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Show Monday • August 25, 2008 New this week F R O M T H E F R O N T L I N E S A Nonrenewable Resource Heroes: Season 2, Aug. 26 • Staff Sgt. Brock Jones Life writer Amozon.com Entourage: The Complete Fourth Season, Aug. 26 Amazon.com Desperate Housewives: The Coplete Fourth Season, Sept. 2 .mazon.com 77)e Office: Season 4, Sept. 4 mazon.com atres Traitor, Aug. 27 Alum Jeanne Madsen sings across Europe From the other side of graduation Sundquist Life editor College, Aug. 29 urioiy of Brad Slade UVU alum Jeanne Madsen just got back from her graduation trip in Europe. She did what most college students would do on a graduation trip: sightseeing, art mongering, starving and philosophizing. But she also sang in five Italian cities and recorded with the London Philharmonic. After graduating with an associate's degree in general academ- ics from UVU, Madsen began to pursue her dream of recording an album. Her style is best described (in her own words) as "avantgarde." This particular album is a mix of opera, contemporary, and jazz pieces. Madsen is still recording her album Pagliaccio (Italian for "clown1"), which will drop sometime next year. She plans on recording the classical tracks with the Berlin Philharmonic and the jazz songs with legendary trum- pet player Jack Sheldon at Capitol Records Studios in Hollywood. Madsen could hardly restrain her excitement, explaining, "[Sheldon] is an absolute legend in the jazz world, so I'm just, like, over the moon." The album has not been picked up by a record label yet, but Madsen is hoping for one of the "big ten" ~ the largest labels in the UK and America. "I personally Yahoo Movies See MADSEN • C6 Disaster Movie, Aug. 29 Yahoo Movies Bangkok Dangerous, Sept. 5 Yahoo Movies Theater Abroad St. Paul's Cathedral, where Assistant Life editor students could stand on one side of the dome, spanning For some roughly half a football field, students this and whisper clearly through summer, the dome to students on s o m e t h i n g the other side. In addition, awesome they rode the London Unhappened in derground (also called the Great Brit- Tube), where they saw the ain. famous Platform Nine and From July 20 to Aug. Three-Quarters from the 15, fifteen students from the Harry Potter series. theater department spent The students saw, on three weeks in England and average, thirteen plays on three days in Scotland per- the West End (the British forming in the Fringe Fes- Broadway). Jana Grass, tival. Ten of the fifteen stu- theater major, said they had dents also traveled to Paris the chance to see Pygmafor four days. lion, the play that inspired For the first two weeks, the acclaimed musical My the students traveled all Fair Lady. "It was beauover London visiting Tra- tifully done," she said. falgar Square, Big Ben, "The sets were huge and Piccadilly Circus, the Brit- phenomenal. We all felt it ish National Museum, the was a really enlightening Tower of London, and Por- experience and a very emtobello Road. powering story." One of They ate at Eagle and the highlights was seeing Child, a pub C.S. Lewis Shakespearean plays such and J.R.R. Tolkien fre- as King Lear and The Merquented. They also visited Slipknot: All Hope Is Gone, Aug. 26 Amazon.com The Verve: Forth, Aug. 26 Amozon.com Brian Wilson: That Lucky Old Sun, Aug. 19 jnazon.com Olivia Newton-John and Friends: Celebration In Song, iazon.com Sept. 2 HOW TO Leave the summer behind Ci Mel Sundquist Life editor Switching your focus from work, friends, and entertainment to school can be a difficult thing to do, but over 24,000 of us will have to attempt it at the end of this month. There is no right way to do this, but in the end, it is a pass/fail course. Here are a few pointers: Practice. Rehearse flipping the school switch on and off. Today, instead of watching television or hiking, pick up your textbooks and pay your fees. Then flip the switch back off, and enjoy the rest of your day. The more you try this, the easier it will become to make the big switch. Sublimate. It can be daunting to change your carefree lifestyle of three months back to a structured and stressful school-week. Take that anxiety (or fear or anger) and bury it under a mountain of busywork. Clean your apartment, bake lasagna, write for a newspaper, do whatever it takes to get your mind off of your impending homework. S m i l e . Find the good things about a new school year. You'll meet new and interesting people in your classes, you'll learn new things, and you're sure to fit some fun in there somewhere. If necessary, enroll in an elective class that you know you'll enjoy, making your schedule seem less terrifying. ! Mathew A. Jonassaint CD Time is one of life's biggest contradictions, never passing fast enough when we wish it would, and flying by when we wish it would linger. The first month of this deployment felt as though it would never end, like I was caught in an eternal March that would never yield to April and the succeeding months. It seemed like the longest month I have ever lived. I felt strangely claustrophobic because it seemed that time had literally stopped, and I was doomed to be away from those I love, and my home, forever. For deployed soldiers, measuring the passage of time reminds us that the days are actually going by. We mark our physical and mental calendars with big Xs over the days that have passed as proof that time is continuing its course. We use every holiday and birthday and anniversary, any future event, as a measuring stick to gauge the flow of time. Having something to look forward to See FRONT LINE* C6 Babylon AD., Yahoo Movies c< Madsen's roots are showing in this picture taken in downtown Provo. Yahoo MOVIOJ Aug. 29 Cl The troupe in London. ry Wives Of Windsor in the Globe Theatre. After two weeks, they traveled to Shakespeare's hometown, Stratford-uponAvon. to spend the night. They stopped by Oxford University on the way and visited some of the sites used in the Harry Potter films. On the way back to London, they visited Warwick Castle, which features one of the world's largest siege engines. Courtesy of Christopher Clark Afterwards, thirteen students flew to Edinburgh, Scotland to perform three comic sketches from Chekov's Flies In The Snuffbox for two days. Jana described how the students stood on Royal M i le in costume advertising to pedestrians. They were with many other entertainers on the Mile, from jugglers to singers, and had to compete See THEATER • C6 F i l l your backpack with kitschy school supplies like it's the first day of kindergarten, because it's just more pleasant to write notes on paper with a watermark of Michael Phelps or David Bowie. K e e p track of time. Once school starts, put a calendar on your wall, marking days that will act as the light at the end of the tunnel. Then, as school days go by, mark them off with a big satisfying red "X." As See HOW TO* C6 i |