Word: weirdnesses
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...Look at that," Wallace says. "Isn't it weird lookin'?" He's brought his visitor to the Rockhampton Botanic Gardens, where his spider collection (300 of Australia's 1,500-plus species) now resides. "That's a bird-eater. A big one can eat a frog in five hours: it sucks the juices in and out." He points to a cluster of brown pods. "They're egg sacs. Each one might have 500 tiny spiders in it. They crawl out, let out a bit of silk and float away...
...tribute to Stone's artfulness that it perfectly symbolizes the life-or-death dilemma the pair is confronting. And oddly, the man who first discovered McLoughlin and Jimeno alive was David Karnes (Michael Shannon), a former Marine, who as written by screenwriter Andrea Berloff comes across as a slightly weird religious Fundamentalist. He simply put on his old fatigues and intruded, without credentials other than his take-charge bearing, on the ruins to become a freelance lifesaver...
...rise life: "All I did was sign a deal, put up a few songs on MySpace and everyone has gotten all excited, I on the other hand am s______ myself." Her anxiety is understandable. "I'm being followed around now by paparazzi and stuff which is really weird," Allen told Time last week. Part of her tabloid appeal is her pedigree; Allen is the daughter of Oscar-nominated film producer Alison Owen and comic and actor Keith Allen, who split when Lily was a young child. She also has a history of saying outrageous things, like telling the Observer newspaper...
What do you like about producing? I like control. Finding projects. Some of the money stuff I'm not nuts about. When you have to talk about money, people get weird...
...listeners are used to time-released thrills every 30 seconds or so - you know, hooks - she's thrown in about 20 of them. Some are immediately recongnizable, like "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)", the Abba meringue in the middle of it all, but others are so weird and pulsing that they earn the word exotic. So for a pop listener, the thing you know draws you into the thing you don't know, and at the end you feel a little cooler just for having listened to the song. Making people feel cool - allowing your style...