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Cover art by Forrest Aguar, Erik Belgum, Carson Hale and Robert Nonemaker. nexus Special thanks to Mr. Brandhorst and his Volume 2 Issue 1 drawing class. October-November 2005 Contributing Writers see Vincent Martinez- Art (Fashion) Teacher From Martinez teaches five fashion classes at Grady. He believes that dressing hip comes The from knowing who you are, not from the designer brands that you wear– though it helps. Staff Brandon Sheats- Senior This is Nexus’ third issue. Our greatest concern last year Brandon, the slacker, has only one goal: to get continues to be our concern now, a lack of voluntary sub- out of high school as fast as possible. He doesn’t missions. Nexus was founded so that all students at Grady care what value school has to anyone else, he could be a part of it. Being a sister publication to The just needs to go to Yale. Maybe Reed. After Southerner, we don’t have the manpower to create a well- taking a year off, to write, of course. written, timely publication on our own. Nexus is designed William VanDerKloot- Senior to be an outlet for the students (and teachers and parents) Willam, after being forced under a desk of Grady to write about subjects that aren’t in The South- and held at gunpoint for more than erner. Nexus is a place for you to tell us about that obscure three hours, used a variety of kung- band that’s really good, or to put forth an issue that really nu techniques, learned from a fellow matters to you. Grady student, to disarm his assailants. We have struggled to get non-Southerner students to Asa Beal- Junior submit writing, and we have yet to succeed in our goal The Catholic Church better hope it doesn’t of becoming a true outlet for all Grady students. One of ever get stuck with a Pope Tex, Jed, or Billy the main reasons for starting Nexus was to bridge the gap because with the problems they’ve already between magnet and non-magnet students. Where else got I’m not sure they could recover from a at Grady can you describe a great , review a little blow like that. known, low-budget movie or tell about some cool gadget Nathaniel Reuter- Senior you just got for your birthday. Nate Reuter is currently a senior at Geogia If you want to write something but don’t have any ideas, Sate University High School. He takes a come and talk to (or email) Mr. Winter or any of the editors, grueling three classes a week and has a and we’ll be glad to give you an idea. As you flip through fruitful career as a Chinese food delivery this issue, notice all the different subjects that are covered boy. Music is relatively important to him. by our writers. Any album, any movie, any topic that you Chelsea Cook- Senior care about and want to express is welcome. Nothing is “Nickelodeon recently announced off-limits. that they will begin airing SpongeBob We are struggling to become a true nexus on campus. Squarepants in China. Now Chinese workers can see what the hell they’ve This magazine cannot exist without support of the Grady been making all of this time.” -SNL community. We also would like submissions from people that are not students or faculty from Grady. Our readers in John Brandhorst- Art Teacher the greater community are more than welcome to submit. Brandhorst ironically spends much of his You would add another view, other than that of an educa- time building boxes when he is not trying tor or a student. To those of you who haven’t submitted, to break out of them. He is actually only 23 please consider making this magazine truly a product of years old and doesn’t really care what that yellowing birth certificate says. Grady’s student body and community. Nexus: a publication of The Southerner Volume 2 Issue 1

Staff: Lee Allen, Jessica Baer, Jeffrey Advertising: Nexus is a non-profit Submissions: Nexus is a submission- Carpenter, Alastair Carter-Boff, Stone organization that relies on advertising based publication that relies on your Irvin, Sam Johnson, Madeleine Webb. to generate revenue to cover printing submissions for its content. Nexus Managing Editor: Micah Weiss and maintenance costs. Nexus is read accepts submissions for all of its Print Staff: by approximately 1,500 people and is sections and features (submissions Alvin Hambick, Harlon Heard, Michael a great way to publicize your business. may be edited for length or content). Jackson, Adlai McClure, Charlotte To advertise with Nexus, contact Dave Submission forms are located in the Napper, Benjamin Shaw Winter at [email protected]. Southerner room, or can be obtained Founding Editors: Harrison Martin Nexus is a bimonthly publication of: from Mr. Winter. For more information, and Micah Weiss Henry W. Grady High School or to turn a submission in, please Adviser: Dave Winter 929 Charles Allen Drive NE contact Mr. Winter or any member of Design Editor: Alex Daniels Atlanta, GA 30309 the staff at [email protected]. audio Heavy Mojo provides innovative sound in age ruled by mediocrity When I first heard about Heavy Mojo, dead punk era, and R&B has lost the I immediately thought of a bad ‘80s soul present in its earliest singers. Heavy hair band. As I logged onto a site to Mojo has combined hip hop, rock, and hear their debut album, It Is What It Is, funk into a flawed but different sound. feelings of dread mounted until I finally I feel that hip hop has a tendency to worked up the courage to push play. I produce a high level of music that is was surprised to find that Heavy Mojo lyrically uninspiring. Few stars rap about is not a bad ‘80s rip-off; instead they anything other than how rich they are, are an interesting group that brings or they merely imitate lyrical legends. together the genres of hip-hop, funk Rock ‘n’ roll today has a similar problem and rock. with a focus on how crazy and hardcore While blending the three styles is it can be. Punk rock in particular focuses certainly ambitious, the group has on a narrow sound that imitates bands managed to make it’s music and from the ‘80s. I hope one day they sound pretty good. The band’s music figure out that you can’t be successful Noel St. John is all about the old-school sound. Many by trying to recreate someone else’s of Heavy Mojo’s songs deal directly music. with the bland and uninspired music This growing stagnation has had me industry, which manufactures cookie- worried about music’s future. In my life cutter thugs such as 50 Cent. Instead I haven’t heard a single piece of music of relying on an image, Heavy Mojo that showed that our generation might written change of pace; Heavy Mojo delivers it’s lyrics, and talent right to produce a group as powerful as The delivers consistently good music in an your waiting eardrums. Beatles. Heavy Mojo and a small group ever-changing style. Throughout history, music’s evolution of artists working to combine and Heavy Mojo has given me hope for has relied heavily on the combination recreate their genres have given me a the wayward music industry. Perhaps of different genres and the contribution little hope that music will recover from the money-grubbing producers will be of many different cultures. The music this disgusting lapse in originality. pushed to the wayside or change their business, however, is stuck in a rut. In The quality I most like about Heavy wicked ways, changing the industry for recent years, hip-hop, rock ‘n’ roll and Mojo is it’s diversity of sound. One the better. Maybe, just maybe, Heavy R&B have begun to focus only on their track may be an all-out bass blasting Mojo will find a place in American music own scenes, and stagnation has left the rush, while the next could be a slow, history, as the band that changed while industries in their respective dilemmas. thoughtful, enticing song. Most bands others stayed stagnant. But really, who Hip hop relies solely on image, rock is produce a CD full of one type of sound cares? Good music is what it is. desperately trying to revive the long and try to mix it up with one poorly -Stone Irvin Releases Album Artist Date

