Hey hey former Columbians, students, workers, friends - there's a strike at Columbia University this week. If you're around Wednesday, there's a rally at 4pm, hoping to build enough support to convince the university to allow for a grad student union. Why? Because as amusing as it is to waste the most productive years of your life teaching undergrads the beauty of Beethoven's 5th, it is not really very lucrative. I would sort of prefer to limit the number of hilarious but not very lucrative professions I have to one.
Also, I can't even begin to tell you how much the school's healthcare sux. And then there's the whole 'terrifying prospect of not getting tenure because of increasingly hostile employer/employee relations at US higher learning institutions.
IN OTHER NEWS: just reviewed Open Season, British Sea Power. Am totally in love with the song "True Adventures," Mads Bjerke did an amazing if not exactly groundbreaking job getting that woozey, feverish warm synth sound, just like he did with Spiritualized. Who would win in a fight, BSP's Yan or Colin Meloy?
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i was beginning to think i was the only one who felt that way.
in what i thought was a hilarious twist, i wrote bsp's publicist about a promo. she replied that site i write for had already covered it and thought it was great, to wit, therefore eliminating any further need for another geographic representative to hear album in proper format (not downloaded).
i trust this critic and if he liked it, i'd want to prove him wrong if necessary - and if it's the new thing! then as a pazz n jopper shouldn't it have suffrage rights too? apparently not...
least interesting of the rough trade bunch, and the pageantry was insufficient on the first record anyhow.
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