The BAD Line-up The following is a very preliminary Battle of the Bad lineup, with brief descriptions (most of them pretty wrong) based on conversations with Beth AUen, Brett Remy, Greg Mcllvane, Stephen-Lynne Bachelor, Marc Brown, my mother and Chuck D.

12:noon — Neon. In the same vein, and per­ haps featuring the same players, as last year’s Rayon. They’ll be doing covers of big, big eighties hits. Film Studies audiotronics whiz Dave Cash is involved. Hopefully, there’ll be medleys.

12:30—Umbilical Chords. A reunion gig, fea­ turing, among others, Beth Allen and Jay “Jay” Hinman, gathering at the scene of the crime to play together for the first time in two years. Very serious cabbage core band. Bring your own.

1:00 — Xion. A heavy and perennial favorite. All-Jewish hard rock, all of the time. Last year they shocked the housfe with a lip-synch set which no one figured out till way too late. No one’s quite sure what they’ve got up their sleeves this year, except that they’ll probably play "I Want My Foreskin Back.”

1:30 — Mrs.. Basically PMS reworked. For those of you virgins, it’s an all-woman band who sing Hungarian love songs. “Sort of a sa­ tire on what we don’t want to become," says Beth Allen. Kitchen appliances will be in­ volved. "I don’t even really know exactly what we’re doing.”

2:00—MC Brown and His Posse. Failed pres­ idential candidate and terminally OKguy Marc Brown is going to furnish the first rap act in BOTB history, complete with DJ HighStyle, the Minister of Revised History and security of­ fers. Too bad he can’t rap worth a shit.

2:20 — Weekend Connection. From the same nucleus of last year’s Long-Haired Leaping Gnomes, who brought you a rock opera of Mil­ ton’s Paradise Lost. This year they’re threaten­ ing a rock opera based on an original screenp­ lay. Very, very, glaring lack of talent.

2:50 — Boiling Idiots. “You know that tall skinny guy with the big poofy hair?” Well, this is his band. They’re kind of like the Angry Sa­ moans, apparently. This is their third consecu­ tive year. Whipped cream. Last year they were covered with the most food.

3:20 — Little Company of Maty. Easily the worst concept of the bunch: Four guys who were bom in Little Company of Mary hospital in Torrance within a year of each other. There’ll be songs about birth, doctors and MOISH Daily Nexus hospitals. Battle of Bad Bands: 3:50 — Damn the Torpedoes. Yes, it's about time: An all-Petty cover band made up of I.V. rock veterans. Don’t know the song list, but here’s hoping for a rippin' version of “Needles and Pins” or “Zombie Zoo.” W Extravaganza 4:20—Shaggs. An intriguing collection of wo­ men, including Santa Barbara guitar wizard By Matt Welch Dierdre Lynds. Fear not— she won’t play well. and his evil sidekick Kevin “Trout” Casagranda Apparently, the Shaggs were some kind of at­ Staff Writers______■ rocious ’60s band of enormously untalented women whose music has been reinterpreted. A must.- Most people who recall being there remember it like a bad dream, a bad, 4:50 — Pee-Wee’s Apostles. Don’t know a damn thing about this band, except that Tony fuzzy dream in which you can’t quite tell what year it is, who exactly is there Ozuna is somehow involved and his phone number has been disconnected. He once stole or where they have hidden the outhouses. The scene was something like my microwave and my desk. Throw rocks. this: 5:20 — The Mystic Sultans of Ben-Wa. I.V.’s It was the first, or maybe second — definitely not the third — annual “Isla reigning worst band, looking to reclaim the throne in what some are saying is their farewell Vista Battle of the Bad”. The Mystic Sultans of Ben-Wa, the self-proclaimed concert. No truth to the rumors about special guests. Unless.... and ingloriously-realized “Worst Band in I.V.” were playing at the tail end — MATT WELCH of a bad, bad set at the tail end of a bad, bad, bad afternoon. The stage was

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The university community joins together to give praise and thanks to those graduates who have demonstrated excellence during their years here.

The Thomas More Storke Award for Excellence, symbolized by a 1 bronze model forged by Francis Minturn Sedgwick, is given to the outstand­ ing graduating senior. This year this distinction is awarded to: Sean Patrick Murphy

The Jeremy D. Friedman Memorial Award is presented in grateful rec­ ognition of outstanding leadership, scholastic excellence, and innovative con­ tributions to student and community life at the University of California, Santa Barbara in memory of Jeremy D. Friedman, undergraduate 1979-83. Lisa Lauren Frankenberg Helen Lan-To Quan

The following Seniors have been selected as recipients of this year's University Service Awards, ‘ given in recognition of unselfish and dedicated service to the university, its students, and the community.

Darbie Marie Andrews Tasha Lynn Phillips Cindie L. Bowles Robin Joy Richardson Elizabeth Ann Estrella Monique Antoinette Robertson Mark Allan Etzel Irene N. Rodriguez Sylvia Alvarez French Robert James Simes Jim Garrett Nicole Oriana Singer Cecilia Hernandez Michael Lawrence Stowers Andrew Leonard Hurley Allison Jennifer Tom Juliette Robyn Mackin Michele Lee Trebino Bernadette Ann May Thomas R. W idroe Carlye Siobhan Needle Valerie Yoshimura

Below are listed those students who are receiving the University Award of Distinction, given to seniors and graduate students who have contributed greatly to the quality of life by giv­ ing unselfish service to others within a particular arena during their tenure here. Jose Perez Adame Francisco Javier Leon Lee Brian Aronson Yolanda Loza Marquez Victor Alan Blanchard — Singing Eagle Maria Guadalupe Morales ! Amy Nancy Blunden Martha Alicia Navarro Jay Scott Finnecy Eve Kathleen Peek Marc Samuel Grobman Deborah Lynn Wieder Gabriel Gutierrez Donald Craig Young Alan G. Hull Christiana Antigone Zafiris Michelle Rae Johnston The following Seniors have also been selected by their campus organizations to receive awards for scholarship or special achievement.

