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Clackamas Print Wednesday, May 3, 2006 ewTool album... finally! I Stalnaker ¡es and gentlemen, the ¡over. Tool’s new "album, (Days,” has finally been ¡ie most bands, Tool is f the few that has free rein verything they do and one few that actually put time |ort into their music. It’s pise that “10,000 Days” the band continuing to mJ push the limits of their [DOO Days” is a mixture ivy, hard-hitting progres- jetal and slow, melodic, pes avant-garde rock (tens back to the days of floyd and Led Zeppelin, oily, I find this to be a ¡¡ng change from the emo nd corporate hip-hop that 0 polluting our airwaves ¡past few years. album starts out with the Vicarious” which contains of Maynard’s most poi nd honest lyrics since the album “Aenima.” The song is a commentary on reality television, America’s obsession with trag edy and the commercial “news” media. “Vicarious” is fast, edgy and features some of the most intense drumming ever played in a Tool song. The 17-minute-long epic “Wings for Marie/10,000 Days” is an incredibly personal and deep confession Maynard wrote about his mother who died dur ing Tool’s five-year hiatus. It’s definitely one of the highlights of the album and features Tool play ing emotionally charged, reflec tive music that is unlike anything they’ve ever done. The songs “Right in Two” and “Jambi” are incredibly intoxicat ing. Maynard’s vocals are top notch and Adam Jones guitar playing is masterful. The slow, intense build up to the surging last two minutes of “Right in Two” is like being sedated, then beaten with a tire iron. The buzz- saw riffing and heavy drumming in “Jambi” is enough to make anyone throw up the horns and praise the gods of metal. I have a feeling that a lot of people, especially Tool fan -boys, will either love or hate this album. I love it. I feel it’s one of the strongest albums to come out in years by any band (sorry Green Day... not really). Anyone looking for that existential rage that Tool is famous for won’t find it here. Tool has grown up and those listeners that want that aggressive angst should too. I’m not saying there isn’t anger on “10,000 Days,” because there is (the tracks “The Pot,” “Vicarious” and “Rosetta Stoned” are perfect examples), it’s just that the anger present here is more introspec tive and objective. Tool has never failed to amaze me, and “10,000 Days” is no exception. The entire album flows together beautifully and shows Tool experimenting in new ways with their music. The songs are fairly long (most are well over six minutes) but Tool is one of the few bands today that can pull that off without sound ing over-the-top. For those that can’t handle Tool’s new creation, here’s some advice: learn to swim. “10,000 Days” is genius. I’ll see you all in Arizona Bay. iting class dies on page 36, turns back to page 15 t Wilson thrnas Print iu decide to follow the , angry man down the innel to a Temple of r, turn to page 5. y of us probably remem- iding the Choose'Your ^venture book series we were young and sionable. Those were |s that presented us basic storyline such as, re visiting your crazy, red aunt in Bulgaria.” bey carried us into a tof conflict and left us ie what to do next. Our choices launched us further in the story. Also, our choices occasionally killed us and we’d have to flip back and try the left_turn instead, or decide that sitting with our backs to the street wasn’t such a hot idea. The Advanced Fiction Writing class is trying an experiment this term. They are going to write their own Choose Your Own Adventure book. “A lot of students have grown up, as I did, reading these books,” said English Instructor Trevor Dodge. “I’d always wanted to do this, but I could never justify using it in ■ Bachelor's degrees for working adults 16-month degree-completion programs Multiple bachelor's degree options Class one night a week Credit for life experience ■ information meetings at 6:30 p.m. May 8,23, and June 5 Portland Center 12753 S.W. 68th Ave., Portland May 4 and June 1 Providence Medical Plaza 3510 NE 122nd, Ste. 200, Portland G eorge F ox UNIVERSITY sps.georgefox.edu • 888-888-0178 ^96 Fox University is ranked by US. News & World Report as a top-tier «university and as a "Best in the West" selection by The Princeton Review. any other writ inspired this term’s ing class.” project with the Dodge says Choose Your Own his goal in WR Adventure books. 244: Advanced “I wanted to do Fiction Writing something a little is to take his different,” Dodge students out of said. “I want to the “work-shop make [the stu ping mode” and dents] consider the move them more reader’s role more towards “publi ... give the reader cation mode.” more to do than “I try to just turn the page. Trevor Dodge engage them in I think it’s really English writing for an exciting. We learn Instructor audience and a lot, not just about with the larger the basics of sto writing commu rytelling, but what nity,” he said. will be the reader’s He has students attend role. author readings and communi Dodge calls the project ty events such as Wordstock. very much a “trial by fire” “I want them to step out and isn’t sure yet how it will beyond, ‘I’m a writer - I work out. write,’” he said. “The possibilities are end This idea was part of what less here,” he said. “I want [students] to step out beyond, ‘Pm a writer -1 write. New ‘Sopranos’ season continues to shine Latest episode ends with shocker N.P. Delzell The Clackamas Print Wake up ladies and gentlemen, “The Sopranos” has hit 2006. With the latest install ment, episode 73, the show has gone full cir cle, showing how the mob is being terrorized by new-age information. The opening scene has Tony (James Gandolfini) finally getting over some “issues,” as I will call them. Let’s say he finds a new appreciation for his wife. Then the old time hoods try to shake down a Starbucks-like fran chise, only to be com pletely shut down when the manager tells them everything is counted in the computer. The disen chanted hoods question their survival with Patsy (Dan Grimaldi), saying it’s “over for the little guy.” This week’s show gets a little hard to follow with the many different sub-plots and missing regular characters. It has been revealed that many cast members have held out of the early season shows because of casho- la. They want as much money as possible like any other mob family, or people playing a mob family, should. Regulars such as Christopher (Michael Imperioli) and Silvio (Stephen Van Zandt) only show up in one scene with Tony outside their favorite sandwich shop in north New Jersey. It’s a good scene, but we need mo’ regular cast members. This week’s guest appearance was Julianna Margulies, who plays a real estate agent after one of Tony’s prop erties. As a “Soprano” head myself, I need mo’ regulars and less outsid ers. The scenes which hold up the best and are the most intriguing include Tony and his son Anthony Jr. (Robert Iler). Ant Jr. also comes full circle when it is rev eled he has a horrible drug problem. Later in the episode, Ant Jr. seeks revenge after his great uncle Corrado “Junior” Soprano (Dominic Chianese) is locked up for shooting Tony. See this episode for the great scene between Tony, Ant. Jr. and Corrado at the end; it will surprise even those who curse the idea of mob drama.
