The Professor

Music: "Guernica," Brand New, Deja Entendeau

In case you were wondering, Deja Ecrit comes from Deja Entendeau, which is French for "already heard." Brand New is a GREAT band. In fact, they are probably my favorite band at the moment. They used to be an emo band, but now they have evolved into something much more mature, and much better. Guernica is one of the better songs on the album, but I do have almost every song on the album rated as a five star song on Itunes. It is typical of Brand New: alternation between a quiet, melodic sound, and loud, fairly distorted guitars.

Athlete: Ted Sampsell-Jones, Goalie, Edina High School, circa early 90's

TSJ, as I like to call him, apparently was a backup goalie for the Hornets back in the day. He's not on here for his athletic accomplishments, but rather because he is one bad dude. By that, I mean he is a really good law professor. He maintains a womens basketball blog (www.womenshoops.blogspot.com), which also makes him cool. He cancelled class one day for a Twins playoff game which pushes him into the upper echelon of people I know, worldwide. He did an excellent job of relating to students during the semester, and he always seemed to put things in perspective. I don't know if he was a good goalie, but he is a helluva human being, as far as I can tell. Our school needs more professors like him.