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...Conor Oberst has amassed such a prodigious discography of pessimism that he has supplanted Sylvia Plath as the go-to source for art that will make you want to open a vein. The sheer volume and relentlessness of Oberst's agony (at 24, he has made nine albums fronting four bands--most famously Bright Eyes, a rotating group of musically inclined depressives), combined with his puppy-dog gaze and lock of drooping-raven hair, give him an inescapable aura of adolescent wallowing. He looks the way a My So-Called Life script sounds...
...themselves throughout The Ugly Organ that most critics chose to write them off as insufferably pretentious. But the self-referential lyrics, an attempt to analyze the efforts of your average indie rocker, are mostly successful. It’s the sort of album Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst would be writing if girls didn’t keep destroying him. The disc’s strongest element is its assonant buried melodies, formed by a rather unsettling mash of orchestral gestures and bloated guitar blasts...
...Senior coxswain] Jesse [Oberst] called the turns as tight as you could possibly expect,” senior three-seat Tyler Winklevoss said. “We were right on the buoy line steering as short a course as possible. The national team boat that did win—compared to them we steered a better course...
...freshman year was definitely very special, and it was in large part because of that loss,” Oberst said. “It was the last time we really lost as a class. After that race, we worked extremely hard, and we just knew that we weren’t going to let that happen again...
...thought we could do it, and did,” said Oberst...