The sun.THE SONG has a familiar, slinking guitar line and a swank groove that bumps a bit--but that's not why you remember it. You remember it as the song with the video with all the faces of people getting themselves off. And you can watch it, along with 13 other videos, when you buy The Sun's new DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. album Blame It On The Youth. This Columbus, OH quintet decided to release their Warner Brothers Warner Brothers (b. Eichelbaums) movie executives; Harry (Morris) (1881–1958), born in Krasnashiltz, Poland; Albert (1884–1967), born in Baltimore, Md.; Samuel (1887–1927), born in Baltimore, Md. debut as a collection of videos. You can't even by a CD (but the tracks are available sans images as downloads and on vinyl). It's a novel idea that would be a gimmick were it not for the strength of their songs. The twisted, decidedly Midwestern pop-rock of songs like "Must Be You," "Rockstop," and most everything else on the, uh, DVD, is its own snake oil A product that has been proven to not live up to the vendor's marketing hype. The term comes from the 1800s in which elixirs and potions of all kinds, even ones that supposedly included the oils from snakes, were sold as a cure for everything that ailed a person. . It could be on pop radio. And pop radio would be better for it. Until then, enjoy the videos and our chat with guitarist Bryan Arendt. What was it like touring with the Flaming Lips? It was awesome. They're amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. . They put on such a good live show and they have such great ideas about making each show an event. How did the idea for the "Romantic Death" video come about? That came about when we were just trying to make videos really cheap and we were talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to everyone we knew. We worked with director Sean Foster and he had a bunch of people working with him and one of them was this editor that we asked to come up with some ideas. He knew of a website that had that footage (Beaufifulagony.com). And he just kinda Adv. 1. kinda - to some (great or small) extent; "it was rather cold"; "the party was rather nice"; "the knife is rather dull"; "I rather regret that I cannot attend"; "He's rather good at playing the cello"; "he is kind of shy" kind of, sort of, rather edited it together and asked what we thought. We went back and forth a few times and it worked out. Has there been any negative reaction, like from Christian groups or tightwads? Not really. No. I think I've seen a couple. But for the most part it's been a really good reaction. I've seen a couple comments on websites where people said they're faking it Faking It was a television programme originating on UK Channel 4 which has spawned various international remakes, including a US version which began in 2003 on the TLC network. . If anybody doesn't like it, it's usually a backlash kind of thing. They don't like it just because it is so popular. Why a DVD album? Do you guys all want to be actors? No. I think it's just a way to draw people to our music, to show the character of the band. That's one thing that makes for a really good band: character on top of their music. The record got pushed back and we were done with recording. We had some time before touting and we wanted to do something productive and we just decided to do videos. Is this something you want to do again for your next album? We've talked about what we're going to do, but we don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. . All these videos came as an afterthought. We've kicked around the idea of a concept for the next album, but we don't know. Coming from the state that gave us four more years of Bush, are there a lot of people in Ohio kicking themselves now? I don't know. There are different thoughts. Brad, the other guitar player and I, are really into conspiracy theories ''This is a list of conspiracy theories; it contains alleged conspiracies that are not accepted by mainstream academics. For a discussion of conspiracy theories in general, see conspiracy theory. and we kind of believe that the election was stolen. There are a lot of reports--some far-fetched, some well documented--about election-day fraud in Ohio. Yeah. It's also a disappointment that Kerry didn't come to Ohio on the day after the election. There are definitely questions that were never asked in the mainstream. |
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