They’re in their 60s and they’re insanely fit people, so I’ve just got them to keep up with. “An article about the film came out saying that I got in shape for this role, which I didn’t. “I was shirtless more as Al than I’ve been in anything else,” he told “ET” host Rachel Smith at the Toronto International Film Festival. The trailer for his upcoming movie, “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story,” however, saw impassioned fans screech about his flat ironing-board abs. He revealed the real reason behind his new look in an interview with “Entertainment Tonight” that aired Friday. (Photo: Leon Bennett via Getty Images)ĭaniel Radcliffe has always been a slim, trim and handsome British lad. Ultimately, theirs are statements that both ask for and infinitely reward a second spin.“I was shirtless more as Al than I’ve been in anything else,” he told “ET” host Rachel Smith at the Toronto International Film Festival. An irregular shape can be of any size and length. Their criticisms, on paper, can seem distant, but somehow- whether it's vulnerable moments like "I'm not saying you need some deep-seated hatred of self/ But it helps" and "I met a girl, to my surprise/ Said 'I'm damaged goods', she said, 'So am I,' / so I held her hand," or the blithe delivery of even the most biting invectives, or merely a trick of the pop-guitar lick- there's something genuinely warm about them. The area of irregular shapes means the space occupied by the shape which is measured in square units.
Every song- save "Hex Maneuvers", a dreamy experiment that evokes Real Estate's aqueous twang with moderate success- is irresistibly upbeat in its complaint. And even as it bubbles over into excess, it's hard to bemoan Bent Shapes' knack for marrying lyricism and melody. The puzzle must be solved in order to progress the. But for every overstep, there's a song like "Bites and Scratches", a personal and heartbreakingly sweet cut about love amidst baggage, that serves as a reminder that they're also dissatisfied with their own complicity and intimate failings. Strange Shapes (Funny Shapes in the UK version) is a puzzle in Professor Layton and the Unwound Future. (With lines like "drum circle jerks" and "Go put yourself into orbit/ where verbose is verboten/ ferocious, forgotten," it's also a quintessential example of Bent Shapes' immaculate attention to wordplay.) You don't have to have spent time in Boston to appreciate its diss-track qualities, but those fans probably get an amplified experience.Īt times, their disgust waxes preachy at others, like on the garrulous "Boys to Men", their need to say something the right way tangles a song in its own feet, like the words of someone who's been holed up alone in his apartment for too many days in a row, and the band stumbles. "Brat Poison", the most explicit, electrifying, and outright funny cut on the record by a wide margin, drips with sarcastic contempt as it eviscerates the hypocritical arrogance of loudmouthed local-scene personalities. Weird Shapes Lyrics: I dont want to leave my heart in your hands / Out on the frozen ocean / Cause Im full of wine and song tonight / And it feels all. He revealed the real reason behind his new look in an interview with Entertainment Tonight that aired Friday. The trailer for his upcoming movie, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, however, saw impassioned fans screech about his flat ironing-board abs. Drawing on proto- and post-punk influences like the Feelies and Jonathan Richman, each track exposes a different blistering sore Sadoway's mellow vocals and Gunda's bouncing, all-business ones knock Potrykus off his earnestly charming soapbox in healthy doses. Daniel Radcliffe has always been a slim, trim and handsome British lad.
2" establishes the band's innate grasp on the alluring grievance: bullshit abounds, especially in their uniquely overeducated, often self-important city. 1 45 RECORD, Indie Punk split record from 2006 with pic sleeve. As a debutante collection- celebrating the band's introduction to the world beyond New England at long last, something their contemporaries, and they too, until now, have eschewed- Feels Weird serves as an eclectic, vivid primer on its creators' sprightly misanthropy.įrom the outset, "Behead Yrself Pt. This is SHAPES AND SIZES / THE WEIRD WEEDS Unusual Animals Vol. While incongruous, seemingly unplanned mishmash on a debut would sink a less experienced band, Bent Shapes' honed songcraft is such that missing the forest for the trees is actually a great idea. Though Cull Shorts marked the end of an era, its patchwork structure lingers on Feels Weird. Despite the new collection's intention as a formal album, it contains disordered messes of frenetic declarations, judgments, and uncertainties that have become part of the band's character.
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