So it’s 10 p.m. on Friday night, you find yourself sequestered in Cascade Hall with a group of friends figuring out what to do with the evening. Being a university student, your obvious answer is to get slopping drunk. But wait, it’s not that easy. You’re a rez kid, so you don’t have any clean… Continue reading Drinking on campus
Month: September 2004
Kilkenny has curse of the irish
By Rob Scherf
As the maxim goes, if you’ve seen one Irish pub, you’ve seen ’em all. There’s always something familiar about walking into an “O’Gready’s” or “Goodtime McDonnel’s”, probably having to do with the standard-issue deep, dark wood furniture and Guinness on tap. It seems that these sickeningly congruent places are everywhere one turns these days, with… Continue reading Kilkenny has curse of the irish
The man with the plan
By Chris Tait
University is a place of learning. We continually kid ourselves with this misleading line. The truth is, it’s unavoidable learning things at university, just as it is anywhere else.Fluid dynamics, collision physics, anatomy, chemistry, and medicine. But you don’t have to go to class to get all of these lessons. There are no prerequisite courses,… Continue reading The man with the plan
What should Ralph Klein do with the surplus?
Phish
Phish is dead. Twenty-one years in, long enough for someone to progress from birth to spitting distance of university graduation, the ’90s equivalent of the Grateful Dead has decided to call it quits. According to the band’s guitarist/singer/focal point Trey Anastasio, the band members simply didn’t want “to stand by and allow it to drag… Continue reading Phish
Stiff Little Fingers
As is pointed out on the cover of their latest album, Guitar and Drum, Stiff Little Fingers have been around since 1977. The band, in various forms, may have been around for over 25 years but that isn’t about to stop them from still sounding like snotty, leather-clad youngsters stirring up piss and vinegar to… Continue reading Stiff Little Fingers
The Killers
I’m really getting tired of all these ‘best bands in the world.” I mean shouldn’t you actually have to do something a little more substantial then release one strong EP to earn this distinguished designation? Apparently not, at least if we’re to believe the British music press who have been giving out an orgy of… Continue reading The Killers
Guster
As a rule I generally don’t agree with masses of screaming near-hysterical people. Granted, they were right about the Beatles, but the same thing can’t be said about Vanilla Ice, Milli Vanilli, the New Kids on the Block or the much-maligned Backstreet Boys. The screaming masses, albeit on a lesser scale, might be onto something… Continue reading Guster
John Martyn
Two and a half hours can be a very long time. This is the approximate running time of John Martyn’s double-disc compilation Classics, and it is two and a half hours of some of the most boring music ever made. John Martyn used to be a fairly major folkie in the seventies, when he actually… Continue reading John Martyn
Pigmy Love Circus
Forget about the prog-rock pretensions and pseudo-mystical philosophizing. Despite the presence of Tool drummer Danny Carey, there’s nothing remotely cerebral about The Power of Beef. Pigmy Love Circus started playing their biker metal in the late ’80s, recruited Carey in the early ’90s, and went on hiatus for a decade when Tool’s success left them… Continue reading Pigmy Love Circus