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his is the first time i n my col lege career that I have male roommates and they’ve taught me something about life: guys really use Axe. Blows your mind, doesn’t it?

I first noticed a bottle of Axe body wash in my shower, next to an empty PBR. While the latter is a familiar sight, the Axe definitely wasn’t.

For the next few weeks, I snooped through all the medicine cabinets and showers I could get away with, hoping to prove the grooming habits of my roommate to be an anomaly.

Why am I so against the line of hygiene products that have taken over the armpits of males ages 13 to 25? Because it’s Axe, do I need to say more? I always thought Axe was the male version of Teen Spirit — cool if you’re still riding the bus to school; embarrassing if you moved out to go to school.

I started asking random guys what they thought about the deodorant-cologne hybrid that’s garnered the endorsement of Nick Lachey and Ludacris — in fact, when Luda carried around a diamond encrusted “Clix-er� when he was in town last week. I expected most to scoff at the name, but the overwhelming response was “It’s great!� “The only time girls tell me I smell good is when I wear Axe!� (Really? What happened to Aqua Di Gio and Cool Water?)

Regardless what I think, they’ve earned their crowd. They have a series of so-stupid-it’s funny commericals that are even mocked by other products (Tag anyone?). And they’ve earned their following — they’ve since canvassed the whole campus with free samples.

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But I still don’t get it. When I picture an Axe user, I image an undersexed prepubescent boy, probably lacking enough underarm hair to even warrant deodorant in the first place. Not a grown man who can vote.

So do guys really think the Axe Effect is going to help them get laid? From my official survey, most men don’t believe in the dynamic deodorant/cologne duo’s woman-attracting hype — they just like how it smells.

As the Web site says, “Just one application of longer lasting Axe and you’ll stay smelling like a hunk of man candy all day long. And you like that, because babes like man candy. Lots.�

Yes, Axe, you got it right. All us females just can’t wait to get my hands on some Axe-coated Man Candy. Mmm, mmm!

Speaking of, this week buzz managed to get an interview with the man who gives the local Man Candy a place to hang out: Scott Cochrane.

Since the only really public thing about him is his name, it’s easy to imagine him as some sort of evil genius who controls our social lives. However, he seems like a normal guy with a business to run.

Maybe one day he’ll follow in the tradition of Busey and our children will find themselves living on Cochrane Avenue and attending class in Cochrane Hall (before heading over to C.O.’s for a drink, that is — let’s keep our priorities straight).

One last thing: buzz needs more of you. We want to see what you’re doing and we want to give you a chance to see more of yourself in this magazine.

Therefore, we’ve created a new column in The Stinger: User Input. Each week we’ll post a challenge to the readers, the results of which will be published in the following week’s buzz. This week, it’s a photo illustration contest. Check it out. sounds from the scene

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michael coulter FIRST THINGS FIRST

To go under the knife or not to go under the knife?

Plastic surgery is not as common as you thought ... unless you want Nick Lachey’s abs.

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o last week, all ya all may have noticed t hat m a ny of t he buzz columnists got new head shots to go with their weekly writings. I really love that sort of thing because I am nothing if not photogenic. Actually, I am nothing if not sarcastic about being photogenic.

It was excruciating the day of the shoot. I practiced in front of my mirror all afternoon hoping to stumble on a facial expression that didn’t make me look like a complete moron. You can be the judge, but I’m fairly certain I failed. Holy crap, I’ve got more chins than a Chinese phone book.

I’m probably just overly critical ... it’s really hard to look at yourself sometimes.

I’m not alone in feeling that way. In a recent survey by the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery, less than 10 percent of adults have had any sort of cosmetic surgery, yet 20 percent hope to have some in the near future. Well, I’ve spent some time at the DMV and let me simply say, Godspeed all you people, Godspeed. Anyway, they surveyed about a thousand folks between 18 and 65 to come up with their insights as to how we feel as a nation about cosmetic surgery.

Not surprisingly, the results of the survey were just about as fascinating as people who get cosmetic surgery, but let’s look at them anyway.

Most of the people who wanted to change something were women, young adults and people who live in the western part of the United States.

Um, by “western part,” I’m guessing that’s primarily Los Angeles. It’s not really surprising that very few old folks wanted surgery. I mean, unless they’ve really got their hearts set on an open casket, it probably is too little too late.

About 12 percent of men admitted they hoped to undergo some sort of treatment in the future.

Apparently, this 12 percent didn’t really understand that you can change the outside all you want, but the inside will still be a lying rat bastard. At least 88 percent of the men were smart enough to realize this and will continue to do the best they can with what they have.

Personally, I f ind the whole thing sort of ridiculous. I mean, if there is a God and he did create us in his image, then I would imagine he’d be pretty freaking pissed on judgment day when someone showed up with a completely different face. “Oh, that’s nice, got yourself a little nose job there, didn’t you? Sure, I’m only the supreme being and the creator of the world and all that, but for shit sake, if you don’t like my nose, by all means come up with something on your own.”

Hell, if a bunch of people showed up with a nose that was way better than his, he might even become a little self-conscious. “Man, Satan was right. I am a total loser. No wonder so many folks down there are being bad. They don’t want to have to come to heaven and stare at my ugly nose for the rest of eternity. I’m the lamest God ever.”

Well, I assume God should be about the most famous entity around, so if the likeness of him isn’t good enough for us, where the hell are we going to turn to, to find inspiration for our appearance? Duh, towards famous people.

Fifty-one percent of men said they’d like to have Nick Lachey’s abs. Man, I don’t know.

Seriously, I’d feel incredibly embarrassed if I had one of that fruit’s albums in my house, let alone a facsimile from a part of his actual person. I suppose I wouldn’t mind having the entire being that is Nick Lachey, but I would only like to have it so I could try out my new guillotine. I bet his stand alone head would still sing shitty songs for about 10 minutes before it finally fell silent.

Forty-six percent of women said they’d love to have Jennifer Aniston’s eyes. Why stop at the eyes? Personally, I’d like to have Jennifer Aniston’s whole face on me. Sure, I wouldn’t necessarily want it at the top of my neck, but, um ... well, you get the idea.

So, if we all threw a little bit of money at whatever problem we might happen to have, we could all look a little better, but only 20 percent of us plan on actually doing it. What could possibly be stopping us? Surprisingly, according to the survey, pain is not the biggest roadblock stopping us. We’re cool with the pain. We’re not cool, however, with how much it costs (54 percent) and with looking unnatural (48 percent). Also, 27 percent feared they would be unhappy with the outcome of their surgery. I could see that. If you’re already unhappy enough with yourself that you’re getting surgery, I imagine surgery itself wouldn’t make you happy either.

I don’t know, I suppose if it actually makes you feel better about yourself, then what’s the harm (besides a risk of dying on the table) of having something done. It’s just that I bet you’re usually one more operation away from ever feeling completely good about yourself and if you’re not careful, you might end up with one of those creepy, plastic Rocky Dennis meets Joan Rivers’ faces. You know, the ones that look like Halloween masks. No way God’s ever letting you in with that bad boy.

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please let use know at buzz@readbuzz.com. When a correction is needed, it will be listed here.

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michael coulter FIRST THINGS FIRST

To go under the knife or not to go under the knife?

Plastic surgery is not as common as you thought ... unless you want Nick Lachey’s abs.

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o last week, all ya all may have noticed t hat m a ny of t he buzz columnists got new head shots to go with their weekly writings. I really love that sort of thing because I am nothing if not photogenic. Actually, I am nothing if not sarcastic about being photogenic.

It was excruciating the day of the shoot. I practiced in front of my mirror all afternoon hoping to stumble on a facial expression that didn’t make me look like a complete moron. You can be the judge, but I’m fairly certain I failed. Holy crap, I’ve got more chins than a Chinese phone book.

I’m probably just overly critical ... it’s really hard to look at yourself sometimes.

I’m not alone in feeling that way. In a recent survey by the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery, less than 10 percent of adults have had any sort of cosmetic surgery, yet 20 percent hope to have some in the near future. Well, I’ve spent some time at the DMV and let me simply say, Godspeed all you people, Godspeed. Anyway, they surveyed about a thousand folks between 18 and 65 to come up with their insights as to how we feel as a nation about cosmetic surgery.

Not surprisingly, the results of the survey were just about as fascinating as people who get cosmetic surgery, but let’s look at them anyway.

Most of the people who wanted to change something were women, young adults and people who live in the western part of the United States.

Um, by “western part,” I’m guessing that’s primarily Los Angeles. It’s not really surprising that very few old folks wanted surgery. I mean, unless they’ve really got their hearts set on an open casket, it probably is too little too late.

About 12 percent of men admitted they hoped to undergo some sort of treatment in the future.

Apparently, this 12 percent didn’t really understand that you can change the outside all you want, but the inside will still be a lying rat bastard. At least 88 percent of the men were smart enough to realize this and will continue to do the best they can with what they have.

Personally, I f ind the whole thing sort of ridiculous. I mean, if there is a God and he did create us in his image, then I would imagine he’d be pretty freaking pissed on judgment day when someone showed up with a completely different face. “Oh, that’s nice, got yourself a little nose job there, didn’t you? Sure, I’m only the supreme being and the creator of the world and all that, but for shit sake, if you don’t like my nose, by all means come up with something on your own.”

Hell, if a bunch of people showed up with a nose that was way better than his, he might even become a little self-conscious. “Man, Satan was right. I am a total loser. No wonder so many folks down there are being bad. They don’t want to have to come to heaven and stare at my ugly nose for the rest of eternity. I’m the lamest God ever.”

Well, I assume God should be about the most famous entity around, so if the likeness of him isn’t good enough for us, where the hell are we going to turn to, to find inspiration for our appearance? Duh, towards famous people.

Fifty-one percent of men said they’d like to have Nick Lachey’s abs. Man, I don’t know.

Seriously, I’d feel incredibly embarrassed if I had one of that fruit’s albums in my house, let alone a facsimile from a part of his actual person. I suppose I wouldn’t mind having the entire being that is Nick Lachey, but I would only like to have it so I could try out my new guillotine. I bet his stand alone head would still sing shitty songs for about 10 minutes before it finally fell silent.

Forty-six percent of women said they’d love to have Jennifer Aniston’s eyes. Why stop at the eyes? Personally, I’d like to have Jennifer Aniston’s whole face on me. Sure, I wouldn’t necessarily want it at the top of my neck, but, um ... well, you get the idea.

So, if we all threw a little bit of money at whatever problem we might happen to have, we could all look a little better, but only 20 percent of us plan on actually doing it. What could possibly be stopping us? Surprisingly, according to the survey, pain is not the biggest roadblock stopping us. We’re cool with the pain. We’re not cool, however, with how much it costs (54 percent) and with looking unnatural (48 percent). Also, 27 percent feared they would be unhappy with the outcome of their surgery. I could see that. If you’re already unhappy enough with yourself that you’re getting surgery, I imagine surgery itself wouldn’t make you happy either.

I don’t know, I suppose if it actually makes you feel better about yourself, then what’s the harm (besides a risk of dying on the table) of having something done. It’s just that I bet you’re usually one more operation away from ever feeling completely good about yourself and if you’re not careful, you might end up with one of those creepy, plastic Rocky Dennis meets Joan Rivers’ faces. You know, the ones that look like Halloween masks. No way God’s ever letting you in with that bad boy.

OOPS! WE MADE A MISTAKE • Although buzz strives for accuracy, we sometimes make mistakes. If you catch something we didn’t,

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That’s where Scott Cochrane’s campus revolution is going to start — at the essentials, with the necessities of any good bar.

“We’re going to make sure that we keep our places clean and that they’re well-run. We want kids to come out early and more often,” says the Champaign-Urbana bar magnate.

Sure, a place like The Clybourne — a Cochrane mainstay campus bar — was never supposed to be stuck with those kinds of problems — bathrooms looking like they were trashed by sixthgraders. It was going to be more upscale and a departure from the sloppy, loud Greek thing. But it devolved: the kitchen was pulled out, the top shelf lowered and now it’s BYOTP. “I’m tr ying to bring better, bigger, new things to this town, to bring the level up ... I believe in Campustown with all my heart. Downtown is the golden child of the city.

It h a s a l i t t l e C h i c a g o f e e l i n g , b u t C a m p u s t ow n does too,” says Cochrane on a hurried weekday morning.

The phones are ringing and his Urbana office is humming.

His posse is in the midst: his architect, Andrew, is looking over blueprints while his right-hand man Robin Cook sits nearby, quiet, watching.

The man, the campus myth, that “Cochrane,” the bar baron, is right there, at his desk, surrounded by stacks of papers and files and pictures of his wife and three young boys. He’s just started drinking a Red Bull after finishing a large coffee. He talks loudly and quickly. He gestures and moves like it’s the last day of his life, and he’s got to get everything done and get in a workout before it’s too late.

Cochrane is 45 years old, owns or controls ten CU bars and a real estate company, and has just bought a Ducati motorcycle.

“I don’t have a midlife crisis,” he pleads, then pauses. “I have a constant crisis.”

Scott Cochrane (right) and his “right-hand man” Robin Cook at Firehaus (708 S. Sixth St, Champaign), a Cochrane bar, on Sept. 23.

COCHRANE ENTERPRISES TIMELINE 1961

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WigWam opens. It is the first Cochrane bar on campus. In the early ’70s,WigWam becomes R.R. Sports Grill

Cochrane family opens Cochrane’s Bar

Cochrane family opens the Office

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Five Points Bar becomes Mulligan’s

Scott Cochrane opens Clybourne

Cochrane’s Bar becomes Orchid’s

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Mulligan’s becomes Geo’s

Scott Cochrane sells Office II

R.R. becomes Firehaus

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THE EPIPHANY This mission, the crisis, was almost finished off a few years ago. He was thinking of getting out of the business, he said. There were the three boys and his age. From what was once a family-run business, Cochrane was the only one left running the bars, too.

His dad has now passed away and his mother is no longer involved with the enterprise. “My sister left the business seven or eight years ago. My brother had a massive coronary at 44 and died suddenly five years ago. I lost my brother, my best friend, and my partner,” said Cochrane.

In 1961, his mother and father started things at the WigWam, the current location of Firehaus.

His dad had only one month’s rent and bought food on credit. They were successful and bought another campus bar, which they called Cochrane’s and, its eponymous son admits, it was ahead of its time. The business expanded and bars were built including The Office, The Office II, the Clybourne and Geo’s in Urbana. Now, Cochrane Enterprises also includes C.O. Daniel’s and Firehaus on campus, Fat Daddy’s in Ogden, Ill. and Rock’s near downtown Champaign.

