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“may the odds be ever in your favor” Electric bassoon, pg. 3 24 in, only one out, pg. 4-5 Bye, bye, bye, pg. 7
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Aries 3/21 - 4/19 Trouble could leap at you any moment—invest in some protection. Lighters and hairspray are cheap and useful, and squirrel fur is highly flammable.
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Taurus 4/20 – 5/20 If an opportunity for charity comes knocking, answer the door. Invite it into your home, feed it a warm meal and let it stay the night, but keep a firearm handy. Gemini 5/21 - 6/21 It’s hard to keep going, but you may be surprised at the results if you persevere. If the results aren’t good enough, pick another flower and start over.
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Cancer 6/22 - 7/22 In matters of the heart, it’s important to keep a level head. Consider your options and make the best choice for each of you. Overuse of “lol” may muddy the waters. Leo 7/23 - 8/22 Pay attention to the details. Things that seemed irrelevant earlier may hold the answers to your problem. There’s a reason the law requires employees to wash their hands. Virgo 8/23 - 9/22 It’s OK to leap before you think. If you get out of your own way, you’ll discover new horizons. Penicillin has made dreams possible since 1928. Libra 9/23 - 10/22 Run away. Quickly.
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As summer is nearing, all I want to do is pop in my headphones and cruise. This list of tunes is dedicated to those spring and summer bicycle adventures.
Sagittarius 11/22 - 12/21 We aren’t meant to live in the status quo. Your soul mate might work for the collection agency that calls about your credit balance. Capricorn 12/22 – 1/19 Commit to your purpose. Don’t waver under pressure. Guinness doesn’t have a record for everything, and some of the best ideas come from intoxicated people. Aquarius 1/20 – 2/18 Loneliness can be complicated. Your closest friends will always be there for you. If you get confused, just start the season over from the disc menu. Pisces 2/19 - 3/20 There is nothing wrong with you or your circumstances. Watch for the bag of money to randomly turn up at your front door.
On the radio Listen to Chloe Rambo discuss this week’s Mix Tape at uiargonaut.com
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Scorpio 10/23 - 11/21 There is no gain without a little sacrifice. Facebook will be there when you’re done.
“Crazy Game of Poker” O.A.R Seriously, O.A.R has been enjoying some limelight since 1996 and this perfectly catchy tune is why. They’re songwriting geniuses.
“Run Around” Blues Traveler My mom introduced me to this song during a summer vacation, proving how great it is for singing along and jamming out with the windows down.
“Staff of the Shepard” Buffalo Death Beam This Pullman band manages to continually find the ultimate blend of folksy rhythms, acoustic drive and harmonies that are silky perfection.
“Home” Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros This has quickly become my favorite song in the entire world, and I think it forever will be. It’s seriously almost happier than “Zip-A-Dee-Do-Dah.”
“Kiss Me” Sixpence None The Richer Everyone can sing along to this tune, and that is exactly why it’s a primary choice for enjoying the blue skies. Turn it on and sing out loud.
“Swamp Groove” Monks of Mellonwah This is the best tune for pedaling up that big hill. You’re going to need all the help you can get.
“Rest My Chemistry” Interpol It’s pretty clear that this guy needs a break — a break from life, from lust, from the human experience altogether. The beat is great for a leisurely bike ride. “Do You Believe in Love” New World Son Try not to smile and just love life while you listen to this song, I dare you.
“Love Spreads” Stone Roses I like to imagine myself on guitar as a total rock goddess when I listen to this song. Take a listen, you’ll hear why. “We Won’t Stop” Dominic Balli This song is made for being listened to under the summer sun. Turn it on and forget about your worries.
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Mallory Triplett holds the bagpipes she has been playing for seven years. “It takes a lot of strength and lung power,” she said about playing the instrument.
Bagpipes, bassoon, bougarabous molly spencer rawr While a band named Buffalo Death Beam sounds like a blend of electro-metal and techno, it’s actually a folk band from Pullman with an interesting blend of instrumental talent. The seven members of the band have been together for a little more than three years, and features bassoon player Tiffany Harms. The bassoon is a woodwind instrument invented in Germany. It’s a double reed instrument meaning the sound comes from two reeds vibrating against one another. The only other double reed instruments in existence are the English horn and the oboe, Harms said. “It has a huge range for any woodwind instrument — four and half octaves,” Harms said.
