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(09/05/02 4:00am)
Early July I'm up in the Chronicle office and, surprise, U2 isn't blaring out like the perpetual sermon, but instead WXDU sends me a sign. A sweeping melody swirling in waves of guitar reverb, and a guy singing about New York City who sounded like he knew it all too well: "The subway, she is a porno/and the pavements are a mess/I know you?ve supported me for a long time/somehow I?m not impressed." It chimed, and it soared, and I sat blinking in front of the monitor in a bit of awe. Tower View editor Matt Atwood was the only other person in the room, and as the man on the radio crooned like a distant ambulance, crying "It?s up to me now/Turn on the bright lights," I thought I saw a single tear roll down Mattwood's quivering babyface.
(08/29/02 4:00am)
Being a Sleater-Kinney fanboy is close to what it must be like to grow up with a much older and radder sister. She uses big words you don't understand and hurls temper tantrums at your parents with stunning eloquence. Her bargain bin clothes hold unknown feminine mystery. You're silently baffled by her total awesomeness, and all you can do is practice her moves in the mirror in your skivvies.
(08/27/02 4:00am)
For some unknown cosmic reason, the Class of '50 took a big hit this year. At least 14 of them--including war heroes, a state senator, and a bookkeeper for Eckerd--have gone to the big 50s tent in the sky. In happier news: John Webster '84 has given up a successful career in real estate to become a professional runner. Toni Ann Friess '91 married Christopher Bost Millner '93 on April 20--what the hell took them so long? Then there's Ronald Sally '83 and Yvette Sally '84, who--out of humor, either weak or sick--have given their fourth child and third son the middle name of Mustang.
(07/31/02 4:00am)
ity the Class of 2006, whose summer romps were interrupted when the Division of Student Affairs, in all its divisional wisdom, plopped down upon them a summer reading assignment with the proud banner of "promoting intellectual discussion." Never just an A&E rag, Recess is ready and willing to jump into the desk chair ring. Freshmen, a word of advice: If Recess offers to do your work for you, kick back and let it flow like Cliff's Notes. A moment please, let me get my boots on before we wade through the Bogs of Oprah.
(07/31/02 4:00am)
At noon on June 3, a rally cry was posted on the alt.music.chapel-hill newsgroup:
(07/24/02 4:00am)
At noon on June 3, a rally cry was posted on the alt.music.chapel-hill newsgroup:
(07/24/02 4:00am)
Pity the Class of 2006, whose summer romps were interrupted when the Division of Student Affairs, in all its divisional wisdom, plopped down upon them a summer reading assignment with the proud banner of 3promoting intellectual discussion.2 Never just an A&E rag, Recess is ready and willing to jump into the desk chair ring. Freshmen, a word of advice: If Recess offers to do your work for you, kick back and let it flow like Cliff's Notes. A moment please, let me get my boots on before we wade through the Bogs of Oprah.
(07/31/02 4:00am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>What1s a music community without a venue? Up until the last several months, Durham residents have pondered that very question. However, with the addition of two new clubs Radio Free [was] a connoisseur of the art; a sort of center point for everybody to come around and learn what1s going on.2
Bully1s Basement
Where: 1102 Broad St., just before the Green Room coming from Duke.
What: An old frat-boy dive, divested of its pool tables, but left with just the right touch of dankness. The upstairs lounge, decorated in eccentricities from local Untidy Museum, is posh and chill
(06/20/02 4:00am)
I once found some website where this dude had developed a theory that Tom Cruise was a robot--it was pretty well-documented, too.
(05/30/02 4:00am)
And so the Rolling Stones, once the stirring loins of rock and roll, now a hairy melanoma on its haggard face, announce yet another world tour. It's hard to tell which is the louder response--the collective groan from rock critics and hipsters, or the swishing of the kadjillions of dollars shucked over by Boomers who can easily afford the $10-a-song premium to hear "Satisfaction" churned out once more. There's always weak hope that one of these days Mick will cough up some dignity and let the beast die--this is, after all, a band that rocked hard for eight years and then sucked hard for 30.
(05/30/02 4:00am)
After ten years in the biz and four full-length albums (including one mixed by Ozzy Osbourne), So-Cal punk band Strung Out will thrash its way into the Cat's Cradle on June 2. Jordan, the group's drummer, got the enviable opportunity to chat with Recess editor Greg Veis about the new album, Ozzy's daughter and the f---king Warped Tour. Taste the magic:
(05/30/02 4:00am)
Do they make movies like this anymore? By this, I mean a tempered, seamless thriller that cares more about its characters than its contrived plot or abominable violence. By anymore, I mean since Hitchcock.
(05/23/02 4:00am)
Isaac Brock has issues. Big, throbbing drug-addled demons--that much is clear from the tortured music of his indie-legend band Modest Mouse. All the toxic backwoods destitution of his hometown Issaquah, Washington, along with a few Pixies albums and fistfuls of narcotics, have permeated his brain.
(04/11/02 4:00am)
"[M]idair explosions and crumbled buildings. This is the new tragic narrative."
(04/04/02 5:00am)
Taking a name like ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, a band limits itself to exactly two options: merciless parody, or merciless ass-kicking. It may seem anachronistic for four white guys to bust out, sans irony, with the express intent of rocking us into the next world--but three albums into the their career, no one doubts that they mean it.
(04/04/02 5:00am)
For the end of the semester, the plan was to write the Big One: a sweeping indictment of the Duke institution, a grand-slam tour-de-force that would expose the unstable and deep faults that run throughout our community. You, reader, would be inspired--and would go on to inspire countless others--to take an active hand in affecting the conditions of your own education. It would be righteous.
(03/21/02 5:00am)
Danny uses his swastika like a blunt weapon. Walking through the city streets, he flashes a t-shirt bearing the symbol's crooked fingers at a couple of passing black men--his eyes grin with sadistic glee when they recoil in outrage. Danny beats up a young Yeshiva student and vandalizes a synagogue with a group of skinhead punks. But at home he sheds his clothes, like a bizarre Superman, to reveal a talis--a Jewish prayer garment--and Danny begins to study Torah.
(03/08/02 5:00am)
Perhaps at first glance it appeared presumptuous of Mary Adkins and Adam Bloomfield to give their play, The Perks of Disordered Eating, the lofty subtitle of A Play About Duke. But that's just what Perks, performed March 1 and 2, turned out to be--and not in the melodramatic and didactic sense that the title suggests. These were Duke students talking to other Duke students about eating disorders and also talking to each other about Duke. Like any great art, nuance and challenge was layered around this core simplicity.
(02/28/02 5:00am)
In the last four years, Josh Rouse has quietly but assuredly established himself as one of the finest talents to come out of the late O90s singer-songwriter wave. His first album, 1998's Dressed Up Like Nebraska, is a buried treasure classic of twangy folk-pop; the Vanilla Sky soundtrack featured his song "Directions," a perfect burst of restless emotion that leaves an impression stronger than the movie itself.
(02/28/02 5:00am)
Dawson's Creek began filming again on West Campus, much to the irrepressible fawning of hundreds of shameless fame sluts. Recess brings you the summary of a proposed story about a day in Joey's life attending "Worthington University" in "Boston."
