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BRAND NEW COMIC SOCCER STARTS STRONG Welcome our new ‘Nique comic strip, Tech’s soccer team has won its first ENTERTAINMENT which should be entertaining during game and is poised for a great season Technique • Friday, September 23, 2005 those boring Friday classes . Page 18 this year. Page 26 Happy Tree Friends kill, maim as usual All’s fair at the county fair By Eldon Stegall HTF is probably worth checking Contributing Writer out. Their website, http://www. Tonight and tomorrow, take a happytreefriends.com, gives you a break from crazy city life and head Before the slaughter begins, one sampling of the wonderful gore that out to the Gwinnett County Fair. fact about Happy Tree Friends must these twisted minds came up with. With a carnival, arts and crafts, be made clear. At Tech, where flash Be warned, though, this stuff is not livestock and all of the other stuff movies fly across the campus more by any stretch of the imagination that goes along with a county fair, often than birds, and “WTF, mate?” for the faint of heart or for the easily it’s a good, cheap way to get away for has long been a part of the vernacu- offended. awhile. General admission is $5; $2 lar, animated Each episode for seniors and children ages six to 12 shorts featuring is three to four and children under five are admitted the Happy Tree minutes long and free. For more information, visit Friends (here- Seniors fondly features child- www.gwinnettcountyfair.com. after referred like characters to as HTF) are reminisce of the first such as Cud- Rock out at far from new, time they saw “Eye dles the bunny, and their new Nutty, the rabid, Atlanta Rockfest DVD, Overkill, Candy” or “Spin sugar-addicted is more of the Fun Knowin’ Ya” squirrel, and Tonight at the Roxy, rock bands same, not that Flippy, the bear Cracker, Hot Young Priest and The that’s necessarily in freshman dorms Vietnam War vet Trust will be performing at the a bad thing. with a laugh and a with kindness 2005 Atlanta Rockfest. This all ages Seniors fond- in his heart and show costs $20 to get in the door, ly reminisce of grimace. murder in his and proceeds from ticket sales go to the first time eyes. the Starlight Starbright Children’s they saw “Eye Candy” or “Spin Fun The writers were wise enough to Foundation. So if you’ve got an Knowin’ Ya” in freshman dorms see that dialogue detracts from the PHOTO COURTESY MONDO MEDIA extra Andrew Jackson lying around with a laugh and a grimace. How fun of pure, unadulterated violence, The Happy Tree Friends go for a lovely wagon ride, which, like all of and are into any of these bands, the could it be otherwise for a series that so the extent of communication is their adventures, goes wrong in an epically violent sort of way. doors open at 7 p.m. and the music seems to combine the best parts of childlike babbling. However, in first stick of dynamite would have of the situations that the Friends starts at 8 p.m. kitschy animation, tongue-in-cheek order to fulfill their commitment to been more than enough to merit a encounter is not high by any measure, innocence and more gore than your some modicum of actual thought, closed-casket funeral. but for entertainment’s sake, it’s no Coldplay coming average Sam Raimi movie? they have provided helpful quips In fact, HTF shows why it is more of a stretch of the imagination It seems that, despite all attempts such as “Smiles are always free!” perhaps not the best idea to have a than, say, talking meatballs, fries to Philips Arena at good taste and the maintenance and “Don’t forget to floss!” at the campfire in your wooden tree house, or shakes. of social norms, HTF has amassed end of each episode, following the or hang your head out of the window There are few more culturally On Wednesday, Sept. 28, Cold- quite a following, and, though it credits that are almost as lengthy as of the school bus, and plays the universal symbols than cartoons, play will be playing a show at Philips fails completely to stimulate