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Before the Animal Collective took the stage, the NYC-based space-pop quartet Gang Gang Dance played. The band was a last minute replacement after Black Dice had to duck out due to family illness. Described by scenester Joey Rhyu as “No Neck Blues Band meets Black Dice,” the band played a melodically spacey set that was at once epic and amorphous while still being very together and incisive...
...like the Republican stereotypes they decry before launching into yet another diatribe. Never mind the fact that we’re not all gun-toting (I’m pro-gun control), death penalty loving (I’m against capital punishment), hicks from the South (I call NYC home). On them, those nuances are simply lost, so I sat quietly and waited for discussion on the readings to begin, when one final point shot out loud and clear, something to the effect of “You’ve got to love how Republicans try to hide...
...finished product turns out to be about 25% serious and 75% silly. There's a post-9/11 track called An Open Letter to NYC that's as close as the Beasties ever get to Springsteen-style solemnity. Three other songs are about overthrowing President Bush and the radical right. The problem with those is not politics but priorities. There's nothing wrong with having a point of view, but there's a lot wrong with the prosody of a line like "George W.'s got nothing on we/We got to take the power from he." In rap, rhyme still...
Best way for a girl/guy to get your attention: Find me at a bar and tell me all about her concentration, life in NYC, how she feels when she sings a capella and how she plans to tour Europe this summer. That, or stab...
...mail to her entryway and to history concentrators that followed Kirshner’s e-mail, Brown suggested that students contact her if “you’re in NYC and you want to grab a beer (I was never very good at enforcing all those rules anyways...