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Hooray for Antipodean rock: Sure, it may have all been done before, but these days few can keep the rock idiom alive without sounding dated. And now here??s a charm-filled album by the former frontman of New Zealand band The Verlaines, Graeme Downes. A lecturer in a rock degree program (can you imagine?: Speaking tonight, we have Professor Axl Rose, lecturing on “Teased Hair and Split Ends in Detroit Rock of the mid-1980’s: Hair today, Gone tomorrow?”), this is rock done just right, as the minute...
...here??s my advice, to add to that of Dean Lewis: Find a few friends, from your entryway or your section, who are interested in forming a study group for a course. Have each person summarize some of the material and pool your knowledge. Get together the night before a test, order pizza, and discuss the reding. Not only will you absorb more of the important information more quickly than you would have otherwise, but the process of digesting the information, in an informal setting, will teach you more about the material (and about your fellow students) than...
...21st birthday, as I wrote in my journal, was a “raucous mess.” I went to dinner with some friends—including Dorie, my best friend here??followed by an appearence at the Tortilla Factory’s rooftop bar, where we met about 15 other people. Some anonymous guy was paying the whole bar’s tab, and the drinks kept coming. I thought I was counting vigorously how many drinks I had had, but at some point I apparently lost count—probably after the $46 shot...
...despite warning signs to the contrary made the fall that much more difficult. Of course, this truth doesn’t do anything to dispel the bitterness and depression that has taken hold of the Bay. There is a silent anger in the eyes of nearly everyone who works here??the techies who ride the buses, the bankers who walk the streets, even the cabbies who plague the roads (“So damn hard to get a fare these days,” a driver once growled to me)—and they all have stories...
...Gary is also a bright spot in my morning. He tells interesting stories, doesn’t hit on me, leaves a good tip and even empties his own ashtray. To me—and this could just be the three-job-induced lack of sleep talking here??Gary represents the best of humanity. He’s kind, interesting, helpful and simple in a way that means a lot to a truck stop staffer at 3 a.m. And he’s also a good, quiet influence on the sometimes-tough-to-handle bar crowd, which usually...