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contents Weekly Web Poll 03 Inside Buzz Log on to www.myspace.com/dailytitanbuzz to vote 04 Seussical is Musical The question: “Who is the best reality show host?” Is it Survivor’s Jeff Probst? Amazing Race’s Phil Keoghan? Someone Else? You tell us! www.myspace.com/dailytitanbuzz Student Guitarist Profiled my final midterm, which was to get a house in Texas because the 05 Chris Murray Plays Reggae Tuesday night, I realized as soon price is so good, and because it’s Editor’s as I got the test, it was a lot easier closer to California, where my sister Buzz Fashion than I had expected, and I ditched and I live. Buzz Travel Letter my class earlier that day to study for My dad will be in Orange County no reason. I’m not upset about it until the end of December, then 06 Employee of the Month Reviewed Hi everyone, thank you for though, just very surprised. he will join my mom in Texas and reading The Buzz this week. I’m going to Houston, Texas this probably sell the condo in Florida. Buzz Book Review I have some sad news ... our male weekend for my mom’s birthday. It’s all very complicated but the 07 Classics at the Movies at Meng turtle, Lox, passed away last week. After I graduated from high point is, I’m going to Texas this We don’t know what happened. school, my parents moved to weekend, and I’ll be coming back Buzz CD Review: The Killers One day he was sick, the next day Florida. While they were there, my with a cowboy hat on. he was gone. dad started working in Alaska, then – Kirsten Alto Bagles is healthy, though, so we’re Tennessee and finally, Laguna, right just hoping she stays that way. down the freeway – flying to Florida Lox Turtle COVER: I am done with midterms, finally. every few weeks to relax. ??/06-10/06 Dr. Suess gets musical in After studying way too much for During this time, they decided Seussical, the new play starting tomorrow in CSUF’s Little Theatre.

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CHECK ONLINE IF YOU SEE ME, GO TO WWW.MYSPACE.COM/ DAILYTITANBUZZ 10.12.06 p.4...... The Cat in the Hat is Musical inSeussical By JULIANNA CRISALLI Pearson said. “It has been a roller-coaster ride. It Daily Titan Staff Writer Lett said Pearson adapted to the has been fun, exciting and tedious,” [email protected] position with professionalism. Nearhoff said. “This is an exciting “He is clearly not a student; he is week when it all comes together.” While the stage is covered with clearly a director,” Lett said. With the correct lighting and people in black, checking the sound Students are directing the scenery in place, Lett said some of in the front and the back, bright costumes, makeup, hair, scenery, the dancing had to be “fine-tuned.” colored costumes hang on racks music and choreography. One scene involves the actors on long and tall, preparing for actors as “This allows the students to take roller skates, and if the choreography they wiz down the hall. on an authoritative position. When is off, they could end up in the For the past six weeks, theater the students leave here, they have orchestra pit, Lett said. students have been singing and had the opportunity to design a “When all the elements start reciting their way through the works show,” Pearson said. coming together, then everyday of Dr. Seuss in preparation for the During the past week, all the there is a new obstacle,” he said. opening of Seussical: The Musical elements of the production have Lett said the final week of a tomorrow. come together. Ryan Nearhoff, who production always has its ups and “I am interested to see the plays the Cat in the Hat, said that downs, but they will be ready by audience’s response because of the working with the live orchestra and show time. show’s history,” said William Lett, wearing the costumes gives the actors Seussical: The Musical runs until co-choreographer for the production a boost after a tiring six weeks. Oct. 29 in the Little Theatre. and Cal State Fullerton professor. “The show had an unexpected Photo by Ian Hamilton life outside Broadway. It actually Wearing a Familiar Hat The Whos of Whoville introduce themselves through a song in the production. In high school, Ryan Nearhoff one important thing to do was to professionalism,” he said, “It is not became more popular.” By Erin Tobin wanted to be a rock star. buy yourself one treat a week to quite just doing it because its fun. It The Cat in the Hat acts as a guide For The Daily Titan throughout the show introducing [email protected] This Friday he will take the stage, remind yourself you’re special. is more about the art.” the audience to some of the most not as a drummer, but as one of “It was something you didn’t During his time at CSUF, he has famous characters of Dr. Seuss, the most well-known characters in expect her to say,” Nearhoff said. had both dramatic and comedic