Word: weirdness
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...short, numbered chapters that count down, like a bomb, rather than up, each focuses on one of the book's six major characters, then repeats the cycle. Each set begins with Ray Beam, a burnt-out pop star of ten years ago whose descent from debauched musical godling to weird, unproductive recluse resembles that of Axl Rose. He suddenly seems to find his muse in Lily, a young Hispanic-American woman whose side of the story bookends each chapter cycle. Initially hired as Ray's personal assistant, Lily cautiously allows herself to be wooed by him in spite of such...
...Ataronchronon” give fans the traditional moody BoC fare. But of course for the diehard fans, the real question is: “Where are the subliminal messages?” Past BoC staples include Satanic symbolism, esoteric mathematical facts (what is “The Smallest Weird Number?”), creepy track and album lengths (“Geogaddi” was 66:06), repeated references to Waco cult leader David Koresh and the Branch Davidians, and muffled children giggling and counting out of order. Combine this with the seductive mystique of Hexagon Sun and the group?...
...photos). He then hollowed out the ground in front of it in a hole of the exact same dimensions, “like a shallow grave.” Finally, he filled the totem with the soil that had been scooped out. The result is “this weird, bizarrely black obelisk in the middle of the woods,” whose glass reflects its surroundings...
...expected to stay warm for at least another week, with temperatures hitting the high 60s, according to Walter Drag, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Taunton, Mass. Drag says this weather, although mercurial, is nothing out of the ordinary. “The weather right now is weird because it is normal for the weather to be weird,” said Rotch Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Science Steven C. Wofsy. Wofsy said, however, that this autumn has been unusually wet, which is why the leaves changed their colors late or not at all. Right now, autumn...
...more about directing," says Kilmer, who--of course--wants to make his own films. "Now I know if the pressure is coming up not to ask the same question nine times like I used to." Kiss Kiss's Black says Kilmer was an asset, even if he was sometimes weird, calling the director at home in strange voices, which Black eventually realized were test voices for Gay Perry. "I suspect that people mistook his perfectionism for arrogance," Black says. "Weirdness is tolerable in someone who delivers blockbuster performance after performance...