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I write about Star Wars a lot. This week, I’m go-ing to nerd-out on a different genre-rede-fi ning fantasy franchise beloved ubiquitously by American tweens: Harry Potter. Ever since receiving the fi rst two

installments in the decade-spanning series for my ninth birthday, I’ve been a Potterhead. I was one of the fi rst to reserve a copy of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix from my local library. In the halls of my middle school, my position heading up the oft-maligned, months-long waiting list was a small source of celebrity throughout that spring; I can re-member walking through the grocery store with my mom while trying to read my copy on release day, the retail reality around me only a minor interrup-tion. I attended the midnight premiere of Deathly Hallows Pt. 2, a friend and I dressed as Crabbe and Goyle. So I was really excited to read J.K. Rowling’s pseudo-Daily Prophet column this week.

It is most defi nitely fl uff, but I enjoyed it. Rowling does a remarkable job channeling Rita Skeeter’s voice. Skeeter was always a charismatic and loud personality in the books, but her appearances were always secondary to the narrative. So, in writing this, Rowling’s performance as Skeeter enables the article as a vehicle for the gossip columnist’s own characterization. In particular, descriptions of The Boy Who Lived and co. provide an alternate take on a story Harry Potter fans already know intimately. The outside-looking-in perspective can be fascinat-ing, like Skeeter’s description of Hermione’s role: “As a teenager, she toyed with the young Potter’s affections, before being seduced away by the mus-cular Viktor Krum, fi nally settling for Potter’s faithful sidekick.” If you were summarizing Hermione’s path throughout the books or the fi lms, it would certainly have a much different tone and construction THAN Skeeter’s version. Yet it is still just familiar enough.

The short piece of fi ction recollects the same magical, awesome universe of the books. That’s all I would want from further glimpses into that world; another book would only involve us in new confl icts I have neither the patience nor the interest to involve myself in. I don’t need more narrative to keep Harry Potter fresh in my life—I literally grew up with him, aging at the same pace as the release of the fi lms—but a bit of fl uff like this, once in a while, would be pretty nice.

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» Push/pull doors: It is forever my misfortune to trip over cracks in the sidewalk, lose my balance and fall miserably on the bus while trying to pull off the nonchalant one-hand-on-the-railing pose and

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A group of punk rock lovers recently came for-ward to officially make today, July 11, Punk Rock BBQ Day in Champaign. After a petition was brought forward to Mayor Don Gerard, a few important points were established to introduce the importance of having a community day like this exist. The petition was signed (with Gerard’s “signature” smiley face) on Tuesday, June 24 and had its picture posted on Gerard’s Facebook page. The event will take place at a private residence, located at 1101 W. Springfield Ave. in Champaign. Everyone in the community is invited and asked to bring their own meat to toss on the grill, while adult beverages will be provided for a $5 dona-tion. After the barbecue wraps up, bands from Memphis, Tenn., Indianapolis, Ind., Springfield, Ill. and a local band will take turns on the stage around 8 p.m. The hosts ask that guests be polite about walking on the neighbors’ lawns and take smoke breaks outside. Swing by for the local Punk Rock BBQ Day festivities for a good BBQ and some live music!

» Unnecessary rudeness from human beings: If there’s one thing I will most consistently have a gripe with, it’s this. Whether it’s happening in the most mundane of situations, to more intense en-

counters, it just isn’t necessary. Using the most recent occurrence I’ve personally had, it had to do with somebody’s sunflower pants. See, a few weeks ago I walked up to a group of four people at a music festival with the intent to pass on a compli-ment and potentially make new acquaintances. It ended with silence and me grousing to myself “this is why I don’t leave the house”. Essentially, I walked up to a stranger with some fine looking sunflower-print pants and offered my admiration to them. It was received with a short-lived and almost hard to form “thanks,” followed by me asking if she didn’t mind if I asked where she got ‘em from. Suddenly enveloped by cold glares and silence, another per-son from the group sarcastically noted, “…THE SUNFLOWER STORE”. I had received my cue to bug off. Duly noted.

Folks, don’t be dicks to strangers. Both from a customer-service stand point to a decent-hu-man-being perspective: just don’t do it. Because, who knows. You never really know what some stranger has going on: so just try to be nice. Try your best, whatever that may be. (For me, it was walking away muttering to my friend saying “hold me back, hold me back” […] “I’m going to take those dang sunflower pants from her and blow raspberries until kingdom come”. You know, the so-called high road.)

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MIDYEAR AT THE MOVIESGrading Hollywood halfway through the yearBY DAVID ROBERTSON

The past six months have boasted an interesting, if lackluster, crop of

fi lms. With the trends of vampires and zombies mostly behind us, superheroes, toys and Christi-anity are at the forefront of popular fi lm culture. Even with these hits raking in millions in revenue, the year is lagging with regards to quality and originality. By July 1, 2013, I was able to name at least fi ve or six perfect fi lms from the year’s fi rst six months. However, at the same point this year—while I’ve seen many great fi lms—I would only award one or two a perfect score.

