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INDY LANDS FIRST PUNCH IN SUMMER BRAWL
by matt welch
So anyways, there's this new Spielberg/Lucas movie out, starring Harrison Ford as a swash buckling archeologist, of all things, named Indiana Jones. It's about how he goes after this evasive ancient religious icon with vast unkown powers, but first he’s got to take on evil sell-out artifact-hounds who are backed by Hitler’s Nazi hell dogs who want the thing, presumably, to help conquer the world. Along the way he flies from spot to spot on the globe, says “I don’t know, I’ll think of something” about six times and takes on an entire Nazi battalion driving through the desert with only a whip, a gun, a horse and a whole lot of partying. After taking the upper hand early in the flick, his arch-enemy says something like "You and I — we’re not so different." Defying all expectations and laws of gravity, Indy is there at the end to watch the Nazis discover the artifact. But, because they are evil, they all die in a weird melge of Spielbergian morality, Indy lives, and that’s that.
Sound vaguely familiar? Sound like a great movie you saw about eight years ago which had a terrible sequel? Well, Spielberg said recently that he decided to direct Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade himself to apologize for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. You remember that one — the one which mistakenly assumed that Raiders of the Lost Ark was a big hit because of the snakes, the dopey special effects and Harrison Ford’s bod. The final product left us with nothing valuable except a great video game and the memory of all those "Kate Capshaw is an up-and- coming star” articles. Spielberg, call him what you will, can pretty much recognize a stinker when he sees one, so he decided to stick to the basic formula. And who can blame him? Raiders is about as good as pure entertainment can get. This time around Steve does the sequel thing and throws in some well-meaning attempts at character development — we get to find out how Indy got his name, we get to see a teenage Indy (played very nicely by River Phoenix) have his first real archeology adventure and imagine how that shaped his life, we get to meet and love Sean Connery as Indy's distantly intellectual father who has been studying Arthurian legends and the mythology around the Holy Grail all his life. Predictably, this degenerates into father-and-son-reconciliation cheese more than once, but it also sparks most of the humor and surely all the cuteness. You could also say that the Last Crusade explores Indy’s own struggles with inner faith and such, but screw that. Analyzing an Indiana Jones movie (or a Spielberg movie) is like diagramming a 720 Michael Jordan finger roll over Mark Eaton on a chalkboard. Who cares? Spielberg realized long ago that a genre ex ploitation film has to love and honor its forebears to thrive; that's what he did in Raiders. He also realizes that sequels are damned from the beginning: Everybody knows what’s going to happen, so you have to come up with creative ways to present how it happens. With a little father-son thing, a smaller sex thing and a whole lot of stunt things, Stevey pulls it off with style. 05 • 25 • 89
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by Jesse engdahl representing the extreme of nuclear war. This is a severe metaphorical I can’t decide if I like this movie or error, but an entertaining one. not. That’s probably because Miracle Miracle Mile is shot like Risky Business — Mile can’t decide if it's a desperate bright, stark colors floating along too tragedy or a satirical comedy. The end- slowly or quickly against a popishy of-the-world nuclear holocaust love haunting soundtrack (the score is by story wants to be both, and it is in Tangerine Dream, which also did teresting for the chances it takes. But Business). The paradoxical structure of major intelligence is required for the that film, offering an ironic twist to each film to pull off that much, and Mile just moralization, is what makes it brilliant. bites off way more than it can make us But unlike Business, Miracle Milt's swallow. Still, it’s neat to look at. But I paradox is that it can’t keep a detached won’t tell you to see it. Obviously, an perspective, which (ironically) causes overall wishy-washy effect. its downfall. The tar pits were a natural Miracle Mile is a flat stretch of L.A. phenomenon, a sinless death. Even if landscape that divides Hollywood from man is “naturally” inclined to evolve df\JBROÆ£Bd BOOKSHOP Central, and Beverly Hills from into self-destruction, this is a fault. Downtown. Accordingly, it contains a Thus, the central theme isn’t very solid, great cross-section of all of LA.'s social but the movie refuses to be even sects, as well as the