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After some painstaking deliberation, we decided on the three winning lists of songs for our Girl Talk ticket giveaway. Combining the new and the old, the goofy and the sincere, the Haddaways and the Snoop Doggs, the winners crafted hypothetical mixes that would make Gregg Gillis proud. We’ve posted them after the jump…
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I am sure there have been nights where you’ve tossed and turned, burdened by a question like: why has Gerard Butler never played an evil sociopath orchestrating murders from a jail cell, only to be stopped by the undeniable fierceness of Jamie Foxx? Maybe because you, like we film editors, understand that that movie would suck.
Regardless, they’re filming it anyway. Which is fine, because they’re shooting in Philadelphia! Right now, in fact. And because Gerard Butler is infinitely hotter than Shia LaBeouf (who shot scenes for Transformers 2 at Penn), we’d love to meet him and get him to speak to us in the accent he couldn’t bother to perfect for 300 because he was working on his abs. Here’s a blurry pic of the fantastic Mr. Foxx racing around town. Send better, Butler-ier pics to us here.
E-mail us at street-film@dailypennsylvanian.com and you’ll score free tickets to the newest movies in town.
The shenanigans continue! We’re not sure if this was pledging-related or just a regular Wharton display of blowing off some steam.
Our tipster reports: “This was in my advanced negotiations class. Best part? They burst in singing, and everyone falls silent. As soon as they leave, no one comments, and we picked up right where we left off. No laughter. Like it never happened. That’s Wharton for you!”
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If you’re eager to be part of Philly’s beloved Inky before it goes down in flames, applying for the Inquirer’s “Off Campus” editorial board may be your way in. Once again, this seems like awkward timing. We’re guessing that due to the recent filing for bankruptcy, you’ll probably be paid negative pennies (if that) — even Brian Tierney, the CEO, is giving back his $232,000 dollar raise from last December. Despite the lack of pay, this could be your shot at fame. And who knows? The Inquirer always has a shot at being included in a newspaper bailout.
In Obama’s “not-the-State-of-the-Union” State of the Union, he name-dropped Wharton alum Leonard Abess (father of Matt Abess, C ‘08) as an example of a selfless and responsible member of the finance industry. Abess distributed bonuses to past and current employees of Miami’s City National Bank based on years of service to the company. Some received up to $100,000. You may have caught a glimpse of Abess last night, seated with First Lady Michelle Obama in her private box. Quothbama:
“I think about Leonard Abess, the bank president from Miami who reportedly cashed out of his company, took a $60 million bonus, and gave it out to all 399 people who worked for him, plus another 72 who used to work for him. He didn’t tell anyone, but when the local newspaper found out, he simply said, ”I knew some of these people since I was 7 years old. I didn’t feel right getting the money myself.’”
Right on! Whartonites, there still is hope for your souls.
As one of the twentieth century’s great intellectuals once said, “Monday, one day. Tuesday, two day. Wednesday, when? Huh? What day? Thursday!” Yes, Thursday is the day of days, for it is when new issues of 34th Street arrive and your life improves by a factor of 34. The stakes are high with today’s issue, because the cover story is about gambling. Put on your poker face and/or your reading glasses and have a look. Also a safe bet? Ego’s got roller (derby) rage, Food & Drink reviews Chifa, Guides jet-sets to Gay Paree, and Lowbrow is a hymn to foxy boxing (or maybe just foxy boxes). Plus lots, lots more!
Join us for our writers’ meeting tonight, 6:30 at the DP office, 4015 Walnut St. Come early (at 6) to learn about blogging for this very blog. You got to be in it to win it!