There’s a reason this year’s superhero mov-ies have struck a chord with audiences: they’ve been quite good. Marvel has delivered top-quality entertainment with Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and X-Men: Days of Future Past, even though a different stu-dio made each fi lm (Disney, Sony and Twentieth Century Fox, respectively). Superhero fl icks can be an easy cash-grab for studios, so there was a risk that these movies could have been mindless jumbles of explosions and fi ghting like Transform-ers: Age of Extinction. Nonetheless, they’ve provided audiences with strong, relatable characters and engaging, intricate stories. Whereas some fi lm-makers struggle to justify the use and destruction of enormous set pieces, the newest X-Men, for ex-

ample, offers enormous spectacles that also move the plot forward, most memorably the levitation of RFK Stadium by Magneto.

Children’s toys have served as the inspiration for a couple of blockbuster fi lms in 2014, i.e. Trans-formers 4 and The LEGO Movie. While the latest Transformers outing is nothing short of a disaster, The LEGO Movie successfully captures the creative spirit and zany fl avor of the products that inspired it. Colorful, witty and oftentimes hilarious, The LEGO Movie bridges the gap between young and old viewers and offers a fun, fast-paced cinematic experience, in the vein of Toy Story.

Christian audiences have received a solid help-ing of entertainment lately, including Son of God, Noah, God’s Not Dead and Heaven Is for Real. Most of these fi lms miss their mark —Noah was tragic with its “rock transformers”— but Heaven Is for Real bucked this trend by being family-friendly and uplifting without becoming preachy.

The genre that has been harboring the most bril-liance and creativity this year is, without a doubt, comedy. Tammy, Blended, The Other Woman and Ride Along feature original stories and humor that connects with audiences on many levels. The themes of revenge, fi tting in and getting along dominate these pictures, which is part of the reason moviegoers enjoyed them and why

they performed well at the box offi ce.In my opinion, the best movie of the year thus

far is the original comedy Neighbors, starring Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne. Neighbors could have been a run-of-the-mill college romp, but I think this one will stand the test of time and join the ranks of classics such as Animal House and American Pie. The hilarious fi lm, in which a newly married cou-ple with a baby faces off against a house of rowdy frat brothers, has ample jokes but also manages to tug at viewers' heartstrings. The increasingly versatile Byrne (Insidious, X-Men: First Class) gives the year’s breakout performance, upstaging Ro-gen in several scenes. Neighbors also marks one of Zac Efron’s few good fi lms.

22 Jump Street, although a follow-up, is another exceptional comedy that often pokes fun at its se-quel status. Its directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who also helmed The LEGO Movie, are prov-ing themselves as cinema titans this year.

With six months under its belt, Hollywood earns from me a C in originality and a B overall for this year’s films. 2014 hasn’t been an awful year for movies so far, but with offerings like The Good Lie, Gone Girl, Interstellar and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 on the horizon, let’s hope these movies pick up in quality and make us proud.

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T-CHING THE ART OF UPCYCLINGMakerspace Urbana refashions the idea of recycling through Art at the MarketBY MELISA PUTHENMADOM

Step one: Grab an old T-shirt.Step two: Pull out a pair of scissors.Step three: Cut the sleeves for handles. Cut and tie fringe at the bottom to pull it together.Step four: Take your new tote bag to the grocery store!

This is the premise behind “T-Shirts to Tote Bags with Makerspace Urbana,” a free workshop at Urbana’s Market at the Square.

The workshop will be held this Saturday, July 12 from 8 a.m. to noon. Aduki Jazz Quartet will also be playing a mix of jazz standards and original compositions, while participants learn a quick way to bring old shirts back to life—no sewing required.

Both the workshop and performance are open to all ages and free of cost and registration. Sat-urday's events will be held on Walnut Street, near the City of Urbana tent at the northwest entrance to the Market at the Square, which is located in downtown Urbana on Illinois and Vine.

Sponsored by the Urbana Public Arts Pro-gram, the summerlong Art at the Market began as a series of workshops in 2009, expanding to include musical performances by various local groups in 2012.

Many of the Art at the Market workshops re-volve around “upcycling”—converting old or waste materials into new products of better quality and environmental value. Past workshops have included making masks, bottle cap magnets, recycled paper, letterpress postcards and origami.

What’s great about the upcoming workshop is that those T-shirt totes can be used to shop at Urbana’s Market, home to an average of 70 vendors every week, all of whom grow their own fresh produce, plants and flowers.

