“You’re Totally Awesome” is a podcast featuring students from all over Brown University and finding out what makes them excited about college and life. These are people you have seen around in your classes, out at night, or maybe even on stage. Aaron Nam ’12, the creator and facilitator of “You’re Totally Awesome,” says there are “so many great people around that we all want to catch up with before we leave this beautiful ecosystem that is college” and uses this as an opportunity to spotlight them. Think of it as an amalgamation of our Students who do cool things and Last Call, but with video. You can find more YTA interviews at namosaur.blogspot.com and on iTunes.

Aaron sat down with Gillian Brassil, head of the BCA, to talk shop, and this is what she said:

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Last semester, Brown students voted on their dream lineup for Spring Weekend. The BCA managed to snag just one act that made our wishlist — not suprising considering our lofty expectations. In these tight times, we can’t go shelling millions of dollars to book Taylor Swift. How would we explain that to Mayor Taveras? Luckily, Brown Student Radio has got those lusting for more marquee names covered. Its Spring Cover Band show is going down tonight, and the lineup is pretty jaw-dropping on paper. Come by The Underground tonight at 9 to catch some of Providence’s best bands covering the likes of Beirut, Neil Young, Prince, Taylor Swift and Kanye West. Each group’s set will last about twenty minutes, but expect T-Swift’s to be cut a little short…

Then, if you’re craving more student music — or just an excuse to go to Whisco in the afternoon — the BCA is hosting a Battle of the Bands this Sunday at 1 p.m. Four student acts will be competing for the chance to win eternal fame and glory (and free Spring Weekend tickets). Head on over to everyone’s bayside watering hole to kick your Spring Week off right.

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To the new director of e-commerce: may you fare better than your predecessor. Like the BSA Marketplace, justice is cruel mistress.

Here are some of our favorite Facebook statuses to come out of this morning’s clusterfuck:

Birmingham Small Arms Company:

Facebook seems to think that BSA stands for Birmingham Small Arms Co., a now defunct major motorcycle, firearm, and machine production conglomerate in the UK. I guess their algorithm for determining this works better for topics like Christmas or Jeremy Lin.

Hall of Fame:

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That is all.

To no one’s surprise, most Brown students spent about five minutes this morning, between 8 and 8:05, clicking refresh over and over again on the Brown Marketplace website. Around 8:10, most Brunonians gave up, went back to sleep, or angrily updated their Facebook statuses.

Freshman year, when I lived in Keeney, newbies to Spring Weekend ran around the halls shrieking and thinking that the problem lay in their computers or internet connections. My friends and I tried to use each other’s computers, plug in ethernets, and use different web browsers.

No upperclassmen engage in such efforts though. They’re not surprised when the BSA website crashes. In fact, I would have been more surprised if I actually walked away from my computer today with two spring weekend tickets.To be honest, I don’t know why I bothered trying…

It’s pretty absurd that most of the student body wakes up to try to get tickets when year after year the system fails. How can this be this difficult? It’s really time for a new system. Whether that means having students buy tickets in order of class year, like Banner pre-registration, or some sort of system involving a Ticket Oak, BCA needs to mastermind something new.

And, on a side note, though the cost is steeper, it’s easier to get tickets for Coachella.

Yep, that teaser post was no April Fool’s joke.  As if the first six acts that BCA finagled weren’t kickass enough, they decided to drop one more bomb on us: NYC/Philly indie rockers THE WALKMEN are joining the Saturday night lineup!

Currently touring to support their seventh album, Heaven, due out on June 5, the Walkmen should be a pretty dank complement to the electro-fueled bands and hippity hoppers sharing the stage with them on Saturday. That being said, they’re good, but they’re no Beets…

The Spring Weekend 2012 lineup is already a mastermind, but it looks like it might be getting even better. The Brown Concert Agency tweeted that they would release information about an addition to Saturday night lineup on Monday at 1 a.m. Be sure to czech back here for full late-night announcement coverage!

Brown Concert Agency is setting up camp on the Main Green today from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM. They’re going to have a table near Faunce to answer any of your questions about their decision-making and booking processes, ticketing information, and, of course, the Spring Weekend 2012 lineup itself. If someone could ask how WHAT CHEER? BRIGADE can have both Balkan groove and Bollywood beat influences (and what those things even mean), it would be greatly appreciated.

Just don’t ask what Bro-Rape is.

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While we’re waiting to hear who BCA scored for Spring Weekend 2012 (April 20 & 21), here’s a fairly complete round-up of all of the recent rumors from Spotted@Brown, strewn about amid Kony debate, casual hookup requests and passive aggressive noise complaints. I looked up each act’s tour schedule on Songkick to gauge its feasibility:

Ludacris is playing in Alabama in May and at Bonnaroo (TN) in June. Solid 5/10 for plausibility.

Yeasayer‘s only upcoming gig is a music festival in the UK in July (plus they played here in 2009). Fleet Foxes last played in September and don’t currently have anything scheduled. Diplo is touring heavily now through August and doesn’t have any solo performances scheduled for the few weeks around SW… but his project Major Lazer is performing in the UK on both nights.   Mike Posner has a March date and Bamboozle, but I’m going with a 0/10 AKA impossible since Diplo can’t be in two places at once…

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