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Each of the album's seven suites features repeated elements - like the airy, bittersweet chords on 'Touch & Agree' or the water droplets sprinkled throughout 'Murkings on the Oxblood Stair- way' - that give each section its own unique character while flowing logically and organically into the next. A sense of brood- ing, throbbing darkness builds across the whole album as Butler combines hazy Old Testament imagery with futuristic axioms, making the whole project seem like the soundtrack to a space-age Sodom and Gomorrah. Perhaps the most innovative aspect of Lese Majesty, however, is its systematic subversion of the egocentrism of modern Hip Hop. In a recent interview with NPR, Butler described the album as a "sonic attack on the 'me-mania' that's sweeping over our culture of late," and in that vein he con- sistently avoids references to himself. The only time he says "Ishmael" is in a literary allusion to "Moby Dick," and, like that enigmatic narrator, Butler occa- sionally fades from the picture entirely. He deliberately makes his lyrics unintelligible by use of heavy reverb and delay while let- ting the occasional phrase slip through for the listener to inter- pret for him or herself. Like Melville's white whale, then, Lese Majesty is an open text that reflects the mania of its read- er. It's an opportunity to ponder the infinite, to look into the abyss and see what's staring back. And, like Melville's novel, Lese Maj- esty is a masterpiece ahead of its time. Just as he did as a member of Digable Planets, Butler and his collaborators have boldly entered uncharted waters in Hip Hop, both on a sonic and philosophical level, and there's no one I'd rather have at the helm. Learning to say 'bye' y standard answer for telling people how this summer went has become, "It's just as important to learn what you don't like as learning what you do like." Don't get me wrong, I've certainly HARLEEN had positive KAUR experiences in D.C. My internship on the Hill has given me more insights into federal work than I could have imagined. I met new and wonderful people, and I learned how to brave the 80 to 90 percent humidity and 90 degree weather while walking 40 minutes to work in business professional attire. All incredibly important in my opinion. However, it still left something to be desired. Last summer, I had an internship and living experience that would be my dream to recreate as my post-graduation plans. I loved every second of it and was incredibly disappointed when the last day finally came, sending me away from New York and back to Ann Arbor. This year, with a countdown going since the day I got here, I worry that I may have blocked my own ability to have a good time with my excitement for senior year and things to come. But as I prepare to leave D.C. and return to Ann Arbor for the fourth, and final, time, I do know that this summer has been an important one. Leaving junior year, I felt burnt out, overwhelmed and uncertain. I knew that I had bitten off way more thanI could chew. So much so that my boss told me that if I didn't return in the fall with a significant decrease in my level of involvement in extracurricular activities, we would have to have a more serious conversation about it. I spent this summer reflecting, making lists, choosing and unchoosing. How does one decide which love is greater than another? With one or two exceptions, I have never quit something before out of choice. Even in high school, I only really "quit" because I graduated. In college, it had happened because of inevitable conflicts or things out of my control. But to willingly leave an extra-curricular? I was baffled. I've never really liked to say that I'm "moving on to bigger and better things." In the back of my mind, it always felt like I was saying that the things I was leaving were just stepping stones, nothing more. For me, all my involvements are more like a journey than a staircase. I may come back to something, I may realize how much I enjoy an activity and find another way to pursue it or I could learn that I don't like something at all. However, regardless of which result it is, each is just as valuable of a learning experience. No matter what it may be, each job, internship, extracurricular or class that I have pursued has made me who I am and has shaped my aspirations in life. Some have made things more clear while others have confused me more than I was before I started. And yet, each is valuable. Each is significant. However, it's still important to know when to let go. Just because something is good for you, doesn't mean that it always will be, or that it will be the best possible option at that time. In part, that's why I've decided that this will be my last article for The Daily. Though I've loved the conversations I've been able to have and the people I've been able to meet because of my time as a columnist, I also recognize that my intentions I had when I joined have been fulfilled. Though journalistic writing may certainly be something I return to later in life, I have realized my need to spend more time on other ventures and pursue those avenues, as well, to see how fruitful they may be. As senior year approaches (quicker than I'd like), I'm hoping that most of my goodbyes will actually be see-you-soons, and though it will be hard to not live down the hall from my closest friends or be able to see familiar faces in the dining hall, in lecture, or on the Diag, I know that the friends I made here will be some for the ages. My four years at Michigan will always be some of my greatest, but I know that they will also lead me to new and great adventures for the restofmylife. Sayinggoodbye is hard, but saying hello to something else can make it alittle easier.In the end, I know I'm not replacing my experiences and relationships that I made in Ann Arbor, but actually adding to them. And so, for today goodbye, for tomorrow good luck and forever go blue! - Harleen Kaur can be reached at harleen@umich.edu. The