Life&Arts
Friday, September 30, 2011 •
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Fall brings different music for diverse tastes New, seasoned artists headed to Norman This fall, the Norman campus will host two concerts featuring guns — but of differing musical varieties. Shiny Toy Guns and Gun N’ Roses will perform at separate concerts on campus in October and November, respectively. The Union Programming Board and Campus Activities Council are teaming up to bring Shiny Toy Guns to the Mustang Music Festival on Oct. 14-15. The festival will feature Shiny Toy Guns, The Pains of Being Pure of Heart, Twin Sister and Modern Rock Diaries. One month later, Guns N’ Roses will visit Lloyd Noble
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Center for a concert Nov. 9. The band is touring the United State for the first time in more than five years. All events associated with Mustang Music Week are free, and tickets will go on sale for the Guns N’ Roses performance at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the OU Athletics Ticket Office. Brooke Buckmaster, Life & Arts Reporter
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Above: Guns N’ Roses front man Axl Rose will bring his band to OU on Nov. 9. The band will perform at the Lloyd Noble Center. Left: Shiny Toy Guns perform for an audience. The band will perform at OU on Oct. 15 as the lead act in the new Mustang Music Festival.
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and time at the fair. The tone then turned somber when he was on the Ferris wheel looking down on the parking lot, comparing the cars to tombs of his or her favorite poems. They would and seeing the crows perched on top. explain why they chose that poem and the I have to say, I prefer more comedic poeteffect it had on them. ry, and Dorothy Alexander, from Cheyenne, Then the poets each stood up again and did just that. The co-owner of a small press read two of their poems. Each poem had a where she publishes Oklahoma poets indifferent tone. Myers read his poem titled “Spook House,” which explains his relation- fuses her poetry with hilarious imagery and creativity. ship with Italian poet Dante. At first it was While she read her poems on stage, she light-heartened, talking about his childhood
sounded more like a comedian than a poet, or at least the non-stop laughing audience probably thought so. Alexander’s “The Art of Aging” was probably my favorite poem read the entire night. It was related to the changing attitudes of the elderly, and not caring what other people think of them. She mentioned in the poem, always having a flyswatter in hand, and smacking people with it, which made me chuckle. I enjoyed going to this festival , but was
concerned about the lack of students. The audience was packed with adults, but there were only a few apparent students scattered around the room. I urge students to attend this festival. Not only is it relaxing and a good breather from homework, but it really opened my mind up to a component of the arts I sometimes forget: poetry and literature. The festival ends today. Lauren Duff is a journalism senior.