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...lyrics seek joy in life’s absurdities and love’s awkwardness. The songs run the gamut from the light and poppy to the sweetly sad, consistently delivering pitch-perfect charm. While the band’s last release, 2003s “Dear Catastrophe Waitress,” stressed the former with instantly-catchy songs and goofy lyrics, their new LP, “The Life Pursuit,” has more gravity to match its sober title. Through the first four listens, I was disappointed with the album; by the seventh, I had fallen...

Author: By Michael A. Mohammed, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Life Pursuit | 2/9/2006 | See Source »

Compared with Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Jessica and Ashlee Simpson, Clarkson is almost always portrayed as a wholesome, unsophisticated girl with an outsize natural talent--a bumpkin with a gift. She really was a cocktail waitress at a comedy club in her hometown of Burleson, Texas, before an Idol audition started her on the road to fame, but it's rarely noted that Clarkson already lived in Hollywood (she was only in Burleson because her apartment burned down), or that, as a demo singer for Gerry Goffin, the ex-husband of Carole King and co-writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miss Independent | 2/5/2006 | See Source »

...breakcore entropy while the lady gets slaughtered.Underground robot heroes 8-Bit take “Hell Yes” to its logical conclusion, replacing the idiotic old-school backing track of the original with a huge, pixilated synth attack. They even give Christina Ricci’s ridiculous sushi waitress voice-samples a counterpart robo-voice companion. Electronic highlanders Boards of Canada make “Broken Drum” genuinely wistful and anguished, if a bit too long and slow. Anticon post-hoppers Subtle take the blues-horror of “Farewell Ride” into the urban...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Guerolito | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

...Caf? 2400, on the town's tree-lined main drag, waitress Janice Wager, 16, is convinced she did the right thing in leaving school in August to work as a trainee at the upmarket caf?. "Some of my friends and cousins, who just hang around doing nothing, said to me, Why do you want to work? Others believed I thought I was now better than them because I had a job and money." Bright-eyed and polite, Wager is contemplating further hospitality training, modeling, obtaining her driver's license and buying a car. At the nearby Moree Panel Works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jobs For Our Mob | 11/28/2005 | See Source »

...addition to causing fire safety concerns in Lamont, this den of dessert allows each individual server to have a different birthday specialty. So, pick your waitress wisely and with your tastebuds in mind, as you can end up with anything from the Crème Brulée to the thick Finale Cheesecake...

Author: By Bob Payne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ACTIVITY ACTIVITY: So They Say It’s Your Birthday | 11/9/2005 | See Source »

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