While DJing for Berkeley college radio station KALX for over a decade, music journalist Oliver Wang took satisfaction in knowing that he was sharing music with a mass audience. Yet when weeks would go by without any feedback from listeners, Wang had a hard time knowing how many people he was reaching. “When you feel […]
Author Archives: Mark Humphrey
In loving memory of the Bluths
Ladies and gentlemen, we are gathered here today on the Arts & Entertainment page to mourn the passing of a dear friend. This friend’s life only lasted two and a half years. However, this friend made the most of its turbulent life, giving us memorable experiences, smiles, laughs and tears of hilarity. In the end, […]
Watch out for true shark-jumping
That’s it, I’ve had it. If I hear one more person erroneously claim that a television show has “jumped the shark,” I’m liable to go on a Jack Bauer-esque rampage and shoot someone’s wife in the kneecap. “Jump the shark” is a term that both viewers and critics have thrown around like it’s the latest […]
The stigma of TV’s redheads
I’ve watched an exorbitant amount of television in my 21 years. Of course, we all have. For a lot of us, TV was the ultimate baby sitter. One of the TVs in my house permanently has the number “31” (the number assigned to Nickelodeon in my youth) burned into the lower left-hand corner. So I […]
Party on Pittsburgh, and love them Steelers
I would like to make an important announcement: This will be my last Daily Bruin music column. Starting next quarter, I will have a new Monday column about my other favorite subject ““ television. I will be succeeded by music editor David Greenwald and his pretentious opinions on obscure topics. He’s like me, just less […]
Hating country music is elitist, misguided
The other day, I was watching TV and my phone rang, stopping my channel surfing. After hanging up, I realized I had left the country music channel on in the background. My initial impulse was to change it ASAP. You would expect me to, right? I guarantee almost everyone reading this column claims to hate […]
“˜Crash’ shatters Oscar expectations
In one of the biggest upsets in the history of the Academy Awards, “Crash,” director Paul Haggis’ meditation on racism, won Best Picture over the heavily favored “Brokeback Mountain” on Sunday night. “You have made this one of the most breathtaking and stunning maverick years in American cinema,” said “Crash” producer and UCLA Professor Cathy […]