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Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin Opinion by Samantha Norton It’s profound statement by one of our greatest founding fathers and one that I took to heart with the passage of the Patriot Act and the rise of the TSA. But as much as I think about that quote in terms of the Federal government, recently I have taken to applying that quote to the recent developments in the City of Columbia. As has been previously editorialized in CCP (some of it by me) the City of Columbia has a problem with crimes being committed in our “hospitality districts” - namely Five Points. Feeling the need justify their paychecks, the Columbia City Council has developed and passed more and more unnecessary and draconian measures in response to this criminal activity. Their newest series of plans involve increased CCTV cameras in Five Points and
Let us first address CCTV. The plan to put in place more security cameras will run the City of Columbia $100,000. The $100,000 appears to be a one time cost for the purchase and installation of the additional cameras and supporting equipment. From what I can gather, this figure does not contemplate the reoccurring expenses the new cameras will incur in the form of the additional staff and training required to utilize them. And those expenses will continue into the foreseeable future. What do we get with the installation of these ADDITIONAL cameras? (clearly the problem with crime in Five Points is just not enough cameras) The cameras are claimed to be excellent both in preventing crime and in helping to solve crimes‚Ķcrimes the cameras were apparently unable to prevent in the first place. And what do we have to give up in exchange for this increased surveillance of our citizenry, 99% of whom are law abiding citizens? Our privacy. We give up our ability to conduct our daily lives without someone watching and recording our every move. Yes, we don’t have a right to privacy in a public setting, but why would we ever allow our elected officials
“In London the average person is spied on by CCTV roughly 300 times a day. So what has this 1984-like surveillance done to prevent and solve crime? Little to nothing.” what The State describes as a “Hospitality Squad”. Both will be damaging to our liberty (both socially and economically) as well as our checkbooks (someone will have to pay for new government services and as the debt crisis has showed us the money government spends doesn’t grow on trees) 4
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to permanently decrease our privacy? Oh that’s right, increased safety. I hate to break it to the City of Columbia, but as much as I love the City it’s not cutting edge and I don’t think a time will come that it will be. Not a bad thing at all, but what it means is that by the time our City Council gets around to doing something it’s already been setup and tested somewhere else.
“I hate to beat a dead horse, but the way to stop this crime problem is to get more warm bodies on the streets in the places crime is occurring, when crime is occurring. ” In this case it’s England. Since the mid-1990’s municipalities in England have spent BILLIONS installing CCTV cameras in a country about the size of Alabama. In fact England has more than 20 per cent of the world’s CCTV cameras and has had them in place for a while. In London the average person is spied on by CCTV roughly 300 times a day. So what has this 1984-like surveillance done to prevent and solve crime? Little to nothing. There are plenty of articles discussing the ineffectiveness of their grand system; feel free to look them up for yourself. Perhaps the most damning was a study conducted at the English government’s request by a professor of criminology at the University of Leicester. The professor looked at 14 surveillance systems around England and found that in only one of the 14 areas could a drop in crime levels be linked to CCTV. Now mind you this is a place that has cornered the market of CCTV and even there it’s useless. How useful is it going to be when manned by people only trained on the system for a few months? City Council is going to spend hundreds of thousands of your tax dollars to make you feel safe, not actually make you safe and in return you will give up your privacy. Sounds like and awesome trade. Well while you ponder that lets move onto the “Hospitality Squad”. So there is a crime problem in our bar districts, what should we do? Step one: a curfew! Check. Step two: mandatory 2am bar closings! Check. Step three: more CCTV cameras!
Step four: a “task force” consisting of two units each with a cop, a license inspector, a zoning inspector and and a fire martial which will simultaneously serve Five Points, the Vista, Main Street and the Harbison area. What?!?!?!?! How is this going to reduce crime? What they propose is a task force that only contains three cops (one of which is a supervisor). Inspectors on the task force teams outnumber police 3 to 1. Clearly, there is something else going on here, but I can only speculate at this time. The quotes from a recent article in The State on the subject are at best suspicious. So lets go through this again. First, there is this crime problem and second, hotel owners are complaining that cops don’t show good discretion in their establishments when responding to calls and this drives off business. And what they came up with was this “task force” Now it seems like the two non-supervisory officers in the task force are going to be specially trained to be super discrete when responding to calls from hotels about dead hookers and the like (this clues me into the fact that the City considers the average police officer too dumb to accomplish the task, even with special training in how to not be a loud asshole). What it comes down to is that the City will be paying two cops who are dedicated to maintaining the illusion of safety for hotel guests regardless of whether they are or not. How is this going to protect me when I am walking back to my car after having a late night beer with a friend in Five Points? How are these two cops going to protect me as well as protect the patrons
“How will two licensing inspectors or a fire inspector protect me from being mugged? ” of Main Street, the Vista and Harbison? Are they going to be manufactured by Omni Consumer Products? How will two licensing inspectors or a fire inspector protect me from being mugged? I mean there are literally thousands of questions I could ask that have no sufficient answer. Another good one is why are two additional fire inspectors needed to exclusively monitor buildings in bar districts? But, the huge question that keeps rattling around in my brain is “Why have certain business groups supported this?” What benefit are two cops and a bunch of inspectors going to add that ultimately increases their profits? Businesses exist to make money; if they are supporting this laughable task force then somehow it must support their monitory interests. I can’t imagine the task force will provide enough of a presence to make their customers happier or feel safer thereby increasing profits. The only thing that jumps up at me is that a group of business who know they are up to code want to drum out competition that isn’t up to code. It’s the only logical reason for them to support this task force or even for this task force to be created. I am curious to see what transpires over the coming months. I hate to beat a dead horse, but the way to stop this crime problem is to get more warm bodies on the streets in the places crime is occurring when crime is occurring. In reality they don’t have to even be police officers. Some cities have unarmed but uniformed city employees who provide general assistance to citizens in the area they patrol be it answering questions about parking or the location of local businesses to radioing to police when they see trouble. How many of these people would be required to effectively aid the police and reduce crime in the bar detracts? My guess would be 5-10. I am pretty sure that could be accomplished for less than the almost $800,000 in “safety” programs the City is proposing (the task force will run $671,000). In essence the Columbia City Council has repeatedly been asking us to give up bits of our liberty to purchase what they claim will be increased safety. If we allow them to continue we deserve what we get. talkback@columbiacitypaper.com
