U U A AV w U V 9 The Michigan C 2B - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, April 7, 2005 Featured Article 8-9B UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH ... 3B: 4B 5B 6B 10 11 Random Student Interview Michelle discusses the Berenstein bear books and prins in fairy tales. Motor Cit Music Conference More than 500 musical acts will iit Detroit in two weeks. Totall Awesome House One LS senior shares his appre- ciation for music, The List A ide LO the vents in Ann A rbor this wv kn, 12B 13B 14B 15B 16B Heather Bodell So homore singer-songwriter Heather Bo efl shares her many talents. Ann Arbor's Ark A look inside the music venue that has featured scores of famous performers. Just Push Play, Recording studios ring musl ciao wk to life. Weekend Entertainment Alexandra Jon es on how her na a siOn for mu 'ic 'ould be fVdinA Adam Burns: Fast Food Adam explains the nrocess of order. ing food t the Michigan Union. WEEKEND BOX OFFICE Gross in millions of dollars 1. Sin City (28.1) - With all the nudity, violence and misogyny, it sounds like the perfect date movie. 2. Beauty Shop (13.5) - You can finally link Queen Latifah to Kevin Bacon. 3. Guess Who (13) - Spencer Tracy must be spinning in his grave. 4. Robots (10) - Ewan McGregor voices a robot. Based on his performance in "Star Wars," that's not a stretch. 5. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (8.3) - You just knew this movie was doomed when only the film's star and Mr. William Shatner returned for the sequel. 6. The Pacifier (5.8) - Did you know this director also did "Bringing Down The House." Isn't he a great guy? 7. The Ring Two (5.8) - Maybe in the third one, a laserdisc will start killing people. 8. The Upside of Anger (4) - We have an idea. Why doesn't Kevin Costner join the minor leagues at this point? 9. Hitch (3) - Have you heard that new Will Smith song that's on the soundtrack? No joke is needed for that one. 10. Ice Princess (2.3) - More painful to watch than the rise and fall of Tara Lipinski. auto-neurotic Iwith Alexandra Jones WHY DON'T ICARE I've noticed a small change in an aficionado than a fan, a habitual - that is, until I discovered Bob my personality over the past secret.adirer in a community of Dylan at the ageof14 and pretty year. It wouldn't seem like near-professional amateurs. much the same thing happened. a big deal, really - not to most But at least a year ago I was open Eventually, of course, I branched people, anyway. What's happenedto new ideas..Instead of chuck- out and started liking other stuff, is that Ive sort of stopped caring igranz Ferdinand's seftied too. '(The VIvW t Underground about music.. before completin a fIllisten the provided at cirent to more con Le.t me clafy I still listenof.way ldid with the BlocPty L, I porary music.) But here s the course, though not as intensely.or trotted around campus for a week catch: It's hard for young contem. as obsessively frequently as I once with its souiess punk-disco' as porary bands - hell, 'most bands did, and I would certainly still rank my soundtrack - only to decide ever - to live up to legends. As music as one of the most vital and that, ultimately, things just weren't much as I love A.C.iNewman, The most important aspects of my daily going to work out between us. In Decemberists or Songs: Ohia (and life. See, my deterioration isn't as October, a friend who worked at a believe me, i do), they' I never be drastic as it might sound: A while college radio station in Pennsylva- able to achieve the status in my back - months,.even years ago nia let me burn a stack of recently mind of the artists that started my - I was always searchingfor The lauded promos, but to this day, I rabid interest in pop music in the Next Big Thing. My quest wasn't haven't listened to any of them..first place. to find the latest reimagining of Sorry, Devendra and PJ: For some But here's the reason I'm con- a superior bygone era or to snag reason, I just can't be bothered. cerned about my recent disinter- ,all the import discs from the most It's not that I'm picky, either. In est not just in The Next Big Thing, bleeding edge U.K. group;.I just the past, I've spent dozens of dol but in my own Next Big Thing: If wanted another band to love. I'd lars on albums of classical, noise, P'm not looking, or at least caring, scan Pitchfork for favorable com- alt-country, hip hop, roots music, I might miss out on an album