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October 27, 2010

Yanks hangin with the BritsStudents study abroad for cultural experience

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By Jay WarrenStaff Writer

As part of DMACCs study abroad program, students will be venturing to London for the spring semester.

For students wanting to study abroad, now is the time to do it, said Maria Cochran, the Study Abroad Coordinator. With DMACCs lower tuition rate, the cost to go overseas is lower than other university study abroad programs.

Cochran says that London is chosen because a big city can offer more things to do for students. You only have class Monday through Thursday, which allows time for weekend trips which is relatively inexpensive to do from London. One of the weekend trips is an optional three-day tour through Scotland.

Every year a different DMACC professor is chosen to chaperone. This year, Jan LaVille, who is

a DMACC professor in journalism, composition and humanities, will be going. LaVille is in charge of teaching all classes except the required British Life and Culture class, which will be taught by a local professor on the University of London campus.

Some of the classes offered are Into to Film, Composition I and II and Publication Production, where students will get a chance to publish a magazine at the end of the 10-week semester. Students are required to take a full schedule of 12 credits while they are in London.

Through the American Institute for Foreign Study, or AIFS, students will stay with selected families that usually provide breakfast.

Costs for the program include all travel, books, student services and insurance throughout the trip. Passes for the busses and the Underground are also included in the price. For more information, students can check out how to apply on the DMACC study abroad program website at http://go.dmacc.edu/studyabroad.

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Pictures from the London study aboard trip in spring of 2009.

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By AdAm StArkContriButing Writer

Dredg, an experi-mental alterna-tive rock quartet from Los Gatos, CA, will play at the Vaudeville Mews (in downtown Des Moines)Nov. 15. This is theirsecond stop in Des Moines in the past two years, since the release of The Pariah, the Par-rot, and the Delusion. Though the members formed the band in high school in 1993, it was not until their 2005 album, Catch Without Arms, with the single, Bug Eyes, that the band received modest main-stream success.

The band also made headlines last Oct. when they shared the stage with renowned novelist and es-sayist, Salman Rushdie (also the Drake University Bucksbaum Guest Speaker in 2004). Rushdies essay, Letter to the Sixth Bil-lionth Citizen served as the primary inspiration for The Pariah. The essay en-courages the reader to dis-pel religious dogma, and

instead think freely, urg-ing citizens to create their own life meaning and mo-rality based on intuition and human experience. Rus-dieswillingness to partici-pate alongside Dredg un-doubtedly legitimatized the band as a force worth pay-ing attention to. Dredg has stressed the multi-layered, artistic nature of their exis-tence, andrelished the op-portunityto reinvent a rock showhence the inclusion of a literary component that enhanced their message.

Throughout much of the late 90s, the band toured with a great number of faddish, nu-metal groups. They surely must have felt out of place on these bills. Their abil-ity tomix jazz, progressive rock, psychedelia, and alter-native rock (without overly committing to any) has provided them the ability to transcend any genera-tional stereotype and con-tinue to create music that is bothrelevant and resonant.

The sound on their lat-est album contains some of their signature features. The Pariah seamlessly flows from song to song and contains its share of stimulating, psychedelic in-strumental tracks. Always keeping things fresh, one

of the tracks, Long Days and Vague Clues includes maniacal violinstylings ca-pable of inducing extreme anxiety and possible panic attacks. While another, Drunk Slide, features smooth, evenly playedkey-boardfused withboth dis-torted, crunching rhythm and slide guitar, as well as two distinct drum re-cordings, synchronized into one. The result: an irresist-ible, short and sweet track that tempts the mind to anticipate the next de-lightful sound. Without words, Dredg invites us to feel their sounds as rep-resentations of emotional states, ranging from mis-chief to contemplation of mortality.