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The truth is that a college education is a massive gamble. For millions of Americans it works out well, but millions of other college graduates have found themselves completely unable to get a quality job in this economy and yet they are still trapped in a nightmare of student loan debt from which there is no escape. Millions of young Americans have discovered that they have become “indentured servants” the moment they graduate. The entire system encourages our young people to take out whatever college loans they “need” without worrying how they will pay them back because a college education is such a good “investment”. Once upon a time, a college education was actually an almost automatic ticket to the middle class. Today, a college education does not guarantee you anything, but for millions of Americans it does turn out to be an automatic ticket to student loan hell. It has been an open secret for decades that college is one big joke. But at least a college degree could get you a job. Now that a college degree won’t open the same doors that it used to, is college really worth it? The following is what PIMCO’s Bill Gross had to say about the pathetic state of college education in America in one of his recent newsletters..... All of us who have been there know an undergraduate education is primarily a four year vacation interrupted by periodic bouts of cramming or Google plagiarizing, but at least it used to serve a purpose. It weeded out underachievers and proved at a minimum that you could pass an SAT test. For those who made it to the good schools, it proved that your parents had enough money to either bribe administrators or hire SAT tutors to increase your score by 500 points. And a 6
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degree represented that the graduate could “party hearty” for long stretches of time and establish social networking skills that would prove invaluable later on at office cocktail parties or interactively via Facebook. College was great as long as the jobs were there. It wouldn’t be so bad if college was not so darn expensive. Tuition alone at many schools is 30, 40 or even 50 thousand dollars a year. According to recent Pew Research Center polling, 75% of Americans believe that college is too expensive for most Americans to afford. For many American families with multiple children, the cost of college education is absolutely staggering. The following is an excerpt from an article recently posted on CNN.... As far as raising teenagers goes, Wade and Julie Scheckla can’t complain. The California couple’s oldest daughter, Paige, 19, is an honors student heading into her junior year at the University of California at Los Angeles, while 17-year-old Brett and 14-year-old Kennedy are straight-A students and standout athletes. With high-achieving kids, however, comes a college-funding triple threat: Two years down and seven more to go, with at least three years of tuition-bill overlap. The tab, all payable within a decade, could easily exceed $300,000. Ouch. The entire system is breaking down. There is no way that the status quo is sustainable. Most families can’t afford to shell out that kind of money. Is college worth it? Just consider the following statistics about how much debt our young Americans are going into just to get an “education”.... #1 According to the Student Loan Debt Clock, total student loan debt in the United States will surpass the 1
trillion dollar mark in early 2012. #2 Total student loan debt in the United States is increasing by approximately $2854 every single second. #3 The average college student now leaves school with $24,000 in student loan debt. #4 Approximately two-thirds of all college students graduate with student loans. #5 The total amount of student loan debt in the United States now exceeds the total amount of credit card debt in the United States. #6 Over the past 25 years, the cost of college tuition has increased at an average rate that is approximately 6% higher than the general rate of inflation. #7 Back in 1952, a full year of tuition at Harvard was only $600. Today, it is $35,568. #8 Average yearly tuition at U.S. private universities is now up to $27,293. That has increased by 29% in just the past five years. #9 The cost of college textbooks has tripled over the past decade. #10 Since 1978, the cost of college tuition in the United States has gone up by over 900 percent. #11 One survey found that 23 percent of college students actually use credit cards to pay for tuition or fees. Sadly, the quality of the education that our young people are receiving in return is absolutely pathetic. Personally, I spent a total of 8 years attending universities in the United States. I saw first hand what a joke most college courses are. The truth is that things have gotten so bad that the family dog might just be able to pass most college courses in the United States today.
In a previous article I authored entitled “Student Loan Debt Hell: 21 Statistics That Will Make You Think Twice About Going To College”, I noted many statistics that seem to indicate that the quality of college education in the United States has declined dramatically. The following are a few of those statistics.... - The typical U.S. college student spends less than 30 hours a week on academics. - According to very extensive research detailed in a new book entitled “Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses”, 45 percent of U.S. college students exhibit “no significant gains in learning” after two years in college. - Today, college students spend approximately 50% less time studying than U.S. college students did just a few decades ago. - 35% of U.S. college students spend 5 hours or less studying per week. - 50% of U.S. college students have never taken a class where they had to write more than 20 pages. - 32% of U.S. college students have never taken a class where they had to read more than 40 pages in a week. - U.S. college students spend 24% of their time sleeping, 51% of their time socializing and 7% of their time studying. - Federal statistics reveal that only 36 percent of the full-time students who began college in 2001 received a bachelor’s degree within four years. Pretty depressing, eh? A college education may not be what it once was, but it is a great way to get into massive amounts of debt. Unfortunately, most of our young people are never told that student loan debt is nearly impossible to escape from. According to Stephen Lendman,
changes in recent years have made student loans one of the cruelest forms of debt.... Congress ended bankruptcy protections, refinancing rights, statutes of limitations, truth in lending requirements, fair debt collection ones, and state usury laws when applied to federally guaranteed student loans. As a result, lenders may freely garnish wages, income tax refunds, earned income tax credits, and Social Security and disability income to assure defaulted loan payments. In addition, defaulting may cause loss of professional licenses, making repayment even harder or impossible. Sadly, millions of recent college graduates that are drowning in student loan debt can’t even get good enough jobs that will enable them to service those loans. Just consider the following statistics.... 1) According to the Economic Policy Institute, the unemployment rate for college graduates younger than 25 years old was 9.3 percent in 2010. 2) One-third of all college graduates end up taking jobs that don’t even require college degrees. 3) In the United States today, over 18,000 parking lot attendants have college degrees. 4) In the United States today, 317,000 waiters and waitresses have college degrees. 5) In the United States today, approximately 365,000 cashiers have college degrees. 6) In the United States today, 24.5 percent of all retail salespersons have a college degree. The truth is that there are not nearly enough jobs for everyone. There are now more hard working Americans sitting at home without jobs than at any other point since the Great Depression. A recent article authored by Mortimer Zuckerman for usnews.com made this point beautifully.... Today, over 14 million people are unemployed. We now have more idle men and women than at any time since the Great Depression. Nearly seven people in the labor pool compete for every job opening. Hiring announcements have plunged to 10,248 in May, down from 59,648 in April. Hiring is now 17 percent lower than the lowest level in the 2001-02 downturn. One fifth of all men of prime working age are not getting up and going to work. Equally disturbing is that the number of people unemployed for six months or longer grew 361,000 to 6.2 million, increasing their share of the unemployed to 45.1 percent. So in light of all this, is college really worth it? For some fields, a college degree is absolutely necessary. That doesn’t mean that a job will be there when you graduate, but if you are determined to work in a field where a college degree
