Making Friends
It all begins with the fourteen page Panhellenic Recruitment handbook that arrives in your inbox shortly after registration, a process in which some very enthusiastic girls in the basement of Dod take a picture two inches away from your face. The packet outlines the schedule of the coming week which, you will notice with some […]
A Game You Can Play
Editor’s note: the following is a game created out of the competing and complementary strangeness of both modern advertising and independent cinema. Enjoy. 1.) A space probe carrying samples of alien life crashes in Central America and soon half of Mexico is quarantined. The Infected Zone remains a hostile territory filled with unearthly life. Can […]
The Divergence
As I enter the dark-and-slightly-dingy room that is Forbes Blackbox, my mind is suddenly assailed. Suddenly assailed by the age-old tales of up and coming bands that I picked up from Wikipedia in ye olde days of high school (when free time existed). Maybe it’s my penchant for old English rock bands who started off […]
Quack Music
I, like Kanye West, take great pleasure in talking about Kanye West. The brilliantly talented, ubiquitous egomaniac is a dual force of unbelievable music and even less believable controversy. Ye’s lyrics are witty, provocative, and complex, sometimes even bordering on academic (perhaps appropriate for an artist whose early career was university-themed)—check out this rhyme off […]
Levinski Park: Abroad, Alone, and Adrift
My friend James is soft-spoken; he talks instead of screaming and whispers instead of talking.
We Need Black Star
In 1998 the hip-hop community was reeling from the mysterious and tragic murders of two of its biggest, and most beloved, stars: Tupac and Biggie. Questions swirled around their deaths, the role of rap in their killings, and the future of hip-hop itself. It was into this chaotic uncertainty that Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey, […]
Green is the New Black
I was late to climb aboard the Muppet train. If you’d asked me to name them when I was five, I’d have known Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, and maybe Gonzo. But I didn’t discover the other treasures that Jim Henson and Friends had put on screen over the years until I was 17, when […]
Body and Memory
Dayve Hawk, the man behind Memory Tapes, must have a penchant for cassette tapes. His previous material was released under the aliases Memory Cassette and Weird Tapes, a pair of confusingly alike band names. One thing is clear though: Hawk has supreme talent for producing songs that chillwave and glo-fi fans love. His two Memory […]
Cornel West TV
At the New Yorker Festival two weeks ago, the entire cast of the TV show “Arrested Development” reunited for a group discussion. Mitchell Hurwitz, writer and creator of the show, revealed that there were plans for an abbreviated run of the series to run up to the production of the Arrested Development movie. In passing, […]
An Apple a Day
It’s far more common and less noteworthy for the young to obsess. We see it often, a girlish (or boyish) obsession with pink, followed by a girlish (or boyish) obsession with Edward Cullen. So I admit myself guilty of a youthful fixation, but of a different sort. My love of Apple may have predated the […]
