They are a proper band in the Kings Of Leon sense, but
trashier. Less country, more scuzzy, proper rock and roll.
Even his
trashier offerings such as Species and Dante's Peak are well worth a look.
Had he been born in the late 20th century instead of in the 18th, he would have been regularly vilified in the national tabloid press and
trashier magazines.
It don't get much
trashier than Slim Limbs: super lo-fi primitive rock with growled vocals and some organ thrown in for good measure.
* Teen movies don't get any
trashier or more gleefully deviant than Roger Kumble's adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons for the high school set.
The idea is of the kind familiar to us from the headlines of the
trashier supermarket tabloids: Martians are beaming down cosmic rays that are genetically transforming human infants into aliens.
Along with the geometric and the political, there are
trashier ways to underline your point: Gerry Bibby's After Hours: Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), 2006, is a bird's nest-cum-sound system made out of a stereo, speakers, plastic bags, pigeon spikes, IKEA furniture, and piles of shredded print advertisements, which holds coins here and there, like a wishing well.
The culture has grown
trashier, the demands of society have become less stringent, the culture of indulgence has grown deeper--and all this has led to a visible cultural decline.
All of these trends have been taking place since the early 1990s--the same period in which American culture was allegedly getting
trashier. According to City Journal, the same age group tends to be more tolerant of homosexuality, less judgmental of single parents, and actively engaged in the music, movies, television, and Internet that Shapiro finds so corrupting.
THE return of Footballer's Wives to our screens and it's
trashier than ever before
The "
trashier" the talk show, the more intense are these aspects.
Laurie Osborne, for instance, finds that while a few earlier writers of romance novels frame plots and characters in hermeneutic relation to Shakespeare, the primary function of Shakespearean allusion in later works is to claim higher intellectual status and to elevate these works above the so-called
trashier contributions to the genre.
Given these constraints, his operas' libretti are even
trashier than the usual fare.
Valentine's day--a bawdy declamation, the
trashier the better--this will do to win their love.
"One of the things I feel all TV film programming misses out on is the love of the
trashier end of the spectrum," he says.