Despite the infectious quality of their wordless pieces, one of the things that separates Dredg from many contemporaries in the mainstream is their thoughtful lyricism. Tun-ing into radio stations such as Lazer 103, the listener is subjected to redundant bellyaching about drunk, bitchy girlfriends (some-times ex-girlfriends), and other woe-is-me content. Conversely, Dredg focuses on bigger-picture notions, such as religion, man versus society dilemmas, human-

itys destruction of the en-vironment and personal confusion stemming from the trials of modern life and current political land-scape. The major theme ty-ing the album together is Dredgs inclination to pro-fess a gospel of uncertainty. Their confidence seems to come from their ability to humbly recognize their own ignorance, and the peace of mind this attitude affords. For example, heres an excerpt from the song, I Dont Know:

Well, Ive been absorbed in mediocrity

Been hollowed by uncer-tainty

Ive taken all of my be-liefs

And given em up Cause theres

no guarantee Of a god or

longevity Admit you

dont know any-thing

And give it upSinging, I

dont know if Ive been reborn

Lived a past life, suffered in another time,

I dont know So Ill just go

on living my way.

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By Michael PhilliPschicago TriBune (McT)

Demons of medi-ocrity, be gone! Here we have a shrewd sequel a touch better than the original.

Set two months prior to the San Diego County hauntings of Paranormal Activity, Paranormal Ac-tivity 2 gives low-budget honor and modest, gore-free but nerve-wracking glory to ghost stories, se-quels, prequels and the dark Hollywood art of the cash-in.

In crucial ways the sec-ond film is a lot like the

first, which was released commercially last year (a slightly different version of Oren Pelis picture was completed in 2007). The conceit remains the same. Were watching home vid-eo and surveillance footage throughout, confined to the house and grounds of a pleasantly generic-looking two-story Carlsbad, Calif. home.

In the original, young cohabitators Katie (Katie Featherston) and Micah (Micah Sloat) installed a camera in their bedroom to record strange doings while they slept. Not much hap-pened, and then gradually just enough happened to put the whammy on the

audience. Pelis film wasnt about anything (nor is the new one). Its brand of fright wasnt psychological or nuanced. It was, how-ever, stealthy, patient and devoid of the customary 21st century viscera. For teenagers benumbed by the explicitness of the Saw and Hostel franchises, Pelis monster success pro-vided an antidote, a taste of something designed to spook them without as-sault.

All of which is true in 2. Director Tod Wil-liams cannily expands the visual scope of the origi-nal without violating its found-footage aesthetic (hardly a fresh idea, but ef-

fective in the right hands). The focus in this prequel is on Katies sister, Kristi (Sprague Grayden), who returns home from the hos-pital with newborn Hunter. Katie comes by early and often. The sisters have ex-perienced hauntings in their childhood, dismissed as hokum by Kristis jocular husband (Brian Boland). Theres also a maid who senses evil spirits; a dog, Abby, rightly protective of the infant; and a teenage daughter (Molly Ephraim) from the fathers previous marriage.

Instead of one fixed sur-veillance camera, we get six, each stationed in dif-ferent rooms, installed by

the family after their house apparently is burglarized. The script by Michael R. Perry, Christopher Landon and Tom Pabst, with story help from producer Peli, improves on the original in its depiction of the central couple. (The bickering in the first film put the audi-ence squarely on the side of the unseen demon.) Here, the banters looser, more relaxed. But the pac-ing remains methodical, so that when the kitchen cupboards and drawers suddenly fly open in union (a Close Encounters mo-ment for sure) its pretty ar-resting.

There are quibbles to be had. The movie doesnt get

the ending it needs (un-like the first one, which had help from an adviser named Spielberg). Paranormal Activity 2, like its prede-cessor, doesnt advance the genre so much as strip it for parts. But Im a fan. I like the restraint. The timeworn lessons apply. Those skep-tical of the supernatural are doomed to suffer. And somehow, even after all these home-movie mov-ies, where the narcissists on screen are intent on video-taping every single moment of their lives, the sight of a dog or a baby watching something the idiot with the camera cannot see ... well, Im scared just think-ing about it.

