Joseph Natividad

‘No Country for Old Men’ Screening @ Price Center Theater

No Country for Old Men, the dramatic film that captured the most Academy Awards this year, is showing at the Price Center Theater this week. To be more precise, tonight (Thursday the 13th) and this following Saturday at 6PM and 9PM. Tickets are only $3, as usual.

If you haven’t checked it out before at another cinema or bought the DVD that arrived in stores this past Tuesday, I suggest it’s worth a big look. I have yet to see it myself and will probably check it out this weekend instead of tonight. The Golden State Warriors are going to be on national TV against the Phoenix Suns at 7:30PM PST and that’s a higher priority on my list at the moment.

• What: Film Screening: “No Country for Old Men”
• Where: Price Center Theater — UCSD Campus
• When: Thursday, March 13 or Saturday, March 16
• Cost: $3

Tags: golden state warriors, no country for old men, price-center, ucsd

Women’s Rugby: Tritons Fall Short Against Bruins

Damn. We were so close to scoring so many times in the second half but it just wasn’t enough. At the beginning of the game, UCSD jumped to a 7-0 lead and looked to take control of the game from there on out. But it wasn’t that easy. UCLA came back with a pair of score while all we could muster up was a kick through the uprights. Final score (or what I think it was): 14-10 UCLA.

This was the first rugby match I’ve ever attended. I don’t even know the rules but got the gist of it at some point during the game. I was watching our women’s club here at UCSD before their season was close to wrapping up. I was quite impressed with how physical it gets. The players are basically wearing soccer gear without the shin guards and tackle the hell out of each other to prevent the other team from crossing the endzone. People got hurt but it didn’t seem to bother the coaches too much. They seem to have seen worse than when players bang their heads into other people or getting bruised elbows.

The referee let a few no-calls go too. During halftime, he chatted with the men’s rugby players in the stands and told them that he learned early on in his job that it wasn’t a good idea to drink too much the night before a match he officiates. For today’s game, he was nursing a slight hangover.

Tags: club, rugby, ucla, ucsd, women's

Women’s Rugby: UCSD vs UCLA

The biggest game of the season is today at 11 at Warren Field in between Canyon View Pool and the Matthews Apartments. It’s one of the final games of the year for the women’s club team and they need all the support they can get to beat up those Bruins back to Pasadena.

• What: Women’s Rugby - UCSD vs UCLA
• Where: Warren Field
• Cost: Free
• When: March 2, 2008 - 11:00-1:00PM

Tags: canyonview pool, matthews apartments, rugby, ucla, ucsd, warren field

My Oscar Predictions

The 80th Annual Academy Awards begin in less than a couple hours. Here are my predictions for winners in each respective category:

Actor in a Leading Role: Daniel Day Lewis (There Will Be Blood)

Actor in a Supporting Role: Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)

Actress in a Leading Role: Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose)

Actress in a Supporting Role: Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton)

Animated Feature Film: Ratatouille

Art Direction: Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Cinematography: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Costume Design: Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Directing: No Country for Old Men

Documentary Feature: War/Dance

Documentary Short: Salim Baba

Film Editing: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Foreign Language Film: Katyn (should be The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which probably wasn’t nominated because it was directed by American Julian Schnabel. Oh well.)

Makeup: La Vie en Rose

Music (Score): Atonement

Music (Song): August Rush

Best Picture: No Country for Old Men

Short Film (Animated): Even Pigeons Go to Heaven

Short Film (Live Action): The Mozart of Pickpockets

Sound Editing: Transformers

Sound Mixing: Transformers

Visual Effects: Transformers (They HAVE to win)

Writing (Adapted Screenplay): The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Writing (Original Screenplay): Juno

Who knows how wrong I’ll be with all my predictions once the Oscars are over tonight. I won’t know for awhile since I’ve got work at the dining halls through all of it. However, I hope that The Diving Bell and the Butterfly garners a few awards. I saw it last night with a friend and wasn’t disappointed.

You can check out all the nominees to tonight’s event here.

Tags: academy awards, dining hall, diving bell and the butterfly, foodworx, oscars, predictions, transformers

DBR & DJ Scientific Rocked The Stage

Is it really possible for the violin and the turntable to coexist?

I found out tonight that it surely can — in abstract, experimental forms that fuse together influences from classical to hip hop to funky electronica.

I didn’t know what I was in for when I took my seat to see DBR perform last night. With his ordinary looking six string violin, he possesses the ability to turn it into a bass drum, snare, guitar, flute and the manipulation of human voices. I never could have imagined the things you can do with such a simple, classic instrument such as this. The sounds he created mixed in with the purely technological beats pumping out of DJ “The Mad Scientist” Scientific’s knobs and turntables. I could feel my chest thumping from the hip hop beats and the beat box. When it came to particular movements in his six part sonata, my ears felt as if something so sweet had seeped into my pulsing head. To top it off, his charm and charisma kept the audience interested and involved throughout the evening. He was quite accessible after the performance and seemed like it was just another day at work for him.

I’ll be remembering this night for awhile. The poetry. The musical madness. The straight-up head banging it’s caused me. I can’t sleep.

Tags: artpower, DBR, DJ Scientific, porter's pub, the stage, ucsd

DBR & DJ Scientific @ Porter’s Pub Tonight

Daniel Bernard Roumain, a.k.a. DBR, will be on the UCSD campus tonight to collaborate with laptop artist DJ Scientific for a performance filled with hip-hop, electronica and classical music. This is not your typical concert performance — beat-boxing blended in with amplified violin — it’s sure to be a quite a night out for those who can make it out to the Stage at Porter’s Pub at 8PM.

The event is free of charge to UCSD students and costs $12 to the public. However, I’ve been hearing rumors that the tickets for the 8PM show is already sold out. I’m planning on getting there half an hour early to see if I can still get in. There’s a limited amount of tickets being sold for the 10PM show after this one.

• who: DBR & DJ Scientific
• where: The Stage at Porter’s Pub
• when: 8PM & 10PM
• cost: free to UCSD students (donations are accepted), $12 to public

Tags: artpower, DBR, DJ Scientific, free, porter's pub, the stage, ucsd

‘Party Like a Rockstar’ Tickets On Sale

Tickets for the Sixth College Semi-Formal are up for sale for the rest of the week. The actual event will take place this Saturday from 8-12 midnight at the Hard Rock Cafe in La Jolla.

If you’re interested in purchasing some for yourself, your date or any of your friends, they are available at the Sixth College hub on the second floor of Pepper Canyon Hall. Tomorrow (Wednesday) from 1-3PM, representatives will be on hand at the Sixth College Residence Hall quad area selling them there too.

The tickets cost $20 and comes with free transportation. They are also available at the door for $25 but without the complimentary ride there.

I’ll grab mine sometime tomorrow. If you’ve got nothing to do and are around the area this weekend, I suggest you get on it ASAP.

The music is provided by DJ KMa from Blackout Entertainment. Professional photography is made available by Boyd Anderson Photography.

Tags: hard rock, la-jolla, party like a rockstar, semi formal, sixth-college, ucsd