10B SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2008
Jon Goering/KANSAN
Tuesday
April 5, 1983
(Above) Senior forward Taylor Mcintosh gives hugs to her teammaters during a ceremony for the seniors following the game. Mcintosh finished with six points and six boards in her final appearance at Allen Fieldhouse.
BASKETBALL (CONTINUED FROM 10B)
(Right) Sophomore guard Sr Jayhawks 61-50.
SENIOR SEND-OFF
Seniors Taylor McIntosh and Jamie Boyd were honored before and after Wednesday night's game for their four-year contributions to Kansas basketball.
THE STARTING LINE
Jayhawk fans stayed in the stands after the final buzzer for a presentation to each player at half court. Coach Bonnie Henrickson greeted the players with a framed jersey, cheerleaders tossed roses and every player came out to thank McIntosh and Boyd.
Coach Bonnie Henrickson decided to shake up her starting line-up for the last regular season game of the year.
On senior night, senior forward Jamie Boyd made her second start of the season and sixth of her career, while sophomore guard LaChelda Jacobs made her first start of the year and also sixth of her career.
lacobs got the nod ahead of junior
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music guy Cloud Cult
"Did you hear about the deaf girl, the one whose song's gone No. 1? Three minutes of silence on the radio is the best damn gift for everyone."
That lyric off Cloud Cult's last album, The Meaning of 8, really sums up what they try, successfully, to do: make music that's different than everything on the radio. Cloud Cult, or at least its current incarnation, came about in much the same way that a lot of bands these days do; personal tragedy. In Cloud Cult's case, however, the tragedy was much more than "emo boy loses emo girl, cries"—it was more along the lines of "thoughtful, father loses infant son in his sleep."
A road map to music utopia
Craig Minowa, Cloud Cult's singer/songwriter, has taken this life-altering experience and from it created some of the most beautiful music imaginable. Since 2002, Minowa has written upwards of 100 songs dealing with virtually every aspect of his family's loss. Each album the group has released had an overarching theme or message, from birth to death, life and the afterlife, and the medication used to deal with those topics. Cloud Cult's newest album, Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes), is a masterfully produced album about, according to Minowa, rebirth and learning how to deal with life's hardships. Like the rest of their albums, Feel Good Ghosts is printed on $100%$ post-consumer organic
plastic. At times thoroughly depressing and at others beautifully uplifting. Cloud Cult has a unique talent for making dichotomous styles mix well with each other.The album's third track, "The Tornado Lessons," ends with overdubbed electric guitar riffs that merge into piano chords that would fit equally as well in a children's fairy tale while what sounds like a chipmunk sings over acoustic guitar. The song ends with a powerful crescendo of crashing drums and then, without skipping a beat, the fourth track, "When Water Comes To Life," comes in with an orchestral waltz (violins, cellos, et al). If lesser musicians tried to do the same thing, the listener would almost certainly find themselves scratching their head, but Minowa and Co. somehow make it all work as a cohesive package—and they do it well.
Their live show is amazing as well. Cloud Cult tours with two live painters. Starting with white canvases, each of them paints onstage while the band performs. By the time Cloud Cult's set is through, they have produced incredibly detailed paintings. It's an intense experience. These paintings are then auctioned off that night, and the band uses the proceeds to purchase credits in order to stay carbon neutral while touring.As someone who has been to a lot of concerts (upwards of 200), I'm rarely impressed. Cloud Cult, however, is an appalian band that truly proves that those who say "the best art comes from pain" are right, and is certainly among the top unsigned acts in the country.
I had the opportunity to email Minowa some questions about his newest album and environmental beliefs. Here's what he had to say:
How did the live painting start?
CM: My wife and one of my closest friends are painters. It's a great way for us to be able to enjoy this project together and be in a band together.
How did Feel Good Ghosts come together CM: I do the writing and recording up here at the farm and send the band those tracks. Most of the string parts are originally performed on the keyboard, and they embellish and record the real instruments. We had a hired studio drummer for this CD and we added Shawn Neary to the lineup, who was formally the bass player of Tapes 'n' Tapes.
Were there any songs that were
particularly hard to write? CM:Yes, there was a song called "A Place" that I ditched off the album last minute, despite having put more work into it than any other. I just couldn't work out the glitches in time.
Why is environmentalism important to you?
CM: Environmentalism should be important to everyone. Translated literally, it's the science of learning how to survive, as a species, as long as possible on this planet. If you're interested in keeping things alive, you have a natural inclination to be interested in environmentalism.
What does your band do to help the environment?
CM: 100% postconsumer recycled and organic CDs and merchandise, biodiesel van, solar panels, geothermal recording studio, we've planted over
a thousand trees, and we're constantly looking for ways to do things better.
Craig Minowa
What prompted your environmentalism? CM: I've been like that as far back as I can remember. I can even remember almost getting fired from my very first job at Pizza Hut, because I hid all their aerosols and tried to get them to use this hand pump spray device I concocted. It's just something I feel very deeply about, and there's no option to live and work in any way other than in a manner that respects the other life forms that are sharing this little sphere with us.
Check out Kansan.com for the complete interview. If Cloud Cult interests you, make sure to show up at Davey's Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main St., Kansas City, Mo., on Monday (21+,$10). If you see me, be sure to say "hi!" Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes) goes on press later this week at www.cloudcult.com).
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