Bring It On: Musical Review

By Jeff Walsh

“Bring It On” hits all the notes you’d expect from a new musical inspired by the 2000 Kirsten Dunst cheerleading movie of the same name. There are catty cheerleaders, underdogs for the audience to cheer on, and high-flying aerial wizardry. But the members of its creative team have built their names by delivering theater that goes beyond our expectations, and that didn’t happen this time.

The story is pretty simple. A cheerleader is forced to change schools and goes from being head cheerleader of a winning squad to being anonymous in a more ethnic school that doesn’t even have or want a cheer squad. I never saw the original movie, but my friend who attended with me said it is not the same plot, so it is definitely more “inspired by” than “based on.”

Image concerns...

Just wanted to make sure people are aware of new technology out there, so you all could take any precautions necessary to protect your identities on Oasis.

If you haven't tried it out yet, Google has a new image search capability. When you go to the Google home page and click Images, you are given a normal image search bar. But the new bit is that you can drag and drop an image onto the search bar and it will also search for that image elsewhere on the web.

So, if you grabbed a school picture that is available on your school website, your Tumblr page, your Facebook (if it is available to the public), etc., all of these can technically get linked together if the same photograph is on all of these sites.

Definitely not a good thing for people in the closet, or people who just don't want anyone to be able to link their online accounts to one another, etc. And, unlike the profile pages on here, which we can tell Google and other search engines not to scan, this is slightly different, as anyone can grab a photo and see if it appears elsewhere online.

Do with this information what you will. I just wanted to put it out there.

The safest bet seems to be using a unique photo for Oasis that appears nowhere else online, even in a different lighting/background than other pictures you've taken.

Just a heads up.

I'm not suggesting this technology has only nefarious purposes, of course:

DADT is repealed...

Now that it is OK to be openly gay in the US military, there have already been gay marriages and other events our LGBT troops have been having.

This soldier came out to his father over the phone from Germany:

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Mogul's picture

Why did she got mad?

Today at the computer lab some friend made a question:

She: Who wont get confirmed (some catholic thing in witch you will stay loyal to the Catholicism)?
Me: I won't!
She: why?
Me: I don't have religion!
She: WHAT!! WHY!?

But the teacher made us stop.
In group direction I saw that where Nico sit was empty, so I made there. Then he came and some best friend (she knows I'm gay) told him: "Nico you can still make you space? He didn't answer. (he and her are like wood and glue! He never decline to be next to her!).

lonewolf678's picture

Just wow.

I saw The Matrix yesterday. BEST. MOVIE. EVER. MADE.

cheese's picture

This Journal is About My Girl Problems (And Thoughts)

So i've been talking to this girl lately. Dalila. :P.
Actually, I've know her since Junior year. She's pretty awesome and stuff.
But anyways, we've been talking a lot lately. I kinda admitted that i liked her, and she shot me down. Haha. She was really nice about it though. Maybe a little too nice.
Her excuse was that she cant deal with girls right now (she's bi, surprise? nope) but im a great girl. :P
So stupid me kept persistence in mind. :I
Although i kinda knew it wouldnt go anywhere, i still tried again. Because, why not?

anarchist's picture

Ow. Heteronormativity hurts.

I was working in a group with Brad today and this girl who always talks with him touched his hair and commented on how soft it is, then told me that only girls are allowed to do that. Later, while we were talking about hair, I mentioned a friend who has very soft hair and some other guy who has very sexy hair. She and Brad told me not to say that stuff about guys.

RainbowTime's picture

hmm

well, i was cornered by dads girlfriend in Tesco she is a bitch but she started out more curious than bitchy i thought she was being nice.

angel syndrome's picture

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Rule number one - don't blame the monster, blame yourself. Whatever happens, it's your life, you were supposed to be in control and you fucked it up. Snap out of it and grow up. Because clearly, you know how to fix yourself, but you're just lazy.

I used to love this tough love approach, to be made pathetic for my flaws, but now, all it does it make things worse. This week has been hard and it's Tuesday morning. I have little to no interest in anything since last Sunday, other than sleeping, video games, and my artwork. I don't want to do anything.

lonewolf678's picture

So yeah.

Amazon snuck out their little update 6.2.2 for the kindle fire. I had no say in whether I wanted to install it or not. One second everything was fine, then INSTALLING UPDATE comes on the screen. I was like "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT?" I wanted to turn it off but that probably would have screwed the update and I would have a bricked tablet.


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