A new appreciation for Fun

By Natalie Hill, center spread editor If you know anything about me, if you’ve ever ridden in a car with me, you know I have one solitary obsession. For the past 7 years or so, give or take a few, I’ve memorized every word, every harmony, every drumbeat to The Format. Arizona natives Nate Ruess and Sam Means created their indie rock band in 2001 to break away from the cookie-cutter “format” of the current musicians. With 1960′s and 70′s pop influences, The Format, though still a seemingly unknown band, took rock music as I knew it by storm. On February 4, 2008, however, life as I knew it ended, what I thought to be,…