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For the week of October 18-25« 1990

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Cover art by Todd Francis 2A Thursday, October 18,1990 Daily Nexus

October 24 at 8 PM in the Main Theatre. The free program is presented as part of the Issues for the 1990s series ETHICS AND MORALITY IN THE UNITED STATES.

Rastafari Woman The Independent! Films by Black Women series contin­ ues on Monday, October 22 with An Evening With Film Historian Pearl Bowser. A film archivist, Bowser will discuss the work of Black women filmmakers and will present the film Omega R isin g : Woman of Rastafari, a documentary by D. Elmina Davis. The film is both a history of the Rastafari movement and an exploration of the role of Rastafari women. Davis, herself a Rastafari member, addresses the myths and narrow stereotype of women in die movement. Interviews with Rastafari women in England and Jamaica are interwoven with contempo­ Turtle Island String Quartet photo: Ed Kashi rary images of Rastafari culture. The program is free and begins at 8 PM in the Isla Vista Theater.

On Other Film Fronts Have you made it to any of the intriguing films in this A String Quartet quarter’s International Cinema series? These contem­ porary films really do offer you the chance to see what today’s best international filmmakers are producing. For example, in the Italian charmer A B oy F rom on the Loose C a la b ria , showing on Sunday, October 21 at 8 PM in Campbell Hall, a 13-year-old boy of peasant stock doesn’t let parental expectations get in the way of his leave of absence of the Monitor and set up the TISQ: A Musical Opportunity love of running. Directed by Luigi Comencini (La Institute for Global Ethics. With the help of advisors Those poor souls who missed out and did not get in to B ohtm e), the film explores the tension between a both here and abroad, the sold-out ISO and The BOBS have determined youngster who runs for a sense of freedom Kidder is amassing data another chance. Tonight, the Turtle Island String Kidder is developing and a traditional father convinced he knows what is and developing a system Quartet is going to shake Campbell Hall loose from a system to see if best for his son. to track values here and its foundation with a concert where jazz, rock, world there exists a global , bluegrass and who knows what else all meet. in other countries to see if there exists such a code of ethics. Imagine this: four musicians with classical music and global code of ethics. jazz backgrounds who can play the velvety For example, notes Kidder, if you were to parachute harmonies of Duke Turtle Island: into any country, walk over to the first person you Ellington, the carefree where jazz, rock, meet, take something of value from that person and chord runs of Stephane , run away with it, you would be violating a universal Grappelli, the spicy bluegrass and ethic that applies to all cultures. Applying such moodiness of the who knows what Bulgarian folk style, the hoedown fiddling of the else m eet. American West or a faithful rendition of Cream’s recording of Robert Johnson’s classic “Crossroads.” And it’s all created by a very untradi­ tional string quartet — Datoi Anger and David Balakrishnan on violins, Katrina Wrccde on viola For the avant-gardist in you, there’s Speaking Parts. and Mark Summer on cello. Don’t miss this get-loose Thirty-year-old Canadian independent filmmaker foursome, tonight at 8 PM in Campbell Hall. Atom Egoyan (Family Viewing) jumps off from a basic plot about the making of a movie to smartly rove Now More Than Ever through the terrain of post-electronic relationships in Christian Science Monitor columnist Rushworth examples on a greater scale, Kidder firmly believes Speaking Parts, screening Thursday, October 25 at 8 Kidder became intrigued by an idea when he was that to solve today’s major problems, thinkers and PM in UCSB Campbell Hall. A revved up sex, lies working on a series of interviews with influential doers must look at the underlying issues of ethics and and videotape, the film presents a devious tangle of relationships involving an ambitious actor, a lovesick thinkers from around the world. Is there, he won­ values. dered, an underlying code of ethics that can be found chambermaid, a frustrated scriptwriter and the video in all societies, no matter what their political philoso­ He delivers the lecture Global Ethics: Common equipment that separates yet connects them. phy? Kidder was so taken with the idea that he took a Values for a Shrinking World on Wednesday, For tickets or information call: 893-3535

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The light-sculpture-dance-performance are fairly complicated. But one reason is that Walking on Gravel, which will be held at the the sound of walking on gravel is used in the ★ ★ ★ ★ University Art Museum from October 22 piece and it's sort of an integrating element. I "THE STRONGEST ANIMATION through October 26, holds up to be just as in­ mean I think that walking on gravel is just teresting as the artists who created it. something almost like an irritant in a way. COLLECTION TO DATE!" The artists, Mimi Garrard and James Sea- The piece in some way is about what lies —Gary Arnold, Washington Times wright, were discovered in Manhattan a few under the surface. What seems like a very years ago by UAM curator Phylis Pious smooth-sailing world, but underneath the while she was making her routine studio vis­ surface there is something else going