2A Thursday, May 15,1997 Daily Nexus practice, we could go up there and play FREE ADMISSION 11-6 • 1/2 PRICE 6:30-2:00 ■ and eat these other bands for lunch. Fam SANTA M ARIA'S ONLY ADULT CABARET ous sax man Brandford Marsalis once I said that there’s “no better feeling than to. SPEARMINT RHINO Battery Acid go up on stage and just cream all the other bands, you know, beat the shit out of all ADULT CABARET the other bands,” and we took this advice 505 S. Broadway to heart. in Santa Maria Blues While the three of us were having delu sions of fame, power, money, making great records and meeting beautiful wo 7 DAYS A WEEK Keir DuBois explains what's ia a name ALWAYS HIRING DANCERS | men, the cover band finished its set Being Santa Ralbara Our band has always garnered a lot of questions about as we were in Southern California, where everyone is too 22 E. Montadlo St. 568-1620 our name. For newcomers, the blues band that I’m part cool for anything and then some, no one in the tiny audi of is named the Clap, and in our brief existence we’ve ence applauded. We usually do, just 'cos we know .no heard one query after another: “Where did you guys one else will, but this time we didn’t clap because they come up with that name?” sucked. People either like it or they hate it, and that usually de Their lead singer was not getting the instant gratifica □ pends on how much thought they actually give it We’ve tion he expected, and that really went up his ass side had a lot of fun making up reasons as to why we chose ways. “Hey,” he told the crowd after numerous sugges DEPARTMENT OF FILM STUDIES the name, and some are better than others, and some are tive thank-you’s, “a little appreciation, huh? A little ap □ actually even better than the real (read: serious) reason. plause, huh?” No noise. No, a few pinkie-claps were CAREERS IN FILM One theory is that the name is based on a pun; when heard. “Aw man,” he whined, “come on, people, clap! PANEL DISCUSION 1997 you hear our music, you like it and so you “clap” to it Clap! CLAP, DAMMITII” □ That one died a quick but horrible death, ditched almost This finally garnered a fraction of the reception he GUEST SPEAKERS INCLUDE: immediately for the obvious reason of smelling worse wanted, but Bryn hadn’t noticed; he just sat there laugh □ than aged Limburger. ing to himself like a little Jon Fitzgerald Samira Lee Another explanation that boy who just got away with Festival Director Romi Stepovitch Film Curator □ didn’t make it to the bank whacking off in the bath Barton Diffee stuttent Garret Savage was the one that claimed, room. He waited until Editor Editor □ well, we wanted to have a Adam and I noticed him, gross, disgusting name and then blurted out, □ that would no doubt en “Guys, we should call our Friday, May 16 dear us to those whole band ‘The Clap’I” He 2 : 0 0 p m some folks at the Parents barely got this out before □ Music Resource Center exploding into a fit of v Buchanan 1940 y (sorry Tipper, your laughter that was more □ daughters are gorgeous, contagious than said STD, but we can’t forgive your and soon all three of us silly album stickers), but were guffawing uncontrol “the Butthole Surfers” was lably, rolling around on already taken. the pristine tile floor like Closer to the truth, but weighted beach balls. ridiculous nonetheless, When we came to our LET’S PARTY! was the idea that since senses after about 15 mi we’re a blues band, we’d nutes of this seventh-grade undoubtedly be in regression, we did it all fluenced by Eric Clapton over again, and then at some point in our ca agreed yep, that’s it — we reer, and so by calling were going to be the Clap. I ourselves the Clap, we could just see the mar would not pay tribute to quees: “Come catch the him but also show up right Clap tonight at the IVBC1” in front of Slowhand in all I fell over laughing a third of those alphabetically time. listed rock encyclopedias We hadn’t reckoned on and anthologies and stuff all of the implications of This was misinterpreted our name, but we soon to insinuate that since the came up with a semi- BOCK IH'BOMn. Clap would come before serious reason for it We THURSDAY NIGHTS Clapton, the Clap must argued that, well, we’re a think they're better than blues band, and the blues 9:30 pm - Midnight Clapton. This is of course in its original rural form untrue, and why we didn’t had been widely regarded $ 5 see this whole fiasco in the by whites as everything first place is beyond me, from dirty to over-sexed to but after many laborious downright satanic. The & & * ■ '* * * B w rM g rr- interviews explaining dirty part was right; musi away our bad taste, we fi cally, most electric blues is JOIN US & KTYD’S LONDON FIELDS nally deflated that bag of amplified to a distorted, AS HE ROCKS THE LANES hot air, apologized to Eric, fuzzy-sounding level. The and made everything nice sexy part was right too; again, hoping that the next. blues rhythms derived ulti Tuesday Nights time we get bad press it' mately from ancient Afri would be easier to defuse. . can percussion beats, PER GAME It didn’t, and so we finally 8 which were very animated, gave up trying