Every day I arbitrarily see buildings and houses and odd structures that go from the beautiful to the banal," writes Moby, who's clearly had better luck finding strange architecture than he has locating his "shift" key.
Being a thief is banal but writing about it is magnificent and with this exhibitionist act of tedious subversion, I have recreated myself once more as gullible, European radicals reclaim me for their own.
So what's she doing in this banal mess, written by Lisa Loomer?
For the past year Mr Takeshita has been guiding the LDP's power brokers from his sickbed, still the puppet master.It sounds banal to write of an end of an era for Japanese politics, if only because that era, a dizzy mixture of brilliance and corruption, has been so reluctant to come to an end.
I was fed up with writing banal copy but, in a city where I was otherwise anonymous, there was something comforting about the office: its murmur of chatter, bleeping phones and familiarish faces.
Really, though, of all Ellis's writing, this one is something else: it kind of takes the chode-ish obviousness of writing about banal rich kid life and turns it on its face.
"The master of austere spaces is now a banal decoration," Villoro wrote in a scathing op-ed.
His mating plots tend toward the banal, and are written in a prose that is at once showy and anxiously explanatory ("decided to pull an Aschenbach").
'Perfectly banal, perhaps,' he wrote, 'perfectly boring, certainly.' I ask Eggleston if he was surprised or dismayed by the negative critical response.
The New Zealand Herald writer Lydia Jenkin deemed "Rock Me" one of "the most banal songs ever written", but noted that the group "know what teenage girls want to hear".
