But the Songbook Series, for all its would-be innovations, remains a basically familiar format.
Tell, do you believe in free will?" His voice, hardened, howling, tightly on pitch and unafraid of a detailed melody, matches his heavy-handed but skillful guitar playing; there's something basically familiar about what he does, probably because his is a neat cross between John Fogerty in Creedence Clearwater Revival and Paul McCartney as an anguished rocker in the late Beatles.
The recently published "Pop: The Genius of Andy Warhol," by Tony Scherman and David Dalton, is, basically, the familiar story.
Though the levels are more various, they're still basically matching familiar scenario A to fixed solution A. They recognize a chess situation on a chess board, and can find in their memory the next move that led most often to victory in human games, but this, the skeptics grumble, was just very well-indexed idiocy, not true smarts.
The men's selection of retro plastic frames is familiar — basically, the Many Moods of Clark Kent.
Ted is basically a very familiar comedy (see also Shaun of the Dead, Knocked Up, etc) about a man-child who has to clean up his act to win back his insanely patient girlfriend, Mila Kunis.
"This is basically a very familiar situation of an apprentice who is both an employee and both a student, and to try to draw the line in some categorical way doesn't make sense," he said.
The chat shows of the era – Wogan and Aspel, basically – picked from a familiar pool of safe mid-1980s TV faces.
But while the recipe has been tweaked here and there, this new production plays to the company's core strengths: it's basically a series of familiar, reliably exciting old-school circus acts embroidered in baroque, sometimes bewildering art direction.
Familiar is basically a socially programmed screensaver (yes, screensaver) which allows you to share and display photos with contacts you select through Facebook and via email.
Plenty of competing new art forms like Cinemagram, Everlapse, and the quite-similar StoryApp have seen much slower growth than apps like Instagram or Vine, which basically boil down to familiar mediums of photography and video.
