Imagine that you are an artist. This is your first semester at a small liberal arts school, and you are taking a class with other artists. You are given your first major assignment: do something. Make art. Whatever you make, it will be displayed in public.
0 CommentsAfter a long absence from popular music, there has been a recent resurgence in the alt-pop acoustic singer-songwriter over the past year. Led by people like John Mayer and Jason Mraz, the folk sensibilities have been abandoned by this genre; however, a little known indie hero has come to save that sound, and his name is Rocky Votolato.
0 CommentsIt's truly amazing how widespread sleeplessness is among college students. Certainly, it's partially due to the simple equation: workload + laziness + coffee = never sleep again. However, it's also partly due to the fascination our society has with those who don't sleep, or stay up late.
0 Comments"No one today is purely one thing... Imperialism consolidated the mixture of cultures and identities on a global scale. But its worst and most paradoxical gift was to allow people to believe that they are only, mainly, exclusively, white, or black, or Western, or Oriental.
0 CommentsKill Bill Vol. 1, "The fourth film by Quentin Tarantino" as the credits boast, is a live-wire action flick that does not disappoint. Kill Bill is probably the most straightforward movie made by Tarantino. Nonetheless, the scenes, although they do jump around like his other movies, completely resolve everything within the span of the movie (except for what remains to be resolved in Kill Bill Vol.
0 CommentsI've been doing this whole college student thing for nearly three years now, and I've tried pretty much every procrastinative trick there is to try: everything from your basic television watching (I Love the 80s marathons on VH1 being my drug of choice), to battling a Snood addiction, to spending an hour coming up with the perfect song quote to match my mood.
0 CommentsSinger / Songwriter Elliot Smith was found dead in his LA home this past Wednesday, Oct. 22 at the young age of 34. The cause of death was an apparent suicide.
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