Handglops RONK NG ROOL (Gulcher 615)

Handglops
RONK NG ROOL
(Gulcher 615)

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1. The Weekend
2. The Show
3. The First Party
4. The Meadow
5. The City
6. The Same
7. Throwing A Party
8. Start A Band
9. Playing A Show
10. Something Fun
11. The Same But Better
12. The Last Party

Swarthmore College is a small college. Everyone manages to fit into one party. It's cramped, but what can you do? It's got pretty bad music, and smells like smoke and beer and wet wood. People drink too much and have awkward encounters in the dark.

Regardless, they all get very excited when the weekend comes, excited to be in college, excited to make some mistakes, to have some stories to tell. Swarthmore students do not regret a single thing but paradoxically still remain completely insecure.

Handglops had a good time at their party. I can imagine what it was like. We've all seen it week after week. Everyone doesn't get it, but desperately wants it anyway. Some band comes and plays really loud rock music in a small stone building and a few people dance. A few others worry about their future, and some more get bored and go to drink. It's still neat when everyone sings along to the band.

And what do these children wear to the party? Surely something hip and symbolic, liberating them from their intellectual world and admitting them entrance to the land of no ambition. And when Monday comes around, how will they all describe the weekend? Fuzzy and short. Kind of like a Handglops song. Turns out all these kids really had ambition the whole time. Too bad they weren't ambitious enough to spend more than an evening trying to score a relationship or friendship. They think they'll find it in the dark, even though they were oblivious during the day. They think they're find it drunk when they couldn't find it sober.

But Handglops wasn't fooled. They know what to expect when the weekend comes back. They know it's actually about having fun. They'll play some music and see some people they like. I'm going to have fun too. I'm going to listen to Handglops' record again.

Ben Mazer
Class of 2010