is 100% required, then it might be a gamble you are willing to take. However, for millions of others young Americans college is simply not worth it. There are literally millions of disillusioned young college graduates out there today. Large numbers of them are living back at home with their parents. Many of them have fallen into deep depression. As a recent article on canada. com noted, an increasing number of our young people (especially our young men) are just “checking out” and giving up hope.... While the majority of young men are getting through school, finding work and eventually raising families, there is evidence of rising numbers who are dropping out of school, not looking for work, endlessly playing video games, even living at home in their parents’ basements. For much more on the state of college education in the United States, check out a new YouTube video entitled “College Conspiracy”. It is an hour long video but it is really worth watching. You can view the video on YouTube right here. What is perhaps one of the saddest things of all is that our colleges and universities are all about training our young people to become part of the “system”. Most parents have no idea how much indoctrination goes on inside college classrooms. In a previous article, I described what I saw during my 8 years at American universities.... Another open secret is that most of our colleges and universities are little more than indoctrination centers. Most people would be absolutely shocked at how much unfiltered propaganda is being pounded into the heads of our young people. At most colleges and universities, when it comes to the “big questions” there is a “right answer” and there is virtually no discussion of any other alternatives. In most fields there is an “orthodoxy” that you had better adhere to if you want to get good grades. Let’s just say that “independent thought” and “critical thinking” are not really encouraged at most of our institutions of higher learning. The reality is that college is a very expensive joke. It is a 4 (or 5 or 6) year vacation away from reality. If you can ignore all of the establishment propaganda that they try to pound into your head, it can be a lot of fun. However, if you have to take out loans, going to college can be an incredibly painful financial decision as well. Article by Michael of endoftheamericandream.com
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21 Statistics That Will Make You Think Twice About Going To College Is going to college a worthwhile investment? Is the education that our young people are receiving at our colleges and universities really worth all of the time, money and effort that is required? Decades ago, a college education was quite inexpensive and it was almost an automatic ticket to the middle class. But today all of that has changed. At this point, college education is a big business. There are currently more than 18 million students enrolled at the nearly 5,000 colleges and universities currently in operation throughout the United States. There are quite a few “institutions of higher learning” that now charge $40,000 or even $50,000 a year for tuition. That does not even count room and board and other living expenses. Meanwhile, as you will see from the statistics posted below, the quality of education at our colleges and universities has deteriorated badly. When graduation finally arrives, many of our college students have actually learned very little, they find themselves unable to get good jobs and yet they end up trapped in student loan debt hell for essentially the rest of their lives. Across America today, “guidance counselors” are pushing millions of high school students to go to the very best colleges that they can get into, but they rarely warn them about how much it is going to cost or about the sad reality that they could end up being burdened by massive debt loads for decades to come. Yes, college is a ton of fun and it is a really unique experience. If you can get someone else to pay for it then you should definitely consider going. There are also many careers which absolutely require a college degree. Depending on your career goals, you may not have much of a choice of whether to go to college or not. But that doesn’t mean that you have to go to student loan debt hell. You don’t have to go to the most expensive school that you can get into.You don’t have to take out huge student loans.There is no shame in picking a school based on affordability. The truth is that pretty much wherever you go to school the quality of the education is going to be rather pathetic. A highly trained cat could pass most college courses in the United States today. Personally, I have had the chance to spend quite a number of years on college campuses. I enjoyed my time and I have some pretty pieces of parchment to put up on the wall. I have seen with my own eyes what goes on at our institutions of higher learning. In a previous article, I described what life is like for most “average students” enrolled in our colleges and universities today.... The vast majority of college students in
America spend two to four hours a day in the classroom and maybe an hour or two outside the classroom studying. The remainder of the time these “students” are out drinking beer, partying, chasing after sex partners, going to sporting events, playing video games, hanging out with friends, chatting on Facebook or getting into trouble. When they say that college is the most fun that most people will ever have in their lives they mean it. It is basically one huge party. If you are a parent and you are shelling out tens of thousands of dollars every year to pay for college you need to know the truth. You are being ripped off. Sadly, a college education just is not that good of an investment anymore. Tuition costs have absolutely skyrocketed even as the quality of education has plummeted. A college education is not worth getting locked into crippling student loan payments for the next 30 years. Even many university professors are now acknowledging that student loan debt has become a horrific societal problem. Just check out what one professor was quoted as saying in a recent article in The Huffington Post.... “Thirty years ago, college was a wise, modest investment,” says Fabio Rojas, a professor of sociology at Indiana University. He studies the politics of higher education. “Now, it’s a lifetime lock-in, an albatross you can’t escape.” Anyone that is thinking of going to college needs to do a cost/benefit analysis. Is it really going to be worth it? For some people the answer will be “yes” and for some people the answer will be “no”. But sadly, hardly anyone that goes to college these days gets a “good” education. To get an idea of just how “dumbed down” we have become as a nation, just check out this Harvard entrance exam from 1869. I wouldn’t have a prayer of passing that exam. What about you? We really do need to rethink our approach to higher education in this country. Posted below are 21 statistics about college tuition, student loan debt and the quality of college education in the United States.... #1 Since 1978, the cost of college tuition in the United States has gone up by over 900 percent. #2 In 2010, the average college graduate had accumulated approximately $25,000 in student loan debt by graduation day. #3 Approximately two-thirds of all college students graduate with student loans. #4 Americans have accumulated well over $900 billion in student loan debt. That figure is higher than the total amount of credit card debt in the United States. #5 The typical U.S. college student spends less than 30 hours a week on academics. #6 According to very extensive research detailed in a new book entitled “Academically
Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses”, 45 percent of U.S. college students exhibit “no significant gains in learning” after two years in college. #7 Today, college students spend approximately 50% less time studying than U.S. college students did just a few decades ago. #8 35% of U.S. college students spend 5 hours or less studying per week. #9 50% of U.S. college students have never taken a class where they had to write more than 20 pages. #10 32% of U.S. college students have never taken a class where they had to read more than 40 pages in a week. #11 U.S. college students spend 24% of their time sleeping, 51% of their time socializing and 7% of their time studying. #12 Federal statistics reveal that only 36 percent of the full-time students who began college in 2001 received a bachelor’s degree within four years. #13 Nearly half of all the graduate science students enrolled at colleges and universities in the United States are foreigners. #14 According to the Economic Policy Institute, the unemployment rate for college graduates younger than 25 years old was 9.3 percent in 2010. #15 One-third of all college graduates end up taking jobs that don’t even require college degrees. #16 In the United States today, over 18,000 parking lot attendants have college degrees. #17 In the United States today, 317,000 waiters and waitresses have college degrees. #18 In the United States today, approximately 365,000 cashiers have college degrees. #19 In the United States today, 24.5 percent of all retail salespersons have a college degree. #20 Once they get out into the “real world”, 70% of college graduates wish that they had spent more time preparing for the “real world” while they were still in school. #21 Approximately 14 percent of all students that graduate with student loan debt end up defaulting within 3 years of making their first student loan payment. There are millions of young college graduates running around out there that are wondering where all of the “good jobs” are. All of their lives they were promised that if they worked really hard and got good grades that the system would reward them. Sometimes when you do everything right you still can’t get a job. A while back The Huffington Post featured the story of Kyle Daley - a highly qualified UCLA graduate who had been unemployed for 19 months at the time.... I spent my time at UCLA preparing for the outside world. I had internships in congressional offices, political action committees, non-profits
and even as a personal intern to a successful venture capitalist. These weren’t the run-of-themill office internships; I worked in marketing, press relations, research and analysis. Additionally, the mayor and city council of my hometown appointed me to serve on two citywide governing bodies, the planning commission and the open government commission. I used to think that given my experience, finding work after graduation would be easy. At this point, however, looking for a job is my job. I recently counted the number of job applications I have sent out over the past year -- it amounts to several hundred. I have tried to find part-time work at local stores or restaurants, only to be turned away. Apparently, having a college degree implies that I might bail out quickly when a better opportunity comes along. The sad truth is that a college degree is not an automatic ticket to the middle class any longer. But for millions of young Americans a college degree is an automatic ticket to student loan debt hell. Student loan debt is one of the most insidious forms of debt. You can’t get away from student loan debt no matter what you do. Federal bankruptcy law makes it nearly impossible to discharge student loan debts, and many recent grads end up with loan payments that absolutely devastate them financially at a time when they are struggling to get on their feet and make something of themselves. So are you still sure that you want to go to college? Another open secret is that most of our colleges and universities are little more than indoctrination centers. Most people would be absolutely shocked at how much unfiltered propaganda is being pounded into the heads of our young people. At most colleges and universities, when it comes to the “big questions” there is a “right answer” and there is virtually no discussion of any other alternatives. In most fields there is an “orthodoxy” that you had better adhere to if you want to get good grades. Let’s just say that “independent thought” and “critical thinking” are not really encouraged at most of our institutions of higher learning. Am I bitter because I didn’t do well? No, I actually did extremely well in school. I have seen the system from the inside. I know how it works. It is a giant fraud. If you want to go to college because you want to have a good time or because it will help you get your career started then by all means go for it. Just realize what you are signing up for. Article courtesy of Michael at http:// theeconomiccollapseblog.com August 25, 2011
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FR: Do you guys have a current favorite artist? M: Let’s put it this way - there are a lot of artists we really admire. FR: Where did you first discover electronic music? What differences do you notice in the electronic music scene now as opposed to when Modeselektor first began writing music? M: Well, we basically grew up with Techno. There were warehouse parties and raves going on everywhere in Berlin - and we were in the centre of it. It used to be a big adventure back then - today it’s more like an industry. But we never lost the original idea and the romantic kind of love for electronic music - we always try to extend it even more.
Even though their next album, Monkeytown, isn’t due to drop until early October, Berlin electro-duo Modeselektor descended upon Charlotte, North Carolina on Tuesday, August 16th as part of the Identity Festival. It was a full-blown sensory overload of an event that celebrates electronic music across the country during the final months of summer 2011. The Identity Festival features an exciting collection of worldwide talent such as Kaskade, The Crystal Method, Rusko, Pretty Lights, DJ Shadow, and of course Modeselektor. For those of you haven’t heard previous Modeselektor releases, such as Hey Mom or Happy Birthday!, they are widely regarded as sonic chameleons- effortlessly flowing through dance-floor club sounds, R&B, dubstep, rap, and avant-garde experimentalism. Monkeytown promises to be full of surprises and features guest appearances from various artists including Thom Yorke, PVT, Anti Pop Consortium, Busdriver, among others. Recently, I was lucky enough to chat with the one and only Modeselektor about the impending release of Monkeytown, Thom Yorke, growing up with techno, and more. FR: Monkeytown arrives in a few months with great anticipation- from myself included. Was this recording process any different than usual? M: Contrary to our other two albums, “Monkeytown” has been recorded together in the studio and in one run, so to say. We used to work individually and share files and just be in the studio together now and then - this time it was 100% working side by side on the music. We actually started working on the album a year ago but had a hard time getting into it. We got into the working flow when we were faced with a deadline. So 10 weeks before our mastering date, we really got working, so you could say that we got into the groove a year ago but actually produced it in a 10 week session.
