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(05/28/10 2:00am)
It's been fun, seniors. I appreciate the example you set for me, as I viewed many of you as my role models or at least as a wake-up call to get my act together. Go out and enjoy the real world, if only for the purpose of coming up for big weekends and be "that sketchy alum." Here's your largely clichd and full 90s throwbacks playlist I'll see you in the unemployment line in a year.
(05/25/10 2:00am)
We usually like to know that the subject matter we hear artists sing about is true, that the emotions they convey are real, that the connections we form with them through our shared experiences are genuine. Yet, in the case of rap a genre that frequently glorifies alcohol and drug use, violence and the objectification of women being true to life may be more disturbing than comforting.
(05/21/10 2:00am)
I like to think that college is a time for us to emotionally mature, intellectually expand our minds and develop new insights. Then I remember that events like formals exist to trap us in a strange time warp, where we relive high school prom over and over again. As if I really needed more help running away from adulthood.
(05/11/10 2:00am)
It's true that nothing in life is free and even if it's close to being free, Apple will eventually covet it and charge higher prices anyway.
(05/07/10 2:00am)
In a rare attempt at optimism, I just want to say that whenever confronted with dark times and troubled waters, we can always find solace in the thought that good times are around the corner even though that's often not true. Truth proves to be irrelevant in any case because happiness has a lot less to do with reality than it does with self-delusion. After all, how does that saying go lying is the best medicine?
(04/30/10 2:00am)
All etiquette seems to be unnecessary pomp and circumstance, created primarily for elitist and exclusionary purposes. However, if you want to talk about manners and common decency like not laughing obnoxiously loud to whatever YouTube video you're watching in the Stacks during finals period that's another story.
(04/27/10 2:00am)
My opinion on musicals is evenly split. On one hand, musicals can be the source of timeless ballads and anthems, tied to a moving narrative that feeds the emotional resonance of the music. On the other hand, however, they sometimes require too great a suspension of disbelief for me not to find the act of repeatedly breaking out into song in everyday life completely cheesy and ridiculous. The premiere of the latest Broadway musical "American Idiot" only fuels my ambivalence further.
(04/23/10 2:00am)
Advancement of communication technologies has become a completely paradoxical endeavor. We continually strive to find new and innovative ways to provide channels through which people can connect with one another, so that any face-to-face interaction is completely unnecessary. Users share ideas over e-mail, form and end relationships through text messages, and sit with their eyes glued to their BlackBerry phones when in the company of others. We've entered an age in which technology has allowed us to be simultaneously hyper-social and anti-social. So if you want to hang out, send me a blitz and maybe we can set up a date - on Skype of course.
(04/16/10 2:00am)
Drugs are the double-edged swords of the music world. Influential genres and songs have been born into existence through the use of drugs, but many artists have also been brought to their demise through the abuse of such substances. Of course, you won't hear about the dangers of drug addiction in most of the songs about drugs. In fact, if illicit substances were to ever have an official spokesperson, musicians would probably be the first to get the job. Here are 10 songs that D.A.R.E. doesn't want you to hear.
(04/13/10 2:00am)
I'm always amazed by Apple's ability to release high-end versions of products that already exist and then market them as revolutionary. This month, the big news was the iPad, which is neither the first tablet computer, nor all that different from the iPhone except for its size. Nonetheless, Apple addicts have hailed it as a groundbreaking technological innovation. With the release of the iPad, the music industry is taking steps in order to take advantage of this new platform.
(04/09/10 2:00am)
Great ideas are hard to come by and even harder to come up with. I have the utmost respect for anyone who can understand some part of the world no matter how small well enough to analyze and innovate it. While thesis writers, researchers, and the intelligentsia at large pave their own way in new territory, exploring unexplored fields and thinking new thoughts, I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me why the sky is blue. Anyone?
(04/05/10 2:00am)
Created by Adam Reed, "Archer" follows the self-serving missions, misadventures and twisted personal lives of the agents and employees at the International Secret Intelligence Service. The title character Sterling Archer, voiced by H. Jon Benjamin whose credits include Comedy Central's "Freak Show" and "Important Things with Demetri Martin," Cartoon Network's Adult Swim program"Home Movies" and FOX's "Family Guy" has all the outer appearances of a top spy. He is tall, dark, classically handsome and in top physical condition.
(04/02/10 2:00am)
Like many labels out there, "dance music" is a highly ambiguous term. There's the genre of dance music which subsumes several other genres as it is and there's also everyone's personal idea of what dancing and the best music for it is. At a club, dancing may mean shaking your hips, while at a rock concert it means running around in circles and pushing people. Whatever it may mean to you, here's an extended playlist to hopefully get your feet moving.
(03/30/10 2:00am)
If I were to compare the current music industry to a movie, it would have to be something like "2012" (2009), "The Day After Tomorrow" (2004) or some other similar end-of-the-world flick. The industry always seems to be in some sort of upheaval as new technology emerges, the way people listen to music changes and traditional record labels move closer to becoming obsolete. The latest game changer is legislation that, if passed, could deal a devastating blow to radio stations.
(03/05/10 4:00am)
The benefits of going to gradaute school are abundantly clear: a degree from an institution of even higher education means you'll be more knowledgeable, experienced and qualified when you finally make it out to the real world. An added bonus is that you get to put off the real world for a couple more years, which is a considerably better option than psychologically regressing to a five-year-old version of yourself after graduation.
(03/03/10 4:00am)
"Far" an eclectic series of eight films, each set to and inspired by one of the eight tracks on Filligar's third full-length album "Near or Far" is a joint effort by Filligar and eight directors from across the country, including Alice Mathias '07, the older sister of three members of Filligar, who also served as producer of the series. The first video premiered on Tuesday, and the band will continue to release the remaining videos at a rate of one per week.
(03/02/10 4:00am)
Any time a band breaks up, I imagine its fans experience something similar to what children go through when their parents are getting a divorce. They feel confused and hurt and wonder what they did wrong to make this happen. It's hard knowing that the members of your favorite band are still out there, but have decided not to make music together anymore. Why couldn't they stay together for the kids?
(02/26/10 4:00am)
I've often heard the word "sleep" thrown around, but have yet to understand its meaning. As someone who sustains herself on Starbucks "doubleshot" energy drinks and who is both nocturnal and diurnal, sleep is one of the many items on my daily to do list that I just never get to check off. Here are some tracks to help you catch some z's, if you're into that sort of thing.
(02/23/10 4:00am)
Lately, Hollywood has pushed the already close link between film and music even further with a string of biopics on famous musicians from Ray Charles (2004's "Ray") to Bob Dylan (2007's "I'm Not There").
(02/22/10 4:00am)
Many computer users often take advantage of the mask of anonymity that the Internet provides to show their true selves or just be complete jerks. While it's never fun to be locked in a message board battle or comments clash with such a person, watching it go down between others can be absolutely hilarious. This is exactly what DontEvenReply.com exploits for its readers' amusement. The site features e-mail correspondence between the site's creator we'll call him Mike and the authors of various classified ads. The e-mails start out normal enough as Mike lures his target into the exchange, but he quickly steers the conversation into a bizarre and inappropriate direction. Whether Mike is sending pictures of guns poorly disguised by a box of tissues in response to an ad seeking concealable weapons or pretending to represent an amateur pornography company and offering to sponsor a little league team, the conversations usually end the same way: cursing and outrage. Pissing off others for personal amusement has never seemed so right.