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Great music allows a collection of strings twanging, drums beating and bells shaking to be a medium through which the listener can bond with the performer. ""Crazy Heart"" attempts to give the complete picture of where soulful, personal music originates from—in this case, the hard-lived life of a country legend.
The official website of Beach House, the four-year-old, two-person ""dream-pop"" duo, brings you to a single image of the two acting like a pair of misfit, ironically swanky teens. You can't see their faces. There is a sculpture of a head with multiple faces in between them, and Victoria Legrand's hand is tucked into her pants next to her belt buckle, where ""GIT SUM!"" has been MSPainted in. To boot, the three links on the page—aside from those accessing a new Teen Dream single—are miniscule and hidden. As a whole, this is uncannily indicative of the unabashed timidity and awkward social remoteness Beach House purvey through their music.
The official website of Beach House, the four-year-old, two-person ""dream-pop"" duo, brings you to a single image of the two acting like a pair of misfit, ironically swanky teens. You can't see their faces. There is a sculpture of a head with multiple faces in between them, and Victoria Legrand's hand is tucked into her pants next to her belt buckle, where ""GIT SUM!"" has been MSPainted in. To boot, the three links on the page—aside from those accessing a new Teen Dream single—are miniscule and hidden. As a whole, this is uncannily indicative of the unabashed timidity and awkward social remoteness Beach House purvey through their music.
In the two years leading up to the release of Transference—Spoon's seventh studio album—Spoon has been faced with the lofty task of following up their own perfection. Their previous release, 2007's formidable Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, was about as conclusive a punctuation mark as it gets, the full-bodied conclusion to the skeletal sketches they'd slowly perfected throughout the preceding 13 years. If there was any room for improvement left in their airtight creases or minimalist instrumentation, they didn't show it.
The election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts Tuesday night sent tremors through the political world. A wake up call was sent to the Washington establishment that Americans were, at the very least, concerned about the direction the country was heading. A Republican was able to pull off the unthinkable by taking on the Massachusetts Democratic machine and turning a seat that was once held by none other than Ted Kennedy into a seat that sustained the filibuster and blocked any hope of health-care reform. In a state where Democrats enjoy a three-to-one advantage in terms of voter registration, how could such a high profile Democrat lose when so much was on the line?
Lots of NoDoz, and plenty of Dew."" That's how I respond when my close friends ask me how I ever got through U.S. Operative basic training without my superiors catching wind of my debilitating disorder. I'm agent Peter Stotch, and I have narcolepsy. Sometimes I'll go all day without falling asleep. Other times I'll find myself curled up like a kitten in the middle of the street. Regardless, I'm the best there is at what I do, and I'll be damned if the occasional mid-day snooze is gonna keep me from my work.
As my final year at UW-Madison winds to a slow and painful close, I can't help but look back upon some of the more memorable moments of my time here. Sure, the football Saturdays, the sunsets at Memorial Union and the nights when I called my ex-girlfriend Sherry upwards of 76 times rank up there in my memories, but somehow many classroom stories still stick out in my memory. We are lucky enough to have some of the most unique and influential professors at UW-Madison, and some of my most defining moments came at the hands of their lessons, no matter how serious or silly. As a sort of written tribute, I thought I'd share some of my most favorite teaching moments from my time in Madison.
Von Trier's track record of coaxing intense performances from his actresses—such as Emily Watson, Bjork and Nicole Kidman—is justly revered. This makes the charge of misogyny that von Trier often receives all the more curious. The philosophy expounded in ""Antichrist"" is relatively unambiguous but by no means straightforward: Woman causes Man's fall, but Woman is also Man's salvation. ""Antichrist"" never quite reconciles this dialectic, and perhaps a feminist film scholar will someday interpret the movie so as to prove that von Trier literally believes the ideas advanced by Gainsbourg's character regarding the essential evil of women. For now, it's enough to praise von Trier for making a profoundly problematic film; however, we should also let him know that alienation is most effective when it wakes the viewer up, not when it distracts her from the real meat of the work.
After much deliberation, here are the top candidates in considering five of the most influential directors and films of American cinema from the last decade, as chosen by our Arts staffers.
Of all the stressful activities I experience in a day—writing last-minute essays, deciding what to do after college/where to do it/how to do it/if I can do it—one of the greatest stresses occurs early in the morning. Around 10:15 a.m. after I wake up, take a good shower, and consider joining the rest of civilized society by getting dressed, I pick out my underwear.
When most of the musical world became acquainted with Arcade Fire via their 2004 debut Funeral, there was no trend or gimmickry by which someone could easily characterize the band; they weren't wearing futuristic costumes, rehashing '60s rock 'n' roll, or auto-tuning their vocals. All anyone could talk about was how fucking good the album was—like, astonishingly, breathtakingly good, and even more-so because just a month earlier, almost no one had heard of the band.
The past decade witnessed a mass withdrawal of humanity. The more technology expanded, the more Man contracted. Online networking exploded, but more houses locked their doors. Over the past ten years, no band has encapsulated this phenomenon better than the Walkmen. They pushed their sound to the limit, filling every void with distortion and leaving no moment untouched, but they sang with crippling reservations and loneliness. Perhaps their spirit is captured best on Bows + Arrows' standout track ""The Rat"" when singer Hamilton Leithauser reflects, ""When I used to go out I would know everyone that I saw / Now I go out alone if I go out at all.""
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz announced his intention to appoint Mark Woulf as an Alcohol License Review Committee voting member Monday.
UW-Madison junior Marie Tapp only budgeted food for about 20 students when she pitched the idea of a diversity forum to her house fellow two weeks ago. Instead, about 150 students showed up at Smith Hall Monday night.
Most college students who survived Freakfest this year in Madison are lucky enough to say that they have since recovered completely from the night's horrific mistakes and binges within one to two days. However, for 22-year-old Will Rollins, the luxury of leading a normal life has not been even a slight possibility for over two weeks. Well into November, Rollins is still hungover from Halloween, and not even the hottest shower can wash off the stains of his decisions from that night.
As the two big T's—turkey and tests—approach, a sense of chaos starts to creep into our lives. We come to the realization that (1) the semester ends in four weeks, (2) most of us haven't read the readings/gone to class/remember where the class is and (3) we just WANT A FREAKING BREAK, THAT IS ALL WE ASK, OH MY GOSH COME ON ALREADY!!!!
The UW Labor Licensing Policy Committee voted Friday to recommend that Chancellor Biddy Martin begin taking steps to terminate the university's contract with Nike because of labor rights abuses.
A year to the day after the historic 2008 presidential election, President Barack Obama spoke to teachers and students at a Madison middle school about the federal Race to the Top program and the importance of improving education standards.
As it turns out, the fanfare of griping about polls is not limited to the world of college football, especially in Madison.
Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker, one of two announced Republican gubernatorial candidates, spoke on campus Tuesday about his campaign plans for the 2010 election.
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