Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
Ever since the release of the popular car/action film The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Japanese hip-hop sensation The Teriyaki Boyz has created a considerable, albeit overlooked, wave over here in the states. Most notably, the band worked with my two favorite producers, Pharrell Williams and Kanye West, and is one of the many front men of the Japanese-owned Bathing Ape clothing line.
Apple, cheesecake, IMAGINATION, I say to my counselor, in a melodic scream. I am listening, I am trying.
Seth, focus, my counselor says. Why were you sent back to the bunk?
I understand and I do. No touching girls, no smelling girls. Not allowed. Why cant I just say it?
Mickey Mouse fly in the sky! H is for horse, I say. Tears swell in my eyes. Dont get so frustrated with me- please.
It means the gray area. It means celebrating the freedom of speech that makes this nation great. It means different colors. It means different abilities. It means different income.
But thats all on the surface.
What makes a bad-ass movie character? Sometimes it is courage. Sometimes it is killer ninja skills. Sometimes it is the ability to stay cool when a million things around you are simultaneously exploding. Sometimes it is the result of amazing facial hair.
Facial hair and movies go back quite a ways. Of course in classic cinema, being mustachioed usually means you are a bad guy (or Clark Gable). But now, killer facial hair means only one thing: awesome.
I dig. Big time. Twenty-three year old native of Chester, Pennsylvania, Kevin Michael has finally released his much-anticipated self-titled album on October 30.
The first time I encountered this artists music, I couldnt even hear it. It was at the gym and Michaels music video was playing on mtvU. The video intrigued me though, and when I looked it up online later, I feel immediately in love with the man with the ten-inch fro.
At midnight this past Friday, a mere two days after Halloween, The Rocky Horror Picture Show floor show descended upon Schwartz auditorium, thanks to the Deviant Culture Club.
With a steady, but solemn voice, Angie Maloney, a Navajo Native American, recalled how she and her sister clung to each other after being abruptly uprooted from the Navajo reservation in the southwestern United States and forced to enroll in a Tolani, Arizona Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school in the mid-1950s.