including Morton the Elephant and children’s literature, the Cat in the The trip marked a huge change parts, but he said he honestly doesn’t the Whos of Whoville. Tuffy, the Hat in Seussical: the Musical. from someone who wasn’t happy have a least-favorite role. Titan mascot, is even given a guest Last April, Nearhoff won the about theater at first. “Everything has been a great mention in one of the songs. Williamstown Theater Festival Nearhoff said he wasn’t thrilled experience,” Nearhoff said. The majority of the production Apprenticeship, and he considers when his mother enrolled both him Nearhoff said he didn’t expect to crew is students. The show’s director, the win quite a gift. and his sister in theater at age 15, get the role of the Cat in the Hat Patrick Pearson, is a graduate “It was an amazing glimpse at but, eventually, he found his niche. but now it’s one of his favorites. student at CSUF and has directed professional life,” Nearhoff said. “I “I always liked to sing and “There’s no holding back,” he campus productions before, but he feel like I really matured there.” perform,” he said. said. “I get to be a child.” said this is by far the biggest. One moment that really struck The balance between singing, Jim Voltz, a professor in the “This wasn’t completely foreign him during the apprenticeship dancing and acting at CSUF is one theater department, said The Cat in territory for me, but there were so was when actress Kathleen Turner Nearhoff says he admires. the Hat could very well be Nearhoff’s many new elements to work with,” Photo by Ian Hamilton instructed to the master class that “They really care about best performance at CSUF so far. CSUF Student Guitarist Dreams of Touring Country By Karen Aman Daily Titan Staff Writer performing arts building at CSUF “The rock band is just for fun-we’re [email protected] strumming a beautiful ballad. still looking for singers,” he said. “It’s hard to portray those The song Ramirez enjoys playing Daniel Ramirez was 10 years old emotions out to the public,” he the most is “Figueroaa,” a song that when he and his father drove by a said. “I’m so nervous because I have his rock band wrote. music store. to play just by myself and be able to “It’s about living in L.A. and the by KarenPhoto A man “I saw a green guitar, and at that support myself musically.” people that are used to that kind time [green] was my favorite color,” Ramirez would like to teach of life,” Ramirez said. “Everyone Ramirez, 23, said. “So I just asked guitar and perform at weddings, has their own little things that set him to buy me a green guitar.” parties and whatever gig he can find them apart and make them special Ramirez’ father took him into the after he graduates. or different.” music store and signed him up for He said no matter what happens, Ramirez said guitar is his first guitar lessons. it’s going to be a hard road. love, and what he likes about it is “I never really found any interest “I’m already in a couple bands,” the reaction he gets. are trying to experience.” where the public knows only the in playing until I saw that guitar,” he said. “I have a hip-hop band that “It’s become such a part of me, it Ramirez’ wildest ambition is singers. Ramirez said. I’m doing, a cover band, and a trio feels just like a natural thing now,” touring. “My dream is not to become As Ramirez held his first guitar, group.” he said. “I like to play in front of “Playing music, going out, famous,” he said. “I’d be happy though not the green one, his Ramirez’ hip-hop band is called people.” actually touring three months doing something and not making as thoughts were, “Wow, I’m going to Illagan. The name is derived from “When it comes down to it, I around the country, ” Ramirez said. much. As long as I’m happy, that’s play music.” the television show “Gilligan’s don’t really like attention, but it’s “Just traveling and just doing it.” what I care about.” He’s been playing ever since. Island.” And the cover band is for just fun when people really like Ramirez said he would be happy And, if you’re curious, Ramirez Ramirez sits outside the parties and weddings, Ramirez said. what you’re performing or what you just being the guitarist in some band never did play that green guitar...... p.5 10.12.06 Traveled Artist Performs Reggae in TSU Pub said. “But it’s really a healthy thing Los Angeles can also a very By jonathan saavedra to play to people who may have competitive place to be a musician. Daily Titan Staff Writer not heard reggae before, so I really “Of course it’s competitive [email protected] welcome that kind of opportunity.” because so many people come Prior to becoming a solo artist here, any band who tours will Chris Murray has hopped from based in Los Angeles, Murray come here, but I think it’s a healthy continent to continent, including was a part of now-defunct, competition,” he said. Europe, Asia and South America, influential Canadian ska band King Another thing that separates Los playing different shows throughout Apparatus. Angeles from other parts of the his music career. What drew the Canadian singer/ world is the audience. Photo Courtesy Photo Chris Murray