Alpha Lambda Delta Awards Mortar Board Award The Alpha Lambda Delta Award recognizes the graduating Senior The Mortar Board Award is given each year in recognition of the having the highest cumulative grade point average of all graduating graduating Senior having the highest cumulative grade point average Alpha Lambda Delta members. This year's winner is: in the graduating class, combined with the fewest number of transfer units. This year's recipient is: Cheryl Annette Rode Jeffrey Wayne Chapman

Warren E. Schutt Memorial Awards Jeffrey J. Smeding Benjamin J. Sullivan

Award winners, their families and interested Faculty and Staff are invited to be the guests of Chancellor Uehling at the University House Friday, June 15,1990 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

ggSBS3 Thursday, May 31,1990 @ S 3 S 3A Knot for Kids"* SAILING pendently — Ricky only brown. By Michelle Ray kidnaps Marina so that she His female characters are Staff Writer_____ will have the time to get to far from the traditional know him and fall in love. American ideal of “perfec­ With a title like “Tie Me Ridiculous? Si. But Al­ tion.” The Picasso woman is Up, Tie Me Down” you modovar, creator of “Wo­ a tough drug dealer on a might expect to see a lot of men on the Verge of a Nerv­ scooter who has turo thugs bondage with some ob­ ous Breakdown” and “Ma­ working for her. Arid even sessed psycho tying up some tador”, is not one to avoid though Marina is a porn star pom actress in a brass bed the unbelievable. “He Me junkie, we respect her be­ - You could be ; —not the kind of fare Santa Up” has a healthy dose of cause Almodovar respects ! sa ilin g • Barbara’s MTC-theater- sarcasm which Almodovar her. Like most of the film’s RIGHT NOW! going crowd would tolerate. spreads on at times that characters, Marina freely ; $10 per person ; But fortunately, Almodo­ would be frowned on by expresses her sexuality — var, the Spanish film maker traditional film makers, Almodovar does not conta­ ^ SUNSET KIDD’S 5 behind ‘Tie Me Up, He Me with the result of making minate sex with Puritari ; SAIUNG CHARTERS ** Down” (“Atame” en Espa- otherwise cliched scenes restrictions. 962-8222 ’fli V nol), is determined to shake original. This relates to the over­ up such Puritan interests. His swirly approach to riding message that care­ ‘Tie Me Up” does in fact film making is best seen in fully surrounds the back­ okay. Almodovar gives you revolve around Ricky, a the unusual way he treats ground of‘Tie Me Up”. The enough insight to under­ 23-year-old sexy reforming women in his films. Though story is an allegoiy for relig­ stand the message but holds mental patient determined there are no Michelle Pfeif­ ion, specifically Christian­ back enough to let the audi­ • Patio Dining to become a good husband fer models here, Almodo­ ity. Beginning with a zoom ence just enjoy this sexy, ter­ • Express Bus #24 from UCSB * to Marina, a sexy soft pom var’s women are even more out shot of the holy hearts of ribly funny, fresh flick. actress recovering from a stunning. He selects women Jesus and the Virgin Mary, Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down stops at Tokai's Parking Lot drug habit. Just as the title (old and young) with non­ Almodovar criticizes relig­ is now playing at the Rivi­ • Banquet facilities for 10-170 people implies, there’s a lot of brass typical looks — such as one ion through this tale of a de­ era Theatre For further in­ bed action, complete with actress straight from a Pi­ mented Christ figure and an formation, call that non- cord, handcuffs and sex, casso painting with great equally confused Mary Spanish accented voice at 1221 State Street #205 564-8845 sex, sex. The sex and tying lips, huge nose, and two Magdalene. the MTC Movie Line, up, however, are done inde­ eyes — one blue, one A bit deep? Si. But that’s 963-9503. Lunch: $6.95 Dinner: $12.95 Procrastinated Your Travel Plans? Find something Fun to do with your summer at Andromeda Bookshop

Sweetie is not Cute rather exciting woman fight, where only By Jenny McLean Louis, Kay’s boyfriend, can untangle the Reporter______two sisters. The real fun starts when Sweetie and her “Something low budget and a bit wild, ” manager boyfriend, Gordon, played by Jon — director Jane Campion’s description of Darling, come to stay with Kay and Louis. her new film, Sweetie. Gordon and Sweetie, houseguests from hell, wreak havoc in the tiny apartment, as My first question is how can the mother they carry out their fundamentally nonbus­ of such a bizarre concoction of lunatic cast iness relationship. member?, weird photography, and meta­ Talented cinematographer Sally Bonger physical story lines give such a mollified ac­ spices up this crock-pot of weirdness even count of her work? more with her excellent photography. Bon­ “Sweetie” consists of an almost macabre ger takes the viewer for a psychedelic trip to assortment of social mishaps, a family of the top of the ceiling, and leaves her hang­ losers who bark, fart, and wear the under­ ing there so the only visible thing is a tunnel wear of the opposite sex. perspective of floral carpet and bare feet. Set in an ambiguous present, somewhere The visual style is there for the individual to reminiscent of grimy England, or suburban interpret, and some people will probably Australia — are there suburbs in Australia, ask about the 3-D glasses before they make or just an outback? — “Sweetie” is an ex­ any decisions about whether they like it or ploration of the self, an almost extraterrest­ not. rial examination of the Id where action or­ Always rebellious, never conventional, Finally a Store in Goleta iginates at some primitively cosmic level. “Sweetie” escapes the trendy corporate The cast of unknowns more than suc­ abyss into which the big budget films often ceeds at crossing the boundaries (and tres­ fall. Is this norm-defiance always good, for all your Book Needs passing into outer space) of normality in though? 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Did I have a kind of an early incantation like the guy from Animal vild week or what? Well, of the Lambada, a la carte. House and those Twisted that really doesn't concern Watch it! Plate’s hot! Sister videos. Ifs a keeper. you, so let's move on. Prehistoric Women is House of Mutant Wo­ The results of the "Win A one of the featured films. I men offers us, among other Date With The Video Guy" love these old caveman delights, a blue mutant bad Contest are in. I whisked flicks where all the men are guy who bears a striking re­ "Shira" (not her real name) clean-shaven and the wo­ semblance to Trout, my off for a fun-filled night of men have nicely penned 1992 presidential running fun. It doesn't matter where red, blonde and/or brunette mate, when he got his juju- we went, because she was hair. They get attacked by bees caught in a 1937 Mo­ with me, The Video Guy. On the evil frying dragon, torola Printing Press. Ifs a The All Gnu Mondo Date Klorax, who pays an eerie keeper. Beer-o-Meter, “Shira”’s resemblance to a pelican. There are many other (still not her real name) dat­ The movie has such haunt­ films in this bit of clip art, in­ ing expertise rated an 11. I ing dialogue as “Heeglee Ar- cluding The Crawling Ter­ would have liked to have gi­ ner” and “Agorm, Agorm.” ror (many slow people being ven the date a 12, but I’m chased by a big, inside-out saving that for the day 1 date ski parka), Orgy of the one of the cast-babes from Dead and the ever loved Slave Girls From Beyond EEGAH. These are all Infinity. keepers. As you all know, this is In between all the good my last column of The film and go-go dancer are Video Guy for this school hebitudinous little short year. Furthermore, next Ifs a keeper. films, like an instructional year, with my upcoming di­ But wait, there’s more. film called “How Do You rectorial debut (W ell- “See what happens behind Choose a Date?” and a tale Endowed Hebetudinous the locked doors of a PA­ about a guy who makes Mills College Women in JAMA PARTY!” ‘Teenager Mario Brothers noises Traction, in 3-D), I’m going KILLERS fearing no law!!” when he does junk called, to be forced to make my col­ “Thrill Girls of the High­ “A Day With Doodles.” It is umn, The Video Guy, a way!!!” ‘Terrifying Realism very offensive to anyone monthly fanfare. So, as my Claws at your unbelieving with any form of intelli­ little gift to you, I’m going to mind!!!!” All these, and gence, and thafs why I liked do you right, and review much, much more are direct it so much. another Rhino Video. quotes from The Violent On the Mondo-Movie It’s called Battle of The Years, a fine film about fe­ Beer-o-Meter. I gave Battle Bombs. If s a bunch of clips male teenage vagrants who of The Bombs an 8.24. I from bad movies (available die melodramatically. Ifs a would have liked to give it on video, no less) made keeper. more, but its one hour run­ from the ’50s to the ’70s. It’s But thafs not all. Also, ning length did not allow a cavalcade of poor taste. A Scum of the Earth (no of­ me enough time to quaff all chorus line of low quality. fense intended) is a movie the golden goodness I Ifs really, really cool. about the evils behind the wanted to, oh so badly. Amongst the rubbish are pin-up girl industry, includ­ The Video Guy says random shots of go-go ing spankings. Some guy “Have A Good Summer” dancers. One is doing some­ does a hebitudinous job as and remember, don’t go see thing she calls “The Lupe the owner of the studio. He Dick Tracy. Warren Beatty Mexican Can Can.” Ifs spits when he talks, kind of bites it in the end.

