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
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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