Last Thursday, he found songwriter to Los Angeles was the “People here have been exposed himself at Cal State Fullerton’s fact that the bands in the area played to the best, so it’s hard to impress TSU Underground Pub where a more authentic style of reggae, people,” Murray said. he performed some Jamaican- rocksteady and ska, he said. “You have to be really good to influenced ska and reggae in a lax, “When I saw what was happening win a crowd because they’ve just campfireesque atmosphere mixed out here, that got me really excited,” been exposed to everything, and if with some students ordering their Murray said. you’re kind of in the middle, they’re lunches and leaving the show early “There’s a large community of not that interested.” things that connects with people in artist or musician, the thing that to get to class. people who are very arts, music, Whether Murray is performing any kind of setting,” Murray said. really gives you the momentum to “I understood more or less what entertainment oriented, so it’s a nice in a club in Los Angeles, a pub at “It could be in a backyard or on a keep going and going.” the situation would be, and I’ve place to be as a musician because CSUF or a venue in a different time stage in a big, formal production. played this kind of show before there’s a lot to do, a lot of places to zone on the other side of the world, But really what connects music and where I’m playing in an eating LISTEN ONLINE play, and a lot of people who are there is one thing that is always people is the same, whatever scenario TO CHRIS MURRAY AT area, and people are having lunch, really talented that have come here there – music. you’re in, and I think that is, for an WWW.MYSPACE.COM/ coming in and coming out,” Murray or were here originally.” “I think music is just one of those DAILYTITANBUZZ Buzz Travel Buzz Fashion Walk Like the Egyptians The CSUF Dos and Don’ts By alicia david CHECK ONLINE By Angie El Sherif FOR MORE DOS AND

herif For The Daily Titan Daily Titan Staff Writer DON’TS AT WWW. l S [email protected] [email protected] MYSPACE.COM/ DAILYTITANBUZZ Only one of the ancient Seven Wonders of the World still stands today: the pyramids of Egypt. Built on the west bank of the Nile River in Giza during the fourth CourtesyPhoto A ngie E dynasty, they are also the oldest of the seven wonders. It’s one thing to see countless pictures of the pyramids, but it’s another to stand at the foot of one. They’re simply stunning up close. DO support Cal State Fullerton

There are three great pyramids: one point during the two-hour long camel ride to A of the the pyramids, guide stops and all three in view. Egyptian pyramids are great by wearing CSUF apparel. DON’T wear legwarmers Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure. The and flip flops. it’s confusing and largest of the pyramids is that of The guide will, in the best a building about 100 yards from you’re contradicting yourself. King Khufu, which is sometimes English he can, tell tourists little the pyramids. They were made called the Great Pyramid. details about the history of the area. to carry the pharaoh’s body to the It covers an area of over 12 On the way inside the pyramids, pyramid – the Nile flooded to the acres, and, according to the Greek there is a long, narrow walkway that foot of his tomb in those days. To historian Herodotus, 10 years and leads to the tomb of the king. help preserve them, they make 100 thousand laborers were required The walkways are also short, so tourists wear dust-free booties. to prepare the site. you walk crouched over for about The famous Sphinx of Egypt on The trip to the Giza Pyramids 10 minutes. Not to mention, the the Giza Plaeau also must be visited. takes about six hours and no more air inside is hot and stuffy. With the head of a king and the than $13 per person. For those who can stand the heat body of a lion, this colossus is carved When you first arrive at the and contracted walkways, it’s quite out of the very bedrock in which it pyramids, it’s best to go straight to an adventure to walk in the footsteps sits. You can get so close to it that one of the horse stables and rent a of the ancient Egyptians. you can even see between the paws. horse or camel. The Giza Plateau is home to a In Egypt, the pyramids are the DON’T wear Ugg Boots During the horseback or camel number of other important early one stop tourists can’t miss. when it’s over 60 degrees out. When we know your feet are ride, a man guides you for about tombs and other structures that are Visiting Egypt without seeing sweating up the shoes, they just DO get fun-patterned purses/ two hours to the best site-seeing almost always bypassed. them is like going to Disneyland aren’t as cute anymore. bookbags to match your outfit. spots on the Giza Plateau. There are two boats placed in without seeing Mickey Mouse. 