I don't know exactly how many conversations I have had in the past week regarding who will grace this week's cover of Versus. It's like people can sense the excitement that's been ruminating in the Versus office for the past two weeks, when we first found out we could score an interview with musician-of-the-hour Girl Talk. For those of you whose lives have yet to be changed by Girl Talk's ingenious mash-ups and mixes of popular rap, classic pop and rock 'n' roll, I highly suggest you run to your computer, log onto his MySpace page and check out what this Pittsburg, Penn., native has got going on.

This stuff is dangerous. Not only will you learn new songs you didn't know before, but you might even grow to appreciate artists that you previously didn't have a taste for or didn't even know about. For example, I found myself thoroughly enjoying the mash-up between YoungBloodz's "Damn" with the instrumental of Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale." I actually said to my roommate, "Isn't this beautiful?" As I bobbed my head to "If you don't give a damn we don't give a -" well, you know. Long story short? Read the interview on page 7, I beg of you.

What else do we have? A plethora of movie reviews - "Zac and Miri," "Rachel Getting Married," "High School Musical 3" - a heap of new bands that you need to check out, and some notable student and faculty members' pick for what bands they'd like to see at this year's Rites of Spring. Some bands are attainable up-and-comers; others, like Bon Jovi and AC/DC, well, we can dare to dream.
All in all, we just a bunch of tips designed make your lives better and more enriched. Well, maybe not your lives. But definitely your Wednesday morning biology lecture as you stealthily read what we got goin' on.

Happy procrastinating.


Darcy Newell