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g l ACTIVITIES AWARDS RECIPIENTS!! The Campus Activities Center is pleased to announce the following Activities Awards recipients and extends thanks to all the campus organizations, nominees and nominators. It's been a great year! Please join us to celebrate on Thursday, May 31 at Noon in Storke Plaza •••Michael Young, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs will be Master of Cermonies»** •••Music by UCSB Jazz Band***Free Ice Cream by R.L. Cupids*** Chancellor’s Group Achievement Award Student Organization of the Year presented by Chancellor Uehling CHICANO PRE-LAW STUDENT INTERN PROGRAM/ RELATIONS WITH SCHOOLS Outstanding Student Organization Chairperson and VALERIE SHARPE STUDENT CAMPAIGN FOR IMPROVED FACILITIES Outstanding Student Organization Advisor Freshman Excellence Award for Co-Curricular Activity RITA SCHUMACHER CHRISTINE WOOD Community Service Award Sophomore Excellence Award for Co-Curricular Activity COMMUNITY AFFAIRS BOARD AL KLEIN Outstanding Contribution to Campus Community Junior Excellence Award for Co-Curricular Activity DELTA DELTA DELTA JAMES SIO JO Most Creative Program Senior Excellence Award for Co-Curricular Activity CAMPUS AIDS TASK FORCE MIKE STOWERS The Activities Awards Selection Committee is represented by staff and students. Daily Nexus Thursday, May 31,1990 5 A Shocked will Swing and Sing Januaiy 1987, at the Kerrville Folk Festival By Stacy Sullivan where she recorded a campfire song into a Staff Writer Sony Walkman. One of those songs, com­ plete with cricket background noises, hit Michelle Shocked, who was bom into a number one on the English charts and Christian-fundamentalist family in Dallas, started her career as a successful main­ Texas, is most definitely her mother’s worst stream artist. nightmare. Although she prides herself with her un- After trumpeting her alternative political traditional lifestyle, Shocked doesn’t mind views around her mother’s house, Michelle her new status as a mainstream musician. ran away at 16 and fell into the hardcore “No one who truly loves music wants to see San Francisco punk scene. Later she it divided into the segregated, cultural de­ hitched to New York and finally Amster­ mographics of the current commercial wis­ dam, involving herself wholeheartedly dom....! believe I’ve identified a common with the Squatter’s movement, all the while denominator much more significant than living among the homeless. any style I might or might not share with The title of Michelle Shocked’s debut al­ another musician. If I can help establish bum (“Short, Sharp, Shocked”) is as de­ this, I can really do something with the op­ scriptive as its cover, which pictures her be­ portunity I’ve been given to work in the ing dragged away from a demonstration in cultural mainstream,” Shocked said in her a headlock by the police. Bad satire? De­ autobiography. ceptive art? Maybe harsh realiiy. Her latest album, “Captain Swing” Despite her fast-paced political activism, sounds nothing like her earlier "Texas however, Shocked’s songs seem simple, Campfire Tapes” or “Short, Sharp, personal, and unintimidating. Convincing Shocked.” As Shocked put it, “Captain but not preachy. Swing ups the ante." “Short, Sharp, Shocked,” an album of A Bold addition of brass and strings dynamic range and feeling, pays homage to makes her music fresh with the influences Shocked’s vigorous lifestyle and eccentric of Bobby Blue Bland, George Gershwin, personality. Drawing from the middle and Fate Dominoe. Although “Captain American folk tradition of Norman and Swing” doesn’t offer the purity and inno­ Nancy Blake and Woody Guthrie and her cence of songs like “Anchorage” or “L&N summertime experiences at the Texas blue- Don't Stop Here Anymore,” Shocked of­ grass festivals, the hard and controversial Side,” her lyrics are sometimes spiteful, Michelle Shocked will be playing at the fers a swing mix portraying her sharp-wit— painstakingly honest and cuttingly clever. cover gives way to songs that are warm, Ventura Theatre Friday, June 1 equipped something that sets her apart from the with her new band and hom section. gentle, friendly and unpretentious—songs humdrum sobriety of Tracy Chapman. But together with her upbeat swing Opening will be the under-hyped John like "Anchorage,” an innocent narrative of With times like “Looks Like Mona Lisa, music, Shocked pulls off a combination Wesley Harding, who deserves to be lis­ an old friend turned housewife. Smells Like Tuna Fish,” “God is a Real Es­ that is clearly reflective of her diverse, con­ Shocked’s career began accidentally in tened to. Show starts at 9 p.m., don’t be tate Developer,” and “on the Greener troversial and charming character. late alright, i guess i oughtta introduce you to me, my name is Art and this is and we’ll put it in the Forecast, cool idea, huh? well, don’t blame me, Video the crap i like. Guy thunked it up, so there you have it. Letter it’s aint really crap, per se, it’s actually pretty cool, i like it, at least, and anyway, we missed a lot of things this week, like this weirdo art show that’s all that counts. that had something to do with those nutty Sedgewicks, so if you see some this week i got to show you a lot of junk that is gonna happen this next strange stuff around, it’s probably about that, From week and that’s basically the purpose of this section and i hope it flips your when the Nexus gets rolling again in the summer, i’ll have reviews of wig, so to speak (little Husker pun). Jane’s new tape (alls i got now is the bootleg), dumb Dick Tracy, and some our old pal Doug left us and we’ll miss him, and already this week we more comic books. miss his jammin’ Syllabus, so for all yous lookin for it, sony, maybe next if anyone wants to write for my page, come down to the paper, bear some The time. gifts like a Jolt, a Hershey’s bar or something equally cool, yeah it’s bribery, one thing i wanna tell you guys about is this thing i’m gonna be printing but whattya want? every week called the I.Y- Forecast, if you know ofa band that’s gonna be oh-yeah, uhm, ahh, forget it. Boss playing at your house or whatever, give me a call at the Nexus (961-2691) love, Art GET YOURS NOW! 708- PAGE 1LA cut/IBFIE ’90