FR: You’ve acquired a pretty strong lineup of guest spots on Monkeytownincluding Radiohead’s Thom Yorke among others. Your previous collaboration with Thom, “The White Flash” from Happy Birthday, is actually where I first got into hip hop to dubstep, your sound is clearly you guys (that tune still packs a wallop). inspired by various musical genres, but the What was it like working with Thom on songs are structured in a way that keeps Monkeytown? them fresh and original. Is song structure M: Pretty normal. He is very down-tosomething Modeselektor works to perfect? earth, just a regular guy, human like we all Or is it just a natural outgrowth? are . He especially came to see us here in M: Hmmm. We actually don’t really Berlin at our studio in order to work on the think about our music but just do it. We don’t two collaborations. Over the years he really work conceptionally, just bring out what’s became a friend of ours. inside of us. We experiment with some beats FR: Any advice to up-and-coming or sounds and see what comes out of it until we have a base for a track which we then artists struggling to make it in the 21st century music industry? polish up. M: We don’t really know if one should FR: Can we expect a “familiar” Modeselektor from Monkeytown or should get involved with the music industry nowadays. We still believe in good music, music we prepare ourselves for the unknown? with a soul. This kind of music will always M: It’s both, but definitely a real find its way to people, no matter how. Our advise - don’t follow any trends, do what Modeselektor album. you want to do. Always question yourself if FR: You guys return to the states in you want to do music because you want to August with a pretty healthy month of become famous and successful in the music touring. How do you prepare for the live industry or if you just want to do good music. circuit? Do you prepare differently in It’s a big difference. other countries? Monkeytown will be available October M: We never liked preparing differently 4th in the US. for different countries. We used to be afraid of playing certain cities or countries, but realized that this doesn’t make sense. So we now treat every city, venue and country the same - just pure Modeselektor power! Maybe it’s also because our sound has become kind of international so that we don’t even have to think about it. FR: Is there a favorite place you like to play? A favorite live experience? M: You can’t answer this questions without leaving someone out and being unfair to others - so, no answer on this one.
FR: I recently interviewed Sander Kleinenberg and he informed me that Apparat is the current act making the most interesting souds. Any plans to collaborate with Apparat in the future and FR: You guys are known for featur- release more Moderat material? ing a sound that is difficult to pinpoint yet wholly your own. From ambient to M: Apparat? Who is this? Never heard August 25, 2011 of it. (Smiles) 10
City Paper shoots the breeze with Malcom Lacey of Arrange about selfexploration, the relevance of Bandcamp, and the secrets of his mysterious debut LPPlantation. FR: I’ve listened to Plantationseveral times and the best way I can describe it is “Ambient Audio-Cinematic”. It’s a very precise album. What was the recording process like? How long did it take? ML: The recording process was very fluid. I always begin tracks as instrumentals then mold vocals through the track after they’re mostly completed. As far as how long it took, it was recorded fairly quickly. Not even days had passed after releasing the Quiet State EP had I completed “Turnpike.” All in all it took about 3 and half months. FR: In my review, I mentioned the M83 comparison several times. Plantation also reminds me of Atlas Sound- the solo work of Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox. Are you a member of any other projects in addition to Arrange? ML: Arrange is my main musical output. I’m always seeking out and collaborating with other artists. Back in January I recorded two songs with Tony of Memoire D’amour under the Medic Hands moniker. They’re very different than my Arrange material and I like it that way. It gives me a chance to play around in landscapes of a different sound. You can find those tracks here: medichands.bandcamp.com FR: Do you have plans for any live performances of Plantation? ML: I’m currently in the process of nailing down a live show. It’s a slow process, but something I’m very interesting in moving forward with.
FR: Will that be a recurring theme in FR: The album artwork is appropriately upcoming works by Arrange? quaint and dour. Can you tell me a little more about that? ML: I’d definitely say as I continue to grow physically and musically that ML: I had originally contacted those two themes will definitely expand Australian artist Kim Denson back in themselves over the next few releases. February to commission some artwork for the digital release of Plantation. She took a FR: Your bonus track “Sore” uses listen to a few key tracks from the record several samples- most notably a looped and came up with the beautiful collage piece Johnny Cash. Can you tell us what other you see on your downloads. It’s beautiful, samples were used? FYI- I usually am not a really and really works well as a visual fan of bonus tracks. But this one was great. interpretation of “Tearing Up Old Asphalt.” It reminded me of “The Wizard of Oz” for some reason. FR: Plantation seems both its own entity and heavily influenced- there is a ML: Oh “Sore” was fun. I was going dash of post rock here, a sprinkle of ambient through all of these old records I received electronica there. Who are your main from a friend and came across an old influences as an artist? Engelbert Humperdinck LP. I took the beginning of “Two Different Worlds” as ML: Well thank you! I’m a huge fan the base and chopped up Mos Def’s “Ms. of ambient, noise, and classical music. I Fat Booty” to place as the drum beat. Then wouldn’t say I was channeling anyone in added some Johnny Cash and Common particular, but some of my favorites are (song and original sample escape me at the Jefre Cantu-Ledesme, Brian Eno, Richard moment). Skelton, and Infinite Body. FR: How important do you feel a FR: In your opinion, who is the greatest site like Bandcamp is towards creating artist that not enough people have heard of? exposure? Do you believe in the “good ol days” of hard copy CDs only- or is your ML: Oh man there are so many. The mentality “Full speed ahead.. bring it on, thing about being an internet based artist future!” ? is that you come in contact with so many ML: Bandcamp is without a doubt one supremely talented individuals. Ones that while I’ve never met in person, you feel a of the most important tools I’ve used during pretty close bond to musically. Of which I’ll the time I’ve been making music. While mention Sam Ray who makes music under there is still a diminishing market for hard the Ricky Eat Acid moniker. Just brilliant. copy CDs, I feel like digital is where it’s at He’s currently based out of Baltimore and and I don’t see it going anywhere else any makes some of the most beautiful music on time soon. Not so say I don’t like physical the east coast. Sam just released this track formats, because I love having a 12” vinyl entitled “Blinded” that really is just full in my hand. The blowup artwork, the grain, on audible bliss.http://soundcloud.com/ the dust. Everything about it is so appealing. But when you can torrent nearly every rickyeatacid/blinded single record, it’s easy to see why physical FR: Is there a song on the album you album sales haven’t been doing all to well. favor more than others? FR: Any advice to up-and-coming ML: Hmm. It’d have to be a toss up artists struggling to make it in the 21st between “When’d You Find Me?” and century music industry? “Medicine Man.” ML: I guess I’d say keep working, FR: If you can sum it up in several writing, and creating. To quote prof. Gail Sher, “If writing is your practice, then the words- what is Plantation about? only way to fail is not to write.” ML: I guess in a nutshell you could Be sure to check out Plantationsay Plantation is about purging and selfcurrently available to download atwww. exploration. arrange.bandcamp.com.
