_ OVER THE EDGE

January 26, 2007

Over the Edge Songfiles

Andrew, Tabatha and Tyler Rant bout a Song Tabatha Deems Worthy of Attention “Cupid’s Chokehold” by Gym Class Heroes

Tyler: “Buh duh duh duh duh da duh da!”

Tabatha: We have to listen to Supertramp after this.

Andrew: Holy, this is Supertramp! |

Tab: No, this is Patrick Stump from Fall Out Boy sing- ing. | Andrew: I’ve: heard “The Logical Song” by Supertramp on the radio so much lately.

Tyler: I think I’m going deaf in my left ear.

Tabatha: Oh. Well, what do you think of the song?

Andrew: I think hip-hop’s getting more interesting lately. Like, it’s drawing on samples from other places besides old soul songs.

Tyler: 1 don’t like the cover, the original is so much better. I don’t hate it, but the original is better. :

Andrew: I’ve never heard the original.

Tabatha: By Supertramp?

Andrew: Oh. I thought you meant there was an earlier ver- sion of this song. Yeah, the ori- ginal is better. But it’s a good place to draw a sample from. Since it’s talking about girl- friends, I'll just say that my girlfriend would hate this song because she likes Supertramp and hates rap.

Tabatha: I like Supertramp . and, I like rap. This song, I think, is superfun, because it is so universal-- like it is, gener- ally, speaking to a lot of people, it’s catchy as hell, and it’s such a feelgood, happy song.

Andrew: Hopefully it introduces a new generation to Supertramp, but it won’t, be- cause it’s not popular.

Tabatha: It is! It is popu- lar. It’s music video is on Much and everything.

Andrew: Really? I’m so out of touch with the kids.... I was watching the MuchMusic 100 best videos of all time and-

Tabatha: I can’t believe Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake and Christina Agu-

leira were in the top 5.

Andrew: I didn’t even see the top 5. It was ridiculous the videos that were in there. Ri- diculous.

Tabatha: I think “Hit Me Baby One More Time” was two.

- Andrew: Good god!

Tabatha: Or Dirrty [Chris- tina Aguleira] was two...

Andrew: What were the criteria? They can’t have had any.... Tabatha: Most popular?

Andrew: Two videos that spring to mind for me as hav- ing an impact are Coldplay “The Scientist,” where it was all backwards...

Tabatha: That was a great video, but I think they did “Yellow.” I think it‘made the top ten.

Andrew: And Radiohead-

- well; any Radiohead video, really. But the one where he’s lying on the ground and people keep asking him what’s wrong. Anyways, I think I’m done with this song for now.

Tabatha: I think another one that was in there was “Can’t Stop” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Tyler: [sings in falsetto] “Can’t stop, take mie to the

shindig!”

Tabatha: -I love that music video. .

Tyler: What about Beck?

Tabatha: Beck doesn’t really have that many good videos.

Tyler: The one where things are folding up like a Mad magazine. ,

-Tabatha: Oh, “Girl.”

Andrew: What about the White Stripes? “Fell in Love With a Girl’?

Tabatha: Oh, Yeah!

Nexttime: The Arbitrarys...

Lego.

You’re Cut Off!

ELIZABETH PYLes Cory Eptror

Well, it’s time for another rant.

I had to buy my first ever reading package from the book- store this semester (Chemistry doesn’t usually involve “read- ings” per se). It cost 157 dol- lars and it’s gargantuan. I think my prof is trying to kill me with paper. Anyways, I open

up the massive thing to the first

reading. I discovered: quickly that one edge of the first article is blurry and almost unread- able. Annoying, but I can get through it. But in the second article the last two lines (or three, I’m not sure and that’s the point) of every second page are COMPLETELY CUT OFF! “What the hell is this?” I intoned. Maybe I didn’t in- tone so much as throw the stu-

pid thing at the wall but how often do I get'to write “intone,” I’m a science major. —

“How,” I asked my: friends and classmates “do they ex- pect us to pay $160 for a read- ing package where parts of the articles are cut off?” Problems with my package include: it is hole-punched so words are missing, articles were photo- copied from previously hole- punched “originals” so there are blank white spaces where it

used to be words, lines are cut ©

off the bottom, and the edges of pages are blurry and. some- times cut off.

My friend investigated at the bookstore and found that one could bring in my package and compare it to the original given by the prof to see if it was their fault or the bookstore’s. If, un- likely though they thought it would be, it was their error not

the prof’s I would get a new one, without the mistakes. But if the prof just provided bad originals there’s nothing they will do.

My question: Why are you, as a business, allowing profes- sors to provide even slightly illegible originals? Should they not be ORIGINAL? Ifa prof wants to have a particular reading for a class, my opin- ion is that they can find a good copy of the original, or - cooky thought here - the actual ori- ginal to give to the bookstore so we can be charged outra- geous prices for it.

If you have paid good hard

earned cash-ola for a reading

package where you can’t read parts of it, I want to know. I think we should start a club or a petition or maybe just get beer and vent at each other about it.

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