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1 __ torch: party
light
5 Gone from one’s
plate
10 “Eleni” author
Nicholas
14 Nailed, as a test
15 Carne __: taco
filling
16 Loads (of)
17 *Home of
baseball’s Royals
19 Online journal
20 Terminate
21 Sign light
22 Dutch cheese
23 Federal hush-
hush org.
24 *Diagonally
27 Lament
29 Clod
30 “Silk Stockings”
actress Charisse
31 Wine collector’s
datum
32 Gumbo
vegetable
33 Laugh half
34 *Large
venomous snake
39 Young fellow
42 Opposite of
spicy
43 Nile wading bird
47 Here, in Haiti
48 Santa __ winds
49 GI’s mess work
51 *Hang out (with)
55 X, in old Rome
56 Cultural spirit
57 Not on base
when req.
58 Org. whose
awards
ceremony Vince
Gill hosted or
co-hosted from
1992-2003
59 Indian bread
60 *Martial arts
move
63 Raison d’__
64 Exchange
suggestive
glances, say
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66 Marries
67 Strikeout victim of
poetry, and a
phonetic hint to
the answers to
starred clues
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2 Words when the
blindfold comes
off
3 Japanese ball-
and-cups toy
4 Passports, e.g.
5 Enter slowly
6 Foppish
neckwear
7 Besmirch
8 Summer hrs. at
Yankee Stadium
9 Thumbs-down
vote
10 Eva or Zsa Zsa
11 Out for a midday
meal
12 The one without
the patch, for
Bazooka Joe
13 Dueler’s cry
18 “Puppy Love”
singer Paul
22 Excel in one’s
career
25 Ono from Tokyo
26 Low-__ diet
28 Mork’s planet
32 Med. condition
that may involve
excessive hand-
washing
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36 Bogotá boy
37 Glittery rock
genre
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39 Refurbished
40 Protective plastic
film
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devoted
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45 Agenda start
46 Neural
transmission point
49 __ pine: paneling
wood
50 Gomer of TV
52 Corn breads
53 “Les Misérables”
city
54 Not clueless
60 Col. Sanders’
chain
61 __ carte
62 Atlanta-based
public health
org.
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Arts
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How lucky is it that, for
whatever reason, every once
in awhile fate and timing meld
together in serendipitous chance
to present opportunity?
(There’s a right answer to this:
extremely lucky.)
To disregard these instances is
complete nonsense, but it’s a trap
I fall into sometimes — too many
times. Actually, all the time.
Directed
by
Nick
Vitale,
Michael Schwartz and story-
writer
Tyler
Nilson,
“The
Moped Diaries” (2014) is a
heartbreakingly
stunning
depiction
of
one
man’s
tumultuous
coming-of-age
journey through all the ways
love kicked him in the shin and
picked him back up again.
The 11-minute narrative short
film follows Levi, a young boy
growing up on Colington Island
right off the coast of North
Carolina, through the literal and
spiritual losses of his parents,
his brother and his first love.
Familial love, romantic love,
self-love; the story takes turns
swiping each away from Levi,
leaving one void to be filled by
another.
At the end of his grief and
the beginning of his resolution,
Levi doesn’t just take a chance
on his life; he takes a chance
on
himself.
Having
grown
up to experience the utterly
shattering, beautifully wretched
sides of relationships, he takes
to his moped in a moment of
intense clarity. Now, an adult
with nowhere to go, he finds
solace in the fact that the only
place to move is forward. In
the last couple minutes of the
short, a Wes Anderson-esque
sequence of events unfolds as
Nilson voices what my heart
always knew and my mind was
too afraid to think: “You have
to step out into the unknown
and just pray the road will rise
to meet you. And it will. It has
to.”
For an inexcusable length
of my life, I’ve pushed off
applying for this or going after
that with the mindset: What
if the reality I’ve dreamed of
attaining isn’t what I thought
it would be? Or worse, what
if I’m not well-suited for it?
Constantly waiting for hopes
to become experiences, I have
allowed flashes of outstanding
harmony to slip away into
“should haves” or “what ifs.”
I’m terrified of the abyss of
life because, more than just
being inherently daunting, it’s
intangibly promising. Of all
the lessons Levi’s adventure
taught me, one that sticks out
most prominently is this: To
let heartaches of the past or
anxieties for the future dictate
current choices is a miraculous
misuse of the present.
The summer of 2014, I
was frantically searching for
something to do with myself
when I was struck with a
moment of not wanting to do
anything at all. I wasn’t lazy; I was
scared. I had my eye on a writing
program in Chicago (rather, I had
my heart on a writing program in
Chicago), and being the dramatic,
angsty teen I was, I was stuck in
a state of perpetually questioning
my own abilities. If I went to
this program and I was an epic,
absolute, fantastic failure — well
that would really suck. But for
the first time in my life, I wasn’t
an idiot, and I actually applied
for this experience.
So, I went, and I wasn’t the
worst at it. Finally ignoring the
voice in my head that forever
thrived on repressing my real
dreams for the ones I thought
were more practical, I finally
hurdled into the type of world I
only ever wished I could live in.
Something I have had to
learn the hard way is that
there’s no right time to start
being the person I’ve always
wanted to be. The notion that
I’m waiting for some optimal
moment in which I can launch
my life is ridiculous. It has just
been a way for me to fool myself
into believing that indulging in
the fear of living is somehow
OK. I call bullshit on all of it.
