Word: weirdness
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What’s in your CD player? I’m listening to Nelly’s Batter Up right now. But that’s weird because I don’t like Nelly that much...
...Five: Toilet train. Remember how your weird cousins from Northern California used to keep a brick in their toilet tank to reduce water flow? Remember how you thought they were crazy? Well, they might have been, but they were right about conserving water. "It does help to put bricks or a quart jug filled with gravel, for example, into the toilet tank," says Swistock. "A heavy item like that displaces a quart or more of water - and that's one less quart of water the toilet needs to refill itself." Once you've mastered water displacement, try another, even more...
...characters in a story that takes place during the Polish resistance against the Nazis. Jurcan & Cvek's "Condemned Ideas" examines the failure of ideologies from Fascism to Communism to Capitalism. But the most unifying trait turns out to be a kind of dark, absurdist sensibility. In Goran Feniks' "A Weird Story," a man takes care of some paperwork while plummeting to his death from an airplane explosion. There's ample amounts of satire and schadenfruede, but little humor of the joyful, delightful kind...
Mostly it's the song. Can't Get You Out of My Head, written by former teen queen Cathy Dennis, is one of those weird pop miracles that pile on the hooks and dare you not to listen--it's catchier than Ebola. The rest of Fever is not unlistenable, just unremarkable...
...white American in Mexico City. The film is usually described as a cult classic. “It’s very violent. It’s also tragic in its own way,” Silva says. “Some have called it a strange, weird masterpiece.” In his version of the masterpiece, Silva plans to make the protagonist a Chicano—a Mexican-American. “He becomes a man of two worlds,” he says. “This way, you don’t have the Anglo-American...