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...People are amazingly willing to listen," she says. "I haven't met anybody who didn't know what I was talking about...
...Internet claiming to be tracks from advance copies of upcoming albums. On Napster now, you can find songs claiming to be from the upcoming U2 album All That You Can't Leave Behind or from Fatboy Slim's Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars, but a quick listen shows them to be nothing but songs by random groups trying to get more people to listen to their own work. Which only goes to show, you really should buy the albums...
...other hand, when a politician explains to me why my vote matters in particular--that is by addressing current issues--I start to listen. I see such a politician as treating me as an equal. I would much rather a politician speak to me as he speaks to every other voter, even if it is in a partisan way, than talk down to me because I am younger than his other constituents...
Williams seems to have found a very productive method for assembling the basic rock song. He has the catchy chorus thing down pat while his verses, whilst not that interesting harmonically, are so full of attitude it forces you to listen. The opening track, "Let Love Be Your Energy," is a great example of this aspect of Williams' songwriting. But more impressive than the writing is Williams' diversity. "Supreme," loosely based on Gloria Gaynor's classic "I Will Survive," is a short diversion into a mainstream pop sound. The ballads "Better Man" and "If It's Hurting You" demonstrate...
...about Debauchery ("I'm not surprised," chimes in a blockmate. "How could you forget that stench??")... I talked to my six-year-old cousin on the phone today. He whined about the cartoons on television these days, "They're all the same and they're all boring." I replied, "Listen, dude. When I was your age, I had to put up with 'The Snorks' and 'Jem and the Holograms'. So don't complain...