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BAD Sunny Ade 2 Play @ Chuy's Continued from p.lA covered with eggs, beers, random vegetables and other Three excellent international concerts are scheduled hotella Queens, bringing their South African “township more exotic debris. But this could only be expected after a for Dead Week, Finals Week, and the week after gradua­ jive” to Chuy’s Thursday, May 31. full day of some of the worst music played by some of the tion, Reality Week. An all-woman group, the Mahotella Queens have worst-looking and least-talented local “musicians” ever to Fans of African music should make plans to check out been acclaimed for their intricate vocals, managing to be own guitars or drums or whatever noise-things they could King Sunny Ade live and in the flesh at Chuy’s Long Bar, at once delicate and forceful, and their S.B. appearance get their hands on. June 14. promises to be a terrific showcase. And then, like a vision from a Jon Waters nightmare, Sul­ King Sunny Ade hails from Nigeria, but his music has Finally, during Reality Week and just before Summer tan drummer Birdman took off his clothes, gave out a mad all kinds of interesting influences. One of my favorites is Solstice, a double bill with Brazil’s Milton Nascimiento drunken whoop, and ran off the stage. They found him his use of the steel guitar commonly found in American and Nigeria’s Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey will de­ penis-deep in the muck and scum which clot Anisq’ “Yoko” country music. Someone once said that the steel guitar finitely be a wondrous gig. Oyo Park’s pond system. By file time he returned to the came to Nigeria with Texas oilmen in the 1960s and ’70s, Sporting the most recent David “World Beat” Byrne stage to finish off the set, there wasn’t much real doubt left when Nigeria was flush with oil money. When the Tex­ record ain’t quite enough once you’ve heard the real who had lost the day. “It was absolutely the worst perfor­ ans left, the steel guitar stayed, and turns up with regular­ thing, as practiced by Nascimiento. His mix of tradi­ mance ever in I.V.,” recalls Sultan frontman Trevor Joe ity on records by the King. tional and contemporary Brazilian music serves as both Wilson. Ade has several excellent albums available in local a great introduction to that country’s percolating groove If there was a sober person sitting in the audience, he or stores, including 1985’s Synchro System, as well as the as well as a badly-needed fix for the already-converted she could have asked quite legitimately, what the hell is record he did with Stevie Wonder, 1983’s Aura. people with a bad Brazil jones. Like me. this? Why is this ugly drunk person reading spoken word Also happening this week is Malathini and the Ma- — DOUG ARELLENES See BAD, p.8A

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irkirkif |, * art’s literary 1 Moby Dissed !•►★★★★★♦★★******************** corner ************** ! Spy 2? Pwew Although your English teacher might not like it, Herman Melville’s Moby Dick has been adapted by Classics Illus­ trated into comic book form. The results, all literary esthe­ tics aside, is a stunning marriage of an incredible tale with moody and dramatic art.

Illustrated by Bill Sienkiewicz (who painted "Elektra As- sasin” and “Black Orchid” to name a few), the 600-plus page epic novel has been edited and condensed into 48 pages of blazing artwork combined with original text. The comic successfully adheres to all of the story’s landmarks, from the “Call me Ishmael” introduction to the dramatic fi­ nal confrontation between the mad Captain Ahab and his aquatic nemesis, Moby Dick, the great white whale. Al­ though most of the subtleties that made Melville’s original tale so effeqtive are lost in the immediacy of Sienkiewicz’s Do Julian Lennon and Tiffany, Joan Rivers and Woody art, none of the intensity is missing. Woodpecker, William F. Buckley and Gomer Pyle have anything in common? Normally, I’d be forced to say not, The artwork, which fluctuates between painting and but, according to Spy magazine’s latest release, they were all drawing mediums, brings much of the story’s action to life. separated at birth. Ahab and the harpooner, Queequeg, are particularly well Separated at Birth? 2— the follow-up to the 1988 done, as Ahab becomes an abstracted Abe Lincoln figure chuckler, contains a new slew revue of mixed and matched gone mad, while Queequeg is portrayed as a wild yet ra­ faces of the famous, infamous and the blasfamous. A few of tional man, constantly adhering to the beliefs of his south the pairings are incredible, amazing and shocking. The rest sea heritage. The rest of the crew is also successfully done, are barely worth your time, and certainly not a guffaw. But, as their moods shift with the varied fortunes of their whal­ that’s OK. Spy doesn’t try to tout the book as some sort of ing vessel, the Pequod. literary wonder. When the original “Separated at Birth” was released, the In many ways, the final decision is left up to the reader. idea was fresh, innovative and funny. Sort of like Back to While the art is simultaneously beautiful and horrific as the the Future. Strange analogy? tale unfolds, many of the original story’s details are lost in its Remember when Back to the Future II came out, how condensation. Nevertheless, we are handed a great deal of horribly stale it was? Well, Spy is facing the same problem. drama and more than a few of Melville’s allegories about What was a crack up before just seems like a strange deja vu man and the sea are still well presented. now. I recommend instead of dishing out eight bones for the As an artist, I am excited; as a reader, I reach for the novel. book, just leaf through it. You’ll save some dough and see — TODD FRANCIS the funniest pairings — all ten of them. ______' — SEANA FITT r------Spectrum: This Book Have untitled Good Poems Not so as you’d notice, mind you, When Spectrum editor, Michel Teboul, was asked how not right away anyhow, but it is.” I was sitting in the window many poems and short stories graced his office desk this I waited for him to finish his carrot watching the sun go down V- J year, yearning to be part of the 32nd annual issue, he paused and watched the moonlight splay on when the light in the kitchen went on a minute and contemplated. his bare head. and I heard the water running. I could see Gladys starting off on her rounds for him, I thought Jim had come home “We had a huge stack of poetry about a foot and a half high off the desk,” Teboul said, adding that the stack of fic­ and was glad she went the wrong way. until Felix, who had got the wrong house again, “My dad took Bill and me out in the back yard came in the living room tion was a little .higher. “It seems like there’s more people writing poehy Qian fiction — except around here.” when we were boys one night when there was a frill moon, and asked, “Gladys, would you like a carrot?” Taboul is very sensitive about poehy and prose in Santa and said it was spiraling further and further away, “It’s me, Anne, Felix,” I said. Barbara. He feels that some critics may be turned off by the that’s why Earth’s days were so much longer “Oh,” he said, and seeing me, came over to the window. fact that most of the work contained within the pages of the than any of the other planets’. He walked like he was being lifted by his elbows UCSB magazine was written by UCSB students or profes­ We stared, and I started to cry. by someone on either side. sors (mostly students). My dad said it was nothing that you could cry about, He sat across from me, “Of the fiction, there’s not one which wasn’t written here it just happened, looking out and crunching. (in Santa Barbara),” he said of the 160-page work available and the dogs would just have to howl a little farther. We were quiet. at the UCSB Bookstore. “It’s definitely an in-house issue, Later he took us inside and demonstrated with balloons From where I was but it really was the best stuff submitted.” how it worked, and the next day, I could see into his backyard Taboul is right when he talks about the diversity of mater­ I found the moon in my lunch bag.” and Gladys under the yellow porchlight ial. Besides the poetry and fiction are critical essays, art and We sat, and when Jim came home looking up and down the alley for him, an interview, which may appear dryly highbrow; but it is re­ we turned on the lights and played cards her lips snapping in frustration. ally more accessible than that until Gladys found him and took him home. “It’s dead, you see,” Felix said slowly after a while. “We stayed away from (printing) whatyou’d call ‘artsy* or “But even so, it’s moving away from us. ‘clever*. Look at the cover, even the stuff inside is plain,” he Eileen Vlcek said. — TONY PIERCE