In hindsight, we should have probably seen this coming. After the successive release of some highly impressive EPs (2009’s Life of Leisure and High Times), post-shoegaze-chillwaver Washed Out, aka USC’s very own Ernest Greene, blesses us with Within and Without, his first fulllength endeavor. Despite all the fuss surrounding the bloated chillwave genre and its imminent overexposure, Greene makes no apologies with this debut LP. Here he not only fits comfortably within the exalted heights of this smoky bedroom dreampop but he offers the listener one of the lushest examples of ambient soundscape in recent memory. If the sprawling rebellious nature of Toro Y Moi is The Godfather of chillwave, then WashedOut, with it’s kinetic energy and fierce genre commitment, is undoubtedly Goodfellas. Within and Without lacks a centralized signature tune like Life of Leisure’s infectious “Feel It All Around”- which acted as that EP’s undisputed anchor. This time, Greene opts for a more cohesive model. While the tracks here do not necessarily flow together unbroken, each song builds into the next forming what feels like an all-encompassing wall of sound. This yields a collection of music that grows and matures with the listener during it’s running time. One of the album’s biggest rewards though is how its confidence works alongside its ambition. Countless amateur artists attempt and subsequently fail at creating a work as genuinely personal and respectfully distant as Within and Without. Also, It doesn’t hurt that Ernest Greene is one hell of a songwriter. The synths on opening tracks “Eyes Be Closed” and “Echoes” comfortably guide us along a soundscape both recognizable and fresh. Other songs like “Far Away” and “Before” are masterworks of lucid subtlety. Featuring an intoxicating sound oddly reminiscent of early 90s Duran Duran with a dash of Cut Copy via bong resin, Washed Out deserves all the praise it warrants for this debut. But as mentioned before, we should have probably seen this coming. August 25, 2011 11
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movie times Movie Times for weekend of Friday August 26. The Big Mo Monetta Drive-In Theatre Monetta SC (803)685-7949 Aug. 26,27,28 Screen 1 Spy Kids Smurfs Screen 2 Final Dest. 5 Fright Night
Screen 3 Planet of the Apes Conan the barbarian Nickeloden Theatre 937 Main Street, Columbia, SC 29210 BUCK Friday, August 26th 6:00PM ONLY Saturday, August 27th 3:00PM and 6:00PM Sunday, August 28th 3:00PM and 6:00PM Monday, August 29th 6:00PM ONLY Tuesday, August 30th 6:00PM ONLY Wednesday, August 31st - 6:00PM ONLY Thursday, September 1st - 6:00PM ONLY Regal Columbia Cinema 7 3400 Forest Drive Suite 3000, Columbia, SC 29204 Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (R) new! 2:20 4:50 7:40 10:10 Our Idiot Brother (R) new! 2:45 5:00 7:20 9:50 30 Minutes or Less (R) 2:10 4:15 7:10 10:00 Rise of the Planet of the Apes (PG-13) 2:00 2:35 4:30 5:05 7:00 7:35 9:45 10:15 Crazy, Stupid, Love (PG-13) 2:05 4:45 7:30 10:20 The Smurfs (PG) 2:15 4:40 7:05 9:35 Carmike Wynnsong 10 5320 Forest Drive, Columbia, SC 29206 Colombiana (PG-13) new! 1:10 4:00 7:10 9:50 Conan the Barbarian (R) new! 1:00 4:00 Conan the Barbarian 3D (R) new! 7:00 9:45
Fright Night (R) new! 1:45 4:45 Fright Night 3D (R) new! Digital 3D 7:20 10:05 One Day (PG-13) new! 1:15 4:10 7:15 10:00 Spy Kids: All the Time in the World (PG) new! 12:45 4:20 Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D (3D) (PG) new! Digital 3D 6:45 9:05 Final Destination 5 (R) 1:30 4:30 7:15 9:45 Final Destination 5 3D (R) Digital 3D 1:00 4:00 6:45 9:10 The Help (PG-13) 1:20 5:00 8:30 The Change-Up (R) 1:05 4:05 6:50 9:30 Captain America: The First Avenger (PG-13) 7:10 10:05 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (PG-13) 12:50 4:10 Regal Columbiana Grande Stadium 14 1250 Bwer Pkwy, Columbia, SC 29212 8:30 9:15 10:45 Colombiana (PG-13) new! 12:15 2:45 5:25 7:55 10:25 Conan the Barbarian (R) new! 12:10 2:40 5:15 7:50 10:30 Conan the Barbarian 3D (R) new! 1:40 4:40 7:20 10:00 Fright Night (R) new! 12:30 3:00 5:30 8:00 10:40 Fright Night 3D (R) new! 12:00 2:30 5:00 7:30 10:10 One Day (PG-13) new! 11:50am 2:20 4:55 7:25 9:55 Spy Kids: All the Time in the World (PG) new! 2:15 7:00 Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D (3D) (PG) new! 12:05 4:30 9:10 Final Destination 5 (R) 2:35 7:05 Final Destination 5 3D (R)