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for the area. He wants the city to come to campus to see what his million-plus-dollar investments have built: “I’m trying to make it better. I don’t think the kids realize I’m doing that for them.

They’re going to see more,” he explains.

More is the ornate tile, the Brazilian slate, the br ight LCD glow under the cathedral dr ink ing dome of Firehaus. More wil l be a 50-square foot Budweiser sign, complements of Augustus Busch himself. It would have been larger, but city ordinances demand otherwise.

More is going to be changing Gully’s from your stained, dim, best friend’s basement into Fubar, your rich uncle’s shiny, svelte, penthouse ultralounge. And there’s plans for downtown, too, as Cochrane has acquired the former Lox, Stock, and Bagel building.

The aesthetics are changing, from concrete warehouse-functional to leather lounge-decadent, but is the diversity enough to make kids want to pay $10 covers and buy $5 drinks?

Cochrane scoffs at complaints that prices are going up too much, or that he’s monopolizing.

He said he doesn’t care about his public image and that, when you add it up, drink prices in CU

maybe some posters on the walls and disco lights on the ceiling.

Eric Meyer, owner of Kam’s, sticks to tradition, to keeping the old look and the old name.

“Kam’s is Kam’s. There is no name that isn’t more recognizable for alumni,” he explains.

“We’re careful not to even change things much.

The basic structure is very much the same when I first walked in here in 1980 ... We’re not the most glamorous establishment but we’re very functional,” said a confident Meyer.

As for his growing rival, he said, “Diversifying the cosmetics is probably a smart marketing move on [Cochrane’s] part.” But Meyer, in spite of initial nonchalance, showed some concern.

“There’s ten large bars within campus and he has control or ownership of five of them. It’s significant. Real significant.”

Meyer also explained that, on his own accord, Kam’s will be adding food service and a renovated dance club-like basement in the coming months. He said that as long as he keeps running Kam’s like he is supposed to, there is nothing to worry about.

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Champaign Police Department, two years of Operat ion Ca mpus/Tap, a st ate-ba sed law enforcement program designed to curb and prevent underage drinking, of the 1207 arrests since Sept. 11, 2004, 312, or about 25 percent, were made at Cochrane’s bars. Of the 317 total bar checks, however, only 39, or roughly 12 percent, were at a Cochrane establishment.

Champaign and its Advisory Board are not watching idly through this reinvigoration. Riley said that the City Council is proposing new ordinances that would expand the state’s Happy Hour laws. The Happy Hour laws restrict bars’ drink prices and serving policies.

The local changes would try to eliminate shot girls — who offer pre-purchased drinks within the bar — and to require measured pouring for bartenders. They would also attempt to fix a flaw that allows customers to purchase entire bottles of wine for themselves — a draw of T he Clybou r ne’s Tue sd ay n ig ht “Wi ne Night” promotion.

Cochrane was also removed from the Advisor y Board this year due to his support for

“I’m trying to bring better, bigger, new things to this town…I believe in Campustown with all my heart.

Downtown is the golden child of the city.”

— Scott Cochrane, president of Cochrane Enterprises But something went off, some insight or some vision of grandeur. He just bought Gully’s and Station 211 and is driving ahead. Robin, his partner of seven years, is pushing him out there, he says. They are going to travel to Phoenix and Seattle for new ideas and inspiration. There may be plans to expand into Bloomington, too.

Now in control of five campus bars, and what some would say is the beginning of a monopoly, Cochrane believes things are only getting better

are still substantially lower than those of the bars of Chicago. He has to earn his money in two hours of business a night, he says, and thinks it is justified to nudge up prices here and there.

THE COMPETITION While Cochrane infuses the new bourgeois extravagance, some bar owners believe in conserving the efficiency model of filling the loud, drunk crowd into the two-car garage, with

THE CITY Cochrane’s expansions, nice as they may look, are contrary to the city’s liquor license plans for campus. Dean of Students and Chair of Champaign’s Liquor Advisory Board, William R iley, explained that Campustown liquor licenses were supposed to reduce in number as venues closed over time. But with those bars being bought up and reopened, the same number of licenses remain. Moreover, as reported by the

Unoff icial St. Patrick’s Day. But Cochrane, who spend s ten s of t housa nd s of dol l a r s promoting the annual event, says he doesn’t condone the destructive behavior of students, especially of the celebrators who attend class while drunk.

“Alcohol is a drug and I take it very seriously,” he says. But Cochrane remains proud that the SEE BEER BARON PG. 6

1989

1991

1994

Scott Cochrane opens Office II

Scott Cochrane opens Central Taps

Scott Cochrane opens Five Points Bar

2001

2003

2003

Orchid’s becomes Tonic

Central Tap becomes Rock’s

Tonic closes

2006

2006

2007

Cochrane buys Station 211 and Gully’s

Gully’s will become Fubar Ultralounge

A bar will open in place of Lox, Stock, and Bagel in Champaign

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BURNOUT “This is a burnout business,” says Cochrane.

“You can succumb to theft, women or men, drugs, gambling, booze — there’s a lot of pitfalls.”

He has not been one of these victims yet, but his breakneck pace, his copious caffeine intake, and the danger of competing against himself could all work against this glorious b a r r o o m /c o c k t a i l l o u n g e C a m p u s town revolution.

As elaborate, grandiose or manipulative as his plans may seem to some, for Cochrane, his core motive is simple and longstanding. It’s nothing heinous or greedy or absurd, but just admiration and love for his father.

“My father, there was the real Cochrane. My dad started this thing. He gave up everything for us. He worked so much we didn’t get to see him that much. Still, I idolized him and wanted to be like him.

“That’s why I’m in this business, because I want to be like my dad,” says Cochrane, before moving out for another full day of work, checking out more pr op e r t ie s a nd c r e a t i n g mor e d e s i g n s , conceiving plans and signing contracts, running the bar business and, for him, making this place great. buzz

Left: An advertisement for the R.R. Sports Grill, a Cochrane bar that was located where Firehaus is currently, from the Jan. 22, 1986 Daily Illini Newspaper Right: An advertisement for C.O Daniels from the Feb. 5, 1986 Daily Illini.

“This is a burnout business. You can succumb to theft, women or men, drugs, gambling, booze. There’s a lot of pitfalls.”

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ypically, the phrase “Beer Club� forces one to envision a beer-pong party where Keystone Lights disappear by the case and drinkers who disperse at the end of the event become prime candidates for a public intox ticket.

However, this is not always true. Case in point: the Champaign-Urbana Beer Club. With a motto like “A club for the discerning beer lover,� one m i g ht t h i n k t h at a f ic ion ados of high-grade ales such as Old Style or PBR are not welcome. But the Beer Club is welcoming enough.

The Beer Club was created in December 2003 by former University of Illinois professor Edward Snyder. Three years ago, Snyder was at tend i ng a beer t a st i ng at a Piccad i l ly liquor store in Champaign. Sudden ly, it

family-like dinner, and the beer tasting begins at about 7:30 p.m. It is then that the specialty beer bottles are removed from their coolers and are lined up. The tiny pilsner glasses are brought out of hiding from behind the bar and the group salivates over what seems like the greatest alcoholic discovery of the 21st century.

Beer samples are provided by the members to share, and members are encouraged to supply two or three beers for the meeting’s theme. Different themes have included “Stouts and chocolates� for Valentine’s Day, because nothing says “I love you, honey!� like heavy beer and truffles, and “Beers that go with spicy food,� where hot sauces were sampled alongside the beers. One sauce was so spicy that a toothpick-width dot of it caused a club member to miss work the next day.

Instead, the fi fteen different beer examples that were brought to the meeting included Bridgeport Stout, Bitter Woman IPA, Titan IPA, Out of Bounds Stout and Shipyard Pumpkin Ale. However, my favorite beer name was brought to the meeting by the Delantys, a sweet, 50-ish hops-appreciating couple who have taken a few recent road trips around the nation in search of the great, unknown beer. The unveiling went something like this: “Tyler, we’ve got one for you to try,� said Tom Delanty. “Oh, yeah? Well, I’ll try about any beer,�

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back the sample, the club members have their own way of appreciating the suds: they treat beer like wine.

According to Snyder, there are many factors Ron Zook cries out, â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I thought Guidoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s was supposed to look corporate!â&#x20AC;? that go into tasting beer that the typical drinker doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand. A drinker should swirl the FIRST SNIFF beer to appreciate its color, sniff the sample to They do. They are terrible. They play great My head is so f rozen music and then the jocks come on and ruin everytake in its true scent and slowly sip the beverage right now, I am at a loss in thing for five minutes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but then, they play a to carefully discern the flavors involved. Snyterms of what I am even great tune after it. der feels that to truly experience beer, the tastsupposed to write about this ing process should be every bit as thorough as WPGU is owned by the same group as buzz week. Yes, yes. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all true. and yet I can be critical of them, because well, we wine sampling. xxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxx xxxxx "( "" %)) "

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I was framed by the cops once. For real, yo! the alcohol itself is not the reason he started the So, after the Kitchen Sync came out and If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe me, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fine, but I know provided the community with the best piece of club. He says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The beer is secondary, it is all what happened and I will stand by my story until work they have ever done, especially with the about the people ... I love these guys.â&#x20AC;? my death. So, I am not surprised to hear about bar reviews, I was surprised to discover that the At the end of my time with the Beer Club, it was these allegations against this Urbana copper who owners of the paper pulled their advertising out time to choose a winner out of the sampled beers. allegedly sodomized a prisoner with a tazer gun. of The Hub faster than you can say â&#x20AC;&#x153;gentrificaDespite my reservations, the resounding winner was These things happen all the time. the Titan IPA. Unfortunately, despite my appretionâ&#x20AC;? and then proceeded to fold it.

Let me ask you a question, fair readers. When ciation, Horse Piss Beer wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exactly received Personally, I thought that The Hub had just you see something as simple and asinine as a cop started to turn over a new leaf. The Kitchen well. The Dark Lord himself summed up the blowing a red light with their sirens blasting and Sync was fun and edgy and gave the people what Hor se Piss by say ing, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If of fered ag a i n, Elizabeth Santiago of Champaign pours a bottle of beer to taste from the large selection of exotic lights aglow, and then, watch them pull into the they wanted for the first time ever: criticism.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say nay.â&#x20AC;? beers in front of her at Crane Alley (115 West gas station to get a paper, do you feel thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an A little controversy. Despite the fact that the Main Street, Urbana) on Wednesday, Sept. 20. abuse of power? music section had hit rock bottom by the time Of course it is. it closed, The Hub had become a favorite weekly So, my question is this right now: If I called pastime of mine. I am sad to see it go.

LES CHEVEUX GALLERY in the car, and told them what I saw, do you Rumor has it that it is simply being modified Style think that anything would happen to them? The and reworked in order to improve upon itself. answer is, without a doubt, going to be N-O. I cannot state whether that is true or false. But if for The reason is simple. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my word against theirs. I did, something tells me that my boss would still the And in the end, cops are like a football team or back me when I apologize for stating the wrong entire an infantry division. They will cover their asses thing the next week. no matter what. Can you blame them? family So, that being said, I am conflicted. Do I call BLOG OF THE WEEK the Urbana Police Department and ask to speak http://www.openingblands.blogspot.com. to the head honcho, Mike Bily, in regards to these I love it. I think they hate me. But, I love it allegations? Do I risk pissing off the entire police anyway. Ever since the real openingbands.com Specializing in All Hair Textures force in order to look into something that might became more boring than a geriatric strip show, For an appointment call (217) 355 - 5560 potentially uproot our trust in those to whom we I am all about the local blogs. Three cheers for 24 East Springfield entrust everything? them and their Music Festival. Basically â&#x20AC;&#x201D; every Champaign, IL 61820 My ass hurts. Why? Because I am on the show in Champaign-Urbana in the month of Braids â&#x20AC;˘ Hair Extensions â&#x20AC;˘ Highlights fence about this and I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to come to October can be a part of it. I like that. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hot. a conclusion. So, nothing to report this week.

Sorry. I had a lot going on last week.

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Buzz is the last one standing, and dammit if I Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to go low for the midterm elections, and am not proud to write for a paper that thrives on then spike again before the holidays. Well, make being honest and truthful no matter who it alien- sure to buy your gas from Collins Oil here in ates or how off we are sometimes.

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SSLYBY, (not Owen), Headlights, of Montreal CARLYE WISEL

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y parentals came into town this weekend to ring in the Jewish New Year with me and my brother. After a pitcher of margaritas at Dos Reales and a Wisel family round of Jack Daniels shots, my drunken ass was off to hear Saturday night of the Pygmalion Music Festival.

Owen had (unfortunately) canceled, so after Tim Kinsella played a short opening set, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin hit the stage. Their recorded music is good, but I particularly enjoyed hearing them in a live setting. SSLYBY’s catchy indie rock-pop songs will stick in your mind for days —I’m even listening to them as I write this.

Headlights were next, and they put on a damn good set. All the band members are talented and played well together, but for me, Erin Fein’s voice stands out as the highlight of their music by far, and definitely one of the best parts of the night.

Now, before I talk about of Montreal, let me quickly mention that even though I’m a huge fan, I’ve only seen them live once, at Lollapalooza. I was far back and slightly blind because I chose ’80s sunglasses over actual glasses that could help me see, and I was quite tipsy on the media tent’s happy-hour beers.

I knew to expect them to be goofy, but I suppose I didn’t exactly know what I was in for. That Kevin Barnes is one wild son of a bitch. Maybe it was the simulated sex show, maybe it was his never-nude jean cutoffs, or maybe it was the fact that he looks better in a miniskirt than I do—who knows. Regardless, it was crazy, and the audience—including me—loved every second of it.

You know that you’ve seen a great show when you put the band ’s CD on the second you get home—and when I put The Sunlandic Twins on repeat until 4 in the morning, I knew it too.

Bryan Poole of the band of Montreal performs at the Canopy Club in Urbana, Ill. as part of the Pygmalion Music Festival on Friday, Sept. 23. sounds from the scene

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With Pygmalion in full-swing, CU-ers tuned their ears to a handful of bands at Cowboy Monkey last Thursday.

Scurvine, Triple Whip, Ghost in Light, Darrin Drda’s Theory of Everything and Coco Coca provided the entertainment for the evening.

Scurvine, the headliners, garnered the most enthusiastic support, despite the fact that the crowd had signif icantly thinned by the time they took the stage. Whether this enthusiasm should be attributed to the distinct heaviness of their set or the potentially increasing effect of the alcohol, I leave the reader to interpret.

