Word: sucks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Others wear '80s pants so tight they can feel them. The pants force them to suck in their stomachs and sit straight, straight up all class period...
...ageing rocker wannabes, perhaps more mortified than most--both by the low, low volume of their evening of youth recaptured and by their own girlfriends' imperfect French and butt--begin yelling. And yelling quite audibly, since Iggy is after all singing acoustic. "Play some music" and "Please don't suck" and so on. So if there's one constant in Iggy Pop a.k.a. James Newell Osterberg's career, it's that he pisses off his audience. Bit more interesting when he did by stabbing himself with glass, though. Or rolling in peanut butter...
...science fiction junkie, the real crux of why I'm so enamoured with the show has to do with its content. The paranormal, the paranoia, the occasional fairytale--these are light-years away from the kind of hectic, non-stop existence that often seems like one big energy suck. Call it a substitute for all those dreams and nightmares that I'm just not having because I simply don't get to sleep, if you will...
...songs--well, they are indescribably bizarre. "They Threw Me Out of Church," "Birdman Kicked My Ass" and "Suck a Caribou's Ass" are highlights of Wesley Willis Greatest Hits Vol. 2, for example. The lyrics are just as tasteful. In each number, the chorus is a chanted repetition of the song's title, and the verses are a Willis story, often punctuated by someone getting stabbed in the ass or, in other instances, fellating a large mammal. His more tender tunes often declare that he loves a friend like "a milkshake" or "Post Raisin Bran...
Lainie Kazan and Iggy Pop will serenade you with Auld Lang Syne as you and yours suck the last dregs from your jeroboam of Roederer Cristal and giant tube worms and deep-sea shrimp (tres joli!) caper about the volcanic sulfide chimneys outside your stateroom's bay windows...