on and its across the country. She was impressed by 1 think that the walking on gravel is some­ the collaborative work and made arrange­ what of an image of that." ments for them to come down and perform Q — Why is this art, in your opinion? "ft A their creation at the museum, which organ­ A — "Well I never think about whether it's "A COLOR-SPLASHED ANTHOLOGY OF THE ized the whole exhibition. art or not, we just do it and I don't go around BEST IN WORLDWIDE ANIMATION." The performance itself is best described by saying it's art. I mean I think that we try to be a quote from Pious: "This exhibition permits an artist in the sense that you've gotta do —Robert Denerstein, Rocky Mountain News light to be used as part of the process from work that means something to you and you the beginning. This enables Garrard to use hope it's meaningful to someone else. In fact, light to create and shape the movement." it's the first time I've ever done something in In an interview with Garrard (who was in a museum, the first time I've done some­ THIS IS THE PLACE TO BE!‘ New York at the time), she explained the thing quite this complicated." —Jami Bernard, New York Post piece as four modern dancers, a tap dancer Q — Have you performed this piece and a clown dancing to American music as before? slides of American themes flash around A — "No. This is new. This will be the pre­ them. miere of it in California. It's very exciting." ALL NEW! Q — Did you meet James through art? Q — Is there anything else you would like 18 PREMIERES A — "We grew up'in the same town. We to add? both grew up in Mississippi and we didn't A — "I think that we are really excited ab­ really go out at that tim e... so we met really out coming to California, we're excited ab­ quite early, but we didn't meet through art. I out doing something using the museum's Featuring BALANCE, think we both influenced each other's career, space, and we really liked making some­ the 1989 but after, when we were both in New York, I thing for a specific place. We've had some ACADEMY AWARD™ started working in dance and he worked at showings of the piece and I think everybody WINNER the electronic music center and his first said that it's unlike anything I've ever done for Best Animated sculptures were sort of traditional before, and I think that's exciting that I've Short sculptures." had the opportunity to do something I've Q. Why did you pick this title? n6ver done before." A. "Well, for a number of reasons which — Jamie Phillips

Karush Quartet To Play Lotte Lehman

The Larry Karush Quartet calls their blending of New Music, World Music and jazz "Music for a New World". By combin­ ing improvisation with influences from musical sources around the world — Africa, India, South America — this jazz ensemble creates an interplay of styles and techniques THE XXII IKTERHATIORAl TOURMEE OF that is intuitive and innovative, adding to the excitement of improv. Larry Karush, who teaches a class on Per­ formance Improvisation for the College of Creative Studies, says that he has always im­ AH I MATIOH©1990 Expanded Entertainment provised since he started studying piano at a (drums) as well as percussion and Junior young age. Homrich playing Afro-Brazilian percussion. "The whole tradition of Western music is "He has quite an array of instruments," says - EXCLUSIVE 2 WEEK ENGAGEMENT - based on improvisation," he said. "Bach, Larry about Junior. "From silver goblets to Mozart, Beethoven, all the great composers cymbals to Japanese woodblocks to all kinds STARTS FRIDAY OCT. 19 (improvised). Mozart wrote improvisation of things." Silver goblets?! "He picks them DAILY: 7 & 9:30 • SAT. MAT. AT (4:45) into his piano concertos. As far as I'm con­ because they have a very beautiful ringing cerned, Mozart was a jazz player." sound, and he does some other fantastic ^ ______SUN. M AT: (2:15 & 4:45)______But isn't improvising on stage rather things with them which I won't tell you ab­ tricky? "It's a skill, like anything else," Larry out — come watch!" FRI. & SAT. LATE SHOW (19th & 20th ONLY) AT 11:45 PM | says. "You've got to spend time and focus on The Quartet is especially excited to wel­ it. It's really about doing it. We have a piece come their unique guest vocalist, Jay Clay­ called 'Da^da-da-dat' — it's onomatopoetic. ton. After having worked with Jay some VICTORIA STREET THEATER We play the composition, which is about a years ago in New York, Larry has finally 33 W.VICTORIA ST. • 965-1886 minute long, then the improvising is just been able to bring her down here for some based spontaneously on whatever you took music workshops. Singing right from the out of the composition and it goes from heart, Clayton has a wide range of styles that - VALUABLE COUPON - there." she works with, including some new elec­ Quite a daring way to perform, even with tronics; her wordless vocalization, occasion­ a group that's been working together for a ally referred to as "far-out vocal stuff', has while. "Sometimes you can.sense what peo­ brought her much respect and renown. ple are going to do before they do it. That's The show will feature some of Larry's or­ when it starts getting magical. Any minute, iginal compositions and some of Jay's, as $1.00 OFF anything can happen. It gets really exciting well as some standards, and plenty of im­ THIS COUPON GOOD FOR ONE DOLLAR and the audience senses that." provisation. So bring your spirit of adven­ The Larry Karush Quartet has been creat­ ture and your heart to Lotte Lehman on Sa­ O FF TH E $6.°° ADULT ADMISSION FOR ing together for nearly three years now, with turday night and experience for yourself the Randy Tico laying down rhythms on the creation of songs you will never hear again. EITHER FRI. OR SAT. (OCT. 19 or 20) electric bass, Tom Lackner playing trap sets — Susan Matthews 11:45 PM LATE SHOW 4A Thursday, October 18,1990

