34) Top Five Chris Rock writes, directs and stars in this romcom about a washed-up comedy action star (Rock) engaged to a ghastly reality-TV star and making a bid for serious artistry with a 12 Years a Slave-style flick about the Haitian revolution.
Try arranging a Zen garden, or stacking rocks, or engaging in a repetitive activity such as crocheting.
When rock bands engage with acoustic instruments and orchestration, the results can be catastrophic, but Sunn O))) are keenly aware of the pitfalls – as Anderson told me in a recent interview: "We didn't want to sound like Metallica with strings".
"Did I Let You Know" rides a slight tropical rhythm, a trick maybe borrowed from Vampire Weekend or one of its more toothless peers, bands that in the past five years have reframed the idea of what it means to be a funk-aware rock band, engaged but not visceral.
Some songs sound generic – like early 90s indie-pop (with the emphasis on the "rock") – the otherwise engaging Aqua Profunda! sounds of second-division Britpop band Sleeper, for example.
To which the miners responded with rocks and firecrackers, engaging the cops in a battle that ran until around 3 PM, when a bunch of buses came to trolley them home to Asturias.
Hanging OuTowhichSpain's Angry Bazooka Miners.
Attempting and engaging in rock outs as a vehicle is in motion should be reserved for the master driver/rocker combo.
After its predecessor's tender band refit, Futurology adopts more galvanising positions, drawing on 1970s Krautrock and 1980s art-pop to revitalise a belief that rock music should engage body and brain simultaneously.
Clapton took the ideal of authentic performance from the British jazz scene, but his pursuit of originality his homage to the blues originals and his search for his own guitar voice also reflected his art-school education (Clapton was one of many British rock stars who engaged in music seriously while in art school).
