Word: twin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turns out, Side Show takes only mild umbrage at show-biz exploitation, preferring to explore the mushier travails of two really close sisters who just can't seem to land a guy. Or guys. The musical dances daintily away from the question on everyone's mind--How do Siamese twins have sex?--in favor of more palatable soap opera. Will Terry, the impresario who guides their career, overcome his queasiness and fall for Daisy? Is Buddy, who discovered them in the sideshow, the right guy for Violet, or is he just angling for a share of the concessions from...
This is not music to listen to casually. The main theme in Aphex Twin's work seems to be that we lose our humanity to machines or perhaps that machines are taking on their own humanity. This is a scary thought, and Aphex Twin's music mirrors that thought, even when it tries to sound comforting. The twisted, evil vocal distortions are the only human sounds in a world of machines--voices decrying our increasing lack of real human companionship. This is music for the next millennium indeed...
...with U2 on their consumerific Zoo TV tour (any augur could have seen where such a pairing would lead). So I heard no more from my little forest nymphs. Black Francis changed his name again and again and put out a mediocre album. Kim Deal joined up with her twin sister and started making rather uninspired pop. Until...
...Your twin is the closest person to you," Uche says and is quickly reminded by Oni that the divorce rate among twins is higher than the national average...
...guess it's because most mates are threatened by the twin, because they feel they can never achieve that closeness," Oni says...