The Crier
The week of March 11, 2007
Don’t Drink the Green Beer
Marlon Jackson · Hops’n’Scotch
If you want to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day the Irish way, go to church. If that’s not your bag, then have a real Irish beer, not that green stuff.
A Cultural Revolution
Michael Butterscotch · Cultured
With the uninformed American movie audience (and I, for a long time, one of them), it’s not so much a filmic xenophobia as a shyness: Foreign films are intimidating. After all, they’re in a different language. But art from an unfamiliar maker often ends up teaching you much more than its American counterpart.
Alex Dziadosz · Wikipedia
The actual 8 Mile….
Alex Dziadosz · eBay
Keeping with the “Rabbit” theme, here’s some very special bling….
Alex Dziadosz · YouTube
Director’s cut battles from the conclusion of 8 Mile….
Alex Dziadosz · MP3
The Mobb Deep song whose beat the 8 Mile’s real final battle is based on. “Shook Ones Pt. II”…
No Photos Allowed
Forest Casey · Tech
Soon, camera phones will have multiple megapixels, good enough for its photographs to be published in a newspaper. Until that day comes, however, I prefer to struggle with my SLR. Here’s what Chicago’s Body Worlds exhibit taught me about photography.
Why They Play
Tobias Dodge · Amused
George Orwell’s four principles for why people write — egoism, aesthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse and political impulse — apply to most musicians as well. Recognizing to what degree they inspire local acts will help sort the exceptional from the second-rate.
Alex Dziadosz · MP3
A thick mixtape of Biggie and Pac freestyles as well as other tracks….
Alex Dziadosz · eBay
What’s Pac drinking in that? Looks delicious… wish I could make it at home. But wait — I can!…
Alex Dziadosz · YouTube
Together now. Not only a reminder of better days, but an interesting contrast in Pac and Biggie’s styles….
Alex Dziadosz · Wikipedia
The rivalry that made the YouTube moment so precious….
Goodbye, Bond-Mobiles
Alex Dziadosz · The Exchange
It’s no surprise that Ford is jettisoning vanity programs like Aston Martin. But the most troublesome aspect of the Detroit automaker’s decline is not the revelation that the auto industry is sinking, but that it might mean America is losing footing in an area it has perennially led: good management.
Alex Dziadosz · eBay
Definitive proof of an ad campaign gone too far….
Alex Dziadosz · YouTube
Yesterday, we brought you a youthful Biggie freestyling. Today, we bring the natural counterpart….
Alex Dziadosz · Wikipedia
Is he still alive? The 7 Day Theorists think so….
Alex Dziadosz · MP3
Sorry, I just couldn’t resist this one. Tupac, “Changes.”…
Pipe Dreams
Eugene Morrow · The Empiricist
The idea that marijuana alters perception in an “unnatural” way is misguided. The active ingredient, THC, simply exploits existing pathways within the brain — in much the same way as your body’s own chemical messengers — to change the way you perceive the world around you. (First in a four-part series about drugs and perception.)
Alex Dziadosz · eBay
If you can’t sound the part, might as well dress it….
Alex Dziadosz · MP3
Biggie meets Big Daddy Kane. Simply beautiful….
Alex Dziadosz · YouTube
This is why I love YouTube. Biggie at 17, crushing some sucka in Brooklyn….
Alex Dziadosz · Wikipedia
Pretty basic to start, but necessary reading….
Freestyle Rap
Alex Dziadosz · Theme
Summer Camp Games That Hold Up
Gerald Gordinier · Top 7
The best leadership games to play late at night.
The Fall Guy
Katie Garlinghouse · The Pasquinade
Never Worry About Online Homework Again
Forest Casey · Ann Arbor Secrets
Online homework has one fatal flaw: It’s online.
This Week: Martin Heidegger
Selbert Archer · Ask A Philosopher
What can Being and Time teach us about our golf game?
The Other March Tournament
Jeremy Davidson · Sport
Eight teams, featuring some of the best players in the world will be competing over the next two months for one of the most prestigious trophies in soccer. The Crier gives you predictions on that other March tournament: The UEFA Champions League.
Queen
Jeremy Davidson · MP3
We apologize if this one is a bit too sentimental. Queen, “We are the Champions”…
Webber
Jeremy Davidson · eBay
You might not be the most popular kid at the game if you show up wearing this….
Scandal
Jeremy Davidson · Wikipedia
Sadder times for the basketball program….
Michigan Madness
Jeremy Davidson · YouTube
Happier days for the Michigan men’s basketball team….
