“Yo Ush! Whattup Kels!” In this beautiful duet between two of the biggest contemporary R&B artists in the world, R. Kelly and Usher realize, much to their chagrin, that they are in fact “messing around with the same damn girl.” After a slew of on pitch realizations, the song concludes with some serious scheming between the soulful crooners and a final twist on par with that of Troll 2. If you have a ton of time to kill today, check out R. Kelly’s 22-chapter rap-opera “Trapped in the Closet.”
In case you’ve been slacking on watching the trailers for upcoming movies you’ll never actually see, check out Wes Anderson‘s new film Moonrise Kingdom. Here’s why:
It stars Edward Norton, Tilda Swinton, Bruce Willis, and, like every other Wes Anderson film, Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray.
The film’s storyline reads: “Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, as a young boy and girl fall in love they are moved to run away together. Various factions of the town mobilize to search for them and the town is turned upside down — which might not be such a bad thing.”
For many of us, the time-wasting already happened – last night. We put off our civic duties in favor of other activities that may have seemed more pressing than the economy or national education. If you feel the pangs of guilt or anticipate a pop quiz from your parents, you may want to learn a little more about what was said in last night’s State of the Union address. Here’s a crash course in the main points so you don’t sound ignorant on your first day back at the Ratty.
“Cool” new artist Azealia Banks confirmed via her twitter that she will be performing at this year’s Coachella Music Festival, which, for the second year in a row, overlaps with Spring Weekend. The festival posted her fantastic video for “212″ (above) on its Facebook page, along with a video of Providence native araabMUZIK, presumably confirming the two of them as not-Spring-Weekend-performers.
Even though the line-up likely won’t be released for a few weeks, the nerds journalists at Consequence of Sound pored over tour schedules and came up with a running list of likely performers, and it is not looking good for us. You can see their full list (with evidence!) here, but some highlights (lowlights?) of the projections include Childish Gambino (sorry all), Danny Brown, ASAP Rocky, Justice, M83, Radiohead (obviously), and No Doubt (ed. we had no chance, but how fantastic would that have been?). Ugh. There is still a chance that the two-weekend festival’s lineup will leave some coveted artists available to make the trek to Providence, so here’s to hoping.
Check back in with us once the full line-up is released for another round of bitching and, based on the remaining field, our best shot at predicting the line-up. Godspeed BCA…
Remember Snowpocalypse 2011? This crew of (then) Sophomores responded to the silly amount of snow by constructing and sleeping in an igloo on the Main Green.
Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City, released Summer and the City: A Carrie Diaries Novel as part of her young adult series. In the book, which follows the Sex and the City characters as teenagers, Bushnell revealed that the series’ lead mare character spent her college years at Brown!
After BlogDH broke the news that Diddy and TV on the Radio would be the two headlining acts for Spring Weekend ’11, we came back a week later with the rest of the line-up. For those of you who were either not here (froshies) or casually too drunk to actually remember any of the concerts, here’s a brief rundown of the supporting acts: Das Racist was Das Wasted, Lee Fields wore a fantastic green suit, Rebirth got the ice rink dancing, Lissy Trullie didn’t even show up, and Nico Jaar ’12 was great for the 17 people who actually got there early enough. [Read more →]
Were you planning on visiting a friend at another school during our irrationally fantastically long winter break? If so, you may be able to bypass the mild inconvenience of accessing their school’s wireless network!
According to a submission in this morning’s depressingly sparse Morning Mail, Brown has joined a new service cleverly called eduroam (education roaming — ohhhhh), which allows students of participating universities to get internet access across a number of schools in the US and abroad. For more information on the service, you can consult their website, which has a map of participating schools, or watch the terrible promotional cartoon above, which has a joke about the difficulty of nailing jelly to a tree (?) and is narrated by someone who appears to be (poorly) imitating Mark Blyth.
If RISD decides to opt in to this service, it would solve the only problem with studying at the RISD Library — the terrible service provided by the dreaded “RISD-Guest” network.
On Jan. 24, 1975, pianist Keith Jarrett arrived at the Opera House in Köln, Germany in the early afternoon after an incredibly long and tiring drive from Zurich. The sold-out concert, organized by an 18-year-old concert promoter, was slated to start at 11:30 pm. Jarrett initially refused to perform owing to the subpar quality of the piano provided, (it was apparently a small, out-of-tune baby grand piano with non-working pedals intended for rehearsals, not concerts) but he eventually appeared onstage.
What was the result of this exhausted pianist performing late at night on a terrible piano? An hour of beautiful, totally improvised music, the recording of which went on to become not only the best selling solo jazz album of all time, but also fantastic music to study to.
We all know North Korea has a lot of great things going for it. Passionate soccer fans, beautiful hotels and bad-ass synchronized gymnasts, North Korea is one country that truly has it all — if, by “all,” you of course mean widespread poverty and rampant political oppression. Throw in that biddie his supreme leader Kim Jong Il and you’ve got a real recipe for success, a nation at the forefront of the 21st century ready to take the world by storm (provided they know there is an outside world).
Insane dictators and their strange social experiments aside, it seems there’s one more thing North Korea can add to its list of valuable national assets: freakishly robotic, guitar playing toddlers. Hooray for brainwashed talented youth! After all, the children are our future y’all.
This is a little old, but it’s one of the coolest things I’ve seen take place in a college dorm room recently. These guys are great for those of you who were pissed when Karmin like totally jumped the shark by appearing at the AMAs. I’m strongly considering changing the alarm on my phone to this girl sweetly singing “all skeet skeet motherfucker!” on repeat.
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