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...apparently a Briticism used for those who offer dodgy and difficult-to-evade street-corner guidance to foreigners). My first morning wandering the beach a man offered to arrange a trip for me in the canoe of a fisherman from the local village—an “authentic?? experience recommended in some guidebooks. When I declined my new friends offer, he wondered instead if I might not like to buy some hash. I’d been offered hash in Delhi and Kolkata too, but the frequency of offers in Puri, (including from one especially loony...
...Laws Have Changed.” This is not to say that fans of Case’s Pornographers work will not enjoy her new record—if anything her devotees will relish the opportunity to hear her “authentic?? musical voice freed from the constraints of band politics and shared songwriting credits. No track on “Fox Confessor” is more representative of Case’s solo aesthetic than the album’s penultimate song “At Last.” The title is an allusion...
...young black Santa Claus,” a “depressed pony,” and a “girl from the special economic zone.” Their relative obscurity is particularly frustrating because the Jews are more “authentic?? than Adams (who is more of a pastiche artist than a true country troubadour) and they never belabor listeners with ponderous sonic experiments a la Wilco (see the last ten minutes of their 11-minute long krautwank epic “Spiders (Kidsmoke)”). If any album were to break through...
...open wallets. B.good will soon offer “healthy” fried onion rings and double cheeseburgers as late as three in the morning so that students will have an alternative to the Kong’s monopoly on ultra-late-night fare and its “authentic?? Chinese dishes: fried cream cheese, buffalo wings, and tempura shrimp. Stick it to “the Man,” Harvard, give him your money and let those breakfast eggs from your pre-paid meal plan harden away as you sleep the night off.I apologize...
Perhaps even more destructively, the attempt to reconcile the hedonistic lifestyle of the American nouveau riche with “authentic?? ghetto nihilism has created impossible aspirations of “ghettofabulousness” for young people. In the fantasy world of the “ghettofabulous,” the empty pursuit of possessions and pleasure pathetically seeks to counteract a self-imposed degradation, while the reckless self-abandonment that occasionally bubbles to the surface is venerated as the highest expression of cultural authenticity...