Clive Cussler confection convoluted
Take the suave style of James Bond, the action/adventure of Indiana Jones and the oddly timed humor of Austin Powers and you have main character, Dirk Pitt (Matthew McConaughey), created for the movie "Sahara."
Take the suave style of James Bond, the action/adventure of Indiana Jones and the oddly timed humor of Austin Powers and you have main character, Dirk Pitt (Matthew McConaughey), created for the movie "Sahara."
Three Rivers Jackson are tired of playing for their friends. It's 9:30 p.m. on a Monday night, and Pablo Svirsky, Sean Donnelly and Dustin Koester are setting up for a rehearsal in the basement of the music annex. Speaking above amps sputtering feedback and the feet of a drum kit scraping the floor, Svirsky tells a story about one of his acoustic gigs played with Donnelly.
It was nine years ago that "Orgazmo," the brainchild of "the 'South Park' guys" Trey Parker and Matt Stone, was shot and completed. Cursed with an NC-17 rating and released independently, it was received coldly by filmgoers in 1997. Perhaps that's not a bad thing, as a movie like this is best viewed on DVD anyway.
There's something wonderfully hypnotic about Jason Molina's voice. It's that well balanced blend of melancholy and hope that slows you down and makes you smile. It's that you-can-listen-to-me-all-night kind of wallowing. In other words, I anoint him Neil Young II.
Let's get something straight: I hate MTV. I dug it when I was a kid and it actually showed music videos (good stuff like the Smashing Pumpkins' "Tonight, Tonight" and "1979," the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage," Weezer's "Buddy Holly" and Aerosmith's Alicia Silverstone trilogy) or had decent shows like "Beavis and Butt-head," but in recent years it has turned into something else entirely. What's the point of having something called "Music Television" that doesn't show any damned videos? You got me? Thankfully, someone of some modicum of intelligence over at the Viacom-owned corporation saw it fit to remedy the problem. The solution: the newly revamped MTV2.
Indie hip-hop lyricist Aesop Rock (Ian Bavitz) brought his eclectic, urban vibe to the Bluebird's stage last Friday and his energy ran through the entire crowd of more than 400. Heads, hands and hips were moving to the Aesop rhythm. Appearing with Aesop Rock was Mr. Lif, another Definitive Jux Records artist.
It was never going to last. Hot Hot Heat managed to create something unique on their last record, 2002's Make Up the Breakdown -- it was the sound of human exhaustion, of too many stimulants and not enough sleep combined with an ear for shiny, snappy pop. Nevermind the alphabet soup lyrics and shrill pogo-stick voice, Make Up the Breakdown was the pitch-perfect soundtrack to an amphetamine-laced road trip taken by rolling down a hill in a shopping cart.
Defying my critic brethren, I could not love Alexander Payne's "Sideways," a buddy road trip filtered through California's wine country for the midlife crisis crowd's palette. I liked it well enough; I wrote in this very newspaper a few months ago that it was "a good movie that wasn't THAT good." If you haven't seen it previously, don't take a chance and buy it. But it's still worth -- in this case -- the rental price.
A clouded aquarium schooled with piranhas, a blue velvety sofa and a wall-sized graffiti mural of a hippo snagging a ride off the back of a whale. Drop one foot over the threshold of Ian Aliman and A.J. Jeoffroy's apartment and you'll find the random assortment of oddities that tend to clutter every college apartment.
I'm having a serious personal crisis, and there's nothing to be done about it. My television and my watching habits seem to be a macrocosmic reflection of my entire life, and it's starting to scare me a little.
Defying my critic brethren, I could not love Alexander Payne's "Sideways," a buddy road trip filtered through California's wine country for the midlife crisis crowd's palette. I liked it well enough; I wrote in this very newspaper a few months ago that it was "a good movie that wasn't THAT good." If you haven't seen it previously, don't take a chance and buy it. But it's still worth -- in this case -- the rental price.
Under a blood-red moon, sophomore Chris Meadows smoked a pipe before warming up. The sweet scent mingled with the heavier smell of gasoline, thanks in large part to freshman Kendrick Burke as he kept busy painting the beach along Lake Monroe with fuel and lighting it again and again.
IU senior Ashley Crouse, 21, was killed in a two-car accident that occurred late Monday night on campus, according to the IU Police Department. Crouse was pronounced dead at 12:09 a.m. Tuesday at Bloomington Hospital. Crouse, her boyfriend junior Christopher Carlson and senior Julie Greenbaum were driving southbound on Hawthorne Avenue when a gray Honda station wagon struck their red Jeep Cherokee on the driver's side at the intersection of Hawthorne Avenue and Third Street, according to a statement from IUPD. Police are searching for the driver of the station wagon, who fled the scene on foot.
Bracey Wright will enter the NBA draft rather than return to IU for his senior year, coach Mike Davis announced Wednesday. "I am excited about the possibility of playing in the NBA and it has always been a dream of mine," Wright said in a statement. "I want to thank Coach Davis and all of the assistant coaches for the things they have taught me. I also want to thank my teammates for being there for me throughout my career."
"If you can dream, you can do it!" This single quote from Walt Disney dons Ashley Crouse's Thefacebook profile. Underneath are photos of her friends. They are the many people whose lives she has touched while spending a majority of her years giving her time and enthusiasm to different campus organizations. The news of her sudden death left those who knew her with an irreplaceable void.
It began as a small gathering Tuesday night, about 100 greek students arranged jaggedly along the entrance to the Alpha Xi Delta sorority. But like a magnetic wave, it grew larger and larger as it moved toward Kappa Kappa Gamma, the home of Ashley Crouse, who died in a car crash early Tuesday morning. Several people make a crowd. A few dozen is a line. One hundred Greek students is a good start. More than a thousand is nothing short of a parade. It was a mourner's parade.
Deep in the midst of a February snowstorm -- Team Marshall sat. But this time, not idly. This time, Old Man Winter wouldn't confine them to working out at the Student Recreational Sports Center, or even worse, doing nothing at all. Team Marshall found a savior, but it wasn't in the form of a groundhog or a warm front. It was four words from graduate student and distance rider Autumn Drew -- "I'll be your coach."
Union Board to show debated 'Kinsey' film The Union Board will show "Kinsey" at 8 and 11 p.m. Thursday and Friday in the Whittenberger Auditorium in the Indiana Memorial Union. Actor Liam Neeson portrays Alfred Kinsey, the IU researcher who impacted social norms by publishing books on sexual behavior of both women and men.
Prior debut pushed back with Cubs' washout Tuesday CHICAGO -- Mark Prior had to wait an extra day to make his 2005 debut. Rain caused the postponement of Tuesday's game between the San Diego Padres and Chicago Cubs.
After the Michigan game Oct. 2, senior John Pannozzo should have seen it coming. What he should have seen is that his fullback career at IU would be finished soon, and he would move to a career in which he would give out the hits rather than take them.