My So-Called Obsession
angst (ängkst). n. a feeling of anxiety, apprehension, or insecurity. Among the seemingly endless list of great things to emerge from the ’90s, there is one hilarious and delightfully philosophical teen drama that manages to trump even the most impressive pog collections. My So-Called Life uses the perfect blend of angsty outbursts, waist-wrapped flannels, and [...]
Senate Receives “Vagina-gram” From Unnamed Sender
Annually, the Woman’s Center runs a V-Day fundraiser that provides, with a sliding scale donation of five to ten bucks, the ability to send a “Vagina-gram” to your unsuspecting lover, friend, professor, or in tonight’s case, or student government official. “What is a Vagina-gram?” you may ask. A Vaginagram is a song and dance medley [...]
Gogol Bordello This Sunday At McDonald Theatre
New York Gypsy Punks Gogol Bordello, fronted by real life gypsy Eugene Hütz, are playing at McDonald Theatre this Sunday with opening act Forro in the Dark. Gogol Bordello’s latest album, Trans-Continental Hustle was released this past April. Come out and seem them this Sunday, October 17th at McDonald Theatre, 1010 Willamette Street. Doors are [...]
Coachella 2010: In This Economy?
Every April, the tumbleweed-strewn town of Indio, CA welcomes a youthful mob roughly three times the size of the UO student body. The patrons suffer three days of sunburn, body odor, dehydration, and monetary exploitation in exchange for a chance to see performances by a pantheon of musical gods and goddesses. The art installations, trance-inducing [...]
Stop-Motion Animation, or What The Hell Was I Watching As A Kid?!
A few months back, I heard about a really bizarre movie coming out involving toys, stop-motion animation, and subtitles. It was called A Town Called Panic (2009), and once I saw the preview, I nearly lost my shit; if I didn’t go see that movie, I didn’t know what was right in the world. However, [...]
‘Spoon’ing tonight at McDonald Theater
Tonight, the McDonald Theater welcomes Austin, Texas based band SPOON, playing at 8:00pm with special guest Explode Into Colors. Spoon has been playing their indie hits since 1993, but really broke into the spotlight with their 2002 album Kill The Moonlight (which saw one of their songs gain popularity through the popular teen-drama “The O.C.”). [...]
TOBACCO Hits Eugene’s WOW Hall This SUNDAY
Emerging from the sleepy backwoods of rural Pennsylvania, Black Moth Super Rainbow’s musical genius, Tobacco, has broken solo and ventured into a new urban terrain. Leaving behind a heaven of synthesizer daydreams and a host of angelic murmurs, the man behind the vocoder began to explore the gritty beat of the city. Starting off in [...]
“The Simpsons” To Release New Theme Song After 21 Years
Pitchfork has released an article announcing that Andrew WK and one of my personal favorite hip-hop groups, People Under the Stairs, have collaborated and created a new variation of Danny Elfman’s Simpson’s theme song. It will air in the end credits on January 16th’s all new episode. Will you check it out? I know I [...]
The Roots Runaround
Apparently, while the venerable ?uestlove practices deadpan rim shots for Jimmy Fallon’s new late night show, he and the rest of the Roots surround themselves with a dense web of management bureaucrats to prevent the scheduling of interviews with cute student-run publications. I don’t know how many uninformed people with telephones they need. I’ve never [...]
A concert that happened over a week ago…
…was The Helio Sequence at WOW Hall in support of their new album Keep Your Eyes Ahead (Sub Pop, 2008), with Eugene locals Yeltsin giving a solid performance as the first opener. By far the best thing about Yeltsin is their lead singer’s beard, which has to be a good foot long and swayed majestically [...]
The Best of Thymes
Yesterday afternoon I got back from class, and it was about twenty-five or six to four. I had invited some people over for spaghetti, so I had to get going on putting together a pasta sauce. I spun the spice rack around to grab what I needed — parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme — then [...]
