Casey may lay out a grim recitation of society's ills pollution, disease, rape, drugs but he wisely keeps hope at the forefront of the mix, rooting his fears in parental love and letting a whiz-bang arrangement bury the dark subject matter in bright strumming and zinging synths.

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At college he fell madly in love with the only woman in his physics class, a dark and intense Serbian named Mileva Maric.

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Though his hair is now cropped short two years ago, he donated it to Locks for Love in the photos, his dark locks flow down his back making him a horse-less Male Godiva wandering streets, parks and subway stations.

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Still, why should those supporting players be treated with any more dignity than the stars, whose asses Ashford hawks to the highest bidders that is, to us, the audience, all those people in the dark, whom he wants, more than anything, to applaud and love him?

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