Rollins Induces “Shock and Awe” Broadway Lands on Peachtree at Fox Black Flag Singer Henry Rollins Set to Perform in Atlanta Jan

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Criss-Cross Hoop it up! Get through that lengthy lecture with Jacket hoopsters zip through ACC ENTERTAINMENT the ‘Nique’s themed crossword. Try foes Virginia, Maryland and Wake it out and test your skills. Page 18 Forest improving to 15-2. Page 28 Technique • Friday, January 23, 2004

Rollins induces “Shock and Awe” Broadway lands on Peachtree at Fox Black Flag singer Henry Rollins set to perform in Atlanta Jan. 25 at Variety Playhouse This weekend, New York and By Evan Zasoski tween. What follows is just a small the Midwest come together down Staff Writer sampling of topics that caught his South at the fabulous Fox Theater fancy. with showings of Oklahoma! Enjoy You know that really scary look- As the singer for one of the great the music and relive the Rodgers ing guy on those Rollins Band T- punk bands of the ‘80s, and, argu- and Hammerstein classic. Show shirts you see around from time to ably, an elder statesman of the genre, times are 8 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. and time? Yeah, that guy who looks like Mr. Rollins was surprisingly disin- 8 p.m. Saturday, and 2 p.m. and he could kill a grown man with his terested in the current state of the 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Ticket prices bare hands. style of music that he and the other range from $15-51 and are avail- His name is Henry Rollins and, members of Black Flag helped to able through Ticketmaster. believe it or not, he actually has shape. quite a bit more to his credit than Speaking of pop-punk in partic- Move from fourth being profes- ular Rollins said, sionally terrify- “I’m probably to fifth position stat ing. His life more unaware of includes run- “Some things in life what is going on Branch out and check out the ning his own should be free, in that kind of Royal Danish Ballet Company, in publishing music at this town at the Fox Tuesday, Jan. 27. house, perform- like…love, music and point because The group will perform several pieces, ing music in such office supplies.” those aren’t re- showcasing a broad range of talent bands as Black ally records that and style. The event begins at 8 Flag and the Henry Rollins I buy and…it p.m. and tickets start at $35. It aforementioned Singer/Performer doesn’t really do would make a great date. Rollins Band it for me.” and being a spo- Speaking of Fernbank shakes, ken word per- some of the cur- former who has stayed on tour for rent standard-bearers of punk-rock, not stirs the IMAX the better part of his adult life. De- he said, “If you were to take a band spite all this, he took time to speak like Good Charlotte or Blink 182 Nothing to do this Friday? Stop with the ‘Nique regarding his new and have them be the opening band by Fernbank Museum for Martinis spoken word show, “Shock and Awe, on a Black Flag tour, they would and IMAX. The event includes live My Ass,” playing Sunday, January, probably get a pretty harsh reaction music, dancing, food a la carte, an 25 at the Variety Playhouse. from the audience, a pretty scary IMAX movie and martinis for those The show, like all of Mr. Roll- physical reaction.” However, com- over 21. Socialize, mingle or just ins’ spoken word performances, is ing to the aid of the hypothetically enjoy the scene. The event starts at basically just him getting up on stage besieged rockers, Rollins said that 5:30 p.m. and runs until 10 p.m.and and talking about whatever strikes he’s “not saying that’s what I’d like tickets are only $10. him as funny, interesting or other- to do. But…it was a different time wise worth sharing with the audi- and…a different mindset.” Lose the tech, gain ence. He can be expected to discuss In fact, “time and place” seemed Photo Courtesy Alison Dyer topics ranging from his life, to mu- Henry Rollins, probably best known for his VH1 ‘80s Strikes Back appear- the arts for a day sic, to politics and all points in be- See Rollins, page 17 ances, can credit much more than that to his life, including the band Black Flag. Famous poets Thomas Lux, H. Bruce McEver and Patricia Smith converge on Tech Feb. 5. The free Drag along a Date to Bosworth’s latest flick event will be held in the Clary The- ater of the Student Success Center. By Jessica Luza Win A Date With Tad Hamilton! in West Virginia and working at the Cathy (Ginnifer Goodwin, Mona Refreshments will be served. The Contributing Writer makes you gag, then do yourself a local Piggly Wiggly. She is content Lisa Smile). The only way she is able poets will sign books afterwards. favor and stop reading now. with her routine life as a grocery to escape from the reality of her “In every love story, there’s only This cutesy movie revolves around bagger and enjoys being able to work humdrum life is when she goes to room for one leading man.” If this a small-town girl named Rosalee with her two best friends, Pete (To- the theater to watch movies starring Influence Sting slogan for DreamWorks Pictures’ (Kate Bosworth, Blue