to make up §! enough to get one’s groove 9pm-Midmght bad jokes about our dirty thing going in a’matter of band name. seconds. It started at danc The real reason our ing and then went from ORCH/D BOWL band’s name is so dirty is there. The devil-music 5925 Calle Real, Goleta so dirty is that, surprise, surprise, it was entirely sup thing was more a combination of the other two traits Hwy. 101 at Fairview • 967-0128 posed to be. Well, sort of. We didn’t exactly plan to be seen through the conservative eyes of white southern come famous as members of a band named after ah STD, Baptists, but the legendary Robert Johnson was said to and though it might seem calculated now, it was totally have learned the blues from a man who taught himself by spontaneous at its inception. playing guitar while sitting on tombstones at midnight. Dying for a See, Adam, Bryn and I were at a coffeehouse shootin’ Anyway, we put all these things together to justify our the breeze like spoiled white teenagers do, listening name, saying that it's a dirty name for dirty music—raw, Cigarette? painfully to the band that was playing that night Cover hot, sexy and very crude. After all, what is “rock and after cover emanated from the amplifiers, and we started roll.” other than an old blues euphemism for sex? You’re not to get annoyed; hey, if we wanted to hear Alanis and Needless to say, my mom thinks the band’s name is Hootie and, hell, the Eagles, we’d turn on the local Top lame: We know she’s right, and we know that nothing we kidding!!! Forty station and get comfortably numb. We soon real could do would legitimize it, so we won’t bother trying to ized that, without being egomaniacs and with a little explain away or apologize for our name. 1 brought to you by Œ ï j e Doonesbury BY GARRY TRUDEAU I
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What comes to mind setting of castles and tion of space is highlighted All of the actors in this when you think of people knights to the corporate by the creative use of the performance put forth dressed in army fatigues boardrooms of the mod dividing posts with, yup, commendable perfor and chains, those orange em world. the retractable ribbons as a mances. Tobias Geye (Sig dividing posts with re The play also has an un metaphor for actual walls Esmon), Ain A. Hunter mmm tractable ribbons, and usual and effective look and structures. The setup (Stella Ray) and Jeff Ste May 15 loud music blaring? If you that is both simplistic and is an interesting way to get phenson (Aston Wolff) de serve kudos for their roles b & 10pm Shows thought of studying in the rich at the same time. The the most out of the limited $3 Tickets at UCen, Hub, think again. These “less is more" construc space available on stage. as men trying to forge the $5 at the Door are actually the elements difference between reality of the latest theatrical of and dreams. fering by the UCSB Dra The play is a worthy ef matic Art Dept., titled fort by our campus acting SIXTH ANNUAL “Life is a Dream,” directed community, and everyone by Kirk Everest involved should be proud This modem adaptation of their accomplishments. of Pedro Calderón de la Performances of “Life Barca’s vision of the is a Dream” will be held power dynamics in the in UCSB’s Performing world we live in, a world Arts Theatre on May REEL LOUD that we have no control 16-17 and 20-24 at 8 p.m., FILM FESTIVAL over, shows the struggles May 18 and 24 at 2 p.m., of a man to reach his true and May 18at 7p.m. Call AT UCSB • 1997 place in society. 893-3535 for more Silent Film Festival Accompanied By Live Husk Bob Pptter does a good information. BETH WATERS SUPER MARAUDER job of adapting this play —Ethan Childress from its original mythical THE HENCHHYN RUBICON RATTLED ROOSTERS ATTICA SALT COPPERPOT SAMSARA m DEBBIE KIN BAUER THE UNFLAPPABLE BAS1ARDS Caught in the Act INSERT GOD DAUGHTER The undergraduate directed onc-acfs continue at ships, as they have close relationships in the play," LIVEACTS • FREE GIVEAWAYS UCSB this weekend with “Your life Is a Feature she said. STUDENT FILMS • COMEDY • DANCING Film” and “To Bobolink, for Her Spirit." Whereas last While camaraderie among the cast and crew week's plays explored id eas of identity, this week’sef- seemed to flourish in “Bobolink ” those in “Your Life FRIDAY, NAY 16,8PM ferings can be paired under the common theme of Is a Feature Film" had a different experience. . :||> 5 AT CAMPBELL HALL I Hollywood and the film industry. m Members of this one-act, directed by junior drama- Advance tickets $5, at the door $6 oar Life? was ehosen by director Tabltha Brink. , | tic ait major Tabitha Brinkerhoff, encountered prob because of itsinhi- | lems working together, according to cast member guing subject matter, i „ | | | § ' ~ l "lfs hard to force [ourselves] to leave ottrproblems UCSB ARTS & LECTURES PRESENTS what corrupt* It's about this kid, [who] on ids 21st outside; to fry to leave tensions behind and ]ust birthday finds out they’ve been filming nis entire life work,’ she said, ' * as a docinocotatyS? she said, “He finds out that every» Brinkerhoff agreed; “The hardest thing