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more preliminary organiza­ sweatirTthe H op tion than in the two Chen I These gins are bumtl BAD years, mostly because last Lighting the fuse for Double D Nose on Continued from p.6A _ year die Sultans were suspi­ pcad Sunday are theffbetrte LOve Hugs, Ed Anger poetry in between ciously squeezed out of the an LA quintet who appear noteworthy sets? Why is everybody program after everybody [only for that oh-so-L.A. rock trend of throwing up? And who the else had taken too much constructing songs around grungy fuck are the Boiling Idiots? dme. Although the snub screams and quirky buss riffs (but mostly was in keeping with the fly- screaming). Well, it’s at least two by-the-seat-of-your-pants I have nodoubt that the Hogs—whose years since then, and what punk rock attitude the name alone “conjures up images of long­ could have been seen then BOTB thrives on, many haired, wild men bouncing and running as a needless, if not danger­ people were bitterly disap­ around the stage with blaring metal ous, aberration has evolved pointed that the band who Screaming from amps wisely moved far into an almost-rigidly com­ made. Bad good, who have Put of range of one of the ‘fits’ the mem­ plex high-profile drunken been the spiritual God­ out the BOTB’s unwritten Chen wiped the P.A. off and bers seem to have,” according to their spectacle which will be foul­ fathers of the event, did not rules honor. Brett Remy, returned it. No one ever Iprcss” packet — can slum thrash with] ing the air of Yoko Ono get to play. There were fights lead singer of Black Clothes knew. the best of 'em, the perfect battering ram Park with misfired clever­ with hippies, bad feelings Pointy Shoes, has helped As per usual, many peo­ for the D Nose monolith. But after a cuu j ness this Sunday starting at and eventual arrests. form one-time bands the ple will be in more than one pie listens of the Hogs’ thrtSe-song demo 11 a.m. Wanting to give the Sul­ last three years (Steve band and ballot box­ tope, I found myself asking: Why? Who’s to blame? Start tans their due and give Garvey’s Hair, the BRs and stuffing is encouraged. “The | Why indeed, Mssrs. Love Hogs? What with former I.V. skate rat peace a chance, 1990 orga­ this year’s Little Company balloting has all the integrity else is there about you besides your deluxe John Chen. One nizer Nick Krest has ar­ of Mary) which have prac­ of a Central American elec­ L A.-ness, the L.A.-ness you so proudly night at a ho-hum I.V. party ranged for approximately ticed only once before per­ tion,” noted Krest, adding tattoo on your sleeveless arms? j Chen was listening to a re­ fifteen bands, most of them forming. “Bands that al­ that the stealing of the box is An anonymous author proclaims ally lousy band. Not one of formed specifically for the ready exist but just reform ... strictly forbidden after the within the 1 logs’ press packet* "Hie Hogs those half-good white-boy occasion, to stumble on shouldn’t be allowed to controversy which erupted redefined my very meaning of rock and cover bands that play “One stage for their allotted 20 compete.” that one time when a band roll with their unusual style of music.” More Time” and “Let Me minutes of shame. The Sul­ Trevor Wilson goes a step stole the ballot box and Huh? You mean crash ng numbing Stand Next to Your Fire” tans will have a forty minute further. “You can’t plan for shredded all the votes for rhords, a wailing shaggy haired trontrnan and “You Really Got Me,” set starting at 5:20 to close the Battle of the Bad. If the other contestants. They ind the occasional bass-'brass curlicue is just a bunch of guys who the show. It will be the final you’re actually practicing, won by a unanimous unusual"7 Unusual for a goddamn L.A| had managed to find guitars performance in a stunning then that’s not being fair.” decision. Hid? Sheesh and wanted to rock. After five-year career. Although Some rehearsal had to be This year’s balloting will j | The Love Hogs arc so typically LA an intense midnight Wilson said the Birdman is done last year, however, to be tabulated at the end of ard thrash it s silly Imagine an L A elite drunken conversation, begging off water sports due provide the kind of costume the Sultans’ set. Trophies smorgasbord sound of Jane's Addictio Chen decided he’d book the to an ear infection, big sur­ and performance reproduc­ will be awarded in descend­ c Red Hot Chili Peppers, G 'N ’R, Fisti band at thf park for yuks. prises, or at least mushy sen­ tion of eventual winner ing order to the five bands bone and any number of L.A. stalwa He talked to a few of his timentality, can certainly be KISS. Another big surprise judged most heinous. Some friends, and suddenly every expected. I kc Leatherwolfe or Wolfsbane or Wol was Xion’s pre-recorded people have been privately mg all dumped in a pan and fried up into closet I.V. band, most of The lineup consists of lip-synch set to their own betting on the Shaggs as a fajita burger. That’s the Love Hogs, but them just forming and just mostly a few old names Jewish-flavored hard rock, darkhorse candidate. “The learning how to play (Xion, Boiling Idiots, The which caught most of the Boiling Idiots are going to they forgotsomething—they forgot to set Mystic Sultans of Ben-Wa, a match to die stuff. So what we have is chords, slithered out of their crowd offguard, if not una­ be extremely bad,” Remy garages and living rooms, Umbilical Chords) and a lot ware. “I didn't even notice it observed. Marc Brown likes A rock without the delight and cnc of new names featuring old the retd L.A. stuff. erect by the thought of play­ until like the second or third himself. ing poorly in the park for faces (Neon, Mrs., song,” said I.V. legend Beth Then again, I’ve only heard the dei free. Before anyone knew Weekend Connection, “Ramona” Allen of Mrs. and But everyone acknow­ pe, Catch them live and the Love Hogs what was going on, a band Little Company of Mary, the Umbilical Chords. ledges who the men to beat st might rip a hole through your pan called Steve Garvey’s Hair Damn the Torpedoes). And Then there was that one are. Including the Sultans. came out wearing trash bags then there’s Marc Brown. year when a food fight dur­ “We’re worse than everyone * and tin hats. A legend was See schedule on the cover ing that one band’s set else, so we deserve to play bom. for details and faulty pummelled the P.A. system, longer,” Wilson said. “For descriptions. which Chen*had skillfully the Sultans, that’s always The Batde of the Bad Some, veteran Badsters acquired from A.S. Program been our existence. It’ll be circa 1990 has shown much feel rather nationalistic ab­ Board. Fearing the worst, nice to go out bad, just like Double D Nose. Is it Rock? Rap? Oy Veyll! zuki Samurais just stood in the audience with their arms You want hip-hop credentials? Bite this: Double D By Doug Arellenes crossed. Nose’s guitarist and drummer played on two Run-D.M.C. Staff Writer Needless to say, Double D Nose ROCKED that night. albums. As a matter of feet, when I saw Run and his posse after their Greek Theatre gig in ’87, they all sported Double So I was backstage at the Ventura Theatre a couple of They rap about gold, and bein' cool D t-shirts. Double D’s manager’s brother manages the Beas- years ago, looking for the dressing room of D.J. Jazzy Jeff, Our rhymes are told in Hebrew school... tie Boys. Plus, the Holy Schreib (the tall guy with the Afro) who I was supposed to interview. We’re the sucker MC’s you worry about is the son of Avery Schreiber, the comedian famous for his I opened what looked like a broom closet. In fact, it was a I’m Superman, there is no doubt Laugh-In and Doritos work. broom closet, but one that was full of really weird-looking And we got the clout people: three old guys with beards and turbans, two Turn this mutha out! The reason Double D Nose is gracing the campus is for a scantily-clad dancers, a tall guy with a tall Afrorand taller — Double D Nose, “Double D” concert this Sunday, the Sunday before Dead Week, appro­ platform shoes, and a short guy in a really nice green velvet priately called Dead Sunday. It’s going to be held on Cam­ suit and matching L.A. Dodgers disco shirt and floppy cap How do you describe Double D Nose? pus Beach, which is between Campus Point and the Marine and honkin’ schnoz (and I mean SCHNOZ) — not to men­ Tough question. I know Jim Henson’s dead and Muppet Science lab. One benefit of having it on the beach is pretty tion a coupla L.A. metal dudes. jokes are kinda out, but the best comparison I can make is obvious: Unlike other venues, you can have alcohol on the “Who are you?” I asked, trying to squeeze among them. that Double D Nose is the incarnation of the Muppet Show beach. However, glass is a no-no. In unison, they replied, “Double D Nose.” The tall guy with house band, Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem. In fact, I understand that the Battle of the Bad is going on at the the Afro added, “dude.” lead rapper Danny riot only bears a striking physical re­ same time as Dead Sunday, but my advice is to skip out on “So you’re not D.J. Jazzy Jeff, then?” I asked. semblance to Animal, the Mayhem’s drummer, but he also part of the Bad. The Nose is tentatively scheduled to go on A few minutes later, they were on stage. All over the stage. sounds just like Animal. at about 3 p.m. on Sunday. There were Double Ds doing karate-kicks, Double Ds do­ Rolling Stone or another standard wank-rock rag would ing synchronized Supremes-style steps, Double Ds scream­ call the Nose a crossover rap-metal group, with references Miss Double D Nose at your own risk. Animal will prob­ ing like Ronnie James Dio with his tongue in a light socket. to Blue Cheer and the E Street Band. I, however, prefer the ably show up and they’ll all do an acoustic version of But for some reason, the Ventura b-boys with lowered Su­ Mayhem comparison. “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” or something. Where It's At What to Bring What to Forgot