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2 [NEXUS]October-November 2005 audio our Pimp your sound system In today’s world of watts it’s strong enough to power front-door playlists automobiles, if your and rear-deck speakers. Price: $79.99. car isn’t rattling the Speakers come in all shapes and sizes, so rear-view mirror off, recommending a pair would be pointless your car audio isn’t unless they fit in your vehicle. But in Atlanta loud enough. Few heat and humidity are factors, so stay away stock sound systems from treated cloth or paper speakers as well

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Late Registration [Kanye West] Kanye West, one of rap’s most unique producers, mellow tunes provide a looks to solidify his spot as one of the industry’s contrast which highlights his best rappers. His first CD, College Dropout was a unique style. It is a sound that taste of what Kanye West had to offer lyrically. In appeals to anyone; as Matt Late Registration West uses an array of samples, Mihordea can attest. West from Jamie Foxx’s voice in the smash hit “Gold also features cameos from an Digger” to classic R&B diva Etta James’ vocals in array of artists including Nas, “Addiction.” Late Registration also has a personal Common, Paul Wall and Jay-Z. flare, documenting West’s rise from a Polo wearing This is an album that anyone would enjoy and it’s a Chicago resident to a poster-boy for Roc-A-Fella front-runner for the fall’s best album. records. Kanye West’s mix of upbeat flare and -Carson Phillips-Spotts ∂∂∂∂

Twin Cinema [] Delivering a sapid collection of irresistibly fun focuses on a wonderful evo- tracks on their third album, The New Pornogra- lution, but several highlights phers make it hard to blame . Vancouver’s are “Three or Four,” “Sing own seven-member-and-always-growing power- Me Spanish Techno,” and pop group formed in 1997 and released their first “Streets of Fire.” The New two , and sev- Pornographers played the eral years later. Both albums were instant classics Variety Playhouse with spe- and personal favorites of mine. offers cial guests, Destroyer and the band’s familiar kinky melodies and pumping on Oct. 17. hooks, while distancing it’s sound from the sug- -Chelsea Spencer ary-sweetness of its earlier music. The entire album ∂∂∂∂ Stripes expand genre In 1999 began Dirty Ground,” the White Stripes also with a self-titled, basement-recorded explore pop-rock and folk-rock with and historically invigorated first “,” country rock

album. Inspired by Led Zeppelin, with “”, and power ballads www.mediaeater.com Jimi Hendrix, and The John Spencer with “The Same Boy You’ve Always Blues Explosion, songs like “Sugar Known.” After overnight fame but Never Tasted so Good” and The “Big refusing to selling out, the White Three Killed my Baby” capture blues Stripes produced Elephant in 2003. and modernize it. Following with Original sources of inspiration are De Stijl in 2000, more raw blues and again apparent, in songs like “Seven garage rock followed. With simple Nation Army,” and “Black Math.” With drums, , and vocals, a “back to , in 2005, many matching of sounds continues, with basics” attitude emerge as the band’s believe the band reached its peak, disco-punk “,” bluesy prominent theme. , expanding old ideas in new directions “Red Rain,” and alternative-bluegrass (2001) includes the band’s original and producing a sharper and more “Little Ghost.” The White Stripes’ sound but also marked the beginning refined sound. While the classic sound continues to evolve into a mix of change. While still astounding White Stripes sound is preserved in of music history,while taking each audiences with roots-rock and hard- songs like “The Nurse” and “Take Take genre to a new level. rock pieces like “Dead Leaves and the Take,” their trademark mixing and -Chloe Blalock

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Don’t Cha [The Pussycats Dolls] There are usually four of these categories. The Pussycat Dolls claim ingredients for the recipe they are more than a pop ensemble, even taking that makes a successful it as far as claiming “Don’t Cha” is about female pop single: a beat even empowerment. Neither the single nor the heavily white people can dance to, airbrushed photos of them in little more than a great lyrics, a riff you can bikini make me feel empowered.“Don’t Cha” is a recognize in seconds and an disposable single with an uninteresting beat, an aesthetically pleasing artist. unoriginal riff and lyrics that even a third grader Sometimes one can detect a smidge of talent, but could compose. Don’t waste your time. Change the that too is optional. The Pussycat Dolls and their radio station. 2005 hit single “Don’t Cha” barely makes it in any -Lee Allen ∂

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea [Neutral Milk Hotel] Neutral Milk Hotel is not singer and Jeff Magnum’s voice is just known to many, but will a little twangy, yet incredibly simple and piercing. impress you given the All 11 tracks on this 1998 album are dear to my chance. Their most widely heart, but if I had to choose the highlights, I would accessible CD, Aeroplane Over recommend the songs “King of Carrot Flowers Part the Sea, contains songs that 1,” “Two-Headed Boy,” and “Holland, 1945.” The can be played in any mood songs are filled with emotional, and wistful lyrics, and are mellow enough to each with its own profound history, on top of a fall asleep to but interesting enough to listen to wide range of instruments, including horns, basses, all day, every day, over and over again. The lyrics organs, , and xylophones. of every song are so haunting, and strange, and -Lena Brodsky ∂∂∂∂∂ Led eclipses members Led Zeppelin hit the scene in the “Four Sticks”) and modifying 1960s, a decade very different from our to be played with a cello bow. Not own. But as I walk down the Grady halls, only did Zeppelin make their music the number of people still listening to legendary, they made themselves Robert Plant hit impossibly high notes legends. becomes apparent. It’s amazing that Led Zeppelin made something that Zeppelin’s music has remained so few people could touch, and many endearing, even after 30 years. would emulate. Up-and-coming metal The musical talent of the band’s bands would draw from and evolve the members, and their massive range dark sound of Led Zeppelin’s primal of songs, from blues to metal, has tracks. Even if you don’t like the metal contributed to their longevity. The sound, there is something to learn Led Zeppelin have had little success raw power of songs like “Black Dog” from Zeppelin, because they brought since they went separate ways. The is matched if not exceeded by the a substantial and revolutionary sound band has undeniable talent, yet few subtleties of songs like “The Battle of to the table. care for their new musical ventures, Evermore”. Led Zeppelin ignored the Sadly the band’s monumental and it seems the former band mates constraints of mainstream music by success meant that they would will forever be stuck behind their own making 10-minute songs, playing the struggle to live up to their own legend shadow. drums with four sticks (in the song once they split up. The members of -Stone Irvin

