2B - Thursday, November 1, 2012 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. "The Sorrows of Young The Werther" Sorrows f Yo n Ah, true love. It's cause to rejoice. Unless, of course, your name happens to be Werther, in erther which case romance is more likely to leave you paralyzed with obsessive paranoia. Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther," first published in 1774, is still the most moving reminder out there of the NORILANA dangers of this crazy thing we call love. ls is -Yeah Yeah Yeahs The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' third EP Is Is is one of the lesser talked about albums released by the indie-punk, Karen 0-led group. Sexually charged and full of turbulent riffs, Karen 0 puts on a haunting show of vocals and noise. Plus, the third track "Kiss Kiss" was featured in the Halloween masquerade episode of "Gossip Girl" 's first sea- IS S son. NTERSCOPE "Alien" Forget about this summer's disappointing "Pro- metheus." Let's go back to a time when Ridley Scott films were of a much higher caliber. Released in 1979, "Alien" was a crossover hit, superbly combin- x. ing elements of sci-fi and horror to make a truly chilling, staggering film that's both an adventure and breathtaking work of cinematic art. It's not your typical scary movie, but "Alien" is a perfect 20TH CENTURY FOX way to continue the Halloween spirit this weekend. "Mirror's Edge" Let's face it: Not all of us are made for park- our. But 2008's first-person platformer, "Mirror's Edge," lets you see through the eyes of free-run- ningbadass Faith as she jumps, climbs, slides and crawls through a futuristic and dystopian city. Realistic and fresh, the acrobatic gameplay and split-second decision making necessary to sur- vive makes this game a standout adrenaline rush. ELECTRONICARS JUDGING A BOOK BY IT COVER 4 Daily Arts writers go against the famous idiom, choose a random book and make assumptions about its contents Not to be outdone by O.J. Simpson's "fake" account of murder, "If I Did It," Bill O'Reilly outlines how he would've "mowed down that liberal pussy J.F.Gay" in his latest book, "Kill- ing Kennedy." The book starts out with O'Reilly's claim that he bedded Marilyn Monroe before Presi- dent Kennedy even got to second base: "Marilyn was a hell of a lady. Real thick waist, a face that got me hotter than Ann Coul- ter's dominatrix underpants and she really knew her place. A true pioneer in anti-women's rights." As the book continues, O'Reilly's senility gets the best of him. His words become unfo- cused, and at one point he for- gets how to use punctuation: "french people are all pussies the world was a better place when 'Welcome Back Kotter' was on Jon Stewart is a terrible racquetball player." After calling out Wolf Blitzer for cheating in their weekly mahjong game, O'Reilly returns to that whole "killing Kennedy" thing in the style of esteemed Western author Eli Cash: "So everyone knows that Lee Har- vey Oswald killed JFK. What this book presupposes is ... maybe he didn't. Maybe a hand- some young neocon, working in conjunction with some true American heroes, stopped JFK from committing the ultimate evil: voter fraud." In an unsettlingly candid account of hypothetical murder, O'Reilly describes howthe afore- mentioned "American heroes" based on the cover art. taught him well: "Cheney is the guy that taught me how to shoot. Real cold-blooded jabroni. Not only did he shoot his dumbass hunting partner in the face, he got him to apologize on national television." In the final chapter, O'Reilly stops asking questions like "how do I check my voicemail?" and "what the heck is a dang VCR!?" and finally gets to the good stuff. His assassination attempt is a little different than one shot to the bead: "First, I would have Condy seduce all of the Secret Service. Then, once the entire parade is watching Condy and her boys get down, I would walk up slowly to the car, and put JFK in a headlock until he suffocat- ed. You're welcome America." -ANDREWECKHOUS 4 EPISODE REVIEW "The'Mindy Project" essen- tially promises a romantic com- edy every week. This premise hasn't really The Mindy been done before, and Projet even