La Brea Tar Pits, slightly abstract. which every school kid in L.A. field trips So it really makes no sense morally, to at least thrice by sixth grade to see philosophically or structurally. As a what kind of muck swallowed the love story it’s cute, but it wants to be Tired woolly mammoths, saber-tooth tigers serious. As a vision of a (the) ap proaching apocalypse, it's gripping, o f f and all other early mammals who were too big for their britches. entertaining, but not in the least bit This is the setting where Anthony earnest; as the people turn into Studying? Edwards (Goose in Top Gun) finally finds animals, stupidly trying to escape the the girl for him, in this case Mare catastrophe they've created, the Winningham. He loses her too, but the violence is both amusing and E scap e “boy meets, loses and finds girl" story horrifying. But the hopelessness isn't is superceded when Edwards picks up a forced across; instead, there’s a bunch to ringing pay phone to hear “Dad! We're of painful philosophizing that only locked in! We shoot our wad in 50 makes melodrama which isn't campy Androm eda minutes!” So now he's Chicken Little, enough to be satirical. running around trying to solicit help Oh well, I can say it's a good thriller if before the sky falls. you don’t try to analyze it (a difficult The ensuing series of interconnected task when it keeps asking you to), and chases creates a hectic, frantic pace better than most everything else out 5748 CaUe Real and an annoying lack of control. This is (which isn’t saying anything at all). The good. So are the many interesting, funniest thing about all of this is that 9 6 7 - 8 9 8 0 nicely arbitrary characters who get this is a film trying to hold a mirror to all involved along the way. Why a cross- of humanity, that wants to justify and section of Los Angeles should serve as condemn the human society. But it a cross-section of humanity can only be never laughs at itself, which is what explained by the extreme of L.A. makes it so unsatisfying.
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surf footage. My sister worked as a stewardess and I started travelling using her brother-sister discount. Unfortunately, none of my friends could come along, so I started taking pictures of the locations and the surf. I wanted to show my friends the way the waves broke, so I bought a movie camera and later had a water housing built for it. arts: What kind of locations and surfers are in the film? Jeff: I basically followed the professional surfer’s tour. Most is shot in Mexico and Hawaii, with some footage from Europe. The film is basically a showcase for pro surfers. It highlights individual surfers surfing different breaks around the world. It’s a surfing montage set to music — kind of an audiovisual experience. arts: What kind of music is used in the movie? Jeff: I bought a lot of music from Enigma records and I scouted a lot of local bands. There were over 400 songs submitted. I listened to the songs and then tried to visualize what footage I had in my library that would go with it. I’ve got the Surf Punks doing ‘Tube Rider” to footage of two-time world champ Tom Kurin. T.S.O.L., Agent Orange and Cathedral of Tears are also in the sound track. arts: How did you manage to finance the movie? J«ff: I worked at Safeway for 13 years and I used my life savings to make the movie. I’ve also gotten some sponsors. The movie came in at around 70,000 dollars, including promotion and advertising. arts: How did you learn to shoot professional-quality footage and to do all of the production and post-production work? je ff:l took some classes at Saddelback College to sharpen my skills and learn about editing and production. I did everything from A to Z on this film. Because I did it myself, the main costs were for the film. I've spent the last year finishing and promoting the film so my social life has just been non existent, but it's been worth it. arts: Do you have any plans for the future? Has the film been paying for itself? by walker “guitar” wells jeff: Well gosh, I’m paying my bills. I figure the promotion I'm doing now will be really good for the video release. I’ve also been contacted by some other The whole idea behind action films has always attracted and baffled me. I major filmmakers to do some shooting for them and I’ve been selling quite a mean, why would anyone want to sit in the dark and watch other people have bit of stock footage to people. The movie has really opened a lot of doors for fun? Maybe it’s the same reason people watch porno.... me. Well, action films are today’s topic, so the conversation naturally swings to the kings of action films — THE SURF MOVIE. Before surfing became Jeff tours with Journey to the Impact Zone, providing all the video and fashionable and surf stores started