5 visual American Music is an Red Eye From director Wes Craven comes American Must Red Eye, a breathtaking thriller that is both suspenseful and artistic. Anne Leibovitz Exhibit First-time screenwriter Carl Ells- I think I really would kill to be Anne Leibovitz. I mean the worth achieves tension through woman practically knows everyone in the rock’n’roll business violently intimate scenes between – not to mention the bluegrass, jazz and hip-hop businesses. the two leads, Rachael McAdams She probably chills with superstars on the weekends – after she and Cillian Murphy. McAdams, a takes their pictures. high-powered hotel administra- When I heard about the Leibovitz tor, boards a delayed flight to Miami. Terrified of fly- exhibit at Jackson Fine Art Gallery in ing, she just so happens to meet a kindly stranger, Buckhead, I grabbed my best friend Murphy, who calms her fears. Shortly into the flight and threatened her with horrible McAdams and the audience realizes what a danger- consequences if she didn’t take me. I ous friend she has made. The film’s imaginative plot didn’t even give her gas money for the will have many moviegoers on the edge of their seats. journey to Buckhead. That’s because I Go see it yourself. - Asa Beal figure it’s a given: when Anne Leibo- This portrait of John Len- vitz comes to town in all her icon-pho- non with Yoko Ono is the tographing glory, it’s absolutely vital last portrait of Lennon Broken Flowers taken before he died. that you peep her work before you can call yourself a music lover. When I saw the previews for Before she was the concert-tour photographer for The Roll- Broken Flowers I thought, “This ing Stones, Leibovitz worked as a chief photographer for Rolling movie looks like it’s going to be Stone magazine, photographing music greats of various genres comprised of awkwardly long and ages. The collection at the Gallery features selections from scenes, dead-end dialogue, and Leibovitz’s recently published book, American Music, which in- unsuccessful attempts aimed at cludes portraits taken from 1983 to 2005. The exhibit reflects contrasting poorly developed the book in that it portrays different aspects of American music serious moments. But it’s Jim Jar- through Leibovitz’s perspective. The portraits are not hung in musch and Bill Murray so it’s got chronological order nor are they categorized by genre or type to be good.” But it wasn’t. In fact, it was worse than I of photography. A colorful street scene of the Roots hangs next thought. There wasn’t that natural spark that comes to a black-and-white Lou Reed; an abstract, nightmarish photo from that combination of good actors with a good of hype-punk brother-sister duo The White Stripes hangs next script and a good director. Broken Flowers had two out to a classy composition of Elvis’s turntable. The collection is hip of three, but it just wasn’t enough. I take that back; Bill and intense – Leibovitz truly has a rare gift for drawing out the intimate, private sides of those in the spotlight. Her obvious Murray is always enough for me. But, you know. ability to allow her famous subjects to let their guards down - Anna Simonton sets her apart in the photography world. The exhibit was one of Jackson’s best and serves as merely a teeny taste of Leibovitz’s talent and genius. March of the Penguins - Madeleine Webb March of the Penguins is a visual masterpiece. With stunning Ant- arctic vistas and the sultry tones of Morgan Freeman’s narration, March of the Penguins will leave you breathless. The cute charac- ters are captivating and heart- warming. The film gives you a true insight into the life of a penguin and the trials they endure on the frigid plains: you can almost feel the warmth as the father penguin shields the eggs against the intolerable winter. Overall, March Photos by Anne Leibovitz of the Penguins is a wonderful story of triumph over Philadelphia-based rap group The Roots, from left: the most incredible of odds. Leonard Hubbard, Malik, Guestlove, and Black Thought. - Luke Pattison 6 [NEXUS] OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2005 visual Corpse Bride Corpse Bride is an animated tale about Victor Van Dort, a man from a rich family who is madly in love with his poor fiancee, Victoria Everglot. He ends up accidentally proposing to the corpse bride who takes Victor to the underworld as her husband. Victor fights to es- cape his corpse bride and return to his love, Victoria. Tim Burton colors the land of the dead vividly and brightly, whereas the land of the living is drained of all color. Besides having a short and predictable plot, the Corpse Bride is a fun family film with humor and singing that make the dead seem more lively than the living. - George DeMeglio From the gritty to the witty, Block Winning Eleven 8 crafts ‘wicked slinkster cool’ tales I may be a teacher, but I like video games. One of the very best No one tells a coming-of-age story like Francesca Lia Block. In her that I have played is Winning Elev- book of retold fairy tales, a collection of short stories and several nov- en 8. This would figure as I’m such els, she demonstrates a distinctive, compelling style. a soccer fan. This game won’t dis- The Weetzie Bat books (all five of which can be found together with appoint those of you who love ac- the name Dangerous Angels) tell the stories of various members of curate game play. Konami might an unconventional family. The central characters to whom the oth- not have the official team licenses ers are drawn over the course of five short novels are Weetzie and that EA does, but the movements Dirk, a straight girl and a gay boy. Weetzie and Dirk are best friends; are sharp, game play is quick, and the ball reacts just together they go dancing and “duck” hunting (a “duck” is what they like it would in a real game. Along with crowd chants call a boy who is good dating material). During the series, they each and reactions, any true gamer would be a fool to not find “ducks”. Weetzie has a baby, and they gather to them an array of have this as part of his or her collection. I can’t wait unique individuals. There is Witch Baby, who is left on their doorstep for what the next version will be like on the Playsta- in a blanket; Charlie Bat, Weetzie’s alcoholic father; and a biracial tion 3. couple and their son. - Nikolai Curtis The stories are poignant and ecstatic, funny and graceful. Block’s prose is soaring, gritty and refreshing. Her vibrant California imagery brings the Golden State to life in a way no one else could. Her char- Holidays On Ice acters are flawed, but we love them despite of (or perhaps because of) their flaws. Personally, my favorite story is Witch Babys’, in which the daughter Holidays On Ice is David Sedar- of Weetzie’s partner My Secret Agent Lover Man, Witch Baby was is’ collection of darkly humorous, conceived when My Secret Agent Lover Man left Weetzie for several winter-themed short stories. months. Even though Weetzie loves her as a daughter in spite of her Some tell stories of his child- origins, Witch Baby never quite feels like she fits in. She covers the hood and introduce his fam- walls of her bedroom with stories about rapes, murders and natural ily, while some are written from disasters. She eats dirt when she is frustrated, angry, scared or lonely. fictional characters’ points of Her one release is taking photographs of the world as she experi- view. Written more like excerpts ences it. than stories, Sedaris chronicles the most ordinary I found Witch Baby’s story the most touching, but there are plenty situations that anyone can relate to, while supple- of other interesting characters. As Weetzie would say, the books of menting with his amusing commentary and dark Dangerous Angels are “wicked slinkster cool.” criticism. Subtle underlying criticism of humanity keeps you thinking, and original and hilarious situ- -Alexandra Black ations and dialogue keep you laughing. - Chloe Blalock T HEATRE D VD G AME B OOK T ELEVISION 7 visual Portrait of an art class

