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f Associated Students \ a T N I E S M f PROGRAM BOARD The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Orange Matador Records I shouldn’t even have to write this review. The im­ age of this band should fig­ ure prominently in your mind before the first note is played — blue smoke from skinny cigarettes ob­ scuring everything but the frantic, kinetic movements of a sea of brushed and pointy crepe-soled dancin’ shoes. All hip young Americans should be in­ stantly on their feet and cheering when they hear the phrase “Blues Explosion!” The Jon Spencer Blues neatly on half of a 90-mi­ This is dangerous music Explosion is like the battle nute tape. This is (I think) for dangerous times. between good and evil. It the third official American Spencer’s voice for some perpetuates its own release by JSBE. It’s hard reason sounds like the Big momentum effortlessly. to keep count, as the group Bopper (remember Chan­ Giving yourself to the has a tendency to be pro­ tilly Lace?), but the gut­ Blues Explosion is like lific and spawn recordings tural grunts, screams and kneeling in a puddle of all around the world like other odd vocal twitches Thurs. Nov. 17 in the UCEN someone else’s sweat and illegitimate children. In could only come from one declaring to the world, “I just a few years, the music genius, or one madman, a world surt premiere have seen the light!” More has changed from short, bom in the wrong time, it than a band, it is a dream almost experimental ram- seems. featuring LIVE performances by of the past, once discarded fa lings on the first, self- Very Rare is an instru­ and divided up for whole­ titled album, to a very tight mental appropriate for a sale, reunited and rejuve­ three-piece band with a B-movie soundtrack. nated by one Jon Spencer, stripped-down sound on Dang would be suitable leader and prophet of Re­ Extra Width, to a glitzy for cruising across the turn of Soul. and glorious, panoramic country in a maroon gas The popularity of ’70s experience on Orange. A guzzler. My favorites so retro is quite evident these little organ, saxophone, far, though, would have to days, but it can seem like a and even ’70s violins make be Cozoboy and Flavor, cheap, watered-down ver­ guest appearances on this for extreme craziness exe­ Sprung; Monkey sion of the fervent groov­ album. cuted somehow with a Unwntten Law ing of the decade before. straight face. Spencer appropriates the Duplicating their ac­ The Explosion tours a image and the energy and, tions at live shows, the lot, so if you weren’t lucky Fri. Nov. 18 IN THE UCEN like slipping on a shiny boys now shout “Blues Ex­ enough to catch the sharkskin jacket at the plosion!” throughout their group’s recent show at the DOWN BY LAWSBlack Train Tack thrift store, it is good and songs on this record as Palace in Los Angeles, it right and magical. Man­ well. You can’t just sit pas­ will be around again. And kind can walk tall once sively and listen—you in­ a Jon Spencer Blues Ex­ with special again. stinctively bob your head plosion show is an extra­ and shake your ass in a vaganza of, dare I say, El- local guests There are 13 songs on kind of stupefying trance, vissian proportions. Orange, and they all fit just like everyone else. —Rena Tom

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Its musical uniqueness spot on the independent uplifting within one song. initially seemed to be a charts, they are well on The extended instrumen­ weakness, but, after listen­ their way. tal sections within several ing to the entire album, be­ Because of Allison of the songs are broody, came a major strength. In CALL the PROGRAM BOARD HOTLINE for more info Shaw’s high, child-on- powerful and effective in fact, if you listen to this al­ helium-like voice and the sustaining the gloom and bum in its entirety, there is way the album is mixed, it the dismal feeling. A few a good chance you will like is nearly impossible to songs, including “Shining it. understand 'most' of •the • • * '-MVItehJieh Abramson * * 4A Thursday, November 10,1994 Daily Nex EM BY PHARCYDE: BIZARRE RIDE LLOY You can imagine my joy lame freestyle by Tre. Me By"? I used to have M. Walk. ... We do have you know what I’m say­ BB: [pause] I don’t when weeks of nagging the The best part of the the Bizarre Ride tape and people. We’ll always have ing? I don’t think it’s know, you know, every­ Artsweek desk paid off in night was a post-sound last night I got the CD deejays and people like necessarily like eveiybody body’s doing whatever. I the phorm of a plan for an check, kung fu fight be­ and it’s all totally like that to scratch. Or if we has a certain role.... Atcer- don’t know, it’s so hard to interview with some of my tween the group, nice-guy fucked up and different. want