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ENTERTAINMENTpage 13 Technique • Friday, September 26, 2003 • 13 Taste is relative. Point Tech! Everyone who is anyone attended Yellow Jacket volleyball keeps No. ENTERTAINMENT last weekend’s Taste of Atlanta. 5 ranking with twelve-game Check out our review. Page 20 winning streak. Page 24 Technique • Friday, September 26, 2003 Dad’s Garage “Desperately Wanting” more Party at Tapped in the Park with 99x Atlanta’s Oktoberfest! Local At- brings new play lanta rock bands converge at Park Tavern in Piedmont Park Saturday By Erich Hansen py Day, we have on good authority from 6 p.m. to midnight and Sun- Contributing Writer Graham’s ashes will be in attendance day from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Bands opening night,” said Director Sean include To Whom It Concerns, The late Chapman, formerly of Daniels in a press brief. “I think Transmission, Acres, Big Atomic, Monty Python fame, wrote Out of we’re going to work them into the Bachelor Red, 13 Stories, Down the Trees, which premiered Friday, set.” Virginia and Waterproof Feat. Tick- Sept. 19 and runs until Oct. 25. Out of the Trees is a series of sketch- ets are $5 for Freeloaders, and eight Dad’s Garage Theater Company has es Chapman wrote which have been for everyone else. a bit of a history with Chapman; his adapted for the stage. The play itself Oh Happy Day is reminiscent of premiered at Monty Python’s Do the timewarp Dad’s Garage “The sketches touch Flying Circus. roughly three Fans of the show again at Lefont years ago. on everything from would be Dad’s Garage the crucial issue of pleased with the For those who have never seen was founded in production. the Rocky Horror Picture Show, it is 1995. It includes icebergs...gay The sketch- time. For veterans, why not see it a 140-seat main professional wrestlers, es touch on ev- again, the way it was meant to be stage and a 40- erything from seen—at midnight and in costume. seat black box and, of course, plenty the crucial issue Rocky Horror is one musical every- theater (known as of satire.” of icebergs to one should see. It is a trip. Screen- the Top Shelf). In appendectomy ings run every Friday at midnight at addition to this to gay profes- Lefont Plaza Theater. new play, the ven- sional wrestlers, ue is known for having great im- and, of course, plenty of satire. Geng- prov. his Kahn reappears throughout the Medu Records Out of the Trees doesn’t stop for show, as does an anonymous histor- the intermission. In the concession ical announcer. releases first album Like Monty Python, Out of the area, an overly ambitious employee The record company started by Trees pushes humor to the bounds By Peter Jensen / STUDENT PUBLICATIONS satirizes a bank robbery. A profes- a group of Georgia Tech graduates sional wrestler in drag fights a fold- of political correctness. However, Lead singer, Kevin Griffin, of Better Than Ezra rocked the night away has finally released their first album. ing chair and a laundry basket. Then the play satirizes touchy subjects such at the Ferst Center on Monday. Students enjoyed the show and Medu Movements, The First Occa- the show starts again. even had the chance to receive autographs afterwards. sion, a hip-hop and soul compila- “As with the opening of O Hap- See Garage, page 17 tion featuring all their artists, drops today. It can be purchased at www.cdbaby.com and Tower Gigantic custom car show invades Atlanta Speedway Records on Peachtree. Look for in- depth coverage next week. By Vivian Vakili competitions for Registrant with best Spectators find this competition cluded the Street Glow Off compe- Senior Staff Writer use of NOPI theme on, in or around quite the sensory experience, as many tition, the Foam Pit and the swim- vehicle, Best of Show Exotic, Best of the competing cars have an exor- suit competition. The Street Glow Great Storytellers Fast cars, slow women and, well, of Show Luxury and Best Celebri- bitant amount of woofers, amplifi- Off competition is held on the track lots of free time: this could possibly ty-Driven Vehicle. The victor of ers and batteries to increase both the in the evening. As NOPI describes converge at Phipps be the catch phrase for Number One this latter competition was basket- noise that the car makes while rac- it, this is where the “hottest cars Parts Incorporated (NOPI) Nation- ball star Shaquille O’Neal for his ing and the changes of going home with the coolest lights hang out This weekend wraps up the sec- als, held at the Atlanta Motor Speed- custom Cadillac Escalade. with a trophy. around the stage and foam pit.” ond annual Atlanta Literary