Crush) living pher Grace, That ‘70s Show) and her favorite heartthrob actor, Tad Hamilton (Josh Duhamel, All My Break band decision Children). Weren’t content with the Sting Tad’s agent and manager, both Break Mighty Mighty Bosstones hilariously named Robert Levy concert last year? The concert com- (played by Nathan Lane and Sean mittee is waiting for you input to Hayes), want to help Tad clean up plan this year’s event. Head to www.fun.gatech.edu to tell them what’s cool and what’s not. “Rosalee falls head over heels for the Tad If art is your thing, Hamilton she sees on ATLart can deliver ATLart[04] is a citywide event the big screen.” consisting of art exhibitions, lec- tures, tours and special events from galleries across the city. The event his bad boy image of “drinking, driv- spans the second-half of January. ing, smoking, leering and groping Upcoming highlights include exhi- all at the same time” to enable him bitions at the Swan Coach House to get more roles in Hollywood. Gallery, Georgia State University, Together they create the clever “Win Hammonds House and the Savan- A Date With Tad Hamilton Con- nah Gallery this Friday, presented test,” and as luck would have it, by the Visual Arts Network of At- Rosalee enters online and wins, giv- lanta. On Saturday, site-specific ing her the big-time chance to be installations will be on display at whisked away to Los Angeles to meet Saltworks Gallery in Fourth Ward her idol face to face. from dusk until dawn. Both events Photo Courtesy Dreamworks Publicity Now for the love triangle you are free and open to the public. Fur- Rosalee, played by Kate Bosworth, stands torn between her childhood friend, played by Topher Grace, and her ther information can be found at newly won date, superstar Tad Hamilton, played by Josh Duhamel. Predictable, yet fun, the movie is worth the ticket. See Tad, page 19 www.atlart.com 16 • Friday, January 23, 2004 • Technique ENTERTAINMENT

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the Iraqis and we’re going to give Rollins from page 15 them a light show the likes of which to have a great deal to do with his they’ve never seen. And it was kind ...10101101 101010101010101010101...... Two Bits current thoughts on pop music. of this tough, swaggering talk and “When I hear a young man’s woes when you’re talking about people I respect it. I remember it, way back coming home in body bags and wom- Live with an impending sense of doom, chest pain? when, but…I’d be lying if I said I en and children being blown up by It would appear that I am falling cheap laughs? Thanks for scaring surely lodged firmly in what was was still on the same page as it.” mistake—of course bad guys get- apart at the seams. So far this week I the crap out of me in the middle of certain to be a very important cardi- He went on to say that he con- ting incinerated, you know: dead have had pain in my back, my neck, the night, you jackasses. Maybe next ac artery and undoubtedly stealing sidered that sort of music to be a people. Why are you bragging… my inner thigh, both arms and (wait time, you won’t give the designing- from me the very breath of life itself, “rite of passage.” “It’s just kind of a shouldn’t you be a little bit more for it...) my chest. Now I don’t claim the-really-important-page-describ- I spent the remainder of my day and thing you do for awhile and I just grave?” to be any sort of expert on the hu- ing-symptoms-of-a-life- night lying very, very still on my say rumble, young man, rumble. “And now when you see Ameri- man body or anything, but speak- and-death-ailment job to the cold- bed, but I didn’t sleep. No, that You know, go for it…have fun,” cans getting scraped off the ground ing as someone who has a cousin hearted sociopath who sleeps better would have been quite impossible Rollins said. and flown back to America, who’s who went to medical school for two at night knowing that, even as he for it seems that there’s something Also on his rather curious, con- shocked and awed? Not the Iraqis.” whole semesters I think I’m quali- slumbers, his work still causes vast about pondering one’s own inevita- sidering his profession and past, list He continued along this same vein fied to diagnosis these symptoms as suffering and woe. I mean, really, ble demise that renders one quite of benign neglect with the admin- a possible bad thing—largely become on, guys. Get on the ball. the insomniac. Go figure. is the subject of istration in gen- cause I don’t imagine that an entire- So, based upon the expert, pan- On the plus side, however, I did file sharing. “I eral, calling ly healthy person would have ic-inducing advice found in that discover that there are, in fact, near- don’t really care, “You don’t leave it up them “anti-per- committed the warning signs of a wondrous encyclopedia of the in- ly 27 sure-fire cures for baldness quite honestly. I to Enron to be cool. son, anti-envi- heart attack to memory just in case. formation age, I went to the health that are readily available to the late- think that when ronment and One of which, by the way, was list- center the next