Desperate Hours Miller's Crossing starring Mickey Rourke starring Gabriel Byme directed by Michael Cimino Sometimes you see a mo­ Michael Cimino, entirely incapable of making anything re­ vie and you don't fed com­ sembling a good movie since the Deer Hunter (did you see fortable recommending it, Heaven's Gate?) has done us wrong once again with D esperate but you really can't bring H ours, which hurts where the shoe pinches. yourself to bash it either. Take Mickey Rourke— he's dumb! Who said he was good? After aft, a lot of people Let's get him a shower and a shave! He looks terrible! Not that put a lot into M iller's Cross­ he's always been so bad, but now he's full of himself like an ing. Jon Polito is excellent as arrogant jelly donut, and I've seen better Jack Nicholson im­ Caspar, the rival mob-boss in personations done by an Arby's Beef'n'Cheddar. Here he is town; his ideas of ethics and again playing a Miss Manners asocial case study, FORM O F... loyalty are; though steeped a serial killer! in crime and violence; appa­ At the beginning, Rourke is about to go to jail, but he man­ rently sincere. He is also the ages a courtroom escape with the help of his attorney, Kelly center point in the one truly Lynch, who was Matt Dillon's girlfriend in "Drugstore ­ masterful scene in the film, a boy." Tell her to put a shirt on! Jeez! She's gonna catch her scene in which two men death of pneumonia in one of these pictures! struggle to demonstrate their After the escape, the plot centers around Rourke and his loyalty to him while we are criminal badboys hiding out in a nice house where they an­ supposed to sympathize noy the family and compete for the most close-up shots. Desp­ with his betrayer, and a third Jon Volito having to be restrained at M illers Crossing erate Hours is supposed to be a suburban horror story and Ci­ man, brutalized already, sits Memphis Belle mino purposefully makes the family generic, intended to in­ in the background howling, If anything though, Memphis Belle is your starring Eric Stoltz standard everyday feel-good pic dealing spire a personal familial identification with the audience. This unable to speak. with enough good times, fears and emotions | plan comes flying back in Cimino's face like so much cream The movie is true to the at­ World War II flicks are generally not my to firmly tug on those heartstrings. pie and the characters have no depth beyond the thin polyes­ mosphere it strives for, cup o' tea. Somehow they tend to be these Matthew Modine does another great turn ter screen. He tries to make Anthony Hopkins everybody's claiming an origin in the lit­ hardcore pro-America propaganda epics as the straight-arrow pilot and leader of the dad, and Hopkins is all right, but he's not my dad, nor is he erature of Dashiel Hammett. that make me want to gag on their concep­ pack, while Eric Stoltz stands out as the anybody's dad that I know. Non-specifically, Cimino tries to There's plenty of hard men, tions of a glamorous wartime. Not that being poetic-romantic radio controller. have a little bit of everybody in the characters, but he fails to easy women and blood pro-America is bad or anything, but the mo­ give them any specific bit of anyone. Little boy likes Nin­ everywhere, more than in vies are just too gung-ho for me. Belle is slow-moving at times and does tendo. Husband works too much, family kind of hates him. other gangster films that as­ Memphis Belle, however, is a bit different. have its jabs of corniness, such as when Wife is bored, scared, makes turkey sandwiches. Teenage pire to lower literary Dramatizing the story of the ten-man crew Stoltz recites poetry or when Modine gives a daughter is snotty, talks back, has goofy boyfriend. No good! standards. who flew the American BT7 bomber on their personal farewell to his beloved bomber Since the husband and wife are having trouble with their 24th (and last) Nazi air-raid mission. Belle is plane, but the cast of characters is so likeable However, the central more a character study than a pro-war film. that you can't help but be forgiving. All you marriage, Cimino thinks he'd like to play with that a little — triangle is weak. Tom (Ga­ Interestingly enough, it even places some can do is sit back, cheer and wave your flag. almost enough to make you think that that's the main theme briel Byrne) and his mob- (albeit little) emphasis on the horrors of war. — Barbra Dannov of the film — but he never brings the issue out in the open. It's boss friend Leo (Albert Fin­ supposed to be a "people falling in love with their captors" ney) are supposedly quarrel­ theme that psychologists sometimes talk about. Not a bad ing over Verna (Marcia theme, but Cimino throws in a "spouses as captors" deal as Harden), but we never really well as a "people falling out of love with their spouses and see why Tom and Verna go back in again" and goes about it in such an undeveloped way for each other. The love/hate that he might as well have trashed the whole idea. In the end, conflict is boringly conven­ all we get is Anthony Hopkins yelling at his wife, 'Trust me! tional, and nothing fre^Ji is Me! Me! Not him! Me!" No good! added to this particular mix.

