Word: blanding
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...meat in bits, and it’s not the taste. I haven’t had a McDonald’s hamburger in 28 months and 12 days, but I still remember how tasty that slim patty of processed meat was. Certainly tastier than, for example, the completely bland 12-ounce steak I had at the Eat’n Park just past Falls Creek, Pa., on Interstate 80 just about a month ago. Is the Eat’n Park supposed to be a place where you can eat and park, or is it perhaps an eating park...
Legally Blonde 3: Red, White & Bland...
...Superman Is Dead, Bali's best-known group, has just signed with Sony. Stoner-rock quartet Seringai is also gearing up for its own debut on disc. All these acts are representative of an underground scene that is creating a new market while stomping on the tradition of bland love songs, which dominates the country's radio playlists and karaoke machines. "Bands have more references now from outside," explains Arian Arifin, lead singer of Seringai, which means "grim" in Indonesian. "Bands are beginning to understand the music industry...
...which grow louder the more bitterly split the electorate gets. But there's also the problem that many big-media journalists are now cautious, well-paid conformists distant from their audiences and more responsive to urban elites, powerful people and megacorporations--especially the ones they work for. Hence the bland news anchors who verge on self-parody; magazines so commercial they're practically catalogs; timid pack journalism (We love dotcoms too! I mean, we never believed in them either!); local newscasts shilling for their corporate parents ("Up next: the hottest Survivor finale parties! Plus, the rest of the news!"); saturation...
...songs on a late summer 2002 tour and then record them in a single two-week session. Yorke agreed and subsequently turned over three CDs of unstructured acoustic recordings of new songs to his bandmates. "He was really careful to give us stuff that was as neutral and as bland as possible," says bassist Colin Greenwood, "so that we would be able to work together on providing music...