On the plane, he bumps into a writer called Virginia - also on her way to the festival - who believes her work, The Years, was "mangled out of recognition by some person named Mondazy".
They are too tied to melody and song structure for most DJs to drop in sets, while fans of the band themselves just get pissed off that their beloved indie slammer has been mangled out of all recognition.
I've been in the TV screenwriting business for 20-odd years, and I've made a decent living at it, but I was getting tired of having my best ideas mangled, and spat out, by the process.
From the first line – "Another sheep, mangled and bled out, her innards not yet crusting and the vapours rising from her like a steamed pudding" – it is a tale that oozes, drips, throbs with menace.
'How about we do it,' he suggests, 'and if it really sucks, you let us know?' In the scene, he is having trouble with one particular line: 'And who cares about shit they don't have balls enough to say to your face?' It keeps coming out mangled.
It features gruesome imagery – limbs are mangled, tongues are cut out – all played with an eye for excruciating detail.
That's when he pulled out a mangled envelope from his jacket pocket containing the rings, which he'd carried around all week.
On the charred hillside below, mangled tree branches jutted out to meet the clear blue sky.
Unfortunately, hair cells grow only as an embryo develops; once they're mangled or worn out in mature animals, the cells are gone for good.
Lazy because this was long before the average household could afford an automatic washing machine and doing the laundry meant boiling, scrubbing, rinsing and mangling before hanging out to dry.
In 75 minutes, the play revisits Cobb's record-setting triumphs -- he held 90 major league records when he retired in 1928, and his.367 lifetime batting average has never been surpassed -- as well as his acts of bigotry and viciousness; he once leaped into the stands and beat up a heckler, who turned out to have mangled hands.
