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rmits Jiri Words, that they are serious about
blowing in the successful footsteps of
revino and Jackopierce.
The band that has created a local following
ith its Wednesday night shows at The Tap,
as also been doing regular shows in Austin
ds semester. With the band’s first album,
ns will get a chance to hear more original
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Words does not even contain one weak
song, with each track having its own dis
tinctive sound and rhythm that could be
most closely classified as progressive rock.
Words has songs that rise above the rest.
“Uneven,” “Problem Child,” “Channel
Surfer” and 200 Blocks are four standouts.
But the top honor goes to a track that
ironically has no words at all.
“Moments of Clarity,” a strictly instru
mental piece, offers a perfect ending to
this near-perfect work. It leaves the listen
er wishing that it lasts longer. But all in
all, this is one album that you won’t have
to use the skip button on.
Words is sold locally and wherever
HeadWest plays, and the band continues
to play at the Tap weekly. HeadWest will
also be playing in Houston, Dallas and
Austin this summer.
HeadWest is one Bryan-College Station
band local music fans should to try and
catch on its way up.
Hot new Tejano band
takes stage at 3rd Floor
Tejano band Gary Hobbs y su Grupo
Mezquite will grace the stage of 3rd
Floor Cantina tonight.
Hobbs and his band established a
name for themselves in the Tejano mu
sic scene by releasing a near-platinum
album in 1994, “Te Vas A Acordar.” The
album has sold almost 100,000 copies
and produced four top five national hits
on Radio y Musica.
The title song was No. 1 on the
charts for nine straight weeks and pro
pelled the album to gold status, selling
over 50,000.
Hobbs received six nominations at
the 15th Annual Tejano Music Awards,
including “Best Male Vocalist,” “Male
Entertainer of the Year” and “Record of
the Year.”
The band has recently released a
new album titled “Soy El Mismo,” which
became the seventh hottest selling al
bum in the nation in two weeks.
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10 list won
By Amber Clark
The Battalion
Hr X e didn't take it seriously at
I I first, but few people take
-A. JLDavid Letterman seriously.
But John Bellefeuille, a gradu
ate student in chemistry, decided
at the last minute to give it a
shot. Now he’s won a chance to
see “The Late Show” live from
London.
Kroger, Coca-Cola and KBTX
Channel 3 sponsored a contest to
send one lucky winner to London
to see Letterman while he spent a
week taping “The Late Show”
there. Contestants had to,submit a
top 10 list, giving their reasons for
wanting to make the trip. Out of 10
finalists, Bellefeuille was the win
ner after a random drawing.
Bellefeuille said he heard about
the contest from a friend, but at
first he wasn’t interested. An ad
viser in the chemistry department
said he enjoyed Bellefeuille’s
comedic antics and finally con
vinced Bellefeuille to submit a list.
“I’m usually the lunchtime en
tertainment,” Bellefeuille said. “I
finally decided to do it the night
before it was due and turned it in
by 5:00 the next day.”
During that time he got feed
back from a few friends, and
Bellefeuille said he relied on their
help in revising the final list. Sev
eral days later, Bellefeuille got a
call from a Kroger representative
telling him that he was one of the
10 chosen finalists.
The final winner was announced
at a live broadcast from Kroger.
Bellefeuille said he was sur
prised he won, but he didn’t act as
happy as people expected.
“I think everyone else is more
excited than I am,” Bellefeuille
Amy Browning / The Battalion
John Bellefeuille, a chemistry graduate student, will travel to London to
see a taping of “The Late Show.” Bellefeuille won a seven-day, all-ex-
pense-paid trip to see the show in a local contest.
said. “As soon as my name was
announced, I had two friends that
peeled out of their apartments
and came straight over.”
Bellefeuille said he and his
friends are avid Letterman fans,
and they usually watch the show
every night.
Although he will not appear on
the show, Bellefeuille said he was
excited about the seven-day, all-
expense-paid trip to London.
“Everything is paid for,” Belle
feuille said. “But the biggest
bonus is that I get to see Letter-
man.”
The trip is for two, and Belle
feuille said his friends have been
especially nice to him lately. But
Bellefeuille, who is from Vermont,
has already decided to take some
one from back home.
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This is a graduate level mathematics course designed for graduate students
interested in mathematics education. This introductory graduate level
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