— J. Christaan Whalen —Dan Jeffers & Ali Shraim

David Lynch Henry and June Back To Film School rated NC-17 student films of famous directors like Woody Al­ SsjMgisji len, and High in the hills overlooking the placidity screening at the Victoria Street Theatre of Santa Barbara, underneath the vaulted ceiling of the rustic Riviera Theater, away You've just finished seeing David Lynch's from theeyes of youth, writhing andpanting Wüd at Heart and you can't believe that one were going on. man could be so weird. After viewing Good- Writhing, panting, bumping, grinding, fellas, the latest from Martin Scorsese, you sweating, and gasping were displayed at the wonder, "Has he always been that bloody?" Riviera, and audiences packed the theater to The film school works of these and other witness a daring mixture of sex and art. now-famous directors gives us a look at their Not a film for the bashful, Henry and June true passions. Before there were million- earned its NC-17 (no children under 17 years dollar productions and before there were admitted) rating hands down. Director studio honchos breathing down their necks, Philip Kaufman's eye explicitly captures un­ today's premier directors — equipped with mitigated sexuality in much the same way as only a camera, amateur actors and a tiny The XXII It'I Tournee O' Animation nique of pixillation ( photogra­ his critically acclaimed Unbearable Lightness budget — made their own personal starring various diameters including The phy) down strange reads. Animator Jan o f Being captivated audiences with stark, statements. B eastie Boys kounen sticks a bunch of Wicked-Witch- sensual experience. Six of these film school productions can be of-the-North look-alikes and plops them Neither film backs down. Lightness was a seen tonight only at the Victoria St. Theater. The lineup for the XXII International on motorized broomsticks, then has them revolution in popular film — an opinion­ The program, titled Back to Film School, fea­ Tournee of Animation Is promising, for chase each other through a deserted city ated, existential film about politics, art, sex tures the early works of Steven Spielberg, most of the animated shorts shown this until they aft wind up bloodied and frus­ and almost everything else that makes life Scorsese, Lynch, Roman Polanski, Orson year are either international award win­ trated. Using camerawork reminiscent of worthwhile. Henry and June goes even Welles and Woody Allen. The show is disap­ ners, award nominees or world premiers. the Mad Max films, "Gisde Kerozene" is farther. pointing if you are expecting something Also promising is the return o f several not­ violently funny and somehow appealing. It is extremely likely that Henry and June even close to these geniuses' later films, but able animators whose works have been po­ "Vykrutasy," another Soviet entry in this won't be getting major billings in Louisiana the opportünity to view their amateur pro­ pular in animation tournees over the last year's tournee, is also quite good, as we as the lesbian sexuality, only implied in ductions is a rare, and recommended, treat. several years, such as M l Plympton and watch a coil of steel wire incredibly come to Lightness, is actualized — explicitly — in The best of the lot (Welles' and Polanski's PauJ Driessen. And while these high expec­ life as an animated man. He sets out to cre­ Henry and June. The heterosexual scenes are films were not available for preview) is tations are not entirely fulfilled by this ate the perfect environment around him (refreshingly) brazen and erotic. Scorsese's "The Big Shave", a six-minute year's shorts, several notable films make out of the same wire from which he has Taken from excepts of the diaries of Anais short about a nightmare shave. the tournee more than worthwhile. emerged, but as his little problems become Nin, the movie is a pageant of sensuality and | Of particular interest arc two European serious obstacles, the "life" that he has experience, a biography of the love triangle Spielberg's "Amblin'", perhaps one of the shorts; The Cow," an Academy Award created comes crumbling down. between controversial author Henry Miller, most famous student films ever made, is a nominee by Soviet animator Alexander Also interesting are "Shadrach," a Beas- his wife June and Nin, the faithful recorder dated tale of two hitchhikers traveling up Petrov, is a beautifully reflective story of a tie Boys video that uses paintings and of their transgressions. the California coast. The film was made in young boy's memories and reflections drawings of concert footage to create a dy­ In one dextrous montage, Kaufman alter­ 1968 and has not aged well, as the romantic upon the family cow. Rendered in star- namic and unique take on the same-oT, nates shots between Nin's husband Hugo acoustic guitar soundtrack and "lost souls tlingly realist ic sw irlsof paint on glass, the same-oT of rock videos; "Juke-Bar," a tale (Richard E. Grant), who is eating downstairs wandering" theme suggest. scenes are extraordinary to behold. Despite of some nocturnal cockroaches who invade in the kitchen, and the arduous sex of Nin Allen's contribution to this group is a its 10-minute duration, which by anima­ a new jukebox and throw a party; and BOl (Maria de Medeiros) and Miller (Fred Ward) must for fans of the filmmaker. It is a 30-mi­ tion standards is long, not once docs it be­ Plympton's popular "Plymptoons," a se­ in the upstairs bedroom. Following one seg­ nute pilot for a never-aired sitcom that fea­ come less than enthralling. ries of MTV-funded animated shorts that ment from the bedroom, Kaufman intre­ tures a young Alan Alda and Louise Lasser From West Cermanycomes "Balance," a use Plympton's unique draftsmanship and pidly cuts to the kitchen, where the family and contains some great one-liners later to highly surreal and symbolic short film set wit to often ribtickling results. maid is shoving a heated, phallic-shaped be used in Allen's films. It's funny stuff, but to a melancholy score. Utilizing puppets It seems that every year there are a cou­ loaf of bread into Hugo's open, waiting there's not much else here to separate this trapped atop jt floating platform, the ple of mediocre shorts, but they are always mouth. sitcom from any other currently airing on brothers Lauenstein haw succeeded in overshadowed by the good ones. This year — Charles Homberger "Nick at Nite". I creating an extremely memorable short there seemed to be more bad ones than "The Grandmother" is a college-age Ithatcarries heavy political and social refer­ good, which is surprising. Still, this year's T h e Lynch's venture into weirdness. A lonely, ences. "Balance" is an extremely strong good ones are as good as any that have ap­ 'abused boy plants a seed on his bed and grows a grandmother. It is at time touching, and powerful piece, very much deserving peared in previous years, which makes this — is in Storkf !Plaza Video but the combination of animation and the in­ of the Academy Award it garnered. year's International Tournee of Animation watching John Candy Another fine short is the French film well worth attending. consistent editing take their toll, resulting in "Gisde Kerozene," which takes the tech­ —-Todd Francis! Guy _a merely nice effort by Lynch. UBy Denis Faye — Brian Banks I Thursday, October 18,1990 5A