for me was W it n e s s one he’s everknown is an actor. Ifs not realistic in the working With the different personalities. None of my Endangered Species of North America sense that somebody could get away with this, but it is actors got along. [Trying] to get them to step out of realistic in the point that I’m frying to get across, their ¡normal life I was the biggest part of this whole Photographers Susan Middleton & David Liittschwager [which is] that people are rotten and will do anything thing,” she said. to get what they want** I 1111111111 However, Carp said she did grow from working in “Bobolink* director and junior dramatic art major theplay. M pR lll|j '*0' , Kimberly H yd e-Schmitt chose her play in part due to “It’s a really good experience because it’s nice to work with my peers as opposed to faculty. I gat to “It's about a group Of autograph seekers standing have a Voice in toe production," she said. Despite the Odds she SacedlBrinkerhoff believes it because it was a period piece * that the undergraduate-directed one-acts are an ideal Hyd e-Schmitt believes that her previous experi introduction to directing because they involve the ence on the stage as an actress contributed to file rela tionship she created with her cast i .ii^ith student produchons'ybn faaye. to do a lot “I really thought as an aetress {myself] that I could more toanyw would domanonoal production,” she help them and understand the problems of the ac ton," aha said. . » i i y i i i i i | In hopes of fosteringa better working environment The plm» will be performed in Km Hall studio A, and getting deeper performances out of her actors, IP^idlpw tor videotaping. Hyde-Schmitt hopes this Hyde-Schmitt encouraged fits cast to form closer ties wifi make it more Interesting for the audience. with each other. * ' - i ll§ |lll Performances are at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday “My cast has a really good time with each other. 1 and 2 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. thought it would be good if they developed relafion- MM m MTOMW w ;^'% i«B Ia m Banks An evening of stunning images and insight about the plight Win Ben Harper C o n t e s f - c » - r a m a Write yosr aiswen 01 of endangered animals, fish and plants on our continent. pesters er We've also got ’a scrap of paper aid Saturday, May 17/8 p.m. stickers by Win a Daft Punk briig thee aider Campbell Hall pester if you can seme U2 answering this Students: $5. In advance or at the door. name the singles to give Sterke fewer. Oily question: members of the away If you oieeitryper # 1 2 teJaai Charge tickets by phone: 893-3533 v/tty 7 6- What type of band (hint: see can name the coitestait. All wiuers guitar does Ben group's latest will be eetified by last week's Small is Beautiful. Nexus Classifieds work. Harper use? Artsweek). two tours. phone or e-mail. 4A Thursday, May 15,1997 Daily Nexus
u i : m psyched. I’m really excited about the show tionship between characters Jane, Dick and Sally. I 'cos there’s a lot of people getting an opportun- “The main character is Jane. It’s basically about her re JL ity to do something big that they'll maybe never lationship with Dick and Sally,” Uhry said. “It references children’s stories. It’s comical but somewhat get another opportunity to do the rest of their lives.” im Hoover’s “Windows” is one of the rally realty Senior film studies major Tim Hoover has just sacrif disturbing.” iced his Spring Quarter to put together Reel Loud and With a five-person crew working on it, the project serious films that’ll be a part of the show. he’s excited. took three weeks to film, possibly because one scene in B Hoover, a senior film major who got involved with After spending countless hours organizing bands, sol cludes a rave with a few hundred students. The screening will be accompanied by a live techno act. Reel Loud this year as the event’s director and producer, oists and dance acts, screening film after film, and speak was in charge. ing to everyone from local radio to Rolling Stone, the di “They’re going to be performing a live jungle track, rector and producer of the festival —which is being put with a keyboard, MIDI, laptop and some [tumjtables,” "To a degree, I based the order of the show on the tone of on in Campbell Hall on Friday at 8 p .m.—is ready to get Uhry said. —Michael Ball the films. There's a lot of comedic submissions this year, the show on the road. and then there’s mine - the story of a 35-year-old man In a little over 214 hours Reel Loud will screen some dealing with the death of his alcoholic mother. People are 18 films and showcase 12 musical acts. In addition, the Reality Cannibal gonna have to brace themselves for something different” event will feature a performance by the UCSB Dance Hoover said that students will be able to relate to the Team, a comedy troupe called Punch Line Players and a I p & o f the films that will be featured dunn characters in “Windows” even if they haven’t had first slide show of student artwork and still photography. Reel Loud is "Reality Cannibal,” tttt origi hand experience with the issues it depicts. - [It’s