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Chiou won both his Princeton matches—the first, in the doubles competition, to clinch the doubles point, and the second, in singles, to clinch the entire match for his team. The actual administration of the MCAT exam—which Chiou took on Saturday—did keep him off the courts, however...
...become a writer of children’s songs. The sketch’s highlight is LaVelle’s performance of the title song—Donnelly may well have a career as a children’s song writer ahead of him—but the actual speech Schabato delivers is neither plausible enough nor ridiculous enough to be funny, with a few exceptions (as when Schabato mentions that the New York Times has covered the spill under the headline of “The Worst Thing Ever”), and his life story fails to move...
...relax. It’s great if I can find time for a half-hour nap before a performance. Because of the nervousness that comes with an approaching performance, believe me, just sleeping and breathing can be pretty hard. I have found that the less I think about the actual performance, the better. Self-consciousness shouldn’t have anything to do with...
...should be with any music. It’s great when a song conjures something beyond itself, reminds you of experiences and affects you like that. But to privilege those phenomena over what you’re actually hearing is to place yourself above any notion of actual objectivity, the mistake that most middle-aged rock critics, and kids stuck in the Sixties, seem to make...
...find hip-hop lyrics compelling for entirely different reasons. With hip-hop, the vocal delivery, the form, is so inextricable from the actual content that you’re forced to listen to the words. This must be why good rappers don’t really have to say much in order to say “something”—whether their message is clouded behind metaphors or squashed by battle rhymes, the way they explore the limits of rhythmic interplay, timbre and inflection using real words somehow validates everything they say. It makes the words seem...