8 thursday, april 10,2008 Black Keys romp and roll BY JAMIE WILLIAMS ASSISTANT DIVERSIONS EDITOR Like a walk through the Louisiana backwoods on the most stiflingly humid summer day imag inable, Attack G? Releaxes's opener, “All You Ever Wanted," starts slow and heavy until perspiration drips and the air gets so thick that breath starts to come at a premium. But when it breaks —and damn if it doesn't break in a big way it sets the stage for the blues romps that make up the next few- tracks, before the album's highlight, “Psychotic Girl," takes it back to the swamp. And that's the formula of the record for even hyperkinetic blues riff, there is a country -tinged slow burner with reverb and ghost ly backing vocals rising like steam from an algae green swamp. And it’s those elements, the dis tinct work of production superstar Danger Mouse, that give Attack 0! 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The implication is not that the sounds are forced; the implication is that the sounds are real and the images raw, but they are manipulat ed in a way that makes the textures more evident, the road just a little bumpier and the air a bit thicker. If Faulkner had put down the pen and started a blues/rock duo with Flannery O’Connor, this is what it would have sounded like. The Black Keys’ diversions from the minimalist garage sound of their previous output make for the most interesting tracks on the record, but if not for the almost equally glori ous guitar and drums rockers, they wouldn’t be nearly as effective. Fast, then slow. Quiet, then loud. Clean, then dirty. Kinetic, then contemplative. Attack and then Release. Contact the Diversions Editor at dive@uno.edu. Meed a place to live in Chapel Hill this glimmer*? v V 4 4 ' C I $l ?! 1 t'VC* \t \ rw 1 wmmmmmmmmmmmKm Tuesday, April 15, 200^ * jf>bs * sublefs £ renfals* * CKikcare * and w)9xz! * ‘Paranoid Park’ lacks real punch BY RACHAEL OEHRING STAff WRITER “Paranoid Park," Gus Van Sant's latest, details the consequences a teenager must face after he is accidentally involved in a tragic accident. Unfortunately, the movie is too light on dialogue or narrative to detail much of anything besides lingering shots of skateboarders and the apathetic faces of teen agers. Based on the novel of the same name, the film exemplifies why the book-to-movie transition hardly works. Thoughts, feelings and inner monologues rarely are captured well visually on film, especial ly when being adapted from a medium where it’s all tell and no show. Van Sant bypasses this little hitch completely by not even try ing to convey thoughts or emo tions, instead using overly long shots of kids skateboarding to convey nothing but his stylistic preferences. Van Sant goes for a dreamy 10-fi effect with the blurry slow motion MOVIE REVIEW PARANOID PARK shots of teenagers skating over lingering, fuzzy French music, but when standing in for narrative, it just becomes boring. Van Sant seems to be throwing every hackneyed film-school trick at this movie, from the disjointed jumps in timeline to the obnox iously slow pace. If that weren’t enough, the film is annoyingly light on plot and lacks a narrative thread, which might be forgivable if Van Sant were trying to convey something through more than visuals, but he doesn't. Instead, you’re just left with a quiet, boring study of why no one really cares how 1 feel in the first place. Because apparently they don't really have any thoughts or feel ings. Van Sant's insistence on using non-actors to convey a sense of reality might also be more Don your best black & white attire and come take evervthimr half off... ALL DRINKS HALF PRICE! UNC’s Ladies’ Night Ladies 21 .♦ get in FREE with UNC ID Ladies 18+ get in Half Price with UNC ID Don’t Search for the Holy Grail Anymore! Find it at Players for $5 • Coors Lite $2 Must be 18 to hang out and 21 to drink (http://www.myspdce.com/playerschapelhill3 Always available for onvate parties - 929-0101 ehr Daily liar Rrrl understandable, had he actually auditioned the teens first to make sure they could finish a complete sentence without tripping over their lines or using “like" a mil lion times. Of course, that’s how teenag ers really talk, and, of course, it’s supposed to lend a sense that this is really happening to these kids, but let’s be real here: there’s a reason why real, trained actors arc used in most movies and not just people off the street to lend an added sense of reality to your stupid movie. If you want to lend a sense of the raw realness of adolescence to a film, don't pepper it with five minute shots of someone getting their hair wet in the shower while birds are chirping in the back ground. “Paranoid Park" is a boring, nonsensical waste of time that makes no effort —and complete ly fails to convey the fragility of emotion that teenagers in the throes of growing up really feel. Contact the Diversions Editor at dive (a unc.edu.

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