There’s no perfect moment
for anything. Perfection is
strived toward and worked for,
but it doesn’t actually exist. If it
did, the art of risk-taking would
disappear. No one in this world
has ever achieved anything by
sitting around and waiting for
life to happen to them, and
the future is only as full as
you allow yourself to make it.
The greatest experiences are
a result of surrendering to the
wildest possibilities.
Tragedy
doesn’t
spare
anyone, but neither does joy. I
might as well stop fearing the
abyss because the abyss will
not cease to exist until I do. At
some point, at this point, I’ve
just got to strap on my helmet,
get on my moped and begin.
COOKING VINYL
Punk band Sorority Noise
Sorority Noise’s latest
combines depth and hope
The abyss (and other
reasonable concerns)
Writer Arya Naidu explores daily matters of life, death,
tragedy and risk-taking as it relates to fear and stilted action
ARYA NAIDU
For the Daily
COMMUNITY CULTURE NOTEBOOK
Third album You’re Not As ____ As You Think pushes
modern emo forward as the band reaches new heights
Sorority Noise is a really sad
band — at least that’s exactly
what every other thinkpiece
seems to deem their defining
quality. Sorority Noise seem
to be constantly associated
with depressing lyrics cloaked
in pop-rock. This, however,
is a base look at a band that
has proven to be much more
complex than simply “sad.”
On
their
third
album,
You’re
Not
As
_____
As
You
Think,
Sorority
Noise
continues to dabble in hope
and self-improvement, writing
incredibly catchy songs with
sing-along
choruses,
but
frontman Cam Boucher has
begun to move outside his own
head by reflecting on the world
around him and his place within
it. Like Boucher’s most recent
release Slow Burn (from his
heavier project Old Gray) the
album largely deals with death,
but it is less depressing than it
is thoughtful and uplifting.
The
album
opener
“No
Halo” follows the story of
Boucher visiting the home of
a friend who had committed
suicide
a
year
earlier.
Boucher takes this morose
tale and gives it a hauntingly
human
contemplation
on
existentialism. “So when you
show up to my funeral / Will
you be wearing white or black?”
asks
Boucher
—
questions
whether
death
should
be
celebratory
or
mournful.
Boucher
has
proved
his
impressive
growth
in
his
skillful
songwriting
since the band’s debut album
Forgettable. Moving beyond the
basic self-loathing associated
with emo music, Boucher asks
questions about this sadness,
forcing the listener into his
head to contemplate what he
contemplates.
Boucher opens the most
anthemic track on the record
“Disappeared” with “I took
some time to myself / To sort
out all the things that make
me feel the way that I feel.”
With this track, Boucher again
asks questions by reflecting
about
the
permanence
of
death — the complete severing
of a personal connection and
how viscerally it can be felt.
It’s the beginning of a lightly
sung track that builds into an
explosive chorus: a technique
that Sorority Noise has nearly
perfected.
Boucher
knows
exactly how to craft a song that
begs for deafening sing-alongs,
a common occurrence at nearly
every Sorority Noise show I’ve
attended.
The album also features
an
interestingly
tongue-in-
cheek
religious
undertone.
Multiple
songs
reference
Christian figures in a light-
hearted
manner.
From
“shooting jumpers with Jesus,
Mary, and Joseph” to angels
“drinking
up
whiskey
and
cokes,” Boucher unabashedly
reveals his carefree attitude
of the afterlife and religion,
and this nonchalance feels
fits comfortably in the album.
At his most raw take on
religion, Boucher pokes fun
at circumstantial misfortune
with the line “It’s been awhile
since I’ve seen God / And I’m
not trying to lead him on / But
he’s always trying to fuck me to
the tune of my favorite song.”
Boucher expertly
ties
humor
and
sadness
in
reflections,
and
the
lines
shine
brightly
among
the pop melodies.
Still,
Sorority
Noise
hasn’t
turned its back
on
the
tender,
quiet
tunes
they’re also known for. “A
Better Sun” softly sends nods
to
Boucher’s
friends
and
influences in Modern Baseball,
Julien Baker and many others.
In an interview with Uproxx,
Boucher notes that this track
stems from his education in
jazz music, showcasing his
diverse, multi-faceted approach
to songwriting by applying
jazz principles to the acoustic
side of his music. “Leave The
Fan On” is most similar to the
tense “Your Soft Blood” from
their sophomore record Joy,
Departed. These tracks act as a
jarring pacemaker, reminding
the
listener
that
Boucher
isn’t immune to the more
melancholic side of existence.
As You Think is an album
that is fully on par with what
we know from Sorority Noise.
On the surface, it’s a diverse,
fun album to listen to. But
at its core, it is a haunting
look at the human reaction
to death. As the members of
Sorority
Noise
continue
to
develop as musicians, they’ve
grown beyond a genre that can
easily pigeonhole artists to
less prolific work. Their third
record is an exciting milestone
in modern emo, and with it
Sorority Noise has begun to
cement its place at the top.
DOMINIC POLSINELLI
Daily Arts Writer
Something I have
had to learn the
hard way is that
there’s no right
time to start being
the person I’ve
always wanted to
be
You’re Not As
_____ As You
Think
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