12:20 1:00 3:15 4:50 5:35 7:45 9:20 10:20 Glee the 3D Concert Movie (PG) Digital 3D 12:45 2:50 5:20 7:35 9:50 The Help (PG-13) 12:50 1:20 4:00 4:25 7:10 7:40 10:15 10:45 The Change-Up (R) 11:55am 2:25 5:05 8:05 10:35 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (PG-13) 1:50 5:10 8:15 Carmike 14 122 Afton Court, Clumbia, SC 29212 Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (R) new! 2:10 4:40 7:30 10:00 Our Idiot Brother (R) new! 2:00 4:30 7:00 9:30 30 Minutes or Less (R) 1:50 4:50 7:20 9:35 Rise of the Planet of the Apes (PG-13) 1:15 2:15 3:50 5:00 7:10 8:50 9:50 Cowboys & Aliens (PG-13) 1:05 4:00 6:50 9:40 Crazy, Stupid, Love (PG-13) 1:10 4:05 6:55 9:45 The Smurfs 3D (PG) Digital 3D 1:00 3:45 6:20 8:45 The Smurfs (PG) 1:35 4:20 6:50 9:15 Captain America: The First Avenger (PG-13) 1:20 4:10 7:00 9:45 Captain America: The First Avenger 3D (PG13) Digital 3D 1:00 3:45 6:35 9:25 Cars 2 (G) 1:25 4:00 6:35 9:10 Midnight in Paris (PG-13) 1:45 4:15 6:40 9:20 Bridesmaids (R) 1:30 5:10 9:00 Regal Pastime Pavilin 8 929 North Lake Drive, Lexingtn, SC 29072 Colombiana (PG-13) new! 1:30 4:40 7:50 10:20 Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (R) new! 1:10 4:20 7:10 9:30 Our Idiot Brother (R) new! 1:50 5:00 7:30 9:50 Conan the Barbarian (R) new! 2:00 4:30 Conan the Barbarian 3D (R) new!
7:20 10:00 Fright Night (R) new! 1:20 5:10 Fright Night 3D (R) new! 7:35 9:55 Spy Kids: All the Time in the World (PG) new! 1:05 4:50 7:00 9:40 The Help (PG-13) 1:00 4:15 7:15 10:10 Rise of the Planet of the Apes (PG-13) 1:40 5:15 7:40 10:15 Regal Sandhill Stadium 16 450 Town Center Place, Columbia, SC 29229 Colombiana (PG-13) new! 12:00 2:35 5:10 7:50 10:35 Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (R) new! 12:30 2:55 5:30 8:10 10:40 Our Idiot Brother (R) new! 12:50 3:00 5:25 8:00 10:20 Conan the Barbarian (R) new! 11:50am 5:05 Conan the Barbarian 3D (R) new! 2:25 7:45 10:25 Fright Night (R) new! 12:10 5:10 Fright Night 3D (R) new! 2:40 7:40 10:15 One Day (PG-13) new! 1:05 4:20 7:10 9:50 Spy Kids: All the Time in the World (PG) new! 2:35 7:20 Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D (3D) (PG) new! 12:20 4:55 9:40 30 Minutes or Less (R) 12:40 2:45 5:25 8:15 10:25 Final Destination 5 3D (R) 12:35 2:50 5:15 8:05 10:35 The Help (PG-13) 12:45 3:40 4:10 7:30 10:15 10:45 Open Captioned 12:15 7:00 Rise of the Planet of the Apes (PG-13) 11:55am 12:25 2:20 2:50 4:50 5:20 7:25 7:55 10:00 10:30 Cowboys & Aliens (PG-13) 1:00 4:00 7:15 10:10 Crazy, Stupid, Love (PG-13) 7:05 9:55
Aires You will go from folding chinos for the Banana Republic to folding dolla dolla bills for me. That’s what I call job creation, bitches. Aquarius While painting your toenails, you will realize you don’t give a fuck about a grocery tax. Taurus You will have a dream in which you show up to the polls naked. In the dream, the poll workers begin to grope you and then stop when they realize you don’t have your voter registration card.
Don’t worry. You’ll still remember to tell brown people you’re brown when you’re campaigning for their votes. Libra While making out with your cousin at a family reunion, you will finally learn what true love is. Pisces You will cause Jesus and Waheguru to get into an epic brawl for your immortal soul. Lasers will be blasted. Fireballs will be thrown. At the end of the day, the only man left standing will be Joseph Smith.
Gemini You fail to get serious and be nice in the Scorpio seventh grade. The rest of your life will The ghost of Strom Thurmond will feel you up at a séance and you will weirdly be shit. Nice job Fuck-o. like it. Cancer You will refuse an offer for the Vice Sagittarius Presidency because you just can’t do it The Free Will Baptist Church picnic just like Dick did it. He did it sooooo good. won’t be the same without Pastor Dale, this year. The kids loved him! Leo You will just start dancing one day and Capricorn you won’t stop. People will begin to You will be jailed and remanded to talk and your name will spread all the way to the great hills of North Carolina. foster care for hanging out at Five Points after curfew. Your real parents won’t care. They just want you to be Virgo safe. *Haleyscopes are not really You will accidentally identify yourself written by Governor Haley as white on your voter registration.
