Word: songfulness
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...been broken in the ensuing chaos. Everyone wanted to know what so many police cars had been doing blocking off the street, but no one seemed to think it was racially motivated. Several people did get a good laugh from looking up the lyrics of the hip-hop song that had supposedly started the fight (“Knuck If You Buck,” by Crime Mob). One of my blockmates even reported that her Spanish class had excitedly discussed the fight at “the black students’ party...
...another. It’s not like in Proust where it is a commonality of sensation. It’s more abstract. I started noticing this process in myself as well. For example, I was jogging with my ipod and I had it on shuffle and not all songs can be jogged to and so I kept clicking until I got to the right song and it reminded me about how in baseball the catcher has to signal to the pitcher until he agrees. They come unbidden from what I think is a very profound process of human memory...
...Twenty minutes later, when the party was getting into full swing, the DJ played the popular hip-hop song “Knuck if you Buck,” according to Jarred M. Watson, a student at Northeastern. The song’s lyrics include “Yeah we knuckin’ and buckin’ and ready to fight...See me, I ain’t nothin’ nice...
...That’s a song where everybody goes wild,” Watson said. “The crowd started touching each other and bumping into each other. Then I saw a whole bunch of people screaming, and I saw people fighting...
...intimate discussion. And Dan's mom (Dianne Wiest), it's clear, has been nagging him all his life. "Get lost for a while," she tells him one morning. "No, get lost - it's not a request." Wiest passes along this command with a painted-on smile, a sing-song voice and the suggestion that only good manners keeps her from screaming; it's as if she's spent a long day conversing with four-year-olds...