to, we’ll scratch tain times, it's this per­ say what’s a sellout these favoritest MCs in the manager Suave, and DJ M. Like the beginning, the ourselves. ... But most of son’s turn to take on. Like, days. In reality, you wanna world, Pharcyde. Walk, in which the parti­ Hendrix sample, what the time, it’s better to just ‘OK man, shit, I’m tired. make money, you know But a plan and the im­ cipants heartily yelled happened right there? have someone who’s a Yo, you take it.’ what I’m saying? I mean, plementation of a plan are “BLOOOOOO!” with Bootie Brown: professional at doing it. AW: Like before a you get into the business, two different things when each imaginary crippling Maaaaaan. That song, it It’s cool if you just know show, ordinarily, how im­ you wanna make money, you’re dealing with people blow. I forgot to ask the was like five different how to do it, you can do it portant is cannabis in you wanna get paid and who would clearly rather significance of this word, mixes, you know? Man, a little bit, but it’s always Pharcyde’s creative then plus, you wanna be get to the after-party than delivered far more enter­ we tried to get it right, we dope when there’s some­ process? dope and all that. ... But talk to you. As the crowd tainingly than Tre’s or any had like an engineering — body who’s really, that’s Imani: Oh, it’s not im­ man, yo, you can be dope filed slowly out of the of the other big letdown I don’t know, we just had their thing. You know portant at all. No, not in all you want to and what­ UCen last Thursday, I got freestyles of the evening. like a gang of problems. what I’m saying, they the execution process. ... ever but it doesn’t make my fifteen-minute inter­ To borrow from “Oh Our album basically didn’t know how to do it. But it helps sedate my any sense in the long run if view with Pharcyde. Tre Shit” on the group’s debut get mixed the way ... the AW: On the cover of the brain in the creative you ain’t got nothing to and Imani seemed to have album, Bizarre Ride II the way it was s’posed to. It album, you know that process. show for it. ... It’s like their minds wandering Pharcyde, man, the night sounds ... distorted, you woman, on the roller AW: Because, 1 heard homeless MCs now, that phar away on the aero- was dope — real dope, on know? —when you turn it coaster? Are you coming you guys played a show in shit is like crazy. ... Right butterfly (alluded to in the real. loud, compared to most.... out of her vah-ji-nuh, or Berkeley and you got so now I just want to make their best new song) — stoned you couldn t fin­ the second album come provided the winged crea­ ish four songs? out, that’s all. If I make ture’s title is a metaphori­ Imani: That’s false. ... some money, that’ll be cal term for some seriously False. We always complete cool. But I can’t say who’s mind-splaying dope. every show. a sellout for the simple Bootie Brown, let the AW: All right You guys fact. You know, people do record show, was actually were on In Living Color. ... what they have to do. They real cool, but I never got to What’s your favorite approach it how they talk to the world- show on the new Fox wanna approach it. You renowned Fat Lip (who, in lineup? really can’t fuck with that. deference to anal linguists, BB: I don’t know, I still sees a use for the letter don’t even watch TV too AW: You’ve bagged on “F”, but hates interviews.) much no more — ahl My MTV and radio in the I never got a chance to ask favorite new show — X- past, and yet you played what that seriously dis­ Men\ Man, that shit is — on the side stage at Lolla- tracting, big-ass white Artsweek You’ve said Hopefully, that’s like the what, dude? What is have you checked it out? palooza, which gets criti­ thing in his left nostril was. that you’re calling it quits thing we’re tiying to con­ that? That’s what it looks That shit’s dope. It’s dra­ cized on the same Tissue residue? Other re­ after three albums. centrate on now, so it like to me. matic, man. Yeah, you grounds as MTV and ra­ sidue? The residue of Slim Kid Tre: Yeah, won’t turn out like that BB: I cannot say. I can­ gotta look at — Saturday. dio. Did you see that as a some pathetic and half­ that’s what it’s supposed this time. not reveal the secrets of The hour episode. Satur­ compromise at all? hearted attempt to emu­ to be. But you never know. AW: Do you blame it the cover. day. In the morning. It’s BB: There was just some late the Tupac Shakur You never know what on [producer] J. Swift? AW: Do you know? I the hour episode, it’s things that I think we had “rhymesayer with a nose happens. BB: I don’t know. We think there’s a secret. gonna be dope. never experienced. So, ring” look? AW’. What’s gonna don’t place any blame, you BB: Yeah, that’s what AW: If you were on a like, whatever, you know happen next? know