or a parisons, side projects of favorite indie pop, I've devoured albums band that I could really, really love. artists, mentions of tours and cot- from.Love's Forever Changes to A brand-new, breakthrough album laborations and boxed sets, but I Deerhoof's Milk Man to Clara might not be the next Bringing It didn't just want to be up to date Rockmore's Art of the Theremin. All Back Home or Revolver, and on music news to compete with So what, then, is my problem - and nobody will ever be the next Bob my friends and associates. I was why does it concern me at all? Dylan or John Lennon, but Eve looking for another album to be The trouble lies, in fact, within come to miss the feeling I used obsessed with, another tour stop to my own record collection. Ever to get when I listened to The New anticipate for months, another T- since the fateful purchase of The Pornographers' Electric Version or shirt I could proudly, happily wear Beatles' Anthology I in sixth "New Slang" by The Shins - that on the day after. grade, I've been a complete and comfortable, hopeful feeling that I was a sort of addict about music, utter fan. My walls were practi- music can make everything seem discovering new bands and listen- cally papered with posters and right and new. ing to their albums every morning pictures I printed off the Internet; for weeks - only to drop them I owned at least a dozen Beatles Alexandra really hopes that the after about a month for something shirts; I became a vegetarian next big thing isn't a band like Bow- new that still gave me the calm, partly because I found out that ing For Soup. If you disagree, let joyous feeling that only a record I Paul and Linda were. I listened to her know. She can be reached as loved could give me. I was more of nothing but Beatles for two years alnajo@wnich.edu. 3 3 Bob Hunt: Riot Gear Bob relives histrip to East Lan- sing last'weekand. ARP of the Covenant A cutting edge band with a spe- cial devotion to one instrument, (;, Ibe kbigan 3aftlg Wahien MAGAZINE Daily Arts Mix Tape A DATE/TIME NOISE REDUCTION U DATE/TIME NOISE REDUCTION Now you have no excuse. The "Wod Shuffle,, $99, C' s I 'i C 9x"1r'nqs Cj3. a~i3C2 enum an; fvrte SOng in v' d Sf"e(ent orde y i , 5s ma r f , p4c of umfema)rKabty styP Clis and mpttie}ey i yt S..t c'fsie >m us f n,0C vydI% t' ' t Q te-' t msk colk SO'n, Now on display at the Michigan Union U-M Computer Showcase and at U-Go's in Pierpont Commons. www.apple.com/education/store Attention Grads: Hurry! Last chance to take Off, advantage of your student discount. Writers: Lloyd Cargo, Abby Frackman, Chris Gaerig, Megan Jacobs, Aaron Kaczander Photographers: Trevor Campbell, Tony Ding, Amy Drumm, Alex Dziadosz, Glenn Getty, Julia Tapper Photo Editor: Ali Olsen Cover Art: David Tuman Arts Editors: Adam Rottenberg, Managing Editor Associate Editors: Alexandra Jones, Melissa Runstrom Managing Editor: Alison Go Editor in Chief: Jason Z. Pesick The soundtrack of our lives? Maybe. This weeks mixtape combines emotions of an entire school year into 20 songs - There is the Welcome Week insanity of "Twist and Shout" to late fall's cocky and self-assured entry from The Smiths, "This Charming Man." If you can't describe sitting for your first blue book exam, ditching someone who was nice to you during the opening weeks of school or that first true moment of collegiate exhilaration ... well, make a mixtape that reinvents yourself as much as you did. - Evan McGarvey 1. rm So Bored with the 1. This Will Be Our Year -The U.S.A. - The Clash Zombies 2. Little Child Runnin' Wild 2. Guess Who's Back (Featuring - Curtis Mayfield Jay-Z and Beanie Si S) - scar- 3. Twist and Shout - The Beatles 3. Town With No Cheer - Tom 4. This Charming Man - The Waits Smiths 4. Alt The Pretty Girls Go to the 5. This Sick Bed of Cuchuiionn City - Spoon - The Pogues 5.ow Hgh (emix) - Method 6. Let Me Lie to You -The Man& n Afghan's whygs 6. Why Are People So Grudgeful? 7. Your Phone's Off the Hook -The Fall But You're Not - X 7. tre Been Rkflng with. theGhost 8. Everyone Who Pretended to - Songs: Ohia Like Me is Gone - The Walk- men 8.igfled and Old.--TheMod - ern Lovers 9., Trovelling At The Speed of Tho t (Remix) - iltramag-: 9. Will .e There - VanMaor- netic MCs rison 10.911 is a Joke - Public 10. Academy Fight Song - Mis- Enemy sion of Burma Withers WE WAN! YOu CAN BE ONE SO INSTEAD OF ! FINALS, SEND TWO TO WEEKENDa YOU MIGHT FAIL, HAVE.SOMETHIN