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Hi I’m Ben Dinovelli — but then again, Sophocles once said, "I would prefer even to fail with honor than to say I know you guys."
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Hi I’m Ben Dinovelli — but then again, Sophocles once said, "I would prefer even to fail with honor than to say I know you guys."
Picking the movie was difficult. ButMenhad to win over the other choices - the movie that introduced him as a star,Risky Business, his flagship,Mission Impossible, and his outside-the-box movie,Interview with the Vampire(an amazingly campy film in which Cruise, in a long blond wig, is the undeniable charismatic center) - because it showcases Cruise’s greatest strengths and greatest weaknesses. InMen, Cruise plays Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee, a lawyer in the Navy JAG Corps, who is assigned to defend two Marines accused of killing a weaker member of their unit. He is assisted by Demi Moore’s Lieutenant Commander JoAnne Galloway and Kevin Pollack’s Lieutenant Sam Weinberg. In his search for the truth, Kaffee is up against the formidable Colonel Jessup (played with relish by Jack Nicholson), a man who clearly has something to hide.
The premise is exactly as the title suggests: Solomon Northup, portrayed by Chiwitel Ejiofor, is a free black man living in the North until he's kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South, first under the relatively merciful William Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch), but later under the sadistic, violent Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender). This summary can't even begin to do justice to the atrocities Northup suffers under slavery. Yet somehow, the film does.
Updated: Nov. 25, 2013:The tiger has won. The monocle has lost.
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The Counselor tells the story of a high-flown attorney (Fassbender), referred to only by the title “Counselor” throughout the film. He proposes to his sweet and trusting girlfriend, Laura (Cruz), and the two seem headed toward marital bliss until the Counselor gets tangled in a lucrative but shady drug deal with his client Reiner (Bardem) and Reiner’s girlfriend, Malkina (Diaz). The Counselor receives both advice and warning from middleman Westray (Pitt), but even Westray’s ominous allusions to downfall don’t stop the Counselor from continuing along his road to perdition.
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Does your current beauty routine need a little update? Are you down to your last pump of moisturizer and looking to try something new? Well, you’re in luck. The holiday season is the perfect time to spruce up tired beauty habits. From your face cleanser to your hand cream, it’s time to start preparing for winter and all of the holiday parties it brings.
Reflektor has range. This album meshes Arcade Fire's normally separate endeavors of Haitian funk, punk-rock, dance-hall, electronica, and anthem. "Flashbulb Eyes" is a particularly interesting musical experiment in this vein, although it doesn't make for a terribly compelling song.Also, take "It's Never Over (Hey Orpheus)," the complement to "Awful Sound (Oh Eurydice)." This song is a dark, disco dream. The sense of tragedy comes over even without the help of the Greek myth forming its narrative. That driving bass-line moving under Butler's pleading falsetto--"wait until it's over, wait until it's through"--brings the funk and also tells of their inevitable fate. We can hear the slight dissonance in the musical and mythical disconnect that we know they won't overcome. "It's Never Over (Hey Orpheus)" definitely outstrips its counterpart, whose lackluster lyrics and uninteresting structure make it rather forgettable in itself. However, the two together make for Arcade Fire's most ambitious and admirable foray into the literary realm.
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It seems pretty appropriate that producer and electronic DJ Shlohmo (aka Henry Laufer) is coming to Terrace this Princetoween- his hauntingly beautiful ambient mixes have just the right combination of groove and atmosphere to get you in a Halloween Party kind of mood. His tracks are a unique mix of lo-fi and ambient noise, with influences ranging from R&B and hip-hop to folk. Expect to hear some supremely mellow, barebones synth and drum machine jams, along with more high-energy bass and high hat hip-hop remixes.
The key to a killer fall or winter ensemble is always jaw-dropping outerwear. A good coat or jacket will elevate your look instantly, and can last you years. So, how will you stay looking fabulous this fall, you ask? Let’s go to the runways.
Alright y'all. It's Monday of Midterms week. Stress levels are getting high, so it's time to take a little musical step back from your cram session at Firestone or Lewis and listen to some chill tunes to help you relax, focus, or both. I know this random batch of songs helps me mellow out. Good luck everyone--before you know it it'll be Friday!(Shout-outs to Lena Sun, Jarron McAllister, and Tucker Jones for some inspiration.
(Well, first, here is a pic of Winona and here is a pic of Becca. It may just be me.)
