... rigid. Verse-chorus-verse-chorus-solo-coda. This is not rocket science, but it isn't pharmacology either. If "Deadbeat Summer" happens to make you think of faded VCR tapes and Saturday morning cartoons and ... luxurious vocal arrangements of Amerie, Aaliyah, and Destiny's Child. Its lyric is partly pop readymades ("From now until forever baby/ I can' ...

... like hungry smiles on each's lips are palpable as they devour each lyric and the song turns modern in its percussion for the close into mist ... and-coffee purr, comes in and the song stands at attention. The chorus is a rocket from the Kremlin, but that wordless bridge, Boeckner's guitar ... too nervous, too unbalanced and zany. "Sweet summer night and I'm stripped to my sheets," The ...

... important element. We connect with the band though that voice and lyric. It’s the first point of contact. “Think” ... Davison uses sometimes. He told me it’s a Harmony “Rocket” and was the first guitar he ever bought–$40 ... Urbana’s Corn Festival late in the summer of 2007, though they’ve been playing together for over five years now. It wasn’ ...

... year-by-year look back at the decade with the year 2000, back when there were rocket packs, back when we all thought O.J. Simpson was just ... ;Survivor." Obi-Wan Kenobi dies. SEPTEMBER The 2000 Summer Olympics begin in Sydney, Australia. The opening ceremonies are hosted by ... his first single, "40 Bars," which features the lyric, "Everybody stay fly get money kill and fuck bitches/ ...

... about and organizing cinema history (I once spent a blissful summer catching up with most of the Cary Grant films I hadn't seen ... hear pop music. It's ephemeral, and toggles between plot (lyric) and style or form (timbre) in terms of what catches our eye ... might not feel as fully-shaped as Rushmore or Bottle Rocket, but I liked it a lot more than The Royal Tennenbaums (a film I also love, just ...