Patrick Ness puts you in the shoes of regular down-to-earth Mikey who just wants to graduate, go to prom and maybe pluck up the courage to ask Henna out.
(These include the gorgeous, bewildering "Segaiha," by the Japanese Royal Palace Band: as far as I can tell, it's a few string instruments, bowed and plucked, maybe a reed organ playing tone clusters).
They're scrawny, too, as if plucked from... sparrows, maybe?
Maybe some low-hanging offsets can be plucked for now.
Behind a gate at No. 251, a private house sits back from the street, with a flagstone garden in front, looking as if it had been plucked straight from Charleston, S.C., or maybe Toulouse, France.
In April, he was seemingly plucked from out of nowhere - or maybe his hometown of West Orange, N.J. - to replace Jon Heder, the "Napoleon Dynamite" star, in the Comedy Central series "Big Lake," when Mr. Heder abruptly dropped out of the project.
Maybe it was already disgusting because of its link to bodily functions, and then we plucked it out of the pile and ran with it.
Maybe the missing persons case feels lackluster when compared to the string of other crime-driven series plucked from the bowels of a dark Ozarkian underbelly.
Even better still was to come – and maybe the best of Muse's entire oeuvre is Knights of Cydonia, which started life as a riff plucked away on a tour bus as Muse perambulated through the dust of the Arizona desert.