ten drunk about seven times in my life— total. And that’s all the drugs I’ve ever done.” In fact, Rollins says that none of his bands have ever been When Punk Meets typical of the drug-taking rock star myth. “Black Flag were never really into drugs — sometimes a joint," he said, adding that they scarcely even drank. And the same goes for the Rol­ lins Band, where "maybe someone'll have a beer after a show, but you'll never see anyone (drunk). There aren't any rules , It’s Wartime like 'you drank beer!' But nobody in the band is interested in being dull, being unable to stand up. It's also our schedule; I mean, we play all the time, we play very hard and we live very hard." By Tony Pierce More surprises: "The sun rises in Madonna's panties," Rol­ lins once wrote of the Material Girl, adding, "The light comes The first thing that came to my mind while I was being in­ glowing softly through the cloth like a warm pink troduced to ex-Black Flag singer was that he grapefruit." Again, that was a few years ago as well, but didn't like shaking hands. things haven't changed, and even though he'll soon turn 30, At least not shaking hands with dudes. The End of the Century Man recently cut a video for Wartime "All these boys want to shake my hand/' Henry Rollins which blatantly tributes the ex-Mrs. Penn. wrote in his 7/18/85 journal entry published in the 1986 col­ "I did some of the choruses just like 'Cherish,'" Rollins said lection of entries HALLUCINATIONS OF GRANDEUR. "I proudly about the first Wartime single, "The Whole Truth." "I don't want to touch any boys, man, no thanks." got in the ocean. Used the same lighting. Same black and This is coming from a guy who, a month later (8/21) wrote white. Same angles. So crass." "Last night girls were grabbing my cock, my balls, my legs. While Rollins is the muscle behind Wartime, Weiss is its Felt good. That stuff and this dude I cracked in the ear with bones, and Henry had only kind words for his bassist as he ex­ the mike is the only things I really remember from the two plained how they came up with the project. The first record sets. That dude had blood dripping down the side on his that he's cut for a major label. head. Oh yeah, this other dude pulled me into the crowd and I "Andrew is so musically talented. Hasn't even scratched was chewing on his neck trying to tear off some meat. Felt the surface. He hasn't even had a chance to try anything yet. good chewing hard a living body, it drove me crazy. I had a tPunigr TOith a cause: UsMins Three years from now that guy's gonna be serious, man. He mouthful of that muscle that goes down the side of the neck. I always wanted to do funk that was really heavy and had a was thinking, you wanted me, this is me." sion today. People turn, pull attitudes, lie, don't come groove. And me, too. And one day we were just talking about Henry Rollins is most widely known for his singing for L. A. through. I see it all," Rollins wrote a few years ago. But be­ it. And that was in '86 and both our bands had broken up, so punk gods Black Flag, but he's also a surprisingly talented cause in his spoken-word shows he's almost a comic, and, we just did it." poet, an interesting storyteller during his spoken word per­ more interestingly, onstage seems like he's taking on the Rollins says he wasn't worried for a second as to what the formances, a world traveller, a self-motivated workaholic, ’ world with anger, 1 asked him which side of his personality he public would think about punk's biggest hero (next to johnny and a consummate letter-writer — that's forgetting that he's felt was closer to the real Rollins? Rotten) doing "disco." In fact, he says he doesn't have to one of rock's most powerfully gifted voices. "It's all me," he states clearly, slowly and flatly. "See, 1 got worry about maintaining a certain image because he says he Unfortunately, when you meet someone, there's this weird nothin' to hide. I'm accountable for everything I say, every­ doesn't even have one to uphold. instinct to shove your hand out towards them as a symbol of thing I do. You can even hold me accountable for every penny Even though I said he was full of shit, he still maintained friendly greeting. And that's what I did to the namesake and I spend and make. I have nothing to hide. That's why I can al­ that he was imageless, insisting that he was what he appeared leader of The in the West office in ways be in the eyes of the truth. That's why a person can ask to be. which I was sweating nervously while awaiting the reaction me a question, a personal question, and I don't give a fuck, I'll "1 don't have an image, I don't think. I'm me. I dress like of the guy who was driven crazy by chewing on flesh. just answer it and know it's OK." this every day. Same backpack for years. I buy the same pair And yeah, I was scared and I knew 1 was being stupid. What's more than OK is Henry's latest side project, War­ of shoes every 18 months— Sears electrician's shoes. It's just Rollins stuck his heavily tattooed arm out, grasped my time. So funky, Rollins could easily take the act back home to palm, intertwined my fingers tightly and raised and lowered Washington, D.C., and do some damage to its go-gos. Pro­ his hand in a quick manner. Great, I shook his hand. Big deal. duced and played by Rollins Band bassist A lot of the interview was like that, as Rollins seemed with oomph, s o u l and trippyness, Wartime is unstoppable tough, but not stupidly so. And I felt dumb for not trusting when Rollins’ juicy chops take hold. This is most evident him for what seemed like a fake facade. In all his journals, he when, on the final cut of the 5-song Fast Food For Thought, reveals himself in painfully truthful ways, and onstage, Weiss goes crazy with psychedelic swirls of bass effects and nearly naked in plain shorts, Rollins reveals himself more so Rollins whispers the as the pair wallop the Grateful the way I dress. I don't think I'm anything. I get my work vocally. Nothing's shocking, but sometimes the truth is. Dead’s “Franklin’s Tower.” done. Everything I do is out of function. I play in shorts and The plan was to interview him before a Rollins Band gig at “That was Andrew’s idea,” Rollins says. “I think the Dead no shoes and no socks because I sweat a lot. That's function. the Hollywood Palladium with Virginia swamp monsters/ are a great band. I like some things better than others, but "I even put out my own books because I don't want some­ necrophilic child-molesters GWAR. It turned out that we en­ when a band puts out 20 million records it’s going to be like one else putting a disgusting price tag on it, so I do it myself. ded up driving him around L. A. for an hour last Friday as he that.” And I've hired three awesomely honest, totally integrity- took care of business and answered questions, mainly about Like other hardcore “straight-edge” bands that came out ridden guys to handle the business, so everything that comes his new funk side project Wartime, but also about sex, drugs of D.C., Rollins isn’t into the drug and alcohol scene. out with my name on it you can go 'fuckin' A, man, that guy and electrician's shoes. “I don’t drink. I don’t do any drugs. I tried a few (drugs), didn't sell me out.' And what you get from that is an image. • • • like, one time. Like, I’ve tried LSD a couple of times; it was But me? I'm just Rollins. I work for a living. I'm an okay guy. "I have no friends besides myself. None. I made that deci- cool, you know. I smoked pot one time. One time. I’ve got­ And that's all."

