Mystic River

I live in Winter Hill, Somerville. That river is right down my drastically steep street. I know how Whitey Bulger used to haunt this town (and that epic article on WBUR really showed it). The remnants of the dark crimes of a gangster time are rooted into this setting. The title is a setting for a murder (and revenge) with a lot of information that is centered around the local culture. The geography of this area is important to the characters and the plotline. But it is a river. When you look at one, you can still only see the surface.

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This album title is vastly different from the albums that surround it. Most of the others are made of two succinct words with a lot of sonic color. (Earlier titles: Fantastic Damage, The Cold Vein.) This is an instrumental remixed beat album. Everything on it is chaotic. The beat themes never last very long, but they run into each other. El-P is a pretty intense emcee, and this beat album is likewise intense. Fiery, even.

Anchorman

This title tells me nothing about Ron Burgundy…except that he is a man. It is an unlikely job position to come up in current conversation, but it’s not saying it’s funny. It doesn’t say anything about his mustache. Or his elocution exercises. It tells us nothing about his intimate affairs or anything about a romance. It definitely does not tell us that he’s a “glass case of emotion”. Ron will tell us that. He’d also tell us to stay classy!