Word: weirdness
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...Arriving at airport: Traveler - especially this one - is anxious. Will the flight take off on time? Will the airline lose my luggage? What is that weird metal thing hanging off the side of the airplane...
There's still plenty of weird stuff going on with R.E.M. Buck is facing charges in London over an April 21 "air rage" incident in which he allegedly got drunk and assaulted crew members on a British Airways flight. (Buck issued an apology and faces a court date on June 18). Yet despite aborted breakups and possible breakdowns, R.E.M.--arguably the most influential rock band of the '80s and '90s--is poised for fresh success. The trio's new album, Reveal (Warner Bros.), is its best since its 1992 megahit, Automatic for the People. "With the exception of U2, there...
...last will and testament," says Stipe. "Then we talked, and we realized that each of us wanted to continue making music somehow and that the people we wanted to continue making music with were in the room." Says Buck: "We just had to get past the weird stuff...
...glittering sprayed enamels and fiercely inorganic colors of glaze that made Ken Price's little ceramic sculptures so immediate and memorable. They manage to look luscious and poisonous at the same time, and in terms of what curator Barron and her team have set out to show - the weird confluence of vectors in a flawed and contradictory ex-paradise - they are perhaps the most "Californian" objects in this whole enormous show...
...JONG NAM, your father just starved 2 million people--what are you going to do now? Sadly, he's not going to Disneyland. A man claiming to be Kim Jong Nam, son of the certainly weird, purportedly evil North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, was deported from Japan after trying to sneak into the country with two women and a four-year-old boy he wanted to take to Tokyo Disneyland. Japan and North Korea do not have diplomatic relations, so Nam, 29, was traveling with a Dominican passport under the name Pang Xiong. The Japanese government refused comment...