Tag: essay
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Is Vampire Weekend’s Self-titled the Most “College” Album Ever?
For some reason or another, I have fallen into a Vampire Weekend rabbit hole recently. I know I might be getting a little old for that, but hey, I can’t help it. Even if I don’t cuff my pants anymore, there’s no escaping the indie kid within me. At first, I was not sure exactly…
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Weirton
The fastest route from Dayton to Pittsburgh heads East, a winding arrow that flies straight though Columbus before crossing through the middle of the pointy part of West Virginia that divides Ohio and Pennsylvania. It takes around 3 hours and 57 minutes. Every year on Christmas Day, my family makes the drive from Dayton to…
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Making Beat Tapes Using CAPCUT: My Odyssey
Inside every young man is a wolf, and that wolf wants to make bad SoundCloud beats. CapCut is a video editing software. There are many relatively cheap ways to create music digitally, but this shouldn’t be one of them. What my freshman year self did here can be broadly categorized as a bastardization of everything…