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A campus tradition—over 100 years of publication.
Most releases fail to match
powerful laments ofXui Xui
From 'spacey' progressive
rock to 'bland Americana,'
new albums run the gamut
RYAN NYBURG
PULSE EDITOR
And the degradation begins anew, as
our beloved musical stylings collapse
under the weight of the unbearable
blandness being peddled as creative
musical invention. Fortunately, there
are a few bright spots floating in the
the debut album from the New York
City group the Secret Machines. The
group plays a mix of electronic and pro
gressive rock unhindered by many of
the messy trappings of those genres,
such as "original thought" and "techni
cal ability." The music plods away with
mindless "spacey" arrangements
recorded with much better production
values than they deserve. Long, boring
and without a single idea not bor
rowed, "Now Here is Nowhere"
abyss.
First up in
REVIEW
our aural
pain parade
is "Now Here
is Nowhere,"
successfully makes the rise of modem
progressive rock seem foreboding
rather than hopeful.
Don't be mistaken, there are groups
out there making dynamic, interest
ing music that actually pushes some
boundaries. This is evidenced by the
latest from Xui Xui, "Fabulous Mus
cles," a bizarre mix of dark melodies
and avant-noise, perfectly capturing
the sound of a man's encroaching
emotional death. Lead singer Jamie
Stewart sounds like he's on the edge
of tears throughout the album's dura
tion; his voice holds everything to
gether. The music is composed of odd
rhythms and seemingly random elec
tronic noises. The lyrics consist of
near-suicidal laments about child mo
lestation, suicide and relationships
falling apart. Spooky stuff.
But who needs abrasive, original
work when we can have what is safe,
complacent and maudlin? Why not
listen to the debut album from Grif
fin House, "Lost & Found," instead?
House comes from the long tradition
of singer/songwriters who believe that
their relationship difficulties are im
portant enough to holler about in
every coffee shop from Greenwich to
Frisco. Singing about anonymous
women and the happiness and/or
pain they have caused him, House is
as functional a narcissist as anybody
(eight of the 11 songs on the album
have a personal pronoun within the
first line), yet he fails to make his nar
cissism interesting.
The music itself is the same bland
Americana used by Tom Petty, Bruce
Springsteen and countless others when
ever they want to seem "down home."
This album would be just another inof
fensive coffeeshop rock release if it
weren't for House's self-important atti
tude. In "The Way I Was Made," for ex
ample, House goes over the history of
his family leading up to his birth. De
scribing his parents: "They met in
school with broken hearts/Healed each
other from the start/Man and woman
play your part, now we're closer to the
way I was made." It's good to know that
years working and toiling and sweating
by coundess generations made it possi
ble for Griffin House to sing us this
song. Now, I don't usually support eu
genics, but it times of great trial, excep
tions must be made.
ryannyburg@dailyemerald.com
COPA
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this was the least restrictive mechanism
Congress could use to address this
problem. Congress and the courts
agreed that access to adult material by
children is not a good thing. The ques
tion is on which method to use. What
Congress had proposed is essentially
proposed is a prior restraint law. COPA
requires Webmasters to limit their ma
terial before people can even see it.
When you have a prior restraint law, the
Supreme Court takes a very close look,
and what they concluded here was that
the government did not show that the
age verification systems worked better
that filters. This gives the government
the opportunity to show that filter
programs are inadequate and that a
universal approach is required.
Emerald: The Supreme Court deci
sion was split five to four. What was
the dissenting opinion?
FL: They argued that the material
that would be blocked did not deserve
the protection the majority position
was giving it.
Emerald: What do you think the
chances of COPA passing on the low
er court level are at this point?
FL: I think it's pretty low. The majori
ty of the Supreme Court already made
it clear that the government would not
be able to show that the universal ap
proach is better than filters. The reason
for this is that any law passed by Con
gress can't regulate what takes place
outside of the United States,
Emerald: So if all the servers for
pornographic Web sites moved out of
the country, the law would have no ef
fect on them?
FL: Right. But even though COPA
can't deal with material which comes
from outside of the country, filters can.
Even if filter technology isn't very good,
which it's not, a filter installed on an in
dividual computer will block more
material than COPA would just by the
very nature of the technology. I think
what will end up happening is that the
plaintiffs in this lawsuit will go into the
district court and prove just that.
Emerald: How is the COPA
decision similar to the Communica
tion Decency Act decision?
FL: The CDA was the government's
first attempt to regulate the Internet in
terms of speech. That law stated that any
body distributing material over the Inter
net which was indecent would be sub
ject to a felony. The Supreme Court
found it unconstitutional because it
would make it a felony to provide mate
rial to adult which they had a constitu
tional right to read. COPA was a narrow
ing down of this. Congress attempted to
emulate a number of states which have
lowered the obscenity standard by ap
plying it to what kids can get, because
children are not entitled to the same ma
terial as adults. The problem that you
run into is that there is no way to distin
guish adults from the children. So unless
people want to go through a credit card
check, they are limited to an Internet re
duced only what is acceptable to an 8 or
10-year-old. The Supreme Court saw this
as too restrictive
ryannyburg@dailyemerald.com
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