Yet St Vincent, if you're in indulgent mood, is entertaining enough.
The effect is of a Philip Glass score written in a meditative and indulgent mood and played at half speed.
Fetching line drawings by Leanne Shapton frisk through the pages, feeding the indulgent mood and throwing a bone to readers who think their own breed, mix or mutt is the only kind that deserves artistic rendering, whether it's a bat-eared dachshund, a defiant Westie, a humorously awkward terrier mix or a bobble-head puppy of indeterminate parentage.
So, since I'm in a self-indulgent mood (and really, really want to procrastinate on some other stuff), here's a repost: HOW I WORK My formal charge in this essay is to talk about my "life philosophy".
It may be a sign of present decadence, then, that the Fragonard mood — euphorically indulgent, lip-smackingly sensual, a bit silly — seems fresh.
Goodbye, self-indulgent casual humor piece.
If 'Mosquito' the album is mainly about exploring Yeah Yeah Yeahs always-potent subtler, subdued side, they're not going to be so self-indulgent as to recreate that mood live; they follow up fast with the title track, the punkiest stomp on the record, then knock the room clean into hysteria with "Bang," the standout track from their raucous debut EP.
After a rambling start (viewers unfamiliar with the original plot will be lost), "Antigone Unearthed," an all-female reimagining of the tragedy, introduces stylized movements, blackouts and sounds (hissing, hooting, wordless singing) that neither advance a theme, nor create an absorbing mood, nor support the self-indulgent script.
I was much more indulgent then… You can sit around and be in a mood and take your work home with you.
Ten minutes into the self-indulgent depths of Golden Driver's soporific indie dirge and the mood feels about as revolutionary as a sixth-form battle of the bands contest.
Their stories, both familiar and unfamiliar, inspire a valedictory mood, a kind of sorrow for the famously self-indulgent but brilliant world that was destroyed in the Nazi invasion and was never seen again, in Paris or elsewhere.
