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A A a t t i x o n M U S I C C amozzi on C mema Say Anything: Say Anything is a Real Boy album by Chris Mattix Intern Writer In the world of overly dramatic emo rock it is rare to see a band that can rise above the stereotype, and put out a record that is as good as it is dramatic. Say Anything (yes I realize that they stole their name from a John Hughes movie) has given emo a reason to keep on keeping on. Is a real boy is an honest album about being young, stupid, and trying desperately to find love. Front man Max Bemis is only twenty years old, but he demands your attention like any scene veteran would. The albums opening track Belt is proof that this boy can really pour his heart out and not feel the slightest bit cheesy in the process. Is a real boy is also one of the catchiest records that I’ve heard since The Get Up Kid’s Something to Write Home About, and the formula of hook-laden emo-pop fills the record from start to finish. Is a real boy is the perfect album for all you angry hipsters who suffer from extreme social anxiety. I can only hope that Say Anything will continue down the path of uber- catchy pop, and continue to make great albums in the future. The only problem that I had with Is d real boy was that some of Bemis’ lyrics are a little too cheesy for their own good, but then again that’s what this band is all about so I can’t really complain. Standout tracks: Woe, Alive with the glory of love, and Admit it! C h r is M a t t ix : Carroll ’s own music critic and disc jockey is ready to fire reviews of cds out there for you to check out before you buy. Say Anything 8.4/10 Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Any veteran of the indie-pop scene has at least heard of Ted Leo. Maybe that’s because in that past 4 years he’s put out some of the best and most memorable songs to date, and let me tell you, Shake the Sheets is no exception. Shake the Sheets starts out strong with the anthematic Me and Mia, and rest of the album follows its lead. While some people might say that Ted Leo hasn’t really changed over the course of his last 4 albums, I would have to argue that if it ain’t broke don’t fix, and as cliché as that may sound it’s the truth. Leo is praised for his ability to consis tently put out energetic, catchy, and up-beat songs, so why change. While Shake the Sheets may sound pretty much the same the whole way through it’s still good the whole time, and anyone who says otherwise should be kicked...hard! So in the end we have another better than average Ted Leo album, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I pop Ted Leo 8 . 8/10 Resident Evil: Apocalypse by Joey Camozzi Intern Writer Believe it or not the horror movie subgenre zombie-horror has always been high brow in the genre as a whole. George A. Romero started this genre with Night of the Living Dead in 1968, a film that put a critical eye on the racist views of the time.* A decade later he followed Night with Dawn of the Dead, which parodied the beginnings of con sumerism in America. Just recent ly 2002’s 28 Days Later featured timely commentaries on the anthrax and smallpox discussions taking place on Fox News. While some of these allegories were not intentional at the time it is difficult not to acknpwledge that zombie horror has strived for more than just teenagers running and getting killed. Yet despite the talk of alle gories and high brow, zombie hor ror movies usually have one thing in common... they’re pretty damn scary! That’s why Resident Evil: Apocalypse has committed the ultimate sin of film... it’s really Joey-O-Meter boring. Had direc- 3 5/10 tor Alexander Witt “T h e DVD K in g :\ Joey Camozzi, is always willing to let us know what he thinks. necessary to know is that it takes place right after the marginally better Resident Evil 1. The town is full of zombies (yet we rarely see them), Milla Jovovich’s character Alice is infected with the virus that makes people become zombies (without much reason), and a big ugly monster named Nemesis is just watched a bunch of good zombie movies he would have realized what people want to see. 2004’s remake of Dawn of the Dead had everything this movie doesn’t: zombies! zombies! and more zombies! I would describe the plot, but essentially all that’s killing people (it was cooler in the video game). Fortunately the movie is pretty short, so if you do not heed my advice than you’ll only lose about 90 minutes of time that can be spent doing homework or watching the films mentioned before. The Ultimate Matrix Collection In 2003 Twentieth Century Fox released the Alien Quadrilogy a nine disc set with two versions of each Alien film and five disks of extras. Warner Bros, has released the Ultimate Matrix Collection on DVD, a set that covers all three films in ten discs! Suspicious? I think so. Either way the set was inevitable, and for fans of the series you’re in for a treat. Do I really need to explain these movies? Unless you have been liv ing under a rock the last six years you know the Matrix series. You probably also know that fans had to wait four years for the sequel The Matrix Reloaded and six months after that for the conclu sion The Matrix Revolutions. Many fans were disappointed in how the Wachowski Brothers con tinued and concluded the series. As they upped the philosophical babble and made us wait through a ten minute long rave sequence before we can see neo fly around. I will admit that I thoroughly enjoyed the films and felt that a second viewing (well...third or fourth) on DVD made me appreci ate them ever more. This set does not follow the suit of most critical ly panned movies on DVD by ignoring the negative reactions, each film has two audio commentaries; one by philoso phers who loved it and one by film critics who hated it. There are also some interesting documen taries, one of interest to those that wondered how real Philosophers reacted to the series with Philosophy and the Matrix, where dozens of philosophy professors and authors from esteemed col leges discussed the philosophy of the series. Joey-O-Meter 9/10 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2005 VOLUME 88, NO. 4
