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...frantic mission for “gender equality” in romantic relations assumes that female patience, passivity, and committed endurance—perhaps the most demanding trials of all—are less equal. Despite the cultural message that “real” liberation eschews commitment, Kimmel wisely mentioned that girls generally seek something more than a consent-based hook-up. He light-heartedly suggested that girls who seek a commitment for their affections are hardly obsessive or clingy. By Kimmel’s own logic, holding men to a higher standard would benefit both...

Author: By Rachel L. Wagley | Title: A Defense of Manliness | 5/10/2010 | See Source »

...ODDSAC” opens upon a distraught girl alone in a wallpapered room. As heightening drum beats pound away, the girl begins to frantically tear wallpaper off the walls unleashing a profusion of slick mud, in a scene that invokes Perkins Gillman’s story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” The mud torrent is seemingly unstoppable, despite the girl’s frantic struggles, and as the mud continues pouring, the profusion of bizarre sounds increase in volume and fury. The successful unity of the visuals and sound trigger intense emotional responses, arousing feelings even...

Author: By Sarah L. Hopkinson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: NEW VISUAL ALBUM: The Sound and Fury of Animal Collective | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

...wrapping things up as a first year student, realizing this does go by very quickly,” said Director for Freshman Programming Katherine W. Steele, whose office provided funding, support, and publicity for the project. “Part of that is life here is so frantic, and when you take a step back and think about what really matters about your college experience, I could see how it could quickly become emotional...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Freshman Film Time Capsule Video To Revisit in 2013 | 4/19/2010 | See Source »

...even has a track called “Brian Eno”—one of the album’s more straightforward cuts, avoiding the numerous shifts in style that define most of the tracks. “Brian Eno” is mainly a frantic, devoted, yet questionably-framed ode to the British producer and composer. Something about the song’s tribute just doesn’t quite add up. The song’s conventional structure at one point gives way to a 20-second music hall-esque bridge where Eno?...

Author: By Chris R. Kingston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MGMT | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

...lyricism is the pronounced intensity which characterizes much of her new release. “Devil’s Spoke,” for example, opens the album with an impassioned interpretation of religious folk music. Slow, hypnotizing bass lines, deep male background vocals, and thumping drums endow a frantic banjo, as well as Marling’s voice and guitar, with a sheer power new to Marling’s work. And when she issues such commands as “Hold your devil by his spoke / And spin him to the ground,” Marling?...

Author: By Paula I. Ibieta, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Laura Marling | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

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