Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death! By The Dead Kennedies

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Each song is an attack on various groups of people, ranging from the government, to the police force, to even poser punks. This album is just one solid ATTACK. Expressing the anger and frustrations of many people in the youth culture of the time period, The Dead Kennedies gave the public a slapping wake up call. And the public needed it. Not only are the messages heavy and severe, the music is old school punk, but with originality. Obvious influences of British punk, classic rock, and even a touch of rockabilly.

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The Way and its Power by Anarchy Club

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Video game boss fights, shaolin monks that have found peace, and assassins locked in mortal combat. Tell me, doesn’t that just sound AWESOME? Anarchy Club has truly designed a masterpiece fusing underground industrial rock, and punk. Each song is a brilliant display of aggression, but without hostility. Showing true, directed and well expressed anger and emotions. While, some of you may prefer more scattered and raw forms of expression (such as after watching a corrupt politician jump around questions like frogger avoiding cars), this album offers a nice change of pace. Making the anger feel less like a blunt ax, but more like a sharp blade.

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Dead Heat Review

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If you like to read, I am positive you have found at least one book that in every way comes above the rest. Now imagine reading that book, and being only one in a very small group of people who have bought and read it. For me, it is saddening to find a book that is so great in so many ways go so unrecognized for so long. The book I am reviewing today is Lisa Nowak’s Dead Heat. It is a fiction novel about the reality and heaviness  of drug abuse and breaking out of a dangerous routine of life.

Throughout this novel, Alex, 17 year old abusee and student, navigates his way through a seemingly endless theme of short-comings, obstacles, and hard times. He tolerates love, loss, fear, abuse, and an unnerving sense of safety and respect that he can’t seem to wrap his head around. Alex works…

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A Cafecito Story

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A Cafecito Story by Julia Alvarez is the partly fictional story of the events that led her and her husband to meet. It was published by Chelsea Green Publishing in 2002. The story focuses on the son of a farmer and how he finds fulfillment when he turns his life around and begins growing shaded coffee the traditional, organic way. I thought the book has useful information for coffee consumers because it explains the hardships coffee farmers have to endure to produce a single cup of coffee.

The main character, Joe, finds happiness in the green mountains of the Dominican Republic. He convinces farmers to keep their land and not give in to what he refers to as “La Compañia”. He prefers organically grown coffee to “sprayed coffee” because it allows every aspect of nature to take its course. “That makes for a better coffee” Miguel says, “When a bird…

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Notes on Movies: The Bourne Trilogy

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The Bourne Identity

Doug Liman — who helms the first installment — may be the series’ best director, but The Bourne Identity doesn’t live up to its filmmaker. The script is consistently action packed — which Liman directs fluidly — but the characterizations lifeless. There’s something interesting about having a character who doesn’t know who he is, but the problem arises: if he doesn’t know who he is, is he anything? The answer in The Bourne Identity seems to be “no”… Bourne is characterless. In addition to a dreary protagonist, the roles for women (like many spy thrillers) are weak and hackneyed (secretaries, and love interests) but will these issues be corrected in the sequels? Released in 2002. Written by Tony Gilroy. Based on a novel by Robert Ludlum. Starring Matt Damon, Franka Potente. 118 minutes.

The Bourne Supremacy

Paul Greengrass directs the unexpected sequel The Bourne Supremacy which takes…

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Bad Religion: No Control (LP) 1989 (review by Jack Dvorak)

 

Oh man, where do I even start? The fast paced drums? The intense lyrics?  Or better yet, a delicate balance of noise and clarity in the sound of this album. It takes me away to a time where the local arcade is where the hours of our youth would be spent, with each game costing a quarter. You can almost feel the heat of the sun beat down as you contemplate what the next fun thing to do is. But that question is already answered: you’re listening to this album while skating down the sidewalk on your fishtail board, maybe with a firecracker in hand. Or at least you should be.