two cups of coffee later, another writer en­ the Seeds, the Beatles, ? and the Myste- A Magic Carpet Ride tered the room. He was old, bearded and rians and, especially, the distinctive waltzy wearing a Grateful Dead cap — was he in organ sound of . Mix those in the wrong place, or were we? with a dash of the Damned, a smidgen of We had all our questions ready to lay out the jam and a pinch of Echo and the Bun- on the table and dazzle the boys from the nymen, and you’ve got the Carpets. Eclec­ Carpets. They seemed nice enough when tic, to say the least, should be their middle they came in. Very cordial. The impress­ name. ions we got of them were as diverse as their “We’re mainly going for diversity,” Tom musical style (but we 11 get to that in a said, with a nod from Clint. “We never minute!). want to get boring. We get bored quickly “And your name?” lead singer Tom Hin- ourselves and are very self-critical.” gley took Stacie’s hand oh-so-lightly. The Added Clint: “We want to keep chang­ lilting British accent sent shivers up our ing. We don’t want to replay old tunes — spines. Barb leaned over and whispered to we’re keen to develop. We’ll see who’s ar­ her, “Honey, we ain’t in Kansas anymore.” ound in 10 years.” They reminded us of the Monkees of While their following in England is now yore; Tom’s bowl cut brought Ringo Starr strong, initial press and radio support was (without the nose) to mind, and organist/ basically nonexistent. Due to their associa­ singer resembled a cross be­ tion with the scene, much of tween Joey Ramone, Ray Manzarek and their material was banned from British ra­ the infamous Rodney on the Rock (KROQ, dio. They depended on their fans, there­ that is). fore, to spread the word. “Word of mouth,” We were still expecting more journalists said Tom, “is always the best way to sell re­ to arrive, and as we waited, we got a sneak cords.” Before long, their gigs were sold peek at “Biggest Mountain,” their new out In fact, a recent show at the Roxy was video. This was a creative endeavor, full of packed to the rafters. psychedelia, strobes and silhouettes. “We headlined but a lot of people went We were unsure if the interview proper to our show to see the opening bands, like was beginning when the older guy asked Nick Cave or the Pixies,” Clint smiled. “But them some casual questions. When it they ended up getting their heads turned by looked like this was it, we flipped open our our music. Next week, our was up 11 notebooks and furiously scribbled as this points.” Dead-loving, brown-nosing journalist slyly “That’s what we’re after — turning peo­ stole the scene. ple’s heads,” Tom reaffirmed. emphasized their diver­ Since most of the Carpets’ stuff has only sity in image, musical style and technique. been released on import and played on col­ Natives Say No To Acid They emerged a full year before the Acid lege radio, they’re here invading the States House movement took off in Manchester, in an attempt to cross over. The next single, England, and they take pride in the fact to be released in May of 1991, is “Biggest By Barbra Dannov that they were removed from that whole Mountain,” which they estimate to hit “Grab one of those chocolate croissants, Barb stuffed a few croissants in her bag trendy Stone Roses-type thang. number 12 or 13 on the British charts. Al­ Barb. Better yet, make it three.” while we waited for the band called Inspi­ According to Tom, the Carpets’ sound ready, their debut album on Elektra, L ife , is Here we were, sitting in the immaculate rational Couches? No? Inspurral Cows? does take a cue from the psychedelia- getting rotation on stations like L.A.’s own offices of where every­ Nah. Oh, Inspiral Carpets, yeah, that’s it! inspired Manchester scene, but also has its KROQ. “You guys are the largest American thing was marble and mauve. Spread It was kinda strange, sitting in the same roots in Andy Williams, the Walker press conference we’ve had so far!” Clint across the intimidating conference table office that was once home of the Doors and Brothers and even Liberace, While we laughed. were piles of muffins, bagels, juice... all two the Eagles, and we waited intently for the didn’t see the relationship between the There were still only three of us press starving college writers could wish for. other college journalists to meander in for Carpets and crooners like Williams, other Of course, we were too nervous to eat, so the press conference. Fifteen minutes and influences were a little more obvious, like See CARPET, p.6A 6 A Thursday, October 18,1990 Daily Nexus Boingo To Play Bowl By Dino Scoppettone actuality, much of it deals different style of music. It with morbid themes, but was closer to '30s jazz. From does so with an upbeat, crazy there they went to a vaude- At first I thought maybe it style that has permeated villian (style), more theatri­ was the video game version through seven and a cal as well as musical... gor­ of Dungeons and Dragons. live compilation. And Danny illa suits, eating fire, stuff like Though I had never lis­ Elfman, it should be pointed that. From there they became tened to their music, the first out, doesn't have pointy a rock band around '78 or '79. time I heard of the group ears. What he does have is a They used to originally be , I envisioned knack for keeping the eight- called the Mystic Knights of albums full of screeching