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Plhe bedroom. It is a place where
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ige of activities ranging from rest and
* axai ion to the raunchy and ribald, oc-
;in their bedrooms.
Whether these adventures occur in a
rm room, house or apartment, they
i be as tame as a toy poodle or wild as
abid wolf.
• SEX, LIES AND LIVER
For some students the bedroom serves a
B iltitude of tasks. Bedrooms can be as ac-
a as a thousand-mile marathon race or as
m ;nt as a church mouse looking for food.
I0 Janies Evans, a senior mechanical engi-
ering major, said he has a mantra for his
droom use.
“I practice the three S's of bedroom liv
id) Evans said, “sex, study and sleep.”
f W Shannon Areo, a junior sociology major,
o d although sex can be a part of someone’s
droom, it is not the only thing that de
es the room.
“While I miss it, I don’t live by it,”
eo said.
A bedroom doesn’t always have to be
p for the erotic express. Sometimes a
droom can turn into a house of lies.
Justin Roppolo, sophomore agricultural
economics, said he was victim of cruel
prank involving a substance most fowl.
“Some friends of mine put some chick
en liver under my bed,” Roppolo said.
“I could not imagine what the horrible
smell was, and I did not find its source un
til almost two months later.”
Josh Drews, a freshman agricultural eco-
defining possession.
“It is the most personal thing in my
room,” Roppolo said.
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A bedroom is not always a bedroom, it
can serve as party room, dining room or a
shenanigans of his own.
“I once dipped a guy’s hand in warm
water, thus causing him to wet the bed,”
Drews said.
• BOXERS OR BRIEFS?
A person’s bedroom can speak volumes
about the their personality, pleasures and
pastimes.
From the color of sheets to posters on
the walls, these are things whic say in
glance, what the diary under the bed can
not say in its pages.
Drews said an agricultural award holds
a special place in his heart.
“A trophy 1 won from the Houston Live
stock Show and Rodeo is probably the most
personal thing to me,” Drews said.
Todd Ooten, sophomore general studies
major, said he very protective of his bed.
“I do not, do not like people sitting on
my bed,” Ooten said.
Roppolo said his underwear is his
Evans said in the past his room has been
home to a pool table and a collection of re
cently-departed roaches.
“First semester I had a pool table which
was never used, along with about 20 dead
roaches,” Evans said.
Not everyone’s room can masquerade as
a seedy dive, a bedroom can also turned
into a chamber of horrors.
Chris Washington, a sophomore me
chanical engineering major, created a tor
turous trial for some friends.
“We sneaked in and unscrewed all the
light bulbs, stuck moldy hot pockets under
the bed, and blocked the door off with a
couch,” Washington said.
Bedrooms are the one room in the house
where a person can truly be themselves. There
is a sense of autonomy not found in the bath
room or living room. People can hide out from
die world or bring world to their bedroom.
The bedrooms in Aggieland are as differ
ent as the student body. Some are big, oth-
ers small, some are wild, others not at all.
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By April Towery
Staff writer
A dd Trish Murphy to the list
of female musicians who
have invaded the music
scene of the '90s with a vengeance.
But, instead of following the
trend, Murphy’s music is a little
less angst-ridden and draws
upon nostalgic feelings of child
hood and relationships.
Her debut album, Crooked
Mile, is receiving air play across
Texas and was one of the top 20
biggest-selling releases for 1997
at Waterloo Records in Austin.
“[Success with the album] is
gratifying, and it’s validating,”
Murphy said.
“You’ve been sitting around in
your underwear writing songs for
six months, and it’s really a leap
of faith when you go, ‘Hey, these
songs are touching people the
way they touch me.’ When you’re
promoting a record indepen
dently, it’s a hard row to hoe —
there’s just so much music out
there. We’re still struggling to get
out beyond the region of Texas.”
Songwriting didn’t always
come so easily for Murphy, who
wrote her first song when she was
12 years old.
“I hated it,” she said.
“I threw it across the room. It
was so bad. I’d written short sto
ries and poetry since I was nine,
but it took me a long time to real
ize that I was a writer in every
sense of the word. It was really a
revelation to me.”
After her first paying gig at age
17, Murphy began writing songs
seriously when she was in college.
After graduation, she played for
four years with her brother Darin.
Murphy moved to Austin in 1996
to take on a new music scene.
“Texans are very proud of
Austin and the reputation it has for
being a music mecca,” she said.
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“I will say that, compared to
the glory days of the mid-80s
when Stevie Ray Vaughan was
playing, it seems to be in a down
turn. Speaking for myself and
other local musicians, it’s just the
trend now that it’s extremely dif
ficult to fill a room.
People just aren’t going out to
see live music. There’s other dis
tractions — maybe they’re surf
ing the Net.”
For those who do choose to
stay home and surf the Internet,
Murphy’s Web site may be an in-,
teresting spot to peruse.
The site, found on the Internet
at http://www.trishmurphy.com,
is Murphy’s way of publishing her
own magazine.
She writes all the material,
some of which has nothing to do
with music.
Please see Murphy on Page 4.
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