Tuesday, Features Sept. 10, 2013 11 “Get to Know a Retriever” Meet Arash Fallah, a student driven to succeed at UMBC have been mentoring me club wrestling team but I would really like to see I really look up to their the team be elevated to a andhumility, I’ve learned grace, aclass lot from. and formal collegiate level. Beverage choice that’s wisdom.is extremely Farrah intelligent,Daham is indicative of your onetrustworthy, of my role models.nuanced She personality? characteristics I admire in anda person. beautiful. Those are Pepsi,Keep Calmit’s sweet and and_________? dark. What is your favorite COURTESY ARASH FALLAH part about UMBC? RelaxHow has UMBC helped Arash Fallah rides a carousel at Whatever you want to you achieve success? Pentagon mall. With little exception, there importance of failure BY DAVID POZNANSKY doare atfew UMBC, obstacles you keepingcan do. It’s taught me the Contributing Writer you from pursuing your understanding that few passions. andadvantages success. comeAs well from as Name, Major, Year? taking a position of conceit. Sports team you’d be most excited to see play a measured impact by Arash Fallah, History and live? I’veapplying learned the lessonshow to of make tact. PoliticalFrom? Science, 2015 Potomac, Maryland challenge myself by taking LosWhat Angeles sport Lakers or activity It’s also encouraged me to Do you have any should UMBC compete in than merely coasting role models? What on a collegiate level? difficultthrough college.courses rather characteristics of theirs do you admire? have such an outstanding [email protected] I think it’s great that we There are two people who The catchiest disease “Hesitation Marks” embodies a ruined man many a personal downfall in this album BY MAX ROBISON Contributing Writer especially. “Do you ever want to/just get out of here/ far more than a reference to a past suicide so disappointed/to disappear?” he asks The album title “Hesitation Marks” is indrum “Disappointed.” track that couldThe lyrics be right cry outoff toof an a responsible for the destructively catchy incredibly flawed world with a bouncing attempt by Trent Reznor, the musical titan Deadmau5synth pad. record, wrapped up by a chorus essence of what the group is meant to being that is Nine Inch Nails (NIN). filled with an overpowering dissonant accomplish:The title is to a becomplete an extension summary of aof once the completely torn down human being. The best song on the record, for its sheer effectiveness, is “Black Noise,” the closer to have occupied various points on a scale, “Hesitationperfectly symbolic Marks.” way, with its elemental, sliding between pounding and dark, such Over the past 25 years, NIN’s albums gradualThe song descent ties intooff terror,the album that itin reminds such a the listener what this album is really about. Its transition from a catchy drum machine as “The Downward Spiral,” or towards the beat into a droning atmosphere is the end of bitter tinged dance tunes, as in “With perfect way to end the record, and it evokes Teeth” or “Pretty Hate Machine.” “Hesitation Marks” rests on the latter Marks” experience. hearted, largely indie rock track. side, as exemplified by the disjointed imagery to accompany the “Hesitation “Everything,” which is an upbeat, light- This album is, above all else, a true The verse lyrics, however, mock the music evolution in Trent Reznor’s writing. and anything.” with lines like, “I survived everything/I have Songs like “In Two,” “Copy of A” and the tried everything/everything, everything aforementioned “Everything,” embody listener and allows the song to unravel, awithout new, sellingalmost them pop-like short. sensibility that The chorus figuratively bombs the succeedsInstead, hein soughtfurthering out a newthe wayNIN to mindset express with a distressed flurry of chords and lyrics including, “All the walls begin to dissolve himself via Nine Inch Nails, combining disturbed mental status. away/Do your hands begin to shake, shake, dour self reflection with unquestionably shake, shake, shake?” It’s a picture of a danceable music. The ensuing discord is an discography is their ability to combine effective tool and another fine addition to blatantlyThe defining dark traitthemes of Ninewith Inchextremely Nails’ the NIN [email protected] catchy music. Trent Reznor boldly confronts .