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