Triple Whip immediately reminded me just how long it had been since I last saw them. Mostly because Santanu, their former vocalist, was not on stage (I was abroad all last year, give me a break). Nevertheless, the bass and drum duo didn’t disappoint. The group really took the opportunity to showcase their instruments, which made for an energetic set.

Plus, the purple Christmas lights were a nice touch.

The highlight of the night came earlier, at the end of Theory of Everything’s set. After making their way through a variety of funky and entertaining numbers, they pulled elsinore’s Ryan Groff up on stage. I had spotted him in the crowd earlier and was thrilled when he stepped up to sing.

He added vocals to “White Guys with Guitars,” a track off Theory of Everything’s upcoming album Loveway.

and thoroughly entertaining per for mance that included conversations with the crowd about everything from Gilmore Girls to the demise of his former band.

In the wake of such a crowd-friendly performance, the beginning of the Danielson show felt considerably distant and uninviting. With their uniformed look, technical mastery and stalwart lead singer, the band seemed uninterested in the crowd that had gathered in the seats of Krannert. Only once they led into their most exciting number “Did I Step On Your Trumpet?,” did the show pick up steam and it was as if everyone in the room woke up—including the band.

Later in the evening, Man Man created a completely different atmosphere in the intimacy of the Canopy Club.

In what is sure to go down as a legendary performance in CU lore, the group came out in all white (including some really tight white shorts) and full of energy. They roared through a set of raucous pop ditties and Beef heart-inspired melodies that had the entire room bouncing off the walls. It was the type of show that makes one truly realize the appeal of indie music with it’s free f low of style, madcap emotion and heart. It was pure unadulterated self-expression and a shining example of what made the entire weekend so special and memorable.

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Elf Power, David Bazan, Danielson, Man Man IMRAN SIDDIQUEE • STAFF WRITER

After months of anticipation, the Pygmalion Music Festival f inally arrived this past weekend. It was an eclectic mix of old-school and new-school indie, as well as a showcase for the best in local music. Above all, Pygmalion was an event that unif ied the disparate clusters of indie music fans from all over the Champaign-Urbana area for f ive days of wristband-wearing, band-t-shirt-posing, tight-jean-modeling and PBR-drinking fun. In short, it was the hipster party of the semester.

On Wednesday night, Elephant 6 remnant Elf Power kicked off the festival with a power-pop bang. Playing a mix of new material and old classics, the group had the small, yet attentive crowd dancing and singing into the wee hours of the night.

Fr id ay wa s a showca se for t wo c u r rent i nd ie st a r s — Danielson and Man Man. Both bands are in the midst of promoting new albums, Ships and Six Demon Bag respectively, and both have been critically applauded by the likes of Pitchfork and other major publications. David Bazan, of Pedro the Lion fame, opened up for Danielson with a warm

Man Man performs at the Canopy Club in Urbana, Ill. as part of the Pygmalion Music Festival on Friday, Sept. 22.

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’m writing this while tr ying to wind down from Pygmalion ’06, so excuse the possible overtones of whininess, bitchiness and other emotions that might seep out of the ink. That said ... wow, ChampaignUrbana. What an absolutely great weekend of music, right here in our little town. The only sad part about being a person in charge of a festival is that you don’t really get to see all of the sets that you want to. Well, that, and also that sometimes you end up being called an asshole by a band that apparently can’t read e-mail properly.

Yeah, that was fun.

My weekend highlights: Murder By Death, with the world’s rocking-est cello player; playing percussion with Margot & the Nuclear So & So’s along with Josh Lucas (of the Tractor Kings), who took an errant tambourine to the penis; seeing Salaryman rock the fuck out; finding out that people had come from all over the U.S., including scenic New Jersey; Pulsar47 officially claiming the title of “Best CU Indie-Instrumental-Experimental Band—see them if you get a chance; secret shows at Cafe Paradiso that everyone knew about; the drunk girl who pulled a monitor off of the stage and onto herself during Lorenzo Goetz’s set — please come to more shows and act stupid; the troublemaker I saw at the Blind Pig who was being pinned by four guys while waiting for the cops — hey man, it’s not so convincing when you tell people you’re going to kick their asses while your face is pressed into the pavement; hearing that Headlights killed at their show — congrats, guys; and of course, being told that I’m an asshole by a rude and apparently illiterate band.

Getting on to shows that you can actually still see, there’s a show tonight (Sept. 28) at the Courtyard Cafe featuring Harvey Danger. No, seriously, Harvey Danger is playing. I know what you’re thinking. Yes, they’re the band that did “Flagpole Sitta.” No, they didn’t fall off the planet after that. They continued to tour, write and record. And you know what? They put out a fantastic album in 2005. Somehow, the cover is only $5, and showtime is 8 p.m., meaning there’s plenty of time after to go out. Yes, it sucks that the Courtyard has no alcohol, and yes, parking is a bitch, but the show will be worth it.

If you’re looking for a show that is more on the quiet (and cheap) side, head over to the Aroma Cafe to catch the return of Joni Laurence, with Angie Heaton. The show starts at 8 p.m., and is free. But make sure to throw a couple bucks in the tip jar, cheap-ass. After that you could head over to Cowboy Monkey to show your own singing chops off. Just sign up for Live Karaoke Band and get onstage—the band will take it from there (10 p.m., $5).

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Instead of the Courtyard stage, this show will take place in the I-Rooms, located right behind the Courtyard stage. I hear free stuff might be given away. The show starts at 9 p.m., and is apparently some sort of battle of the bands, which I’m assuming involves some sort of brawl, which will be won on the tank-topped shoulders of Lorenzo Goetz bassist Eric Fisher. That guy can throw down.

Also on Friday, in a venue that allows you to drink and smoke, is the Heavy Trash/Sadies show at Cowboy Monkey. The show was originally an early show at Highdive, but has been moved and pushed back to 10 p.m. Tickets are $10. Heavy Trash features Jon Spencer (of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, which you’d imagine he was a pretty big part of ).

Sunday night, Cowboy Monkey hosts Bailey, 21 Knots, Watery Domestic, and Bastian (9:30 p.m., $TBA, which I think is Aramaic). Bailey is one of my favorite local acts, managing to fuse great songwriting and acoustic guitar with electronic beats and weird sounds. The new lineup of Watery Domestic will play an acoustic set.

Look ing a head to nex t week, Yonder Mountain String Band will unleash two nights of music upon Campustown at the Canopy Club on Tuesday and Wednesday, with tickets at $20. This one would be worth calling mom and dad and telling them that you’ve already blown your money for the semester on unexpected beer and Gumby’s costs. Tell them that this time it’s reeeeeeeaaaaally important. Go and marvel at the heavy smells of patchouli, veggie burritos and pot that will cover the entire block and hopefully help mask the lingering aroma of dirty indie musicians and hipsters that sweated through their vintage t-shirts while dancing to Of Montreal at Pygmalion.

Band of the week: Well, okay, it’s not a band.

Caleb Engstrom managed to slay me on Saturday at his secret Paradiso show with David Bazan. In the middle of a hectic weekend, after very little sleep, I wasn’t planning on having a musical revelation. It’s a bit hard to explain just how good the guy is, but that day he put on a flawless performance. His songwriting is topnotch, and he knows exactly how to use his voice.

His set equaled for sure, and perhaps topped, the best of the other sets that I was able to catch over the weekend. Do yourself a favor and check out myspace.com/calebengstrom. Oh, and David Bazan was also extraordinary.

Mike Ingram is a musician and booking agent.

He lives in Champaign and loves the fall. He says you should go to Curtis Orchard as soon as possible. He apologizes to anyone he might have been short with last weekend, or to anyone that he didn’t do the stop-and-chat with when running between venues. He has been eating a lot of dumplings from the Esquire lately. You can reach him to discuss those marvelous little treats at forgottenwords@gmail.com.

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Performing mini-songs with mega energy song collaboration from a two-night concert at Lee’s Palace in their hometown, Toronto, in which Jon Sweet and tangy as your favorite piece of candy, the Spencer of Heavy Trash guest performs. Heavy Trash Sadies will astound you with their polished musi- is currently in the process of setting up an album in cal taste and cross-genre ability to combine thick, which The Sadies will play back-up band. smooth melodies with twanging guitars.

In 1998, The Sadies signed with Chicago’s Bloodshot A unique combination of country and folk-rock, Records with their debut album, Precious Moments. Since The Sadies have been collaborating with Heavy Trash then, The Sadies have produced six albums. throughout the past year on both tour and album. “[The Sadies Live in Concert Vol. 1] is a really The success of this partnership shines through The good starting point if you’ve never heard us,” Sadies’ most recent release, The Sadies Live in Con- Sean Dean said, “because it features us.” cert Vol. 1, and subsequent tour. The album is a 41The two-disc set includes guest performers such as Neko Case, Jon Langford PHOTO COURTESY OF WWW.MYSPACE.COM/THESADIES from the Waco Brothers and Garth Hudson from The Band.

The Sadies also play with Neko Case in her 2004 album release, The Tigers Have Spoken. The album is recorded live in concert, brandishing haunting lyrics and a few country classic sounds.

The Sadies continuously prove to their audiences that they are best when live, whether for their own performances or alongside another band.

“Doing a live album is a good way to document what we’ve been working on up until now and a good way to work with all of our friends in an atmoThe Sadies are notorious for compiling 40 two-minute songs on one album, like their most recent effort, Sadies Live in sphere that we’re comfortable with,” Concert, Volume I .

Dallas Good said.

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The Sadies are notorious for performances lasting for, oh say, 40 songs. However, you’ll never find them slacking off halfway through their show—their enthusiasm and musical talent is good to the last drop.

“We’re a bar-band deluxe that loves to tour and play,” Sean Dean said about their performances.

The band is made up of two brothers, Travis and Dallas Good, as the band’s frontmen, Sean Dean on upright bass and Mike Belitsky on drums. Travis Good also plays the fiddle, which lends to the band’s acoustic sound in many of their songs.

In the song “Cheat,” the Sadies start off with an energized presentation of a Johnny Cash-esque song with their own, modern country twist.

“Cheat” preludes the audience into what kind of performance to expect by full-heartedly putting their “all” into every song, even though the song may only last under two minutes.

In The Sadies Live in Concert Vol. 1, The Sadies cover songs such as Pink Floyd’s “Lucifer Sam,” with their signature Sadies’ twist.

“You need to make goals of original music to set up the band,” Sean Dean said. “We base our band around our own songs, but also give the audience some treats [by covering other songs].”

At their best in live performances, The Sadies always manage to fire up their audience, even after the 42nd song.

Come check out The Sadies with Heavy Trash 10 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 29 at Cowboy Monkey. Tickets are $10.

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Not surprisingly, the album sold poorly, and the Har vey Danger is extremely excited to band lost all attention from its label. In 2001, after come back to Urbana on their own terms, and realizing that the joy of playing music was no longer members of the audience will undoubtedly be a part of everyday life, Harvey Danger resigned from treated to a much more purposeful performance the world of rock n’ roll, and the four band members this time around. Come prepared to experience decided to pursue other interests. a new bag of tricks from a band that is anything But, wait. Put away the box of Kleenex. Harvey but a one trick pony.

Danger is far from over.

In 2004, on the 10th anniversary of their first Harvey Danger (with So Many Dynamos and The show, the band reunited with guest drummer Ira Rikters) is playing tonight at the Courtyard. TickElliot for what everyone thought was a one-time ets are $4 for students and $5 for the public. If you performance at Seattle’s Crocodile Cafe. However, can’t catch them here, they will also be playing a 21+ the performance seemed to recharge their musical show at Schubas in Chicago on Saturday, Sept. 30 batteries, and Harvey Danger went back to the studio at 9 p.m. with The King of France and Probably to record their first album in nearly five years.

Vampires. Tickets are $12. Special Thanks to Todd The result of this session was Little By Little..., selfHunter for providing the quotes in this article from his released on the Harvey Danger website (www.harown interview with Sean Nelson. veydanger.com) as a free download. Since there would be no tour at first to promote the album, the band decided to unleash it in this unconventional manner simply because they wanted as many people as possible to hear the new material.

It has been six years since the last time Harvey Danger played in Urbana, and, according to Nelson, it was “one of the worst” shows they ever played.

“It was like the lowest point of our professional lives,” he added, reflecting on the fiasco. “We just kind of choked. You can blame the crowd, but I know it was us.”

Tonight, the Harvey Danger drought that has plagued CU for the last six years Harvey Danger performed their self-proclaimed “worst show ever” in Urbana six years ago. Tonight they’re back in town will be over. At 8 p.m., the band will be perto regain their dignity and win back a CU audience. forming at the Illini Union Courtyard.

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Remember the song “Flagpole Sitta”? Come on, think back to 1998 when the music industry was teeming with self-described rock bands who, in reality, were playing nothing more than fabricated pop singles that ultimately ended up collecting dust on Now That’s What I Call Music! Volume One. (The most recent string of infomercials are advertising for Now! Volume 56, I believe.) You’re probably saying to yourself: “Oh yeah, I remember that song. It’s the incredibly catchy, bittersweet anthem that defined that one-hit-wonder band, Harvey Danger, right?” Wrong.

Well, at least partially wrong. Although the song is a catchy tune by Harvey Danger, “Flagpole Sitta” is by no means the definitive sound of the band, nor their only hit. Just listen to their most recent studio effort, Little By Little... The distinctively wry and always intelligent lyrics that made “Flagpole Sitta” so seductive are still in the formula, but the music itself has started growing hair in funny places. By that, I not-so-simply mean that Harvey Danger is not just another has-been in the hall of Now! That’s What I Call Music “fame”. Come to think of it, they never really were.

At a time when most bands were being ordered by their labels to submit to the humiliation of producing singles written for them by the same guy who was probably composing *NSYNC’s material, Harvey Danger refused to succumb to the pressure. Instead, they recorded their sophomore album, King James Version, an anti-pop opus that went out of its way to make itself inaccessible to the average radio listener. “[The album] was going to be successful because of all the things it refused to be,” singer Sean Nelson recalled.

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T h i s t h i rd LP i s a big step for wa rd for Canadian counter-culturist Merrill Nisker, aka “Peaches”. After six years of non-stop local bar and club touring, Peaches parallels this fresh musical Buzz: twist with a headlining tour, her f irst stab at XL Records, and a 1/8 Vertical (14p9x32p6) record collaboration with Mickey Petralia (producer of Ladytron’s Hour”).

Thursday,“Witching September 21 Having legendary rocker Joan Jett play28 lead Thursday, September on the track “You Love It” also compliments Peaches’ reputation as a proud feminist.