This season, the Art at the Market workshops have turned their focuses on supporting market-goers and utilizing what vendors have to offer. The June 14 workshop, hosted by Meredith Foster, a local artist and contributor to Urbana Land Arts, focused on low-impact art supplies, including adhesives, inks and drawing charcoal made from local plant materials and food stuffs. Plans for August and September involve carving fruits and vegetables into ink stamps and creating nature mobiles from branches, flowers, rocks and leaves.

Makerspace Urbana, the workshop’s host, is dedicated to “enabling the blend of arts, humani-ties, science and technology,” according to its website, MakerspaceUrbana.org, where it en-courages local interest groups join. The simple premise of the workshop is an effective way to raise awareness of plastic bag use.

It’s estimated that the average American adult uses approximately 288 plastic bags a year or 22,000 in an average lifetime—and only one per-cent of plastic bags are recycled, according to the Piedmont Environmental Alliance in North Carolina.

Makerspace provides an open community lab, offering workshops on everything from 3D printing and electronics to sewing and crafting. The group fits perfectly with the market’s focuses on local ag-riculture and entrepreneurs and providing patrons

with “additional opportunities to socialize, network, and connect with others,” according to its website.

“T-shirts to Tote Bags” suggests a creative way to take a second look at your closet for environ-mentally friendly alternatives. So, in the spirit of Art at the Market’s inclusive atmosphere and Makerspace’s grassroots educational approach, here are more refashioning projects to comple-ment a T-shirt tote. These projects require no sewing; more can be found on Pinterest and other DIY blogs:

1. Giftwrap Shirts: - Lay a button-down shirt flat with the back of the shirt facing up. Slide your gift box inside the shirt.- Fold the top and bottom of the shirt over the gift. Use a safety pin to secure any excess fabric, if necessary.- Cross the sleeves so they wrap around the back of the box, then flip the gift right side up. - Tie the sleeves into a square knot. If your gift is narrow, you may be able to tie the sleeves into a bow.

2. Scarves:- Take a paper plate that is 8-10 inches in diameter and place it on top of your shirt. Cut 10-14 circles form the template.- Cut your circles into a spiral around 1.5 to 2 inch-es wide. Don’t worry if it isn’t the same thickness all the way through.- Unravel the spirals and tie them together. You can take an extra strip of T-shirt and tie it

around the portion that would go behind your neck to secure together.3. Pillows: - Lay the shirt on a flat surface, like the floor or table. Cut a square around your design, allowing for 3-4 inches for the fringe.- Cut squares out of the corners. This will be the length of the fringe.- Cut the fringe all the way around. Each piece should be an inch or less wide. Double knot the end pieces of fringe on each side, if you need to realign the fringe.- Double knot the rest of the fringe, except for a 5-inch hole (about five pieces of fringe) where you are going to stuff the pillow.- Take the bottom piece you initially cut off of the shirt. This piece will be used to prevent the stuffing from falling through the sides. Push the band of fabric in the pillow towards the oppo-site corner from the stuffing hole. Poke a piece of the middle band through a hole between the knots. This will hold the band in place when stuffing the pillow. Fix the band into the pillow by pulling pieces through all four corners.- Stuff the pillow with pillow stuffing. Keep ad-justing the shirt band so it covers the holes as you stuff the pillow. You can also include the remains of your T-shirt.

In addition, consider using T-shirts in quilt patches, rag rugs, curtains and textbook covers.

For more information on Saturday's market events, call Urbana Public Arts Coordinator, Lisa Hatchadoorian at 328-8265.

Repurpose your old t-shirts with a DIY project. Photos by Carly Gubbins

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KOREAN BBQ COMES TO DOWNTOWN URBANAMasijta Grill wows with tabletop grilling, for a pricePAUL ANGELILLO

W hile Champaign has long indulged its love for bibimbap, bulgogi and other Korean

fare at spots like Woori Jib and Spoonhouse, Ur-bana has been left searching for its own bit of marinated, meaty goodness. That is, until Masijta Grill opened in early June with a dedication to the spice and sizzle of Korean barbecue that has yet to be seen in all of CU.

Located at the corner of Race and Water in downtown Urbana, Masijta Grill occupies one of downtown’s crispest red brick buildings. The decidedly vertical dining space is divided be-tween smaller, two-person tables and the larger assortment of four-person seatings that incor-porate the restaurant’s distinguishing tabletop electric grills. The space is limited by the shape of the building but maintains a comfortable, visually appealing look with sufficient lighting to navigate through using the grill without any spilled meat or accidental burns.

The six-page menu isn’t particularly stylish—the paper is a bit bunched up with items—but is divided intelligently enough into categories like noodles, stir-fry and meat dishes. The selection of items for the grill occupies the fifth page, with options ranging from familiar cuts of short rib and chicken to more eccentric offerings like pork jowls. With each meat choice costing somewhere between $19 and $25, along with the mandate that parties order at least two of them, the table-top grill dining remains best-suited to a group or a hungry pair. The drink menu was predictably lim-ited, but the Chinese and Japanese beer options

are a good accompaniment for anyone looking to brave an onslaught of sizzling meat.