opening in places like Fresno (there’s sound equipment needed to show the movie. So far, the film has been shown plenty o’ beach, just no waves), surfing was like a religion for the few crazies all around Southern California as well as parts of Northern California. During that dared to get in the water. Early surf movies like “Big Wednesday” and the winter he did a tour of the East Coast in which the film was so well- “Endless Summer” tried to capture the philosophy as much as the action in < received that an extra showing had to be quickly arranged for a surf-hungry the ocean, and maybe these are the quintessential surf movies, but I don't New York City crowd. Surfers and critics alike love the freshness and sin surf, so what do I know? cerity of “Journey to the Impact Zone.” Surfer magazine photo editor Jeff The point of this article is to tell you about a new surf movie that wasn't Divine calls it ‘The latest, best... most awesome I’ve seen”, while Surf Punk made by famous professionals with big wallets stuffed with dough. This movie Dennis Dragon just says “totally killer" (mpybe he says that all the time). Jeff is more one man's tribute to the sport and lifestyle he loves. Jeff Neu, using says that included in the showing is a raffle of surfing accessories, trunks and his own time and money, has almost single-handedly created Journey To The t-shirts. So if you’re a surfer, grab your stick and get down to the Vic tonight; if Impact Zone: Showing at the Victoria Street Theater TONIGHT at 7:30 and you're not, then catch a ride with your surfer friends. Miss this and you'll feel 9:30. silly about it later. Last week Jeff and I chatted about movie-making, surfing, and what the two have in common. arts: How did you get started filming surfing? Jeff: I was into photography when I was younger ... later I started shooting
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College radio, despite rumors to the contrary, is in State Long Beach — as one of 23 interns doing such ability to make it in profes: the hands of college students. chores as bookkeeping and filing. Student DJs do exist For example, KCSB all But just like the adage about no two snowflakes at KLON, but they comprise about 50 percent of the the chief engineer at loc being alike, college radio stations come in all shapes m staff — all of whom are required to follow the classical Y97-FM and chit-chat ! and sizes. The variety ranges from student coops to music format. pointed out the importai faculty-advised, student-managed stations, from mally, you’re expected to I >o o n signal strengths of a friendly 30 watts to a near I Am the D J It lets the person hiring y< professional 1,200 watts. you're doing.” UC students are entitled to work at the campus But at stations where the alternative radio format is still the reigning god, the opportunities are endless. Still, it’s hard to imagi radio stations on nearly any level. The policy of the UC station like L A 's KIIS Regents — except in cases of FCC regulation Students can spin the discs, program the format or be the person who directs the staff. alternative format. But i violations — is hands off. Which means if you have the personnel) at KIIS pointei Where else can the deep monotone voice charac will, the political skills, the pals and the timing, you started; almost all of tl could run KCSB. teristic of a Klassic Rock DJ be found playing funk? Or college.” And when it coi the perky personality of someone who sounds like h e/- However, in order to keep a check on what the kids jobs in radio, she remarke she DJs a pop station be found at the helm of are really up to (and to make sure that they don’t of But the breaks do hapi fend anyone), there is some sort of paid faculty adviser American blues? Of course, far too many people believe that it would the last three years as hot at almost every school. Their titles can vary from here on KCSB, found tha be neat to have their own radio show (which it is), only media adviser to an official general manager such as true. Back from summer bi Malcolm Gault-Williams here at KCSB, but their jobs to find that it takes a lot more than just showing up to actually conduct an air and talk. At the recent a DJ at dinosaur/oldies st are pretty much the same. Even the free-wheeling board of KCSB. University of California Radio Network conference, Berkeley co-op, KALX-FM, has a full-time adviser paid “I always wanted to worl by the school administration. one topic of conversation was how to deal with the DJ who gets on the air, only to fumble with too many knew it was destiny," he On the dark side, some administrations have Rock DJ voice. ‘They hire« bypassed student control, opting for an ill-defined "aahs" and "umms.” The conclusion was to let that person make his/her own mistakes. KCSB was my experience