on any the film itself. modern counterpart to the old-style and the creators of HTF are just the Arena with guest Rilo Kiley. Tickets kind of intellectual level, its morbid Despite its notable setbacks, fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, newest couple of guys to realize it. cost from $38 to $61 and the show appeal calls to anyone who ever drove Happy Tree Friends is refreshing in which showed naughty children just In a world where Mickey Mouse starts at 7:30 p.m. Come on by and across town just to see the day’s worst it’s sometimes-realistic approach to what happened if they wandered too is more universally recognizable maybe you can get a good look at car accident. pain and death. Had Wile E. Coyote deep into the forest. than most world leaders, it doesn’t Gwyneth Paltrow looking on from Whether you share this fascina- been a Happy Tree Friend, we can It must be granted that the likeli- the wings, you sad little fanboys, tion with dismemberment or not, be comfortably assured that the hood of actually encountering any See Friends, page 20 you. Prettyman plays okay Every Time rocks Masquerade By Jennifer Allen Contributing Writer
Heaven or Hell? You have 10 seconds to choose which section of the club to go to before the guy behind you has a conniption fit because you’re indecisive. This was the option that the Masquerade was offering for music fans on Friday night. Heaven was hosting Every Time I Die, while Hell had Spill Canvas. My trip started off in Hell with the Spill Canvas tour while waiting for the so-called main act of Every Time I Die. The first band to play in Hell was a band from Maryland called Thin Dark Line. The music PHOTO COURTESY VIRGIN RECORDS Tristan Prettyman turns out a solid, but uninspired album in the was not bad, but what really made form of her debut, twentythree, from Virgin Records. the show was the personality of the lead singer Bryan. By Margaret Ricks The CD has a mellow, folksy He engaged the crowd wonder- Contributing Writer sound that brings to mind the styles fully and made them part of the of Jewel or Sheryl Crow. It’s a good show. Since they were the opener Tristan Prettyman’s debut CD, style, but it feels like it’s been done, they didn’t play for long, but what
twentythree, is an average CD. It has and twentythree can never quite break they did play definitely had feeling PHOTO COURTESY ADRENALINE PR beautiful vocals, well-written lyrics away into something new. behind it. Every Time I Die cruises around in a red convertible showcasing their and good music. There isn’t any doubt Prettyman is a new artist and you These guys are going to go places, extensive collection of tattoos and sweet sunglasses. that Tristan Prettyman is talented. get the feeling that she probably has and with the upcoming release of She writes, sings and plays all of the the potential to do better. It doesn’t their record on Oct. 25, things might Two drinks and several minutes of to Heaven. songs on her CD. Still, it’s hard to seem like she’s really trying to stand just start clicking for this band. wishing that I was hearing-impaired This was where the party was at. rave about twentythree. She goes for out or make a statement. She is just The next band to play was Mash- later, Mashlin was finally over. To tell you the truth the Masquerade a real, original sound, and she suc- doing what she knows she can do: lin. There really isn’t anything to By the time Mashlin was finished has never seemed so full of people. ceeds fairly well. Her music captures write well and sing simple, pretty tell you about them, because they it was time for Every Time I Die to Usually there is some space near the everyday emotions in an appealing songs. In this CD, she’s playing it were so boring that I decided to go start playing. So I took full advan- back where the merchandise is sold, way. But is the album really all that get a beer to try and drown out the tage of my “get out of Hell” card original? Not so much. See Tristan, page 20 whining vocals of the lead singer. and took a short trip up the stairs See Heaven, page 19 18 • Friday, September 23, 2005 • Technique ENTERTAINMENT
