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...teens, Cuomo was a self-described “metalhead” with prototypical teenage fantasies of rock star hedonism. He told Vox magazine in 1995, “When I was 15 and dreaming about being a rock star…I thought the whole point of it was to get chicks.” After high school graduation, Cuomo moved to Los Angeles to pursue success as a musician. At that time, academia seemed to be the furthest thing from his mind. Cuomo enrolled in college, but told Mean Magazine in 2000 that “I never...
Truck Volume, a track for The Wash, began with a Dre beat and an eerie keyboard riff played on an old Vox V-305 organ. ("I was watching VH1--The Doors: Behind the Music," he says, by way of explanation.) Dre then added layers of strings. Everyone from Eminem to Madonna has been known to beg Dre for tracks, but the Doctor decides who gets his music based entirely on feel. Truck Volume, with its exaggerated haunted-house vibe, seemed like a good fit for the exuberantly hoarse rapper Busta Rhymes. "Busta just sounds crazy to me," Dre says...
...promise of Internet reviewing is that it refutes the old saying that the free press belongs to whoever has the money to pay for one. The pitfall is that cyberspace may go on forever as a place where the vox populi is embedded with vox populiars, where ethical standards are more flexible than the ones it took centuries to achieve, where they have been achieved, in the world of conventional journalism. All the same, conventional journalism can learn from some of the eccentricities of the Internet. Hey--anyone who reads this, please help me meet Warren Buffett. I could...
...healthy appetite. The vox-popping of taste may have begun with the Zagat Guides, those svelte booklets offering restaurant reviews based on the opinions of thousands of ordinary foodies. Since 1979 Zagat has grown from one New York City volume to 36 editions nationally and five abroad. It is now as influential as many newspaper critics. "Some critics sniff, 'Well, what does the public know?'" says Merrill Shindler, who edits the Los Angeles guide and is himself a veteran restaurant reviewer. "I reply, 'Well, what do the critics know...
...freedom of a vox-pop website! No fetters, no editors, no quality control. On amazon.com, for example, customer reviews are displayed prominently on the page of each book or CD being peddled. Authors are also encouraged to write about their works. In 1999, this notice for the sound track of "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace" appeared, signed by the score?s composer John Williams: "I remember writing Anakin?s Theme. I was sitting on the toilet, watching General Hospital, when all of a sudden I turned. The water plops brought together a syncopated harmony that I found to be ? obviously...