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...Dave Matthews: a handsome guitar strumming songwriter with a strong, distinctive voice. To add to the effect, Mayer’s lyrics are extremely personal, as songs like “Your Body Is A Wonderland” bare his sensitive nature and vulnerable side to anyone who will listen. At the show, girls screamed as John proclaimed, “I want to like crap, I want to be in love, I want to write bad poetry.” Will the hopeless romantic finally get the girl...
...listen to “California,” the album’s opening road anthem, replete with shimmering guitars and a fist-waving chorus, and you get the sense the band is just out to have some fun and score some chicks. In contrast to the Strokes edgy “Hard To Explain,” Alex Greenwald’s surfer-dude wail sounds most comfortable singing, “I’ll try for one ray of sunlight to hold in my hand/ Maybe we can be happy again.” There...
...farther. With the exception of the richer, more imaginative musicality the band hints at with “Turn Smile Shift Repeat,”—the album’s best song—it’s all fun sugary stuff, easy to listen to but also easy to forget. Without the production wizardry, the star power, and the hype machine behind them on The Guest, Phantom Planet might have been just another unknown garage band with big dreams. Now they’ve got our attention, hopefully; they can learn to hold...
...proletarian masses turned me towards the political light. I’ve been born again, I tell you. Once was lost but now I’m found, blind but now I see, yada yada yada. Made nice with Cornel West, joined the Green Party and whatnot. Listen, let’s give the janitors $11.35 an hour. Can I get an amen...
Bolker: You have to ask them questions and listen carefully, and get them to listen to themselves. When a new person comes to talk to me about a dissertation, one of the first things I ask him or her is: “Where do you work?” The wildest story about this, one I tell every time I do a workshop, is that I had this one guy tell me that he always works at the kitchen table. So I asked him how much he got done there, and he said, “Well, I never...