Word: surrealities
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...Surreal trail-building story: I was standing up to my waist in mud, trying to move a boulder, and a hiker came up to me and said, "Are your feet...
Entering the rent control debate can sometimes be like departing for an alternative, surreal universe, where one little number is reason enough to put one's life on the line--or, if that doesn't work...
...from sounding similar ("Close Shave. Chess Leave. Clove Leash." etc). But it doesn't sound like nonsense to me. While any one song might not have a coherent "plot," such as boy-meets-girl or man-hit-the-road, which can get kind of boring anyway, Malkmus' songs are surreal glimpses into a sensibility to contemporary American life that could only be characterized as genius. He sings about history and culture, and dying, and love, and open wounds. "Take me down to the ridge where the summer ends/We'll watch the city spread out just like a jet's flame...
...when Bonnie gets homesick and stops in to see her mother, she gets a very different reaction. In a surreal set of scenes that are clouded with an overexposed haze, the mother quickly turns away after kissing her daughter and somberly says, "Goodbye, you better keep on running." It's each to his own, just like in the days of the wild, wild West when rugged individualism was the name of the game...
...reaction to the surreal sight of Rabin shaking hands with PLO leader Yassir Arafat that day was very different. We, like most Israelis, knew of Arafat's murderous history of terrorism, and his tactics of choosing children as targets and shopping malls as battlefields...