Word: turner
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...Turner's voice is dry and laconic, and he seldom strays from his middle range, but flourishes would only distract from some of the best lyrics ever written by someone who still lives with his parents. On the punk hurricane I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor, he yelps, "Oh, there ain't no love, no, Montagues or Capulets/ Just banging tunes in DJ sets and/ Dirty dance floors and dreams of naughtiness," while the song title You Probably Couldn't See for the Lights but You Were Staring Straight at Me gets a laugh on its own. Turner...
...great claims to originality. The Arctic Monkeys' lo-fi guitar jags are cribbed from the Strokes and Franz Ferdinand (who cribbed them from Lou Reed and Television and so on), and the band's ska rhythms and martial drums come courtesy of the Clash. But singer-guitarist Alex Turner, guitarist Jamie Cook, drummer Matt Helders and bassist Andy Nicholson play with a swagger that obliterates any trace of ancestor worship. They aren't referencing anything as they fly through tunes like The View from the Afternoon; they're just playing as many hooks as possible, as fast and as cleanly...
...English countryside in 1935, Briony, a 13-year-old aspiring writer, secretly observes the budding romance between Cecilia, her older sister, and Robbie Turner, the intelligent and respectable son of a servant. And although it becomes “essential” for Briony to unearth the meanings and motives behind the young lovers’ actions, she ultimately succeeds only in drawing distorted conclusions about an adult world that she neither fully comprehends nor inhabits...
...told her my name in English is Bill Turner. Wim is short for William, so Bill. Wenders means winding, to turn. So my English name would be Bill Turner...
...Billy Turner. It?s a good character name...