ACROSS
1 Dash gauge
5 Pawn at a shop
9 Vague shapes
14 Height: Pref.
15 Saintly glow
16 Sportscast
rundown
17 *Pest-control
device
19 Hersey’s bell
town
20 Like paradise
21 Go round and
round
23 “Tao Te Ching”
poet __-tzu
24 “Yummy!”
25 *Off-the-wall
game?
27 Grant-granting gp.
29 Soul automaker
30 *Simple garment
36 Aerobic exercise
aid
40 Woodlands man-
goat
41 Campus URL
suffix
42 Serious
43 Old Russian ruler
44 *One given to
flights of fancy
46 Short-lived
Egypt-Syr.
alliance
48 Drunkard
49 *Hidden
explosives
activator
54 Overthrow
59 Farm female
60 “__ o’ your
throats”:
“Measure for
Measure”
61 Phobic
62 “Alas and __!”
64 Figuratively,
where some wild
ideas come out
of; literally, a hint
to a word and its
position when
paired with the
starts of the
answers to
starred clues
66 In need of a chill
pill
67 Mystery writer
Gardner
68 Colombian city
69 Beer holder
70 Ear piece?
71 __-slapper

DOWN
1 Got under control
2 Words after
“crack” or “live
by”
3 Pitiless
4 Mubarak of
Egypt
5 Came out of
one’s shell?
6 “Days of __
Lives”
7 Attend uninvited
8 Letter after iota
9 Chastain of
women’s soccer
10 Guided
11 City NW of
Orlando
12 Unoriginal
13 Thread
dispenser
18 Ex-Disney CEO
Michael
22 Printer cartridge
contents
26 Iraqi port
28 Neighborhood
30 FDR’s last vice
president
31 Western defense
gp.
32 Actress Hagen
33 IHOP condiment
34 Ice cream maker
Joseph

35 Brewski
37 Bagpiper’s
topper
38 December 24 or
31
39 Each
42 Exit the bus
44 Tap concern
45 Went round and
round
47 Greet the day
49 “__ Life”: Sinatra
hit
50 Rented again

51 Silly
52 Romeo and
Juliet, e.g.
53 Apply, as
pressure
55 Puncture with a
pin
56 Song of praise
57 City in northern
France
58 Comic Izzard
63 TV forensic
drama
65 __ shot

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Arts
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com

DreamWorks’s 
newest picture 
sends writer into 
existential crisis

By JACOB RICH

 Daily Film Editor

DreamWorks’s “Home” is an 

animated children’s movie about 
aliens that invade Earth.

“Home” is a 

movie where you 
laugh 
because 

a 
machine 

that 
an 
alien 

thought 
would 

work 
doesn’t, 

and 
it 
makes 

him look very 
silly. You also 
laugh because the alien acciden-
tally drinks urine and that is also 
funny. You also laugh when the 
alien dances to music, because his 
movements are silly and do not 
resemble the way humans dance.

“Home” is also about a girl try-

ing to find her absent mother – 
because that is a relatable subject 
matter for many people and there 
aren’t very many movies about 
that. You relate to the girl because 
she understands what humans 
are like and the alien does not.

The aliens in “Home” are cute 

and cuddly, because people like to 

buy toys and plush dolls that look 
cute and cuddly like the other 
popular characters from popular 
animated movies.

The two people who recorded 

their voices for the main char-
acters in the movie are Jim Par-
sons (“The Big Bang Theory”) 
and Rihanna (“Wreck-It Ralph”), 
because they are big stars and 
people know them and would be 
more inclined to watch a movie 
that has them in it, regardless of 
whether their talents translate to 
an ounce of onscreen chemistry or 
any sort of skill that would apply 
to voicing an animated movie.

“Home” has animation that 

looks like the animation found in 
other popular animated movies. 
That’s good; it will provide good 
experience for the animators of 
“Home” to put on their resumes 
to get hired at places that make 
other popular animated movies.

I walked out of “Home” about 

an hour in, so I couldn’t tell you 
how the story ends. I was not 
the first person to get up and 
leave this particular showing at 
the Ann Arbor Quality 16, nor 
do I surmise I was the last.

