Word: weirdness
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...says, were 28 miles away in Dallas but rarely visited or noted his achievements. "I passed for more than 1,000 yards, the first quarterback at my high school to do that," says Foxx. "I was making the Dallas Morning News, and my father never came down. That's weird. Even to this day--nothing. I don't know if it's his religion--he's a Muslim--or ... I don't know. But that absence made me angry. It made me want to be something. I said, I'm going to make you look...
...debut filmmaking skills and the pretentious nature of the film are reflected in his heavy-handed camera work: Carruth includes at least one shot per scene of the two protagonists standing in a room with a rectangular figure dividing them. Could it be that this box of weird science might ultimately divide the comrades...
...Electron Blue,” which comes off somewhere between Radiohead and a Celtic James Taylor, makes up the album’s creative peak. But their striving for innovation leads them astray on “The Outsiders,” a bizarre didactic tale featuring some weird, tangentially connected rap performed by Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest...
...Bogusky, this kind of "buzz," or "viral," marketing is advertising's future. Covert, hands-on and unabashedly weird, the genre--industry insiders call it "network-enhanced word of mouth"--has turned websites and other forums into interactive opportunities for advertisers and consumers to connect. Crispin Porter & Bogusky helped make Canada's Molson beer the fastest-growing top-25 import in the U.S. last year as it built up buzz in the bars by slapping on beer bottles labels with oddly suggestive comments like "Skinny-dippers are people too." "Conventional branding tends to piggyback on pop culture," says Bogusky, 41, whose...
Lyrically, Banks sticks to what he knows. Themes of abandonment and ambiguous malaise still mingle melodramatically with weird, sometimes grotesque imagery. The prechorus of the first single, “Slow Hands,” covers much of the lyrical landscape: “Can’t you see what you’ve done to my heart and soul?/This is a wasteland now.” The chorus of the tense, agitated “Length of Love” is the odd mantra, “Combat salacious removal.” And the closer...