Though clearly intrigued by the device on my table, I ordered not simply with the aim of analyzing Masijta Grill’s namesake grill items, but with the curiousity to see if the rest of the Korean fare stood up to the CU classics. First on show was a small bowl of salad. Compli-mentary with any order from the grill menu, the tangy shreds of lettuce proved a tasty, crisp starter certainly familiar to most diners. The cost of the grill foods, further, included doen-jang jjigae—a traditional, soybean based stew. A nicely sized portion somewhere between a cup and a bowl, the broth was hearty and flavor-ful, a real surprise given the flood of average, complimentary miso soups around CU. While my table was enjoying these little starters, our waiter turned the nob of the tabletop grill with a click: the red glow signifying the meat was coming ever closer.

The first part of my order to arrive that was separate from the grill menu was a shrimp yakisoba. Though meat is clearly the focus at Masijta, the pieces of shrimp were juicy and fla-vorful, mixing perfectly with the sautéed onions and peppers. The buckwheat noodles brought the dish together, mopping up the sauce with their delightful, slightly chewy texture. Though perhaps a slightly below-average sized portion for $10.99, the harmony of the dish as a whole made it well worth the price.

With two more appetizers to come, the waiter

began the actual preparation and placing of the meat onto the now hot grill. A knob of butter lubri-cated the surface and began to bubble just a few seconds before the chunks of marinated boneless short rib and slices of pork belly were adeptly placed (along with a few mushrooms), cover-ing the entirety of heated metal. The process of watching, smelling and listening to the meat cook is clearly the draw of tabletop Korean barbecue, and we were not at all disappointed. The sizzle was instant, and the perfume of the beef and pork utterly intoxicating, making it a difficult wait for the items to come to temperature.

We thought our remaining two appetizers ar-riving would help us survive the tortuous wait for our grilled items, yet the other dishes didn’t nearly impress us like the yakisoba. Though the Korean fried chicken was meaty and well-breaded, there was nothing decidedly Korean about it. The chick-en was indeed tender but lacked seasoning, let alone any distinguishing spice or flavor. The hae-mulpajeon, a Korean seafood pancake, followed a similar fate: prepared decently but lacking any real depth of flavor or brightness.

Luckily enough, it wasn’t long after these slight disappointments that our server informed us that the food on the grill was ready for us. The pork belly had crisped up just right in salty, chewy squares of heaven that were absolutely luscious. The marinade on the short rib didn’t truly come through in terms of flavor but could be overlooked thanks to the quality and juiciness of the beef itself. Not to mention, accompaniments like rice,

kimchi, ssam dipping sauce and different pickled vegetables allowed the option to give the cuts of meat a little additional spice or tang on our own. You might literally be ordering “just” meat with the grill menu, but Masijta ensures both that the meat is fundamentally delicious and that you have plenty of options to eat it with.

Service, it must be said, was prompt and at-tentive throughout the course of the meal. Drink and food orders were taken briskly, with the grill items skillfully placed and monitored until they had reached proper temperature for consump-tion. Because the server made sure to start pre-heating our grill as soon as we put in our order, it was not more than 10 minutes before we actually had our meat cooking in front of us. It must be said, however, that the timing of the dishes was ever so slightly off, as the grill items were ready while we were still enjoying our appetizers. None-theless, drinks were frequently refilled, and dishes came out of the kitchen at a good pace overall.

Overall, Masijta Grill makes more of a ripple than a wave among CU’s Korean dining options. The usual fare is done well enough that it should draw those in Urbana looking for their fix but re-luctant to travel to Champaign. The grill food is undoubtedly the star of the show yet, while very tasty, it doesn’t doesn’t quite provide either the perfect flavor or larger portion to justify the price. Nonetheless, the tabletop experience is surely worth a try at least once. It’s a fun, communal way to feast that’s presented excellently and easily accessible to both students and locals alike.

Grill food at your table at Masijta Grill. Urbana, IL. Photo by Maddie Rehayem Grill food at your table at Masijta Grill. Urbana, IL. Photo by Maddie Rehayem

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SOUNDS AT SUNSETChampaign Park District sponsors series of summer events, fun for the whole family.BY AALIYAH GIBSON

It comes as no surprise that the University is known for its social life. With numerous

clubs, majors, minors and a number of people from around the world, the opportunity to gather and have a good time is inevitable.

The latter is only one of the reasons to explain why the Champaign Park District-sponsored Sounds at Sunset may be an event to add to a sum-mer list of activities if CU is home for the summer.

