October 28, 2015.1 Issue 9, Volume 63 I thebluebanner.net
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Pinhead
From page 11
I could dodge him around the
path and successfully hightail,
but I can’t see outside the path,
and my ankle has just started to
hurt, strangely.
Is this how it happens
in the movies? We get annoyed
with the victims when they trip
and fall at the worst possible
moment. My ankle hasn’t hurt
in years. Why now? Does the
mere act of being pursued
create ankle cramps? If I were
to run now I would certainly
injure myself. Maybe I should
stay and just talk to him about
a good exercise and diet plan.
There is no better motivation
than a chainsaw coming down
the path behind us. I should
hire this guy for days when I
don’t feel like running.
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We all collectively bolt in
many directions.
The barrier that was Jason
Voorhees is just one of many
cinematic confrontations.
We cross paths with Michael
Myers, the Devil’s Rejects and
Freddy Kruger, to name a few.
The tour ends with Leather-
face chasing us back to our car.
I am treated to the the authentic
experience of what it is like to
drop my keys as I am trying to
unlock the door.
I will never again make fun
of those people in the movies
because here is the deal: it
really happens.
Poor Brandi Waldrip makes
it back to her car safely. She
piles in with her friends and
starts laughing. It is over, and it
appears she had a good time.
Driving away, I recall the
different haunted houses I went
to when I was her age and the
friends with whom I went. I
wonder where they are now.
It occurs to me that she will
be 37 years old one day, and
will look back on this expe
rience and smile. She will
recall that night she went the
Pinhead’s Graveyard with her
friends.
For Wardrip, this experience
is a construction of a memory
she will carry with her, even
after adult life brings real life
terrors of uncertainty. She can
stop and call an old friend and
say, “Remember when we went
to Pinhead’s Graveyard and got
chased by Leatherface?’’
Mans Ruin
Photo by Jordyn Key
Students, faculty and staff gathered on the UNCA Quad Wednesday for Turning of the Maples.
Jus
From page 14
use today.’ Once you find out
the real process of addiction,
you can’t use like a normal
person. You can’t go out to the
bar and drink like a normal
person. You can’t just have a
little fun every once in a while.
That’s not how it works. That
addiction will never stay dor
mant. You really have to work
at it everyday.’’
Jus’ mom told him about her
friend’s son, Cooper, who had
problems with addiction and
moved to North Carolina to
get clean through a treatment
program.
“My parents presented me
with an opportunity. I hit rock
bottom. I had no money left. I
was feeling terrible. They told
me they would send me down
to North Carolina to get clean
and start a new life,” Jus said.
“I decided to go and the rest is
history. It’s been a blessing. It
the best move I’ve ever made
in my life.”
Music is a feeling to Jus.
At first it was very difficult to
write any music at all, he said.
When he first got clean, he
said it took a while for his
emotions to come back.
“I don’t want to say I felt
dead for the first few months,
but I just wasn’t myself. I
was still in the process of
getting back to being able to
feel happiness and feel pain
without putting something into
my body. I was numbing all
my emotions for years,” Jus
said. “I knew it would come
back. It took a little longer than
I liked.”
One day, he said he decided
to write some music. He wrote
a couple songs that he didn’t
think were that good.
“After that I really started
getting dialed back in. I started
writing every day. I started
getting inspired. Things would
happen in my life and I would
break out my phone and make
a little note to write about this
or that later,” Jus said.
Chris “Biff’ Rodden, execu
tive producer on To Speak,
heard of Jus through a website
Rodden used to run called
College Rap Up.
“Jus submitted a video for
his song titled ‘Let’s Get It,’
and I watched it and the way
he was doing his syllables
where every single syllable
rhymed. I was just like, ‘whoa,
who is this kid?”’ Rodden
said. “I hit him up and I ended
up going to see a couple of
his shows and we have been
friends ever since.”
Jus has always had good lyr
ics, but the content is different,
Rodden said. He likes how he
talks about his relationship
with his family. It’s driven
more so by his past experienc
es and where he’s at now.
It has been a different expe
rience being clean and writing
music, but it has been good.
Jus said he thinks that you can
tell in the music.
“The So To Speak project is
kind of touching on all the tri
als and tribulations that I went
through while I was struggling
so the content is still a little
down tempo, but it definitely
has a positive tinge to it. When
I was writing before, a lot of
the content was like ‘fuck this’
and ‘fuck my life,”’ Jus said.
“Now it’s like I went through
this, but it built character and
I’m actually looking forward
to the future now. I’m looking
forward to seeing where my
music can take me. I’m look
ing forward to meeting a girl
and raising a family.”
His new life is better than
anything he could have imag
ined. It is definitely better than
waking up and only looking
forwtird to getting high, Jus
said.
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