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2 A Thursday, May 26,1983 Daily Nexus :....... -A Fond Farewell............. • Nexites tend to get very self-indulgent two times during the year (that we admit to ): • April Fools’ Day and the last issue of the year. 2 The latter, especially, is a time for inside jokes, sappy sentimentality, thank-yous and • general Nexican Nonsense. Even more important, it is a time to mention as many names 2 as possible of the people who worked on the paper one last time before the year ends. • Obviously, this is not the last issue of the year, but it is the last Arts & Entertainment • section, and so, as editor, I am proud to indulge in the aforementioned self-indulgence, and • at the same time, fill some of the huge holes Spector gave me this week (I know, Jeff, I • asked for it!). 2 First, to all of the people who wrote for me this year, Jonathan “ Deadline, what • deadline?” Alburger, Jane Mooser, John Krist (you’re an okay writer and with a little • work, you could even be good), Evie Dutton, Greg Harris (only once, but it was hot!), Jay • De Dapper (between you and Alburger I had approximately seven nervous breakdowns • this year), Hugh Haggerty (it’s your baby now), Peter Lefevre (House Comic), Catie Lott, J-Cathy Bowman, Dan Gursky (also an incredible sports editor), Alex Llamas, Julie • Desnick, Cheryl Rosenstein, Cyndy Rotolo, Katherine Zimbert, Kathy Ryan, Jonathan • Chard (maybe you can be our English correspondant next year), Rick Dulaney, Rob • Palmer, Anne Marcus, Noel Hastings, Ed Evans, Evette Justus, Johnny Graham, Dan • “The Blues” Flynn, Charles Crellin, Scott Brown, Robert Woodruff, Greta Wedul, Bill J Shinbrot, Rob Noxious, and newcomers Vanessa Grimm and Dan Miller (you did good), • thank you and I ’m sorry for all the times I snapped at you (I warned you never to try to 2 communicate with me on Wednesdays). You all did an incredible job especially con- • sidering the fact that, for the most part, you came up with your own assignments, and your • editor lacks certain organizational skills. Oh, and I forgive you for all the times you missed • your deadlines. • Special thanks to all of you who cranked out copy at the last minute ( like this week) so I ¡wouldn’t go to press with any blank pages, especially Jonathan, John, Jane and Jay. • To those on the other end, Wendy and Roman at A&L, David at the Museum, Ken at the ¡D ram a Department, Lindy at Metro, the whole gang up at Program Board, Steve Cloud, ¡Steve Hoegerman (once again, I must apologize for my lack of organization), Lucy at •E T P , the KCSBers (especially Dan Kerman who gets a special thrill seeing his name in ¡print), Debbie at Adventurous, Les at Warner Brothers, and everyone else on campus and •around town just trying to do their jobs, thank you for your help, all the freebies, and I ¡ hope I was some help to you. I enjoyed working with all of you, but from now on, call Hugh. • To all of the people who helped get the section to Freddy by at least midnight every ¡Wednesday night, that wild bunch of production people, Jane “Get the hell out of my way” ¡Musser, Catie Lott (get your hands out of Barb’s crackers!), Harry Frank (keep that •exacto away from my section!), Mary Doyle (I ’ll have my heads done by about 10 p.m.), ¡and of course, the Other Barb who never actually told me when my deadline was and •assumed I would just meet it, THANKS GU Y S!! ¡ To the rest of the editorial staff, Jackie, Becky, Liz, Noel, Vanessa and Carson, who •never quite understood which hat I was wearing each day, and especially my trusty ¡assistant and sometimes boss, Jean Krist (Gosh, that’s easy to spell), who took over when ¡ I had a bit too much going on at once, Thanks!!! • Finally, to my successor, Hugh Haggerty, have fun and I ’m sorry I never did any filing ¡this year. I recommend you hire a secretary next year. Remember, when the promoters •are ringing the phone off the hook and the writers are pounding down the door to snag the •choice concerts, it’s much worse than you think. Have fun!! (By the second week, you’ll ¡know why I spent so much time at the Pub on Wednesday afternoons.) • I hope I didn’t forget anyone. If I did, I apologize (I seem to be doing a lot of that). I will Last Sunday, Tommy Tutone ( upper left) rocked the crowd at A.S. ¡m iss all of you. show, Program Board’s Sun-day Extravaganza. 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M-Th 8-6:30 "Your complete off-campus college store' Fri 8-5:30 I S L d V IS T A Sat 9-5:30 B O O K S T o re 9 6 8 - 3 6 0 0 Daily Nexus Thursday, May 26,1983 3A ORCHID Break It, Fixx lt, 'Reach the Beach' Lets BOWL By HUGH HAGGERTY Meanwhile, our hero still wallows in self-inflicted pity in r G O The first album by the Fixx (Shuttered Room ), while “ Opinions.” He recognizes the plethora of ideas in the • Bowling - Open 24 Hours being a moderate commercial success, received a lot of world but he pretends that he and his ex- are incapable of • Billiards - Video Games negative reaction from critics because they seemed to be having their own “opinions” and it is these external forces just another addendum to jump on the romantic bandwagon which caused the break-up. Again, he feels victimized by • Jack's Grill & Kitchen coming from the ever-changing music scene in England. the cosmos. OPEN LANES ALL WEEKEND Indeed, it’s very easy to say that the band is sporting yet After side one, it’s time to “Reach the Beach.” another “Bowie clone” in lead vocalist Cy Curnin and to The title song opening side two acknowledges the COUNTRY MUSIC describe their music, while catchy enough, as a hybrid of negativism and banality of side one and the hero resolves to previous styles giving it a rather bland quality. All go with the tide and try to reach the beach: DANCING • Thurs-Sat Nite criticizing aside, Reach the Beach, the Fixx’s second ORCHID BOWL • GALLEON ROOM release, is a remarkable and complete piece of artwork Forgotten lies aim to distract me 5925 Calle Real • Goleta • 967-0128 which deserves praise. This mono-mind must not connect The main achievement on this album is the conceptual Purer nature will contain me framework which the songs make as a whole cycle oc Freef all in air I will surpass curring within a life-stream. Voyaging into a desperate When I ’m falling, calling, I return void and bouncing back to a ferocious joy, it is an in Floating closer to your shore trospection in Hermann Hesse style describing the pen- /ifa n ta X dulation inherent in human nature. I start to drift with the tide The problem is the music fall% short of supporting these Maybe I ’ll reach. I ’ll reach the beach... ideas effectively but it still does not warrant harsh criticism. It has the prettiness of Tears For Fears — Finally, the narrator of the story is willing to accept ^ Barbara^ 1 layering nice melodies on top of odd rhythms and much of it change in “Changing.” “It’s my life and I say/ What for European bed & breakfast is good dance-floor material. Guitarist Jamie West-Oram is this, this what for/1 don’t need those looks so pick your face not Adrian Belew but he handles his Stratocaster with much off the floor...If I’m changing won’t you please let me go,” In the heart of town finesse and Rupert Greenall on keyboards adds interesting which is easier done than said. Kitchens - garden patios textures with his electronics. The music often generates “ Liner” is the other side of the coin to “Opinions.” excitement as in moments where glorious crescendos of Rather than being a victim to intangible forces, you can English country breakfast noise give way to minimalist music with effective use of board the “liner” and become a part of the forces affecting Meeting Facilities dead space. And unfortunately, singer Cy Curnin does tend the world. Now that the narrator is on a roll, he can sing of From $45.00 to oversing the lyrics sometimes. his “Privilege” in having the freedom to make his own The opening song, “ One Thing Leads To Another,” sets decisions.