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Alrick Brown talks about Kinyarwanda with The Eye
April 7 marked the 18th Anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, which took the lives of 800,000 people. The Eye sat down with Alrick Brown, director and writer of the documentary KINYARWANDA, to discuss his role in the remembrance of the tragedy.
First, could you talk about the film Kinyarwanda in general? Start with the content.
The film is based on some of the actual happenings during the Rwanda genocide. We took stories from different sources: from a child, from a couple, from two soldiers, from a priest and an imam, and that will give the audience a more comprehensive look at what actually happened during the genocide. And it was our intention to tell a more significant story, not to portray heroes or villains but just people, caught up in the horror of a crazy situation. More »
Office Concerts, Episode 3: Jeffers Win
There are a lot of insanely talented musicians at Columbia, and not nearly enough opportunities to hear them. The Eye decided to invite a few of them to play little concerts in the Spectator office. (We were more than a little inspired by NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts series.)
In our last installment last spring (The Eye has been busy), we hosted Jake Snider of the Jake Snider band, and this time we were lucky to get Jeffers Win.
Made up of Stephan Adamów, Cam Johnson, Henry Murphy, PJ Sauerteig, and Erika Thompson, Jeffers Win has been gaining a bit of a following around campus since they put a two-song EP up on BandCamp. Their next show will be at Live at Lerner’s Finals Study Break on May 2 at noon.
After the jump: More info about the Live at Lerner gig. More »
The love song of C. Robert Kroeger
In honor of Nickelback’s Here and Now Tour kicking off this month, the Eye has prepared a little quiz to distract you from studying real art.
Out of the following 10 quotes, six are from Nickelback songs, and four are from the poetry of T.S. Eliot.
But don’t be fooled—this is a lot harder than you think. Post your scores in the comments.
a. And would it have worth it, after all,
Would it have been worth while
b. So I would have had him leave,
So I would have had her stand and grieve
Eye Drop: Highlights from this week’s magazine
It looks like it’s been a Chekhov-filled year for New York. In this week’s lead, Emily Tamkin talks about her love for the Russian author and how the rest of the city seems to have recently embraced him as well. [Lead]
Think you can distinguish between T.S. Eliot and Nickelback? (It’s a lot harder than you think.) Take Charlotte Murishaw’s quiz to find out. [Eyesites]
Our roundup of quality tumblrs
There’s a lot more to tumblr than low-angle pictures of buildings, grainy shots of New York, and Doctor Who gifs—although those make up a really big majority. There are also people who use tumblr for good (or, at least for entertaining others).
What follows are some of the best tumblr blogs out there, some run by famous celebrities, others run by folks like you and me. Rest assured, all of them are high-quality. Feel free to recommend tumblrs to follow in the comments, as everyone could use some more variety on their dashboard. More »
Buffy the Vampire Slayer will change. Your. Life.
Many dismiss the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer because of the campy movie of the same name that preceded the series, or even for the ridiculous-sounding title and the name of the central character.
However, fans of the cult show understand that there are few examples of such a well-executed mixture of genres (which, in the hands of almost any producer other than Joss Whedon, should really have nothing to do with one another). Drama, comedy, action, horror—all these apply to and fail to define Buffy. More »
Would you bring John Lennon back to life?
In case you were living under a rock (read: being productive and not reading Gawker) last week, you might have missed that the rulers of the universe over at Coachella resurrected Tupac for one last performance with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.
Thanks to the huge response to the performance by someone who has been dead for 15 years, they might take it on tour! Yay!
But why limit the scope of our creepy holographic resurrections of dead performers to just Tupac?
John Lennon and George Harrison
Anyone who loves The Beatles knows that the ideal two band members to be left alive wouldn’t include Ringo. John Lennon gave us “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”and other classics, George wrote “Here Come the Sun,”and Ringo wrote “Octopus’s Garden”—you tell me who the weak link in that chain is.
Unfortunately, nobody read Catcher in the Rye and wanted to shoot Ringo, so that’s how things worked out. More »
How I (almost) ruined my liberal arts education by not so much as opening The Iliad
August 2011.
School was set to start in only a few days, so I finally sat down to read the Iliad. I got through the first page before I dozed off, but chalked it up to not sleeping enough the night before and tried again the next day.
This time, I got distracted by the Weather Channel.
“It’s okay,” I convinced myself upon realizing that move-in was the next day and I still hadn’t gotten past Book Two, “I’ll have all of NSOP to catch up before classes start.”
A week later, I was sitting in my bed twenty minutes before my first Lit Hum class, desperately reading the Wikipedia article on the Iliad because I’d run out of time to read the Sparknotes. More »
A very rare night with the Based God
We were led a few at a time to the bottom floor of the New Museum where security simply glanced at our tickets and let us into a shallow room. An odd purple light shined on a raised platform you could hardly call a stage. The faithful in the crowd buzzed with a certain tangible energy—some wore pig costumes, some skirts over cargo pants, some sombreros, some chef hats. We were the 150 blessed with the opportunity to experience what some, including Lil B himself, called a “Very Rare Show”. More »