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Last year you made a record with Zooey Deschanel under the name She & Him. How did that project come about? I was doing music for a film that she was starring in called Go Getter. The director had an idea to put us in the studio together to record a Richard Thompson song. So we met in L.A. and got along really well and eventually she sent me her demos and I thought they were incredible, so I told her you know, "Let's make a record." She came up to Portland and it took about no more than...
...then Conor [Oberst] and Mike [Mogis] from Bright Eyes. It's the four of us. It's still a pretty new project and we don't know what we're doing yet but it's going to be fun. We don't even have a name yet, we'll come up with one at the eleventh hour. Or maybe the twelfth...
...might be gay.” Such selective self-awareness is a powerful comedic weapon in the performance, whose steady supply of double entendres can lull the audience into a slight-chuckle comfort zone. Such surprises are a refreshing source of entertainment, and work particularly well to tactfully name drop the show’s sponsors, particularly The Coop. Similarly, subtlety and careful delivery keep the show from making the jump from shallow to annoying. But the consciously homoerotic humor can be a turn-off in excess, as in the unnecessary number, “A Fine Bromance...
...statement released on its Web site, Human Rights Watch praised Des Forges as “the world’s leading expert on the 1994 Rwanda genocide and its aftermath.” Those who knew Des Forges at Radcliffe, when she went by her maiden name Alison Liebhafsky, expressed no surprise that she had made her life’s work to uncover the human rights abuses in the world. Susan E. Shepard ’65, who lived in Comstock Hall (now part of Pforzheimer House) with Des Forges, said she remembered her as a smart...
...College—have demonstrated to the couple that “House life is crucial to the undergraduate experience.”Christakis, who said he was planning to rename a family rabbit “Pfunny” to reflect the House’s phonetically perplexing name, said it was a Sunday morning brunch that sealed the deal for the family.“As [Lysander] was pouring batter into the waffle maker, he saw the Veritas insignia,” Christakis said, speaking of his son. “And he was sold...