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Freak for You
Chop Suey Anniversary Party: Darshan Jesrani, The Divorce, Hint Hint, and more.
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This Book Could Be Your Life
“No matter what you do, you’re probably going to be lost in the annals of music, so you…
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No more sad refrains
Someone recently said that loneliness is the last American taboo. I don’t remember who—heavy drinking and making pop…
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The Same Old Songs
Don’t be surprised if, someday soon, you should spy a fellow stamping around Pike Place Market sporting unkempt…
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Playing Possum
WHEN IT COMES TO teaching kids the fundamentals of zoology, comic strips and cartoons have a long way…
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From Victoria to Nashville
With a cast of 24 principal players and its labyrinthine subplots, Nashville left a discernable dent on American…
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Memory Boy
If you are reading this on Wednesday, Feb. 27, stop right now and get your ass over to…
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More Morricone
Like the little black dress, Ennio Morricone is always in vogue. Since he first burst into the mainstream…
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Oh, Carol
LET’S NOT FOOL ourselves, people: We’re in a recession. So unless you’re part of the 1 percent of…
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Sing-along Punk
Contrasted with the cheap sentimentality of commercial pop and the obtuse mumbling of most indie rock, the songs…
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Talking to Strangers
I am not in the habit of chatting up young men at bus terminals: I never talk to…
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Basement flacks
Sooner or later, it happens to everyone. You’re watching television, and suddenly a song you love pops up…
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It doesn’t matter any more
The fluorescent light inside the 24-hour Texaco shimmered with the sickly blue iridescence of skim milk, making the…
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Barry and Fred
Barry polished off his second beer, licking the sticky sweetness off his upper lip as he set down…
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In praise of the Saint
During the last two years of high school, I whiled away my weekends at a certain Washington, DC,…
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One-track mind
Isn’t it funny how you can love a person or thing to the core of your being, and…
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David Byrne’s new attitude
Burned all my notebooks What good are notebooks? They won’t help me survive TALKING HEADS, “LIFE DURING WARTIME”…