The students in Grady’s AP Art class have been hard at work putting together their portfo- lios. “People are great mediums for emotion,” art student Forest Aguar told Nexus. “Capturing symbolism in a face is a hit or miss thing.”

Artists’ work clockwise from top left: Kati Gaslowitz, Forrest Aguar, Dylan Edmonson, Jessica Brandon, Reed Gott, Reed Gott.

8 [NEXUS] October-November 2005 visual Robin Hood meets Sin City Though Ben Mezrich’s novel Bring- talent as well as the ability to take on ing Down the House is non-fictional, alternate personas. As his life is trans- the world in which MIT student and formed from dorm room to master suite, Vegas gambler Kevin Lewis lives seems Lewis takes the reader for a wild ride anything but reality. From the opening through the parts of Sin City that most chapter, the book immerses the reader will never experience. From a firsthand into the suspense and intrigue that runs account of the infamous Tyson-Holyfield rampant throughout the novel. A classic fight to fleeing hotel security, Mezrich’s tale of David and Goliath, several MIT characters face an exhilarating roller math whiz kids use card counting in an coaster of trials and tribulations. attempt to take both high- and low-end The only problem I found with the Vegas casinos for millions. book was the fact that it is an extremely The book follows the life of Kevin quick read. Because it climaxes and ends Lewis, once an MIT standout, as he so quickly, it leaves you wanting more. breaks into the business of card count- But if you think about it, that’s what all ing: a skill that requires both precise great books do. mathematical - Travis Jones Releases Editor’s Picks Mood Movies If You’re Feeling... Alias: The Complete 4th 10.25.05 Season Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 11.15.05 Insightful...Winter Spring Sum- The Skeleton Key 11.22.05 mer Fall. Based on the true story of an apprentice to a Tibetan monk, the War of the Worlds 11.15.05 film boasts striking nature cinema- Madagascar 11.15.05 tography and a depiction of human imperfection that inspires introspec- tion on life, love, forgiveness and guilt. Movies 10.28.05 Saw 2 Artisitic...Princess Mononoke. The Passenger 10.28.05 Appreciated for both its weirdly Get Rich or Die Tryin’ 11.9.05 dark action story and the amaz- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 11.18.05 ing artistic and graphic effects, the highly acclaimed Japanese anima- Chicken Little 11.4.05 tion experience is unique and surreal. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang 11.11.05

Gangster....Locke, Stock, and Two Video Games Smoking Barrels. This comedy fol- lows four partners in crime as they Star Wars Battlefront II 10.31.05 traverse the London underground Mario Party 7 11.8.05 drug trade, take on high-stakes card 50 Cent: Bulletproof 11.22.05 games, and ouwit vengeful hit men. 24: The Game 1.1.06 - Lee Allen and Madeleine Webb