The most obvious change these variations produce is the overall sound. It’s not as if Impeach My Bush is any less groovy. This is a clear Peaches release, as evidenced by the initial glittering keytar of J.D. Samson (Le Tigre) in “Tent in Your Pants,” and brought full-circle by Peaches’ own intricate beatbox patterns on “Stick It To The Pimp,” an antichauvinism anthem with lyr ics protesting male objectif ication of women. Yet, even though her interest in feminism and sex have not changed, Peaches still tackles a plethora of new topics: erections (“Tent In Your Pants”), subconscious fantasies (“Two Guys (For Every Girl)”) and DYI geniuses (“Give ‘Er”). Mirroring the diversity of her songs, Peaches is highly accessible to both electro-techno nerds for her pulsating jams and to those disillusioned of politics for her anti-Bush escapades.

Sure, she is a little unconventional, but ... we love it.

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Director: David N. Morgan

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Adult comedy most suited for audiences 12 and up. Mature language.

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Sinatra’s When No One Cares is an album as stark as its famous cover — a lonely barstool drunk in a crowded room. The Junior Boys take Sinatra up north. Instead of predictably turning the mood of Sinatra’s album around, they push it farther, leaving it in the snow and ice of a deserted Canadian street. So This

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is Goodbye imagines a moment after Last Exit (their debut album), where one has turned to face the music, only to see the need to change.

The Junior Boys’ cover of the title track of Sinatra’s “When No One Cares” says it all for the album, with its lyrics and images showing up throughout the production.

Musica l ly, So T his is Goodbye is a more moody and dense production than Last Exit, featuring more intricate melodies at times and more subdued ref lections at others. “When No One Cares” is almost entirely vocal and doesn’t even have a drumbeat, whereas “In The Mor n ing” is among the most un ique songs of the year, featuring gorgeous melodies, Michael Jackson vocal techniques and variations on Lil’ Jon synths. It’s the type of music that speaks to the future and the past, a comment on where we are headed as much as where we were. All together, the album exacts the feeling of progress in bittersweetness.

OH NO! OH MY! Oh no! Oh my!

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Exclamatory phrases as band names =totally posh.

“The” bands? Forget it; if you don’t have to shout their name, it’s not worth listening to. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! started the phenomena and now the “!” cannot be contained. Oh No! Oh My! is the next to raise to internet stardom with the ferocity of a YouTube lip syncing video. Totally self-promoted, the Austin based band is label-less and has been able to sell thousands of records regardless.

“Skip the Foreplay” opens the album with a twee meets psychedelic feel. Sensitive as Belle and Sebastian, while vocal layering conjures Beatlesque thoughts, it’s a fitting fi rst track for a band that wears its influences like an Easter bonnet. Though its obvious the trio really likes The Robot Ate Me and Modest Mouse (see “Reeks and Seeks”) or The Magnetic Fields (see every song), it in no way detracts from the quality of the record.

Though completely recorded and edited in a bedroom, this is the best produced album of 2006. Lush instrumentation which includes flutes, wurlitzers, and bells wrap around the speakers like a happy python. All sides of your ear buds reveal new nuances. Even stray hand claps and guitar picking sound full and create an atmosphere much bigger than seemingly possible.

Sure Oh No! Oh My! could be called a caricature of the indie pop scene, with it’s crazy name, its crazy instruments (casios and the obligatory banjo), and crazy catchy hooks, but that doesn’t do them justice. ONOM has written songs that will make you hum for days at a time. Check out “Jane Is Fat” and you’ll know exactly why they need those exclamation points.

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With his debut album Exile, Canadian native Steve Reynolds has crafted a thorough ly endearing and enjoyable record. It is both parts folk earnestness and drawling honkytonk, with great melodies threading themselves throughout. Reynolds conveys a very clear point of view of the search for home, and his concise, meaningful lyrics envelop the listener. He possesses a soothing, yet extremely expressive voice (think an Americanized, or rather, Canadianized, David Gray), and he truly shines on tracks such as “Miner’s Lamp” and “Painter’s Son.” Reynolds, a simple, crisp and direct vocalist, showcases a variet y of different styles on Exile, underlined by a folk predominance. On the whole, Exile is a great album with heartfelt melodies, soaring choruses, and most importantly, heart.

SOFT WET FISH Matt Davignon [edgetone]

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If pushed to place Soft Wet Fish in a genre, your best bet might be “Experimental Electronic Ambient.” To its credit, the record challenges the listener and their boundaries. But, you’d be hard-pressed to associate a track title on this album to its respective track. The whole album sounds exactly the same. The only way to listen to the album is in its entirety, and you probably won’t f ind yourself doing it again. Finding any structure, such as a rhythm, or even considering the album music, is a challenge. However, it’s not hard to listen to if you simply think of it as a musical experience, instead of actual music.

Don’t expect to show off your favorite track to your friends, but do expect to hear something “different”. Honestly, unless you want to expand your musical experience, or chalk this record up to pseudo-intellectual fodder, you can pretty much judge the quality of Soft Wet Fish by its title. sounds from the scene

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In a new segment tentatively called â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Fantastic Four,â&#x20AC;? Carlye and Brian discussâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and most likely complain aboutâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;four different aspects of a main theme.

This week, they touch on the worst four radio songs ever made. (If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to see even more, we highly recommend the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Top Songsâ&#x20AC;? list on iTunes.) Enjoy!

C a r l ye: T h e Po o r e s t of Pop. 4. â&#x20AC;&#x153;ALL DAY LONG I DREAM ABOUT SEXâ&#x20AC;? BY J.C. CHASEZ You k now ... I rea l ly couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make this shit up if I tried. In between I-so-clearly-cannot-writemusic-so-I-purchased-a-rhyming-dictionary lyrics such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Work it while youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on top/Call the copsâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s back in session/Get ready for a lesson,â&#x20AC;? the ex-*NSYNC-er spends all ten choruses speakshouting the title over and over. And over and over and over. I get the point, but I really just wish he would have rubbed one out instead of wasting six minutes of my life. Which brings us to ...

3. â&#x20AC;&#x153;TOUCH OF MY HANDâ&#x20AC;? BY BRITNEY SPEARS Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interesting. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d actually prefer Britney to be, as she puts it, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Into myself in the most precious way.â&#x20AC;? If only she would have held true to this song of hers instead of others such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Hook Upâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;Boys,â&#x20AC;? sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d still be â&#x20AC;&#x153;Britney vs. Christinaâ&#x20AC;?

Britney, instead of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Is she pregnant again, or just a big olâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fatty?â&#x20AC;? Britney. But even still, who wants to listen to her singing about touching herself in the place from where she popped out two of KFedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s children? Definitely not me.

2. â&#x20AC;&#x153;THE BAD TOUCHâ&#x20AC;? BY BLOODHOUND GANG I like to think I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been a pretentious asshole for too many years. However, when this song reached its popularity while I was an eigthgrader at WJHS, I knew enough to realize it was a piece of shit, still is a horrible, horrible piece of shit, and if Andrew (the token class clown wannabe, a.k.a. the pathetically unfunny kid in my homeroom) sang and danced to it one more time, I would castrate him. I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been able to enjoy The Discovery Channel ever since. Thanks, Andrew.

1. â&#x20AC;&#x153;DAUGHTER TO FATHER (CONFESSIONS OF A BROKEN HEART)â&#x20AC;? BY LINDSAY LOHAN Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll utilize one of the two nice bones in my body and say that, all right, her voice isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that terrible.

Unfortunately, her music is. Throughout her overly processed ballad about daddy dearest, the only word that can describe it is â&#x20AC;&#x153;creepy.â&#x20AC;? With lyrics like, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wear all your old clothes/your old polo sweater/ whyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d you have to goâ&#x20AC;? and the extreme lyrical repetition of her heart being broken, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help but be freaked out. Someone from the DCFS needs to let her know that incest is not cool, no matter how sounds from the scene

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4. â&#x20AC;&#x153;YOUTH OF THE NATIONâ&#x20AC;? BY P.O.D. Ha. Ha. Ha. A creepy choir of sad teenagers made us all realize that its tough being a kid ... even in America!

3. â&#x20AC;&#x153;THE REASONâ&#x20AC;? BY HOOBASTANK I love that the f irst line of this song is almost an apology: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not a perfect person.â&#x20AC;? From the get-go, even Hoobastank knows this song Hoobasucks. I feel this was a social experiment to see how crappy of a song the industry could make into a hit.

2. â&#x20AC;&#x153;PHOTOGRAPHâ&#x20AC;? BY NICKELBACK Chad K rogerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s autobiog raph ica l ba l lad almost made me puke (seriously). The awkward melody brought to light his horrible voice and also emphasized his poor lyrical abilities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What the hell is on Johnnyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head?â&#x20AC;?

Why would that ever be a line in a song? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Photographâ&#x20AC;? is about how Kroger dropped out of high school, which pretty much explains why Nickelback songs sound like they were written in a sophomore poetry class.

1. â&#x20AC;&#x153;DANI CALIFORNIAâ&#x20AC;? BY THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS If you notice, there are no rap, pop or dance songs on my list, simply because most classically bad songs, i.e. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My Humps,â&#x20AC;? arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t supposed to be good or respected. My choices all pretend theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re something more than a miserable three-minute radio spot. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dani Californiaâ&#x20AC;? is the worst because of this. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never been any attempt at growth or improvement by the Peppers; another song about California, with the same vocal melody, with the same Flea slap bass and priceless lyrics (Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re my priestess/Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m your priest). Despite all the repetition, the band parades around like musical gods.

This song killed rock nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no longer an important piece of mainstream music. If you want awesome pop, the radioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the place; but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to look elsewhere for rock.

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Live Karaoke Band Cowboy Monkey, 10:30pm, $5 Adam Wolfe [Live acoustic] Potbelly Sandwich Works 12pm Concerts University New Music Ensemble [With Artistic Director Eduardo Diazmunoz.]

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30pm $2 students/$8 DJ Zen Thursdays: DJ Asiatic Soma Ultralounge, 9pm no cover DJ Dice, DJ Smoooth V Lava 9pm, $5 after 11pm/$3

Lectures/Discussions David Kinley Lecture in Economics: “Rethinking the Wealth of Nations” [Daron Acemoglu and Charles P. Kindleberger, Professors of Applied Economics, will deliver the Fall David Kinley Lecture in

Film “Click” [Adam Sandler stars in this family-oriented comedy, rated PG-13.]

Virginia Theatre, 7pm, $3 Workshops Towards Emptiness: George Brecht’s “Water-Yam” [Michael Behn, Berlin artist, curator and publisher, hosts.]

Krannert Art Museum, 9am Spanish for Office and Service Professionals [No previous knowledge of Spanish is required.] IL Employment & Training Center, 1pm

Country Connection Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, $1 The Sqeegees Iron Post 9pm, $3 Will Rogers Band Chief’s Bar and Grill, 9:30pm Heavy Trash, The Sadies Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, $10 Pre-Urbanite Dance 2XS Party Canopy Club, 10pm, cover Concerts University Symphony Orchestra [In a concert evoking

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Jam bands aren’t my cup of tea; they aren’t even my cup of hot water. The fact that people can’t sit through jam concerts without being on drugs is an indication of the caliber of the music. It’s like the only way to enjoy last summer’s comedy Little Man is to be wasted. Basically, bending a guitar string and playing scales for a couple hours doesn’t make a band worthwhile.

What does make a band worthwhile is its dedication and beautiful execution of bluegrass and Americana music. Yonder Mountain String Band does just that. Formed in Colorado with roots right here in Urbana, YMSB has been one of the more successful bluegrass acts in modern times. Embraced by Jam Culture for their abilities of improvisation, their song-writing skills is what makes them so much better.

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Family Fun Fresh Fruit at Curtis Orchard [Apples, pumpkins, gourds, squash: both in-store and pick-your-own. Country store with specialty products & gifts items, including butters, preserves, snacks & our own cider. Try the new Flying Monkey Cafe for lunch. Donuts, pies & cobblers from our bakery.

Petting zoo, inflatable slides & corn maze.] Curtis Orchard, 9am

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Bluegrass is America’s music. It’s as big a part of our country as the Appalachian Mountains it was fine-tuned in. The songs of Yonder Mountain String Band appear to have been written on the porch of an old wooden house leaning on a rocky peak somewhere in Kentucky. Timeless and classic, they are pure and true — if music can be those things. More than songs, YMSB, with their obligatory mandolin, banjo, fiddle and guitar combo, create a sonically pleasing time machine with each piece. Even if they throw in an extended jam out here and there, it’s still worth your time. Plus, they are good enough that you can enjoy them without having to see the hallucinatory colors coming out of their instruments. Its fun and economical.

Recreation Champaign County Audubon Society Field Trip to Heron Park Boardwalk [Half-day trip, easy walk. Led by Jim Smith.] Anita Purves Nature Center, 7am “Fitness Drop-in Course: Cardio Express” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 9am “Fitness Drop-in Course: Dance Fusion” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 2pm “Fitness Drop-in Course: Cardio Fusion” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 3:10pm Trail Trekkers [Join Allerton staff for recreational hikes around Allerton grounds.]

Allerton Park, 4pm “Fitness Drop-in Course: Kick Your Abs” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 4:15pm “Fitness Drop-in Course: Step Express” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 4:15pm “Fitness Drop-in Course: Core and More” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 5:15pm Cosmic Bowling Illini Union Recreation Room, 8pm

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Enjoy live music on Stage 5.] Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 5pm, free

FRI. SEP 29 Live Bands Billy Galt Live at Blues BBQ Blues Barbecue, 11:30am Jeff Helgelsen Quintet Iron Post, 5pm, free Real Deal Jazz Band Cowboy Monkey, 5:30pm, free Low Skies, Green Light G Courtyard Cafe, 8pm, free The Brat Pack Fat City Saloon, 8:30pm, $7 Illinites [Come join the fun with Rockin’ to Register Battle of the Bands, cosponsored with Volunteer Illini Projects and I-Vote.

Homecoming activities will be throughout the Union, 25 cent Sbarro pizza, iPod giveaways and much more.]