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sliver www.nique.net/sliver Journey is better than 3/4ths of modern music. Vegetarians are idiots. Although I guess they drive down the price of meat for those of us with some sense. the stingerette won’t take me to the cheeta anymore! BOOO It should be legal to punch hippies and metrosexuals in the stomach. and after they are punched they must say “Thanks, I needed that” The girls will put their breasts away for the winter soon. What am I supposed to stare at in class now? Max needs to lose some weight, this is getting ridiculous. Get well soon Reggie, we need you! IN YOUR FACE PARKING OFFICE! got my 50$ ticket reduced to 10$. Of course that’s 10$ more than I’d like to pay, but that’s 40$ parking doesn’t get. And I’m probably going to take revenge on some of the parking deck gates. Alcohol is part of college life, stop fighting it and accept it. You should be allowed to kick saturns whenever you feel like it. They don’t dent, no harm no foul. No dudes in the flag corps this year, we almost look like a re- spectable southern school Can I have my diploma al- ready? the stinger route should go wherever I want it to . The last panel of slivers were all mine. I AM THE SLIVER KING! You know, you can communi- cate more effectively with Sea Monkeys than you can with some of these professors. The girl next to me takes a lot of notes, I write a lot of slivers. Don’t you love that time of the semester when all of your profs conspire to have a test at the same time? SHABADO CS makes me want to get drunk every night. If you have a bike, RIDE IT! If you don’t, I will! ENTERTAINMENT Technique • Friday, September 23, 2005 • 19
Heaven from page 17 THEME CROSSWORD: SURPRISE! but this time there wasn’t. The place By Robert Zimmerman 62. Prepare 133. End of the quip was packed with people there to see United Features Syndicate 64. Mardi — DOWN Every Time I Die. 66. River in Russia 1. Warm spell They weren’t just any old fans ACROSS 67. Time periods: abbr. 2. Relative of the pika either. They were the die-hard fans 1. Start of a quip 68. — — fault 3. Harmful that cheered madly when the band’s by Josh Billings 69. Part 3 of quip: 4. Do a publishing job banner was raised five minutes before 6. — hoc 2 wds. 5. Naval rank: abbr. the band even came on. 10. East 71. — and outs 6. Hinged catch After the band took the stage, all Asian weight 73. Young socialite 7. Mishmash hell broke lose in Heaven. 14. Kind of lift 76. Command 8. Zen enlightenment The crowd was the most amazing for skiers: hyph. from a horseman 9. Capital near the part. They were singing along to 18. Refuge 78. Toledo’s waters Caspian every word. There were points where 19. Winglike 79. Decree 10. Hungarian the singer was inaudible because of all structures 82. Peak on Crete Queen Maria — the people singing around me. 20. City in Hawaii 83. With magnanimity 11. Point While the tame part of the crowd 21. Cut 85. Greek goddess 12. Zeno of — was near the back where I was, 22. A fire sign 88. Initiate 13. Like some all the action was up front where 23. Go — the flow 90. Chill shirts: 2 wds. bodies were flying left and right. 24. Editor’s 92. Bone: prefix 14. Make lacework You would be watching the band correction 93. Hired killer 15. Bear: 2 wds. and suddenly some random person 26. Pipe joint 95. Rock bottom 16. River in England would be launched from the middle 27. Construction 97. Tutor 17. Painter — Magritte of the crowd. Most made it to crowd- worker 100. — Lisa 21. Bottle surfing, but there were the also the 29. Golden- — 101. Zsa Zsa’s sister 25. Food-to-go shop unfortunate few who you just saw 30. Dir. Letters 102. Part 4 of 27. Vegetation go up and then back down. 31. Abbr. in quip: 4 wds. 28. Custard ingredient © 2005 United Features Syndicate, Inc. Every Time I Die was amazing gazetteers 107. “Kosher” 32. Soft cotton fabric 63. Boorish one 98. Believing as