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...listen carefully, you can hear the answer reverberating from those distinctive white "ear-bud" headphones attached to Apple Computer's iPod digital-music player. After the booming success of the iPod and Apple's iTunes Internet music store, the mobile-phone industry is keen to join the party by converting phones into mobile jukeboxes capable of storing hundreds or thousands of songs. Meanwhile, cellular-network operators are launching their own download services, hoping that by generating revenue from digital-music sales they can recoup some of the billions of dollars they've invested in high-speed, third-generation (3G) networks...
...with all of the workings of popular house music. Of the various remixes, the “Gay Robot” track remains the favorite for DJs to throw against manic dance beats. The consensus among clubgoers seems to be that not only is it funny to listen to an actor portray a suggestive robot, but it’s even more enjoyable to find yourself bopping around on a dance floor to a lame propagation of the stereotypes attached to gay males today...
...testament to the fact that the band is capable of making interesting music, if only they could get past their overactive sense of hipness and sadly atrophied conception of genuine innovation and feeling. At the risk of telling you what you’ve probably already heard, listen to their first album, where they actually manage to rock a bit—or if you must, listen to their second album, where they generally pull off the dance-punk vibe much better. The long term solution, though, is to avoid the band altogether and throw on some Black Eyes instead...
...Electras rehearsed in the band room beneath the school auditorium on Saturday nights and quickly drew a devoted audience that came to listen to them jam on a regular basis. Soon they were being invited to play school dances, private parties and debutante balls...
Needless to say, this athletic association didn’t exactly elevate my Big Man on Campus status in a way that I first thought it would. Neither did playing lacrosse—a sport I was actually decent at—since we had to listen to a coach who once spent an entire practice arguing with five guys about the benefits of a Marxist-Leninist style of socialism and led us to a four-win season my junior year. Being a jock wasn’t exactly a ticket to social acceptance. To say the least, it took...