Spring Break
As the final Battle of the Bands wore on in the Rathskeller, the size and enthusiasm of those in attendance grew with each band. It was up to the crowd, and a few judges, to decide the fate of the chosen few who competed for the prize of playing at the annual FlashFest event on April 27.
Beatmaster RJD2 and rapper Blueprint combine to make Soul Position - a hip-hop outfit straight out of the Columbus music scene who elect to rap about meaningful issues in society as opposed to bling bling, 20-inch rims and 24-karat gold grillz. "You can't write a verse without talking about your gun or about your rims on your car and how they spin," Blueprint said on mainstream rappers.
Subjects such as terrorism, a president who is only starting to read newspapers at the beginning of his second term and a war that isn't popular with the American public don't seem like proper material for a comedy. But, somehow, writer/director Paul Weitz makes it work with American Dreamz.
For so many students, college is a blurry haze of parties, bars and beer with classes, homework and exams squeezed somewhere in between. All guided under the conception this is what these years are all about. Nights that begin with pounding beers and raising glasses are the nights that will complete this memorable experience, the nights when so often there isn't much remembered at all.
American Dreamz is an unmemorable comedy aimed at two of the easiest targets in the media. I doubt any joke in the film is fresher than three-week-old bananas, and despite a dream cast working its hardest to rise above the material, the end result is a utter train wreck of unbalance.
ALL correspondent Andrew Gaug had the opportunity to interview Jason Reitman, the director of the film, Thank You For Smoking, over e-mail earlier this month. Andrew Gaug: How have you been feeling as Thank You For Smoking's release widens? Jason Reitman: Fantastic.
The Comedians of Comedy have their own feature-length documentary, make constant appearances in movies, had their own Comedy Central mini-series and will be making a stop at the House of Blues in Cleveland. Comprised of Patton Oswalt ("King of Queens"), Brian Posehn ("Mr.
"The OC" Fox, Thursdays at 9 "The OC" is officially dead to me. It used to have at least five or six quotable lines for every episode, now viewers are lucky to get one funny line every three episodes. It used to perfectly juggle its large diverse cast of characters, both adult and child.