“Home” is one of those 

movies that really makes you 
think about your life: your 
place 
here 
on 
this 
earth, 

your consciousness and the 
preciousness of every second. 
Someday, we will all die and 
regardless of your personal 

beliefs about the nature of 
death and the potential of new 
life afterward, your time living 
as you do now is limited.

Do not forget that you are a mir-

acle of nature. Do not ever spend 
less time with the people you love 
than you mean to.

Do not spend a single moment 

of your tragically short waking life 
watching “Home.” Do not spend 
another moment reading about 
“Home.” Do your absolute best to 
never, ever, think about “Home” 
again.

Instead, hug your mother and 

father. Look at a flower and really, 
truly 
attempt 
to 
comprehend 

its complexities, its beauty. Dive 
headfirst into a wonderful book and 
don’t lift your head up for hours. 
Donate some money to a charity. 
Eat, drink, have sex and laugh at 
the sheer absurdity of everything.

At the very least, watch an 

animated film that is worth your 
time, like “The Lego Movie,” “Big 
Hero 6” or “How to Train Your 
Dragon 2.”

I hope you live a long, wonder-

ful life.

F

Home

Rave & Quality 16

DreamWorks 

Motion Pictures

DREAMWORKS MOTION PICTURES

Plush version coming soon.

We’re all 
dancin’ fools

By CARLY SNIDER

Daily Arts Writer

Chatter and bodies surround 

you. 
You 
clutch 
your 
cup, 

slouched 
between 
friends 

gabbing on about something 
unimportant to you. In another 
room, someone turns on the 
music. As you are just able to 
make out the rolling bass beats, 
the tune is unidentifiable. The 
volume increases – this is your 
song. The mood of the room 
shifts; inhibitions are lowered 
and glasses are raised. You feel 
your toes begin to tap, soon 
followed by a slight sway of the 
hips and shrugging of shoulders. 
The feeling builds. You are no 
longer disengaged, slouching; 
you are dancing.

But what is it that makes us 

move? Are we even capable of 
pinpointing the universal factor 
that causes us to shimmy?

Let’s start with the basics – 

there has to be a beat. Not just 
any beat, but a pulsating rhythm 
that makes it impossible to stop 
your already drumming fingers. 
The tempo is essential, but 
variable: meaty, slow, ticking, 
quick. You have to feel it. As 
always, Whitney Houston did 
it best with “I Wanna Dance 
With Somebody.” The beat is the 
life force of a song; it drives the 
melody and drives your body.

Next, weave in that melody. If 

the beat is the bones, the tune is 
the flesh that draws you in. The 
instrumentation should dance 
just as you do – rising and falling 
playfully. If you haven’t already, 
stop what you are doing and go 
listen to the pinnacle of melodic 
perfection, “Can’t Stop Dancin’ ” 
by Becky G. It should be fun and 
catchy, but not necessarily from 

one certain instrument. You can 
rock out to electric guitar, jump 
around to electronic beats or get 
down to some funky synth.

But most importantly, this 

melody must build. Its peak is a 
chorus that is impossible to get 
out of your head – something 
you catch yourself humming for 
days. (I’m pretty sure I had “Call 
Me Maybe” stuck in my head 
for all of 2012.) We have all had 
those moments of stumbling our 
way through the verses of songs, 
waiting for the chorus to really 
bust out. This is one of the only 
times that clichés are used for 
good and not evil. Lyrics of living 
while you’re young and drunken 
escapades with friends enhance 
the effect of the chorus – the 
more ridiculous, the better. If 
you can bring yourself to listen, 
Pitbull is a perfect example of 
this kind of nonsensical lyric 
(but proceed with caution).

Ideally, the ultimate dance 

number will have an element of 
surprise: an unexpected drop, a 
standout lyric, a voice-over break 
a la “Oops!...I Did It Again,” etc. 
That “oh shit” moment is what 
takes a song and your dance 
moves, to the next level.

Aside from the music itself, it 

is important to remember that 
there is no right or wrong way 
to dance. Each person has his 
or her own boogie – whether it 
be a casual sway, a flirty wiggle 
or what seems to be a random 
flailing of limbs. Dancing is a 
personal way to convey your 
individual connection to music. 
There may be some ambiguous 
dance-factor to music, but that 
does not change the fact that 
you can shake it whenever and 
whichever way you want. Do 
your thing, you dancing fool.