well. The stage set-up made one 33. Prevails 108. Transition 34. Fretted instrument 65. County cousin 99. Great French writer feel even more attached to the music. uncontrolled smoothly 36. Fifth Roman 69. Mitty or Matthau 103. Competed The lights were awesome, going from 35. Jargon 109. Corral emperor 70. Sport 104. Lay in wait red to green and back to red. The 37. Part 2 of 110. Main 37. Captain of fiction 72. Wife of Rama 105. Aden native band was all over the stage, getting quip: 6 wds. 112. Rudimentary body 38. Law-enforcement 73. Roman goddess 106. — Lloyd Webber close to the crowd and having them 45. Kind of fever 114. Inactive at present tool 74. Mystery 110. Deer sing into the microphone. 46. Song 117. Gentlewoman 39. Lofty nest writing award 111. Accordingly While Every Time I Die put on a 47. French 121. Having three 40. Pitch 75. “Flowers 113. Mister great show, Heaven got a little hot, so composer armlike parts 41. Hippie musical of Evil” poet 115. Before long when the set was over I gladly traded 48. Jagged, as a leaf 124. Betting game 42. — Creed 77. Medical specialty 116. — contendere in my wings for horns and a tail to 49. Stress-induced 125. Fiery crime 43. Songwriter — 80. — -cornered 118. Wine producer catch the end of Spill Canvas. hormone 126. Correspond Hammerstein 81. Valuable find 119. Poetic time All in all it was a good set up, two 53. Made a 127. Sept 44. Does a farm job 84. Irish poet 120. Baseball’s shows that people could go between hole-in-one 128. Organic compound 50. Coup d’— 86. Press down on - Slaughter (even though you weren’t supposed 55. Grampus 129. — -Goldwyn- 51. Close 87. Repute 122. Legal matter to) to catch different types of music. 56. Harasses Mayer 52. Uncanny 89. Type of British jazz 123. Thrash It really forces the question. Do I 57. Essays 130. Proceeds 54. Eau- — 91. German article 125. Qty. want to go to Heaven or do I want 59. Whoop it up 131. Dispatched 58. Montmartre’s Coeur 94. Bumbling to go to Hell? 61. Barrel plug 132. Flintstones’ pet 60. Picture 96. Cousin to dancehall See Solutions, page 22
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will probably satisfy the curious from page 17 investigator, if one simply cannot from page 17 Bad Boys of Brit brothers to Friends quench one’s bloodlust, the box set Tristan take a genius to realize that mer- makes it easy to continue discovering safe. She sums it up herself perfectly Comedy in Atlanta bicker at HiFi chandising is where the money is. more ways for cute, furry animals on her blog saying, “It wasn’t sup- And thus comes the call to review to die. posed to be something amazing and The Bad Boys of Comedy tour is Everyone’s favorite angry brother HTF in preparation for the release Though hardly a collection of ground-breaking, it wasn’t a birth or making its stop in Atlanta tonight at band, Oasis, will be playing at HiFi of Overkill. great art to be appreciated through a death but more like something in the Civic Center. Featuring come- Buys Amphitheatre on Tues., Sept. The set includes episodes not the ages, Happy Tree Friends is a must between. I don’t think it sucks.” dians Malik, Ronnie Jordan, Will 27 at 7 p.m. Come see the brothers released on the website, as well as see for fans of either expertly done All told, it’s a solid album, but she E. Robo, Chris Thomas and Howie Gallagher as they play songs from special features like interaction flash animations or just expertly isn’t going to make a name for herself Bell, the tour is bringing the hit HBO their latest album. General admis- with the characters via “Smoochies” rendered cute little bunnies having just by beating the bell-curve. comedy series to the live stage. The sion tickets cost $25 and assigned and holiday-specific shorts. While their faces ripped off by other cute Tristan Prettyman will be at the show starts at 8 p.m. and ticket prices seating costs between $34.50 and the episodes released on the web little animals of all stripes. Variety Playhouse on Sept. 7. range from $35 to $50. $49.50.