Illini Union, 9pm, free

dance and theatre, Donald Schleicher leads this School of Music ensemble in Weber’s “Invitation to the Dance” as orchestrated

by Berlioz; excerpts from Berlioz’s incidental music to “Romeo and Juliet” and Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.”] Krannert Center for the Performing Arts 7:30pm, $2 students/$8 DJ DJ Stifler Highdive, 10pm $5 Mertz Boltini Lounge 10:30pm Karaoke Creative Karaoke American Legion Post 71 8pm, free Lectures/Discussions Art in Conversation [Join Department of Dance faculty artists Sara Hook and John Toenjes in conversation with Martha Graham

Resources artistic director Janet Eilber and music director Aaron Sherber. The conversation will center on the relationships between choreographer Martha Graham and the composers of her day.] Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 5pm, free “How Corporate Campaigning Can Save the World; Rainforest Action Network” [Presented by the Rainforest Action Network.] University YMCA 12pm Friday Forum Series: “What on Earth are We Doing? Prospects for a Healthy Planet” [The first lecture in the Friday Forum Series is entitled “Global Warming: Are We Reaching a (Political) Tipping Point?”,

by Robert Cox, Former President, Sierra Club and Professor at the University of North Carolina.] University YMCA, 12:15pm Film Asian Film Festival 2006: South Korea “The Unforgiven” [Showcasing contemporary South Korean cinema and post-film discussion.]

Boardman’s Art Theatre 7pm, free Workshops Towards Emptiness: George Brecht’s “Water-Yam” Krannert Art Museum, 9am Recreation Learn to Play Pinochle Hays Recreation Center, 1pm “Fitness Drop-in Course: Treadfit” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 2pm “Fitness Drop-in Course: Cardio Express” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 3pm TGIF Lunch & Bowling [$32 buys four people rental shoes, bowling, fountain drinks and a large 18” pizza from Sbarro.

Reserve your lane at least one day in advance.] Illini Union 12pm Family Fun Fresh Fruit at Curtis Orchard Curtis Orchard, 9am

SAT. SEP 30 Live Bands Stanton McConnell [Live acoustic] Potbelly Sandwich Works, 5pm, free Method Man, Mastah Killah, Inspectah Deck Canopy Club 7pm, $20 Blue Deacons Alto Vineyards 7:30pm, $3 Impalas Hubers, 8pm “Kevin Elliott CD Release Party” [Join long-time WEFT airshifter Kevin Elliott in a free live performance of songs from his new CD, “You Really Had To Be There.”] Borders Books Music & Cafe, 8pm R & M Karaoke Hubers, 8pm Kevin Eliott Borders Books Music & Cafe, 8pm, free Country Connection Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, $1

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art & theater Wonder of the World [Nothing will prepare you for the strange little secret Cass discovers in her husband’s sweater drawer. It is so shocking that our heroine has no choice but to flee to the honeymoon capital of the world in a frantic search for the life she thinks she missed out on. It’s a wild ride over Niagara Falls in a barrel of laughs as Cass embarks on a journey of selfdiscovery that has her crossing paths with a blithely suicidal alcoholic, a lonely tour-boat captain, a pair of bickering private detectives and a strange caper involving a gargantuan jar of peanut butter — all of which pushes her perilously close to the water’s edge. By David LindsyAbaire with Director David N. Morgan.] Parkland College Theatre, Sept. 29, 30, 8pm Gint [Pete Gint is a son, a lover, a rascal and a rogue. His life spans the 20th century, trailing from Appalachian hollers to Californian resort hotels, from fantastic failure to soaring success. An ensemble cast plays billionaires, devils, and razorback hogs in this heartfelt and wild, poetic and real retelling of the 19th century tale of Peer Gynt.]

Krannert Center Studio Theatre, Sept. 29, 30, Oct. 4, 7:30pm Martha Graham Dance Company [Under the direction of its powerful, uncompromising founder, the Martha Graham Dance Company became the standard by which all modern dance was measured.

Today, the company presents stunning revivals of this legendary choreographer’s work while adding new repertoire that carries on the spirit of movement and musical collaboration. This performance climaxes with Appalachian Spring, presented with live musical accompaniment from the UI New Music Ensemble.] Krannert Center Tryon Festival Theatre, Sept. 30, 7:30pm Pour la Victoire: French Posters and Photographs of the Great War [Graphically charged lithographic posters from the World War I era depict the place of women in the war effort, the need for personal sacrifice on the home front and the position of French colonial

subjects. The exhibition is drawn from University Archive holdings and is accompanied by documentary photographs from the Rare Book Library. With guest curators David O’Brien and Emily Evans.] Krannert Art Museum through Oct. 15 Cosmic Consciousness: The Work of Robert Bannister [Born in 1911, this outsider artist, a native of Urbana, spent his early years convalescing in a local sanitarium. In 1950, stricken with anemia, he left the home of foster grandparents to enter the Champaign County Nursing Home, where an occupational therapist introduced him to carving and drawing. After his release in 1961, he lived in one room near West Side Park, painting, drawing and writing works that are meditations on human life tinged with humor and a self-proclaimed “cosmic consciousness.”] Krannert Art Museum through Oct. 15 David Svensson/SpaceLight [This is the first U.S. museum presentation of the work of emerging Swedish artist David Svensson, who draws from the modernist aesthetic in joining the practices of art and design. Seven glowing sculptural works will be exhibited in the glass-walled link between the museum and the School of Art and Design.]

Krannert Art Museum through Oct. 22 Surrealist Interventions: Selections from Krannert Art Museum and the University of Illinois Library [This exhibition pairs Surrealist paintings, photographs, prints and drawings from the Krannert Art Museum collection with the movement’s experiments in print culture — from manifestos and single-page tracts to elaborately designed serials and limitededition books on loan from the University of Illinois Library.

Collaboration across media and continual reinvention in the face of controversy have contributed to Surrealism’s reputation as one of the most vital and enduring avantgarde practices of the twentieth century.] Krannert Art Museum through Dec. 31

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Live Bands Joni Laurence, Angie Heato Aroma Cafe, 8pm, free moe. Canopy Club, 8pm, $25 Harvey Danger, So Many Dynamos, The Rikters Courtyard Cafe, 8pm, $5

Caleb Rose Bowl Tavern 9pm, no cover U of I Jazz Combo Iron Post 9pm, $2 Weapons of Mass DisFunktion [Enjoy Jazz fusion and funk band with horns, vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards and drums.] Zorba’s, 9:30pm $3

Karaoke Live Karaoke Band Cowboy Monkey, 10pm

Mind /Body / Spirit Krannert Uncorked [With partners Sun Singer Wine & Spirits, The Corkscrew Wine Emporium, Friar Tuck Beverage, and Persimmon Grocery, we’re showcasing the best in beverages and providing an ideal gathering place for our community. Beverages introduced on these evenings will be available for purchase by the glass at a discounted price during the tasting.

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Economics.] Temple Hoyne Buell Hall, 4pm Border Crossers Discussion Group [There will be a discussion of the book “Foreign Babes in Beijing” by Beijingbased American Author Rachel De Woskin.] Borders Books Music & Cafe, 7pm “Discussion with Dada” [Dada Madhuvidyananda, a Yogic Monk, will present a lecture series on Eastern Thought and Practices.

Each session will include a lecture on some aspect of eastern spirituality, a collective meditation and a group discussion.] Ananda Liina Yoga & Meditation Center 7:30pm

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The Brat Pack Cornerstone Tavern, 9pm Will Rogers Band [Live country and classic rock.] Chief’s Bar and Grill, 9:30pm Groovatron Canopy Club 10:30pm, $6 in advance/$8 Adam Wolfe [Live acoustic] Potbelly Sandwich Works 12pm Concerts Karl Kramer on tuba [Ian Hobson, Ann Yeung and Brass faculty join Kramer for Indemith’s “Konzertmusick for Piano,” “Brass and Two Harps.” Conducted by James Keene.] Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30pm, $2 students/$8 Global Transfer Afterglow: Hu Vibrational [Friends since childhood, multi-instrumental percussion masters Adam Rudolph and Hamid Drake give free range to their imagination, moving through the cross-cultural rhythms of jazz and reggae, India and Africa, and all places in between. Joining the master percussionists is Brahim Fribgane on sintir, vocals and percussion.] Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 10pm, free DJ DJ Tim Williams Highdive, 10pm, $5 Karaoke Liquid Courage Karaoke Geo’s, 9pm Festivals International Beer Tasting and Chili Cook-Off Main St. and Broadway Ave., 3pm Film “Little Women” (1933) Virginia Theatre, 1pm, $3 Asian Film Festival 2006: South Korea “Empress Chung” Boardman’s Art Theatre, 2pm, free Asian Film Festival 2006: South Korea “Please Teach Me English” Boardman’s Art Theatre 4:30pm, free “The Philadelphia Story” (1940) Virginia Theatre 7pm, $3 Asian Film Festival 2006: South Korea “Sad Movie” Boardman’s Art Theatre, 7pm Asian Film Festival 2006: South Korea “Lady Vengeance” Boardman’s Art Theatre, 9:30pm Workshops Towards Emptiness: George Brecht’s “Water-Yam” Krannert Art Museum, 9am Sporting events Women’s Volleyball v. Iowa Huff Hall, 7pm Recreation Cosmic Bowling Illini Union Recreation Room, 8pm Comedy Fishing With Dynamite Sketch Comedy Show Channing-Murray Foundation, 8pm, $3 Miscellaneous “Brazilian Culture Show” [Sponsored

by Contra-Mestre Denis and Mestre Saussuna in association with Capoeira Club, the Batizado (Baptism ceremony) and Brazilian Culture Show will be preceded by performances of Capoeira, Maculele, Puxada de Rede and other folkloric dances that are rooted in the struggles and joys of Brazilian culture.] Illini Union, 7pm, free

HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED IF THERE WAS MORE TO LIFE, OTHER THAN BEING REALLY, RIDICULOUSLY GOOD LOOKING? Family Fun Fresh Fruit at Curtis Orchard [Live music, wagon rides, pony rides, mining for gems, kettle corn making and face painting.] Curtis Orchard, 9am “Kids at Krannert” [Demonstrations and hands-on art projects for all ages.] Krannert Art Museum, 10am Volunteer I-Help: A Homecoming Volunteer Project [Hundreds of UI students will head out into the CU community to help local service and community agencies through a day of service. Individuals or groups of individuals can register directly online to volunteer and if registering as a group, must have names and e-mail addresses of all participants.] Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 10am

MON. OCT 2 Live Bands Michael Davis [Singer/Keyboardist] Bentley’s Pub, 7pm Open Mic Night Cowboy Monkey 10pm, free DJ DJ Delayney [Hip-Hop/ Soul] Barfly, 10pm Lectures/Discussions The Historical Future: New Historicism, Current Historicism, and the Shape of Historical Time Levis Faculty Center, 8pm Recreation “Fitness Drop-in Course: Kick Your Abs” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 4pm

discussion and light refreshments. Clergy, mental health consumers, members of faith communities and all persons who are interested in eliminating stigma of mental illness are invited.]

Faith United Methodist Church, 7pm

TUE. OCT 3 Live Bands Billy Galt Live at Blues BBQ Blues Barbecue, 11:30am Crystal River Band Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm no cover Yonder Mountain String Band Canopy Club, 9pm, $20

SUN. OCT 1

Assembly Hall | First & Florida, Champaign 333-5000 American Legion Post 24 | 705 W Bloomington, Champaign 356-5144 American Legion Post 71 | 107 N Broadway, Urbana 367-3121 Barfly | 120 N Neil, Champaign 352-9756 Boltini Lounge | 211 N Neil, Champaign 378-8001 Boardman’s Art Theater | 126 W Church, Champaign 351-0068 The Brass Rail | 15 E University, Champaign 352-7512 The Canopy Club (Garden Grill) | 708 S Goodwin, Urbana 3673140 Channing-Murray Foundation | 1209 W Oregon, Urbana CIVITAS | 112 Main St., Urbana The Courtyard | Illini Union, 1401 W Green, Urbana 333-4666 Cowboy Monkey | 6 Taylor, Champaign 398-2688 Curtis Orchard | 3902 S Duncan, Champaign 359-5565 D.R. Diggers | 604 S Country Fair, Champaign 356-0888 Elmer’s Club 45 | 3525 N Cunningham, Urbana 344-3101 Embassy Tavern & Grill | 114 S Race, Urbana 384-9526 Esquire Lounge | 106 N Walnut, Champaign 398-5858 Fallon’s Ice House | 703 N Prospect, Champaign 398-5760 Fat City Saloon | 505 S Chestnut, Champaign 356-7100 The Great Impasta | 114 W Church, Champaign 359-7377 The Highdive

Concerts Soo Bae [In 2005, the gifted student of Juilliard, Jowl Krosnick, became the first cellist in nine years to win the Concert Artist Guild International Competition. An active performer and teacher, Soo Bae founded and directs the Angelo Mission Ensemble in New Jersey, where she runs and coaches the chamber music program.] Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 3pm, $24 students/$34

Recreation “Fitness Drop-in Course: Kick Your Abs” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 4:15pm “Fitness Drop-in Course: Hip Hop N’ Groove” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 7pm “Fitness Drop-in Course: YogaLates” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 12pm Family Fun Fresh Fruit at Curtis Orchard Curtis Orchard, 9am

Lectures/Discussions Prelude with Menahem Pressler and members of Pacifica Quartet [Pianist Menahem Pressler and member of the Pacifica Quartet enter into an informal dialogue with audience members during this 30-minute, pre-performance Creative Intersections activity.] Krannert Center for the Performing Arts 6:30pm, free “Chancellor’s Task Force on Civic Commitment in the 21st Century” [Know Your University Series presented by the University YMCA featuring Jim Westcoat,

Meetings College of Communications Informational Meeting [Students interested in advertising, media studies, broadcast journalism or news-editorial journalism are encouraged to attend a free informational meeting.]