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Membership in the Golden 1 is open to faculty, employees & students of the University of California at Santa Barbara and members of their families. NCUA To see if you can become a member, call (805) 964-9958 or toll free 1(800) 448-8181. 10A Thursday, May 31,1990 Daily Nexus '¡sss@s&@3&s3s&@&e&ss&&&&ë&sess&&&ësë Back to the Future III: only a passing knowledge of “I” and “II” to gamer basic plot By J. Christaan Whalen understanding to get most of the gags . Even without a pass­ and D. Louis Faye ing knowledge, there is enough comedic foreplay and spe­ Staff Writers cial effects orgasms to keep everyone except Albert Camus happy. To effectively slice the first piece of the big summer movie The special effects, which played supporting roles in the quiche, Robert Zemeckis concludes his successful time first movie, have become characters of their own in the last travel trilogy with the aptly-titled “Back to the Future III.” couple of efforts. Because of their tenacity and aggressive­ “Back to the Future III” is as good-natured as a well- ness — and simply because they’re more interesting than thought-out, fruit-juice-sweetened carrot cookie. Putting the effects in, say, “Krull” — we end up rooting for the ef­ its big budget monies to good use on state-of-the-art effects fects to succeed. and dirt, the film grabs you by the neck, slaps you in the face, Michael (“Back to the Future”) J. (“Back to the Future gouges out your eyes and then makes you say, “Ahww, isn’t II”) Fox reprises his role as Marty McFly and his ancestors. that cute.” Along with it, he manages to maintain that impish “I don’t Having exhausted all plot possibilities of the '50s, ’80s know what the hell I’m doing, so I’ll just play it by ear” qual­ and beyond, Zemeckis and some of his friends have pole- ity he emanates so well. Yet this time, his hero is somewhat vaulted his characters back to the knee-slappin', rip- downplayed, and more emphasis is given to Christopher roarin’, tobacky-chawin’ Old West. Lloyd’s Doc. When we meet up with Doc in “HI,” he’s al­ Zemeckis’ vision of the Old West is something we’re ready spent eight months in the Wild West and has taken on likely to find at Knott’s Berry Farm. The kind of place where a much rougher persona. He shoots bad guys, spits and people get hanged and live — where people get tied to a adopts other important cowboyisms. Marty’s return casts horse and dragged around for five minutes and then get up Doc’s psychological dingy into rough waters. Doc hereby and eat some chicken, and the next show is in two hours. flips from the lovelorn small town blacksmith, to the diso­ However, while Knott’s Beriy Farm sometimes radiates riented, bug-eyed professor and back again and again. And an underlying aura of consumerist greed and petty Disney this kind of duality of man-imagery is just what I’m looking jealousy, “III” has intentions that are never suspect. Unlike for in a movie that is featured on a Happy Meal box! “Back to the Future II”, which had commercial endorse­ Regaining some of the creative integrity that just got up ments for everything from Whammo! to Pizza Hut, “III” re­ and sashayed out the door in the capitalistically exploitative deems itself by mocking every product name it mentions. “II,” “III” ends up falling somewhere in between its pre­ Midway through, the film reaches a (creatively burned decessors in terms of quality and entertainment value. “Ill” out?) point where they decide that retreading the earlier takes all the loose ends from the first two and wraps them up movies’ inside jokes would be funnier than coming up with snug as a slug in t iug and leaves the “Back to the Future” another hour’s worth of new ones. Still, “III” viewers need triangle a most scalene structure. T i ^ s Not Only the Best Bagels in Town Brand New Cadillac but also more complex. Williams’ By Daniel H. Jeffers character is a charming Full Breakfast Staff Writer ______hustler who has backed himself into a comer. He and Lunch Lots of people expect owes lots of money, has lots “Cadillac Man” to fail. of girlfriends, and is about 5674 Calle Real Some think that Robin Wil­ to lose his job. Naturally, a Mon-Fri. 7-5:30 liams is a wild, funny, stand- gun-toting jealous husband up comedian who is limited (played by Tim Robbins) Sat. 7-4; Sun. 8-1 by any semblance of a plot; bursts through the plate others were so impressed glass window into Williams’ Also at Manhattan Bagel 1231 State St. with “Dead Poet’s Society” Cadillac dealership on a that they don’t want Wil­ motorcycle loaded with ex­ liams to ever do anything plosives. At least one re­ light again. viewer thought Williams’ character was muddled and If you aren’t overloaded inconsistent, obviously with specific expectations wanting to see a more solid of Robin Williams, or if good-guy or bad-guy. The you’ve, never heard of the character of Joey O’Brian guy and are just looking for was more complex than SUPPORT a good movie, ignore every­ that, however; his reasons one and see “Cadillac for womanizing have much SOBER GRADUATION '90! Man.” to do with his desire to wife or her husband. from the same drives. The The plot is simple please people. He just isn’t Clearly, Joey is neither full development of his enough, although the pace very conscious of those sig­ fullveood, nor fully bad. He character comes when he All Campus Poster Making of the action sometimes nificant others who aren’t is very human, and his good shows his capacity for altru­ FRIDAY JUNE 1 makes everything seem actually present, such as his and bad sides both stem ism, a little bit moralistic erates sometimes. "It all song writers interpret it.” osmith’s opening act for a NOON - 1 PM comes down to greed,” he “Our peers (Billy Idol, month and a half across BLACK said. “A song is a fucking Rod Stewart, Skid Row, America. STORKE PLAZA Continued from p.6A song. It shouldn’t be ‘in’ or Faster Pussycat) have come perhaps, but what the heck. shows to see the Crowes. ‘out’; it should be how you up to us and told us they re­ That was evident last week feel. There’s three ballads ally love our record. That’s Tim Robbins is also very at the Ventura Theatre on my record and I wrote cool because we’re their funny. His character, the when the floor cleared after them because that’s how I competition. That’s a real gunman, is crazy enough to the Crowes; who were felt that day. It’s totally high point for me,” Rich be dangerous, but obviously 'WOODSTOCK’S ppening for MSG, left the backwards.” continued. “But I wouldn’t doesn’t really want to hurt stage. Ironically, during this “People don’t underr write an album to please anyone. Occasionally, he is tour, although the young stand that there never has anyone but myself.” a little too innocent, playing TIZZA presents... with band was the opening act, been and never will be ‘new the straight man for Wil­ clubs were billing the shows music,”’ he said about the Other Crowes’ peers, Ste­ liams, but he is too volatile this as a Black Crowes gig be­ public’s constant compari­ ven Ttyler and Joe Perry, to be dismissed by the hos­ ad cause of the large audiences sons between The Crowes’ wrote a letter to the band, tages. The relationship be­ THI FAR SIDE By GARY LARSON they were drawing. sound and that of the Roll­ Rich said, saying that they tween Williams and Rob­ Rich expressed his dis­ ing Stones. "It all stems couldn’t wait to see them. bins works very well, yet gust at the way the money­ from something else. The Now in two weeks the another fine example of $1 making music industry op­ difference is the way the Crowes are going to be Aer- male bonding. 0 *E F X Presents... FREE MEMBERSHIP c F e VIDEO, CALVIN $1 OFF ANY RENTAL P 6545 Pardall Rd., & HOBBES t Isla Vista, CA A 968-6059 By Bill Watterson w/today's comic P N ONCE VJPON l A TIME Y a TUEREYfts: i n P C 1 h ÆJ7 e e z s 1)1967 Universal Press Syndic** e A “That’s a lie, Morlyt... Mom says you might have got the brains in the family, but / got the looks!” Daily Nexus Thursday, May 31,1990 11A

