Part of me will always want John Cusack to be Lloyd Dobler. Sweet, underappreciated, naive but smart Lloyd of , who is perhaps the only reason why anybody owns a boombox in this age of iPods and surround sound. Another part of me will always want Cusack to be Rob Gordon.
Sweet, obsessive, confused but smart Rob of , who is one of the reasons why anybody owns vinyl in this age of iGadgets. But then you catch Cusack in a thriller like , and everything changes, because this guy is more weird than sweet, more sarcastic and surly than funny. You don't want Cusack to be this guy.
And yet, watching Cusack play a writer of campy horror tour books as he has a truly horrific experience is mesmerizing. Cusack has already proven that it's easy to forget he's an actor, not his character. Sometimes, it's nice to see the guy act in a character we'd never really want him to be.
Apples in Stereo at MathFest: And here we thought the hottest show of the summer would be at one of those big festivals. Maybe that was before we knew that Lexingtonian Robert Schneider, the leading voice behind Apples in Stereo, will head to San Jose, Calif., next month to perform at MathFest.
The annual summer conference of the Mathematical Association of America will include discussions on negaFibonacci numbers and the dynamics of random networks, and a short acoustic set by Schneider. What do rock music and math have in common? Only that their patterns and tones are linked together, and that they're two of Schneider's greatest interests.
He used a logarithm to create some compositions on the Apples latest release, , and handed the tones to the public on the CD so they could continue exploring. For more information about the conference, check out www.maa.
Part of me will always want John Cusack to be Lloyd Dobler.
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