I wish I’d stopped and talked to them, saying something like, “It’s nice to be on the same side of the street” or something equally inane that might have chipped away at the prejudices we feel toward those who don’t agree with us. Maybe they would have told me to drop dead. ...
In order to make sure her lyrics were more spontaneous, Marling would show up at the studio without hearing Lindsay’s music ahead of time.“There’s a little bit of a theme of hedonism on the album, of desires running wild,” said Lindsay. “We created LUMP as a sort of...
The fact that the rest of the world had decided thirty years earlier that what was wrong with "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" was precisely nothing didn't matter. Harbach was a perfectionist, a man who sweated over his lyrics to separate the wheat from the chaff, and then figured out a way...
How much pestilence had of late lurkedbeneath the streets of eastern Xi’an is anybody’s guess. I am reliably informedthat as recently as the 1980s, it was a daily event to see crowds ofcross-legged householders waiting to use the over-burdened and almost alwaysblocked, public latrines. ...
“death by one thousand” cuts or lingchi, which almost certainly does not predate the eighteenthcentury AD. Within the mainstream of Chinese history Wen of Zhou came to beadmired as a martial and visionary hero. His victories are praised by numerouslyrics in The Book of Odes (Shijing) and...