10.12.06 p.6 ...... Employee of the Month Weak, Predictable, Mindless By christina martinez In the beginning, there is an Daily Titan Staff Writer immediate awkwardness between [email protected] Zack and Amy but, for some In an attempt to re-create an reason, it’s portrayed as chemistry. Office Space-type of movie, Employee Apparently, they have so much in of the Month falls short, but does common. have some comedic high points. The relationship between Vince The movie’s main character and his box-boy Jorge (Napoleon Zack (Dane Cook), is a Dynamite alum Efren Ramirez) is a 30-something slacker who lives with little hard to watch. his grandmother and works as a The chemistry is weird and didn’t box-boy at a Costco-like superstore. hold my attention. Zack has given up on responsibility Amy doesn’t really talk throughout and cares more about his daily poker the movie except when she tells game in his secret clubhouse at work Zack she has dinner plans with than he does about his job. Vince. She is just there as a “prize Throughout the movie, Zack is to be won” for Zack and Vince. on a quest to become the employee The move is funny if you’ve ever of the month to impress a new worked in retail or had overexcited cashier of few words, Amy (Jessica bosses who live off of customer Simpson). Rumor is that Amy has a satisfaction and inventory numbers. thing for employees of the month. Zack’s friends make the movie However, Zack’s co-worker and entertaining as well, especially Lon nemesis, the egotistical Vince, (Dax (Andy Dick). This optometrist Photo by: John Johnson / Courtesy of Lions Gate Films Shepard), is an overachieving cashier specialist is almost blind himself. Russell (Harland Williams) and Lon (Andy Dick) in a Greg Coolidge comedy,“Employee of the Month.” who’s been employee of the month His one liners and physical for many months running. comedy due to his eyesight trouble jokes and the characters that uninteresting and predictable. However, if you’re in for a He has the “fastest hands in the makes parts of the movie really deliver them, Employee of the Month Everyone watching knows who mindless piece of entertainment that southwest” and is also vying for amusing. wouldn’t have held my attention. is going to win in the big finale has some good moments, Employee Amy’s attention. However, if it wasn’t for the The story line is weak, finish. of the Month is the movie to see. Book Review Drew Karpyshyn’s “Darth Bane: Path of Destruction”

Phantom Menace. the most famous dark force user the Where did the rule of two come world doesn’t know about. from? The book explores a character This question has been speculated that most people would despise, but over for the last seven years, and tells his story in a way so the one can now the answer is here. understand why he chose the path Drew Karpyshyn’s new novel he did. “Darth Bane: Path of Destruction” While perhaps unable to takes us into the mind of the Sith sympathize with Darth Bane, one Lord that created the rule of two can empathize with the decisions he from the chaos which was the made to cope with the life he was original Sith order. dealt. Karpyshyn unfolds the journey The book explains that using By Aaron Holtsclaw of Dessel, the future Sith Lord, the dark side in and of itself is not Daily Titan Staff Writer starting from a mining colony evil, but the motivations of the [email protected] where his drunken father called him user dictate the good or evil of the act. the “bane” of his existence, to his Fans of science fiction or the Star life in the Sith army and then to his Wars universe will want to pick up In May of 1999, Star Wars fans ascendance to become a master of this book to see the history behind were granted little information the dark side of the Force. the dark side of the force, and read about the Sith they would not fully As lead writer of the successful a good story. understand until now. “Knights of the Old Republic” video Karpyshyn will be answering “Always two there are. No more, game, Karpyshyn learned about the questions from fans and signing his no less. A master and an apprentice,” Sith and was respected enough to be book tonight at Barnes and Noble Master Yoda said at the end of The called upon to write a book about in Huntington Beach at 7 p.m...... p.7 10.12.06 Meng Hosts Orchestral Classics TSU Pub Serenaded Oct. 4

