“I have had it with these motherf---ing snakes on this motherf---ing plane!” Snakes on a Plane Attacks Audiences with Fear, Laughter and Full-on Entertainment Also Inside: Dave Navarro’s New Band Reviewed ASI Production Working Hard for Us Concert Calendar, Web Extras and More 2 Editor’s Letter: CONTENTS: Dear Buzz readers, Welcome to the Fall 2006 semester, and thanks for reading the Buzz. I’m not sure that I will do a letter each issue, but I will for this one to introduce you to the Buzz and myself. 03 Inside Buzz/Concert The Buzz contains arts and entertainment information relevant to fellow Cal State Fullerton students. This semes- Calendar ter, I hope to focus on a lot of what’s happening at CSUF, such as any band performances, theatre shows, art shows, etc. I’m also going to stick with having movie and album reviews along with some other media-friendly words as well. 04 Snakes on a Plane Review For this issue, I chose to go big with Snakes on a Plane. Probably not the greatest movie of the summer, but hey, the hype that it received from the Internet and the creative advertising methods they used made it worthwhile. So if you 06 Preview Reviews/New DVD hate it, let me know. If you like it, you can also let me know. Getting feedback from readers would be great. Now that you know a little about what the Buzz is going to be about this semester, I’ll tell you a bit about 07 Panic Channel CD Review/ myself. This is my last semester at CSUF as I’m graduating this December. I’ll be getting my degree in journalism in hopes of having a career at a magazine. I would like it to be a well-known magazine, of course, but who knows what ASI Working Hard for will happen. I love going to shows, although I haven’t been in a long time. I love music so much and have an iPod CSUF filled with many different genres. I watch a lot of TV with the help of my TIVO and most of it is reality, but I have been watching more scripted shows more recently like Lost, 24 and Desperate Housewives. Of course, my favorite has to 08 Bootlegging Ripping the be The OC, although I think it will probably go downhill big this season. I love movies, mostly comedy and horror but Film pretty much everything else as well. AUG. 21, 2006 AUG. I’m going to try to bring a wide range of everything entertainment to the Buzz this semester and I hope you all enjoy it. Thanks for reading!Industry : ) COVER: Apart,ATTENTION: One DVD at The Buzz a would Time/ love to have letters coming in. Whether you love us or Snakes on a Plane Theatrehate us, Preview let us know. Tell us about your day, your life, anything. with Samuel L. Jackson reviewed Or tell us if you disagree with a movie review. Maybe you hated Snakes on page 4-5. on a Plane and want the world, or at least the school, to know it. 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Brangelina’s messiah was born and only People got the photos … woo hoo let’s celebrate adultery even more in the media shall we? Britney gave up the Kabala and Madon- For full concert na ended the close friendship … good. Vince and Jen’s relationship continued to grow and calender for good for them! Are they engaged or what? Tomkat’s baby was never seen. Or was it? Does it even exist? Katie Couric QuickTime™ and a decompressor the month of are needed to see this picture. left the Today show, which meant filling positions on the View, which still haven’t been completely filled, and there’s August, visit new people coming and going. I don’t even watch that show. Devil Wears Prada did a lot better than expected in myspace.com/ dailytitanbuzz theatres. If you haven’t yet, do. Futurama planned a comeback for 2008. Hopefully it doesn’t go the way Family Guy did. Taylor Hicks won American Idol thanks to all of you voters out there. Aaron Spelling passed away and Tori is left with AUGUst a smidge of the three million he left behind. Michael Jackson had to sell Neverland because he’s going broke. Don’t hassle the Hoff! What’s happened to Lindsay Lohan’s career? Was it the whole fire crotch thing?Weezer broke up and we only wished it was before the last album ever came out. K-Fed is planning on performing at the Teen Choice Awards 21 MONDAY and we’re all wondering why. More importantly, why are he and Britney going to renew their vows after less than a Aventine year of marriage? Some crazed woman rushed the stage to supposedly attack Colin Ferrell on The Tonight Show. Kid Chain Reaction Rock and Pamela Anderson got married … and are still possibly on their month-long wedding tour. And who can for- Anaheim get the most memorable moment in celebrity gossip? Mel Gibson went crazy ranting about how he believes Jews are responsible for everything gone wrong. Not to mention, he was drunk, so that also doesn’t bode well for his career. 22 TUESDAY For more celebrity gossip, check out The Buzz Online at www.myspace.com/dailytitanbuzz The Colour QuickTime™ and a decompressor Troubadour are needed to see-----------------myspace.com/dailytitanbuzz-------------------- this picture. Anaheim 23 WEDNESDAY What Do You Think Wednesday-13 Whiskey ??????????????????? Los Angeles Do you agree that pornography is too accessable for children? 24 THURSDAY Agent Orange Galaxy A: YES: With a click of a button that Santa Ana proclaims “yes, I am over 18,” chil- 25 FRIDAY dren can access porn online through Dave Matthews Web sites, whether they be just video Verizon Wireless Irvine clips or photos on Craigslist. And chil- dren these days can get through any 26 SATURDAY parental controls set on the computer. American Idols Staples Center OR Los Angeles A: NO: Although children can access eep it, it’s completely up to the parents, n 27 SUNDAY American Idols not the porn industry, to control their ouch The Pond children. Having an advisory warning Anaheim CSUF ONLINE YEARBOOK before enterting porn sites is good For a one time fee of $20 gain 28 enough. MONDAY access to your digital yearbook Foo Fighters Pantages Theatre -Keep in touch with friends, classmates and alumni Los Angeles ANSWER AT MYSPACE.COM/DAILYTITANBUZZ -Get updates on school related events -Leave personal comments -Upload pictures 4 Fun, Exciting and as Ridiculous By Joe Simmons at it sounds. Daily Titan Copy Chief he opening scene of the instant cult classic pans across a beautiful Hawaiian island, replete with bikini- clad beach bunnies and the Jack Johnson-inspired, feel-good track “Lovely Day” by Donavon Franken- reiter. This, of course, is playing to the fact that we’re all in the theater waiting to see snakes … on a plane. TThe story itself is pretty simple. Sean Jones (Nathan Phillips) witnesses the mob killing of a prominent prosecutor in Hawaii. The FBI, lead by Nelville Flynn (Samuel L. Jackson), rescues him and takes him to Los Angeles to testify against the mobsters’ leader, Eddie Kim, Played by Byron Lawson. Kim’s henchmen booby-trap the plane to release hundreds of vicious, poisonous snakes while in flight.