Her favorite part about the bassoon is that it’s constantly being reinvented and updated. “Every year they come out with a new key or some improvement on the instrument to make it better,” she said. The bassoon came into the mix of Buffalo Death Beam a year and a half into the band’s existence. Harms had an electric pickup installed on her bassoon that allowed her play the instrument’s notes through an amplifier and play more in concert settings with the band. During a show, Harms said bassoons are nearly impossible to microphone because they are so big, but the pickups make it possible. The most recent show the band played was at the Treefort Music Festival in Boise March 22 where the band
made a lot of new connections, Harms said. While the bassoon can take physical strength to play and hold, the bagpipes require strong lungs and precise breathing techniques. Mallory Triplett has been playing her bagpipes for seven years. She now plays them about once a month, but before she became a University Idaho student, she played them three or four times a week with her band. “When a person first begins to learn how to play the bagpipes, they start out with something called a chanter — which looks like a recorder with a reed in it. This is how you get used to playing the bagpipes,” Triplett said. It takes about six months to learn how to play the bagpipes,
but, overall it takes more than a year before a person can actually play them. Triplett said. “It takes a lot of strength and lung power,” she said. “I really enjoy that they are a unique instrument and that they take a lot of effort to play.” There is a bagpipe group on campus that will teach students to play the bagpipes, learn how to march with them and to memorize music. Nearly every culture has created instruments that are unique. Navin Chettri plays instruments from Northern India, West Africa and Nepal. Chettri has been playing the pabla since he was 5 years old. The pabla is a classical Indian instrument. “I also play instruments from West Africa like the bougarabou drums, djmbes and a lot of hand percussion, and
of course, I play the drum set,” he said. Chettri’s favorite instrument is any percussion instrument, but if he had to choose three they would be the drum set, the pabla and African drums. “Even though harmony and melody have been explored a lot, rhythm I think is something that is almost intimate,” Chettri said. “Rhythm is a big part (of the musical experience) for me.” He said he likes all of the instruments, but each one has their own personality that can be emphasized in different types of music. “Music is something I started liking when I was a little guy. It makes me feel happy, relaxed and it’s got the element of intellectual as well as spiritual,” Chettri said. Molly Spencer can be reached at arg-arts@uidaho.edu
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Hunger Games —reviewed— Everything done correctly
There are many things that can go wrong when adapting a widely-loved book like “The Hunger Games” to a movie. From casting to character design, it all has to work together and can to make or break a movie. Many movies get a couple of these things correct, very few all correct, but “Hunger Games” does. “Hunger Games” owns The casting is great all around. Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) is especially brilliant. She pulls off playing a bad actor without becoming a bad actor. Many movies are forced to leave out entire story lines from their original books due to time constraints. Yet Gary Ross was able to pull off keeping almost the entire plot, and still use many of the original themes to explain the story. Letting the viewer inside the Gamemakers room was a brilliant way to explain all the little nuances of the game without having a narrator. The only thing that I question about this film that I also questioned about the book: How did a story about teenagers being forced to kill each other capture us? What does that say about us? — jens olson
To read The Argonaut’s book reviews of “The Hunger Games” and “Catching Fire,” the sequel in Suzanne Collins’ trilogy, visit uiargonaut.com.
Watch a video review of the movie at bit.ly/GWxJiV
Few books-to-movies can actually successfully impress the diehard readers, but the translation of “The Hunger Games” was impeccable. While still an avid proponent of reading and allowing one’s imagination to paint the picture, the cast selected to carryout the characters that have developed in the minds of those engrossed with Suzanne Collins’ trilogy met nearly every expectation. It is not just that Jennifer Lawrence (Katniss Everdeen), Josh Hutcherson (Peeta Mellark) and Liam Hemsworth (Gale Hawthorne) match the descriptions in the book almost perfectly, it’s that they have the imagined mannerisms down as well. The same sentiment can be carried across the cast, from Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket to Lenny Kravitz as Cinna and Donald Sutherland as President Snow.