Death Cab returns 
with dreamy new LP

By REGAN DETWILER

For The Daily

Death Cab for Cutie’s latest 

release 
and 
eighth 
studio 

album, Kintsugi, is quite simply 
a solid album. 
The 
band 

returns to a 
sound 
more 

similar 
to 

that of Plans 
and 
that 
of 

their previous 
experimental 
albums, 
keeping things exciting but 
thoroughly 
sticking 
to 
the 

musical style that has worked 
for them since the early 2000s.

Whereas the band used lots 

of ’80s alternative keyboard 
for their last album, Codes 
and 
Keys, 
Kintsugi 
shies 

away from this, allowing lead 
guitarist Chris Walla’s smooth 
and dreamy playing style to 
return to the spotlight. This 
may be because Walla, an 
original 
member 
recruited 

by lead singer Ben Gibbard, 
decided that this will be his 
last 
recording 
with 
Death 

Cab. 
Though 
Walla 
played 

the keyboard for Codes and 
Keys, he’s traditionally done 
guitar for the band, so a return 
to an indie-rock sound over 
alternative may be a tribute 
to this integral member’s last 
outing with the group.

The album opens with four 

singles that have been released 
throughout the year, including 
“No Room In Frame” and 
“Ghosts 
of 
Beverly 
Drive,” 

both of which have a firmly 
staccato beat but manage to 
still feel mellow in Death Cab’s 
characteristic way.

Another of these first four 

is “Black Sun,” which is a 
little bit of an outlier. This 
one seems like it tries to go for 
a certain mysteriously sexy 
sound that honestly reminds 
me of something out of a James 
Bond movie (not that we all 
don’t love 007), as Gibbard 

sings of a tempting and toxic 
love. Needless to say, this 
one diverges from the band’s 
usually 
lyrically 
emotive 

sound.

However, the last of the first 

four singles released, sounds 
very thoroughly Death Cab. 
“Little Wanderer” is much 
more 
melancholy 
in 
tone 

and 
reflective 
in 
meaning, 

where the singer’s lost love is 
somewhere 
abroad, 
leaving 

him asking, “Won’t you wander 
back to me?”

That sounds sappy, but this 

is Death Cab and that’s why 
we love their music. Keeping 
in the same tone are “You’ve 
Haunted Me All Your Life” 
and “Hold No Guns,” both very 
mellow and relaxing. These 
two are especially reminiscent 
of Plans, with heavy emphasis 
on Gibbard’s vocals, the over-
elongated vowels and over-

emphasized consonants which, 
when 
paired 
with 
echoing 

guitar and a subtle snare drum 
beat, somehow sound prophetic 
and allowing the music to 
speak to the most sappy and 
emotional 
realms 
of 
your 

music-listening faculties.

The album picks up with the 

next two tracks, but concludes 
with “Binary Sea,” which is as 
dreamy and mellow as a Death 
Cab fan could ask for. Without 
such a heavy emphasis on 
guitar, this last track features 
echoing 
vocals, 
piano 
and 

soft techno elements. If the 
last song on the album had a 
color, it would be a soft, light 
blue-green. Serene, peaceful 
and reflective, it’s a great 
conclusion for Walla.

All 
things 
considered, 

this 
album 
isn’t 
anything 

that 
diverges 
dramatically 

from 
the 
band’s 
previously 

explored styles. It successfully 
incorporates 
some 
of 
the 

darker 
themes 
explored 
in 

Narrow Stairs, as well as some 
more 80s alternative keyboard 
sounds explored in Codes and 
Keys, while somehow coming 
off as closer to the sound that 
originally brought them to the 
spotlight with Transatlanticism. 
There’s nothing too crazy going 
on here; just some good music to 
see out a longtime band member.

B

Kintsugi

Death Cab 

for Cutie

Atlantic

MUSIC NOTEBOOK

ALBUM REVIEW

Unworthy ‘Home’

I walked out of 

‘Home.’

ATLANTIC

Take that, Zooey Deschanel.

This is Death 
Cab and that’s 
why we like 
their music.

FILM REVIEW

