Dropped like a creature from space … Pixies in the early 90s. Photograph: Photoshot/Getty ImagesDropped like a creature from space … Pixies in the early 90s. Photograph: Photoshot/Getty Images10 of the bestPixiesSample the band’s Samson and Delilah for the stoner college crowd, spectral lyrics of bizarre bodily physics, and emotionally tense alien road-traffic accidents
1. I’ve Been TiredIn retrospect it’s a miracle that Black Francis, Pixies’ own Dr Jekyll, made it through the entrance interview for the band’s collegiate cradle – the University of Massachusetts Amherst – without the authorities being alerted. Read More...
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How to Train Your Dragon Cressida Cowell (Hodder)How to train your dragon by Cressida Cowell Photograph: HodderA laugh-out loud romp of a Viking adventure set on the windy Isle of Berk, this is the first in a hugely successful 10-book series and is now being made into a film. Read More...
Democrats This article is more than 3 years oldUS congressman who said 'amen and a-woman' prayer hits back at criticsThis article is more than 3 years oldEmanuel Cleaver says those such as Donald Trump Jr who objected to message are ‘soiled by selfishness and perverted by prejudice’
A Democratic congressman said he was surprised by the negative response after he ended an opening prayer on the first day of the new Congress by saying “amen and a-woman” – and said conservative critics including Donald Trump Jr had only proved themselves “soiled by selfishness, perverted by prejudice and inveigled by ideology”. Read More...