member group energetic and the Oingo Boingo. birds, roaring lions and other the crowd frantic during live Does that name mean any­ jungle sounds. It wasn't too performances. thing in particular? long before I finally realized In anticipation of Boingo's Avila: Not that I know of. why this picture came to appearance at the Santa Bar­ The word Oingo Boingo mind: I was associating them bara County Bowl on Oct. doesn't really mean any­ with the video game Congo 23rd, I had a chance to speak thing, except for in Japanese Bongo. with , the group's it means "large breast." Then I discovered that the bassist since 1984. Having It's obvious the band has a name of the band's leader helped to produce the band's huge following, but you've was . Elves? last two albums, Avila of­ never really cracked the Top-40 Being an old D&D veteran, I fered some insight into the charts. Would you like a wondered if the group had cult success of Oingo Boingo. number-one hit or are you put together songs that Tell me about the band's happy with your current would fit on the soundtrack origins. success? Out O’ Control to "The Hobbit." Avila: The band was origi­ Avila:We're happy with sound, as opposed to faster Soon after, I finally heard nally a theatrical street en­ all the success we've had huge Boingo followings, in synch? gyrating tempos. The band their music. It has nothing to semble, playing on street cor­ over the years, but it would the thousands, and then it Avila: When the band gets can still play the shit out of all do with elves or jungles. In ners and such, doing a totally be crazy to say we wouldn't turns into pockets after that. on stage, you become a want to be on a more national Still, there are some very en­ Boingo. Something comes that stuff, and I think it scale. It's always fun playing thusiastic fans out there, and over you, that's for sure, and makes for a more exciting for more people. I think it's we always seem to find the combination of the adre­ concert when you have more just a matter of tim e... espe­ them. naline, the crowd, and just of a break in different cially in the last couple of Has Danny's success with getting up for the gig, you directions. years. Our radio airplay has movie soundtracks helped the just get out there and do it. been way more open to us band at all? Danny Elfman writes all of On the new album, the song than it has been in the past. Avila: Absolutely yes — your song lyrics. What is his "Out of Control" seems to bean What's your popularity like just from all the musical ex­ fascination with the themes of open letter about suicide. What in the Midwest and back East perience he's been gaining death and dying? prompted that song? when you tour? from doing these movies. Avila: He has a happy re­ Avila: Danny gets letters and such from different peo­ Avila: The further east you He's been getting a lot of lationship with the macabre. ple, fans, and I think it was go, it's more in pockets. well-deserved notoriety. It's always been one of his fa­ from a letter he had gotten There are some towns like Where's your favorite place to vorite subjects ... he enjoys from someone who was con­ Phoenix and Salt Lake^City play? writing and thinking about Avila: would templating that. I guess it and Denver where there are it, dwelling into it. Just be always one of my favo­ another fascination of Danny was almost like an answer, rites — it's great to play for Elfman. saying "Hey, don't do it." I CROSSROADS Ent. & THE INDEPENDENT the hometown. We recently mean, there's a lot of worse went to Brazil and had a On the new album, Dark at things that can happen, and ______Present great time there. It was the th e End o f the Tunnel, it seems it really isn't as bad if you re­ first time we'd been out of that Danny is a little more seri­ ally just take a big look. 1 The Keeper of the Blue Flame the States. At one point, we ous with his lyrics and the band think that's what that song played at a concert in Rio de in general is a little less dance- covers. Janeiro in front of over thirty oriented. Is the group moving in MICHAEL FRANKS thousand people. Back there, a new direction? What can we next expect & Special Guest Barbara Wood the song "Stay" was number Avila: Always. That's from Oingo Boingo? Is there one for ten weeks and every­ been one of the things that I anything in the works yet? body knew the words to the think has kept theband alive Avila: Not at the moment. song. At the same time, the all these years, is that the We're always looking for­ This older songs, like pre-"Dead band never stops moving ward to the next record. Sat. Oct. 20 Man's Party", were totally and growing. I think that's There isn't any absolute unknown to them. Over what keeps the blood in the scheduling started on that Arlington Theatre here, the people like to hear band rich, always trying yet, but you can look for a the old songs, but the new something different. Before, new record in '91. 8pm songs are really coming they were playing more up­ “An Evening with Oingo Pick up his latest THEM COMPAQ around. tempo grooves, faster- release “Blue Pacific" Having eight members, is it oriented songs, and the band Boingo" will take place at 7:00 at your nearest D§C hard in concert for the band to decided to try something dif­ on Oct. 23rd at the Santa Bar­ keep on the same level, to stay in ferent — more layered bara County Bowl.

