Mr. Scott said he was intrigued by the track because he thought it could be a hit, and because "it has parallels with a U.K. music called funky, and a similar audience to the people making the music, Anglo-African guys and girls from Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, places like that.
These days, Bradshaw may have warm words for the BBC as an institution – "it has parallels with the NHS" – but when I ask whether the licence fee should go up or down, he says coolly, "The tolerance of the public for paying more is going to be limited, if not non-existent".
Not my most impressive hour, but I did enjoy it a lot: with its theme of treachery in a small town, it has parallels with King's latest magnum opus, Under the Dome (which I'm currently halfway through and loving), so I think a reread might be on the cards.
Similarly, computer scientists are intrigued by the problem, because it has parallels with reordering disorganised data.
"It has parallels with physical exercise – a stroll is good for your health, but not as beneficial as a run".
It has parallels with his latest film "This Must Be the Place," a similarly strange tale in which Sean Penn plays a catatonic, lipsticked rock star in the Robert Smith mold.
It has parallels to the deductive relations between the forms of judgement studied in the traditional square of opposition (Schroeder-Heister, 2012a; Zeilberger, 2008).
Describing an evil ruler called Abhartach who rose from the dead and demanded a sacrifice of blood from the wrists of his subjects, it has parallels in Stoker's tale.