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SavageLove Sex Advice by Dan Savage
I went to Craigslist to look at the kinky shit people are into. And I found a picture of my sister. Her eyes are blurred out, but one pic is of her nude and one is of her giving head, and there’s a tattoo that’s unique to her and clearly visible. I’m 99 percent sure it’s her. The ad was from her boyfriend, looking for a “horsecock” to stretch her pussy while he sits in the next room. It’s her business, but it’s a mindfuck. I half want to call her out, shame her out of it. She just turned 22. Sister Pics Dilemma
Your sister is an adult, SPD, and adults are free to post what they like to CL, and adult females are free to stick whatever they like— mancock, horsecock, whatevercock—in their pussies. It’s hypocritical of you to enjoy the perversity on display at CL and then clutch your pearls in horror when you realize that someone you love—gasp!—is just as pervy as you are. So you’re not going to call your sister out or shame her. But you are going to say something to her. There’s a chance that your sister isn’t aware that her boyfriend is posting her pictures to CL. Horsecocks, stretching pussies, the GF getting it on while he sits in the next room—that’s all standard-issue cuckold fantasy stuff, SPD. There are women out there who are into cuckolding, of course, and there are women who’ve given their partners the okay to use their pictures in online personal ads seeking thirds for cuckold scenarios. However... Lots of men with cuckold fantasies have posted pics of their actual wives and girlfriends to sites like CL without the consent of their actual wives and girlfriends. These guys don’t see—or refuse to see—the potential harm in rubbing one out while fantasizing about the responses they’ve received from men who want to fuck their wives/ girlfriends. The harm comes, of course, when the wife or girlfriend is recognized by a sibling, a coworker, or an employer. On the off chance that your sister’s BF is posting private pics to CL without your sister’s okay, SPD, you need to say something to her. She needs to know those pics are out there if she doesn’t already know it, and if she does know they’re out there, she needs to know that she can be recognized. Your sister doesn’t need to be called out, and she doesn’t need to be shamed. What she needs is a heads-up from a concerned brother. Give her that, SPD, then butt the fuck out. I’m a 20-year-old gay male and I entered into a relationship with a guy at the beginning of the summer. The sex has always been really good, but I’m worried about pleasing him. He disclosed early on that he has a foot fetish. Sex usually consists of him topping me while sucking my toes or me jerking him off while he’s fondling the bottoms of my feet. I don’t have any problem with him getting off to my feet. My problem with the whole ordeal is this: I don’t know diddly about foot fetishism. I tried Google, but my results weren’t much better than “Foot fetishism is the most common form of sexual fetishism from an otherwise nonsexual object or body part, and it’s different depending on who you’re fucking.” Not very helpful. I’ve talked to my boyfriend about what I can do to make things better and what he likes, but he’s so bashful about the subject that I haven’t gotten any information save “I prefer the soles of your
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feet.” I have tried experimenting with things like footjobs (which didn’t work out very well because I had no idea what I was doing), and not knowing what else to do is frustrating. I am currently studying in France until the end of August, and I want to surprise him with my newfound knowledge on his kink and new ways to get him off. What should I know? What would you recommend? And could you fill me in on proper footjob technique? Seeking Orgasm Level Escalation Male foot fetishists—the straight ones, anyway—will tell you that they react to feet the way most straight guys react to tits: aroused by the sight of ‘em, want to do stuff to ‘em. Some wanna suck ‘em, some wanna fuck ‘em, and some kinksters wanna safely, sanely, and consensually “torture” ‘em. In other words, SOLE, it’s different depending on who the woman with the tits in question happens to be fucking. Same goes for foot fetishists: Some wanna suck ‘em, some wanna fuck ‘em, some wanna “torture” ‘em. (That’s called “bastinado,” and it should only be done safely, sanely, and consensually.) To find out what a particular foot fetishist enjoys most, you’ll have to ask the foot fetishist who’s enjoying your feet. Your boyfriend probably finds it hard to talk about his fetish because he feels ashamed, needlessly so, and may have been rejected or mocked by previous partners when he opened up about his kink. (To avoid making his bashfulness worse, SOLE, avoid using terms like “problem” and “ordeal” when discussing his kink.) It’s possible that the stuff you’re doing for him now—sticking your toes in his mouth while he fucks you, jerking him off while he fondles your feet—fulfills all of his fantasies. Keep doing what you’re doing now, SOLE, and as his confidence levels about his kink and your relationship both grow, he’ll become less bashful about discussing his kink. As for a proper footjob: Bring the bottoms of your feet together and let him fuck the gap between your soles with his lubed-up cock, titty-fucking style, or have him lie on the floor while you sit on the edge of the bed and move the lubed-up sole of one of your feet back and forth across his cock until he blows his load. Have fun!
If you do end up having to redefine the word “rick,” which you threatened to do in your recent Funny or Die video, I have a suggestion: rick (v): to remove santorum orally. (“He was so grateful for the lay that he ricked his partner.”) Happy To Help P.S. Thanks for your efforts on behalf of equality for all. You’re welcome, HTH, and in case anyone missed my Funny or Die video—in which I threatened to redefine Rick Santorum’s first name if he didn’t lay off the gay bashing—you can watch it here: www.tinyurl.com/ricksick. Santorum hasn’t laid off the gay bashing, as it’s all he’s got, so it looks like I’m going to have to go ahead and redefine his first name, too. (My apologies to Rick Dees, Rick Fox, Ricki Lake, and all the other innocent Ricks out there.) The definition I proposed in my video was a little too long and involved, so I vote for adopting yours, HTH. Now “Rick Santorum” isn’t just a vile and disgusting politician—he’s a vile and disgusting sentence. That said, I don’t think someone would rick his or her partner out of gratitude; ricking someone—sucking the frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex out of someone’s ass—is something a person would do only under duress or under orders from a cruel BDSM top. mail@savagelove.net
JONESIN’ CROSSWORDS “Fill ‘Er Up”--with the right letters.
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29 Burdens 30 Suit to ___ 31 Really fast plane, for short 33 Fixes 34 ___ Perignon 35 Prophetic 36 Classic Dave Brubeck song 40 Surfer of sorts 41 “___ says to the guy...” 44 Became the responsibility of 45 Camouflaged 46 Horny beasts, in two ways 49 ___ Ste. Marie, Mich. 50 His, to Henri 51 “The Sweetest Taboo” singer 52 Golfer K.J. 53 Drag racing assoc. 56 Tom Hanks movie with a Silly String fight 57 Eisenhower’s command, for short 58 ___-LCD (display type on flat screens) 59 Bollywood actress Aishwarya ___ ©2011 Jonesin’ Crosswords (editor@jonesincrosswords.com)
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