Gregory Hall, 4:30pm Family Fun Fresh Fruit at Curtis Orchard Curtis Orchard, 9am

WED. OCT 4 Live Bands Irish Traditional Music Session Bentley’s Pub, 7pm, free G. Lee Silvercreek Restaurant 7:30pm, free

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Meetings Book Collector’s Club-The No. 44 Society [This club provides an opportunity for novice and experienced book collectors to get together and share information and ideas. The club is named after the hero of Mark Twain’s last novel “No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger.” Activities include offering advice to beginning collectors, sharing tips and tidbits about dealers and collectors, regaling one another with tales of the chase and formal presentations about members’ collections.] Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 4pm

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Live Bands “Live Music at Curtis Orchard” [Denny Kay sings country & gospel.] Curtis Orchard 2pm, free Open Mic Night [Open stage with host Adam Wolfe. Performers recieve free sandwich.] Potbelly Sandwich Works, 6pm Jane Boxall [Solo Marimba] Boltini Lounge, 8pm, free Crystal River Band Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, no cover Powerman 5000, Bang, None Taken Canopy Club, 9pm $15 Bailey, Bastian, 31 Knots, Watery Domestic Cowboy Monkey 10pm, $5

Sporting events Homecoming Kickoff and SoccerFest 2006 [Family-oriented event geared to members of the local community will feature Fighting Illini cheerleaders, musical performances, drumline, kids’ games and activities, free cookout food and highly anticipated women’s soccer game against No. 1-ranked Penn State.] Soccer and Track Stadium 11am, free

Karaoke Liquid Courage Karaoke Geo’s, 9pm Karaoke [Karaoke with Randy Miller.] Bentley’s Pub, 9:30pm

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“Fitness Drop-in Course: Kick and Crunch” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 5:20pm “Fitness Drop-in Course: Athletic Conditioning” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 6:30pm Comedy DeBono Improv Comedy Troupe Courtyard Cafe, 9pm, free Family Fun Fresh Fruit at Curtis Orchard Curtis Orchard, 9am Mind /Body / Spirit “Creating Caring Congregations: Faith Communities and Mental Health Ministry” [This is a special program sponsored by the Wellness Team of Faith United Methodist Church in observance of Mental Illness Awareness Week. We will be viewing a DVD, “Creating Caring Congregations,” followed by

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| 51 Main, Champaign 359-4444 Huber’s | 1312 W Church, Champaign 352-0606 Illinois Disciples Foundation | 610 E Springfield, Champaign 352-8721 Independent Media Center | 218 W Main, Urbana 344-8820 The Iron Post | 120 S Race, Urbana 3377678 Jackson’s Ribs-n-tips | 116 N First, Champaign 355-2916 Joe’s Brewery | 706 S Fifth, Champaign 384-1790 Krannert Art Museum | 500 E Peabody, Champaign 3331861 Krannert Center for the Performing Arts | 500 S Goodwin, Urbana Tickets: 3336280, 800-KCPATIX La Casa Cultural Latina | 1203 W Nevada, Urbana 333-4950 Lava | 1906 W Bradley, Champaign 352-8714 Les’s Lounge | 403 N Coler, Urbana 3284000 Lincoln Castle | 209 S Broadway, Urbana 344-7720 Malibu Bay Lounge | North Route 45, Urbana 328-7415 Mike ‘n Molly’s | 105 N Market, Champaign 3551236 Nargile | 207 W Clark, Champaign Neil Street Pub | 1505 N Neil, Champaign 359-1601 The Office | 214 W Main, Urbana 344-7608 OPENSOURCE |12 E. Washington, Champaign http://opensource. boxwith.com Parkland College | 2400 W Bradley, Champaign 351-2528 Phoenix |

Brother Ali, Psalm One Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, $8 Chris O [A blend of downtempo and deep house.] Boltini Lounge, 10:30pm, no cover DJ DJs Hoff and Bambino [Hard Rock/ Punk] Mike ‘N Molly’s, 10pm DJ Tremblin BG Barfly, 10pm DJ TwinScin, DJ Evily Highdive 10pm, $2 Dancing Salsa Dance Lessons [Fee of $40/6 weeks, all beginners welcome.] Independent Media Center, 9pm Argentine Tango Fundamentals [10-week beginner’s course with Melih Eriten. No experience or partner required.

Smooth soled shoes recommended. $60 for 10-week course.] Channing Murray Foundation, 9pm

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Prof. Landscape Architecture, UIUC.] University YMCA, 12pm Recreation “Fitness Drop-in Course: Dance Fusion” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 2pm “Fitness Drop-in Course: Step Express” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 4:15pm “Fitness Drop-in Course: Core and More” Campus Recreation (CRCE), 5:15pm Red Pin Tuesdays Illini Union Recreation Room, 6:30pm Miscellaneous Homecoming Lunch on the Quad [Event features a cookout, entertainment, University officials and athletes and introduction of the Homecoming Court.

Cost is $5 or swipe of residence hall card.] Quad, 11am

215 S Neil, Champaign 355-7866 Pia’s of Rantoul | Route 136 E, Rantoul 893-8244 Red Herring/Channing-Murray Foundation | 1209 W Oregon, Urbana 344-1176 Rose Bowl Tavern | 106 N Race, Urbana 3677031 Side Bar | 55 E. Main, Champaign 398-5760 Springer Cultural Center | 301 N Randolph, Champaign 398-2376 Spurlock Museum | 600 S Gregory, Urbana, 3332360 The Station Theatre |223 N Broadway, Urbana 384-4000 Strawberry Fields Cafe | 306 W Springfield, Urbana 328-1655 TK Wendl’s | 1901 S Highcross, Urbana 255-5328 Tommy G’s | 123 S Mattis, Country Fair Shopping Center 359-2177 TRACKS | 116 N Chestnut, Champaign 762-8116 University YMCA | 1001 S Wright, Champaign 344-0721 URBANA CIVIC Center | 108 Water St., Urbana Verde/Verdant | 17 E Taylor, Champaign 366-3204 Virginia Theatre | 203 W Park Ave, Champaign 356-9053 Wake The Dead Cafe | 1210 E. Eldorado St. Decatur 233-4525 Washington Street Pub | 600 S. Washington, Tuscola 253-6850 White Horse Inn | 112 1/2 E Green, Champaign 352-5945 Zorba’s | 627 E Green, Champaign 344-0710

Yonder Mountain String Band Canopy Club, 8pm, $20 DJ Stifler Highdive, 8pm, $3 in advance/$5 Fuedin’ Hillbilly’s Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm, no cover Terminus Victor, Dropsonic, Bear Claw Mike ‘N Molly’s, 9pm, $4 DJ Bozak Boltini Lounge 10:30pm, free DJ Chef Ra [Roots/Reggae] Barfly, 10pm Dancing Tango Dancing [Three hours of tango lessons followed by tango dancing from 810:30pm then salsa dancing until 2am.] Cowboy Monkey 7:30pm, no cover Miscellaneous African American Homecoming Pageant Courtyard Cafe 7pm $4

Family Fun Fresh Fruit at Curtis Orchard Curtis Orchard, 9am Mind /Body / Spirit Essential Oils & the Immune System [October’s class will focus on oils and the immune system just in time for cold & flu season.]

IllumiNation Institute, 7pm, $9 members/$10 Volunteer “Build for Habitat for Humanity” [The playhouse being constructed by the group’s volunteers will become the organization’s Homecoming float. Afterward, the playhouse will go to a Habitat for Humanity site.] Between Everitt Lab and Engineering Hall, 7am

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By Romulus Linney Alec Wild, director Department of Theatre Pete Gint is a son, a lover, a rascal, and a rogue. His life spans the 20th century, trailing from Appalachian hollers to Californian resort hotels, from fantastic failure to soaring success. An ensemble cast plays billionaires, devils, and razorback hogs in this heartfelt and wild, poetic and real retelling of the 19thcentury tale of Peer Gynt. Contains adult themes.

Th-Sa, Sep 28-30 at 7:30pm; We-Sa, Oct 4*-7 at 7:30pm; Su, Oct 8 at 3pm *We would like to offer interpretation for the deaf or hard-of-hearing at this performance. Please call three weeks in advance if you are interested in having this event interpreted.

Studio Theatre Flex: $12 / SC & Stu 11 / UI & Yth 6 Single: $13 / SC & Stu 12 / UI & Yth 7 Arnaldo Cohen, piano Marquee Born to Persian and Russian immigrant parents in Brazil, Cohen has been called one of the world’s best-kept secrets, even though he’s received acclaim in the premier concert halls of Europe and South America.

Now a professor at Indiana University, Cohen is forging a triumphant reputation in the US. He presents classic piano repertoire by Schumann, Chopin, and Brahms.

Thursday, October 12 at 7:30pm Foellinger Great Hall Flex: $33 / SC & Stu 28 / UI & Yth 18 Single: $35 / SC & Stu 30 / UI & Yth 20 Choral Balcony: $15 / UI & Yth 10

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Krannert Uncorked Special Event: Gumbo Ya-Ya with The New Orleans Jazz Machine 5pm, free

Karl Kramer, tuba 7:30pm, $2-$8

Soo Bae, cello 3pm, $5-$34

Martha Graham Dance Company 7:30pm, $18-$36

Endowed Artist Co-sponsor: Mildred Maddox Rose

Krannert Uncorked with Greg Spero Duet 5pm, free

Concert Band I and Symphonic Band II 7:30pm, $2-$8 Gint 7:30pm, $6-$13

Patron Co-sponsors: Wanda and Bruno Nettl Nancy and Edward Tepper Corporate Silver Sponsor:

Fr Sep 29 Art in Conversation: The Supported in part by the National Endowment Directors of the Martha Graham Dance Company for the Arts 5pm, free Gint UI Symphony Orchestra 7:30pm, $6-$13 7:30pm, $2-$8 Global Transfer Afterglow: Hu: Vibrational Gint 10pm, free 7:30pm, $6-$13

Patron Sponsors: Elizabeth Sandage-Mussey and Robert Mussey

C-U Symphony Orchestra 7:30pm, $12-$31

Tu Oct 3 Prelude: Menahem Pressler and Pacifica Quartet 6:30pm, free

Gint 7:30pm, $6-$13

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Other School of Music Events

David Zerkel, tuba 7:30pm, Music Building Auditorium, free

Pacifica Quartet with Menahem Pressler, piano 7:30pm, $10-$34

Fr Sep 29

Chamber Music Series Sponsors: Jean and Howard Osborn

Amy Porter, flute 10am, Smith Memorial Hall, free

Patron Co-sponsors: Sam Gove Lois and Ernie Gullerud Anonymous

Music Building, 1114 W Nevada, Urbana Smith Memorial Hall, 805 S Mathews, Urbana

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Patron Co-sponsors: David Sansone Susan and Victor Stone James Russell Vaky Anonymous

Gint 7:30pm, $6-$13

Art in Conversation: We, Oct 11 at 5pm, Stage 5, free

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Patron Season Sponsors Dolores and Roger Yarbrough

Marquee performances are supported in part by the Illinois Arts Council— a state agency which recognizes Krannert Center in its Partners in Excellence Program.

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burgeoning economy, an open, liberal society, and of course, an expanding middle class: the ingredients of a social art. “Hallyu,” as it has been called, is the new wave of South Korean mass culture. Now almost five years old, Hallyu has produced a rush of productions that have been saturating the televisions, radios and movie theaters of East Asia. A complex film culture has emerged along with this renaissance and particularly in the past decade, its works have been winning international awards and attention.

Five recent f ilms from this f lowering branch of world cinema are coming to Boardman’s Art Theatre tomorrow and Saturday. The Asian Film Festival, a joint effort of the University’s Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies (EAPS) and Asian Educational Media Services (AEMS), chose South Korea for its subject matter this year.

“It’s this phenomenon. It’s a timely country to feature,” said Tanya Lee, program director for A EMS. The f ilms are myr iad, ref lecting a burgeoning aesthetic. “They really represent very different genres and very different styles.”

AEMS is “an educational outreach program,” described Lee. “We do a number of different types of things to help educators f ind multimedia resources about Asia to help them teach Asia at all different levels.”

Some of these resources include an Internet database for Asian media and other Web resources like lesson plans, as well as a local lending library. AEMS publishes a newsletter, News and Reviews, three times a year with film reviews, profiles and other education-focused articles. Education workshops and the annual film festival are also a part of their services.

For those unfamiliar with South Korean film, Lee said that “this is very different from American cinema.” Assistant director of AEMS, Susan Norris, added, “The one thing that stands out for me is there’s never a Hollywood ending. It’s never happily ever after, the end. Most of the films, they just don’t end well. There’s some sort of tragedy a lot of times at the end. You leave the theater crying.”

A hospitable political environment has fostered this unique cinema. For the past forty years, South Korea’s domestic movie industry was protected from international, and particularly Hollywood, domination. As reported in The Korea Times, a state-wide quota system regulated screenings, decreeing that theaters had to show nationally created works 146 days a year, or 40 percent of the time. However, the endless cries for an open market, for Free Trade Agreements and liberalization, have caused a reduction of the quota.

Today, Korean-only productions must be shown 73 days per year.

Today, both foreign and domestic consumption are at all-time highs, according to the Korean Film Council. Japan dominates importation, buying nearly 80% of South Korea’s film sales abroad for a total of almost $60 million US dollars, as of 2005. Nationally, more Koreans are going to the theater and, more importantly, seeing more homemade works over foreign-made.

Nancy Abelmann, director of EAPS, explained it: “You have both a vibrant producer and consumer sounds from the scene

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September 29-30, 2006. Boardman’s Art Theatre, Champaign, Ill. (SATURDAY CONTINUED) Empress Chung @ 2 p.m.

Please Teach Me English @ 4:30 p.m.

Sad Movie @ 7 p.m.

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance @ 9:30 p.m.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 The Unforgiven @ 7 p.m.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.: Free K-12 educator workshop on teaching about Korea.

All films will be in Korean with English subtitles. All shows are free of charge. Film Festival schedule is provided by the Asian Educational Media Service (www.aems.uiuc.edu)

FEATURED FILMS AT THE ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL community in an aggressively globalizing country that cares a lot about its own cultural production and place in the world ... If you put all that together then you’ve got a mix for a lot happening.”

Opening the festival will be young director Yoon Jong-bin’s, The Unforgiven. The lauded and independently produced work depicts a young student’s term of compulsory military service and his confrontation and integration into its power hierarchy. The director will be in attendance for the screening and a discussion afterwards.

Also on Friday, Seungsook Moon of Vassar Col lege lead an after noon workshop. The topic will be “The Rise and Decline of Militarized Modernity in South Korea.”

Saturday begins with an educators’ workshop entitled “Teaching Korea Through Film.” The animated folk tale Empress Chung will start the day’s screenings. Directed by Nelson Shin, who has worked on American television shows such as The Simpsons and X-Men, the 2005 movie was the first to be released simultaneously in South and North Korea.

Next on the bill is Please Teach Me English, a slapstick, romantic comedy about a young off icial, played by Lee Na-young, enrolling in English language classes and becoming enamored with her handsome classmate, portrayed

by Jang Hyeok.

Abelmann commented, “Please Teach Me English is a fabulous film because it shows both all the desires of globalizing and learning English as well as some of the anxieties. The film gets at a lot of ideological tension in Korea about English. It shows you the cultural fault lines.”

The third Saturday feature is Sad Movie. An interweaving of four stories of everyday youth and relationships, Abelmann added that, “this is a f ilm that gives a little bit of the feeling for the way that young people are connecting with one another.” She explained that it presents the transformations to Korean society resulting from the embrace of new technologies and new means of communication.

