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The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com

ARTS RECOMMENDS
In this feature, Daily Arts writers will give their endorsements
for the arts you need to experience to help you deal with current events.

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"The Taking" - Dean Koontz
The end of March typically means one thing:
Professors have begun to inundate their students
with the last big projects of the semester. To take
your mind off your increasingly frantic workload,
dive into Koontz's "The Taking" - a page-turner
that somehow manages to combine talking dogs, a
zombie-inducing fungus and unseen space invad-
ers into a surprisingly frightening novel.
"Close Your Eyes and Count to
Ten" - Grouplove
Grouplove may sing of metamorphosis, but this
beachy sing-along isn't the sticky liquefaction of a
melting Creamsicle. "Close Your Eyes and Count to
Ten" ignites from a sweet and raw sand-between-
your-toes, melody into a howling celebration.
Christian Zucconi's croons will have you charmed
before you can even wonder, "Is it summer yet?"
"Don't Trust the B- in
Apartment 23"
James Van Der Beek is returningto television in
"Don't Trust the B- in Apartment 23." The show
won't start until mid-April, but ABC has made the
pilot available forfree on Huluin order to getview-
ers excited. A far cry from some of the more prob-
lematic new sitcoms this year, "Don't Trust the
B-" is a hilarious, sassy success.
"Man on Wire"
Ah, the end of the semester. Summer plans are
made. All-nighters are pulled. Relationships end
... and begin. At times, it can all feel like a tricky
tightrope act we're supposed to maneuver. So take
a note from Philippe Petit, the French high-wire
artist whose 1974 traversal between the World
Trade Center's Twin Towers is captured in mes-
merizingsuspense in the 2008 documentary"Man
on Wire."

((B-BSde Buzz))
Sanda Mong
Engineering sophomore
How did you get involved in parkour?
I started training with the club about two-and-a-half years ago. I
was still in high school at Pioneer.
What makes Ann Arbor a great place for parkour?
Ann Arbor is nice because it's kind of suburban and it's not densely
populated.
Where is the best parkour spot in town?
By far, the dental school is the best spot for parkour in Ann Arbor, I
think.
Excerpts are taken from the B-Side Buzz video,
which can be found on MichiganDaily.com.
Interview by Jefff Waroniok
TRAILER REVIEW

SINGLE REVIEW

The talk of the town is that
Justin Bieber is channeling the
R&B style of Justin Timberlake
in his new
song. Appar-
ently, "chan-
neling" is a B i
euphemism
for "copying" Justin Bieber
Bieber's sing- Island
ing is barely
present on the
track: He only graces the chorus,
and the production sounds like
it's attempting to hide his true
identity - perhaps a wise move.
The lyrics to the verses are
original, in the sense that few
artists are willing to introduce
this much poetic stupidity into
their music. When "chillin' by
the fire while we eatin' fondue,"
we can only ask ourselves why
the word "swag" is repeated
not once, but three times with
no context. Bieber creatively
employs rhetorical devices like

Oh man, here it comes:
"Breaking Dawn - Part 2."
Based on the teaser trailer, Sum-
mit is trying
hard to make
you think this
series. finale The Twlight
is going to be
epic. There's saga
the slowly Breaking
pounding
music - like a Dawn
heartbeat, but Part 2
more tribal -
and flashes of Summit
action intend-
ed to induce a state of frenzied
RA excitement in any Twi-hard.
ISLAND But for the rest of us, the
trailer falls flat - trips, actually
appear - in its delivery of "tension."
Why are two shots devoted to
gly, the Bella's hideous ring, and only
1 hun- one pan to a disappointingly
pies in clothed Jacob? Kristin Stewart's
opening voiceover is laughably
awful: "After 18 years of being

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the onomatopoeia "burr" in
reference to the temperature of
snow, matched by a metaphori-
cal reference to Buzz Lightyear,
possibly inspired by a play date
Bieber's mom had scheduled
weeks before with Cody Simp-

son - who will, in fact,,
on the upcoming album.
Sadly, but unsurpisini
song is predicted to sel
dreds of thousands of co
its first week. Shudder.
-GREGORYHICKS


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