a] chance to get your stuff out there and show who H film directed by, producedbyand stamngse- “If s about the larger picture of getting into... adult stages you are and.what you can do,” said UCSB Filmmakers ■ of life raid having hard times dealing with the traumatic Co-op President Dana-Marie Lazzareschi. “The purpose experiences of our childhood.” -Eric Steuer is to promote everyone’s art talents, whether it is in art, music, film ... and incorporate it all into one show.” back The show opens with a “pretty intense” performance by the dance troupe, according to team adviser Elizabeth classical love-story plot and some good oldies Loyacano, a junior film studies major. Then, after a few apathy. The message is loolonghehind ...what is on the music are the key attractions for the movie “True surprises, the silent films will screen accompanied by surface:core and the latent The ^Corid half is Love,” directed by Dana-Marie Lazzareschi, a various musical acts, including Seattle’s Rattled Roos A based on adream lhad a few months back, but due to senior film studies and dramatic art major. ters, Isla Vista’s Henchmyn, Kid Power, Attica Salt, DJ tiremmtyconstraintsIexpenenced,afotoftbe61mwas The short film, which is set in the mid-1950s, is the Jasen, The Unflappable Bastards, Copperpot, Insert story of two high schoolers struggling to find the parame God, Rubicon, Super Marauder, and PDA. Filmed in three days, “Reality Cannibal” presented ters of their love for each other. Local songstress Beth Waters, who performed at Reel “Ifs about the wanderers vs. the jocks, and the bad Loud last year, is also on the bill and is set to perform at “On Thursday we filmed at Sands with 35 MPH girls and the good girls,” Lazzareschi said. “I wanted to intermission, as is Katie Amovick of Daughter (formerly winds and had to cany equipment from Eilwood to the do something different and it was based around the band Spice). Intermission will also play host to the comedy of beach. We got sand in everything,” he sqid, and the music. Ifs kind of a parody on ‘Grease.’” Punch Line Players, who have a routine centered around ’ Despite the The group Rattled Roosters is responsible for most of UCSB’s most famous vocalist, Miss RBT. his film, which includes bloodthirsty cannibals and a the sound in the movie. The band, which hails from Seat “It’s basically about what if file RBT lady gets social, primitive war dance. * —Bandy Wood tle, Wash., cut the title track “True Love” specifically for and it’s basically about what if the RBT lady went to the the movie. ' ' bar and guys started picking up on her,” said comedy “I saw the band play when I troupe member Jeff Burrow, a junior film studies major. was in Seattle, and they were Reel Loud will show in Campbell Hall on Friday at 8 absolutely great," Lazzares p.m. sharp, and Hoover advises to get there on time. chi said. “We kept in touch Tickets are available this week through the Film Studies and they agreed to do this for Dept, and Filmmakers Co-op members, who have a table me.” set up in front of the UCen today. Tickets are $5 presale The low-budget flick, and $6 at the door. —Jolie I. Lash which cost approximately $500 to make, took five days to shoot and some additional ntangfing a man, a womap and a conve time to edit. intoabizarre love tt&ngle, the sfeort-Reel Loud “Our biggest problem was Rfifrn “fielhssima” begins with a suspenseful getting everyone together to ■ shoot,” she said. “We even premise—“ who will end up with who? • Senior film studies major Bons Issaei wrote, directed had to piece some of the and produced“Bellissima" which took an entire eight scenes together because they hours to shoot. Notable for its close-upoinematogra- were shot separately.” —Yier Shi sentcd to the tunes of an exciting Kodak sampler, the screen in a Mercedes Benz 500 SL convertible to Death Cyde 2000 Part II: where a mysterious man is waiting. The womangets out of fire car, and begins the subtle acts of flirtation — Cycle of Death which are immediately mimicked by the Benz, Which will the man choose? Attend Reel Loud to find outl ■ M M i i i l i 1 1 1 —Nick Robertson ' J u r Cycle o f Death” In a short 414 minutes, mountain bikes, murder o Food, No Drink” is a film by senior film and mystery collide, liter studies and histoiy major Bridget Oates. It ally, in this twisted twist of features an overzealous library security “Rad,” Kazu Kibuishi guard who goes well out of his way to make sure his stu dious patrons are not eating in the libraiy. His compul m before .we started filming, siveness drives him to the brink of insanity, causing him M P P P O l,i..Jl iii I to hallucinate that everyone is eating. nonetheless, . The film took Oates four days to shoot and countless he American version of Mr. Bean will soon be in Sponsored and funded by the UCSB Mountain hours to painstakingly edit. The small production faced troduced to college audiences. Thafs right, the Bike Oub, this_short, short film went through it alt the same adversities that large-scale motion pictures do. student-directed film “Sorry About Your Fish, The lead actor managed to break his