what I’m saying? I’m saying. I can’t reveal desert island, with one al­ what I’m saying? ... At first Halfheartedness was SKT: I don’t know — We all work in the studio. the secrets of the cover. bum, one person and one I didn’t want to do it, but kind of a recurring theme make music. We’re gonna There was jusjiother things You just have to look, and food, liquid, substance, then, you know, I thought in an evening that featured still be in the music besides that. We’re just do­ look. or whatever, what would there were gonna be a lot a performance in which business. ing it ourselves now. AW: All right they be? of fucked up parts about it the group introduced their AW: You’re gonna be a AW. Fat Lip scratches a BB: There’s a lot ... Imani: I would have the But then once we started it set using a good seven mi­ songzoriter? little bit — does that there’s a lot of little things. book of witchcraft, and my was pretty cool. It wasn’t nutes of whistling (well, it SKT: Yup. mean he’s gonna take AW: [Addressing Im­ little son, and a bud plan­ that bad. It was cool. seemed that long) and an AW: Are there two dif- over that? ani in a separate inter­ tation, and a vegetable gar­ apology to the crowd for a feren t versions of “Passin ’ BB: Naw, we have D] view] On the cover of the den, and I’d raise him and AW. All right first album, are you guys I’d teach him to use all of BB: That's all I got. I coming out of a vagina? his brain. better be out. But uh, yo, Imani: Yes we are. AW: In your opinion, it’s cool though. Check AW’.What do you see as who’s the biggest sellout out X-Men. the role of everyone in the world? BLOOOOOOOOOO O! within the group? BB: I don’t know.... BB: Uh, I don’t know, AW: In the world.

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% VUES FROM ■ CITY UNDERGROUND] We’ve all heard of them at one point or There have been other adaptations of "SHE WENT TO THE DOCTOR,"WHO SAVE HER 1 i M W i l n t St Concert VeniQQH Sonto ftjrh .tr.t St. another. Ever since we were children, the stories that we love to gross out our we’ve delighted in hearing and passing on friends with, from such companies as 'hm-lpm .¡ty-Kumd . tym-!0*m the stories to gross out our friends as Dark Horse, but this is the biggest of such much as we were. They were just too gross books to date. With such a big book, one to be believed, but, boy, do they leave our would hope they haven’t missed stomachs churning at the thought that anything. they might be true. Personally, I always loved to hear all of What I’m speaking of are all the stories those stories that are just too strange to about the mouse that just happened to be believe. I’ve even told the “poodle in the found in the bottom of a Coke bottle after microwave” one a couple of times. Only drinking the whole thing, or the lady who time will tell if reading the tales will be as dried her poodle in a microwave. These interesting as hearing it from a friend. and others are the urban legends that Because each story is only a page or America has grown up with. two long, there is no continuity through­ And now these legends are taking a dif­ out the book, but it does mean that it’s ferent form. Paradox Press, a new division “Austin Harmonica Blues” fairiy easy to read a couple of stories until of DC comics, is releasing its Big Book of you’re too sickened to continue, and then GARY PRIMRICH Urban Legends this month. It’s to be 244 return when you’ve regained your intesti­ «toMy Dane* MgM w/DJ Monty Luk« pages of stories adapted to art form in nal fortitude. " 1 black and white. It contains over 200 sto­ Some real doozys to look out for "JUSTICE ries straight out of “I heard it from my best should be the “chicken-fried rat” and the R A S P A V I P friend — he swears it’s true” material. “boy with the snake in his stomach.” & O N E LOVE V IB R A T IO N The stories have all been taken from Such a big book should provide hours of w/Dynamic Pressure Professor Jan Harold Brunvand’s various enjoyment. Then, of course, you can go books of urban folklore, and are drawn by tell all of your friends, “Hey, you’ll never dozens of the industry’s artists, including believe what I just read!” Art Adams and Kevin Nowlan. —Matt Nelson

WASTED TAPE Black Eyed Sceva • Tearaways - * (I LEARNING THAT WAR IS NELL t f t j & o IjiB O R O D n e Before I went to view to teach his children the Satinai*. ’ "Zittenti The War, I read an article right thing and be a good R u b b e rb an d in a major newspaper re­ role model, even at the garding the film. The critic most difficult part of his POLYCHROME who wrote it did not feel life. CD RELEASE PARTY! that The War was a good Once the treehouse is m FATES WARNING movie, on the grounds that built, the stage is set for the Joey Vera • Last Call it was “slow.” central fight in the movie.