Concluding the festival is the f inal part of director Park Chan-wook’s so-called Vengeance Trilogy. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance is the brutal story of a double-crossed and imprisoned heroine, who, you guessed it, is released and seeks violent vindication. Park’s previous film and second part of the trilogy, Oldboy, won the Grand Prix award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.

These works “are part of a country celebrating its own position in the world,” said Abelmann.

It’s a new surge of a transcontinental art form; a spring of ideas from a traditional, ancient society. Though the South Korean “hallyu” is unknown to most Americans, this new wave will soak into Champaign and Boardman’s Art Theatre this weekend. buzz sounds from the scene

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ne of the many films appearing in the Asian Film Festival this weekend is Sad Movie. Does anyone remember Love Actually from a few years ago? I thought so. Well, Sad Movie entertains along the same lines. This movie however, as the title implies, is a little more depressing to say the least.

Sad Movie begins as a humorous, romantic film. The plot focuses on four separate stories, all relating to love in the general sense. First we see the relationship between Lee Jin-Woo, a firefighter, and Soo-Jeong, a reporter who does sign language for the news. The couple has a shaky relationship due to Soo-Jeong’s constant fear of

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t is like watching a play, with its slow, patient medium shots and its few, recurring sets. It is a film of a contained interaction of young men thrown together into the army, into their barracks, and the endemic, abusive psychology that infects all of them. Up-and-coming director Yoon Jong-bin’s The Unforgiven is a quiet, sad portrait of South Korea’s mandatory universal conscription. Yoon’s debut feature unravels the pain and abuse of this collective experience and the desperation to forget it.

The story begins with college student Lee Seungyoung’s (Seo Jang-won) admittance into the army.

The staff sergeant of his company is Yoo Tae-jung

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ympathy for Lady Vengeance is the third installment behind South Korean director Chan-Wok Park’s vengeance trilogy, following Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, which dealt with a kidnapping, and Oldboy, which dealt with an imprisonment. Lady Vengeance follows Lee Guam-ja, who has just been released from prison after being convicted of kidnapping and murdering a young schoolboy. Therefore, this can be considered a combined product of the previous films, and that would be an apt comparison both in terms of content and quality.

Jin-Woo’s career. He has to decide which is more important—his career, or the love of his life.

The next story consists of the innocent love between a struggling artist and Su-eun, Soo-Jeong’s deaf sister. With the help of seven dwarfs (you have to see the movie to understand), Su-eun slowly begins to overcome her securities to reveal her crush. The artist’s curiosity threatens to get the best of him.

One of the most heart crushing subplots is the relationship between Hwi-chan and his mother.

Her bad habits impede on their time together.

When it is discovered that she has cancer, their true feelings are revealed.

The last story we see is that of Ha-seok and Sookhyun. When Sook-hyun breaks up with Ha-seok because he is unemployed, he refuses to take no for an answer and begins his own “Separation Agency,” ending other people’s relationships for money.

The visual aspect of the movie itself is amaz(Ha Jung-woo), a former classmate of Seung-young who shields him from the everyday berating and hazing of other superiors at the cost of rebukes from his own higher-ups. The narrative soon skips ahead to a civilian Tae-jung, out of the army and working in Seoul. Seung-young seeks him out on a leave of absence, trying to reconcile his army life, as well as their intimate friendship.

The two scenes progress in parallel: as we see more of Seung-young and Tae-jung’s lives on the base, we understand more of their uncomfortable, pained reconciliation in the city. We see Seungyoung’s initial idealism—that he can change the caste structure of the army —reduced to agonized dread by the time of his leave.

Yoon is careful to iterate the rigidity of the power roles within the army, of the castigating deference and the impersonal uniformity. Yet he never justifies or glorifies the conscription into any wider context, he While Mr. Vengeance is concerned with retribution and Oldboy with revenge, Lady Vengeance concerns itself with love—more specifically, love between a mother and daughter. As it turns out, Lee has a daughter named Jenny who was adopted by an Australian family during infancy.

She only speaks English and threatens to slit her throat if Lee does not take her back to Korea.

Their relationship produces more analogies of the dilution of Korean culture and identity.

However, the women in Lady Vengeance are the core appeal of this film, and are what set it apart from the past films in the trilogy. It brings a more humanistic, even delicate process to Lee’s plan for retribution.

This is a film not only of female empowerment, but also of self-control. As the plot takes more twists, Park investigates the length humanity will go to gain justice but retain innocence. For those unfamiliar with Park’s previous work, expect slick production values, a voyeuristic lens and cringing violence to boot.

ing, and only adds to the heightened sense of emotion you will already be feeling. This movie exposes real life and all of its happiness and pain.

Although the movie ends on a depressing note, it is truly a unique must-see.

Su-eun dresses as Raggedy Ann while Sang-Gyu tries to communicate with her in Sad Movie. never shows us any serious training drills or weaponry and only an occasional, stark shot of the Korean flag. Rather, the world of The Unforgiven is an almost absurd situation, something beyond any explanation that these men must deny, accept or escape.

Hur Ji-hoon (left), played by Yun Jong-bin Lee, and Seung-young, played by Seo Jang-won, in the film The Unforgiven.

While not the best of the vengeance trilogy, it is a solid second. To see Sympathy for Lady Vengeance is to experience a director who has yet to hit his peak, and an insight on what it is like to be considered a woman, a convict, a mother and to some degree, a saint.

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If you’re not familiar with Touré, he’s a correspondent for BET, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and was a correspondent on CNN. In addition, he recently released his third book, Never Drank the Kool-Aid. His other works include the novel Soul City and the short story collection The Portable Promised Land.

Never Drank the Kool-Aid is arguably his best work to date. This novel is a provocative tale of popular culture in America. Touré proves he is well on his way to becoming one of the next great popular culture critics. Reading this novel will challenge anyone’s conventional notions of America.

The content of Never Drank the Kool-Aid is a collection of articles that Touré previously wrote for magazines and other publications. If you were unable to read the articles when they were first published, this is your chance to read them now. However, if you’ve already read most of his work, the book also features articles that have yet to be published.

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Throughout the book, Touré touches on everything from hip-hop’s most infamous to politicians like Condoleezza Rice to athletes like Jennifer Capriati. Instead of feeding into the image of the celebrities he interviews, Touré delves deeper into a side of their personality that is rarely seen. He has the uncanny ability to see past the foundation of American culture. Some of the better articles are “Condoleezza Rice Is a House Negro” (an article on why Rice is not well respected in the black community) and “DMX Drives Crazy, but He Loves You” (an article in Rolling Stone detailing when DMX takes Touré on a ride in his car with a drink in his hand).

To some, this novel may be a bit graphic in content and language. However, Touré is such an exceptional journalist who is often overlooked. It must be known that this book is not for everyone and, if you are easily offended, reading this novel may not be the best idea. However, if you’re into having your conventional notions challenged and dissected, this book is for you.

BY BRENT SIMERSON

Very reminiscent of the cult documentary Koyaanisqatsi (1982), Bodysong places human life under the microscope and distinguishes its essential events in a breathtaking manner. The documentary relies wholly on a montage of short, amateur documentary film clips pieced together to resemble a human life. Nothing is spared: fetus development, child birth, adolescence, sex, love, war and death. This film leaves you blurry-eyed; reality can be shocking, especially to those who have never considered all of the

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You will most likely find this movie lying beside your bong and the empty bag of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. As you can figure by its title, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle is a zany story of two friends and how they escape from their life miseries. Harold (John Cho), who constantly is exploited by his jerk-off boss, and Kumar (Kal Penn), who can’t find a way to tell his father he doesn’t want to go to

medical school, embark on a ridiculous journey across New Jersey to locate the perfect late-night eatery, namely White Castle. Along the way, they deal with flatulent co-eds, a memorable Neil Patrick Harris, and, of course, a cheetah.

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After studying art as an undergrad, Molly Scott worked for years as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;commercialâ&#x20AC;? artistâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;back when â&#x20AC;&#x153;cut and pasteâ&#x20AC;? really did mean using Xacto knives and sticky wax. During that time, Scott worked on some post-baccalaureate studies in art and design. What she picked up from those mentors was not so much a set of skills, but the ability to recognize and celebrate what is uniquely her own aesthetic. The opportunity to refine that aesthetic came in grad school at Illinois State University in Bloomington-Normal.

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In 2002 I started experimenting with ideas of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Giftâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Exchangeâ&#x20AC;? as they go beyond the physical transfer of objects. I also wanted to know more about how people made certain decisions because I often have difficulty choosing from among equally attractive alternatives. During the Faithful/Fickle project, which by the way is ongoing, I realized that I was far more fickle than faithful. This led to further self-examinationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;using mirrors as the metaphor. When participantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; response cards came back to me, I borrowed certain phrases from the cards and etched them onto mirrors. If you follow the trail from me, to you, to a card, to a mirror, it eventually comes back to you, the viewer.

Your MFA is in sculpture, and your contribution to the Verde Gallery show Into the Mystic 2006 is a video, so you obviously are adept at different forms of art. Does your inspiration dictate the particular medium, or is there another creative process that you go through?

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How do you decide when a work is â&#x20AC;&#x153;doneâ&#x20AC;?? In other words, what does a piece need to accomplish before it says what you want it to say?

Usually I prefer to live with a work for a while, making little alterations and additions until things look right. I shot and edited the Mystic video Wet Work over a couple of days time and the process was one of elimination, taking away everything that wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t right.

More about you personally, what drives you and inspires you? Who are your influences in your art and work, and what do you hope to accomplish?

I like to work with what is at hand, and because I am a bit of a collector, there is always a selection of flotsam and jetsam in my studio.

For instance, I brought back pieces of lobster traps from a visit to Rocky Beach in Maine this summer, not knowing exactly how Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d use them, but happy to have rescued them. These are scraps of rusting, rubber-coated wire screen with one and a half inch grids that wash up on the beach at high tide. Looking at my workspace Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have to say that I am indebted to those 20th century artists who legitimized the use of found objects.

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ALL THE KING’S MEN FLYBOYS SYD SLOBODNIK • STAFF WRITER

JENNY MCCARTHY • STAFF WRITER

There ought to be a rule in Hollywood, better yet, a commandment: “Thou shalt not remake a screen classic, without a valid reason—even if your cast and crew are A-list stars.” It is simply astonishing how poor Steven Zaillian’s remake of All the King’s Men is, even with a cast of Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet and Anthony Hopkins. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, loosely based on the famed Huey Long, it tells the story of the rise and fall of a grassroots, self-proclaimed “hick” politician, Willie Stark. It won Best Picture in 1949 when it was adapted and directed by Robert Rossen.

Zaillian, who won an Oscar for his adapted screenplay for Schindler’s List, wrote and directed this remake with no real sense of subtlety. Everything is over-the-top: acting styles, cinematography and especially James Horner’s blaring film score that juices up every scene with dramatic significance.

Sean Penn’s Willie Stark is all excess—shouting most of his speeches with an affected Louisiana accent and constantly waving his arms and gesturing as if he’s compensating for Parkinson’s afflictions. Penn’s portrayal of Stark is truly one of the most excessive caricatures of a southerner since Rod Steger played the sheriff in The Heat of the Night. Law, Winslet and Hopkins also offer marginally believable accents and performances.

Zaillian screenplay, a full 20 minutes longer than the original, stretches the story out with longer narrative voiceovers and flashbacks by Law’s character, a journalist who tells Stark’s saga. By adding more contrast to the hoards of poor Louisiana voters and highlighting the arrogance of the aristocratic wealthy, Zaillian creates more of a tawdry melodrama than a compelling political tale. As an adaptation, All the King’s Men will disappoint even as much as those let down by The Da Vinci Code earlier this year.

It’s rare for a movie to come out that has such tackiness and a dry script that actually makes it more entertaining. In fact, it’s even more rare for that type of movie to be about World War I. Flyboys manages to be written badly and stuffed with awkward special effects, and yet somehow it’s still entertaining.

By today’s standards, the movie is cheesy. Set in France during World War I, James Franco plays pilot Blaine Rawlings, who is stationed there to fight.

Along with him are all his American buddies and the ever-present “we will win this war” morale. While in France, Franco falls in love with a peasant girl; it is truly the cliche romance that was not meant to be, and yet somehow they pull it off.

It may just be that the movie is done in a somewhat classical Hollywood style. The kind where you expect it to sweep you away with its magic and where you almost wished it were in black and white. Part of the problem is mixing that feeling with intense computer graphics and harsh battle scenes (which were almost always absent from old Hollywood films); it’s hard to keep that magical feeling when half of the Americans suffer awful, grizzly deaths.

James Franco is too talented to be wasting himself in this movie; it’s clear that the man can act, but he continues to be sucked into seemingly banal movie roles. Jean Reno plays Captain Thenault, an easy task for a man who is already typecast into such intimidating and intense roles.

While this movie is predictable, it’s hard not to enjoy the magic of it all. The decent performances

by Franco and Reno are often overshadowed by the silly plot and crazy special effects. If you’re looking for a film with an magical take on WWI and can overlook the cheesiness, then Flyboys is for you.

JACKASS NUMBER TWO KEVIN TERRELL • CONTRIBUTING STAFF

Director Jeff Tremaine breaks the curse of the sequel with Jackass Number Two, an hour and a half of perverse sketch comedy that does everything bigger, harder and funnier than its predecessor. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry and you may even vomit.

An extended, uncut version of the MTV show, Jackass Number Two is nothing more than an assemblage of unrelated jokes, skits and pranks, performed by a cast of proudly immature twentysomethings willing to sacrifice their bodies and dignity for a laugh. Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O and the rest of the crew raise the stakes higher than ever, and seem to get more enjoyment out of their own shenanigans than the audience does.

Call it base, dumb even, but there’s no denying that this stuff is effective. One will probably laugh more in the first fifteen minutes of Jackass Number Two than in the rest of the years’ comedies combined.

The credit here must go to writers Sean Cliver and Preston Lacy, whose skits are so imaginative that they successfully avoid the “been there, done that” reaction that threatens a sequel like this. The scenes abuse the cast in such creative ways that Cliver and Lacy may have confused their role as writers with Spanish Inquisitors.

Those who come unprepared for 93 minutes of scenes like “The Butt Chug” may leave the theater; the film admittedly pushes the envelope a bit too far.

Knoxville especially takes his life in his own hands on more than one occasion, and despite the R rating, one scene still earns a censorship bar. Viewers will leave the theater satisfied, perhaps slightly less proud of the human race, but the Jackass crew wouldn’t have it any other way.