Boo-Yaa Tribe New Funky Nation 4th & B’Way Records This is a raid, homeboy. Straight outta Long Beach, six crazy motherfuckers called Boo-Yaa. In a tribe that’s comin right through ya. When they’re called off, they got sawed-off rhymes the size What the hell is it about the Bay of their arms that give the Hulkster ulcers. Area that produces such kickass If you thought NWA was rough, imagine a half dozen Sa­ metal bands? There most definitely moans with attitudes, funkier basses and a mucho musical seems to be a trend in this region; arsenal brought from the cutting room floors of your nearest and Death Angel are no exception. Public Enemies sounds like. They absolutely rule. And they have The wax leaps from the git-go with a roll call more like a a new album out that is so amaz­ firing line at your ears, eerily intimidating you with a “one ingly metallishly wonderful that bad brother, two bad brothers...” etc. until you realize the you’re gonna die. No joke. My first listening experience in­ rap has bred a bastard son called Hip-Hop right in your liv­ Warrior Soul ing room complete with ’70s wa-wa and a dissing narrative volving the mighty Death Angel Last Decade Dead Century blew me away. Their debut LP The from Lyrical Criminal Ganxsta Ry?dd. David Geffen Company This is just the beginning of the scariest nightmare ever to Ultra Violence (Enigma 1987) was an extremely raw, death & destruc­ come rap’s way, because nothin’s funkier, punker, tougher When my alternative metal record rep. enthusiastically tion focused thing. Three years and or has the audacity to feature actual group harmonies, told me about this new band called Warrior Soul, who was which at times reek like moldy cheese. But when they gang two albums later, Death Angel have touring with Metallica in Europe, I was skeptical. Another released their first record on major up on you slowly like the “boooooooyyy- one of those lame, blatantly metal names that usually be­ label dudes Geffen; a masterpiece aaaaAAAHHHHHl” chorus whip in the third cut “Don’t longs to a lame, thrash, “I can’t understand the words” Mess” all you can say is: Boo-yaa tribe is funkin up the prog­ entitled ACT III, which rules to no metal band that is pretty much musically inept. Hie mere apparent end. ram. And then you remember that the best cheese smells the fact that they are on tour with Metallica, however, gave This ground-breaking album is a worst and has the nastiest bite. Warrior Soul the tinge of credibility that made me curious Out of control. big change for the men of Death. about their album. Rather than crooning about silly The 11-song blitz concludes with the greatest rock and That bit of curiosity soon turned into an excitement I ha­ rap song ever recorded since “Fight For Your Right To Satan and his many evils, lead ven’t felt about a new heavy album since Mother Love Angel, Mark Osegueda, wails away Party.” The guitars are gutsier and gnarlier, the drums are as Bone’s Shine ep a year ago. It’s that unique quality, that risk loud as the lyrics which challenge “bang your head to this.” on a mix of politically inspired they take that makes die music work. tunes (“The Oiganization,” “Dis­ You could just swear that.Chuck D. was up there with Exo­ Last Decade Dead Century haunts you, rocks you, dis­ dus as “Picking Up Metal” scratches and thunders to a hard turbing the Peace”) and there’s turbs you, intrigues you and challenges you. It’s not about even a couple of (gasp!) BALLADS. core climax unlike nothing you could have ever wet happiness; it’s a true but depressing depiction of our world. dreamed. Yes BALLADS. And I dig ’em. In it’s poetic vehemence, the album’s political-religious- Although at times they border on — TONY PIERCE corporate elite-authority themes make you take notice and challenge you as part of a glossy world of plastic people commercial-MTV-exploited-metal, Everiast where file common people or The Losers are “the most these tunes quickly redeem them­ Forever Everlastin’ selves witiiasuper heavy riff or two. beautiful ones in the world.” There are time changes galore and Warner Bros./Rhyme Syndicate “I am the child of a new generation,” kicks off the album. the rhythm section is kicking some I sure hope this is the new generation of rock. This stale one Mutha fuckin dope! serious butt and getting a bit has been fooling America in it’s commercial radio outpour­ FUNKY too. Now what more could — MATTY T. ing for way too long now. you ask from a record to put you in — A.J. GODDARD John Doe neadbangers heaven? This righte­ Meet John Doe ous album makes me damn happy The David Geffen Company to be a metalhead, considering the extremely large piles of shit they try As Agent Cooper from television’s “Twin Peaks” might to pass off as metal nowadays. say, “Meet John Doe is a damn good album.” With a solid and tight sound built around the three gui­ tarists in the John Doe Band, the album is a collection of country-influenced rock ’n’ roll and weep-in-your-beer love ballads. The first solo venture by the former bassist and singer of thtrLos Angeles band X, “Meet John Doe” leaves you satis­ fied, feeling the musical equivalent of eating a Porterhouse steak with all the fixins’, a slab of apple pie for dessert, and washing it all down with a cup of hot black coffee. It just feels right While most of the songs feature Doe singing solo, X fans will find it refreshing to hear him in harmony with voices other than Excene Cervanka’s. His voice blends well with guitarist Pat McLaughlin’s on “Knockin’ Around” and with Julie Christensen’s on “The Real One.” If you like John Doe, you won’t be disappointed with this album. It is a solid and respectable solo effort well worth a listen. I.V. IS OUR HOME T j ¥ f I ISLA VISTA COMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMITTEE

Teriyaki Asthma Volume III is a perfect synthesis jump under your skin with “Fleshcrawl.” The Babes Thursday of drinkin’, fuckin’ and rockin’ with the women of have released singles on Treehouse Records and M ay 31 the ’90s who serve it up at you. It’s all squished ■bmffan Subpop, and finally settled on the Twin/Tone label 8 & 10:30 together on one fantastic single; four all-female with the release of their first full-length LP, Spank­ bands, definitely making a statement for women ing Machine. All of their records bring the listener Campbell Hall everywhere: “we be bad, and you be likin’ it.” jumping guitars and catchy musical themes topped $3.00 Victorian lace, perfume, and pink dresses these off with whining screams. N Sponsored women are not. Next in line is Los Angeles’ own L7 with their re­ On side one, Minneapolis’ Babes in Toyland ndition of Agent Orange’s “Bloodstains”. L7’s first LP was released on Epitaph last year, and they pre­ D sently have a single on Subpop wherein they exclaim “Get outta my way or I’m gonna shove.” And that they will, for L7 is one of the LOUDEST live bands AS Underwrite to play in the SO GAL vicinity. Imagine long hair whipping, bodies flying and amplifiers pounding out the supernatural sounds of grundy metal with, evil bagpipe guitar distortion whicii typifies the la­ dies of L7. On the flip side, San Francisco’s Frightwig drives through the “Hellway to High”. Recently touring the area to support their new LP Phone Sexy on Boner Records, Frightwig blasts groovy tunes with high-pitched vocals that curve your spine. Musi­ I.V. Theater 9 pm/Midnight cally investigative, Frightwig depends less on distor­ Thurs 5/31 $3.00 tion and accents the loud, heavy feeling of a tight rock pnd roll trio. 0 Sponsored by Russian Club The album’s final cut, “Sweet Teeth” by the new Rice, toast, newspapers, Lp., waterguns and costumes darlings of Seattle, Dickless, is vein-poppingly hard. are welcomed! Bags will be checked. This is their first appearance on vinyl, and just last U week Subpop released their single. This song is by far the most serious attack on the accepted standard Send them off of a woman in average society. Simply constructed, heavy-on-the-distortion songs provide a back­ with a sm ile... ground for the aggressive.vocals of Kelly Canary. \* LAST WORDS" This bird growls/screams noises out of her body re­ miniscent of a bloody twenty-car pileup. Deadline By CHRISTINA ZAFARIS June 1st