Rescheduled Date I don’t know how fast- The conflict is whether ^ • f v x L ro ir€> ' paced a movie he was ex­ Costner’s kids will let an­ pecting, considering that ger take control of them as The War is about a family some neighborhood kids in Mississippi in 1970. So ■ BYO 10th ANNIVERSARY PARTY tiy to take over the tree- ¡ ||¡ | let me warn you at the out­ house, or whether they SYOUTH BflGADE set not to expect a movie as will follow his advice. speedy as Speed or as fast What makes The War l7SBG@NbS| as Mr. Gump. special is the incredible ¡Bouncing Souls However, what you will Skinny Rogers performance from Elijah get out of The War is a Wood. Wood, who has 1 " jJ&s&arerrnaz. touching and heartwarm­ also appeared in The Ad­ -¿/crct& M . -Af&czt ing story about a poor fam­ ventures of Huck Finn, USELESS PLAYBOYS ily in the South. Kevin The G ood Son, and Dave 6 Deke Combe Costner plays the father of North, gives the best per­ this family. He has just re­ formance of his young ca­ turned from the Vietnam reer. In a couple of emo­ War, only to witness the- tional scenes in The War, ^ 1 destruction of his house Wood brought tears to the due to lack of payments on eyes of easily half the audi­ the house. Well aware of ence. Regardless of the the psychological effects performance of The War ofwar, he tries to influence at the box office, this mo­ his son’s behavior against vie will have nothing but a fighting and war. How­ good impact on Wood’s ever, his son, played bril­ acting career. Ween^ DIGcategorization. WEEN Ween even tries on the < 3 2 D f^ia S tic: /^a s s io n liantly by Elijah Wood, is The story is different for 430 State St. Santa Barbara Chocolate & Cheese role of romantic with its “love song,” (The Official Underground Box Office) only a kid, and gets into Kevin Costner, however. Elektra “Baby Bitch,” likely to pluck the heartstr- Ticket Info: 965-5050 many fights. The War opened with a Hey kids, you like that rock ’n’ roll? ings of any woman: After the destruction of low $5.4 million at the box Well, try a batch of Ween’s new album “Baby, Baby, Baby bitch / Fuck you, their house, the kids de­ office last weekend and is Chocolate and Cheese. Oozing with rich you stinkin’ ass ho / Mostbeauty I’ve seen cide to build a treehouse Costner’s third straight rockin’ tunes and creamy Velveetalyrics, / You’ve come from a dream ...” with the help of their movie to perform below Chocolate and Cheese is a smorgasbord Okay, so the poetics are out of whack, friends. While this tree- expectations at the box of­ of music. as is their sexist T&Afront cover, but the house is being con­ fice, the first two being A As the swing cat, “go cat go” lounge guys have heart. With songs like “Mister structed, their father, still Perfect World and Wyatt daddies of sound, the Ween brothers, Would You Please Help My Pony?” and living with the miseries of Earp. Lucky for Costner, Gene and Dean, are the kings of voice “Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down),” you war, tries to find a job and there is no “three strikes manipulation. But you just “Can’t Put can’t go wrong with Ween. So strap on support his family. Cost­ and you’re out” rule for Your Finger On It,” as their self-described your bib, assume the position, and dig ner gives a strong perfor­ actors. single croons an electronic twist dabbled rnto Chocolate and Cheese. mance as a father who tries —Arshia Refoua with an Arabianesque harmony unfit for ,—Erin Wilson “...The only nationwide talk show not hosted by a right wing wacko or convicted felon." TALKRADIO KQSB-AM SANTA BARBARA’S HOME OF i Daily Nexus Thursday, November 10,1994 7A