Traveling from park to park, Sounds at Sunset is an event that combines live music, face paint-ing, inflatables and games to provide a space for the wide variety of local residents to gather together. For college students trying to save every penny for books and pricey tuition, one of the best parts of the event is that it’s free.

“Sounds at Sunset is a series, so it is a con-cert held in various parks throughout Cham-paign,” said Jimmy Gleason, Special Events and Volunteer Coordinator at the Champaign Park District said. “It’s on certain Friday nights

throughout the summer, and each Friday night is at a different park. With the series, there will be a band playing from six to eight at night, and then there will be other activities as well.”

The event serves as an outlet for a family look-ing to have a good time together, an excuse to leave the house, or a random way to enjoy a Friday night while the warm weather lasts. Last year was the first year for Sounds at Sunsets, and the event is continuing into this summer, thanks to a successful turnout.

With live music from Mike Ingram and Kayla Brown, as well as an array of activities to entertain anyone from ages eight to 80, planning for Sounds

at Sunset took more than just a spontaneous idea.“The idea for this came along after the Cham-

paign Park District got some inflatables and decided to do some rotating to get other parks involved in the Champaign community and have concerts in those parks as well,” Gleason said. “We wanted to have inflatables and face painting for free, to kind of just serve each park in the community.”

With so many activities to choose from, Gleason finds it difficult to narrow down what guests may enjoy the most.

“It’s tough to say. There are individuals that enjoy the music and that’s the reason they come, but there’s also a lot of families that come out to just enjoy the inflatables and the face painting more than the music,” Gleason said. “It depends on the individual, but there’s definitely something for everyone to enjoy.”

Sounds at Sunset is especially unique for those residing in Champaign because it serves

as an outlet to do more than simply bring a fam-ily together; it unites a community.

“We’re really just looking to serve the com-munity with a free opportunity for family fun, and we just hope people will come out to enjoy the park and the free events we have planned for them,” Gleason said.

This is the second summer for Sounds at Sun-set but, due to the array of activities, live music and the simple opportunity to be outdoors and enjoy a pleasant summer evening, there’s more than one reason why it shouldn’t be the last. Get outdoors the next Friday the event visits a park near you in Champaign for some family fun and a chance to see what the event has to offer.

“We hope people come out to the individual parks and listen to the concerts,” Gleason said. “It’ll be a lot of fun.”

Mike Ingram and Kayla Brown will perform at Sun-set Ridge Park on Friday, July 18 from 6-8 p.m. as an installment in the Sounds of Sunset series.

“THERE’S DEFINITELY SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE TO ENJOY.”

Used with permission from Champaign Park District

- MARIPOSA LINEUP -*STAGE 1 @ MAIN & NEIL STREET

6:15–7:00 PM — MOONRISE NATION7:30–8:15 PM — COMMON LOON

8:45–10:00 PM — PHOX10:30 PM–12:00 AM — BRAID

*STAGE 2 @ WALNUT & CHESTER STREET6:00–6:45 PM — THE CURSES

7:15–8:30 PM — PAUL CEBAR TOMORROW SOUND9:00–10:15 PM — JESSICA LEA MAYFIELD

10:45 PM–12:00 AM — CORNMEAL

*Mariposa Free Afterparty @ Cowboy Monkey: 10:00-12:00am DJ Mertz

12:15-1:00am Trails And Ways1:15-2:00am We The Animals

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MUSIC

GUESS WHO’S BACK?Braid returns to Champaign for first time since 2011ANWEN PARROTT

T here are few musical discoveries in the life of a local resident as unexpectedly intimate

as that of Braid. And understandably so; it’s a rare experience to learn that a band instrumental to the formation of the thriving—and to this day, influen-tial—'90s Midwest emo scene was born in your town, and at one point was inspired to the point of composition by the profound (and entirely familiar) stillness of Urbana at night. The influence of CU on Braid is almost as apparent as the lasting influence of Braid on the local scene, which makes the inaugural Mariposa Music Festival a particularly special event. buzz had a chance to talk with guitarist and vocalist Chris Broach before the band returns to Champaign to headline the Champaign Park District’s free fes-tival on July 12.

»buzz: No Coast is your first full-length in 16 years. Why now? What makes 2014 the right time to reunite and record?»Chris Broach: I think that a lot of people are thinking that there’s this “emo revival”—I’m a little hesitant to put that into words—but that definitely had nothing to do with what we we’re doing. It’s a much longer story, but we ended up starting to chat—me and Bob (Nanna)—about releasing another record. We were playing in another band together, and it didn’t really work because we were trying so hard not to be Braid, and we decided that what we really wanted was to start working on Braid songs again. This was in about 2010 or 2011. Long story short, we did. We put out that EP (Closer to Closed) on Polyvinyl, and we didn’t really know what the next step would be, if we’d be doing anything other than just putting out that EP. After we put it out, we realized that it was a lot of fun and that we liked working together again, and we really just kind of said, “Hey man, let’s start working on new music again.” So we did that split with Balance and Composure and worked on those two new songs to do before starting a new record, and then the album just sort of made sense. We were hoping to get it out last year actually but just because of all of our schedules—Bob and I live in Chicago, Damen (Atkinson)’s in Nashville, Todd (Bell) is in Milwaukee, so we’re pretty spread out—it takes a little bit of time for us to get together and write together. Bob and I started writing and every-thing kind of culminated in us recording at the end of last year and this year.