responsibility to “public service.” State schools such Dave Christmas to Anglicu as Cal State Nortoridge have turned their stations into If a student is more interested in managing than jockeying, college radio offers a rare chance of being a The result: $5 an hour t one-style formats which they believe fill a gap in the took over an extra Saturda community. boss. Cory Krell, the outgoing associate manager at >o o /n pretty slimy; it’s the natur Santa Monica City College’s KCRW-FM uses the KCSB, calls running the station "pure euphoria.... “But they saw me as a Ion; National Public Radio network, which, with popular Where else are you going to get a chance to run a staff of more than 250 people ? " skate in to do his show.” shows like Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Asked if he saw a future Companion,” generates larger donation revenues. In I Want a Real Job radio, Dave demurred. “ the case of Northridge’s KCSN-FM, it’s 24 hours a day Israel. I want to work for of country, while for Cal State Long Beach’s KLON- When you get down to it, college radio is fun. If called The Voice of Peace, FM, it's classical guitar all day long. anything, working at a station gives you access to a broadcasts off of internatk At a station with a format like KLON’s, student clubhouse of funk where the walls are lined with is peace in the Middle Ea participation means an internship. You’re quite records. But if you also happen to be serious, it is the chances of being hired, hi welcome to become part of the world of radio at Cal best and practically'the only testing ground of your have happened in this busi
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7 . o JUNGLE STEEL PULSE The Nexus Interview by Joseph i. Arts: Was there a change in labels or something between those albums? Steel Pulse will be declaring a Stale Of Emergency in DH: No, it wasn't a change in labels, it was _ Santa Barbara this coming Memorial Day. The U.K.- change in attitude toward Steel Pulse coming from based supergroup will be headlining the ’89 Reggae i professional radio. “the’ record company. They put Tribute To The Martyrs Sunsplash Concert when it stops at the Santa Barbara iCSB alumnus J.D. Strahler is now out on the market and expected it to do exactly the County Bowl on Monday, May 29 at 3 p.m. The show same as Handsworth Revolution, without any real form of r at local power-ballad rock station also features Sugar Minott, Marcia Griffiths, H af Pint, promotion. t-chat station KTMS-AM. Strahler Sophia George, The 809 Band and more. Arts: This is Island Records we’re talking about? importance of college radio: "Nor- Hailing from Birmingham, England, Steel Pulse DH: Island Records we’re talking about, yeah. And cted to have that kind of experience, has been together for 14 years and have released it was also put out during the time when there was a hiring you know that you know what seven albums to date, with plans for a new album in change towards the ska revival. You know, when you the works already. Their 1978 debut album Hand- had bands that were coming up like the Specials, to imagine winding up at a top-40 sworth Revolution brought them almost instant success Selector, Bad Manners and all the rest of those guys, 's KIIS-FM after working in the and the follow-up LP Tribute To The Martyrs was equally so reggae was beginning to take a beating at the turn t. But as Danielle Driggers (from as successful. But in 1984 Steel Pulse received of 7 9 , to the extent where the only bands that were ►pointed out, “None of the DJs just international acclaim when their album Earth Crisis still recognized or respected on a national level in ill of them were disc jockeys in was nominated for the Grammy Award. It took the England were Bob Marley'and the Waiters and Third sn it comes down to other types of Pulse only two more years, with their 1986 album World. The rest of it became underground again. to win this prestigious award. 'emarked, “Any experience helps." Babylon The Bandit, Arts: Did you run across the problem that the do happen. Dave Soref, who spent s as host of ‘The Coffee Achievers" mnd that a dream of his had come mmer break, he found a job offer for oldies station KIST-AM on the notice d to work there. When I saw the ad, I iny," he said with a baritone Klassic ley hired me without a demo tape.... >erience. So I changed my name to Anglicize it.” n hour to start, $6 an hour when he Saturday shift. ‘The other DJs were te nature of the business,” he said, as a long-haired kid who would just low." a future for himself in professional irred. “I’m quitting KIST to go to ork for a pirate radio station there 'f Peace.’ They’re a rock station that iternational waters and their theme iddle East.” When asked about his hired, he replied, "Stranger things this business."
