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There Will Be Bread: the short film that rose yeast from the grave
There are three kinds of people in this world: people who love zombies, people who are terrified of zombies and people who aren’t worth befriending. Kevin S. O’Brien is very much in the first group. He’s the highest caliber of zombie fan, the kind who’d drop an “outrageous amount” of money in a charity auction for the chance to appear as a zombie in the Walking Dead comic book series; who tried out three times to play an extra in Day of the Dead, in which he appears at exactly 1:28:08. But the pinnacle of O’Brien’s undying zombie fandom was in 1990, when, as a graduate student at Ohio University, he produced a short film called Night of the Living Bread.
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Aural Pleasure: Athens sounds off on the audio format fight
A decadent wall of vinyl looms dominantly over opposite rows of CDs at Haffa’s Records on Union Street. For student Sam Oches, drummer of Athens band The Jarts, these albums are of eager interest.
“I lived in Chicago this summer doing an internship, and I came back and [Haffa’s] had basically tripled their vinyl selection. It’s like a winter wonderland in there,” he said. Sam is one of many audiophiles catalyzing vinyl sales during the digital age. 1.88 million vinyl albums were sold last year, according to Nielsen SoundScan, which tracks music sales in the United States and Canada. This is double the roughly 990,000 vinyl albums sold in 2007.
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It may be chilly outside, but these two professors are warming up the classroom. We spoke with two of OU’s finest.