Come to the student pubs weekly photo staff meetings- Thursdays @ 7:00 Student Services Building Room 137 Free pizza and drinks No experience necessary- don’t forget your camera! ENTERTAINMENT Technique • Friday, September 23, 2005 • 21 0100101101001010100WO1101ITS01001110010001100110 Two Bits Man ponders how to get off campus Twithout a car,B whores out his math skills, refuses to brave MARTA It’s been awhile since I’ve been less likely to result in your own your style or if you just don’t have men. In high school, the idea of board. Just be sure to wear your a freshman, so to be honest, I don’t untimely demise to sell your anything that anyone in their right a freshman talking to a senior was lead trousers, because they might know if this policy even still exists, personal belongings in order to mind would actually want to buy, wholly preposterous, but at Tech, it just come in handy when you want but when I was a young and naïve, pay for a cab. So, you need to another clever means of transport in happens all the time. to sire the child who leads the resis- they wouldn’t let first quarter (yeah, think about ways to make your Atlanta is hitch- There’s al- tance against our nuclear powered I said quarter, not semester, just to personal belongings desirable to hiking. ways some senior skateboard overlords. give you an idea of my age) freshmen the riffraff around town. Consider C o n v e n - That underwear that who neglected to The Two Bits Man, for one, is park on campus. So, I’m assuming advertising techniques popular- tional wisdom take a freshman planning on fathering the next John that’s still true. ized by eBay. has always sug- you outgrew isn’t class they needed Connor some day, but I never had to By now, the spry 18-year-olds That underwear that you gested that you old. It’s vintage. when they were worry about my trousers, because I among you must be desperately outgrew isn’t old. It’s vintage. want to be kind a freshman. For used the next idea. looking for ways to get off campus. Nevermind the fact that your to your would Nevermind the fact me, that class If you have that not-so-shiny, After all, there are only so many girlfriend told you she’s leaving if be driver or, fail- that your girlfriend was Biology II. not-so-new car that your parents Freshman Experience functions that you don’t get rid of them. Person- ing that, kill Somehow, I let gave you when you turned sixteen, the Stinger can take you to before ally, I suggest that you put them them and dump told you she’s it slip through you can always park it at the hotel you go mad. on the dynamic duo of eBay and their body in a leaving if you don’t years of co-oping down the street. If you think that So, with that in mind, I want Craigslist, because you need to shallow grave. and double-ma- the rate Tech charges folks to park to help you discover clever ways to market as well as you can. Whatever works get rid of them. joring, and by is extortion, you should try parking enjoy life off campus. If taking for you. the time I took at the hotel down the street. By now, you’ve probably tried us- a cab is Some people offer to split the cost it, I was more than a quarter of a I think it would probably have ing MARTA, but you’ve found not of gasoline with their benefactor, century old. been cheaper to just rent a car when- that it’s both easier and but in these tough times, the gas To really add a surreal aspect ever I needed to go somewhere, but much to get from Tech to Kroger will to my experience, my lab partner I loved that car—well, I loved that cost you about $93, an arm, a leg, was a freshman who had skipped car until I was stranded on North a firstborn son and any number a grade in high Avenue and had of other cliches indicating a very school. I had to let gravity roll great price. So screw that. some grey hairs, it backwards 50 Personally, I suggest you and she was too I swear, you feet at a time un- get yourself a nice piece of young to shop at interview for til I rolled it onto corrugated cardboard and a Inserection. GSU’s campus Sharpie and write, “Will do But the point one engineering housing, but I integral calculus for a ride.” stands. Had position at a sex toy digress. Ideally, a friendly sub- she needed a I loved that urbanite housewife lift somewhere, manufacturer and car the same way in a luxury SUV will I would have you’re marked for every superhero stop on the corner provided it, loves his arch- and say, “You know, I because that’s life. nemesis. have always wanted to what friendly In short, if calculate the volume of upperclassmen do, and then I would you’re a freshman, there are lots of a paraboloid. Could you have been the object of the ‘Nique good ways to get away from campus, help?” Also part of the ideal staff’s statutory rape jokes. I swear, but no matter what, you need to get outcome is when the housewife you interview for one engineering away from time to time. turns out to be desperately in position at a sex toy manufacturer, If you don’t, you’ll actually start need of companionship and and you’re marked for life. to think that Brittain is how food the whole affair culminates in Of course, this is an engineering should taste, and no one deserves to a letter to Penthouse beginning school. There’s no need to even use have that diseased worldview forced with “I never thought this could a car if you don’t want to. upon them. ever happen to me.” If you post to a newsgroup Until next time, this is the Two Another trick you may try is here, you should be able to borrow Bits Man hoping that you have an making friends with upperclass- someone’s nuclear powered skate- escape plan in action.