Steel Pulse’s new album, State Of Emergency, is as fu message in your music was too powerful for Island to of urgency as the title track suggests, and what deal with and they wanted to in some way com ^ 7 * follows are excerpts from an interview with lead mercialise the album? (ReggaeFever) singer/songwriter David Hinds of this group. DH: Well, it became like that in some respect, I OHN Arts: When did Steel Pulse originate? mean for a start, “Ku Klux Klan” was very con DH: The original members of Steel Pulse go as far troversial in that it was one of the best-selling records back as 1975,T would say. throughout Europe, but it definately was not because Arts: What was the reggae scene like in England at of airplay. So it had reached a stage where we were Say.” With a spankingly that time? asked by the record company to tone down the title of caustic melody and an DH: There wasn’t really a reggae scene. What the albums. I mean there was Handsworth Revolution, embittered guitar tine, made reggae exist, you know, come to the limelight, which was like an explosive sound to it, and there Meilencamp speaks of a was the actual beliefs that the punks had, you know, was this ’Tribute To The Martyrs,” you know what woman too angry to love and their beliefs at the time was havin’ reggae bands I’m saying, paying homage to all those Black activists ¡Rftfefc tik e R ick as their opening act. So we took upon that kind of throughout the past couple of centuries, and you Springfield’s classy "(You bandwagon and went down to London and per know, all of a sudden I think they became skeptical Better) Low Somebody"). formed. Then we got more recognition where we got and lacked confidence in the direction the band was The raucous vocal deals so that we ended up being the opening act for taking. delivery of words like the great Burning Spear. It was there Island Records Arts: It seems you made a resurgence with True “ Say W hat! Look O ut! recognised us, our potential, and signed us up in Democracy, I think that was one of the most powerful Shake it up, Martha!” January 1978 and by June 1978 our very first albums of all time. How was the acclaim to that? bounces the serious album, Handsworth Revolution, was released. DH: Well, that is one of the most respected albums H^tcal intent onto a Arts: How did the release of Handsworth Revolution do to date. You know we’ve done Earth Crisis, which is higher plane in an almost for Steel Pulse in England and Europe? probably the best seller, but as far as the direction of Lou Reedian fashion. DH: Well, it went to number nine in the charts, the the band and what we stood for, I’d say True Democracy But despite the quality British charts, and we all ended up having silver That was the one where there was absolutely no of the album as a whole, disks placed on our walls and all that. It echoed record company influnce at the time. It was an album there are no insta-classics throughout Europe; it made us get enough where we recorded with our very own finances, in on this one. This con recognition to be the opening act for Bob Marley and our very own time, in a country other than England, sistency makes die entire the Waiters at that time. with a set of people who owned a studio that believed package solid, as no Arts: What’s the background on some of the stuff couple of tunes make die in the band. disc (unlike previous that was happening on that album that inspired the title track and songs like “Ku Klux Klan*’ on the Arts: I really like the new album, State Of Emergency, albums like Vk-Huk and album? American Fooll. and it seems that the Steel Pulse sound has really Bi$ Daddy is a relatively DH: Well, at the time what was happening was we changed towards a more modern technological musically mellowed but were subject to continual police brutality. There was sound. What was that like for the band to release an lyrically heated also discrimination when it came to employment and, album with a different sound? movement for Meften- I’d say, a decline in the educational system or systems that was offering sources of knowledge to DH: That’s a good question, because we were in a camp. He never lets loose lot of mixed points of view towards the initial and rocks like he did'on help communities. So it was all that was needed to jnstigate a riot, you know, it had all the ingredients to recording of the album, the actual finishing of the “H urts So Good” and album, and the aftermath criticism of the album. We “Crumbling Down.” But instigate a riot. As we all know, one of the first major riots that took place in England, you know of this recorded it, mixed it, we put it out on the market and if he restrained himself in we left the public to decide. And I think it was a case jrder to be seen as century, was in Bristol 1981. You know,’81 was when a series of riots started to take place where the public was so accustomed to certain things "maturing,” then he has that a lot of them, I don’t think, were ready for the succeeded. throughout England. Arts: What happened between Tribute To The Martyrs actual sound of the State Of Emergency album and some and the next release, Reggae Fever1. of the subject matters. We sort of lived and ex perienced what we could improve on the next album.
