Archive > October 2009

Folk Friday: Joe Pug

This is a bold statement, but I’m going on record: I have never listened to a single EP as much as I have Joe Pug’s Nation of Heat EP. According to my iTunes, I’ve listened to it at least twenty times straight through, and I’ve listened to “Hymn #101″ fifty-nine times in exactly two and [...]

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Yep, it’s scary…

I lied. I said I wouldn’t be able to bring myself to see the movie. Said I would let this one scary movie pass me by.
Well, I couldn’t stay away and I witnessed the phenomenon that is Paranormal Activity.
And, I’ll tell you this straight, I got scared. I jumped, I yelled, and I [...]

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This Weekend Rocks: Oct 29-Nov 1

This is the best weekend of the year. Better than Christmas. Better than OU/texas. Better than New Year’s Eve. This is “fall back” weekend. That’s right, boys and girls. There are twenty-five hours in the Saturday/Sunday continuum. Some people will use this extra hour for sleep. More awesome people will use it to say that [...]

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Fear Not: The Danger

Watched the news recently? Cracked open a newspaper to scope out the world around you?
It’s a scary place, apparently. Drugs and war and violence and elephants — all very serious business, of course (maybe not the last bit), and all worth reporting, but all completely irrelevant for a budding study abroad-er. That’s a bold claim, [...]

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Top 5 Wednesday: Top 5 Most Energetic Shows I’ve Ever Seen

It’s a rare experience that going to a show is not fun. Even if a band stands stock-still and sings straight off the album, there’s usually enough redeeming value in the concert experience itself (traveling, being excited, being around other people who love xx band as much as you, etc) to make it “fun” in [...]

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