The man in the coonskin cap with the Bic pen wants $11 bills but you've only got 10s. You're confused.
The week of class registration rolls on, which of course means that a whole other year of what was supposed to consist of academic achievement and extracurricular success has rolled off the hands of the clock and fallen flat into your fading memory.
Maybe you're a first year and can't believe that a whole year of college has gone by, maybe you're a fourth year and you can't believe you have to start working, or perhaps you're like myself and you are realizing that half of your college career is gone and you still have no idea what you want to do with your life. And then to top it off, if you haven't already, you're turning 20 and can't use "I am a teenager" as an excuse anymore.
But the occasional parent's visit can always put things in perspective. As many frat and srat parents' weekends coincided with Spring Fest, we that partook realized two very important things: one, spending time with your family is amazing (though you might not see them very much since you are busy indulging yourself in the American college lifestyle) and two, Better Than Ezra may have been fun when we were kids, but damnit they sound terrible live.
Why UPC decided it was such a great idea to bring BTE here, I'll never really know. But I can tell you one thing -- The Darkness rock. If you have any doubt, their URLis thedarknessrock.com, which might hold some credence. The concert last Tuesday at the 9:30 Club in D.C. was, to quote fourth-year College student Ben "Pinto" Martin, "the single greatest hour-and-a-half of entertainment I have ever paid for in my life." Justin Hawkins, the band's lead singer, wails his voice in falsetto but plays all the songs' guitar solos. But of course that's not all he does -- he also changes cat suits three times during the course of the performance, jumps around stage like a psycho and encourages the audience to "rock" a little harder during each break between songs.
Unfortunately, like all concerts, The Darkness show ended, and we-the-proud to-have-experienced-it had to drive back to Charlottesville to hand in papers and take tests. The sudden reawakening after having nothing but fun for a few hours straight jolts your body like a cattle prod and you join all the other sheep in the pasture to go back to your menial everyday life.
But hey, at least "The Sopranos" is back on. And of course we all have to thank God for "MXC: Most Extreme Elimination Challenge" and "Chapelle's Show," without which, people like me would lose sight of reality and end up in a padded room somewhere. So, we did thank God. We bought Bourbon and celebrated the resurrection of his only son. But something about being completely hung over in a church service on Easter is a bit disturbing since your mind tends to dwell more on when the free wine is coming than the sermon which luckily did not mention anything about Mel Gibson.
So register for next year, have a good summer, stay out of trouble, vote for "Dubya," see "Kill Bill vol. 2" on Friday, get drunk, sleep around and even go to class. You may be getting older, but what are you going to do to stop it? Like The Shins' song says, "I learned fast how to keep my head up 'cause I know there is this side of me that wants to grab the yoke from the pilot and just fly the whole mess into the sea." Don't do that.
Brett Meeks can be reached at meeks@cavalierdaily.com
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