2B - Thursday, January 12, 2012
The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com
2B - Thursday, January12, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom
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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.
"Wainy Days"
David Wain's comedy web series "Wainy Days"
is the perfect cure for these dreadful rainy days.
The series presents a fictionalized version of
Wain's day-to-day life as he tries to meet women
and discusses his problems with his sweatshop
coworkers. Guest stars include Jorma Taccone,
Lizzy Caplan and Ken Marino. All four seasons are
available on My Damn Channel.
MY DAMN CHANNEL
Making Mirrors - Gotye
There are two certainties that come with the
new year - the coming flurries are inevitable and
the work will pick up with a fury ... in a week or
two. So find Making Mirrors by Australian indie
star Gotye and turn it up - the record's lulls and
frenzies will match the upcoming blizzards' tem-
posAto atee.
UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC
DropAdd R
Let's face it. At least one of your classes
sucks. Instead of wallowing in boredom,
choose one of these artsy classes instead!
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"Twelfth Night"
William Shakespeare
Jan. 5marked the official feast of Twelfth Night
- so why not read the Shakespeare masterpiece it
inspired? True love, intrigue and cross-dressing
make for a delightful storytelling combination.
Too busy to read it? See the 1996 film adaptation.
A young Helena Bonham Carter and Ben Kingsley
make it totally worth it.
"Wag the Dog"
It's election year and headlines are filled with
news of who the Republicans will put up against
Barack Obama come fall. In theaters, too, politics
pervade. 2011 gave us "The Ides of March." But
political deception can't top the duo of Robert De
Niro and Dustin Hoffman in "Wag the Dog." What
beats a fabricated war for the sake of covering up
some presidential sexual harassment?
Apocalypse When?
The Arts of the Apocalypse
ENGLISH 313
Whether you're preparing for the
Maya's supposed prediction or the
newest Rapture guess, no survivalist
would be safe without proper knowl-
edge of the "Arts of the Apocalypse."
Taught by the legendary Prof. Ralph
G. Williams (who had a role in 2010's
"Answer This!"), the required reading
features such heartwarming tomes as
"Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's
Last Days," "The Late Great Planet
Earth" and a veritable classic - the
Bible itself!
The Horror Film after Psycho
SAC 336.001
Do you enjoy taking classes that ter-
rify you, but you missed your spot in
"Advanced Honors Calculus ill"? Prof.
Mark Kligerman has the pulse-pound-
ing, bone-chilling, stomach-churning
answer to your pleas: He'll be giv-
ing a few brave souls a peek into the
darker side of film in SAC 336: "The
Horror Film after Psycho." The class
will cover theoretical, cultural and
industrial influences that emerged fol-
lowing the release of the classic 1960
horror flick.
Photography
RCARTS 285
Want to be like Ansel Adams? Don't
miss your chance to take a class in the
one and only dark room on campus.
That's right. The class is open to any
University student interested in the
old medium of film development -
the kind where you watch the print
evolve before your eyes. This back-
to-basics course in traditional black
and white as well as color photog-
raphy is taught by RC Prof. Michael
Hannum. So leave behind Facebook
and iPhones, Adobe Photoshop and
Bridge, and learn.where it all began.
Creative Adaptation
RCHUMS 242
This semester, the Residential Col-
lege is offering a creative writing class
focused on the idea of adaptation.
"Creative Adaptation" is centered not
around the commonly held idea that
you should write what you know, but
rather on the concept that you should
write what you learn. The class,
taught by Prof. Laura Thomas, seeks
to help writers find their voices and
effectively combine their stories with
the messages they wish to impart.
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NEW LINE CINEMA
People are obsessed with
their own demise. So, it's no
surprise that movie theaters
and DVD col-
lections are
full of post-
apocalyptic The Divide
thrillers and
cheesy sci- Anchor Bay
fi dramas.
But, here is
a trailer promising something
other than frightening aliens
and awful illness: reality.
Xavier Gens's ("Hitman")
"The Divide" follows the story
of nine New York tenants living
in a high-rise apartment dur-
ing a nuclear attack. As audi-
ences meet the protagonists,
they learn the characters have
survived by hiding out in the
bunker-like basement of the
building, and are now stranded.
As the trailer reaches a peak
and unleashes shot after shot
of crazed, hungry individuals
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