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6 thursday, march 6,2008 Mixtape downloads keep hip hop fresh I have two guilty pleasures. One: 1 excessively check hip-hop Web sites. I'm talking at least five times a day. And two: I download mixtapes off these same Web sites. It’s gotten to where I've had to delete lecture-necessity solitaire to make room on my hard drive. Frequenting these sites makes it inevitable that I’ll run into a decent portion of seething blogs. Usually they just proclaim the bereavement of urban music or something along those lines. I usually can turn a blind eye to such comments, knowing that paving any mind to them would be an effort wasted debating peo ple with less insight than I. But this one time, dude tried to say the mixtape died when DJ Drama's —of Gangsta Grillz fame Atlanta headquarters were raided by the Feds on racketeering charges for not including necessary information on albums, thus deeming them “bootleg." I was madder than the rapper on Lift After Death. Unless you're trying to get into the much larger dialogue of how the CD is going the way of the dinosaur, this might have been the most insensible argument I had come across in a very, very long time. The mixtape is alive and thriving via the World Wide Web. 7 " East End Carolina vs. Duke Game Doors open at p. Deep End opens at Bpm Watch the ?ame on our 3 new LCD TVs and 84” screen! 25C drafts at Deep End and other ?ieat drink specials! Open Nightly 8-Close 201 £ Franklin Sheet r Chapel Hill, NC 27514 ' 929.0024 LSAT Prep Course Instructor from Guilford College is Coming to Chapel Hill to OFFER HU VN NEED TO MOW MOOT TOE LORE (I I PUCE TIO CNN MUD Instructor: Katherine Lambert-Scronce What past students have said: "Katherine has been both an instructor and mentor during the past month. She helped me overcome some of my testing anxiety." "Instructor very informative regarding exam." "Katherine and the class were extremely helpful! 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What makes these sites even better is many offer streaming feeds of each mixtape. Many also provide the option of purchas ing hard copies if you'd like to increase the size of vour disc col lection. These are both pluses, because* you won't waste money on artists Diversions you're unsure about when their LP actually finds its way onto store shelves. And then there’s the fact that finding stores that stock mixtapes is even harder. The Internet mixtape network has graced me with new favorite artists like Wale (D.C. represent) and reminded me of my dislike for lil Wayne (I said it). Mixtapes are more viable now than they have been in the past thanks to online forums and download hosts, and they don’t require as much monetary strain on people, such as myself, to enjoy them. Now the only price is spending hours ruining my retinas by star ing at my laptop. Contact Benn Wineka at wgbennet@emaiLunc.edu. Malkmus meanders through frustrating LP BY JAMIE WILLIAMS ASSISTANT DIVERSIONS EDITOR Stephen Malkmus doesn’t want to be a hero. “I am not a present to be opened up and parcelled out at will* he sings on “Gardenia," Real Emotional Trash's most unabash edly pop tune. There is, of course, plenty of irony in Malkmus' self-character ization. As leader of the now defunct, jjljl | food purchase fl SfcSrerf' I M 4 I Lunch Mon-Fri 11:30-230 '<s^- TO Dinner Mon-Sat 5:30-10:00 1 Dirwmoniy Sf • One coupon por table pV 302-B E Main Street • 932-5103 V Eip.™* j W ■■ (In front of the Arts Center & the Cat's Cradle) h| 300 E. Main Street • Carrtraro 6TH MATTCOSTAw/Johnathanßce" ITU CARBOLT*(SKVSI2) m * fWRIYw/fcecd Guest EVERYBOOffIELDS (sl2/515) GAPY LDURG w/VeWer” ;Si6/SI6) BSA WRITTENNRH>/ Hodwynn/Ftowers BTU BASSNECWRw/DJBWUpp*‘(SMVSI2) WHTIEY" (523/525) OETIBGN THE BURED AND ME 14 FR WOOOS SCHOOL BENEHTHO6EX, 151 U DAVE BARNES" (Sl4) GREAT BIG GONE. 