This is a bold statement, but I’m going on record: I have never listened to a single EP as much as I have Joe Pug’s Nation of Heat EP. According to my iTunes, I’ve listened to it at least twenty times straight through, and I’ve listened to “Hymn #101” fifty-nine times in exactly two and […]
Archive > October 2009
Yep, it’s scary…
I lied. I said I wouldn’t be able to bring myself to see the movie. Said I would let this one scary movie pass me by. Well, I couldn’t stay away and I witnessed the phenomenon that is Paranormal Activity. And, I’ll tell you this straight, I got scared. I jumped, I yelled, and I […]
This Weekend Rocks: Oct 29-Nov 1
This is the best weekend of the year. Better than Christmas. Better than OU/texas. Better than New Year’s Eve. This is “fall back” weekend. That’s right, boys and girls. There are twenty-five hours in the Saturday/Sunday continuum. Some people will use this extra hour for sleep. More awesome people will use it to say that […]
Fear Not: The Danger
Watched the news recently? Cracked open a newspaper to scope out the world around you? It’s a scary place, apparently. Drugs and war and violence and elephants — all very serious business, of course (maybe not the last bit), and all worth reporting, but all completely irrelevant for a budding study abroad-er. That’s a bold […]
Top 5 Wednesday: Top 5 Most Energetic Shows I’ve Ever Seen
It’s a rare experience that going to a show is not fun. Even if a band stands stock-still and sings straight off the album, there’s usually enough redeeming value in the concert experience itself (traveling, being excited, being around other people who love xx band as much as you, etc) to make it “fun” in […]
Buy/Die Tuesday: What is the World Coming to?
This week of releases distresses me. Instead of commenting on the releases this week, as I usually do, I’m going to list things that would be of interest to people (although almost none of them are of any interest to me). Creed – Full Circle. Michael Jackson – This Is It. Sting – If on […]
If Death Ever Had a Voice
Last week, three people on three separate occasions told me that I absolutely must read Juan Rulfo, especially if I loved Gabriel García Márquez (which I do). I took these recommendations and stored them in one of the tertiary parts of my brain for a later date; one not so fraught with midterms and other […]
Pinky and the Brain
Have you ever had a professor so brilliant, so inspired, so passionately dedicated to his students that he completely scared the Holy Hell out of you? If so, then welcome to my world. Dr. Gade is a well-known professor in the school of Journalism and Mass Communications (a.k.a. my home-away-from-home). He’s one of those academic […]
“Let the wild rumpus start!”
Where the Wild Things Are. It’s amazing. It’s brilliant. It’s FANTASTIC. Based off the children’s book by Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are is by no means a children’s movie. Max is an imaginative young boy, full of stories and ideas. But he’s lonely, feels like he has no control over his life, and […]
Folk Friday: Fionn Regan
I mentioned Fionn Regan in an off-handed way last week. As I found out that he is nearly completion of his second album The Shadow of an Empire, it’s time to talk about him in greater length. If Novi Split is the purveyor of song fragments, emotional moments and other intimate things, Fionn Regan is […]