So you missed out on buying tickets. And you missed DJ Rico. Dry your eyes, you crazy kids: you can still get get your grind on this Saturday. Thanks to M.U.S.I.C. For Your Mind, the organization bringing Girl Talk to Philly, we at UTB have four tickets to give away for the show. Here’s what you need to do: just give us a list of the 10 songs you would put in a Girl Talk-esque mash-up. Send your list to underthebutton@gmail.com by 11:59 p.m. tonight with the subject line “Girl Talk Contest.” We’ll post the winners tomorrow. The best entry will get a pair of tickets and the second and third place entries will get a ticket each. Good luck!
Fling '09. Hellz yes.
Yes, we’re awesome. We know. Our friends over at the DP has just confirmed via SPEC that Billboard wunderkind Akon will be performing at Fling this year! We at UTB leaked this info to our loyal readers on January 26. Happy Thursday, indeed.
The latest plague of Memes That Need To Die is currently sweeping Facebook: posting a picture of a bunch of cartoon characters and tagging your friends in the image, yearbook superlative style. Click the image at right for a full-size view. The drama queen! The one with the bad memory! Ha ha ha, we can hardly stand the hilarity of it all! Or, wait, yes we can. Now can we please halt the proliferation of this poor-quality jpeg?
By the way, if anyone is wondering, the cartoons originally come from a British TV show called Mr. Men. (Little Miss Sunshine is the most famous one.)
Editor’s note: we’ve also seen Smurfs and other variations. Barf.
In addition to covering “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” as a gangsta rap, some clever musicians have decided to go to the complete other side of the music spectrum and create folk versions. Winsome, lilting folk versions with guitars and violins and ukuleles.
For your listening pleasure, below is a version by Kay Pettigrew. Check out Entertainment Weekly’s Popwatch for a whole host of others.
A tipster, who was playing in Adobe Illustrator, has just discovered that our beloved Penn Emblem is, for lack of a better word, wonky. To make it easier for you to see this egregious error, we’ve drawn some helpful lines.
We checked, and it turns out this version of the sacred symbol is everywhere. It’s off-center on the website, on the letterhead, on our PennCards and, most tragically, on our sweatshirts. This makes us sad. Hey Penn – full refund for all our paraphernalia (and, um tuition)?
A close-up (in which the problem is even more painfully obvious), is after the jump.
Is really only coming for the cheesesteak.
America’s crazy uncle Joe Biden will be speaking at Irvine on Friday, we hear. The vice president will be participating in a “middle class task force,” our tipster reports (which sounds a little more Penn State than U. Penn, if we don’t quell our impulse toward Ivy League snobbishness). Check out a White House press advisory here. We also hear there will be no tickets for students. So you can’t go. But you will get the chance to be within 1,000 yards of Biden, whoopdeedoo.
UPDATE: Want to get a little closer to the VP? You can be one of seven Penn students to drive a car in his motorcade.
"The only thing cooler than my Ray Bans is my tasty tee."
You probably think that Girl Talk tickets are sold out. And you’d be right, except for the “last 4 VIP passes” that DJ Rico is giving away at the top and bottom of the hour on his show. If you want to be a part of the sweatiest mash-up dancefest since… well, the last Girl Talk concert… be sure not to miss it. Don’t worry about your lack of an ID, or that you’ll get busted with your shitty one at the door; the show is now 18+.
This will be the graduation of this generation of this decade.
Just because you have to graduate (sad) and leave all your friends (really sad) as you burst out of the Penn bubble into a world without jobs (wow, this is even sadder than we thought) doesn’t mean that Graduation itself can’t be fun! Right? The DAB is trying to make you feel just a little bit better – cheering you all up as Feb Club comes to an end, perhaps? – by making a photo slide show to show to parents at the College graduation. They want you to remember that the photos will be seen by mom and dad, so keep it clothed and kosher. If psuedo-celebrity in May isn’t motivation enough, think of this: “At the end of each month, we will have a random drawing from submitted photos for gift cards from local restaurants/bars like Smoke’s, Pod, Distrito and Mad4Mex.”
To be a part of this last-ever Class of ‘09 facebook album, email your pics to graduation@penndab.org
