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Life & Arts
Friday, March 13, 2009
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T WOPART SPRING BREAK DEBATE
versus PART TWO: SAND EDITOR’S NOTE: In honor of spring break, The Daily’s Kyle West and Colin Henson are debating which vacation location is better. Today, Colin Henson will make the case for the beach. Yesterday, Kyle West argued for the ski slopes. icture yourself in your first class of the morning. Let’s say it’s 8 a.m., you’re in the back row, you’ve zoned out and stopped listening to whatever you’re teacher is saying. You’re dreaming that the week is over and you’ve begun spring break. In your head, you’re miles away from this random, frigid weather in Oklahoma and your classroom. Where are you in that head of yours? If you’re anything like me, you’re on the beach, relaxing in the sun and drinking a soda, or maybe a beer and smoking a cigar. This is the ultimate spring break destination. Any beach, anywhere. Why go to the beach over the snow you might ask? You save money at the beach. All you’re going to have to spend for your bench vacation is money for your sleeping arrangements, food and possibly refreshments if you’re into that sort of thing. You could get a nice condo for around $250 a person, plus you save money on clothing because you won’t need a shirt virtually the whole time you’re on the beach, whereas with skiing, you’ll need lodging money, you’ll have to buy a big waterproof coat and waterproof pants, plus a lift ticket and rental of skis and boots. Honestly, none of us poor college kids have that kind of dough. So take the cheap road and head to the beach. Going to the mountains for a little skiing is too much work, and entirely too dangerous. The most dangerous part of all might be the drive. You have to go up dangerous mountain
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roads that are steep and scary. You might not even make it to your destination. Once you get there, you’re just exercising. Pushing the poles and working your feet, who wants to exercise while relaxing? Not me, that’s who. I want the easy drive to the beach and the knowledge that when I get there I won’t have to do anything. Although a drive to the beach may be a little longer than a drive to the mountains, isn’t that what a spring break vacation is all about? A road trip with your best friends stopping every 45 minutes so your girlfriend can use the bathroom, playing road games and sticking your head out the window so you can let the cool breeze through your hair is one of the most fun things you’ll do in your life. This long drive is just one of the many great things about the beach, you can have your 10 hour drive to Colorado, but I’ll take the 16 hours to Florida any day of the week. The beach also offers something the mountains never will be able to offer – scantily clad women. You’re guaranteed to see hundreds of hot girls at any beach you go to. You might even spark up a beach romance you’ll never forget at a late night beach party. That’s not going to happen on the slopes when everyone is whizzing by you too fast for you to get a good look at their face. “Was that girl hot?” you will say to your friend. To which he’ll reply, “I couldn’t tell she had on goggles, a beanie and a neck roll.” That won’t be a problem on the beach. So when it comes to this argument I’d rather make like the Beach Boys and go on a “Surfin Safari” rather than get any sort of John Denveresque “Rocky Mountain High”. COLIN HENSON IS A JOURNALISM SOPHOMORE.
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HOROSCOPE
Movie Q&A
By Bernice Bede Osol
Making the move from sketch to film Trevor Moore and Zach Cregger, creators and stars of the sketch comedy show “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” have made the jump to feature film with “Miss March,” which they wrote, directed and starred in. When Eugene (Cregger) awakes from a four-year coma to find out his innocent high school sweetheart is now a Playboy centerfold, he and best friend Tucker (Moore) head out on a cross-country roadtrip to track her down at the Playboy Mansion. The Daily’s Dusty Somers photo provided by Twentieth Century Fox talked with Moore and Cregger Zach Cregger (left) and Trevor Moore (right) star in “Miss March.” about their film, “Miss March,” which opens today.
What was it like transitioning from sketch comedy to a feature film? Trevor Moore: It’s harder to write a movie than sketches because sketches are kind of this perfect little medium for comedy – you get in, you hit all your jokes as hard as you can, you go to the next topic. With a movie, you’ve got to think about every scene advancing the story and you have to keep the characters likable, which is something you don’t have to think about in a sketch.
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You wrote, directed and starred in your first feature film. Was that stressful, or was it nice being in control of all those elements? Zach Cregger: We’re both relative control freaks, so it was nice. That’s just what we do. We direct the TV show together, and we’ve been working together for about nine years, so I think it would be weird for us not to direct it. Especially because we
wrote it, we’re just so particular about the execution and timing.
What was it like working with Hugh Hefner in the film? TM: He’s awesome, super cool. He didn’t have to [be in the movie]. We heard he was really going over his lines the day before because it’s the most lines he’s had in anything. ZC: For a [guy in his 80s], he’s pretty sharp.
What’s most memorable to you from making the film?
ZC: My most striking memory from making the movie is the very first day of production. You get up at like 4:30 a.m. You get in the car. They drive you to base camp. It’s still dark. And I didn’t know what we were getting into, really. [We get there], and it was this huge fenced-in area outside of this high school, and I remember thinking, “There’s like hundreds of people running around doing things, and I don’t know what any of these people are doing, and we’re the bosses?” It was completely overwhelming. DUSTY SOMERS IS A JOURNALISM JUNIOR.
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