leg one week before T Take a Whiff” will be featured among the other student shooting and a replacement had to be cast quickly. productions at Reel Loud this Friday. I eveiy half-second of tap e-tin s is a last-minute com However, the undertaking proved to be an exhilarat The film, written and directed by senior environmen ptiaöttß of unedited footage and undedicated aetoit. ing experience for Oates. tal studies major Bret Bastain with the help of fellow stu • In short, ifs not rad — ifs raw. “I learned so much from doing this.... It was so fun to dents and friends, is set in an office where the employees see an idea I had in my head being acted out, and even take to sniffing white-out to relieve their pain. better than I’d hoped,” she said. _7 . ^ Musa “It deals with white-out and eveiybody getting high on white-out,” Bastain said. “Ifs an office scene - someone tips over a fish bowl and the boss is all upset. But then f f T & a homage to our favorite gangster movies everyone sniffs white-out and feels OK. onnoisscurs of martial arts rejoice! “Kung Fu I thafs one-sixteenth of their running time and Between writing, casting and designing, the entire JL one-millionth of their budget,” said senior film |.j>r Die," produced by Dardd Morris aatTjoa comedy took about 214 months to complete the final Krupps, both junior film studies majors, cele major Athena Xenidou about “The Made Guy,” her con ■ five-minute production with relatively no conflicts, Bas tribution to Reel Loud. brates the virtues of karate conflicts wiSyktfp&undue tain said. —Rabia Shirazi harden of plot or theme. ,, ' - ; , Although the director used an unusually laige cast of “Its just about karate fighting — an out-and-out ac over 100 extras and a 40-person crew to shoot her short tion fiast; Nonstop ford whole three minutes,* Motifs crime saga, she was remarkably able to finish filming in said with res framed mirth. only a day and a half. hat when you combinq&isqpho- “It was magic. We filmed most of it at the Roxbury in The producing duo took cues from the likes of Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee in the making of their film accord I more film studios major, 25 friends, a band Los Angeles and basically had 12 hours to get in, shoot ing to Morris s ' ' - ' ' v „ ■ called The Unflappable Bastards and a everything and get out,” she said. “You’d never think “We’ve got an ‘Enter the Dragon’ rip-off in Our mo that we get anything done with 150 people in an LA. vie,” he chuckled, ' , You club, but we managed to pull it off.” tdyicalled “Stranded|;a film from Reel ■'¡1 —Eric Steuer tics such as time constraints and lack of daylight while “Ifs kindofan innocent porttayal of tiKiworid»” Bit- terolf said. “There’s no strong moral message i^be told. Big Gulp Boy and Slurpee Girl deavor was a profitable learning experience. IfsjustYeSty lighthearted fun ” , . . \ Trie project, which took three days of filming and hhh... what better way to reconvene with mater nal dependency than by suckling an addictive stranded in modern life. A 7-Eleven Biß Gulp? Perhaps by establishing a “[He] finds himself co-dependent relationship with a significant other? another,” Bitterolf said. “He finally takes controlof his Either way, there comes a time when a person just has to See Spot run. See Spot play. See Spot act. whole life and decides what bis destiny should be" i “wing it.” For those of you looking for some reminders of child Produced in true Reel Loud spirit with a three-person hood stories, Lionel Uhrÿs film "Spot,” might suit you. track by a four-man band of Bitterolf s friends. The Un crew over a two-day period, “Big Gulp Boy and Slurpee “It has some messages... you kind of have to read into flappable Bastards, who wrote the m&leexpressiy for Girl" tells the stoiy of a young man’s temporary plight for it,” Uhty said. •< '______—Brian Langston The junior film major’s production follows the rela- See GULP p.5A Daily Nexus Thursday, May 15,1997 5 A Things of Art I’m in love with Ben Harper. I guess it all started that years old after spending a few years playing bottleneck In an effort to receive their master of fine arts fateful day last year when my virgin ears were baptized to slide guitar. And the main difference between the bot degrees, seven artists are currently displaying their the sound of Ms music amid a sweaty crowd of stoned tleneck and the Weissenbom is Weissenbom can only be individual, highly creative, and often interactive pro fans. I was mesmerized by the power and the ultimate played on your lap. jects at the University Art Museum in the “Master of sense of humanity and greater good that it seemed to Do you feel a special connection with it? Fine Arts” exhibit convey. It’s seldom that an artist, of any type, has the The Weissenbom is quite a large part in the communi Each of the works of art presented by these seven power to inspire and persuade with this kind of cation and inspiration of music for me, it’s opened up a students represents the culmination of tneir graduate conviction. lot by the sound of the instrument. It’s opened up a lot work here at UCSB — and are not what is typically So you can imagine my complete ecstasy when Arts- musically and lyrically. expected. Some of these pieces evert require the week got the opportunity to interview Ben. Could the ft’s been said that your music is a combination of viewer’s participation. According to Sharon Major, man possibly be as great as the feeling his music gener Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix and even Cat Stevens. Is the Art Museum’s public relations coordinator, there ated, or had I developed some kind of distorted groupie there any truth to that? are no guidelines to this venture, and each artist fantasy that would be squashed under the burden of real Well, I could only hope. Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley must propose their thesis to the Art Studio Dept for ity? I wasn’t sure I was ready to find out. have been the music that I have listened to that have af approval. Works in the past have included the con But with sweaty palms and pounding pulse I dialed a fected me the deepest, that’s bound to affect what I do. struction of seed bombs eventually blooming into number somewhere in Oregon and asked to speak to But I mean you can never compare, there’s no one that’s flowers; and even the evaluation of one’s experi Ben... Ben!... as if I knew him on apersonal basis. As the comparable to them because no one could ever be that ences with singing lessons. initial awkwardness subsided, I discovered that the man good. You can only hope to show a little bit of their inspi These are either lifelong projects, or ones changed is as intense and true as the ration through what it is at the last minute, needing assembly just hours away music he creates. Ben’s from their opening reception. Either way, the works you do. always end up impressive year after year. new album, The Will To You mention religion “It is a time when you see student artists expressing Live, continues in the so in a few of your songs. I’m all the things they have wanted to,” Major said, ciopolitical tradition of his curious, what is your explaining that it is a moment that highlights the last two. Armed with his view on religion? artists’ originality and uniqueness. Weissenbom, a hollow- My view on religion is.. The seven candidates featured include Elizabeth neck lap-slide guitar from is quite... a distasteful one Adan, Kari Boeskov, Keith Conley, Jeannine Ivy, the ’20s and ’30s, Harper just because I don’t associ Christine Lorenz, Bob Nichols and Robert Nideffer. firmly establishes Mmself ate with any particular Each work reflects the different talents and interests in musical Mstory and in one.... There hasn’t been a of the artist., my heart. religion with a pure inten Elizabeth Adan’s work, titled “Gather,” includes Artsweek: What made tion to communicate with eight differently colored skirts that almost resemble you want to play a free God. Religion separates ballet tutus. Kari Boeskov has a series of ink draw concert at UCSB? the masses and segregates ings, one consisting of 1,440 one-minute drawings Ben Harper: It worked into the tour quite well and You also sing about the earth. Are you environmen for each minute of tne day. that’s a really good festival, we played at it before a cou tally conscious? Keith Conley uses upholstery, Naugahyde and elec ple years ago. I try to be. I recycle, I don’t litter, I don’t leave the wa trical fixtures in his work. One of jus pieces allows You come from a musical family, right? ter running when I’m brushing my teeth, ya know, that the viewer to stand in front of a fan with the smell of Yeah, that’s correct. My mom and my dad are both kind of stuff. I turn off the lights before I leave. I think if sun tan lotion wafting, while listening to mellow veiy musical.... They both have exceptional record col everyone put that much effort into it the world would al Hawai’ian music. lections ... everything from Stevie Wonder to Emma Lou ready be that much brighter. Jeannine Ivy made a short film somewhat based on Harris to Jimi Hendrix. Music is said to have a large influence on listeners. the 1922 silent film “La Femme de Nulle Part” Did that have an influence on your music? Do you feel any responsibility for your music in light of Christine Lorenz created 12 different collages shar ing a common theme, she said, of “reading and the Wouldn’t you imagine so? Then again, some people this? looking that takes place in reading.” fl grow up with no music and they’re in their late teens and I feel a responsibility to myself to respect the breadth Bob Nichols’ work occupies its own room, convert early 20s and hear all this amazing music and then it in of music in my life and I think that responsibility to my ing such objects as rocks and sand into “things of fluences them and they become quite musical. So how self can reflect towards the responsibility music has. a rt” » much it affected me, you can’t say. But of course it’s re You have a new album coming out soon called The Robert Nideffer differs from everyoril else in that ally immeasurable, because something that’s in your Will To Live. How has your music changed since your his. work