Pans Soup Dragons with a gospel element Hydrophonic thrown into its mix with $195 Mercury the use of chorus singers and female backup. Some bands are able to The backup singers stay take several different styles with the group for most of of music and put their own the album’s tracks, which London $225* New York $149* spin on things, to find a contributes to the gospel mix of songs that are dis­ feel. However, I got a little Frankfurt $225* Boston $184* tinct from one to the next tired of it after several Tokyo $235* Dallas $125* within a single album. The songs in which I heard the backups more often than Costa Rica $255* Honolulu $124* Soup Dragons has put •Fares are each way from Los Angeles based on a roundtrip purchase. together an album mat the lead singer. The band Restrictions apply and taxes not included. Gill for other worldwide destinations. does so with impunity. needs to rely on lead singer This mix of styles, from Sean Dickson’s vocals dance rock to gospel rock more often to achieve gre­ Council Travel to funkadelic boogie and ater effect in the lyrics. 903 Embarcadero Del Norte • Isla Vista, CA 93117 back again can be found Many songs have impor­ on the latest by the Soup tant ideas to discuss, like 562-8080 Dragons, Hydrophonic. drug use, on “J.F. Junkie” Eurailpasses & Youth Hostel Memberships Quite frankly, on listen­ and “Contact High,” or issued on-the-spot! ing to this album I was loneliness, as in “Do You confused on several points Care?,” but much of a about what kind of image theme’s impact is lost in pressive results. Added for the song. the band was trying to put the chorus’ wailing. chanting and sound effects The album finishes itself |L MATHIS - F®RSYTeTL forth about its music and Despite these problems, spice up “Rest in Peace,” off with more effects, pro­ style, but in the end I had most of the songs have an as well as my favorite on viding the audience with I USED COMPUTER BARGAINS | to realize that all the group infectious rhythm that the album, “Mother- its own hypersonic re­ I ■ DELL 386SX - 16 mhz - 40 mb hard was really trying to do was comes across just fine. As funker,” which is nearly entry and vocals taken drive, disk capacity 80 mb using DOS achieve some variety. And with their earlier releases, seven minutes of space from a problematic space 6.22, 3-1/2” and 5-1/2” diskette drives, | the Soup Dragons really like the cover of the boogie introduced by landing. As you put on Hy­ 2mb EX 32 mb RAM, onboard VGA do try to keep itfresh, right Stones’ “I’m Free,” the legendary bass man drophonic again, the last adapter, new keyboard. 100 Available from the first song on the Soup Dragons have exper­ Bootsy Collins. Collins voice on the album reverb­ QTY (1) $350 QTY (5) $325 QTY (10) $295 album, “One-Way Street,” imented again with adding claims on the track that erates: “It should be a rock which has a strong driving sampled sounds and guest he’s “just passing through” ’n’ roll ride.” I ■ IBM Model 55SX - 386 S X - 16 mgz I force of rock ’n’ roll, but vocals to the tracks for im­ - 30 mb hard drive, disk capacity 60 mb 1 and proceeds to play bass —Matthew Nelson using DOS 6.22, 3-1/2" diskette drive, 2mb ESC 8 mb RAM, onboard VGA adapter, new keyboard. 500Available QTY (1) $350 QTY (5) $325 QTY (10) $295 Vg I ■ GATEWAY2000 386-25 - 2 5 m h z- § 80 mb hard drive, disk capacity 160 mb 1 I using DOS 6.22, 3-1/2” and 5-1/2" diskette drives, 4mb RAM, keyboard. QTY (1) $475 QTY (5) $445 QTY (10) $425 I got the idea from see­ ing Rolland Jack’s new I ■ WANG 386-16DX-16 mhz - 40 mb musical, Bizzzy, this last 1 hard drive, disk capacity 80 mb using weekend at Center Stage DOS 6.22, 5-1/4" floppy, keyboard. Theatre, that somewhere QTY (1) $395 QTY (5) $375 QTY (10) $350 along the line, he was re­ Monitors sold separately! ally screwed over by the 1 Color VGA monitor .31 dot pitch $195.00 | IRS. What is not under­ standable is why he de­ I Universal Power Supplies, Great for Export! 