It definitely has been a slow progression since about 2010. Bob and I started doing a DJ night, where we would play old emo and indie hits from

the '90s, and we would stick around talking about old times after the bar closed until about two or three in the morning. We decided that we wanted to try a new band, but that didn’t work; I was trying so hard to do something different and to not sound like Braid, and we just determined that once we stop trying to do something different and when we just play together like we’re used to playing together, it falls together. The rest of the guys were on board, and it all just fell in line from there. We got this record together, and I love the record. I’m stoked. “What’s the next step for Braid?” is a question I’m going to answer before you even ask it: We’re going to do some tours, we’re hopefully going to go out West, and I don’t think we’re done writing records. I think we want to continue as a band and keep on playing. »buzz: You kind of mentioned this, but when you’re writing new material from Braid, is there a pressure to produce something that could be straight from Frame and Canvas or Age of Octeen? Are you under pressure to sound like “Braid?”»CB: I was working with Bob in this other band—we never even named the band, that’s how far we got—and six or eight months into it we kind of just threw in the towel and decided to start writing Braid music again. You know, Braid is what happens when the four of us get together and write. We don’t sit around and say, “How do we sound like Braid?” When Bob and I play guitar together and we’re not really trying. When I play something and he responds, that’s what happens. Braid happens and when we get Damon and Todd in the mix, that’s when everything really comes together. We’re never actively trying to sound like Braid—and we’re cer-tainly not trying to avoid it—but we just do. I think what you’ll find on the new record is that, first of all, the record sounds like Braid. This is who Braid is now. Was there pressure? We wrote it a little bit dif-ferently than we have in the past. We’re all 15 years older and we all have other obligations, whereas before we were all living in the same city and able to write together. This time around, Bob and I got together and just started writing a bunch of new songs and parts of songs. We would demo them and record them and send them to the guys. We all got together over the course of a few weekends and decided to write together. Some of the songs on the record had nothing to do with anything Bob and I did. There are a few songs on the record that just happened because the four of us were in a room together. “Doing Yourself In” is one of them, “This is Not a Revolution” is another one where we all just

got together and jammed and that’s what came out. In terms of the pressure to live up to Age of Octeen

Frame and Canvas, well, we certainly didn’t have the pressure to sound like that because we just kind of accepted that we sound how we sound. At least in the back of my mind, I really wanted the record to stand on it’s own and make sense in our wider body of work. But we did consciously work on this differently. Bob and I sat together and worked on lyrics together; there’s a lot more vocal interplay than there has been in the past. I’m taking the lead on a few more songs than I have in the past on al-bums, and we worked really hard to make things cohesive. I can’t tell you how easy and how interest-ingly this album fell together. In some of Bob’s lyrics, he’s saying the same thing I’m saying in a different song, just in a different context and different way, but meaning the same thing. There’s a song where Bob says, “I need to keep track. I need to write down every single worthless word," and I talk about “lists of projects we’ll never finish.” Lyrically we’re both in a very similar place and we both had a lot to say. It was important to us that every song on the record was well thought out. There’s no filler track; we wanted every song to stand on its own.»buzz: Is there a song or a moment on the new al-bum that you’re most proud of?»CB: I don’t know. I really like the whole record. I’m really, really excited about it. I don’t know if I have a favorite song, but I’m really happy with the way that “This Is Not a Revolution” turned out. It’s the one that I sang. I really love it because it’s a little different than what we’ve done before, but I worked really hard on those lyrics. I mean, I worked hard on all the lyrics, but I spent a lot of time really thinking about that song and what it meant to me.»buzz: How much did originally being based in Champaign influence the music you made?»CB: I don’t want to speak for everyone, but I think I can in some regard. You know, we were all really

