Word: thumpings
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Somewhere between the giddy, manic weirdness of 2005’s “Get Behind Me Satan” and the gut-busting wheeze of last year’s “Icky Thump,” White Stripes’ prime mover Jack White decided to take a break from his own expectations and tried to satisfy some of his fans’. Of course, the perennial question on the minds of every new-blues neophyte grooving to the likes of “Fell in Love with a Girl” or “Ball...
Wide-eyed and twitching, Born Ruffians’ eponymous debut EP was as excitable as a six-year-old waiting in line for a SpongeBob ice pop. Thumping cuts like “I’m One of Those Girls” gained the Midland, Ontario trio loads of attention in the blogosphere, and tours with indie heavyweights Hot Chip and Peter, Björn and John have helped them establish a pretty sizeable fan base for such a young band. Their sophomore effort and first full album, “Red, Yellow & Blue...
Doing laundry is a tiresome business. Weekly, I lug piles of dirty clothing down the stairs to Weld basement, greeted each time by the same blast of heat and rhythmic ka-thump of wet articles. But it’s not the sweltering air that disturbs me, nor the abundance of lone socks littering the floor. It’s other students’ failure to grasp basic laundry etiquette that frightens me time and time again. It seems that most undergrads had never handled a Tide bottle before arriving here in Cambridge; they exhibit the same blatant lack...
...today. "It was the aesthetic of the players back then," says Nable, "that even if they were very young, they looked like men." The clubs are real, but the characters don't invoke the names of champions of the era: there are no excruciating pleas to "Stop Reddy" or "Thump Sterling." Sprawling Henson Park, frozen in time on the fringe of the CBD, is the perfect venue. Spring rolls are the fare of choice at board meetings. The swearing is relentless. Grub mopes about in what looks like an Exacto windcheater...
...leave work at 6 p.m. for what should be a 12-minute drive home. Say just as you're pulling onto the street, a child on a bicycle crosses in front of you. A few feet later, you feel the thump of a pothole. But what if it wasn't a pothole? Suppose you hit the child. You look in your rearview mirror, and all is clear, but can you be sure? So you circle back around the block. Still clear--except for a lumpy bag of leaves on the curb. But is it a bag or a child...