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by walker "guitar" wells major Hildy Johnson, of days they had taken me arts: What kind of play THE FAR SIDE By GARY LARSON grad student Hal in and were looking after is The Front Pagel with When you think of Kolhman and newcomer me. The people in the jackie: it’s pretty reporters, do you think of Jackie Apodaca. Hanging cast have been really shallow. Sort of the this unshaven, chain smokin' out yesterday, I got to accepting. My role is opposite of "Bloody ad guys who spend all day soak up a little of the pretty small. I play the Poetry." There's no playing cards, telling dirty young actress’ groovy fiancee of the reporter message, it's just en jokes and waiting for the karma. who is the main tertainment for the actors $1 big scoop? If this is the arts: Being a freshman, character. The whole play and the audience. I still case, then the drama how did you manage to takes place in the laugh at it when I see it, 0 department’s year-end land the lead female role? newsroom, so there ana I know all the jokes production of The Front jackie: I just went to the aren't very many female backwards and forwards. F rage is right up your auditions and I got it. It roles. arts: Do you plan on F expectations-guaranteed was the first thing I’d arts: Have you gone continuing to act at UCSB alley. Written 60 years tried out for all year. through any major trials and in the future? A ago by Ben Hecht and arts: Have you been and tribulations while jackie: It’s (acting) what Charles McArthur, the interested in acting a long doing the play? I came to college to do. N play was a founder of the time? jackie: I lost four inches It’s a great feeling. If nard-boiled, fast-talking jackie: I've been acting of my hair for this play. everyone knew what it Y for about six years ... in newsroom drama The Drama Department was or what it felt like, high school and junior tradition. It has since cutoff my hair. everyone would do it. high. P seen several incarnations arts: I know you also The Front Page is running arts: How is it to be 1 on the stage and on the make burritos in the at 8 p.m. in the UCS6 working with the older silver screen as both UCen cafeteria. Can you Main Theater May 25-27 Z students and with 'The Front Page" and explain why people can and June 1-3. Tickets are Z "His Girl Friday?'(staring graduate students? only choose between two available at Arts and A Cary Grant). jackie: The people in toppings? Lectures Ticket Office. Be Directed by Judith the BFA progam are a jackie: Because two is a there and bring some Olauson, the large cast perfect number. It's a flowers for Jackie (she features BFA acting round number. likes daisies). Check the N exus BLOODY POETRY IN MOTION Classifieds to find a byadam liebowitz At one point in the performance of pousness and crushing inner torment Bloody Poetry, Percy Shelley (Kevin Del of Shelley. Tess Gill is at once a sensual Aguiia) exclaims, "Poets are the and yet flighty Clair Claremont, unofficial legislators of the world." As stepsister of Shelley’s wife Mary. place to live... pioneers in the 182% — of free love, The star of the show, however, is drug experimentation, divorces and Christopher Vore as the moody and extended families which by the 1970s iron-willed Byron. He seems born to the became so commonplace — he is right. role of the wild poet who was the cynic But whether many people in 1989 care and wit of his age, played here as the about the political meaning of he and mad genius and drunken sensualist you his contemporaries’ poetry is would suspect him to have been. Vore’s ... there’s debatable. Byron is so much fun that you wish Whatever the case, the freakishly someone would develop a sit-com about decadent lives of the poets Byron and Byron with him in the lead. Shelley make for interesting art in The other big star of the show is Amy themselves. One notable in Gill's set design, which allows the room for terpretation was the film Gothic, in audience to become swept up in the which one hallucinogenic, opium- lives and not the image of the induced night was a metaphor for the characters. Really just a colored space, torturous relationship between the it drips with gothic ooze in a candlelight poets, two of their female, and one of scene and then is a sandy beach in the their male lovers. next. With the show being presented