Better than the book Whenever you read a book and then go watch the movie, there is always the fear that the movie will fail to live up to the book in some aspects. “The Hunger Games” movie not only stays true to the source material, it actually surpasses it in some ways. Since the Hunger Games, a series of fight-till-the-death contests in the book, are televised events it only makes sense that they would translate well to the big screen. The director and producers of the movie did an excellent job using play-by-play commentary, and the point of view of the Gamemakers. These two elements help the movie accomplish what would be otherwise clunky exposition, and really helps to explain just what is going on. Watching this movie unfold alongside an audience was more impactful than reading it alone. It was remarkable just how much like a citizen of the Capitol I was made to feel, watching in comfort as the tributes died one by one, rooting for my favorites, despairing when they fell. Any movie that can immerse an audience so completely that they begin to feel like a part of the story has truly accomplished its mission. — joseph engle
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I thought the casting and everything was brilliant, completely exceeded my already high expectations. Loved!” —karlin denny arnold, reader reivew
Capturing I like to follow the rules, and the rules say you should read the book before watching the movie. But I didn’t understand the hype surrounding the Hunger Games until I saw the movie. The opening scenes immediately draw you in because Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) is such an appealing character. She is down to Earth, beautiful and has an inner strength that allows her to take care of her mother and
younger sister after her father’s death. It’s easy to empathize with Katniss, especially when she volunteers to take her younger sister’s place in the Hunger Games. You can’t help but think you would have done the same thing if you were in her position. “The Hunger Games” is a little bit of everything. It’s a story about love, friendship, death and standing up for what you believe in. The consequence of a government
exercising too much control over its people is an old plot, but forcing children to fight in a battle to the death is a new and intriguing twist. This movie captures your attention from the beginning and keeps you rapt with glamour, tears, laughter and just a touch of gore. After the first movie, I’m ready to read the books and will be standing in line for the midnight showing of the next two films in the trilogy. — elisa eiguren
The near replication does not end there, though. The scenes, special effects, costumes and gadgets that accompany the movie could not have been more dead on to the descriptions in the easy read of the book. But it is the conversations in the movie that match the exact wording used by Collins in her novel that sends this movie beyond typical expectations of a novel gone film. The plot follows the book with few flaws and the aspects eliminated are minimal at most. It seems the next question can only be, when will “Catching Fire” be in theaters because this engaging adventure that stole the hearts of readers with each turning page has only advanced its popularity by making the words become a reality on the big screen. —elizabeth rudd
There’s a reason I was willing to see it three times in three days, and that’s because it was awesome! Most of the changes they made were logical choices, and it didn’t affect the overall feel of the movie staying true to the book. I thought Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hucherson did an amazing job
together, and the way they stylized the Capitol was right on. One of my favorite parts was the fire that Katniss had to run from in the forest – those special effects were incredible and intense. I can’t wait for ‘Catching Fire.’” —kelcie moseley, reader review
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I thought it was great! And even with the changes I still felt like it stayed really true to the book and I loved it so much! The casting was absolutely perfect and I know the rest of the series is going to be just as good as this one.” —heather joy cheslik, reader review
Time limits inclusion of details When translating books into movies it is expected that not all of the details will be included. The first film in “The Hunger Games” trilogy is no exception. Although the film does a remarkable job following the storyline of the original novel, better than almost any other film adaptation of a book, a few key details are left out. Most notably, the story of the Avox at the Capital who recognizes Katniss from an encounter in the woods of District 12 is left out of the movie entirely. This didn’t change the flow of the movie and the main plot of this film was not affected. However, the Avox becomes important in the next two books and her absence could
affect the adaptations of the rest of the trilogy. Additionally, the book focuses more on the relationship between Peeta and Katniss prior to entering the arena for the Hunger Games. The inclusion of at least one more of these scenes would have been enough to allude to the eminent love story that becomes a large part of the plot in the subsequent novels. Time is a limitation of all films so the absence of a few details can only be expected. Overall, the film adaptation of the Suzanne Collins trilogy, “The Hunger Games,” did not disappoint. It is surprisingly accurate and equally spectacular. — kaitlyn krasselt
