Time to Euthanize the Tiger

I realize that the statement I am about to say contains a good bit of hypocrisy, but I think it’s about time that we collectively drop the whole Tiger Woods fiasco. After what seems like an eternity of relentless media coverage, it’s time to put down the Tiger, and I don’t mean in the way media...

February 22nd, 2010 | Culture, Gabrielle's Outlook | Read More

Music Monday: 2009’s Music

Now that we’re officially done with 2009, we can look back at the year in music without sounding pretentious! This week on Music Mondays: the most overplayed and/or worst songs of 2009. 2009 was a big year for new music (and I use that term lightly) with catchy new hits seeming to come out every other...

January 18th, 2010 | Gabrielle's Outlook, Music | Read More

Frozen Florida

The blustery cold weather that has been plaguing the rest of America finally made its way to Florida, giving us a taste of a very watered down Floridian equivalent of a winter wonderland, with plenty of wind chills, frozen grass, and frosty cars to go around. Maybe Mother Nature is seeking revenge on...

January 9th, 2010 | Gabrielle's Outlook, Weather | Read More

2009: A Year in Review (National)

December 31 of 2009 marks the end of the decade without a name: we had the Seventies, the Eighties, the Nineties…and then the…Zeroes? It’s been called the Aughties like back in the 1900s, but that term fell out of the vernacular a century too early. It has been called the Naughts and the Naughties...

January 1st, 2010 | Beyond UCF, Gabrielle's Outlook | Read More

Finals Freak Out: Library Etiquette

With finals fast approaching, there will be thousands of frustrated Knights no doubt flocking to the library to have some quality studying time with their best friend the PowerPoint Slideshow. However, due to circumstances beyond anyone’s control, the experience is frequently an unpleasant one due...

December 1st, 2009 | Academics, Gabrielle's Outlook | Read More

Music Monday: Meet Mr. Scruff

If you’ve watched a car commercial in the past decade I guarantee that you’ve heard something of Mr. Scruff’s. Andy Carthy is a British DJ and musician who chose his stage name from the state of his facial hair. He has gained most of his renown for being featured in car commercials and various...

November 24th, 2009 | Gabrielle's Outlook, Music | Read More

Music Monday: Lodger

Lodger is an indie rock band hailing from Finland that started in 2002. They are probably most known for their animated music videos featuring the exploits of their distinguishable stick men characters. I found out about them through one of these music videos, specifically the one for “Doorsteps”,...

November 16th, 2009 | Gabrielle's Outlook, Music | Read More

Music Monday: The Death of Music

Music is dead. Well, maybe not really dead, but it’s certainly in a coma, possibly with a DNR order placed. This edition of Music Monday will delineate only a few of the many ways that good music is slowly but surely leaving the airwaves. Culprit #1: Auto-Tune At some point, being able to actually...

November 9th, 2009 | Gabrielle's Outlook, Music | Read More

Music Monday: Yoko Kanno and The Seatbelts

Yoko Kanno is a Japanese musician and composer, who, in a word, is a musical genius. If you’re an anime fan, or have even had a glimpse of one, you’ve probably heard something of hers, from the iconic brass lines of the song “Tank!”, the theme song for Cowboy Bebop- with only one line of spoken...

November 4th, 2009 | Gabrielle's Outlook, Music | Read More

Music Monday: Junk Science

Junk Science is a little known rap/hip hop duo hailing from Brooklyn, New York, comprised of an MC by the name of Baje One, and a wicked beat master who calls himself Snafu. These guys met in high school in the mid 90s, and from there they formed the duo known as Junk Science. They were pretty quiet...

October 26th, 2009 | Gabrielle's Outlook, Music | Read More

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