morning to have my night television viewer. Pity, I someone down- You make laws so pro-business at ed online as “a sense of impending situation checked out immediately. thought, that I’ll never actually make loads my record they’re forced to be any cost.” doom.” Unfortunately for my precious, pre- it long enough for them to be of any use instead of buying He be- Seriously, WebMD, what the hell? cious chest cavity, the receptionist for me. Other after-midnight prod- it, I would have cool.” lieves that I ask you: what person, who is look- informed me that the Health Cen- ucts that caught my fancy included appreciated the Henry Rollins “they’re turning ing up the symptoms of a heart at- ter doesn’t allow walk-ins except in a set of very nice boot-cutting knives, money, but if Musician/Performer this country into tack at two o’clock in the morning, cases of emergency, and while her a military grade salad shooter and a that’s gonna be big business,” doesn’t sense some sort of doom, mouth asked me if it was an emer- new kind of toothpaste said to make the dividing line saying that, and when is this doom not im- gency, her eyes told me my teeth so white as to be visible to whether someone “when you put pending? Do you people do that, as I had entered a legally blind man at a hundred checks me out or not. I’d rather be civic responsibility into the hands that sort of thing for the building under my yards. checked out than paid.” of major corporations by saying, ‘Oh, own power and was After my night of wondrous com- And what of the music indus- don’t worry. We can deregulate this, not visibly discharg- mercial infotainment, I was finally try’s reaction to file sharing? Mr. this and this, because…these coming any vital bodily ready to go see a real-live doctor Rollins said that he thinks “that the panies will watch their emissions, fluids, I could make who took all of ten minutes to diag- record industry for so many years and they’ll make sure they pay their an appointment nose me as both “healthy as a mule” has charged so much for so little. people well.’ No, they won’t, and like everyone else and “totally out of my mind.” How- How can they be surprised when that’s why you have regulations to and that, while ever, considering the facts that the people can all of a sudden get music make sure people are compassion- they’re think- medical erudition and top notch for free? And in some ways, to me, I ate. You don’t leave it up to Enron ing about care to be found at the Student Health think music should be free like… to be cool. You make laws so they’re it, my Center have killed better men than love, music and office supplies...” forced to be cool.” shirt was me and that I’m reasonably certain As you probably guessed from He then closed his remarks on quite tacky. that the doctor was making up those the title of his show, Mr. Rollins has the subject by calling President Bush “And, oh tests he performed on me as he went quite a bit to say about the current an “expensive habit” and saying that yeah,” her along —“put your arms over your situation in Iraq, starting with one he doubts this country, specifically, eyes said, “you head and jump up and down on one of the administration’s favorite de- the students and young people of smell funny leg,” my ass—I think I might just be scriptive terms for the conflict. this country “can afford this guy for too.” seeking a second opinion at some “Well, I call the tour ‘Shock and another four years.” Being a care- point. Assuming, of course, I make Awe, My Ass’ just ‘cause about a Expect monologue along the same ful sort by nature it that far. year ago…we were watching the lines and more, on a vivid, enthral- and not wanting Next week: a very special “Fare- news, and we watched some general ling level at Henry Rollin’s upcom- to anger the fatty well, Two Bits Man” issue of the saying we’re going to shock and awe ing show. deposit which was Technique. 18 • Friday, January 23, 2004 • Technique ENTERTAINMENT Theme Crossword: Safe Bet By Robert Zimmerman 76. Astronomical measure 12. Grinding device United Features 78. Ginger — 13. Jazz great 79. Make weak 14. Lowercase letter part ACROSS 81. — mater 15. Splash 1. Brahman 85. When the French fry 16. Tex-Mex treat 6. Corvine cries 86. Little kid 17. Sea 10. Trained, in a way 88. A connective 18. One of the Simpsons 15. Uppity one 89. Gelato serving 29. Harden with heat 19. On the other hand 90. Ohio players 30. In — (where found) 20. S-shaped molding 92. 