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...Ever Need Attention All I Have To Do Is Die,” “Sic Transit Gloria…Glory Fades”) in favor of short, concise names, the album’s lyrics, while still catchy, lack some of Brand New’s previous ego and cuteness. Even the album cover evokes a slightly creepy, “Donnie Darko”-esque sense of loneliness and isolation. The album opener, “Sowing Season [Yeah],” begins with quiet guitar chords and lead singer Jesse Lacey’s voice. Another...
...Celebrity spokeswoman for the Ab Roller B) The romantic lead in a new Tim McGraw film about a down-on-his-luck bull rider C) The highest paid Hollywood actress in 2006, with a $17 million paycheck D) Philip Roth's new fictional alter ego...
...Sunset Rubdown album released earlier this year and on “The Freedom” Bejar references the “city of daughters,” the name of an early Destroyer release. But, this being a group of Canadians, there’s relatively little ego; despite their varying levels of fame, everyone gets roughly equal time at the helm...
...like watching an aging rocker with too much ego back onstage: the old flashy moves may evoke the glory days but no longer convince. I accept that Tony Blair sincerely wants peace in Iraq and the broader Middle East, and that for the few months remaining in his premiership, he shouldn't just sit around. But his foreign-policy speech at the [an error occurred while processing this directive] Guildhall last week, followed by videolink testimony to the Baker-Hamilton commission in Washington that's tasked with somehow extricating the U.S. from Iraq, makes me think Blair's remarkable self...
...problems here. First of all, Tom Everett Scott, as the actor, doesn't for one moment convince us he's any manner of Hollywood star: no bearing, no ego, so nervous about his sexual encounter that he might be a middle-aged Neil Simon garment worker having his first fling with a hooker. The playwright (and director, Scott Ellis) want to be both naughty and cool. There's utterly no passion, not to mention plausibility, in this relationship. (Deadpan exchange: "Let's get started." "OK, I'll get aroused...