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...shudder*). Here I had theater—from acting and tech to putting on two of my own plays to a mercifully short-lived sketch comedy troupe sophomore year called Tastes Like Chicken. As I became more politically aware I joined various liberal causes—from the Cambridge Youth Peace and Justice Corps (much maligned by one of my roommates) to Take Back the Night and a brief stint in the living wage campaign. And unlike in high school, where I did roughly 800 percent more than most of my fellow students, here was a student body that seemed...
...aside the romantic images of first steps and bike rides and tearful college graduations, and parenthood is a series of transactions, investments and calculations of risk vs. reward. And these are not just about money. Your children will cost you thousands of dollars, sure, but also chunks of your youth, middle and old age, physical stamina and, at least for many women, career opportunities...
...with nostalgia for the Television album that played during his conception? His songs suggest he knows his late-'70s New York punk bands backward and forwards, but a distinctive voice emerges in every one, one that reflects the been-there-done-that milieu of early '00s Manhattan prep school youth rather than the conspicuously aggravated, dope-addled CBGBs crowd of twenty-five years ago. My guess is The Strokes would sooner die than hold forth with a Patti Smith-style poetry-reading-over-extended-jam-session, a jazzy, Tom Verlaine guitar solo, or one of the Ramones' ceaseless power-chord...
...good narrative, except in one instance: Voice-overs. When read off a screen, the dialogue’s overall care in character shines through, and its many stupid moments are forgiven. In FFX, they’re highlighted by often-disastrous acting. In flashbacks of Tidus’s youth, his father grunts like a pro-wrestler, a bad-dad act so bad it wins a chuckle. Yuna can only say two words without inhaling hesitantly...
...progressive house and “chill-out” tripe on record stores’ shelves, this strain of experimental electronic music is regarded by middlebrow hipsters as “intelligent” fare. Yet it owes everything to the hedonistic sounds originally crafted by inner-city youth...