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Beirut's Gulag Orkestar
September 13th, 2006On Beirut's debut album, Gulag Orkestar, the trumpets rise like smoke blown from a hookah that spins me away to a desert in the Middle East. Heavy rhythms drone beneath the hypnotic vocals of Zach Condon, a wolf howling at the moon whose one man band dubbed Beirut sounds more like 100 stoned Lebanese gypsies on parade than a 20-year-old New Mexican – and it just so happens to be also brilliant! Read More
The History of Eavesdropping
September 13th, 2006The term “eavesdrop” has its origins in the architectural genius known as the eaves of a house. The eaves are the part of the roof that extend past the actual outside walls, so that rainwater will pour off of the slanted roof, away from the house and its potential damage. (We weren’t born with gutters, you know). Read More
The Pipettes' We Are The Pipettes
September 13th, 2006“I just wanna move, I don’t care what the song’s about,” is only one of the catchy line from the song “Pull Shapes” that has been playing in my head all day and it may very well summarize this abum’s entire vibe. Read More
From Be-Bop To Boops and Beeps
September 13th, 2006Last Monday, Don Preston, the keyboardist for Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention visited Cornell to tell stories about being part of such an incredible musical era and play a few new compositions with his trio. Widely credited with mainstreaming the synthesizer, Preston, who also scored the movie Apocalypse Now, now is most interested in electronic music and the boundaries it pushes. Read More
Grow your Own Discotheque: Just Add Water
September 13th, 2006The clock is creeping towards 4 AM on Sunday morning, and despite the fact that I’ve replaced my hot pants and boots with pajamas and mismatched socks, I think the party – specifically my party – is still going on. At least, the last time I traipsed downstairs for a much-needed glass of ice-water, there were people making out against the kitchen sink. Read More
A Little Too Talented
September 12th, 2006After all the pomp of our new President Skorton’s afternoon inauguration, after all the speeches and term promises, Cornell closed the day with a performance by internationally-renowned musician Simon Shaheen, a Palestinian-born master of the oud (a lute with a bent neck and strange fret spacing) and violin in the newly renovated Bailey Hall. Read More
Befriending the Evil Facelift
September 12th, 2006Ashamed as I am to be committing such a heinous act, I feel even more deserving of a death by stoning as I type out these words. And what particular activity am I referring to? Read More
Wet and Wild
September 11th, 2006Last July, a swarm of swimmers in bright pink caps swam the Hudson River beneath the Lower Manhattan skyline. Amongst them was native New Yorker Giorgio Piccoli ’07, swimmer number 118 in a line-up of almost 200. He was accompanied by Gabriel Long ’09, a Sun photographer, who remained above water with a camera to capture the event. Read More
If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It
September 11th, 2006Anyone watching the U.S. Open television coverage for the past two weeks couldn’t help but notice the steady stream of ads featuring Russian tennis babe, and now the Women’s Singles Champion, Maria Sharapova. In one clever Nike commercial, a steely-faced Sharapova travels from her hotel to the tennis stadium while the people around her sing “I Feel Pretty” from West Side Story. Read More
Viewer Discretion Advised
September 11th, 2006Why does New Jersey have so many toxic waste dumps and D.C. so many lawyers? Simple, New Jersey had first pick. While lawyer-bashing is always fun, I thought I would write this column to appease my many friends who are stressing over the upcoming LSAT. As I started to think, there is actually a great deal of good flicks that pay homage to the legal profession. Read More