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Unfortunately for Penelope (Christina Ricci), her curse is nothing like napping in a tower all day. She was bom with the snout of a pig. And her parents, all while wait ing for the day their daughter will become less of a swine, hide Penelope from the unforgiving outside world, protecting her from the relentless media. Catherine O’Hara gives an excel lent performance as Penelope’s overbearing mother, who is in desperate search of a suitor who doesn’t mind if his bride is a bit of a boar. But while having the face of a pig does sound problematic. Penelope comes across as nothing more than ever-influential band Pavement, Malkmus became just that to a lot of college music fans back before “indie rock’ became a catch-all for anything that falls between Top-40 radio’s buttery fingers. On his second record as a full fledged Jick, though, Malkmus strives for the sounds that got him to this point, all while expanding in sometimes unwelcome directions. The guitars still crunch, and www.catscradle.com BEST MOVIE REVIEW PENELOPE kickirk a charming girl with a cute, tumed up nose. Her face alone does not seem as though it would be enough moti vation to spur countless numbers of men to jump out of windows to escape her ugliness. Ricci fails to provide Penelope’s persona with some of the freakish ness it needs to be entirely convinc ing, but at least the scenery in the film is lovely. The film achieves a beautiful blend of fantasy imagery into the modem urban world. The movie’s costume design and set architecture create a world reminiscent of scenes from child hood tales while still maintaining a contemporary flare. The camera shows the unex pected beauty in a crowded city as Penelope sees it all for the first time. Malkmus still has the stoner drawl that made him famous. Most important, he still has a penchant for engaging songwriting. On Real Emotional Trash, the writing leans more toward intriguing character development than consistent themes. The most obvious example is “Hopscotch Willie," an innocent man accused of murder, whom Malkmus paints as the “classic example of a fall guy" But as the story and song prog ress into the seven minute range, it loses some of the coherence that provides the charm for the song’s opening verse. This is indicative of the album's most distinct element, that also doubles as its biggest flaw. Malkmus and the Jicks just take it a little too far at times. They aren’t afraid to stretch songs past seven minutes —one even hits 10 in an effort to show off all the players’ amazing talent. Malkmus is one helluva guitar ist, and Janet Weiss (ex Sleater- Kinncv) pounds the drums as a woman possessed, but as several of the tracks stretch, the listener finds himself looking at his watch, won dering when everything will make its way back to the quirky charac- M Ilk r till I MONDAY, MARCH 17 MONDAY. MARCH 24 THE UNSEEN BROTHER AH i / iilP St MONDAY, MARCH 30 WEDNESOAY APRIL 2 MIKE DOUGHTY S BAND SAY ANYTHING } JLJ * s w 1 ii A W =Sr 6 WEDN A S N D Tf V ELAG R,L ” [ ■**“* **“' -Willil ■ " -ret mm —w * • m ** * a f ■ #m } i el ' f 1 MEA?BEA V T MANIFESTO "BKJEm* ■■ Mtmr - i rMI m • csrsw . Uhr Daily (Lor Hrrl Of course, with a modem setting comes an enlightened set of morals that extends beyond advising girls to wait for true love’s kiss to solve everything. But the value in the story gets stuck and proves to lack the imag ination that fortunately the scenery and costumes manage to provide in its place. But one thing “Penelope" does attempt is making a mildly inter esting comment on sensationalized media. Penelope's snout is plastered all over the papers and magazines the way Britney's bald head was not too long ago. She even becomes the most popular Halloween costume of the season. The film doesn’t stray far from the cliche call to “be yourself," but at least the strong characters and fun fantasy world the film cre ates can make for an entertain ing story. Contact the Diversions Editor at dixte@unc.edu. MUSICKfWEW STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS REAL [MOTIONAL TRASH INDIE ROCK kkk£rfc ters and more melodic sensibilities that make the songs exhilarating for a time. In the end, this comes off sounding like the type of record that took a lot of time to arrange, with Malkmus carefully tinker ing until everything was exactly in place. Of course, this is the opposite of the aesthetic that made him a hero in the first place. Contact the Dii'ersions Editor at dhx@mnc.edu.
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