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See GATSBY on page twelve Issue 9 May 23, 2013 From Sinatra to the Stones A musical summer playlist that covers the gamut Congratulations: you’re almost to the ~Wetsuit - The Vaccines: For the “Nobody knows what the future holds; and The Old Crowe Medicine Show: finish line - the home stretch, the last poolside days. it’s bad enough just getting old.” Everyone should know this song. push: the end is finally in sight! ~Sun Hands - Local Natives: Endur- ~Savannah - Relient K: “All the feel- ~That’s What’s Up - Edward Sharpe In just a week, the glory of summer ing the night for the promise of a light. ings that our hearts will find will be just & the Magnetic Zeros: Summer is will be upon us yet again: after a long, ~Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones: what we expect.” what’s up. action-packed 181 school days, filled Every summer playlist needs some ~Ragged Wood - Fleet Foxes: The Cheers to the completion of another with Lucas Oil games, volleyball and Stones. sound of late-night, summer drives. year, and here’s to what I hope will be basketball championships, snow days, ~Postcards From Italy - Beirut: ~Wagon Wheel - Mumford & Sons, your best summer yet. Peace out, boys Robotics teams and AP grants, the Rejoice after putting feet just where they Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros and girls. (See You Soon - Coldplay) time has come to say goodbye to these had to go for ten months. hallways and lockers in exchange for ~It’s Nice To Be Alive - Ball Park The appreciation of a high school a long-awaited hello to sweet summer Music: It’s kinda nice to be alive, be- freedom. lieve it or not. Realistic attitudes and fashionable enemies And what better way to say hello than ~Codeine - Trampled by Turtles: I am very rarely caught defending sism that says “I’m too good for this,” or with a summer playlist? Here are just Good roadtrippin’ song. the status quo, and am less likely to be rather, “this isn’t good enough for me.” a few to kick off your Summer 2013. ~A Little Party Never Killed Nobody considered an active part of the estab- This brash feeling of entitlement would (I almost added that What Time Is It? - Fergie, Q-Tip & GoonRock: Enough lished zeitgeist. But here, from me you be less offensive if it weren’t so infec- song from High School Musical, but I said. have a proud and contented state- tious, poisoning pupil against pupil. decided to refrain from doing so. You’re ~Gold On the Ceiling - The Black ment (and I cannot, I will not recant!): In the three years I have spent at our welcome.) Keys: The perfect summer jam. Speedway High School is a great school, small school I have had been able to ~Adelaide - Ben Folds: This one just ~Quesadilla - Walk the Moon: This filled with underrated advantages and achieve what success I have had because sounds like summer. song actually has nothing to do with underappreciated benefits that are not my teachers know me, they know me ~Garands - Young the Giant: Here’s quesadillas, I’m pretty sure. found elsewhere. Of course there are See WAKE UP on page twelve to starting anew. ~The Cave - Mumford & Sons: Find some drawbacks to a smaller school like ~The Adventure - Angels & Air- strength in pain, change your ways, and our own, i.e. Spanish being the only waves: A perfect soundtrack for the know your name as it’s called again. foreign language course offered. But adventures of summer 2013. ~Change - Churchill: You will not it is ultimately the dynamic of a small regret listening to this song. Just do it. school in a close-knit community that ~Summer Wind - Frank Sinatra: Sum- elevates the individual long enough for mer wind is worth writing a song about. him to succeed and feel like his educa- ~Puzzle Pieces - Saint Motel: This tion is valuable not merely in the context summer is just one piece of the puzzle... of the future, but in the felt presence of ~Two Shoes - The Cat Empire: Sum- his immediate experience. I’ve noticed mer dancin’ music. recently, however, people succumbing ~Fluorescent Adolescent - The band’s to an insidious delusion— one which name is “Arctic Monkeys.” Good stuff. psychologically presupposes the world ~Walt Grace’s Submarine Test, Janu- of experience and severely limits the ary 1967 - John Mayer: “When you’re learning curve— that of apathy, that of done with this world, you know the next embittered nonchalance. I’m speaking of is up to you.” the arrogant attitude some of our peers ~Diane Young - Vampire Weekend: have, friends: a deluded spiel of narcis- It’s not a goodbye, As we go on: but a see you later It has come to that time that I have a hole and the bike goes flying with her that making friends was easy, I made dreaded for 17 years now. It’s almost the and my cousin in it. more and more. I wouldn’t change it for day to tell my sister goodbye for college. My youngest cousin and I burst out in the world because now I have the best How does one go about saying good- laughter once we saw that they were al- friends that anyone could ask for. bye to their best friend for 17 years? I right. That day will always be engraved Kati and I grew a little apart, but that know it’s not forever, but it is four years in my mind for as long as I live. Those was only because of how busy high that she will be living away from home. are the days I wish I could go back and school life is. She played every sport And then, there is no telling where we relive. There was not a worry in the known to woman and I was the average will be after college. world back then and life was happy. band geek. We were still close, but not Kati and I have always been best As we grew older Kati and I always as close as we were when we were kids. friends. For as long as I can remember, stayed close. My first day of junior It sucks growing up. People come in and we have always been together running high, I can remember being extremely out of your life; you try to find who you in the front yard and causing a ruckus. terrified. She led me to all of my classes are; you find out that the world is not as One fond memory that I have from and made sure that I was okay. It was great as it seemed when you were a kid. my childhood is when we were about wonderful having an older sister to lead Things start to become real when you five and six, Kati, my cousins and I took me around and show me the ropes. grow up. my grandma’s three-wheeler and rode it High school came around and I be- Now that brings me to this year. We Kati will always be my big sister and down a huge hill near her house. It was came more self-sufficient. I didn’t rely have weeks left before we have to say I will never lose touch with her. Maybe all fun and games until Kati got behind on her as much as I used to. I became goodbye to our loved ones as they move we won’t be as close as we were when the wheel. She gets on and my cousin is more of my own self and I started to on to bigger and better things. It’s not we were younger, but we will always in the basket in the back and they start branch out to other people. As a fresh- really a goodbye, but more of a see you have that brother and sister bond that down the long hill. They almost make it man, I met Ivie Hiller and we became later or until next time. can never be broken. to the bottom and then disaster! She hits best friends extremely fast. Once I saw To the benevolent wonder of love and hope The French Assailant reviews this near classic His latest piece of art is To the derestimate our intelligence. His sanc- this film experience with an open mind Wonder starring Ben Affleck, Olga tity is discovered from within his own and eyes to view without the cloudy Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams, and lyrical and poetic soul to overstate his fluff to discard. Even if this movie Javier Bardem which depicts why love intentions for the sake of the audience descends into some nonsense towards and hope are the greatest of all forces but sometimes you have to be patient in the end, it still focuses all of its exciting known in this world.