into the D.C. scene—we all liked Shudder to Think, Hoover, Fugazi and Minor Threat—but we were also mainly playing with all the bands that came out of the Midwest. I hope that we influenced Champaign in some sense because I feel like we did. We brought a lot of bands that we really liked from a lot of places to the area. We used to bring tons of bands from everywhere and play shows with them. That was kind of our thing. We’d be on the Quad flyering or whatever and know that our friends from D.C. were coming to play this awesome show with us at The Red Herring or The Blind Pig or at some all-ages venue or house party. I’d like to think we had that sort of influence on Champaign. How did Cham-paign influence us? When I came down there, I had heard of the Poster Children, I’d heard of Hum and I knew those bands. I don’t know if I was necessarily influenced by those bands; sure, we became friends with the guys from Hum probably the most out of all the bands in Champaign at the time, and of course Castor, those guys were sort of our peers down there. Another thing about being from Champaign was that there was a lot of excitement. There was always something going on. It was during our college years—and I dropped out after my freshman year—all I really wanted to do was play music, and I was in a band that I felt was doing something cool, so I said, “Forget it, I’m done,” dropped out, and played shows in Champaign. Bob was still in school, and the rest of us were just sort of hanging out and playing shows. It was such a vibrant community. And that’s the thing: I’d like to think that we added to the vibrancy of an already vibrant scene. There were always bands in Champaign, and there was so much excitement. We were young and everything was new. It was the first time for all of us living on our own. There are quite a few songs that were Champaign and Urbana in-fluenced. I mean, we’ve got a song called “Urbana’s Too Dark,” we’re obviously influenced by the town we live in and the stuff that’s going on.

July 11-17, 2014 buzz 9

Aaron Carter has a street team?

SUMMER K R ANNER T CENTER FOR THE PERFOR MING AR T S

2014-07-11_3-4PAGE_BUZZ

SA JUL 12

10am Illinois Summer Youth Music // School of Music Office of Outreach and Public Engagement

TH JUL 17

5pm Krannert Uncorked with Crofton Coleman and Friends, popular/jazz standards // Marquee

FR JUL 18

10am Dance for People with Parkinson’s // Marquee

6:30pm OUTSIDE at the Research Park: Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience with opening act Candy Foster and Shades of Blue // Marquee

SA JUL 19

7pm That’s What She Said

About That’s What She Said: Backstage with 9:30pm Toshi Reagon and Morley

TU JUL 22

7:30pm Summer Piano Institute: Ian Hobson // School of Music

TH JUL 24

5pm Krannert Uncorked with Katie Flynn and Gordy Wilson, jazz/cabaret // Marquee

7pm 11th Sister Singers Network National Women’s Choral Festival // Hosted by Amasong: Champaign-Urbana’s Premier Lesbian/ Feminist Chorus

FR JUL 25



SA JUL 26



TH JUL 31

5pm Krannert Uncorked with The Prairie Dogs, bluegrass // Marquee

FR AUG 8

8:20pm PechaKucha Night // Champaign-Urbana Design Org

FR AUG 15

10am Dance for People with Parkinson’s // Marquee

SA AUG 16

10am 2014-15 Tickets On Sale! // Marquee

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»buzz: Was the last time that you played in Cham-paign for Pygmalion a few years ago? What was that experience like? »CB: The Pygmalion show was great! That was re-ally, really fun. I felt like the crowd was into it, we were into it; it was kind of one of the fi rst shows we were playing back as a full-time band. I think that was maybe right after or during the release of that EP in 2011 on Polyvinyl. I love playing in Champaign with Braid. It’s always been a good time, and we’ve always had a good response. Well, not always. Geez, when we fi rst started, sometimes we’d get on the wrong show and just realize that wow, this is not the right bill for us, but everyone goes through that I think. But yeah, Pygmalion was awesome. I think we were just happy to be back playing where we started out. And at that show, Don Gerard, who’s now the mayor, came up and introduced us. We go back with Don. He used to play in The Moon Seven Times, and we recorded at his house back in the day. It was really kind of fun to be there and see this guy that we knew who used to be in bands, as the mayor. It was fun to have that little reunion, that homage to what we’ve done and the fact that we knew each other. I’m stoked to come back down and play! I don’t know much about this Mariposa Festival, it’s fairly new I think?»buzz: Yeah, this is the fi rst year for it.»CB: Ah, OK, so very new! So yeah, I’m excited to see what happens! I don’t know the other bands that are playing. I think some of them are local. I don’t really know what to expect, but I’m very excited by the opportunity to come down and be a part of it. »buzz: Anthing else you’d like to mention?»CB: I’d like to say... sorry, I’m spacing out, there’s a turtle literally walking by me. I was driving and I parked in this forest preserve to talk, and there’s this turtle walking... Now he’s walking towards the pond, oh, good for him! Anyway, about Braid: Come out to Mariposa and have fun! I’m really excited for everyone to hear the new stuff. We still love playing the old stuff because that’s the stuff people know, but I really hope that people get to hear the new record and get stoked on it because we certainly are. We worked really hard on it, and I hope that people can hear that in it and are as excited about it as we are. This isn’t the last record we’re going to do or the last time we’ll play in Champaign, but it might be for a little while, so come on out! The other thing is, pick it up! It’s available for pre-order and it comes out on July 8. The vinyl is beautiful. We had Andy from Ohio Girl do the artwork. They started in Champaign, and he’s been doing this for years. He actually did the artwork for Age of Octeen and Frame and Canvas as well for us, so we asked him to come back and do the artwork for this because he knows us well. It’s beautifully put together, and I’m really excited about it. I hope that anyone who’s reading this can check it out.