fall ormally Ifeel compelled I no doubt brought on myself, to write, often jumbling having spent three years putting my prose as I decide off my language requirement how to - a requirement for graduation focus my that I have concluded to be an arguments unjust, personal attack crafted regarding a by the administration solely to topic I find make my life harder. Outside of complex and class, the majority of my time interesting, has been spent writing a pair of The problem longform essays, watching every I normally JAMES episode of "Louie" on Netflix find myself BRENNAN and reading news. I've had the having is too occasional night out drinking or much to say cup of coffee with friends, but or too many topics I feel driven the overwhelming majority of to comment on. This week, I'm my time has been spent either in at a loss. a classroom or alone. While class I'vegoneovermynoteslabeled time is required, the loneliness "Potential Column Ideas", has been a deliberate choice scoured my favorite newspapers caused by apathy and anxiety. and magazines in search of A few weeks ago, it seemed ideas, and listened to a half like the entire world began to dozen TED talks. I can't come implode. Destruction continued up with any ideas that I consider its horrific march of death legitimately creative and dismiss through Iraq while Detroit commenting on current events ordered water shutoffs to for lack of passion. neighborhoods. Gaza exploded The last three years have been into war, with an equally bitter leading to this. battle being fought in the opinion While I've felt the rest of my sections of every major news life coming apart - my mood, my organization. New York Police motivation, my school work - Department officers were caught I've still been able to write. But on video killing Eric Garner and now, it's all come to a head.Ihave another lethal injection was been so emotionally drained and botched. In my solitary existence, numbed that I can't even do one mygaze was glued to the outpour of the few things that give my of horrendous terror refreshing life purpose and enjoyment. itself on my Twitter feed. If I In my search for a topic, I wasn't reading about the world's began reading through The great tragedies, I was usually National Society of Newspaper alone thinkingof them anyway. Columnists's15 greatest columns I've always prided myself of all time. These were all crafted on the fact that I care more by outstanding writers, no deeply about "meaningful stuff" doubt, but the core of greatness (politics, helping poor people, that each of these pieces holds important books, etc.) than comes from experience. It comes frivolous "meaningless stuff" from life; most often, life that the (sports, partying, girls, etc.). It writer has actually lived rather gives me satisfaction that I'm than read about. The last four so deeply invested in issues to months - especially the last two spend hours stressing over and - I have lived very little life. contemplating current events as I attribute most of this loss if they were personal problems. in my humanity to the intensive However, this obsession with language classes I've been the "meaningful" has led me to enrolledin,spending8to10hours abandon everything that makes a day, four days a week, learning me human. and studying a language I have It has been well over a year no interest in. This is a scenario since my last semi-meaningful romantic relationship, one that ended too quickly, with too little explanation and too much scathing pain. The year prior, I had experienced crushing heartbreak from girl I loved and considered my best friend. Two years earlier, I began the worst grief of my life when my father died - grief that is still largely unsettled. As I've spent my college years pushing these emotional burdens aside, trying to use them to fuel my work ethic and commitment to "meaningful" endeavors, I've isolated myself from one of the only ways to cure my pain: other people. While I've made friends over the past year and seen girls here and there, I've closed myself off almost completely at any signs of love - romantic or platonic. I fear getting hurt again so much that I refuse to ever create a situation where hurt is even possible for me. I've abandoned pursuing potential relationships and alienated friends, generating excuses to avoid the dangers of attachment. It all backfired. Instead of a dignified and solitary commitment to "meaningful" things, I've become completely empty, numbing myself with politics and anger. I'm constantly sad, troubled to remember the last day where I felt truly happy. As I've thrown myself into my classes this summer, I've watched the last slivers of my humanity start to disappear, becoming increasingly isolated, unhappy and, now, barely able to write. As Joan Didion once said, "The element of discovery takes place, in nonfiction, not during the writing but duringthe research." The only research, and hence the only discovery, I have done as of late is in loneliness. By my first column in the fall, I hope for that to change. - James Brennan can be reached at jmbthree@umich.edu. and a hint to the starts of120-.24- and 45-Across 57 Autograph signing locale 58 Call, is a way 60 Shiphatsailed to Colchis 61 Humerus neighbor 62 Drawtogether 63 Withdraw by degrees 64 Ingredients in some stews 65 Egyptian pyramid's eight DOWN 1 Balkan native 2 Latin "others" I 24 25 02 27 2 8 29i 31 32 _ 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 45 46 47 4 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 5B 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 By Steve Buis 07/31/14 (c)2014 Tribune Content Agency, LLC NEED A PARTY bus to the Notre Dame football game from downtown Chicago? $120 for transportation, re- freshments, and tailgating. Contact Bus2notredame.com. 312-371-7142. THESIS EDITING. LANGUAGE, organization, format. All Disciplines. 734/996-0566 or writeonlbiserv.net Love watching the Daily Show with Jon Stewart? 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