Letters to the editor
Chunk it
Editor:In response to Michael Nazarinia’s article, ("Superchunk
brings their
populist punk to the Whiskey, " Oct. 23): Michael, pull your
head out. I
don’t know what your expectations were for the Superchunk you
saw last
week, but they were obviously very far off base. Superchunk
punk? Ha. I
think that you would be the target of their personal public
ridicule if
they ever heard that.
And to compare them to either Green Day or Offspring is
laughable, at
best. Neither one of those bands has either the musical talent
or the depth
to create the rich harmonies that Superchunk creates. Other
power pop bands
in the same genre would be along the lines of Christie Fron
Drive, the
Nation of Ulysses and Air. I guess we can be thankful that you
did not
mention Quicksand or Pennywise, two more of the great punk
revivals of the
’90s.
Get your head out of Rolling Stone and get thee to a record
store.
Clueless people such as yourself are responsible for the sham
that both
college music and college journalism are.
By the way, the last time I withered any type of moshing at a
power-pop
type of show, the guilty parties were expunged from the crowd
and given a
serious dressing down by others who were there for the music,
not some
jock-core, testosterone smash-up.
Get the Superchunk singles album, and have some fun.John
Fracisco
First-year graduate student
Engineering
Subliminal publications
Editor:I’ve noticed the Daily Bruin has made it a practice only
to insert
Together and TenPercent within its pages.
What gives? Why do the other student papers not receive this
special
treatment? Is this the Daily Bruin’s thinly veiled attempt to
stuff its
point of view down the reader’s throat?
I suggest that the above publications be set out alone as the
others.
Let the "marketplace of readers" determine if the two papers are
worthy of
the readers’ time and attention. Thank you.Mark Lum
UCLA Medical CenterGet a clue!
Editor:By the end of the year, Eric Branch should be awarded the
"Most Original
Sports Writer Award." Gee, I don’t know if I could even be as
cynical about
college athletics. How did The Bruin land such a talent?
After reading about 2,500 Bruin sports columns over the past 14
years,
about three-fourths were cynical about Bruin athletics. Wouldn’t
it be more
original to praise the athletes, or the band, or those diehard
fans who
always show up?
Branch, hopefully your next column will be a fund-raiser to buy
you a
writing style. Hey, look at me, I’m cynical – put me in The
Bruin. Ha.
Ha.Kevin Schraven
Sixth-year
Biochemistry