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A wise man from a few decades ago said, “we can dance if we want to.” I embrace that maxim and admit my affection for *NSYNC’s album “No Strings Attached” without fear of undue ridicule. I’ll take due ridicule, because the music targeted a demographic reserved nowadays for squealing schoolgirls with Hannah-Montana-stickered smartphones and acronym-dependent vocabulary, and fair is fair. This music inspired the tight-pants wearing, heart-breaking pop dance choreographer inside me. My courage stirred whenever I heard the rising intro of “Bye Bye Bye” and the pounding rhythm of “It’s Gonna Be Me” at my school dances, and my feet flashed to the dance floor as if possessed by Michael Flatley. Those singles weren’t the only tracks worthy of a “teeny-bopper” two-step. I blared my stereo to the club-hopping weekend anthem “Just Got Paid.” I declared my love to an imaginary girlfriend with the impassioned chorus of the title track. And despite my lack of glittered eye shadow and “Seventeen” magazine posters, I sometimes left the crooning love ballad “This I Promise You” unskipped, because only Narnia’s “White Witch” has a heart cold enough to resist Justin Timberlake’s falsetto forever. There isn’t a song on the album that doesn’t have its catchy chorus, dynamic arrangement, pleasant harmonies or blood-pumping grooves. Even now, as a 26-year-old man, it’s difficult to hear the familiar synthesizers or silk-smooth vocals without feeling a rhythmic twitch in my feet. The boy-band movement may be dead, but *NSYNC’s music is guaranteed to inspire this pop-idol-at-heart for years to come. No strings attached. — matt maw
‘Welcome to the Twilight Zone…’ In the pilot episode of “The Twilight Zone,” an Air Force officer finds himself completely alone in his base. He disintegrates from confusion to suspicion to paranoia throughout “Where is Everybody?” He finally completely disintegrates into a hallucinatory state. It is then revealed that he is part of a clandestine experiment by the military that wanted to prove that there is no artificial substitute for human companionship. “The Twilight Zone,” which originally ran from 1959-1964, is a critically and commercially acclaimed TV series created by Rod Serling and originally aired by CBS. There are five seasons, with seasons one, two, three and five running half-hour episodes, and season four running hour-long specials. Serling wrote or co-wrote the majority of the show’s scripts, working closely alongside Charles Beaumont and Richard Matheson. However, many of the episode scripts featured guest writers such as Ray Bradbury, Montgomery Pittman and Earl Hamner, Jr. Though the epi-
sodes were unrelated between themselves, they all featured paranormal, sciencefiction, or dystopian plot themes, often with a surprising plot twist at the end. They are usually ended with an epilogue by Serling, whao stresses that the events were created by occurrences in “The Fifth Dimension.” The show often used outlandish settings and paranormal events as a mechanism for political commentary, which would have been censored had it been more literally addressed. Monsters, aliens, time travel and telekinesis were used to address such issues as McCarthyism, mass-hysteria and nuclear war. While the special effects are more campy than effective, the show is fun to watch. Anyone with an interest in science fiction, cold war-era politics or pseudoscience can find at least a dozen, if not 156, episodes to interest them. If they can’t, it might be because their personalities are locked in limbo between dimensions, between space, time and thought…. (cue dramatic music). — nicole lichtenberg
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The sign of a coward can come in many forms. Denoting who should be considered a coward can be done by anyone. But it is how a person reacts to the accusation that truly determines if they are, in fact, a coward. In the 2002 release of “The Four Feathers” it is this exact dilemma that lead character Harry Feversham, played by Heath Ledger, found himself in once it was announced he and his fellow soldiers were being sent to war. His decision to abandon his position with the army causes his friends, particularly his best friend Jack Durrance (Wes Bentley) and fiancé Ethne Eustace (Kate Hudson), to send him four white feathers — the symbol of a coward. In a short amount of time, the gesture sets in and Harry leaves Ethne behind in an attempt to redeem his nobility. The film, while receiving poor reviews when released, depicts a sincere message with quality acting if watchers are able to stick with a plot that can at times be slow. The story is one that requires attentive watchers, but ultimately proves to be an interesting insight to war as a soldier and civilian. And the sweet, yet not uncomplicated, love story is enough to bring in the romantics. — elizabeth rudd
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“The Haunted Car,” “Brain Juice,” and “Jekyll and Heidi,” are three of my all time favorite books, even though I read them in third grade. They’re all part of the “Goosebumps 2000” collection, a group of horror fiction novels geared toward elementary-level readers, yet they’re still so fun to read. Author R.L Stine takes the horror genre and sprinkles a touch of sugar on top, making them great reads for youngsters — or college students — that aren’t afraid of the dark. I’ll be honest — I just love to get scared. Zombies, ghouls, werewolves and vampires are only the beginning when it comes to Stine’s vast imagination. Stine’s inventive writing ditches the overused UFO sightings in favor of crafted alien juice that makes you brilliant, and swaps the generic haunted house for a sleek sports car possessed by a fearless ghost. What I love most about Stine’s “Goosebumps” series is its ability to completely capture your imagination, no matter age. Plus, the small paperback books fit perfectly into a backpack, making a quick trip to “Fright Camp” simply seconds away. Just imagine seeing a werewolf locked up in your living room, or having a computer chip in your head carrying the location of an ancient mummy prince. Stine takes it there — and even thought they’re written for children, it’s not hard to be head over heels for everything he writes. Diehard “Goosebumps” fan for life. — chloe rambo
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