Word: weird
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heady manliness. Contrasted with the new tribute album, Various Artists for the Masses, which features a lovely orange disk along with The Smashing Pumpkins, Rammstein and The Cure, The Singles 81>85 may seem like old news (the new remixes are uninteresting), but at least it's for real: weird, childish and weird...
When things get too weird, a small crew of angst-ridden teenagers steps in to save the day. There's Stan, the wannabe intellectual football captain; Stokely, the grungy science fiction-reading loner; Zeke, the brilliant drug-dealing second-year senior; Delilah, the self loathing head cheerleader; Marybeth, the annoyingly innocent new girl; and finally the outcast Casey, played by Elijah Wood, who's a bit too cute for his supposedly nerdy character. Relying on Stokely's knowledge of science fiction--"if you kill the queen, everything will go back to normal... in theory"--this mismatched group of teens plots...
...taken to the hospital after what seems to be a hardcore version of Primal Scream. Junior Christopher R. Freeland explains further: "Basically everyone just ran in a big circle around the perimeter of the inside of this courtyard for about 45 minutes. I thought it would be weird, but it was actually kind of exhilarating. It was an adrenaline rush for a few minutes, but it got old pretty fast. Also, there was a ton of wide open sex, which is pretty cool, I guess. Supposedly, one group of guys (four, I think) had sex with this one girl...
...especially after World War II, when Europe was in ruins and civilization had been bested for a while by its discontents, that Brassai discovered the weird beauty of graffiti. Just as he had seen what was lovely in the louche spectacle of the Parisian cafes, he recognized what was indelible about graffiti, the bad penmanship of the group unconscious. In his photographs of the stick figures and screaming heads carved and scribbled on Paris walls, you find the most unruly human impulses--sex, anger, even exaltation--brought alive and made legible in odd corners...
...tough question. As the years progress, I find myself being type-cast in the weirdo, the crazy guy, the neurotic Jew and the wimpy guy, so that's kind of a very broad range (laughter), so, I'm pretty happy with the roles of those four. Not that weird and crazy are so different, but they are, they are different, dammit! (laughter). They are, and so those four kind of pigeonholes give me a plethora of characters to play with...