factor too. In the previous show, David Horn proceeded to play a flute line that he plays frequently, and Shawn proceeded to attack him with his "alien simulator"--his pitch shifter--and that's something you can't get across unless you're there...
...with any good marine fiction, the sea itself is background, scene shifter and, from time to storm-lashed time, main character. But the series swims also on an ocean of wondrous language, in which inept seamen, for instance, are not only "sad brutish grobians," but "froward dirty disreputable rough good-for-nothing disorderly ragabashes and raparees." If there is a serious flaw, it is that since the novels are mostly about men, they are probably mostly for men. O'Brian writes good female characters, but mostly they remain ashore (and one of the best, Maturin's flamboyant wife Diana, dies...
...other game, such a play would be a huge momentum-shifter; here, it was kind of a joke. There were 15 minutes left to play and the lead had been slashed to five. And when Blain tallied her second goal of the day 10 minutes later, the original margin was restored...
...Malkmus has renounced nonsensical lyrics (to a certain degree) and spends a lot of the record singing bitterly about the music industry, the New York rocker/druggie lifestyle, California politics... On the first single, "Cut Your Hair," he criticizes the music industry (as Nirvana did with their "Radio Friendly Unit Shifter") just as he offers up exactly the sort of pop gem that keeps it alive. Between insanely catchy "Woo woo woo woo ooh oohs" at the beginning of each verse, he sings lyrics like "Songs mean a lot/When songs are bought/And so are you..." In the gorgeous retro-sounding "Range...
...Shape-Shifter, a mixed collection of stories by Pauline Melville originally published in the U.K., has just arrived in the U.S. and probably will not generate much discussion, either for or against...