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of time
10 Lily of France
garment
13 Prepared
potatoes, as for
hash browns
14 Boxcar hopper
15 Campus
courtyard
16 Unnamed news
supplier
19 ID theft target
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21 Injector for
severe allergic
reactions
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golf
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26 Actress Aniston,
in tabloids
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for highway
driving
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nymphet
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as shoes
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McGraw
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only a few
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briefly
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word of 16-, 27-
and 44-Across
literally does
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feature
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glow
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surgery
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pas
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maternity ward
delivery
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business
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Kristofferson
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vehicle
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30 Fake diamond
31 Move like honey
32 Dregs
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Beatles
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Dresden
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46 Sicily’s wine
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slopes
51 Strength
52 Botanical
connecting points
53 Mennen lotion
54 One of the
Gilmore girls
55 Kilted family
57 Land measure
60 Total amount
61 Capote nickname
62 Opposite of fast
fwd.
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ZACH MOORE/Daily
Common exercising his right to bare arms.
Thank God for hip
hop: Common in A2
By ADAM THEISEN
Senior Arts Editor
Less than five minutes into
his concert at Hill Auditorium
last
Friday,
Common
was
already one of the common
people.
During
one
of
the
set’s
earliest songs, “Blak Majik”
from
last
year’s
Nobody’s
Smiling,
the
Oscar-
and
Grammy-winning rapper left
the stage and ran into the
crowd, high-fiving jubilant fans
as he moved through the aisles
and continued to perform.
It was an early highlight
of
an
especially
intimate
performance from Common.
In front of fans that included
Michigan
football
coach
Jim Harbaugh and former
Michigan quarterback Devin
Gardner
(with
the
latter
sporting a “Do The Right
Thing”-inspired Radio Raheem
t-shirt), Common played a
career-spanning set ranging
from songs that were less than
a year old to tracks that he laid
down over two decades ago.
Dressed simply in jeans and
a blue jacket over a dark shirt,
Common looked confident and
relaxed, happy to be there yet
entirely ready to deliver a top-
notch set. Early on, he listed
off all of his albums in order
for the crowd, getting cheers
for each one while mentioning
that he was “still hungry” for
more. Common connected with
the crowd and turned Hill into
an intimate performance space
during energetic favorites like
“Go!” and “Get Em High” as
well as more dramatic work like
“Testify.” In fact, he completely
shattered
the
performer-fan
divide when he brought a fan
from the front row onto the
stage, dancing with her for a bit
before sitting her on a stool and
performing for her.
“I’ve
always
felt
like
Michigan was a second home
to me,” Common said from the
stage, referencing to the Fab
Five and the late great Detroit
producer J Dilla. He backed
up those words later when he
stopped “I Used to Love H.E.R.”
to launch into a freestyle that
name-checked
Ann
Arbor
landmarks like State Street,
South
Quad,
the
Fishbowl,
Skeeps and Rick’s.
“I’m sorta like Jalen / the way
that I Rose,” he improvised.
The
show
was
organized
by MUSIC Matters, with the
proceeds from the concert going to
a summer camp for Detroit youth,
and Common gave the evening an
extra helping of socially conscious
credibility.
Though
fearless
with his power to put on a great
show, Common also took care
to emphasize that he never let
celebrity get to his head, telling
the crowd that no matter how long
he rapped, he would always stand
for the people.
The night felt like a celebra-
tion of hip hop and old-school
soul music as much as it did
a Common concert. For an
extended period of time dur-
ing the show, Common let his
DJs spin golden age hip-hop
tracks, from Biggie to Naughty
by Nature, while the crowd
cheered and grooved. In addi-
tion,
opening
act
Antwaun
Stanley and the Detroit creative
collective Video 7 started the
night with Stanley singing a
medley of classic soul, includ-
ing “What’s Going On,” “O-o-h
Child” and “Love Train.” Musi-
cal references to De La Soul and
A Tribe Called Quest also made
their way into Video 7’s perfor-
mance, and there was also a fan-
tastic reimagining of J Dilla’s
“Dime Piece,” featuring just a
harp, synthesizer and vocals.
