We made blackout poetry with your college essays
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We made blackout poetry with your college essays

Since high schoolers nation wide are making their customary announcement Instagram posts, we thought it'd be a good time to revisit application essays from GW students. We wanted to turn our pain into art, to honor the parts of ourselves we cut out just to get in. WARNING: Shit gets deep.
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Preview: Jessica Lea Mayfield @ Songbyrd 1/27

Jessica Lea Mayfield’s music is marked by her soft vocals and overwhelming guitar. Tracks off her fantastic 2014 album, Make My Head Sing…, find her voice layered with big, raucous guitar solos, making up her distinct rock sound. She’s not afraid to be loud or honest, and her music is all the better from it. Get tickets to her Songbyrd show on Monday, Jan. 27 here. 
Local bands have a ball at Mosh Madness
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Local bands have a ball at Mosh Madness

I spent the Saturday before starting my last semester of college watching a bunch of out of shape local musicians play basketball in a church gym in Takoma, MD. It was the first ever Mosh Madness, a half-court single elimination tournament organized by Ian Donaldson and Reid Williams of Dorinda. Fourteen bands competed while five bands (three of who also balled) – Flowerbomb, Pretty Bitter, Massie, Pinky Lemon and Spring Silver – played sets during the matches. The event raised over $2,600 for the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. Flooded in stale lighting, the smell of sweat growing exponentially worse each hour, you could barely hear conversation because the acoustics of the room weren’t prepared to host some of the DMV’s best and loudest. After whining through a semester abroad with no real live music, this was the perfect scene homecoming.
Slow start and late turnovers snap men’s basketball home win streak in 73-65 loss to Duquesne
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Slow start and late turnovers snap men’s basketball home win streak in 73-65 loss to Duquesne

Coming off a crucial two-game win streak against top 100 teams per KenPom in Dayton and Rhode Island, men’s basketball dropped their first home game Wednesday night to Duquesne 73-65. In an uphill fight most of the game, trailing as much as 15 in the second half, the Revs cut it back to a one-point game, but multiple spells of careless turnovers and missed opportunities down the stretch hindered them from regaining the lead. 
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Blogging)
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It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Blogging)

Everybody, even the people who hate him, pretty much agrees that Bob Dylan is the greatest songwriter of all time. Some will attach asterisks to the moniker (*living/rock/American/white/male) but it’s a waste of time. Fundamentally, Dylan expanded the scope of what a pop song could be, demolished cutesy lyrical boundaries, pioneered genre bending sounds and changed the way record companies thought about artists to the point where his impact is so ubiquitous it’s hard to separate him from the evolution of music. And he did it all in like three years. Dylan’s catalogue isn’t only winners, in fact lots of it is bad, but his best work is so monumental, and driven by an irrepressible fuck-you-attitude, that it makes most other music feel small by comparison.