can only be seen on the Internet, as he house everyday and that you grow up with so close is go last album, Welcome to the Cruel World? focuses on the topic of ownership of art and litera ing to affect you personally. It’s grown, it’s grown musically. I’ve gotten musically ture that is published on the Web. You primarily use the Weissenbom, right? When confident... Not that I was ever unconfident. But if you The “Masters of Fine Arts” exhibit runs until May did you start playing that instrument? work at something, whatever that is, and spend a lot of 25. Admission is free. Further information can be I started playing the Weissenbom when I was about 20 time at it and devote your life to it you’re gonna improve obtained by calling 893-2951. —Tami Mnoian -very week, an Art Studio student will have their work on display. So every week, Artsweek will be there to pester them with questions that make no attempt to find out anything whatsoever about their art. GULP Mikette Miller is a se Continued from p.4A nior in the College of Crea self-discovery. His goal: to avoid a claustrophobic rela tive Studies whose photos tionship with his girlfriend, and perhaps ... his soda. and paintings will be on “The film starts out with Big Gulp Boy and Slurpee display in the CCS from Girl together as a couple,” said director and senior film now until May 17. Check it studies major John Hixson, “But he leaves her for a while out. in order to find himself.” Artsweek: Who’s the Viewers may note that despite the young man’s trans better frontman for Van itory departure from his true love, his Big Gulp remains Halen: Sammy Hagar or his mouth’s obsessive companion throughout the film. David Lee Roth? “He’s always sucking on it as if it were a baby bottle,” Mikette Miller: Jupiter. Hixson said. “It’s great!” Satan appears at your And just where did Hixson get this zany concept? doorstep. Do you invite “I see this as a spur-of-the-moment idea,” he said. “I him in? If so, whatdoyou just took a shot of my friend Tim going into the 7-Eleven offer to drink? and then we decided, ‘Dude! Let’s make a Big Gulp Boy Chocolate cake—that’s movie!”’ two words. And Lake Erie. Besides a local 7-Eleven, settings such as the Farmers Why does the caged Market, Rocky Nook Park and Steams Wharf provide bird sing? the backdrop, creating an expansive yet familiar envi HirosMma. ronment. Directed and shot by Hixson and starring se Should art eroticize or nior film studies majors Tim Hoover and Athena Xeni- infatuate? dou, this four-minute black-and-white film is sure to Hot air balloons. make you thirsty. Does the toilet paper in Bring a Slurpee spoon-straw or two. your bathroom roll off —Nate S tree per the top or from the bottom? No comment!
hat’s your opinion of police? Well, junior he student-made comedy “Oxygen,”.written by Ken Volock and directed by Adam McGinness, ■ (^perspective of police misconduct fit “Film Twill focus on the theme of frustration in a tangled Exposed.” web of relationsMps. The project’s was entirely self-produced and filmed Volock, a senior film studies major, worked labori Kotecki and Chris Webber, the experience in*5'- in various sites on campus. ' ously to write and produce the film about a struggle in a homosexual relationship. a crew, b u tev ery th in g .m y self, in d u in g filming it “The main plot depicts two men who have never for ber, also an anthropology major. Webber and Kotecki and starring in i t I'm the only actor,* mally met, that develop a physical attraction for one used “Laced" to rédpàtract the shady goings-on they According to Olaerts, the film took betweensixtose- another. Personal conflicts and other relationsMps in ven days to complete and is a comedy about a wayward tervene that keep the two protagomsts from being :“Ü?s prelty’ àni^^^W ¡reff-refieefivè,"W ebber said. police officer caught in several Meat ad s throughout together,” Volock said. “Drug awareness;, 1$asic«Jiy, Pretty much anti-drug." 'M s s M p t o film is whaHsaiikas to call % ticket nw* Though the film was shot in slightly more than one m oriarin which he mimics the authority of an officer day, the crew did not go without problems. who drags an acquaintance thrcuqjh the^Ferent stages “There were two major scenes that were filmed with a broken camera. Since we didn’t know it was broken we to the liemoiy of mytMori l got while I was driving on had to go back and re-film those scenes,” he said. campus,” he said. "He waskirtd ofco^w lm t 1 stiffgot However, according to Volock the film was successful comptetin^ffie|^fecL “It’s «forty jaoêtèfc* Weihet' the ticket.” - _ ♦ and is undergoing finishing touches for sound effects said. “Getting evetyone together was diffiettit" ' |||| * ------*----- — ______-K erri Webb and music. —Kristy Dolan ». ...C ' —Marc Valtes 6 Â Thursday, May 15,1997 Daily Nexus
