Word: surrealism
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...surreal memories of that first year, my friendship with Joseph M. Garland '00 stands out. I always marveled at his selflessness. Often, I would trudge downstairs to borrow his printer. Always guilty that I was becoming a nuisance, I would nervously ask him if he minded my interrupting and evicting him from his desk in order to print my papers. Joe would always reassure me that it was no problem. He meant...
...Gone Forever, songs from their previous two records, the debut-album Parachute and GoldFly, also made it into their set list. It's hard to describe exactly what Guster sounds like, but at the concert they played at the full range of their abilities. Essentially, they play everything--the surreal, the real and the ingenious. Brian, the group's backbone, works the bongos with awesome speed, while Adam and Ryan harmonize on vocals and guitars. Using instruments ranging from the standard (guitars and bongos) to the bizarre (typewriters and whistling), Guster is, in a word, creative...
...like an aspiring young adult's nightmare. I was going to my first real taste of the band, and the concert seemed to be attended entirely by teeny-boppers of the Britney variety. And it was Halloween, so a majority of the teens were dressed in costumes, adding a surreal flavor to an already strange night.What were probably hired actors stood outside the venue with sandwich boards proclaiming "America Will Burn" and handing out humorous pamphlets declaring that God does not play the bongos. The theme of the concert I was to discover later was the end of the millennium...
Hitchcock's career began in the late '70s with the Soft Boys, who broke up in 1980. He spent the '80s and early '90s with the Egyptians, steadily building a huge underground of connisseur-grade fans who came to shows as much for his surreal, almost Dadaist rants between songs as for the music. In May of 1996 he played a 30th anniversary remake of Bob Dylan's seminal Royal Albert Hall concert in a pub near the famed original venue, and later in the year he released a solo album dubbed Moss Elixir. In 1998, longtime fan Johnathan Demme...
Kudos to all the Chinese people who made it through a surreal and dreary half-century [WORLD, Oct. 4]. Mao and Deng Xiaoping were great leaders, but the people who survived their dogmas were greater...