Ministry of Cool

Suzanne Collins created a futuristic, dystopian world not so different than our own in her trilogy, The Hunger Games, which has just been turned into a huge Hollywood blockbuster. She incorporated many of the problems we are facing today within our country.

You laugh. You cry. You drool at the dreamy actors and actresses. If you’re me, you enjoy the company of Ben and Jerry, two of the most dependable men I know, and then you wish the heart-warming romantic comedy you spent the last two hours watching could one day be a reality.

Huxley creates a society so preoccupied with pleasure and trivial distractions that they ultimately ignore the greater issues surrounding them.
Huxley’s dystopia seems to be echoed in today’s world. As a society, we have just about everything we need to achieve happiness. We have the latest gadgets, we have houses, and the perfect pets. However, these material items are distracting us from larger scale issues.

When you’re 17 and planning your first international vacation without your parents, alongside your best gal pal, your priorities generally lie in three areas: boys with accents, getting lost, and boys with accents helping you when you get lost.

Shangri-La, Iram of the Pillars, and Atlantis are famous utopias that people have yearned to find. Some have succeeded in discovering these perfect societies by turning to videogames.

Review of ‘Undun’ by The Roots, Released December 2011

With the Academy Award season just behind us, it is clear which picture has swept the hearts of America. To the dismay of many teen super fans, I’m not referring to the final installment of the Harry Potter franchise. Rather, the film that has all the critics, including this one, talking is Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist, starring French actor, Jean Dujardin and Argentinian-French actress Berenice Bejo.

Poverty, alcoholism, and parental negligence; sounds more like the plot of a depressing lifetime movie than of Showtime’s latest breakout dramedy. On TV’s Shameless, the Gallagher family accepts these issues as simply the way things are. And they do so with good humor.

Ever since Saltillo’s debut album released in 2006, fans have craved more of his unique music. The mind behind Saltillo, (Menton J. Matthews III), weaves together urban beats, sound bytes, and classic orchestra to create a distinctive form of trip-hop. This unusual style made him renown among fans of the genre. As the years flew by, it was beginning to look like Matthews might not make more music. Fans began to accept Ganglion as Saltillo’s first and last album.

It’s nearly impossible to objectively listen to Lana Del Rey’s music without being somewhat influenced by the massive hype machine she’s created. The name change,…