though "Halloween" the series is still trying to FOX find' its voice, "Mindy" so far feels fresh. "Halloween," unfortunately, doesn't deal a whole lot with the holiday. Mindy frantically tries to find a costume that will blow people's minds - specifi- cally, the latest guy she's seeing, sports lawyer Josh, who's smug and jerky in a way that is almost Jeff Winger levels of charming (but not quite). Her hunt yields a fewhumorous moments - Dirty Harry Potter and Tinkerbell Tailor Soldier Spy are true gems. When done well, Halloween episodes allow sitcoms to high- F For fans of any franchise, it's always painful to see the series overstayitswelcome. Fewknow this pain more than any fans of the "Die Hard" A Good Day saga. As much fun as it once to Die Hard was to watch 20th Century Fox Bruce Willis fuck shit up, 2007's "Live Free or Die Hard" was but a shade of the pulpy thriller's past glory. Confusingly set to the Ger- man, Beethoven-composed "Ode to Joy," "A Good Day to Die Hard" takes place in Rus- sia. The story is simple, as "Die Hard" details tend to be: John McClane (Willis) travels to Moscow to help his son Jack (Jai. Courtney), and coincidentally, gets tied up in a terrorist plot. The most important thing about this trailer is that things explode, and they explode in a I light their strengths. "How I Met Your Mother" 's "Slhtty Pump- kin," "Parks and Recreation" 's "Greg Pikitis," "Friends" 's "The One With the Halloween Party" - all are hallmarks of their respective comedies. / "Mindy" doesn't have as much fun with the holiday as it could. It's a well structured episode, with Kaling hitting enough jokes to make it work. But it's certainly not something to remember or revisit when All Hallows' Eve comes again. -KAYLA UPADHYAYA glorious fashion. Willis took a breather from the action scene to play the humorously pathetic island sheriff in Wee Ander- son's "Moonrise Kingdom" this year, but he's back with a gun in hand and all is right. "A Good Day to Die Hard" looks like it could be a thrilling summer blockbuster, despite its February release date. Whether it will be enough to prove this series deserves to keep on breathing is a whole other question. -KAYLA UPADHYAYA 4 I TRAILER REVIEW SINGLE REVIEW Tarantino's fascination with setting continues in "Django Unchained." His previous, almost wildly imagina- tive works have always ngo belonged to whatever real Unchained or fictional Columbia world he put them in, from Hitler'sGermanytothe astound- ing scenarios of "Kill Bill." This time, he's serving us a kind of Western we've never been served before - a Taranti- no WesternAnd it looks as if it's got every dish Tarantino serves best. We have the wronged-but- never-vulnerable protagonist seeking revenge from wrongdo- ers, played by Jamie Foxx. Djan- go is a slave freed by a bounty hunter (Christopher Waltz) who's on a mission to free his wife from a viciously conniv- ing plantation owner (Leonardo Turn to A$AP Rocky's single to find the answer to a vital question: "Exactly how many bitches does 2 Chainz have?" "F**ckin' Problems," the second F**ckin' single from Problems A$AP Rocky's LongLiveA$AP, A$AP Rocky is coated in ICA lavish swagger and unneces- sary levels of misogyny by verses from Rocky, Drake and Kendrick Lamar, as well as an amusingly ignorant 2 Chainz hook - one that will likely kill the song's radio potential with explicit content. In addition to its glaring musi- cal shortcomings - including a beat that sounds like a half-hearted retread of the harder tracks from Drake's Take Care - this Noah "40" Shebib-produced track suf- fers severely because its only com- pelling features are its features. Rocky took the "strength in U COLUMBA DiCaprio). Foxx's character has comes out on Christmas. But a reason to kill - we see a lot of times are a-changin', and "It's him doing it in the trailer, and a Wonderful Life" has spent far we'll undoubtedly see a lot more. too long at the forefront of go-to Which is why Tarantino has holiday season movies. It's time a wicked sense of humor the Tarantino conquered that illu- bloody and unforgiving gore- sive territory, all in good style. fest that's bound to be "Django" -ADITIMISHRA