By Abby Sessock
(Flagler College Communications major)

When watching The Bucket List, be sure to have a best friend on one side of you and a box of tissues on the other. You’ll be reaching out for both.

Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) runs a tight ship at the hospital he owns. Assigning two beds to a room with no exceptions is routine for him – even when he is laid up in his own hospital. The stingy billionaire is now trapped in his overcrowded hospital, sharing a room with Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman), a hard-working mechanic.

By Paulette Perhach

How does one measure the success as an artist? Is it a measuring stick notched with the number of pieces sold? Is it a scrapbook of magazine articles and opening announcements? Or is it an hourglass with bits of sand bursting with color, showing the amount of time you spent simply creating?

DEAD MEADOW
OLD GROWTH
MATADOR

by Nick McGregor

Over the past ten years, Dead Meadow has steadily strengthened its position as connoisseurs of all things stoner rock, that hard-to-describe but easy-to-recognize hybrid of psychedelic metal and hard rock.

VAMPIRE WEEKEND
VAMPIRE WEEKEND
XL Recordings 2008

by Nick McGregor

Riding a wave of Internet hype into 2008, the four lads of Vampire Weekend could seemingly do no wrong on their much-anticipated self-titled debut.

CAT POWER
JUKEBOX
MATADOR

by Nick McGregor

Cat Power’s ascent from underground sensation to mainstream stalwart has weathered the twists and turns of 13 years and eight albums, but whether this sultry songstress (real name Chan Marshall) was ready for her second collection of cover songs is up for debate.

We promise that we’re still friends with you. However, our original MySpace was attacked by pirates and forced to walk the plank to internet death. But never fear: We are now back online with a brand spankin’ new page: myspace.com/surfthedrift. And we will soon be right back to sending you our weekly updates of all the coolest par-tays in town.