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OPINION: Oh, it's dark

OPINION: Oh, it’s dark

Anthony Morris, Opinion Writer April 26, 2024

Stop looking for the answer. It will find you.  You don’t know anything as long as you think you know something. You know fragments and subtle judgements surrounding a world you constructed; a world...

OPINION: That's no way to live life

OPINION: That’s no way to live life

Anthony Morris, Opinion Writer April 13, 2024

Right now, the act of speaking will betray me. Writing will subtract from me. If I could choose to leave this space empty, I would. If I could choose to say nothing, I would. If I could choose to repeat...

OPINION: AJ's Album Reviews: 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix'

OPINION: AJ’s Album Reviews: ‘By the Time I Get to Phoenix’

Anthony Morris, Opinion Writer March 19, 2024

Two and a half years ago, the highly influential rap group Injury Reserve piqued my interest for the very first time as I noticed critical acclaim for their latest record, “By the Time I Get to Phoenix.”...

ALBUM REVIEW: ‘The Last Dinner Party’ makes exciting debut with power of trauma, baroque pop

ALBUM REVIEW: ‘The Last Dinner Party’ makes exciting debut with power of trauma, baroque pop

Anthony Morris, Opinion Writer March 11, 2024

On April 19, 2023, a newly formed band who branded themselves “The Last Dinner Party” released their debut single, “Nothing Matters.” The song, having been described as “the truest love song...

OPINION: AJ's Album Reviews: Healing with ‘HELLMODE’

OPINION: AJ’s Album Reviews: Healing with ‘HELLMODE’

Anthony Morris, Opinion Writer March 10, 2024

Sometimes life hits you with a freight train. Sometimes that freight train has 10 more subsequent freight trains with flaming spikes and a melting portrait of your parents fighting hoisted up like a "Mad...

OPINION: My sprawling mission to find the best movie

OPINION: My sprawling mission to find the best movie

Anthony Morris, Opinion Writer February 22, 2024

I know what the best movie is. “Best you say?” you ask in your foolish ways. Yes, the best movie. For I do not stutter. In my unending journey of consuming film (yes, “film,” I say because I am...

OPINION: What does music mean to you?

OPINION: What does music mean to you?

Anthony Morris, Opinion Writer February 6, 2024

What even is music? At some point in our timeline, we as humans decided that certain types of “ughhs” and “oohs” sounded somewhat pleasing to the ear, and then we chased this feeling to the ends...

OPINION: Never the twain shall meet: Art and pain

OPINION: Never the twain shall meet: Art and pain

Anthony Morris, Opinion Writer January 22, 2024

I feel like I have been historically vague in my most recent articles. This is an art form in its own way. The denial of vulnerability but the refusal to be unseen. Something about the frankness needed...

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OPINION: You are more than meaning

Anthony Morris, Opinion Writer December 1, 2023

It’s funny how a tapestry’s pattern is determined by the moments that precede its creation. A memory or flood of feelings that catch a creator in a terrifying plethora of possibilities. The flurry...

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OPINION: I have nothing to teach you

Anthony Morris, Opinion Writer November 13, 2023

A walk. A word. An attachment. To ideas or statements. To conventions or concepts. A sentence I’ve thought too much. A sentence I’ve spoken too little.  I’m listening to “Javelin” by Sufjan...

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OPINION: My Friday the 13th tier list

Anthony Morris, Opinion Writer. November 1, 2023

Stop! Did you not take the time to realize that this past October 13th was on a Friday? Fool you are, for this indifferent attitude you’ve taken upon yourself. For this event was as uncommon as it was...

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OPINION: Hold Closely: A Review of Sufjan Steven’s “Javelin”

Anthony Morris, Opinion Writer October 16, 2023

I have long been awaiting the day Sufjan Stevens releases another album. Two years ago, he released “A Beginner’s Mind” with fellow indie-folk singer Angelo De Augustine. While it was a beautiful...