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Tad from page 15 Theron impressively puts on new skin for Monster have been anticipating. Rosalee falls head over heels for the Tad Hamil- By Raquel Laneri shamelessly pleads for sympathy for ton she sees on the big screen. How- Michigan Daily the main character, and on paper ever, is she only in love with the the interactions between Wuornos façade of Tad “the actor”? (U-WIRE) University of Michi- and her lesbian lover, Selby (Chris- Her best friend Pete has secretly gan—There’s nothing more annoy- tina Ricci, Sleepy Hollow), seem rather been in love with Rosalee since the ing than the drooling adoration critics cheesy and superficial, consisting of first time he laid eyes on her. Now shower on actresses who alter their either adoring compliments (you’re- that Tad has come into their lives physical appearances for films. Nicole so-beautifuls) or naive, foolish prom- has he missed his opportunity to Kidman was lauded for wearing a ises (I’ll-buy-you-anything- pursue Rosalee? Superstar Tad is prosthetic nose in The Hours, Halle you-want). shocked to discover how beautiful Berry was praised for appearing sans Theron, fortunately, more than and charming the winner of his con- makeup in Monster's Ball and—most compensates for these flaws in the test is and finds her to be a breath of infuriatingly—Gwyneth Paltrow was script. The way she confidently swag- fresh air from the Hollywood bim- commended by women’s magazines gers in order to mask her vulnera- bos he is used to. He wants Rosa- for donning a fat bility and lee’s goodness to rub off suit in Shallow nervousness on him, but Hal. “The film chooses shown through Now Charlize her shaky fingers Theron (The Ital- instead to focus on and spastic head ian Job), usually the...murderous streak twitch makes Win a Date with Tad cast as arm-can- sparked when she is her undeniably Hamilton! dy for the lead- human and au- ttttt ing man, is raped by one of her tomatically gar- Starring: Kate Bosworth, garnering similar customers a streak ners sympathy. Josh Duhamel buzz for her por- The way she trayal of real-life that leaves seven men holds a wound- serial killer Aileen ed yet passion- Photo Courtesy Newmarket Films how close will she allow him to get? Wuornos in Pat- dead.” ate look in her Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci star in the unique film Monster. The Who will become the leading man ty Jenkins’ Mon- eyes communi- roles required them launch completely different characters from past jobs. in her life? ster—a portrayal cates all the mo- Although the movie is quite pre- that involves fake yellowed teeth, tivation the audience needs to make her customers—a streak that leaves rnos murder to obtain a car, even dictable, it is full of many comical splotchy skin, dry stringy hair and her character believable. The way seven men dead. after reacting in horror to Wuor- one-liners and the stereotypical de- an extra 25 pounds to her frame. she seems like she’s improvising rather The relationship between the two nos’ confession. Selby’s decision to piction of Los Angeles is very enter- What separates Theron from the than reading a script gives a fresh- women is a bit muddled, however. testify against Wuornos also remains taining. The plot is extremely easy rest of these actresses, however, is ness and sincerity to the otherwise Theron makes it clear that when unexplored, leaving Selby more as to follow and Sean Hayes and Nathan that while audience members are mediocre dialogue. Theron even Wuornos meets Selby, she is so dam- an outline or sketch rather than a Lane steal the show. The characters aware they are watching Kidman, manages a first-kiss scene accompa- aged and disillusioned by the treat- three-dimensional character. are not the least bit flawed and do Barry or Paltrow in their roles, they nied by Journey’s “Don’t Stop Be- ment she has received from men Strangely, the audience understands seem to live in a perfect world, but cannot even find a trace of Theron lievin’” to appear touching rather that she clings onto Selby out of the prostitute/serial killer more than then again, this is a romantic come- in Wuornos’ character. Theron com- than sappy —quite an astonishing desperation and hope for something the confused drifter who gets swept dy, not an Oscar nominated drama. pletely immerses herself in the role, feat. better. into a relationship with her. If you are in the mood for a light- churning out one of the best perfor- “Monster” does not go deeply Ricci, however, never paints a Monster may have its flaws, and weight and sappy guilty pleasure, mances seen in recent years and sav- into Wuornos’ past that lead to pros- clear picture of Selby. She can’t de- its bleak portrayal of humanity can then treat yourself or a date to a ing Monster in the process. titution, though sexual abuse and cide whether she wants Selby to be turn off many, but the gritty hones- screening of Win A Date With Tad Without a strong female lead, abandonment are mentioned. The extremely naive or incredibly self- ty and uncompromising passion that Hamilton! If you want a movie with Monster would have fallen flat on its film chooses instead to focus on the ish. She claims to love Wuornos, Theron brings to the movie trans- more substance, wait to rent it and face, lacking a tight, well-written relationship between Wuornos and yet she gets angry when Wuornos form it into a captivating drama see Big Fish or Cold Mountain in- script with clear motivations for its Selby and the murderous streak announces she wants to quit and forces us to see Wuornos as stead. characters. The voice-over narration sparked when she is raped by one of “hookin.’” She demands that Wuo- more than a monster.