This weekend the Band took a two-hour road-trip to Cape May to crash a wedding. The newlyweds were both alumni, but he was class of 2005 and she of 2001, so it could hardly have been the concurrent experience of Princeton’s undergraduate-focused environment which brought them together. While we were playing Going Back to Nassau Hall, I idly made the connection that the bride and groom could have met at reunions, and thought little of it. It was another episode which illuminated this connection further, one precipitated by a guest yelling “Alumni Sanchez!” Immediately dozens of guests, all of them grown adults, rushed forward with childlike expressions of unmitigated joy, eager to relive their undergrad years and play our perennial favorite song Children of Sanchez. I handed off my clarinet to a graduated officer and retreated to watch these distinguished alumni yell themselves hoarse and dance like they weren't wearing dignified formalwear. Though Career Services may focus on alumni networking, the Treasurer on annual giving and Susan Patton on marriage, Princetonia is worth it for its own sake. When we share traditions, dances, songs, and a potentially meningitis-inoculated clarinet reed with Princetonians past and future, we are imbibing our actions with the meaning of that most basic human need, belonging.
Below, you'll find a Spotify playlist full of just these very songs (for me, at least, maybe you have your own fall playlist. If you do, feel free to share your suggestions in the comments!). Here are also some stand-out lyrics that made me feel like these songs fit the bill --
Meet four of our new columnists – Jason Choe, Ryan Dukeman, Christian Wawrzonek and Katherine Zhao. The second in a series of introductions.
Chris Daughtry, arguably one of the greatest products of American Idol, (alongside Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood), has made his career one of permanent reinvention. Following his fourth-place Idol elimination in 2006, he turned down becoming the lead singer for Fuel, a decision that paid dividends later on. Instead, he formed his own band, Daughtry, and his first album was the fastest selling debut rock album in history.In his second album, Leave This Town, Daughtry refined his band’s grunge-pop sound to a perfect balance of jam and radio-friendliness. With the single “Tennessee Line,” he showcased potent country chops, a direction many speculated Daughtry to go down in the future. His third album, Break The Spell, had great moments, especially in the album’s namesake track and the criminally-underplayed “Crazy.” His fourth studio album, Baptized, is to come out sometime in November, and our first glimpse of what lies in store is the single “Waiting For Superman,” released October 3.I’m sorry to say I’m not optimistic about this upcoming release, because “Waiting For Superman” is overly radio-engineered and furthermore, entirely unoriginal.Now don’t get me wrong, I would consider myself an authority on the music of Chris Daughtry. I own his three albums, his B-Sides EP, his collaborations with Timbaland, Sevendust, and Carlos Santana, and all of the bonus tracks that you need to preorder to acquire. But I haven’t bought “Waiting For Superman,” and here’s why. First of all—the title. Not only does it share the title of a documentary about the plight of public school students in America, there are plenty of better songs featuring Superman in the title, and this song wasn't even a tie-in for last summer’s film, Man of Steel. Is this supposed to be a free download that comes with a DVD purchase of the aforementioned blockbuster? I don’t know. If you want to listen to songs with Superman references, I recommend 3 Doors Down’s well-known “Kryptonite,” or better yet, Our Lady Peace’s “Superman’s Dead,” a soaring grunge anthem that sounds like it is the love-child collaboration of Fuel and Tonic.Worse, the song’s content, particularly the melody, sounds ripped off from other artists. Blatantly ripped off. The main refrain, “ah-ah-ah-ah-arms-yeah” feels like it was directly sampled from Far East Movement and Tyler Vedder’s “Rocketeer” refrain, “Fly—i—i—iiiiii-yeah…”It’s not good for a rock artist to jump on the hip-hop/pop bandwagon. It would be better if he ventured deeper into the gray area of country and rock, a line in which 3 Doors Down and Theory of a Deadman enjoy success.The techno beat of “Waiting For Superman” puts the nail in the coffin for me. In the 1990s, Bush, (the British version of Nirvana) experimented with techno, creating a bizarre fusion of grunge and techno which killed the band’s momentum. Bush tried to come back to grunge form with their 2001 album, Golden State, but by then, it was too late—sales were disappointing, the band broke up. Daughtry’s embrace of pop-techno in this single makes him seem as generic as Rob Thomas’ pop descent from the originality of Matchbox Twenty into the monotony of music that Spotify likes to call “the music that mom and dad like to listen to.”Daughtry’s single “Waiting For Superman” is disappointing, but it’s probably going to be on the radio for a while. I’ll hold out hope for the album—I’ll stream it, at least, but as for purchasing it? At the moment, I’m not convinced.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4tOywQOyio]