everyone. A more fleshed-out version of these out of period costumes, the loose fantastic characters' lives is Howard design is a perfect format. Brenton's Bloody Poetry. Brenton is a However, the play does suffer from Marxist playwright who is more in trying to be a little too ironic in escaping terested in the politics than the per the romantic trappings of the poets' sonal quirks of the poets. Presented by lives. The worst example is the music the UCSB Dramatic Art department, samplings which haunt the play, this production of Brenton’s play gives modern songs which are meant to foil life to the political, the poetic and the thp serious action. The worst moment is personal aspects of two would-be Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run,” world-shakers and the women who one of the schmaltziest suicide songs of loved them. all time, played to undercut the Rather than a melodramatic, melodrama of Shelley's suicide. romantic presentation or an overly Still, it is the straightforward humor artsy interpretation of wild living, the (when avoiding being ironic) which production gives a view of how they carries the play. When dealing with this were both poets and real men, people subject matter you are afraid the who loved and destroyed those around performers are going to get all, well, them while in pursuit of their poetic on you. Instead, Bloody Poetry is a philosophical ideals. lively and intelligent mixture of the The strenth of the UCSB presen tragic and humorous. It gives life to tation is in how richly it gives life to words which to us often seem dead, these odd characters. Kevin Del Aguiia and humanity to historical figures who brings out both the ridiculous pom often appear only as literary myths. 05* 25 * 89 7A UP CLOSE : HONORS ART SHOW
by Jennifer siegal the components of social gatherings. paradise in this painting. “From the The rug is actually tea bags delicately Flames You Shall Rise” is a more Part I of the Letters and Science arranged to achieve a woven effect. narrative painting. The artist has Honors show is presently going on at Looking closely at her art rug, you can discarded lilac paint, and her style the UCen gallery. It features the art of pick out the different flavors of tea. reveals a flair for animation. These Kristen Bars, Sharon Carslisle, Mike Kristen Bahrs’ color and black and traits combined with interesting Serto and Sonya Knapp. white photos are strong images imagery make Knapp's painting a The show's most exciting work isn’t depicting body parts underwater. The beautiful overall work. on the gallery’s walls. It is an in color photos are particularly seductive Finally, some of the most stimulating stallation done by Sharon Carlisle as strangely disembodied limbs hover and creative pieces in the show are entitled “System Within Itself." in the too-blue-to-be-true water. Less Mike Cheertu’s "Konstructions.” These Carlisle’s large wooden cage, im impressive are her paintings. Generally assemblage paintings are bold both in pressively constructed, is wonderfully dark save for confetti like lines, the terms of their color and texture. The illuminated. Light streams through the canvases are abstract and don't have artist's "disharmonious” style in piece’s wooden strips falling on an the fluidity of her photos. Although vestigates the making of art that isn’t ominous, beheaded figure. A copper there's tension between the canvases’ limited by aesthetic rules. His paintings pipe hovering over the mud man surface and illusionistic space, the — filled with glass, rocks, branches, travels inconspicuously to an exterior paintings are aesthetically unin screws and pipes- try desperately to bucket supported by a ladder. The teresting. find a link between the canvas’s flat dialogue between the “system's” in The least enchanting painting of all is surface and the reality of life's three terior and exterior exemplifies the "The Purpose of Paradise” by Sonya dimensions. The Konstructions are potent meaning behind this impressive Knapp. The title is enticing, but unless original and playful and a must to see! work. In her rug piece entitled ‘Tea you are nuts about pinkish lilac and Don't step on the tea rug on your way Time," Sharon creates a satire about obscure symbolism, you won’t find your in; fresh tea bags are in the deli!
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