“The Fifth Element” can be summed up in four words: all style, no sub stance. This is a great Bead Dead Gimme Five! No! looking movie. The art di rection and the set pieces Take a film in which a are some of the best that ofBilty Crystal and Robin WU New York City cabbie is I’ve ever seen. But once ;ng a great moment in coni thrown into an extraordin you’re through gawking at ary situation, and it now cool everything sounds like you have a se looks, the lack of a cohe quel to “Taxi Driver.” But rent stoiy really takes its give the film a $90 million toll, especially with a run budget, set it in the 23rd ning time of over two century, cast Bruce Willis hours. f years ago. The pair are asked to as the cab driver, hire ac As for the cast, Willis n awayixxpursuit of agirl The two claimed French director does the best he can — Luc Besson, and use the considering the material Eomia locales, Fostering a f$end£ end of the world as aback- — but even John McClane The movie's climax is aspradict- drop, and you have the himself couldn’t save this makings of a sci-fi extrava one. Gaiy Oldman once ganza by the name of “The again shows us why he’s Fifth Element” the undisputed king of But instead of taking its overacting. Also of note, place alongside other sci-fi trip-hop artist Tricky classics such as “Blade makes his acting debut Runner” and “Brazil,” here, but has only a couple “The Fifth Element” plays of throwaway lines and out more like an enhanced veiy little to do except version of “Judge Dredd.” stand around and look Don’t let the newspaper stones (representing tne their hands on them, Lee brooding. advertisements fool you — other four elements), and loo needs the help of re But perhaps the biggest this definitely isn’t “a ‘Star combine them with the tired special agent turned weakness of “The Fifth Wars’ for the ’90s.” fifth element, who in this cab driver Korben Dallas Element” is its inclusion of The film is set in the year case happens to be a su (Bruce Willis). preme being by the name slapstick and sitcomlike 2259, where an evil, flam Their search leads them humor. These unnecessary vicwer with that typical “This is not worth eight ing mass in outer space is of Leeloo, played by Milla to an intergalactic cruise bits are not funny, they bucks* kind .of fed. threatening to destroy Jovovich (please don’t ship, where the stones ask). But in order to re slow down the pace of the The. corhedic stylings of Crystal and Williams planet Earth (don’t ask). happen to be hidden in film, and they made it seem simply don’t complement each other in any way. if The only way to stop this cover the stones before the side the body of an alien like I was watching an epi you've enjoyed movies like “Running Scared" or evil Zorg (Gary Oldman) mass is to go to a temple in opera singer (for the love sode of “Homeboys in “Good Morning Vietnam,” “Father’s Day” will seri Egypt with four sacred and his henchmen get of God, don’t ask). Outer Space” instead. ously dlsappointydu because of its simple lack ofche- —Patrick Reardon mistiy and ... wen 8 comedy. ^^j^M ^*:'aho:!w ork»:as a ridiculously bloated product shot for the L.A.-based band Sugar Ray. The band’s role in toe movie is to simply play up the the worldr is getting smaller Notes From Down Under smell better Score one for the Aussies. In Scott Hicks’ “Shine,” Geoffrey Rush offers up the latest entry in the critic- friendly lovable loon genre. His hands-down Academy Award-winning portrayal of real-life genius pianist Da vid Helfjgott tops the charts in the charm category, yet thankfully avoids the muckiness of the previous king of the genre, Tom Hanks’ “Forrest Gump.” The film spends a good deal of time on Heligotfs tur bulent childhood in Australia, but the second half is the real showcase for Rush’s brilliance. After having suffered night, chatters a bit in his manic way to the astonished di ners, and then proceeds to amaze them with a roundin'? rendition at the piano. The diners fall in love with him, as do we. Shine will screen Monday, May 19, at 7 p.m. in CampbellHall —Emma Bland Hey, What's Going On? You may have ditched me last week after promising me you’d meet me at one of the fine events I told you ab out, but I'm a cornin' back. Someone much finer is com ing in to visit me and boy, are we gonna have fun. Tonight we might go out and get all worked up watch ing the likes of ska bands Mad Caddies, Bona Fide and Isla Vista’s own Henchmyn at Toes Tavern, or we may cool off at the Mercury Lounge on some jazz by the Nate Birkey Quintet. Friday, after we’ve recovered from Thursday, we'll probably watch “The Pretender,” on NBC, or maybe we’ll tape it and instead go see Reel Loud at Campbell check it out at jour Hall at 8 p.m. Are you getting jealous yet? Yeah I thought campus bookstore so. Serves you right for ditching me. Saturday, oh won’t you be sony to see me at Extrava ganza, hobnobbing with Ben Harper, Dance Hall Crashers and Down By Law. Plus I’m getting in for free when the gates open at 10:30 a.m. What, it’s free for everyone? Well then maybe I’ll just pay to hike my date to the Living Room for the High School Battle of the Bands with Assinine, Punk Amoeba and more. You might see us checking out Ridel http://www.hugo.com High, a band from L.A. on the same label as Nerfherder, 'af ¿rdes.on-Saturday night too. Daily Nexus Thursday, May 15,1997 7 A tunes. 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