Festi- way this past weekend. The drag racing competition was Yet another event was the Unit- Speaking of the foam pit, should val. The festival aims to provide an NOPI Nationals is an opportu- perhaps one of the most interest- ed States Autosound Competition. one have tired of watching strobe- amalgamation of authors and liter- nity for those interested in custom- ing. For those unfamiliar with drag This is a competition based upon a like neon lights twinkle underneath ary fans in the south. The main izing cars to show off their racing, here is a brief synopsis. First, set of criteria including sound qual- and around Dodge Vipers, one could event will be held this weekend at accomplishments. This year over the vehicles are sorted according to ity, imaging and installation quali- have made her way over to this pit Phipps Plaza Mall Saturday from 100,000 people attended, which class. They are then ranked accord- ty. Generally speaking, the vehicles of gyrating, half-naked men and 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from made it more than just a small, back ing to loudness, with the three loudest are ranked by how loud they can women, all clad in little more than noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. This year’s alley get together. vehicles in each class usually get- play. focus is Great Storytellers of the South. Among the events, one could find ting trophies. Other crowd-thrilling events in- See NOPI, page 17 Saturday jazz show Rock, Scott fail to form coherent plot in Rundown at Ferst Center By Chelsea Paxton his drawn-out adventure in the Bra- Jazz sensation Peter Cincotti, 19, Contributing Writer zilian Amazon. Travis, played by performs this Saturday at the Ferst Seann William Scott (of Stifler fame) Center. His talent has been com- At first glance The Rundown, in is a wise-talking, twenty-something pared to that of Harry Connick, Jr. theaters Sept. 26, appears to have all archeology dropout who is set on and Frank Sinatra. Check out our the makings of a box-office block- uncovering the legendary Gato be- review next week. The show starts buster: a high-profile cast, ample fight- fore even considering leaving the at 8 p.m with tickets ranging in ing sequences, explosions and an jungle. Of course, this is contrary to price from $20 to $30. exotic setting in the Brazilian Ama- Beck’s plans and thus, assortments zon. of problems arise. Promoted as a “contemporary ac- Throw in Christopher Walken Heavy, loud and tion comedy,” this movie, however, and you have yourself a movie. Walk- vacillates unnaturally between com- en stars as Hatcher, a corrupt dicta- dangerous clogs edy, action and drama. The result is tor who has created a gold-mining that no genre is fully developed and empire and entrapped the Brazilian This Broadway production show- the audience is left slightly amused townspeople with low wages for slave cases Irish dance, song and culture but very confused. labor. in a visual spectacle. Whether seen The Rock stars as Beck, a bounty When he hears of Travis’ plans for the first time or the fifth, the hunter of sorts sent to complete one to uncover the golden Gato, a run- production is big on entertainment final mission before being released down ensues to capture Beck and value. Tickets range from $15 to By Myles Arnowitz / Universal Pictures from his highly dangerous and very Travis before they can escape the $50 at the Fox Theatre. Shows run Beck, played by The Rock, and Travis, played by Seann William Scott shady line of work. The mission: at 8 p.m. on weekdays and twice on rumble in the Amazon River in The Rundown, opening in theaters today. bring back the boss’ son, Travis, from See Amazon, page 14 the weekend. 14 • Friday, September 26, 2003 • Technique ENTERTAINMENT Amazon from page 13 all with a very gritty, real perfor- Scream! It will make you feel better mance. Amazon with the legendary artifact. The downfall of this picture is here; almost all of the props are hand- The plot thickens as Mariana, that the comedic relief in the form made by people that really know played by Rosario Dawson, bartender of midgets, horny monkeys and an what they’re doing. by day and rebel leader by night, incoherent jeep driver/guide just These guys are pros, literally. For accompanies the duo as their guide doesn’t flow dispersed between solely many of them, it’s their full-time through the jungle maze. dramatic scenes. job to scare the crap out of you, and The overall result is that The The theme is not “action-come- they’ve gotten quite good at it. Rundown hits-and-misses in several dy” but “drama-comedy” which sim- Having gone through both alone areas.