The
bittersweet
memory
of Dilla, in particular, hung
over the entire show. Common
even took some time to recall a
moment long ago in Downtown
Detroit, when Jay Dee picked
him up, and Common became
enthralled
with
the
music
playing on Dilla’s speakers and
was amazed to discover that
the tracks were Dilla’s own
productions. Fittingly, it was
the Dilla-made “The Light”
that got the night’s loudest
singalong.
Of
course,
the
show’s
most poignant moment came
near the end, when Common
performed
a
stripped-down
version of “Glory,” his song with
John Legend that featured in
the end credits of “Selma” and
won the Academy Award for
Best Original Song just a few
months ago. Accompanied by
just a piano and back-up vocals,
Common dedicated the song to
Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice,
Eric Garner and so many others
“who have lost their lives to
ignorance, to lack of humanity,
to law enforcement who have no
respect for life,” Common said.
“We all come from the one
true creator, the most high,”
he continued. “And it’s going
to be up to us to change the
system. It’s up to us to go out
and change the situation. We
can’t just tweet about it and
Instagram about it; we gotta
plan and strategize and be
active out there supporting
groups, voting, organizing ...
and as you all go out as college
students and people in the
community, the things that
you want to change, change it
yourself.”
A hush fell over the crowd
as Common performed the
verses quietly and reflectively,
ending the song not with a
note of triumph, but with the
knowledge that more work is
still necessary if the Glory is
going to come.
Outside of Hill after the
show,
Common
posed
for
a picture with members of
Music Matters, commending
them for the job they did and
encouraging them to continue
with their work.
“I think it’s super important
that we provide opportunities
not only for ourselves and each
other but for the young people
that’s coming up after us,” he
told the group.
“I know hip hop, for me,
was a way to express myself in
ways that I never had done ever
before, so art and music and
culture and just being able to be
you through the art is an impor-
tant thing,” he continued. “So if
we empower our young people
to be able to do that through
MUSIC Matters and other orga-
nizations that are supporting
that, I’m telling you we’re gonna
make a better world, because
I know that without hip hop, I
wouldn’t have the opportunity
to be here.”
Thank God for hip hop.
Common was
already one of
the common
people.
“I’ve always felt
like Michigan
was a second
home to me.”
TV COLUMN
A final question
for Netflix
F
or the past eight months,
I’ve had the pleasure of
being The Michigan Daily’s
TV Columnist. With this role,
I’ve used my journalistic power to
ask the truly
important
questions.
Why are you
not watching
“Shame-
less?” How
did Patricia
Arquette go
from Oscar
to “CSI” in
just one week? What did “The
Mindy Project” ’s racy sex scene
mean for broadcast television?
And of course, how could a Halle
Berry-led television series about
mysterious alien pregnancies be
so damn unsatisfying? Now, with
this final column — the last piece
I’ll write for The Michigan Daily
after three incredible years — I
have one last question to ask.
Netflix built its television brand
on the binge. In 2013, a press release
from the company asserted “(Netf-
lix’s) own original series are cre-
ated for multi-episodic viewing,
lining up the content with new
norms of viewer control for the first
time.” The idea: if viewers devour
entire seasons of “Breaking Bad” in
one weekend, why not employ that
mindset with an original series?
And of course, Netflix’s signature
all-at-once delivery has paid off
immensely, forging several hit
series such as “House of Cards” and
“Orange Is the New Black.” (Netflix
doesn’t release ratings information,
though research has estimated that
both series are watched by many
millions of viewers.) And two years
later, with dozens of original series
aimed at multiple demographics,
it’s understandable that Netflix
would double-down on its lucra-
tive original content. In December,
Netflix’s Chief Content Officer Ted
Sarandos announced that the com-
pany’s long-term goal is to premiere
a new season or series every two
and a half weeks.