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Body modif ication describes non-medical procedures like tattoos and piercings that create changes in the body. Some forms are widely practiced and acceptable like ear piercing and circumcision. There is less general knowledge about genital piercing.

Motivation for genital piercing may be spiritual, rites of passage, to enhance sexual pleasure, to claim ownership of one’s body, to be playful or simply for decoration.

Piercing is as ancient as sex itself. It’s found in cultures all over the world and has existed si nce the beg i n n i ng of recorded h istor y.

Apadravya, a vertical piercing through the glans of the penis, is mentioned in the Kama Sutra due to its ability to provide enhanced stimulation during intercourse.

Nipple piercing is common among people of all genders. Some get their nipples pierced for looks.

Others use it as a way to enhance sensation, much like a nipple clamp does.

CLITORAL PIERCING Clit piercing is almost always done to the clitoral hood, not the clitoris itself. In rare cases, a person may get their clitoris pierced, but this may cause nerve damage. Most clitoral hood piercings are ring-style, with a ball bearing positioned to rest strategically against the clitoris.

There are two main types of hood piercing: vertical clitoral hood piercing and horizontal clitoral hood piercing. A good piercer will examine your clitoral anatomy to determine which you are best suited for. The vertical hood piercing is the easiest, least painful and most stimulating because the piercing is parallel to your organs.

LABIA PIERCING Piercing the labia is usually for looks, although if the jewelr y is weighted, it can increase sensation and pull at the nerves of the clitoris.

Both the inner and outer labia can be pierced in multiple locations.

Piercing of the inner labia may be less painful than outer labia piercings because the skin is thinner and more flexible. Inner labia piercing also provides more erotic stimulation. Many women’s bodies reject outer labia piercings by pushing it right out!

PENIS & SCROTUM PIERCING The Prince Albert is the most common for males and pierces from outside the frenulum into the urethra. Wearing a ring in the urethra can affect the urine stream — the fluid tends to follow the ring downward and “fans” the stream out in a way that can be difficult to control, sometimes resulting in the need to sit down to urinate.

The frenum is the second most popular male piercing. The jewelry goes through the skin on the underside of the shaft, just behind the head of the penis. A man can have this done lower on the penis, at the base of the shaft near the scrotum.

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Some men get Frenums all along the shaft of the penis. This is called “the ladder.”

The Dydoe is a male piercing that is mostly chosen by circumcised men. The glans of the penis is pierced, where the edge of the head meets the shaft. Some get multiple dydoes all around the head of the penis.

Scrotal piercing, called Hafada, is mostly done for aesthetic reasons. There are multiple places the scrotum can be pierced, but skill must be used not to puncture the scrotal sac.

AFTER A PIERCING Swelling, tenderness and “crusties” are normal for the first few days after a piercing. However, if you have dark yellow or green pus or experience prolonged redness, tenderness or pain it may be sign of an infection. Call your doctor if this happens.

GENITAL PIERCINGS AND SAFER SEX Unfortunately, there aren’t formal studies about how or if genital piercings affect safer sex practices. We do know that until the piercing heals completely you’ll need to use condoms or latex barriers (dental dams) dur ing ever y sex act ... even if you are in a monogamous relationship! Some people with penis piercings report that condoms with a larger pouch at the tip (like the Pleasure Plus) are more comfortable to use. Generally the jewelry used in genital piercings is made of a smooth metal that should not interfere with condom or latex dam use.

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Only use sterile needles.

Never share piercing needles, as this can result in HIV and hepatitis transmission.

Most piercings take 6 to 12 months to heal.

Protect your piercing from coming into contact with other people’s body fluids until it’s fully healed.

Clean your piercing regularly until it heals. Ask your piercer for after-care instructions.

Make sure your (or your partner’s) hands are clean before touching your piercing.

Rough sex may interfere with the healing process or cause scarring.

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free will astrology SEP. 28 — OCT. 04 ARIES

March 21 – April 19

Love isn’t as simple as you wish it would be. On the other hand, it’s nowhere near as complicated as you fear it is. My advice to you is to extinguish any itch you might have to compel love to serve any agenda at whatsoever. Instead, bow down before it with all the innocence you can muster, and declare yourself ready to be its humble student and servant. Celebrate through surrender.

T A U RU S

April 20 – May 20

“Dear StarMan: I want to be a famous actress like Scarlett Johansson. I know my natural talent is as good as hers, but I’m not especially beautiful. On one of those ‘am I hot or not?’ websites, I was rated 3.2 out of 10. Can you look into my future and see if I’ll ever make it big in Hollywood? And would it help if I got cosmetic surgery? - Taurus Dreamer.” Dear Taurus: It’s a favorable time for you Tauruses to explore ways you might be kidding yourselves about your destiny. So let me ask you this: Does the dream you articulated express the primal truth about your purpose here on earth? Or is it a fantasy your ego has fabricated out of a deluded longing to pursue inappropriate ambitions that won’t satisfy you in the long run? Instead of saying, “I want to be a famous actress,” try this desire on for size: “I want to be a good actress.”

GEMINI

May 21 – June 20

When I was in Seattle recently, I was impressed with the extravagant requests of three seedy-looking homeless guys downtown. Their cardboard signs made it clear they wanted far more than the usual alms. “Need cash to buy fuel for my Lear jet,” read one. “Girlfriend needs liposuction--please help defray costs” and “Desperately need new set of golf clubs for golf date with Donald Trump” said the other two. Draw inspiration from these cheeky fellows. Dream really, really big; ask for more than you’ve dared to before.

CANCER

June 21 – July 22

LEO

July 23 – Aug. 22

Is your schedule too rigid to allow magic to seep in? Then mutate that schedule, please. Is your brain so crammed with knowledgeable opinions that no fresh perceptions can crack their way in? Then flush out some of those opinions. Is your heart so puckered by the stings of the past that it can’t burst forth with any expansive new invitations? Then unpucker your heart, for God’s sake.

Picture a bridge that once upon a time allowed cars to cross over a river, but that now has nothing but hard dirt and scrubby bushes beneath it. In other words, the river that once compelled the building of the bridge has dried up. This is a useful symbol for you. Metaphorically speaking, you’re thinking about erecting a bridge over a barrier that won’t be a barrier much longer. If you wait a while, it won’t be necessary to do all that work.

VIRGO

Aug. 23 – Sept. 22

Jeff Greenwald (www.ethicaltraveler.com) has traveled extensively all over the planet for the last quarter of a century. “Do the citizens of the world revile us Americans more each year?” I asked him.

He said that while millions upon millions have come to despise the U.S. government, most don’t actually hate us, the American people. That’s because they know firsthand the corruption and tyranny of their own countries’ politicians, and so they don’t hold our awful government against us. Let this distinction serve as a guide for you, Virgo. The time is right for you to fight inept institutions and rotten traditions and bad ideas, but without hating anyone.

LIBRA

Sept. 23 – Oct.22

Emilio Estevez was experiencing writer’s block as he worked on a screenplay about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. In his desperation to get unstuck, he jumped in his car and started driving north along the California coast. He stopped at the first random motel that had a vacancy, resolved to make this the place he’d plow ahead on the screenplay. The motel clerk recognized Estevez’s famous face and asked him what he was up to. When he told her about his stalled project, she gasped. She had been at the Ambassador Hotel in L.A. on June 4 and 5, 1968, the place and time Kennedy was killed. As she told Estevez her recollections of that night, he felt his writer’s block dissolving. In the ensuing days, he wrote up a storm. I predict, Libra, that you’re about to experience a similar synchronicity. It will jump-start a labor of love that has been on hold.

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Oct. 23 – Nov. 21

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Nov. 22 – Dec. 21

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AQUA R I U S

Jan. 20 – Feb. 18

Last year actress Michelle Rodriguez was arrested for drunk driving in Hawaii. She was given the choice of spending five days in prison or doing 240 hours of community service. She surprised everyone by choosing to be incarcerated. Some observers theorized that she felt it would be a good chance to do research for future film roles as a bad girl. Rodriguez said, “I’m a gypsy. I can see beauty in a jail cell.” While I’m not predicting you’ll end up behind bars in the coming week, Scorpio, I do suspect you’ll have a bout with limitation. If you do, regard it as an invitation to accomplish three things: (1) Develop more compassion for people who’ve undergone comparable adventures; (2) expand your ability to find beauty in challenging circumstances; (3) cultivate your skill at creating opportunities for yourself in the midst of perplexity.

Miami’s Hotel Victor has a “vibe manager” on the staff. This person’s job is to ensure that the hotel’s ambiance is soothing and cheerful. As I see it, Sagittarius, one of your important tasks right now is to be a vibe manager for the environments you share with people. (It’s in your selfish interests to do so.) In addition to keeping the atmosphere relaxing, however, you should also keep it invigorating. Don’t let comfort lapse into stagnancy.

“It’s not whoring if you do it for free,” read both of the matching t-shirts on a couple I saw at a San Francisco café. Being a curious sort, I went up and asked them what exact activity they were referring to. “He loves to give away his top-notch psycho-spiritual advice,” the woman said, pointing to her companion, “and I love to give out compliments without expecting anything in return. Need any free advice or compliments?” Her earnest statements were in sharp contrast to the glib humor of the t-shirt quip. The next day, as I meditated on your astrological omens, I realized my experience with them was a foreshadowing of the oracle I should give you. Here it is: Be both playful and sincere as you deepen your commitment to generosity. Cultivate a blithe intensity as you bestow more of your gifts on the world.

“Your job,” my philosophy teacher Norman O. Brown told me back in 1981, “is to find the holy in the mundane, and, failing that, to create the holy in the mundane.” I’ve done my best to carry out his directions all these years. Now I’m going to ask you to do your part, Aquarius. Believe it or not, one of your important tasks in the coming week is to feel awe and reverence while you’re in the midst of the everyday routine. Penetrate to the deeper layers as you seek out divine beauty that gently shocks you into a state of heightened awareness.

PISCES

Feb. 19 – March 20

In her role as DJ Debi Newberry in the film Grosse Point Blank, Minnie Driver defines the term shakabuku as a swift spiritual kick to the head that alters your reality forever.

I think you’re due for one of those blessings-in-disguise, though I also believe you can avoid it if you really want to.

One way to prevent its delivery would be to hide in your room and ferociously repress every unruly emotion that threatens to rise to the surface. A preferable strategy would be to figure out why you might need a swift spiritual kick in the head and then take action to change the awkward situation that would require the kick’s arrival.

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2) Yo Mamma: OK, so as much as I talk a world of shit about how this show sucks and how Wilmer Valderama needs subtitles when he talks, I still find myself watching hours of it at any given time. Once I hear â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yo mammaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so fat...â&#x20AC;? I never go back.

3) DVRs: Probably the greatest f-ing thing invented since garage door openers. I can record all of my favorite Family Guy episodes and pause live TV whenever my phone rings. I LOVE IT! Now I realize that I just sounded like a late night infomercial.

TATYANA SAFRONOVA Community editor GRIPES 1) The creeping realization that Farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Market will soon END: The bazaar gets peo ple out to Urbana to socialize ever y Saturday morning from mid-May (right around the time when finals end) until November 11. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go every week, but I do love every trip I take to this bustling little market. How will I go without it for so many months?

2) CSI Miami: I was reminded of my dislike for this show after I read that a dead body washed ashore during filming. Usually, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m all for cop dramas and I love love LOVE the other CSIs, but the Miami version is a disaster. Horatio Caine is socially awkward and the characters are flat; what distinguishes Calleigh Duquesne from a robot is the faint heartbeat you sometimes hear. Jerry Bruckheimer, what were you thinking?!

3) My digital camera: Hey baby, why do you have to be so difficult with me? All I want from you is to keep the shutter open for a couple of seconds, then flash and take a picture. Not flash first! I thought you loved me. Was I wrong?

HANK PATTON Designer LIKES 1) Wearing my shoes in the house: Yeah, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably gross and tracks in dirt, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m clumsy and it beats stubbing my toes every five minutes.

2) We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen: I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t usually care for music documentaries but this one is fantastic â&#x20AC;&#x201D; great interviews, excellent live footage and well researched. I would recommend it to anyone interested in â&#x20AC;&#x153;indieâ&#x20AC;? music.

3) Leatherface: No, not the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s horror movie icon, but the band. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been together since the early â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s but get no love. They sound kind of like Husker Du with Lemmy Kilmister on vocals. Check them out.

BRITTANY BINDRIM Art director GRIPES 1. Breaking glasses: A late night out on Tuesday after Subversion, I accidently stepped on my only pair of eye glasses and broke the frames in half. I was so sad! I loved those glasses!

I tried gluing and taping them together. Neither worked, I just ended up looking like an even bigger nerd and got a headache from glue fumes. I went back to the eye doctor and the style of frames were discontinued. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m pissed.

2. Breaking promises: I promised a friend that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d call them to come meet me out on Saturday night. It completely slipped my mind and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not like itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the first time Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done this to the person. I felt like an ass.

3. Breaking my phone: Not a minute before I started writing these gripes, I realized that the screen of my phone is smashed! I had just used it an hour before.

What is going on? It was just sitting on my desk, but somehow got magically destroyed. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on. Stay away from me this week.

AUSTIN HAPPEL Photo editor LIKES 1) My M a cb o o kâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s webcam: Photobooth, the program that it comes with, is nuts.

W i t h i t, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve w as te d entirely too much time and have had a ridiculously large amount of fun taking uber-warped photos of my friends.

2) Potlucks: Good food from friends is always awesome.

3) Life: Life is good. But Cinnamon Life is better!

Love that yellow box sugary wafers.

ERIN SCOTTBERG Editor in chief GRIPES 1) When a teacher cancels class without prior warning: I love it when a class is canceled, but let me know ahead of time so I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cut my sleep short, scramble to class without showering and feed the meter for an hour when I could have just stayed in bed. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what email is for, right?

2) The new parking gate in the lot next to Legends: They replaced a friendly human with a crappy machine.

To pay for your parking, you insert your cash vendingmachine style â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one problem: the change dispenser is way too low. I drive a Honda Accord and I still canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t reach it without pulling up, opening the door and contorting myself into some awkward position to eventually reach the dispenser, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like in an SUV. However there is an upside to this situation: if you take the time to retrieve your change, there might be something extra from previous drivers who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make the effort.

3) People who call anything south of I-80 â&#x20AC;&#x153;southern Illinoisâ&#x20AC;?: Let me be the first to pop your little suburban bubble â&#x20AC;&#x201D; youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not in the south until gas stations start serving chicken gizzards and pickled pigâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feet. Ignoramuses.

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