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(03/07/07 6:00am)
In his past albums, Say Hi to Your Mom frontman Eric Elbogen has
been known to spill his angst into clever songs about spaceships
and robots; however, on the band's fourth and newest release,
Impeccable Blahs, he chose to move onto a slightly darker material.
The liner notes explicitly state that ""Impeccable Blahs is a
record about vampires."" However, they are ""not creepy goth
vampires but rather people like you and me who happen to get their
nourishment from drinking blood."" An interesting subject matter
for a band that once specialized in detailing the angst of girls
and video games, but it works well for them. Elbogen continues to
write witty lyrics, this time using vampire tendencies as a
metaphor for romantic human love, resulting in an album that is
both fun and intelligent.
(03/07/07 6:00am)
What in the world is going on in sports right now?
(03/06/07 6:00am)
\I'm going to pull the hat off. You run and you don't turn
around,"" Dina Marie's rapist warned her before he let her go.
""Don't look at my car. Don't look at my license plate. The man
pulled off the black hat he had used to cover Dina Marie's eyes.
Immediately, she heard the door slam and the car drive away.
(03/05/07 6:00am)
Five animated shorts were nominated for this year's Academy
Award for ""Best Animated Short,"" and their variety mirrors the
many possibilities that the term ""animated"" now encapsulates:
""traditional"" pen-and-ink animation, computer-generated and even
a hybrid of the two. Screenings of the nominated shorts are showing
across the country, including one last weekend in Madison.
(03/01/07 6:00am)
Considering My Morning Jacket concert ticket prices start at
about 100 bones for scaffold seats and the brightness of their
pretentious light shows are on par with that of Lasik surgery, it
is easy to forget you're at a concert and not a test site for
nuclear weapons. However, in 2004 a scraggly band called Dr. Dog
tagged along on the MMJ tour, and though largely unheard of,
captured the hearts of shaggy haired indie kids instantaneously.
(03/01/07 6:00am)
The citizens and state representatives of Wisconsin should
endorse pending legislation that would work to divest money
currently engaged in any business partnerships with the government
of Sudan.
(02/25/07 6:00am)
It seems like Lucinda Williams has been in a constant process of
getting over failed relationships for the last decade, and her
latest album hasn't come around to change that—thematically, the
songs on West detail Williams' intensely personal attempts to deal
with the disappointment of love, which is standard turf for her.
But in terms of music, West is an effortlessly perfect combination
of country, folk, blues and rock that neither she nor many others
has ever achieved.
(02/20/07 6:00am)
I hate reading film reviews. I feel hypocritical and sort of
sleazy as I divulge this to you now, but let's be honest—so many of
them say the same thing. They tell me, the reader, exactly what the
critic knows (which is far more than I know, of course) and then
assume a condescending tone which tells me exactly how I should
feel when exiting the theater.
(02/13/07 6:00am)
I'm not one of those people who likes Valentine's Day. I guess I
don't hate it either, but I definitely believe in the theory that
it's a lose-lose situation if you are a guy.
(02/06/07 6:00am)
Women who seek to be equal to men lack ambition!"" proclaims a
sticker on the door of a UW-Madison student's dorm room. Well,
perhaps the feminists who adhere to this rally cry of female
superiority are getting their way. According to a 2006 Newsweek
article, ""Boys across the nation and in every demographic group
are falling behind.""
(02/06/07 6:00am)
Someone in the office asked me Monday, ""Would you rather have
John Stocco or Troy Smith?""
(02/06/07 6:00am)
Will Sandstrom is 72 years old. He was born in Orr, Minn., in
1934. He obtained degrees from St. Olaf College, the University of
North Dakota and Indiana University. He unsuccessfully ran for
Congress in the '60s and now spends most of his time writing books
and being an activist in Madison.
(02/05/07 6:00am)
Sunday was a monumental day. In the midst of Black History
Month, two black coaches stared each other down across the
sidelines. And though Tony Dungy and the Indianapolis Colts came
out on top, not enough can be said about the job Lovie Smith did
this year and the importance of his appearance in the championship
game.
(02/05/07 6:00am)
During the final lines muttered on Bloc Party's 2005 release,
Silent Alarm, lead singer Kele Okereke states: ""What are we coming
to / What are we gonna do?"" While Silent Alarm flirted with a
plethora of different themes ranging from aggressive bass driven
post-punk masterpieces to electrifying house tracks, Bloc Party
never entirely delved into any single expression.
(02/04/07 6:00am)
I'm not much of a television watcher and never really have been.
Saturday afternoons—when the mind and body have shut down—are those
rare occasions I remain fixed on the couch to channel surf and eat
bowl after bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Even then I'm usually
unsure of what's happening on the screen in front of me.
(02/01/07 6:00am)
Kevin Barnes bares his emotions like never before on Of
Montreal's latest, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? Written
during a year in which Barnes separated from and then reconciled
with his wife, Hissing Fauna reveals Barnes without his signature
fanciful characters and his ""variety of whimsical verse,"" as one
of the band's earlier albums was subtitled.
(01/29/07 6:00am)
The sky screamed blue on an unseasonably warm January day as
thousands upon thousands gathered within blocks of our nation's
capital were just moments away from screaming for immediate peace
in Iraq.
(01/29/07 6:00am)
Carrying signs emblazoned with block letters and peace signs,
shouting anti-Bush and anti-war rhetoric, community members and
UW-Madison students alike marched down State Street Saturday to
protest the war in Iraq.
(01/29/07 6:00am)
Lily Allen's musical beginnings (daughter of British celebrity
spurns record industry hit factory and runs own promotional
campaign over MySpace) have been harped by the media so many times
that it seems like it all must have happened 100 years ago. Even
so, the go-it-alone story is still a helpful introduction to
Allen's Alright, Still because it is mostly by virtue of her own
good taste that the album avoids the disaster areas pre-ordained by
the tabloid-fodder break up that inspired many of its songs.
(01/28/07 6:00am)
It took me approximately 12 seconds to register what I saw lying
on the bathroom floor—my jade bracelet broken into four separate
pieces. At first, I thought I was looking at a surreal photograph
or having a mean joke played on me.
