“You need time to deal with Lateralus — a lot more than the seventy-seven minutes it takes just to play the whole disc. And for much of that time, you will wonder: What the fuck is going on here? Drums, bass and guitars move in jarring cycles of hyperhowl and near-silent death march. The mix […]”
“Eric Partridge's *Dictionary of the Underworld* (1998 NTC/Contemporary Publishing), a lexicon of 19th Century street slang, defines the idiom "pitch the fork" as "to tell a pitiful tale." The term appeared printed in 1863 in *Story of a Lancashire Thief*: *"Brummagem Joe, a cove ["fellow" or "dude," if you will] as could patter or pitch the fork with anyone."* At last, the secret motivation of m”