Sleepless nights continue with Paranormal Activity 2

Clint Eastwoods late life/late career fascination with mortality, death and grieving devolves, at long last, into a cheap parlor trick in Hereafter. This wholly unsatisfying variation on what lies beyond shows him to be

ill-suited to the subject and to the sort of tale that involves setting three disparate characters on a path toward one another for a finale that isnt so much a payoff as a Yeah, and?

He attracted talent from Matt Damon, playing a reluctant San Francisco psychic who avoids con-nections with the dead, to Derek Jacobi, in a cameo as Derek Jacobi, the actor

who reads Charles Dickens novels onto CD. Eastwood loses track of Damon, his ostensible hero, and makes Jacobis appearance one of the more glaring Id really like to work with him, but I havent a role for him mo-ments in recent film history.

But Hereafter opens with a whopper, an epic recreation of the 2005 In-dian Ocean tsumani. Cecile De France plays Marie, a French tourist who drowns

in the tidal wave, only to revive af-ter seeing a child she tried to save walk off into a hazy light. Marie is a reporter, but is so shaken by the experience that she runs away from the biggest story of her ca-

reer, back to France where she tries to rationalize what she went through.

Frankie and George McLaren play British twins, boys who spend their days bonding and cover-ing for their drug-addicted mom. One is killed in an accident and the survivor is haunted by the loss.

Meanwhile, out in San Francisco, George (Da-mon) is running a forklift, hiding from his former life as a psychic for hire. His brother ( Jay Mohr, under-playing for once) insists he has a gift and a duty to share it. But George knows the lonely life that holds, and how little chance he has of meeting someone. A life thats all about that is no life at all.

Maybe that lady hes partnered with in his Ital-

ian cooking class (Bryce Dallas Howard, a bit too obvious in what is far from her best performance) will be interested. If only he can stop seeing the dead people in her past.

Eastwood, working from a Peter Morgan (The Queen) script, fritters away over two hours, fail-ing to find suspense or heart in these three lives. When you cant wring tears out of a childs death or a vast tragedy, maybe this isnt the script for you. Damon plays George as emotionally exhausted and seemingly un-able to summon up the empathy that he keeps saying his char-acter has. De

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France, working in both French and English, doesnt for one second suggest the urgent need to know what it was she experienced, or tell the world about it.

And the payoff s prom-ised catharsis is nothing of the sort. This Hereafter, despite the odd engaging moment, is a terrible let-down, like investing in a belief system and discov-ering theres no here that youve been after all your life.

No afterlife for Hereafter

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Listen LocalAlbum Review:

Want to suggest a band to be featured in Listen Local? Drop me an e-mail at cjeilers@q.com or chronicle@dmacc.edu.

Depeche ModeViolatorBy CJ EilErs staff WritEr

Due to the break up of this weeks featured band, I will be doing another album review. This week I will be looking at the often overlooked, but terrific, Violator from the worlds greatest electronic band, Depeche Mode.

The English quartets real masterpiece was a departure from their previous albums, due in part to the fact that they outlived their contemporaries. It was released in 1990 and embodies the themes from that time: gloom and doom. It sounds dark and grungy and combines the synth beat they were know for with darker guitar lines, lyrics with darker purpose and an overall more serious theme than their previous works.

This album goes beyond being different; it goes beyond what was being done at the time.

The album opener, World In My Eyes, is a dance track, but has a darker synth string line that blackens the melody line and creates a dark symphony. Personal Jesus was released in 1989 (the album was released in 1990) and comes closer to a regular eighties pop tune than any other track on the album. Then its back to the bands new style with hits like Policy of Truth and Enjoy the Silence. In essence, all of the tracks are dance tunes, but not like any youre used to. Nothing cheesy and the beat is awesome. The album is like a mirror universe, ying to pop dances yang. Want to blast something thats dance worthy yet different and cooler? Try turning your bass up on this work of art.

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