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... So They Say: The Antidote for Irony Aversion.com Review [Sign In] Search Artist Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Advertise on Aversion Add to Your Favorites [Print] [Add Your Comment] [More on So They Say] [Email Article] The Antidote for Irony So They Say Fearless Records (out of 5) Conventional wisdom dictates that pop-punk’s a dead end.

That more than 10 years as one of the most talked-about, most crowded and most profitable genres in the music biz rendered three-chord pop so recycled, so formulaic and so worn out that there’s nothing left to be done with the genre than let Hot Topic’s pop-cultural bottom feeders pick at its corpse.

After spinning So They Say’s first full-length, The Antidote for Irony, it’s hard to say whether or not conventional wisdom holds true.

On one hand, with Armor for Sleep and Sunny Day Real Estate influences worn proudly on its sleeve, So They Say won’t ever be accused of making bold strides forward.

On the other hand, The Antidote for Irony comes together with just enough zip and energy to make its strong enough to squirm out of most of the accusations of spitting up heartless, generic crap.

Maybe it’s a stalemate.

There are no shortage of reasons to roll your eyes at The Antidote for Irony.

“In Loving Memory Of,” ponders the narrator’s funeral – a la Armor For Sleep’s What To Do When You Are Dead – and gussies it up with string arrangements.

“Good Bye” is pure ...

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Varadaraj, an 11-year-old fifth-grader at William Sidney Mount Elementary in Stony Brook, recalled that in the weeks leading up to the contest, he often meditated after stressful nights of studying as many as 200 words.

"I sit down and take deep breaths," he said.

"I sit down and don't think of anything and I find my inner peace.

" Brickman, 11, a fifth-grader at the Brandeis School in Lawrence, said he was only "a little nervous" yesterday.

But his cool as the contest got under way - in between smiling sheepishly for the camera his father Noah pointed at him, Daniel concentrated on his portable PlayStation 2 - was almost too much for his mother Barbara.

"He's a little too chill," she said.

"He's making me nervous.

" As Murali, Daniel and 39 other students prepared for the bee, which began about 4:45 p.m., a faint bell could be heard inside the auditorium at Suffolk Community College in Brentwood, as a test to ensure it worked properly.

Amy Goldstein, 22, was nervous about her role: ringing the silver bell to be sounded when a competitor misspells a word.

Goldstein, a senior majoring in linguistics at Queens College, won the competition in 1998 and tied for fourth place in Washington.

"Before, I used to hear the bell and now I'm the one telling the kids to leave the stage," she said.

Brock Schmid, 11, of North Babylon, pulled the word "mosaic.

" But he spelled it with a Z instead of an S, and he was out.

"I heard it wrong, I think," he said.

"It's OK, yo...

...ba href=/anxiety/a/b was raised across the continent following January's spat between Russia and Ukraine that saw supplies to the former Soviet republic cut off.

Russia says the NEGP will guarantee reliable supplies to European consumers, and reduce dependency on transit countries.

The NEGP will comprise two parallel sections of 750 miles each, at a cost of 4.7 billion euros.

Project manager Gazprom holds a 51% stake, with Germany's BASF and E.ON holding 24.5% each.

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