9 A tlanta’s music scene is exceptional. Famous Atlanta art- ists, who include Outkast, John Mayer, TLC, Indigo Girls, Little John, and Gladys Knight, span not only several generations but virtually all musical genres. To host Atlanta’s music, venues are nothing less than amazing. From jam-packed arenas, like the Hi-Fi KEVIN GRIGGS Buys Amphitheater, to intimate, homier settings, such as the Va- riety Playhouse, Atlanta’s venues are just as diverse as the musi- cians who play in them. Atlanta is not only known for big-name acts. Many of the city’s best artists are fairly new and unknown. With emerging rap, country, and artists, Atlanta has something for every listener. WWW.AFIRJUWELL.COM In the endless sea of new mu- VINCENT TSENG sic, the listener can easily get lost in the storm. In this section, Nexus takes a closer look at five of our favorite local bands. Try something new and check one of these bands out. The Nexus bands from upper left are: King Johnson, Bain Mattox, a fir-ju well, The Working Title and Supreeme. -Alastair Carter-Boff Atlanta’s Music Scene Five local bands who are hitting all the right notes WWW.BAINMATTOX.COM WWW.SUPREEME.COM Grady alumni sign a Supreeme deal Supreeme, a local Atlanta rap else. We needed to prove it, so liding with and killing a deer. the recognition and touring group comprised of Grady alums we walked in and Negashi free Although the record deal was Supreeme is beginning to ex- Shakka Girvan, Negashi Har- styled.” penned in the earlier part of perience, they haven’t forgotten vey, and Sam Terrell, are about That performance got the at- 2004, the band is only now that Grady is where their roots to make it big. With a freshly tention of Murs. After Harvey’s recording their label-backed are planted. “Grady was a nur- inked record deal, a forthcom- impressive display of wordplay, debut, Supremacy, which is ex- turing environment that helped ing album, and the Warped Tour he approached the three mem- pected to drop into stores in us experiment with our sound,” under their belts, these guys are bers of the group and told them February. “The album drops on Harvey said. on the cusp of stardom. to make a demo tape and mail it Warner Bros. Records’ affiliate Supreeme may be one of the In late 2003, when Terrell and to him; if he liked the tape, he’d company, Record Collection first rap groups to come out of Girvan’s first rap group, Southern bring it to some higher-ups at Music in February, and on Oct. Grady, but there are more, and Knights, had just broken up, and his record company. “We sent 3 we start our month-long tour,” with these newer groups comes Harvey was gaining recognition [Murs] a tape, but we didn’t Terrell said. competition. “There is no rivalry in the underground rap circuit, hear back from anyone for a few Supreeme has paid its dues. [with the Cracker Side Nackers],” the three friends had an idea. months,” Girvan said. “Then, we The group just recently com- Girvan said. “But get rapping les- While skipping class Harvey got this letter in the mail that pleted the Warped Tour, which sons from us. We can be like a and Girvan decided that they said something along the lines they describe as “the most Big Brother, Big Sister program.” wanted to start a group of their of ‘Drive up to North Carolina, beautiful and painful in our Supreeme says that it released own. “I thought, ‘We’re going to and we’ll talk business.’” life so far.” Although glad they “Do your Homework” as a way be in a group called Supreeme, The trio made the trek up to went on the tour, the group has to “support upcoming Grady and the sound will be revolu- North Carolina. Although they mixed feelings about the experi- kids.” The song was to serve as tionary,’” Harvey said. Girvan and only met with Murs and his re- ence. “The audience didn’t come a springboard off of which the Terrell embraced the idea. cord company for the shorter to see a rap group, and they group could begin recording. Now that the group’s mem- half of an hour, they left played it off like a joke,” Girvan With a tour and release dates bers were all on board for the Tar Heel state with said. “But in the end we lined up, the only thing left for the project, they needed to a record contract, a got through it, Supreeme to do is wait for fans to BEN BRANDON make sure that they got $1,000 speeding and it only embrace them. Supreeme’s skills recognition. “We went ticket, and some made us stron- are not to be ignored; once you King Johnson performs signature songs at the My South Rocks concert series at Turner Field before the Braves game on Sep. 23, 2005. to an in-store,” Girvan car damage ger.” hear them, you’re a fish and says. “There was this suffered E v e n their rhymes are a rod. You rapper Murs, and we w h i l e w i t h keep getting lured towards Famous blues names reused thought we were c o l - a l l them, until you’re hooked. better than everyone -Alastair Carter-Boff ing Johnson is no ordinary blues band. They may be named after some his bandmates. “Every time we play I get to play Kof the most influential names in blues, B.B. King, Albert King, and Luther with my idols. It’s impossible not to have a good Johnson, but King Johnson’s style has evolved into something purely original time with these guys” The band started out as a simple blues band over the past 10 years that the band has been together. The best the band can with drums, bass and guitar but has added a come up with to categorize its sound is “a mix of New Orleans funk, blues, jazz, percussionist, saxophone and trombone player. Latin and rock.” Their self-assessment is vague but accurate. This evolution of the band has not gone without One of the most distinguishing features of King notice. King Johnson is starting to be known Johnson is that all the members of the band are outside of the Southeast. “It’s kinda cool when and have been professional musicians. They aren’t someone on the West Coast or the Northeast some weekend blues project you hear at the local emails you saying they like your music,” said barbecue joint. King Johnson is a group of true lead guitarist and singer Oliver Wood. musicians who are passionate about their music. King Johnson always comes first for the band Rhythms are tight, song structure and style are var- members, but many of the band members have ied, vocals are precise and harmonized, and solos solo projects on the side. Wood recently signed are long and captivating. Best of all, these guys have a record deal with Blue Note Records for a solo been performing for a long time and know how to project he and his brother, Chris Martin, have put on a good show. On stage, everyone is loose, completed. The duo album will be coming out laid-back and bobbing with the music. It’s hard not in February. King Johnson also has a new album the start dancing just watching them play. coming out in the end of October, Live in ‘05, a Chris Uhler, the percussionist and newest/ live compilation. youngest member of King Johnson, is especially Even if you don’t like blues, it’s hard not to like King Johnson. The rhythm gets in you, and be- fun to watch when he gets up to play the wash- VINCENT TSENG board and spoons on his stomach. For him, there’s fore you know it you’re grooving to the music. As no such thing as a bad or boring gig. “These are five Marcus James wails on his saxo- Uhler puts it, “It’s music, how can you not have a phone at a Northside Tavern concert. of my favorite musicians,” Uhler said referring to good time?” -Micah Weiss PHOTOS COURTESY OF TAYLOR LEE A fir-ju well is faring well rowing up in Atlanta and in Boone, GN.C., Nick and Peter Furgiuele were ex- posed to all different kinds of music by their parents. “When I was growing up it was the days of the British Invasion,” said Sam Furgiuele, their father. “So it was the Beatles, the Kinks, the Stones. I also really like the Doors.” This wide variety of influ- ences inevitably lends to a fir-ju well’s unique sound. They blend a classic rock sound with jazzy undertones and soulful lyrics. On their latest album, Absolutely a fir-ju well, , accordion, and even harp blend with more conventional guitar, bass, keyboard, and drums to create a rare fusion of instruments and genres. The Bain of musical existance Peter started out playing violin when I first heard of Bain Mattox when they I was surprised to find that the band he was very young, moving on to drums opened for Jump Little Children in the fall incorporates more than the typical instru- several years later. Nick began music on of 2003. After hearing this Athens/Atlanta- mental lineup of guitar, bass, drums, and the but soon lost interest. When KASEY based quartet’s first set, my friend and vocals into their music. Bain Mattox holds he was 13 he got an electric guitar and I split the cost of their CD (both being fast to these rock essentials but also incor- taught himself to play. Shortly after, he Since the band’s newest member, Matt of this decision. “I can go back to college, unemployed freshmen). Upon listening to porates the violin and mandolin in their did the same on bass guitar. The boys McCalvin joined the band, a fir-ju well but if I want to play music I have to do it the album, I was amazed to find that Bain music in ways that I’ve never heard. had a band when Nick was 16 and Peter has been spending a lot of time tour- now.” Mattox’s CD was up to par with their live We are fortunate to be able to consider was 12. ing. “We’re in Boston right now,” he said. With four albums under their belt, a performance. Bain Mattox a local band. Their music is “Nick had gone to Georgia Tech for col- “We’ve circled the country. We moved out fir-ju well looks forward to a long musical Bain Mattox’s music comes from the striking and moving, and is starting to gain lege, and he formed a band called Varsity of our house in January and have been career. Sam Furgiuele knows that a father gut. It’s got style, rhythm, and a personal more recognition. Creative Loafing named Orange when he was working at the Var- touring the country since.” doesn’t always know best when it comes energy that is often lost in modern music. Bain Mattox “best singer/songwriter” and sity,” Sam said of Nick’s musical ventures While the successes of their band have to contemporary music, but he still has The unique sound of the instruments helps “Best Instrumentalist” in their 2004 Best of after high school. “I went to see them per- taken Nick and Peter Furgiuele across the an opinion of his son’s music. “People ask highlight the lyrics sung by lead singer Bain Atlanta awards. Bain Mattox will be hosting form at Under the Couch [a local music country, it has been the support of their me if I think their music is good,” he said. Mattox. They don’t play woeful pity songs a CD prerelease concert at the Roxy on Oct. venue near Georgia Tech] at a battle of parents that has helped them advance “When my daughter played soccer when written about a bad breakup, but rather 28, 2005 for their new album Prizefighter, the bands, and Pete Delorenzo was there. this far. After starting the band with his she was little, she’d kick the ball 100 yards truly tragic songs. One song, “Jet Black due in stores Nov. 1. Joining them will be Nick and Pete had met working at Eats. ... younger brother and Pete Delorenzo, out of bounds and I’d be like, ‘Look, it’s my Ash”, for example, is about the homeless Nexus-featured band a fir-ju well. Don’t The idea at first was to see how it would Nick decided that he wanted to stop go- daughter, she can do anything!’ Maybe I in the subway tunnels of New York. Mattox miss this all ages show with two awesome work out recording The Dangerous Life of ing to Georgia Tech and put all his energy feel the same way about the band, but I’m sings of growing up in poverty and looking groups. an Insect [a fir-ju well’s first album].” into the group. His dad was supportive still just proud of them.” -Asa Beal ahead to a brighter but far distant future. -Nathaniel Reuter PHOTOS BY AMY JO Working towards a famed title, band a hit in Southeast

