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While attending Harvard, Sylvester made his enrollment in the college known in his Pitchfork reviews; references to Cambridge and Harvard pop up in reviews of Wig in a Box: Songs from and Inspired by Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Daft Punk??s remix album Daft Club. For the latter, Sylvester, a former writer for the Harvard Lampoon—a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine—collaborated with Lampoon cartoonist Farley T. Katz ’06 to create several cartoon panels, with hilarious results...
...fast times at right now” deftly combines their powerful guitar skills with fiery vocals that fiercely question the lifestyle choices of the addressed (“You wake up in the morning and instantly you regret that, too/staring down the barrel of ex-punk??guilty of a self-indulgent haircut/turning turncoat on us”). Perhaps most thought-provoking is the last song, titled, “I truly love you but I cannot sing…”, which has no vocals but nevertheless lists lyrics on the back of the CD?...
...Needle In The Hay” is used to great effect at the lowest point of The Royal Tenenbaums, but could Elliott Smith have raised himself from his perpetual melancholy to write anything happy enough to rival “Judy Is a Punk?? for the film’s lighter moments? There’s no way, and the film benefits from the diversity of its songs and artists, hand-picked to ensure the greatest cohesion with the film...
...organizer of many experimental film, music and performance art showings, prefaced the event by noting that some films were the first or only productions of those filmmakers. This served as part-disclaimer, part-mission statement, as Beibin’s purpose is to find the “punk?? energy in new, unusual work that might not otherwise find producers and distributors. “I like to call them emergency films,” he explains. “They wouldn’t have been created without a sense of crisis...
...Punk??s a great thing on campus,” Klein says. “It’s a good social thing. Kids don’t have to drink, they can just have fun and jump and be crazy...