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...this remix of the video by Dustin McLean, the lyrics repeat exactly what is occurring on screen. "Everything's drawn and super 80s," croons the singer when the woman first enters the comic (the technique used here is one called rotoscoping, which essentially draws over footage of actual people; Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was one of the first major films to use rotoscoping, while more recent examples include A Scanner Darkly and Waking Life). "I'm going to kick some ass with my own pipe wrench," when the leather-clad dude pulls out his weapon (where...
...posh college kids who briefly went by the band name Seymour, after J.D. Salinger's suicidal genius. Blur's music had oblique melodies and omnivorous influences; Oasis ripped off as many Beatles tunes as it could get away with. On one of the many occasions when Blur's lead singer, Damon Albarn, mocked the musical sophistication of his rivals, Noel Gallagher replied that he wished Albarn would "catch AIDS and die." It was, in its horrible way, an excellent feud...
...While three prominent portraits of Harvard women have been added to the room, the space is dominated by a superb portrait of Abbott Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, painted by John Singer Sargent. Lowell, who served as president of Harvard for 24 years, is now infamous for his bigoted attitudes toward African-Americans, Jews, homosexuals, and other minorities. “In the stories of racial minorities of all kinds, ethnic minorities, Harvard has a history of overt discrimination,” Ulrich says...
...Quincy Adams that sits near the tray disposal in Adams dining hall. It is a work by Gilbert Stuart, perhaps the most famous American portrait artist, and was finished by Thomas Scully. Grindlay calls it “a very major work of American art.” Another Singer Sargent, of Charles W. Eliot, rests in Eliot Dining Hall, and the Winthrop House Library contains the largest private collection of John S. Copley portraits...
...wrote a lot of songs. These were the worst.” It’s hard to listen to the 14 tracks on “Surfing,” however, and buy Banhart’s assessment of the situation. The words spoken by the Venezuelan singer that evening were not self-deprecation, nor were they even a poor attempt at lowering crowd expectations. Instead, they were indicative of a mode of living that the album embodies—one in which the artists involved are fundamentally talented and seem to derive true and honest pleasure from making...