Originally from Charleston, sound that many of their fans we can relate to and musical tech- and most of their equipment was Despite their rapid ascent, the their lungs. Concluding shows, S.C., up-and-coming The Work- consider deep. niques that support the depth of stolen in Ontario. Although the boys are about as far away from Hamilton never fails to thank fans ing Title has recently made a Almost every song comes their lyrics. While Hamilton is the band members are disappointed jaded as they could be. Shows for their loyalty and will stay after wise decision to base them- with a long and intense intro primary songwriter for the band, and apologetic to fans for having usually consist of a basic set list, to meet anyone and everyone selves in Atlanta. Starting out that accurately prepares a new guitarist Adam Pavao and bass- to cancel shows, they remain up- but they love hearing requests who cares to chat. The guys even mainly as an opener for other pair of ears for what they’re in ist Chris Ginn (the oldest, at 22) beat as they continue touring the and almost always entertain have a MySpace account. We can local bands such as DropSonic for. Crowds can’t help but sing contribute several heavy and northeast and Canada. After an them. Charleston reviewers often only hope that the band’s assured and Palo Alto, The Working Title along to every word of lead emotional solos. eight-track demo for fans hungry state that the majority of the soon-to-hit fame won’t conquer has stepped up as headliner for singer Joel Hamilton’s crisp Recently, The Working Title for more music from the band, the group’s success is a result of its it’s honorable humility. Be on the the majority of stops on their and pure voice. With songs like had to cancel several shows in guys are soon to release their first dedicated fan base in the South- lookout for The Working Title Oct. recent tours. After only a little “Beloved,” which was featured Chicago, Charlotte and Atlanta real EP. The band’s label, Universal east. For forming such a short 29-30 at the Masquerade’s three- over a year of playing together, in 2003’s American Wedding, due to Hamilton’s wisdom teeth Records, has announced that a time ago, it is striking that most day Hurricane Katrina Benefit. this group of greasy-haired and “There Is None,” the band surgery. To add insult to injury full-length CD will be released fans can go an entire set singing They’d love to see you there! freethinkers have developed a touches their fans with lyrics (literally), the band’s tour van some time next year. the band’s lyrics at the tops of -Chelsea Cook WWW.THEWORKINGTITLE.COM Couture Fashion Cares charity a success

