Hello all! Webmaster Bill here, breaking my overlong slumber and showing this magnifcent piece of webspace some much needed attention. First and foremost, I must apologize for such an extended break, it was not intentional that I spent so long working up the initiative to finally come here and update. Unfortunately projects got the better of me towards the end of last semester and then my absenteeism carried further into the summer due to the laziness that overtakes me in these few toasty months. Anyways enough apologizing, it is still about 4 weeks away from next semester which means I am technically still in the vacation category. I will begin with what I should have written here oh those many moons ago 12 weeks prior.
This past spring semester ended quite an interesting and successful year in SOMAdom. We had created enough of a mark in the fall with what may go down as “the Girl Talk fiasco” so the latter half of the year was decidedly much more low-key. Once again, we cohosted with VASA the event we see as our staple on the Penn State community the Arts Crawl. This bodacious good time took place at the beginning of April, hence my recount of it now shall stand as a testament to my memory (good or bad). While cloudy and wet, this did not damper the spirit of the annual myriad of local art. This year took place amongst 3 buildings, featuring rooms with all the arts and crafts loyal supporters have come to expect from it. As usual all of the bands put on a great show and truly encompassed the spirit of the local community in each of them. I wish I could list the names of them all, but hence the aspect of college that destroys brain cells has outdone me in this arena. I would like to mention the headliner this year, the Buddy System, who truly showed what Arts Crawl is all about. No one could help but be impressed by the orgy of media they provided in their set with animated videos synching up to their live performance. Their performance was a truly unique experience and SOMA would like to thank them for sharing it with the entire Penn State community. While our biggest event of the semester, Arts Crawl wasn’t the only shindig to end the 2008-2009 year. On the weekend of April 18th, we hosted what we hope will become an annual event, our first very own photo scavenger hunt. Now I know what you may be thinking “photo scavenger hunt? Pff every club does that, real original guys.” Well first of all, who are you with your snide attitude! Second of all, like everything else we do, we made it original. Good times were had by all completing the categories which ranged from fun to obscure to well near life-threatening. We are happy to report however that no one to our knowledge died or got arrested, hence making it a success. Personally, I would love to create a section on this site dedicated to the photos taken during this so if you were a photographer during it I would greatly appreciate if you sent me your photos with the categories they fit into. As such, this along with the final Open Mic nights closed another fun chapter in the book of SOMA. Now, I get to tell you about what is being written.
Thats right, being written, we are already planning shennanigans for next semester! You may be thinking “Man, what’s with you guys working through the summer?” and I say there you go with the obnoxious remarks again! Towards the end of last semester, it occurred to some key members of SOMA that while the spring has two there are no outdoor music festivals in the fall. Coincidently, SOMA has yet to really develop a running annual event for said semester… *ring ring* you here that? I believe its fate calling! This is why we have decided to join forces with another student organization dedicated to creating music shows (The Asylum) to attempt to forge an event of epic proportions. Should we pull this off, it will easily be the biggest thing SOMA has ever been apart of, I’m talking 21st birthday huge! Currently I do not want to give anything away but we have been working tiresselly planning this possible shindig and if all the moons line up correctly I am positive you will be pleasantly tickled with the result. I will have more information on this at the start of next semester.
On that note, it is currently 4:17 am and I can literally feel the cohesiveness of my writing slipping. I hope you enjoyed this far too rare update, since I have been poor on timing I have attempted to make them count. So hopefully upon reading this you laughed, you cried and maybe even got a little aroused. While pledging goes against my beliefs of chaos, I promise that I will TRY to do a better job updating you all this next year. From the way it is looking, I am sure I will have plenty to do that with. The point I want to leave you on is that last year rocked, but I have a feeling this next year will be even better! Webmaster Bill out!
