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Show B4 MONDAY, MARCH 31, 2008 Life • THE COLLEGE TIMES Winner! Winner! Chicken dinner! 21 deals a winning hand Luke Hickman Life editor Sony Pictures Sturgess as Ben in Sony Pictures' 21. Sony Picture, Card counters in training. Bosworth as the love interest. "Winner! Winner! ChicKen Dinner!" was a phrase that blackjack dealers supposedly used to say anytime a player was'dealt a 21. Although you're not being dealt a perfect 21 with 2 / , you definitely have a winning hand. 21 is loosely based on the true story of several MIT students trained and funded by a professor to effectively count cards in Vegas without being caught. The movie is seen through the eyes of Ben (played by Jim Sturgess, Jude in Across The Universe), a genius MIT senior trying to earn $300,000 to pay for tuition at Harvard Medical School. After showing off his extreme intelligence in class, Ben is recruited by his professor (Kevin Spacey) to join a very small secret team of card counters: The majority of the movie follows a fairly predictable path: Ben's greed and pride begins to take over, he falls for his gorgeous fellow teammate (Kate Bosworth), his academic life gets rocky, a Vegas security guard stumbles onto their trick, and, in the end, you know he's got no choice but to finagle his way out of this one. The most fun comes from Ben's training previous to actually playing in Vegas. 21 doesn't hold anything back. It completely shows you how to effectively couni cards on your own. And the lirst time Ben plays a table, you keep track of the cards along with Ben's inner monologue. If you enjoy movies like The Skulls — movies that seem simple and lightweight, but later take on a darker tone than you originally expected, and that don't work on many levels, but work well on the levels they do work on — then you'll be glad you put your money on 2 / . Q&A with Mae Mae talks album, tour and charity work Chad Hunt Life writer Prefacing Mae's visit to Salt Lake City on April 4 as part of their current national tour, the band's drummer, Jacob Marshall, took some time to answer a lot of questions about the band and the tour. Here are some of the questions and answers from the interview: College Times: I've heard the name Mae is actually an acronym for "multisensory aesthetic experience." Where did this idea with the acronym come from? Jacob Marshall: I went to college at a university called Oid Dominion University here in Norfolk, Virginia. That's where Dave and I met. Dave was interested in studying music composition and I created a major called aesthetic theory. Aesthetic theory explores the different perspectives of all the different fields of study like psychology, philosophy or any of that stuff on why human beings react the way they do to art. In particular, the emotion and the feeling that comes with their perception of the information. That led to this term called the "multisensory aesthetic experience," which was really just like a study of how art could be combined to communicate whatever the artistic idea was trying to communicate. CT: What, is your favorite song or your favorite aspect of the new album. Singularity? JM: The song that makes the most sense to me is "Reflections.1' I would say musically and lyrically that's probably my favorite song off this record. CT: On the flip side, what would you say is your least favorite song or part of the album? What would you do differently if you did the album over? JM: We had written a song called "Crazy 8s" and played it on a tour leading up to going in to record the record. I feel like the label saw a lot of potential in that song to be the lead single and just worked the chorus of the song to death and changed it around. CT: On the tour what can fans expect? JM: We'll be playing a lot of songs from that album; there's a poll on our MySpace where people can actually vote to get the songs that they want. Another thing on this tour that we are doing, and that I'm really excited about, is something we started last year, partnering with different charities. We're trying to learn as much as we can about the different organizations out there and exude our learning and share what we're learning with our fans. This time we're going out with Habitat for Humanity. What we're doing is. every show, before the doors open, we'll be playing an acoustic set right inside and anyone will be able to come in and be involved. All it takes is like a five dollar donation to Habitat for Humanity and they can come inside and hane out with us for like a good 30 or 45 minutes. CT: What does the future hold for Mae? JM: At this point the landscape of the industry is so uncertain. We've been on Capitol Records, we've been on Tooth & Nail, and both of those are owned by EMI. This past year we've seen EMI really fall apart. We're not exactly sure what's going to play out. What we are excited about is the relationship with our fans and trying to cut out as many middle men as possible. As we record music in the future, Doing what he knows best, Jacob Marshall of Mae jams out. we're already experimenting with different ways of not having to go through all of selves telling, even though' these crazy companies. It's we have no idea how it ends going to be quite a bit of ex- — we just get portions along perimentation. To read the full inthe way. I think a lot of the turmoil you hear on Singuterview with Mae's CT: Will that lead to the larity is just the story of what next record being self-pro- we were experiencing at the Jacob Marshall visit time and I think you're goduced? the Life Section oning to hear it coming home on this next record in a big JM: Destination: Beauline at http://www. tiful was entirely self-pro- way. The stuff we're workduced, and this next record ing on right now is some of uvcollegetimes.com will also be self-produced. my favorite stuff we've ever It's kind of come full circle.. done. That's the story we find our- How to: become a saint Need your wi&dom teelh removed? We're expert in wistram teeth remsvaL pre-mission exams and other cental neecs. Call We'll help with comfortable, capable dental care. r • OFF ; . Extraction of 4 Wisdom Teeth . 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Mel Sundquist Life writer You've got all that time while you're waiting in line to prepare, and if you don't, your shoes will fall off and the contents of your bag will fly everywhere and you will be too late to take control of it. • Be sure to write about how fabulous you are in your journal, and make sure that your local bishop will eventually get a hold of it. If he deems your life significant and devoted to God, then he should follow procedure and fling you up to the next rung in the lad- der. • Here's the tough part: miracles. Many think that you must create miracles while you're alive, but really they are usually done posthumously. This unfortunate obstacle obviously makes the route much more difficult. Try to convince people to pray to your spirit to help them in hard times, because i f you haven't made two posthumous miracles, you're pretty much screwed. See HOW T O . 5 « |