Word: vagabonding
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...this is lucky. He witnessed the two planes crashing into the World Trade Center, his "favorite buildings," and saw people jumping to their deaths. And the reason he is freshly outfitted and eating out is that he and his parents Julio Rosario and Joan Lader have been living a vagabond existence since Sept. 11. They have moved four times since they were evacuated from their Tribeca apartment two blocks north of ground zero. They have relied on the kindness of friends, who have found them vacant apartments or taken them in. Lucas has been doubly displaced--from his home...
...Vagabond is a good example, opening with lonesome hobo harmonica wails and blues guitar. U.S. star Beck provides folksy vocals to a lament on contemporary rootlessness before the whole thing explodes into a galaxy of dissonant synth spirals and stuttering reverb. Radian builds slowly in layers of symphonic strings and acoustic guitar into an achingly beautiful instrumental anthem. Like all Air's tunes, it's a mini-soundtrack in itself, an accompaniment for one of the many moods a day can bring...
...their three-year relationship and almost two-year engagement, "but our lifestyle difference is, unfortunately, even greater." While both enjoyed displaying their iridescent rear ends at award shows, re-creating the Kennedy assassination for kicks and generally freakin' out the straights, McGowan was reportedly unhappy about her fiance's vagabond tour schedule, which keeps him away from home for months on end. (Manson starts his Guns, God and Government tour in Birmingham, England, this week.) Now their nihilistic fans will just have to hope Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake can hang on--and get a whole lot weirder...
That being said, the council does appear to be short on options and we wish them well in their vagabond pursuits. Who knows? If this succeeds, next year it may be a one-million-point Lamborghini for the council president...
Finally, Henrietta finds some good fortune, as she comes upon an "Old Vagabond" sitting on a park bench who has lost his glasses. The search proves "bootless," but she walks the president of the "Great University" home--and by recognizing his references to Hamlet and Oedipus Rex earns his respect...