1 cided to focus a musical ar­ H All systems are fully refurbished and include a limited 1 ound it. 30 day, parts and labor warranty. Bizzzy is the story of a Prices valid while quantity on hand remains. middle-aged widow strug­ Call Mike Wolfe gling to fight off economic “J Phone805-683-6132 »FAX 805-683-5791 J* ruin and come to terms with her husband's death. Throw in a couple of kids, a wacky handyman, a love Brins This Far Side to Woodstock’s For... interest, and a few more kids, and you’ve got your­ self a musical! Right? Wrong. What you’ve got is Coincidence reigns su­ Dr. Rivers. Christine shoddy theater by labeling a sitcom. preme in Bizzzy, destroy­ Hochman seems occa­ it “for the entire family,” Unfortunately, that’s ing any believability that sionally lost as the lead, thus leading audiences to LARGE 16" w h a t Bizzzy is, a the musical’s down-to- PIZZA Kelly Corbett, and her believe it’s a kids’ show. presents. 2-topping pizza 2'A -hour sitcom musical. earth plot might have husband, Daniel Hoch­ Wrong. Bizzzy contains Not only that, it isn’t a par­ earned. man, seems unable to play too much emphasis on THE FAR SIDE By GARY LARSON ticularly good sitcom. The acting in Bizzzy is anything but a cliched adult themes, like sexual Characters are merely cari­ icing on the cake. One can role. The kids I forgive — harassment, a spouse’s catures, lacking any sort of forgive the younger actors chalk it up to youth. One death and the IRS to really common sense and logic. for their performances, but can only hope this produc­ be aimed at kids. If you are The plot flows at a it is the tragically poor tion will show them just looking for family enter­ snail’s pace. At times, we adult roles that really how not to do a show. tainment, try Disney. Try sit and watch the charac­ crush what little entertain­ anywhere but the Center ters doing the most mun­ ment Bizzzy might pro­ But Rolland Jacks re­ Stage for the next few dane things. These people vide. Alex Casalme and ceives no such pardon. He weeks. are busy all right — busy Larry Duff are incredibly may have thought that he doing nothing important. stiff as Handy Andy and could get away with _____ —Davin McHenry

■ « « A STREETWISE 10SSTUNES mm 'tm, Thug lif e rent outlet for his frustra­ platinum Above the Rim although they share simi­ Volume 1 tions. The group consists soundtrack. “Liquor” is a lar rap styles. 2Pac sounds powerful ode to dead more confident than ever “Look. You had five bones, right? Your friend Zooky Interscope of 2Pac, his older brother comes over, stays awhile, then leaves. Now you 2Pac is one of the more MoPreme (formerly friends and is a good rep­ on this album and the rest have four bones, right?... You don't have to interesting hip-hop artists known as Mocedes the resentative of what the rest of the group sound like be a ‘Lassie’ to figure this one out.” Mellow,) Macadoshis, of the album is like lyri­ veterans of the rap game. to listen to because of the i Woodstock’s Pizza 928 Emb. del Norte 968-6969 complex events and Syke and The Rated R. cally. Nearly every song re­ There are many producers themes in his music and Volume /, the debut al­ fers to death, and four of on the album (from War­ his life. These are chaotic bum by Thug Life, is a col­ the 10 songs do so in the ti­ ren G. to Easy Mo Bee), times for Mr. Shakur; he lection of gritty, G-funk- tles. The group tackles this but the style of music stays has experienced a number inspired music and cynical subject well, leaving the consistent enough that it Need to Sell of the said “complex lyrics about growing up in listener with little doubt as doesn’t sound muddled. events” in the past year, an environment of pain, to where the members ac­ Volume I is worth a listen and has been getting more poverty and death. quired their somber because it contains some Your C a r? and more skilled at explor­ “Pour Out a Little Liq­ attitudes. of 2Pac’s most intriguing ing the resulting pain uor,” the group’s current Surprisingly, each of the work and represents a dif­ Advertise in the through his music. single, was previously re- M.C.’s can be easily distin- ferent side of hip hop. Nexus Classifieds , ,Thug.Life;is,2Rw:’.s.w -.. ,leq%e^,qs pprkqf ,tfr$ pujjtj-. gmshpcUrom one apotljer^ ?tefl,eF» 8A Thursday, INovemberlO, 1994 Daily Nexus

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