These paintings are accompanied by quieter moments – a swirling, toothpaste-like wave breaking on to a shore, a black night sky, bare feet reflected in puddles on the beach.
We were like fish flopping on a shore, dying out of the water.
The ingredients are so scant, it's hard to believe they add up to a song: a skippy breakbeat, underscored by bongo sounds here and there; a descending, three-note synth scale that rolls by like waves crashing against a shore; and then, at around the two-minute mark, a female vocal sample from what sounds like a long-lost soul record, fading slowly but insistently into ear shot: "To the sky.
Grandma receded like a distant shore as the approaching sea of mist grew more tempestuous, holding on to Commander Yu was like clinging to the railing of a boat.
The song is as captivating as its visuals: Moon Bounce embeds crooning vocals into waves of sound that erupt like ocean swells slapping against a shore, and pockets of silence give way to surges of melody and tremendous drum hits.
All right, so maybe "five reasons to like 'Jersey Shore' " was setting the bar too high.
I say "located," because I'd decided to dispense with my maps -- on this soon to be inexistent littoral, I wanted to feel, as much as possible, like a long-shore drifter: human clay being carried southwards by the current of my own obsession.
Secrest notes that much is overlooked in the rush to have love conquer all in South Pacific, "questions of the long-term survival of a marriage between a sophisticate who read Proust at bedtime and a girl who liked Dinah Shore and did not read anything were raised by Nellie Forbush only to be brushed aside.
A reality show like "Jersey Shore" attracts a different audience than a guys-high-fiving dramedy like "Men of a Certain Age" or a mockumentary sitcom like "Modern Family" or "The Office" — yet they all plan for unplanned moments, engineering scenarios that feel like life minus all the boring parts.