In theory, this iniative is great. It
means more original content from
a now-proven television heavy-
weight. But in reality, can this
work? How much can we binge?
How much is too much? Because
right about now, my many binges
are beginning to infringe on my
ability to binge it all. (Translation:
I’ve been staring at this computer
screen for too long.) My question
to Netflix is: how can we possibly
binge this much?
As a massive “Friday Night
Lights” and “Damages” fan, Kyle
Chandler’s new series “Bloodline”
is a perfect show for me. As a lover
of comic book movies (and a secret
admirer of Ben Affleck’s campy
take on the character), “Marvel’s
Daredevil” is immensely intrigu-
ing. As someone who can quote
almost any episode of “30 Rock,”
“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”
is a must-watch. And two seasons
in, how can I give up on Netflix’s
flagship series “House of Cards?”
And yet, the progress I’ve made
on any of these series is unimpres-
sive — 10 episodes of “Schmidt,”
four of “Cards,” one of “Bloodline”
and none of “Daredevil.” Why?
Because all four of these series
debuted within just weeks of
one another. But it’s not just that.
Sarandos’ plan to debut new series
every two and a half weeks forgets
to account for one key ingredient:
Netflix’s non-original series that
started all the binging in the first
place. With all the series Netflix
has to offer — both new and old,
original and acquired — it’s get-
ting more difficult to reconcile
the site’s original programming
with the rest of its catalog. In other
words, my failure to keep up with
Netflix’s ambitious slate of original
programming has a name, and that
name is “Sons of Anarchy.”
Just one week before season
three of “House of Cards” pre-
miered, I (perhaps foolishly) started
what would become a months-long
journey with the Sons of Anarchy
Motorcycle Club — six seasons on
Netflix, right there in front of me.
And as promised by friends and
family, the series, led by Charlie
Hunnam (“Pacific Rim”) and Katey
Sagal (“Married… with Children”),
is fantastic. But even more, it’s
addicting, as if it were created with
binge-ability in mind. (In reality,
the series premiered on FX in 2008,
long before “House of Cards” ’s 2013
debut.) And as any Netflix enthusi-
ast knows all too well, once you’ve
discovered that one arresting series
— a “Breaking Bad” or a “Friday
Night Lights” or a “Sons of Anar-
chy” — few other shows matter.
Any free time you have is devoted
to that series, my television viewing
predestined for Jax Teller and his
motorcycle cronies.
Seven seasons into “Sons of
Anarchy” and “House of Cards”
remains
largely
unwatched;
“Bloodline” a blip on the radar;
“Daredevil” nonexistent. And I’m
OK with that, mainly because there
are few series that I’ve enjoyed
as much as I’ve enjoyed “Sons of
Anarchy.” From start to finish,
“Sons” was everything you hope a
television series about a notorious
motorcycle gang would be — its
action exciting, its developments
shocking, its writing and acting
of the highest caliber. I’m OK that
for me the words “television” and
“Netflix” have been synonymous
with “Sons of Anarchy” for the past
few months. But is Netflix OK with
it? Should Netflix be?
As long as Netflix continues to
release its own series as quickly
as every two and a half weeks, it
will become harder and harder to
enjoy the varied programming the
service has to offer. And let’s face
it: we’re not all going to be second
semester seniors with endless time
on our hands for very much lon-
ger. At some point, we’re going to
have to choose. “Sons of Anarchy”
or “House of Cards?” “Breaking
Bad” or “Bloodline?” “30 Rock” or
“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt?”
And at that point, when you’re in
the real world and your time is valu-
able and the hard choices have to be
made … that’s when we all lose.
So, with this final column, I ask
Netflix: how can we binge it all?
Believe me, we want to. But you
need to give us the chance.
Stern has uncovered
the first world problem par
excellence. To congratulate him,
email alecs@umich.edu.
ALEC STERN
CONCERT REVIEW