Sebadoh Proves That Indie is Dead

Jonathan Vanasco

Indie rock is dead. Sad, but true. New York’s Village Voice recently ran an article enititled "The Graying of Indie Rock," about how everyone who once made the genre lively and vital is getting older, and how many of them are moving into electronic and hybrid projects. The kids? Hardcore is getting bigger and that emo shit is making a comeback; it seems as if no one cares about bobbing and being thin and aloof and all that. I know, it seems weird: I didn’t believe it at first. Maybe it was just denial, or my having been abroad. But indie rock is dead. Completely. Its corpse is rotting, and there is no chance for a comeback. [con't]

Getting Ready for Kohoutek

David Roth

Yo, boom, check it: my man James "Garden City Cap Peeler" Keefe and I were cooling in Frary one night (literally: it was, as ever, fifty six degrees in the dining area) when we came across a table tent for Smiley ‘80s which, I think, is probably the single best item in the table tent or dining hall handout category that I’ve ever seen. "Remember last year?," the flier tauntingly asked, beneath a picture of a fucked up smiley face. And when I say "fucked up smiley face," I mean a smiley face with a little tongue hanging out of the side of its mouth and x’s where the eyes should’ve been. [con't]

Recent CCLA Film Picks Are Indie

Amber Kain

CCLA’s film committee recently made a change. It broke what had become a tradition of screening predominantly mainstream movies as part of its on-going campus film series and deliberately broadened its schedule to include a wealth of noteworthy and highly acclaimed independent films. As part of this innovation and for the enjoyment of all five-college movie-goers next weekend, the committee will screen sex, lies and videotape, one of the sexiest, the slickest, the most penetrating films our generation has ever had the opportunity of missing. [con't]

Keanu and Debra Discourse on The Matrix

Jason Hewitt & Chris Bissell

A conversation: Debra Cleaver and Keanu.

Debra:The Wabowski Brothers directed The Matrix. They also directed Bound. These movies have nothing to do with one another. That something involves what we call Yonic Architecture, or the Architecture of Negation. This school of thought was coined by Yonnia Vaginum in the 17th Century C.E. and refers to the heretofore "magical" practice of levitation. The characters in The Matrix are able, through the Architecture of Negation, to levitate by manufacturing a Yonic Apparatus, which is a negatively-existing structure. This structure, which doesn’t exist, resembles the Sontag Erection (previously known as the Smith Memorial Tower) in that it becomes tangible only in its articulation. [con't]

The Bev-Niner Update

Nora Lawrence

First we went to the Coop Store, where water bottles with maybe 40 or 50 ounces of water cost only 80 cents. Then we went to Walker Lounge, where the TV didn’t åwork, and then Smiley Lounge, where a girl was watching "Dawson’s Creek", and then we went to the Spanish Lounge, just in time for the credits. Luke Perry directing, yee haw! [con't]

Wu-Tang Gets Real With Jay ‘n Derek

Jay Marietta & Derek Walters

Derek and I were just sitting down at TSL stronghold to discuss Kahoutek, Nas, black on black crime, and other things hip-hop related, when, like killa bees from out the hive, in walk the core members of the Wu-Tang Clan! I guess this proves it, nobody can be ruled out for a surprise visit to TSL. Everyone should hang out here. Fortunately, Derek had been busy tracking down every Wu-Tang fringe member’s album on MPC just the other night, from Shyheim to Remedy, because, as he says, "I’m just a Wu-crazy gambino, son." [con't]

Sheryl Crow Croons for LA’s Finest

Jason Mandell

Last Friday was Dean of Campus Life Matt Taylor’s birthday.
The celebration was held that night at the Pantages Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard, and I was among the invitees. Sheryl Crow provided the entertainment, and she drew quite a crowd. LA’s finest – heavily made-up yuppies clad in leather and leopard skin–gathered in the lobby, whose walls were adorned with elaborate, faux-Egyptian décor ("very art-deco," assured Matt Taylor). [con't]

Liberal Arts Your Mind: Decadent Action

David Tuohy

We here at TSL care about you, Sagehens, even though you don’t care about us. We like to introduce you to new ideas, to help expand, to "liberal-art" your minds. This week’s focus is on Decadent Action. You can participate. It’s fun. And decadent. [con't]