BY RHANATAH GRIFFITH & KOLEEN SULLIVAN Lance Armstrong raised more than $6 billion dollars for cancer research, all because of a yellow plastic bracelet. The girl at school with the cute pixie haircut didn’t cut her hair for style, but for the Locks of Love Foundation, which benefits cancer patients. Millions of people participate in the AIDS Walk, not just for the exercise, but to raise money to find a cure for AIDS. With each of these organizations doing its part, the fashion world wanted to be in style too. On Aug. 29, Fashion Cares, an event founded by Jeffrey Kalinsky of Jeffrey Stores in Atlanta and New York, kicked off its 13th fashion show benefiting AIDS s e a t s , and breast cancer foundations. until the Held at the Woodruff Arts r u n w a y Center in Midtown, the Jeffrey lit up Store showed the latest trends and the of the fall and winter seasons. m o d e l s Designers such as Prada, Dolce began to and Gabbana, Fendi, Gucci, Jil walk down the Sander, Manolo Blahnik, Stella catwalk. Observers indulged in McCartney and Michael Kors the most pristine and elite pieces were featured. of this season’s collections. The The event started with featured items ranged from an auction hosted by Mara cute cocktail dresses, to men’s Davis from Dave FM and Wes suits, to elaborate gowns. Moss from NBC’s Apprentice Kevin Knaus, founder of passion towards 2. Auctioned items included Style Atlanta and co-chair of a good cause. tickets to Elton John’s concert the Fashion Cares event, has “[Fashion Cares] is a fun in Las Vegas, which went for been involved with the event event to work because $10,000, and a fabulous cruise for 10 years. He was extremely you’re raising money for to Italy that went for $12,000. pleased with this year’s turnout. great charities and doing All the money raised for the “We made all our numbers a fashion event that is AIDS Foundation was matched with money raised and those exciting,” Knaus said. by Elton John himself. attending,” Knaus said. “Close to With a total of $150,000 After a lengthy but extremely 700 people attended.” going to the Susan G. successful auction, the highlight Fashion Cares is a great way Komen Breast Cancer of the event began. Atlanta’s to bring together people who Foundation and $225,000 to socialites awaited the show in have a passion for fashion, as the Atlanta AIDS Partnership their $500-to-$1,000 exclusive well as a great way to put their Fund, fashion truly does care. 16 [NEXUS] October-November 2005 Couture FASHIONABLY MARTINEZ “Grady’s Fashion Guru” Sequins sequins, everywhere. Tank tops, tunics, T-shirts, skirts and purses are all sporting sequins this season. As you walk around the hallway to your next period, you won’t have to look very far before spotting them. Who would have thought that these tiny pieces of metallic plastic could have made a come- back so strong and mainstream? In the 1980s, sequins were a material used mostly in long gowns worn at award shows. Leg- endary fashion designer Bob Mackie used so many sequins in his work in the ‘70s that he was dubbed, “the Prince of Sequins.” Today, you don’t have to be a celebrity to wear the stuff. Simply visit your favorite department store, and I guarantee that you won’t make it through the store without finding an article that is not adorned with sequins. Buy it, wear it, and sport some Rhanatah Griffith and Koleen Sullivan glamour through our halls. -Vincent Martinez THE GK RUNWAY NOMINEES Nexus’ couture editors Rhanatah Griffith and Koleen Sullivan have been keeping an eye on who’s stylin’ at Grady. Here are their top picks for for the issue. Keep dressing well, and you may just make it on the list...