Braid will headline the Champaign Park District-spon-sored Mariposa Music Festival on July 12. The festival is free and begins at 6 p.m.

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GIVING FORWARDWednesday, July 12-Sunday, July 13indi go Artist Co-Op, (9 E. University Ave., Champaign);free

A group of local watercolor artists are joining together to donate the proceeds of sales of their artwork to the Chez Family Foundation Center for Wounded Veterans. Each artist will have originals and giclées available for purchase from July 2-13. A reception to meet the artists is scheduled for Satuday, July 11 at 7 p.m.

KNOT FORGOTTEN: THE TENNYSON LIBRARY OF CROCHET AT ILLINOISTuesday, July 1-Thursday,

July 31

Rare Book & Manuscript

Library; free

The Rare Book & Manuscript Library celebrates the acquisition of the Tennyson Library of Crochet.

WINGS OF WONDERSaturday, July 12;

3-3:45 p.m.

Champaign Public Library;

free

WRITING A BUSINESS PLANThursday, July 17; 3-5:30 p.m.

Champaign County Chamber

of Commerce (303 W.

Kirby); $25

NEIGHBOR NIGHTSWednesday, July 16;

6:30-8 p.m.

Victory Park (Green & Lynn,

Urbana); free

LATE NIGHTS Saturday, July 12;

11 a.m.-9 p.m.

Sholem Aquatic Center;

$4-$6

THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOMEMonday, July 14; 6-10 p.m., Hyatt Place Hotel; $25

Dress up for drinks and appetizers at the hotel followed by a showing of The Wizard of Oz at the Art Theater to learn more about Habitat’s mission in the community.

URBANA’S MARKET AT THE SQUARESaturday, July 12;

7 a.m.–12 p.m.

Corner of Illinois & Vine, free

FARMERS MARKET AT COUNTRY FAIRWednesday, July 16; 7 a.m.-1 p.m.

301 S. Mattis Ave., Champaign, prices vary

One of the later farmers markets of the season, the setup at Country Fair offers homegrown produce, plants and baked goods. Everything sold is grown within 20 miles of Champaign, so be sure to stop by and show your support for local farms!

SUSTAINABLE STUDENT FARM MARKETThursday, July 17;

4:15–6 p.m.

Corner of Windsor and Race,

Urbana, prices vary

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1902 S. 1st St., Champaign,

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Krannert Center: Stage 5,

freeLIFE ITSELFThe Art Theater Co-Op, Champaign, Friday, July 11; 5:30, 7:30 p.m.

Steve James’s brilliant documentary of Roger Ebert’s life pulls no punches and paints a warts-and-all portrait of the celebrated film critic. From Ebert’s college career, his tumultuous bout with alcoholism and his bitter rivalry and later fond friendship with Gene Siskel to his marriage, cancer diagnosis, and the last few moments of his life, James takes his audience through all of the corridors of Ebert’s existence. Playing deftly with audiences’ emotions, lightening tension with humorous anecdotes here while brutally tearing at their heartstrings there, Life Itself is a giant among biopics and a testament to the most influential movie critic the nation has yet seen.

MARIPOSA MUSIC FESTIVALSaturday, July 12; 6 p.m.

Downtown Champaign; Free

The inagural Mariposa Music Fest brings bands like Braid and Phox, among others, to Champaign with local support from Common Loon and The Curses. Did we mention it’s free?

THE CHEMICALS !RECORD RELEASE"Friday, July 11; 8 p.m.

Mike ‘N Molly’s; $7

PUNK ROCK BBQ !W/ RESINATER, GRYSCL, OUR LADY, WOUNDED KNEE"Friday, July 11; Food at 4 p.m.,

Music at 8 p.m.

Hunk. Haus; $5 donation

DECADENTSSaturday, July 12;

9 p.m.

Fat City Bar & Grill

MARIPOSA AFTER PARTY !W/ TRAILS AND WAYS"Saturday, July 12; 10 p.m.

Cowboy Monkey; Free

ERROR RECORDS & FARM LEAGUE SKATESHOP GRAND OPENINGFriday, July 11 & Saturday, July 12; 11 a.m.-7 p.m., 123 W.

Main St., Urbana; free

Come check out the new location for both Error Records and Farm League Skateshop! Not only will there be a sweet new space, but on Friday there’s a vinyl sale going down. What’s more, is that on Saturday there’s to be free hot dogs and an a bundle of skating activities! Don’t miss it!

buzz magazine: july 11th, 2014

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