Rush Chronicles Mercury Records SBK/Capital/EMI Records Rating: Good Deal O' Love Rating: The Roof Just Ain't On Fire When I first heard Rush, I Sunday, Oct. 21 was 13 and sitting around Tackhead have evolved the coffee table in the living quite a way from their 8 & 10:30 pm room of a cabin in Lake Ta­ humble beginnings as the hoe playing Bullshit with musical force behind the Su- IV Theater $3.50 two decks of cards with my garhill Gang. little brother and two family In .1987, Nettwerk Records Sponsored by UCSB's friends. issued an anthology of Tack­ Men's Lacrosse It was one of those cozy head Sound System music. winter nights and our pa­ When Tackhead S.S. per­ rents had gone out and left formed live, Doug, our older brother, to would sometimes add his supervise. Doug wasn't vocals to the music by •E ggplan t RECYCLE playing because he was too screaming into a megaphone cool to play with a bunch of The Grateful Dead Eggplant from the mixing console in kids. Without a Net Sad Astrology the middle of the concert Arista Records Dr. Dream Records hall. It was during this scene Rating: St. Branford Rocks Rating: Filet Mignon Well times are a changin', ' © © . © © that Doug decided he it is 1990 and Tackhead have wanted to hear a little music, "Without a Net" is the first In our continuing series on how just released their second full and so he popped on 2112 live release from the Grateful to turn rock into food, here's our length studio LP, this time on and the room filled with the Dead in 10 years. Weighing latest recipe. — Art SBK Records (a division of thunder, shriek and wail of in with three whole records the corporate behemoth .CONCERT THEATRE Rush's sci-fi epic of revolu­ — 140-plus minutes of music How to make Eggplant: Capital/EMI) featuring a tion, evil priests and salva­ for a total of 16 songs — it's a In a medium-sized casser­ new lead singer, Bernard tion. So there we were play­ good showing from the ole dish, combine a thin layer Fowler, who has a very ing Bullshit and partying to band. Always on the lookout of the Violent Femmes, a smooth singing voice. this weird Led Zeppelin for Dead tapes of outstand­ dash of REM and four cups metal/Pink Floyd art rock. ing sound quality, when I of XTC. Bake on high for 45 The help of corporate^ fi­ PAUL ocw * heard that they were putting minutes. Lightly sprinkle a nances also got some pretty Now nearly nine years la­ out a live record, I was ecsta­ few cheesy pop tunes on top. interesting guest musicians COTTON ter, I'm still listening to Rush, tic. No dosed heads tripping Serve warm. Guaranteed to to help out on a couple Leo Downey Band and, I confess, I own every one over the wires in the taper leave guests satisfied. tracks. The song 'Take a o f their 16 albums. Yes, I still section to mess up the sound Eggplant, a four-man Stroll" has Mick Jagger blow­ Oct. 20 KMGQ & KKUR dig those three rockin' Cana­ here. This record has quality funky pop band out of Hun­ ing his large lips on the har­ BRAZILIAN FALL COMEDY NIGHTI dian guys even tho' they sound and you can get it on tington Beach, have released monica and busts CARNIVAL '90 w/DAN have gone commercial and CD, too. their second album Sad out a rhyme on "See the Fire featuring REDDINGTON i you can even hear some of There's all sorts of good Astrology. Full of infectious Burning." LULA & AFRO BRASIL & Other Guests the songs from their more re­ stuff on this record, a Help- pop tunes and a few rockin' cent albums on the radio, the Slipnot-Franklin's (always a numbers. Sad Astrology is a The lyrics to this record O c t 27 Z-96 "Hold Your Fire" and 'Time plus), Cassidy, Let It Grow, fun album to listen to. It's got have their heart in the right © WILD CHILD © Stand Still" stuff. and a China-Rider thrown in a funky beat, and you can place and once again Tack­ © (A Tribute to Jim Uorrison) © for good measure. However, groove out to it. head make very strong social Q w/LED ZEPAGAIN The band has just come out the LFs highlight is the Eyes The title track, which kicks statements on sex, drugs and 0 with a compilation two-disk of the World with Branford off the album, is an ironic rock 'n' roll. Yet, musically MONSTER BASH!!!! © CD with songs from every Marsalis; it's incredible. song, because as the band this record is not nearly as O ct. 31 one of those 16 albums which The one odd thing about plays in a gleeful upbeat brilliant as Tackhead's ear­ KTYD Q I happen to own. It has some this record is that all these style, the lyrics tell of a girl lier material and after a cou­ welcomes © good selections, like "The songs are from different who tells this guy she'll love ple listens to the record I be­ iRAMARAMA Trees," "Red Sector A" and places and they don't tell you him till the stars all fall... and came really bugged by the THE WAY M0VES/CIYDE 9 the early "Lakeside Park," where. But besides the sound then they do. The rest of the lead singer. His vocals make Q along with your obligatory quality, this record didn't ex­ songs are equally as incon­ all of the songs sound like Nov. 3 KCQR t "Fly By Night"'s. But I think cite me that much. There's gruous. "The Wild Ones candidates for top-40 air CHRIS ISAAIk 9 there should also be some "I some good stuff here but you (Cycle on the Lawn)" is a play. ■ i e Think I'm Going Bald" (for might as well just go out and sweet acoustic number about Nov. 7 KCSB the title alone, it's a great find someone with the tapes a girl wearing aftershave and Any Tackhead fan who (s song), "Red Gloves," and of any one of these shows a boy wearing mascara. feels let down by Strange GATO Q "Jacob's Ladder." They also and save yourself 15 bucks, So if you're tired of the Things should spend time lis­ 9 commit blasphemy for leav­ as the band wasn't ripping same old macaroni and tening to other Tackhead BARBIERI ing out any version of on the nights that the record­ cheese, and you're looking projects. Over the summer § 9 "YYZ." ing equipment was around for something different, try Mute/Restless records re­ © N ov. 8 9 — a lot like the Dylan and the Eggplant. 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