Zaireeka Party
(no drugs)

Saturday, February 4
9:30pm - 12:00am
The Reserve
405.640.8366

There will be blankets, pillows, colored lights, and a couple of hookahs. We're going to listen to Zaireeka. Afterwards we're probably going to stand around and talk for a while, or dance if anyone wants to. Or we could play catchphrase or something. If you're reading this, you're invited.

Get here at 9:30
Music starts promptly at 10:00

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WARNING: This is a unique recording. These eight compositions are to be played using as many as four compact disc players, and have synchronized start times. This recording also contains frequencies not normally heard on commercial recordings and on rare occasion has caused the listener to become disoriented.

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Alternately glorious, breathtaking, exciting, fragile and ultimately frightening. An intense vision realised in the true rich Flaming Lips tradition but eschewing the guitar pyrotechnics of the past for an altogether more atmospheric (and ultimately more stunning) arsenal that leads, truly, to a step beyond. Wayne explains that he was, ".. bored of people being able to point at a part of a song and say, 'Well, that's a Nirvana influence and there's the Stooges,' and all that.." So he made a record that comes on four CDs to be played simultaneously.

Do not think of ZAIREEKA as an audiophile recording by any means. This is truly an experiment, where the result of music in and out of phase can create disorientation and confusion in the listener. You see, 4 CD players, no matter if they are the same brand, will not play at exactly the same speed. This shift alone makes ZAIREEKA most intoxicating. This experiment works. Dig it.

WHY I STOPPED TYING MY SHOES
by Eric Mai, 15th grade

I can't live a lie. Truth, man. That's it. This shit's about being real. I'd feel like a phony if I was rolling tied. I'm building my dynasty every day by being one of the baddest walk-takers out there. Hear me: there's no way I'm ever gonna step from my door with some perfectly laced up, tied up, double-knotted, prissy-ass shoes again. The world just ain't like that.

This balla hoofed it halfway to lake Thunderbird and back yesterday, stepping with shoes untied. Cops bounced in lights flashing trying to bust me up for it too. You get powerful and everybody wants a piece. Started interrogating me, bossing me around. Then they peeped my laces danglin' and backed off reeeal quick. I got the feeling they won't be bothering me again.

Tell your friends, there's a new boss on the streets and he can't be stopped. Punks better watch your back, and don't step on my laces.

Life's hard and I'm exhausted.

Well, I'm delivering a 50 minute lecture on aggregates to a 3000 level civil engineering class tomorrow. I figure I'll mainly tell them about the grain size distribution curve.

Then I'm delivering a butt-kickingly awesome concert to a bunch of people at the OU Student Union the day after tomorrow. I figure I'll mainly play my normal basslines, but with a little more booty shakin' than usual.

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Hope has feathers,
reason is a plank,
and life is a loaded gun
that looks right at you with a yellow eye.

(bc)

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greatest picture ever taken?

(16 days)

Merry Christmas and farewell.

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For a long time scientists were puzzled by the fact that there are billions of stars in the universe and there must be stars in every direction you look, so that the sky should be full of starlight because there is very little in the way to stop the light from reaching earth.

Then they worked out that the universe was expanding, that the stars were all rushing away from one another after the Big Bang, and the further the stars were away from us the faster they were moving, some of them nearly as fast as the speed of light, which was why their light never reached us.

And when the universe has finished exploding, all the stars will slow down, like a ball that has been thrown into the air, and they will come to a halt and they will all begin to fall toward the center of the universe again. And then there will be nothing to stop us from seeing all the stars in the world because they will all be moving toward us, gradually faster and faster, and we will know that the world is going to end soon because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.

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What's creepier:
1. An Eric Mai Memorial scholarship
2. A 'Meats Judging' scholarship that's available to "student who will participate on meats judging team"

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(4th & 3rd from bottom)