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...section of Soldiers Field Road, west of North Harvard Street, buried under a pedestrian walkway. There is also a rendering of a ring of buildings resembling Mather House, touted as a “concept for an undergraduate house as a residential village.” Harris S. Band, Harvard’s director of physical planning, said that the image was included just to “spice up” the display. “It’s a more contemporary style,” he said. “No decisions [have been made...
Rivers Cuomo ’99-’06, the frontman for the alternative rock band Weezer, said last week he plans to return to Harvard this spring to finish a degree he started 10 years ago. In an interview on “The Howard Stern Show” last week, Cuomo said he will return to Harvard this February to complete his coursework. He first enrolled at Harvard in the fall of 1995 but left with two semesters remaining, initially concentrating in Music but later switching to English and American Literature and Language. After leaving school...
...wrong, it took weeks to relearn how to play. There was also the matter of singing. Phoenix has a warbling, slightly nasal voice that needed extensive training to hit Cash's rumbling lows. "He was pretty horrible when he started," says Dan John Miller, leader of the indie band Blanche, who plays Cash's lead guitarist, Luther Perkins. Phoenix spent months rehearsing by himself, even writing his own songs to "see what it felt like to make something from nothing." When he arrived in Memphis three weeks before shooting began, he brought only a few white T shirts and borrowed...
Much credit has to go to Junell for creating a short film out of a song by a band whose music is hardly visual. The video concerns a bald, portly, middle-aged man, living a soulless corporate life in a particularly depressing Bed, Bath, Linens, Things and Beyond. Following are shots of mattresses and men with ill-fitting dress shirts; general misery ensues, backed by lead singer Britt Daniel’s restrained 4/4 emotions. Later, said fat protagonist comes home, relaxes, eats, puts on women’s clothing… what? Yes, it seems that, as Daniel croons...
...failure to find out who undergrads really want to see. I asked some people whether Wyclef has them stoked; the majority of people said they’d never even heard of him, and several others told me they’d rather have a good indie rock band. Still, a few others said they’d be happy to re-live middle school and see the former Fugee. Alex Bradford, HBS I was a Stanford undergrad, and the best we could get was Eve 6…I realize how hard it is to get famous artists...