The People Have Spokenl
The Foreigners a
Hilarious Hit!
“Best show I’ve seen since
“I swear...even our
A Chorus Line!'
Charlene, Tuna, Texas
sheep were laughing!”
Aunt Pearl, Tuna, Texas
“I laughed so hard, I
dropped my cigarette.”
Didi Snavely, Tuna,Texas
Buy Your
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Call 845-1234.
www.MSCOPAS.org
Student
Tickets
ee those hilarious Tuna guys as you
have never seen them before!
Jaston Williams and Joe Sears, joined by a full
cast, will open the 2004-2005 OPAS season
with Larry Shue’s hit comedy THE FOREIGNER. If
Sears and Williams kept you in stitches as the
outrageous characters of Tuna, you won’t
believe the side-splitting hilarity brought on
when joined by five other comedic actors!
EHSopas
enlighten entertain inspire
THE FOREIGNER
Starring Jaston Wiliams & Joe Sears
(stars of the Tuna Trilogy) joined by five
other comedic actors!
Friday & Saturday, September 24 & 25
7:30 PM in Rudder Auditorium
* Available in balcony seating only. Limited number of tickets available for each performance. Discount valid at MSC Box
Office only. TAMU student ID required. Limit two tickets per student per performance. No t valid for tickets already purchased.
Offer expires September 25,2004.
Leadership, Friendship & Service
All inclusive collegiate Fraternity
Alpha Phi Omega is committed to being the
foremost student-run organization in
developing lifelong leaders, instilling lasting
friendships and fostering a lifetime of sevice
to all people.
National CO-ED Service Fraternity
Informationals:
September H& 15
Koldus 111
7 p.m.
apo.tamu.edu
Leadership, Friendship & Service
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
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hardcore bands. Nobody
knows why Massachusetts
became a hotbed of metal,
but the planets aligned and
all the Bah-ston teens who
grew up listening to Iron
Maiden, Manowar and
In Flames formed metal
bands of their own.
American heavy metal used to be a contradic
tion in terms. All the good metal bands were from
Europe until the mid-1980s when Metallica and
Megadeth roamed the earth without the aid of a
collective colostomy bag (FY1: “Collective Co
lostomy Bag” would be a good name for, say, a
punk band).
Heavy metal is just one item on the long list
of things we have stolen from Europe and made
better. Soccer begat football. The croissant begat
the croissan’wich. Cabernet Sauvignon begat Mad
Dog 20/20. Bronson Pinchot begat Balki Barto-
komous. The list goes on and on.
But then American metal started to swoon
around the time Korn became popular, just be
fore Fred Durst and Maynard James Keenan
ripped the banner from the twitching corpses
of Pantera and White Zombie and rewarded it
to their loyal followings of racially confused
young men and disaffected teenagers of ambigu
ous gender, respectively.
So imagine the surprise and glee that patriotic
fans of true metal glean from seeing a band like
Killswitch Engage put out a CD like its latest,
“The End of Heartache.”
Recently, Killswitch Engage was shaken up by
the departure of lead singer Jesse Leach. When a
good football team loses its starting quarterback,
you hope they have someone even better than the
previous man step in and lead. The optimistic
Cowboys fan in me hopes that Vinny Testaverde
can do for the Cowboys what new lead singer
Howard Jones (who will henceforth be referred to
as “H0J0”) has done for Killswitch Engage in the
place of the departed Leach.
Two things strike you immediately about this
album. Although the beginning of the first track
is weak and disinteresting musically, in its wake
follows about 50 minutes of the best twin-guitar,
double lead a tack that America has seen since
Thin Lizzy.
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form of HoJo’s vocals. His brutal death u
screaming and growling highlight his clear,
most lilting, but still manly singing voice}
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Waves of Rage” will be the title of Colled
Colostomy Bag’s debut album.
The lyrics are a verbal roller coaster —
go from anthem-like to hopeful to heartbroi
to just plain angry. They will have you sing
along with the clear parts and trying to figure
what he’s saying the rest of the time.
Flic songs follow a successful formula,
there’s a long list of bands that could stand
listen and take notes. They’re concise and to
point, without being too short to have one.?:
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“Take This Oath” are rabble-rousing anthems!
have the potential to cause millions of dollar
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track — laid-back but still brutal at points
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a hard-core band.
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