Clockwise from left: Senior JerMeen Sherman sports a half-sweater. Sopho- mores Abbey Hull and Mollie Pett add glitz to an everyday outfit with a - se quined hobo bag. Senior Sam Williams looks sharp wearing a blazer and white Polo. Senior Mary Lane follows the bohemian trend with a peasant skirt. Senior Jasmine Palmer adds a splash of gold with her braided belt. Senior Photos by Rhanatah Griffith and Koleen Sullivan Chelsea Cook flaunts comfy Crocs. 17 Rostrum Bursting the Scantron bubble You can’t ignore the rules, but you can tame and transcend them BY JOHN BRANDHORST suppose that I am a participant in the real “The nail that sticks up world especially now with a baby on the will be hammered down.” way. It is a matter of survival to reconcile the qualitative and quantitative. Know – Chinese proverb the box. Understand the box. Love (or at least respect) the box. All the while, have another foot outside, wiggling your toes in the mud or cool water or fur or O utside the box. whatever your imagination may provide for you outside the box. A great professor of art This phrase is tossed history named Walter Spink used to remind me around often in creative often that there is a time to expand and a time to gather up. We gather so much that expansion environments like Grady. We win many awards here for seems unnatural. It feels like running a stop sign, our work “outside the box.” As teachers, we are told to reward receiving a truly sincere compliment or falling in thinking which is outside the box. It is even an “indicator love. There are so many rules in school to follow of giftedness” in those students that are not “academically while gathering. Imagine roads or bowling oriented.” There is great value placed on this divergent type of alleys without lanes. Redefine rules as lanes, not thinking and action. The outside-the-box geniuses of our history barbed wire fences. Expand without steering are printed on posters. Their words grace bumper stickers and T- into oncoming traffic. Use your turn signal, shirts that supposedly indicate the relative genius of those who please. wear them. If it is even true that imagination is more important Therefore, to gather up, do your work young than knowledge, as Einstein said, then why is the basic value of grasshoppers. Do it well. Score your points intelligence still reducible into the digits of the IQ, SAT, GGT, ACT so that they can be correlated into and all the other acronyms of academic scorekeeping? dollars. If points are all that you are going for, then you This trend to objectify experience is the box. Imagination, If imagination creativity, nuance, intuition and all the other qualities of are inside the box. There is inspired action cannot be scanned and graded by a is more important than safety in the box. The box machine. Painting and dance will never be aspects of knowledge, then why is the is your religion, and your a standardized test for this reason: too subjective, too basic value of intelligence glory will be defined messy… too outside the box. How are we to reconcile still reduced to the digits of inside its house. To get outside the box, do your this contradiction? The qualitative, subjective and the ACT, SAT, and all other emotional concerns that dictate our quality of life are work so well that you fenced by the numbers that quantify it. acronyms of academic leave the points and the Perhaps there is a way to reconcile this yin and yang scorekeeping? rubrics and all that in your of our daily functions. Perhaps there is a way to operate in dust. Combine two projects the school setting with one foot in each type of assessment. from different classes and solve America seems to create a religion for all or nothing: “with me or both problems with one solution. against me”; red state versus blue state; black, white or “other.” Write your research paper in iambic pentameter. This kind of thinking is referred to as dualistic. It is full of mutually Perform (non-explosive) science experiments in exclusive concepts that do nothing to break down boundaries, the courtyard at lunch. Volunteer some time to expand horizons or open up minds. The purpose of dualistic thought pick up trash, just ‘cuz. Submit to the Lit. Unless is to limit, analyze and define. Its purpose at its most extreme is to you’re afraid (see “box” above). pigeon-hole and stereotype the infinitely complex variety of things and ideas that make up reality. It is the backbone of fascism. My way “The universe begins to look more like a great or the highway. My challenge as a teacher, especially as an art teacher, thought than a great machine.” is to balance the liquid, qualitative nature of creative expression with -Sir James Jeans the pragmatic necessity of counting, percentiles, deadline, budgets “If the doors of perception were cleansed every and grades. As a student, you confront the same obstacles as viewed thing would appear to man as it actually is, from the other side of the desk. infinite.” Theoretically, high school is preparation for the “real world.” I -William Blake 18 [NEXUS]October-November, 2005 Rostrum Please can’t we all be true neighbors? BY BRANDON SHEATS college friend of mine benefactors of the ordinance. With the One; those that do not live in areas A was sitting in his sociology opening of the Georgia Aquarium and of poverty do not understand, much class a week ago and an the overall growth of downtown on less appreciate how capitalism can interesting discussion came up. The the table, how can anyone not want shut one out without recourse, professor wanted to discuss the recent to improve the quality of life for those how the middle class can quickly panhandling ban that was passed by that do not live in the affected areas? turn into the lower class, and how the city council. The ban, designed The problem is not one of one family’s home can belong to to placate business and homelessness lowering the someone else very quickly. Two; that tourism, cracks down quality of life; it’s that people when we consider building a new on “aggressive that live outside of the city road, or adding a new business, we panhandling,” are catered to for the sake do not consider the needs of the something I think of tourism dollars. city or region at large, building two that only our mayor The problem is a very of the same store within miles of can define. simple one. Atlantans do each other. Three; when Atlantans In the discussion, not have a sense of unity go from work to home, often in two which I entered at in policy and collaborative different areas, we think of only how one point, a range thinking. I know we have the to get from point A to point B more of heated comments Atlanta Regional Commission quickly. emerged. One person simply and other organizations meant to This factionalism creates a couldn’t understand why homeless unify policy, but we have this disjointed situation which must be changed; people are homeless to begin with, sense of identity. I live downtown; MARTA cannot get enough funding, stating the numerous social programs another person lives in Morningside. because suburbanites fear urban available, such as the new 24/7 The sense of a unified Atlanta expansion into their counties. Gateway Center carved out of the disappears if one Even now, as the EPA places former city jail. “The Center is only a travels from one The real prob- restrictions on our gas, prelude to where the homeless end up neighborhood our state is still bent on if they break the ordinance,” I thought. to another. This lem is that Atlantans building more roads Another connected the problem quite possibly do not have a sense of -uni everywhere. Why back to those “illegal Mexicans” that comes from ty. I live in downtown; anotherhave we cut back on crawl over our border. The entire the residential person lives in Morningside, affordable housing conversation came to a head over segregation and the sense of a unified in the city to meet where the students live. They lived of the early rising demand from in the northern suburbs, a liability of 20th century, Atlanta disappears from suburbanites wishing sorts. This led to more arguing about and although one neighborhood to live closer to work? how suburbanites don’t know the all areas have to another. And this brings us back state of “true” Atlanta. become integrated full circle to the reason why Because I have lived downtown racially and, in some cases the council passed the ban on and close enough to the suburbs to socioeconomically, that sense of aggressive panhandling in the first count as suburban, I have a different “neighborhoodism” remains. place. perspective. When downtown, there And our city government knows Although I agree something has was always someone begging with a this. This is the reason why we give to be done about the homeless cup, or offering to sell me something, neighborhood associations power situation, banning panhandling like pulled up flowers, and the like. and establish neighborhood planning with an unenforceable (the ban I also saw many people go through units. gives a penalty of a fine in some downtown, either at work or going to City Hall acts as the machine cases), poorly defined plan is not a Braves or Falcons game. As common coordinating all these disparate groups, only bad for Atlanta, it deters our sense would dictate, panhandlers following the recommendations of the progress of becoming a more would try to get money off occasional units in zoning and listening hard unified city and region, by pushing visitors to the core of Atlanta. These to the business community when it those that need help the most onto visitors, who never actually stay in the speaks. your residential street and into jails downtown area for more than a few But what does this insularity mean you pay for, instead of fostering hours, were cited as one of the main for Atlanta? It means a few things. productive lives.

19 Menagerie C R A M E R ’ S With at least 15 named tropical depending on how the water was storms in the Atlantic, this has swirled before the plug is pulled. been a very active hurricane Try this: Fill a kitchen sink with season. All systems that rotate water after tying a string to the are called cyclones. Hurricanes plug. Swirl the water clockwise O are created when warm waters with your hand. Wait 20-30 near the equator heat the air minutes, then pull the plug. As the above them. The warmer air water drains note the direction it rises rapidly, drawing in air turns. R from surrounding areas. This Try filling a two-liter drink bottle inflowing air begins to follow a with water, invert and swirl it in curved path caused by the earth’s of the earth’s rotation. This one direction. Even if you wait N rotation (the Coriolis Effect). The phenomenon has led many several minutes before removing net result is that large storms in people to believe that toilets and the top, the water will conserve the Northern Hemisphere turn sinks always drain in the same rotational inertia and rotate faster counterclockwise, while flowing direction above the equator. and faster in the swirled direction E clockwise in the Southern Unfortunately, this belief is a as it drains. Hemisphere. myth, as these systems are much For a more dramatic demon- Water is also a fluid that too small to be controlled by the stration of cyclones stop by my rotates under certain conditions. earth’s movement. Toilets drain room in January for a desktop R Large-scale ocean currents, in the direction the water is tornado that often reaches almost such as the Gulf Stream, move forced into the bowl, which often to the ceiling. In room C311, there counterclockwise north of the happens to be counterclockwise. is always something exciting hap equator under the influence Sinks can drain in either direction pening. -Jeff Cramer

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20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Thanks- Thanks- Kanye System Jackets of a Down’s giving giving Day vs. West plays at break Philips Arena album Bulldogs at Hypnotize is begins/ Bobby Dodd released. Xbox 360 Staduim released.

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