Word: driftwood
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...cultural phenomena we might have borrowed from Europe--legal red-light districts, the siesta, pretty money--we get this. Sixteen men and women maroon themselves for as long as 39 days on an isolated tropical island, building driftwood huts and lunching on rats. Meanwhile, 10 folks agree to spend as long as three months sequestered, sleeping in communal bedrooms and living without TV or newspapers in a house that lacks only pencil shavings on the floor to qualify as a human hamster cage--all for cash prizes, under constant camera surveillance for a prime-time audience...
...term meaning wretch or scared weakling, and the sagas make it clear that the Norse considered the natives hostile. But the abundance of Norse items found at Inuit sites--some 80 objects from a single site on Skraeling Island, off the east coast of Ellesmere Island, including a small driftwood carving of a face with European features--suggests that there was a lively trade between the groups (as well as an exchange of Norse goods among the Inuit...
...maybe it's the occasional moment of sunshine through the rain, such as the guitar introduction for "Writing to Reach You," which obviously alludes to Oasis' optimistic "Wonderwall" before the lyrics proceed to question the happy jangly sound ("what's a wonderwall anyway?"). When the wrenching lyrics of "Driftwood," the album's best song, ("Just driftwood, hollow and of no use/Waterfalls will find you, bind you, grind you") hit you, an almost instinctive shrinking away takes place...
...troubled sleep. On this satisfying new album, its songs are gentle but insistent, melancholic but always melodious. At times the band comes off like a more polite, slightly less experimental version of the art-rock band Radiohead. Although the majority of the tracks on this CD--including the mellow Driftwood, the mopey Why Does It Always Rain on Me?--are quiet and introspective, Travis never comes across as wimpy or insubstantial...
Below his booted feet, the sculpture depicts the usual New England seacoast litter: seashells, a fiddler crab or two, strands of kelp, and driftwood. What captures most passersby, however, is a quotation of Morison's engraved on a rock at his left side: "Dream dreams, then write them down--aye, but live them first...