By Kevin cole the violinists. Dickey said he plays the organ at Daily Titan Staff Writer By his side for the next piece, the First Congregational Church in [email protected] Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Long Beach. Op. 43 by Sergei Rachmaninoff was The organ part of the Symphony It was Classics at the Movies at Rob Watson, professor of music and No. three in C minor Op. 78 by Cal State Fullerton’s Meng Concert keyboard area coordinator. Camille Saint-Saens was played by Hall. The work was used in 1953’s The Dickey. The idea for the theme was Three Loves and 40 years later in It was adapted and used in 1995’s arrived at after discussions between Groundhog Day. filmBabe . the conductor and the chair of the It took 90 days to practice and While it’s not a big solo piece, music department. memorize the piece, Watson said. it plays a prominent role in the The performance was sold out in He selected it after a discussion symphony as one more instrument the 800-seat hall, which can be tuned with Kimo Furumoto, music in the orchestra, and that’s why it’s by moving the acoustic canopy up director and conductor. called the organ symphony, he said. and down in addition to the curtains “Rachmaninoff himself was a It was a wonderful experience on the side, chair of the music superb pianist, and he actually had for the students to play with a pipe department Marc Dickey said. recordings of it as well, which were organ, Dickey said. The acoustics are designed to have excellent. I enjoy hearing those,” Furumoto said though he’s a the hall sound the same no matter Watson said. violinist himself, his focus is on the how many seats are filled. Noh said the orchestra never gets entire orchestra. The sellout crowd first heard the bored with what he described as a “I am always interested in the Photo by Suzanne Sullivan overture from the Marriage of Figaro great piece all by itself. full orchestral color and fabric. [...] Marcus Johnson drums durng Serenade Me Cadence’s Becker Ampitheatre performance at CSUF while Trevor Ford plays guitar in front of him. by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. “I don’t think there was one I love the violin part, but I also Among the movies it was used moment when you lost the crowd, like to hear the harp, clarinet and were 1983’s Trading Places, and it was just so intense, and I think it trombone solos. I am interested 1993’s Last Action Hero. was a lot of fun, very musical stuff,” in all of those colors, not just the It’s also a very good study of Noh said. violin,” Furumoto said. Mozart’s work, concert master Fun and valuable experience The next musical performance at Daniel Noh said. was what the conductor and music the Meng Concert Hall will be A “It helps us to get involved department chair thought the Celebration of the Piano with Rob musically and technically,” he said. orchestra would gain from playing Watson, Alison Edwards & Sergey Noh was the first chair among with a pipe organ. Martinchuk on Oct. 28. Killers Sam’s Town Strays from Hot Fuss neo-’80s By Paolo Andres Daily Titan Staff Writer But, unfortunately, the band has a rock-opera feel that is akin to [email protected] deviated so much from Hot Fuss that Queen’s glam-rock style. their new album is really more of a Sadly, this same inspiration can Killers-esque sound than a genuine be quite detrimental since the band Killers flair. incorporates some of the more The album, by itself, is not badly outdated styles of past bands. made. It’s actually far from it. Though Hot Fuss also integrated Lyrically, the album is quite superb an old school sense to it, their ’80s- with tracks that highlight vocalist pop feel actually mixed well because Brandon Flower’s poetic capability of the country’s recent appeal to the with lyrics like “They say the devil’s ’80s culture. water, it ain’t so sweet / you don’t This time though, the band has have to drink right now / but you gone even further back with their can dip your feet / every once in a use of Springsteen-style melodies. little while” in “When You Were Unfortunately, the Killers have If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Young.” missed their mark on this one since The Killers’ new album, Sam’s Many of the songs are actually it seems that people are not yet Town, has deviated so much from quite catchy and are full of impact ready to head that far back in the their original sound that their music and energy, reminiscent of the same musical timeline. just becomes a faint pigment of the brilliant, up-tempo tunes from Hot All-in-all, their new album is a neo-’80s pop that made their first Fuss. hit-or-miss kind of affair that will album, Hot Fuss, a multiplatinum With elements from the music both titillate and frustrate new and hit. giants emanating from each rift and old fans alike. Technically, the band seems chord, some of the songs, though grown up with new elements different, can be quite appealing LISTEN ONLINE NEW KILLERS @ WWW. derived from musical giants U2 and and catchy. The track “Why do I MYSPACE.COM/DAILYTI- Bruce Springsteen. Keep Counting,” for example, has TANBUZZ