All of us are aware of the five basic senses: seeing, feeling, smelling, tasting and hearing. But there is also another sense called the sixth sense. Simply put, the sixth sense is a connection to something greater than what the physical senses are able to perceive (think the movie, The Sixth Sense). Traditionally this ‘greater [...]
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Three poems by SMU Sophomore Goke Akinniranye
Goke Akinniranye is a Sophomore at SMU. He is an RHA Representative, Historian at the Association of Black Students, Secretary at Black Men Emerging and Membership Director of the SMU Democrats. He can be reached at gakinniran@mail.smu.edu Jokester I want to say this right to your face: Dude why can’t you say something real First [...]
Album Review: Grouplove – “Never Trust A Happy Song”
Every couple of months a band comes along that turns heads with an incredibly polished and catchy single. This summer, that band was Foster The People, whose now ubiquitous song “Pumped Up Kicks” pushed the band to new heights as they gained prominent stage placement in music festivals such as Outside Lands and Austin City [...]
Album Review: Neon Indian – “Era Extrana”
Oh chillwave, what are we going to do with you? It seems everyone is writing you off as an illegitimately titled genre of music while all you ever wanted to do was make people happy. For the uninitiated, chillwave is a type of lo-fi electronic music that has risen in popularity in the past year [...]
Album Review: Girls – “Father, Son, Holy Ghost”
It’s not very often that a musician applies the common cliché “honesty is the best policy” to his or her song writing. It’s obscure nature of some lyrics that gives us some of the most poetic and fantastic verses in music. We might not know exactly what Beck’s singing about having a devil’s haircut in [...]
An affinity for “Louie”
I have an affinity for well-written television shows. Therefore, whenever I come across one, I take responsibility to show it with as many of my fellow TV show advocates as possible. One show that has recently piqued my interest is an anything but typical sit-com called “Louie”, which comes on FX. Based on the life [...]
Fatty Lumpkin rocks The Londoner
This past Friday night, Fatty Lumpkin rocked The Londoner Pub in Uptown as fans for the LSU vs. Oregon game packed the two-story bar. The Denton, TX based rock trio has come a long way since their first self-titled release. The group has made tremendous progress from playing local gigs years ago to performing at [...]
Student Poetry by Goke Akinniranye
Olivia I went online and I met this girl named Olivia, from Montreal Impostor I thought, but she really was a girl named Olivia, from Montreal She was very kind, genuine, and sincere to me when we spoke This original girl named Olivia from Montreal She always had an authentic, wide smile on her face [...]
Death of The Video Game Industry
Ahhh yes, the video game industry of today. It has trodden a path more heart rending than Disney’s poignant movie “Up” over the years, and at this rate it’s only gonna get worse. Here are a few main points I have that cover all aspects and genres of the industry. If you agree with me, [...]
Crazy, Stupid, Love
Let’s clarify something about romantic comedies. 95% of the movies in this genre are absolutely worthless fillers that Hollywood executives use to make a quick buck on the susceptible demographic of overly empathetic and compassionate women and their reluctant boyfriends. What’s most baffling about this subgenre of movie is that there is a very reliable [...]
Identity Festival Invades Dallas
Last night Identity Festival took Dallas by storm with some of the best acts in the electronic music scene. The Gexa Energy Pavilion (formerly Superpages.com Center) turned into a small music festival for the day with three stages. The electronic music scene in Dallas has grown particularly fast within the past few years. The ID [...]
Fast Five
Cars running into trains, cars extracting safes from banks, badass cars fucking up other badass cars; every base is covered in Justin Lin’s film, Fast Five. Big, Loud, and fucking badass pretty much sums up this movie. It’s enough man shit to last you the entire summer. Although it might not have the best reviews [...]
Mystery photo of the week
