MILLA monthly music, arts, literature and Food publication of the carrboro citizen vol. 5 + no. 1 + october 2011
inside: t Ocsc turns 10 t box turtles t stories of aids t spider bags t 27 views of chapel Hill t pepperfest 2 carrborocitizen.com/mill + October 2011 MILL Busy times art notes So September seemed kinda busy, what this month – Orange County Social Club is 10 with school having just started back and all, but years old and will commemorate the birthday summer’d just ended, and really, it’s all relative. appropriately with a week full of parties (see page In the galleries October is awfully busy. 18 for details). At the Ackland Art Museum on the Election season is in full swing, and campaign Down in Silk Hope, the Shakori Hills Grass- UNC campus, “Carolina Collects: 150 signs litter lawns about town. Candidates are roots Festival will kick off Oct. 6, with a few acts Years of Modern and Contemporary answering questions left and right and chatting sure to put on quite the show (see page 17), and Art” is on display through Dec. 4. The up any available ear, and good for them – strong over in Saxapahaw, bands, brews and barbecue exhibit features nearly 90 hidden trea- civic participation is one of the awesome things will invade on Oct. 22 for the annual Saxapahaw sures by some of the most renowned about our community. Oktoberfest celebration. artists of the modern era, gathered Our high school sports teams are well into With all that on the schedule, the lazy days of from private collections of UNC their seasons. Farmers are harvesting crops. Col- summer seem a long-forgotten memory. alumni, including works ranging from lege students are gearing up for mid-terms. Not a – Susan Dickson an oil painting by Claude Monet and a minute to spare. suspended sculpture by Olafur Elias- But let’s focus on the more important matters On the cover: Phil Blank’s illustration of a scene son to an Alexander Calder standing at hand: celebrations! One of our beloved com- at OCSC, which heralds its 10-year anniversary mobile and a Pablo Picasso gouache. munity watering holes will mark a major milestone this month with a week-long celebration. New multimedia acrylic works by local artist Jacques Menache are fea- tured at Panzanella through Nov. 7 in “Amoebic Stream,” by Jacques Menache Robert Dickson Publisher Kirk Ross an exhibit titled “Magnifications.” The [email protected] contributing editor exhibit consists of about 20 pieces in [email protected] Susan Dickson editor mixed-media acrylic, dealing mostly with amoebae, protozoa, paramecium, [email protected] Marty Cassady ad director bacteria and other simple cell forms that inhabit our bodies and environ- [email protected] ment. A reception will be held Oct. 10 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Duncan Hoge art director The 23rd annual “Sculpture in the Garden” [email protected] contributors Vicky Dickson, Ashley exhibit at the N.C. Botanical Garden opens Taylor Sisk Melzer, Mary Parker Sonis, Oct. 1 and runs through Nov. 19, featuring the contributing editor Margot Lester, Jason Cole, works of 30 sculptors using a variety of media, [email protected] Rose Laudicina including stone, stainless steel, concrete, clay, MILL wood and recycled aluminum. More than 50 one-of-a-kind sculptures by new and return- ing artists from around the state will be placed ROSS’S Almanac amid the native wildflowers. At FRANK this month, member artist I watched October / Flare today / The Flames spread across the highway / Across the Sudi Rakusin will display the paintings in her ridges, along the creek banks / Where sycamores marched naked “Chorus of Saints” series that inspired her – Sam Ragan, “I Watched October” latest project, “Journey Cards,” a divination “Building Blues,” acrylic and deck built around the 19 imagined female The light and temperature plunge this month, but expect a little reminder from graphite on canvas, by Lisa Creed saints and 36 goddesses drawn from cultures nature that we are still a southerly place. Indian Summer typically takes place in late around the world. Rakusin will give a talk at October here in the Piedmont, after the first frost. For what its worth, a study of frost FRANK on Oct. 13 at 6:30 p.m. dates from 1951 to 1980 has the Chapel Hill frost date as Oct. 23. Over at LIGHT Art + Design, “RE:,” an exhibit that delves into the mean- Please note that we don’t drop the daylight savings time thing until the first week in ing of the prefix “re,” is on display this month through Nov. 12. Much of the November. Oct. 1 – Sunrise: 7:11 a.m.; Sunset: 7 p.m. exhibit has an environmentally Oct. 30 – Sunrise: 7:37 a.m.; Sunset: 6:21 p.m. conscious slant, embodying recy- cling, reuse, restoring and renew- Moon Phases able materials, featuring works by staple LIGHT artists Lynda First Quarter – Oct. 3 Full Moon – Oct. 11 Curry, Beverly Dawson, Al Frega, Peg Gignoux, Lynda Sanders, Last Quarter – Oct. 19 New Moon — Oct. 26 Leigh Suggs and others, as well The Full Moon in October is the Hunter’s Moon, Travel Moon and Blood Moon. Some as woodworker Tom Shields, a people insist that the Harvest Moon is in October rather than September. new artist to LIGHT. An opening Planets & Stars: Earth passes through the dust of Halley’s Comet late in October reception will be held Oct. 8 from and that means the Orionids meteor display. The radiant for meteors is a little left of 5 to 8 p.m. Orion and runs from roughly Oct. 17 to 25, with peak viewing on Oct. 21. At Hillsborough’s Eno Gallery, October is Adopt a Shelter Dog Month, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Cookie Lisa Creed will display “Crossing Month, Diabetes Awareness Month and, yeah, Sarcastic Month. The first week is Get Paths,” a solo exhibition of new Organized Week. paintings, this month. The exhibit Significant Dates features canvases that swing with shape, color and texture. An • Oct. 1 is Homemade Cookies Day and World Vegetarian Day • Child Health Day is Oct. 3 opening reception will be held • National Denim Day is Oct. 7 Sept. 30 from 6 to 9 p.m. and the • Columbus Day is Oct. 10 exhibit will run through Oct. 23. • University Day and Farmers’ Day are on Oct. 12 In Saxapahaw, the works of • Oct. 17 is Black Poetry Day Suzanne Connors and Nancy Woodwork by Tom Shields • Mother-in-Law Day is Oct. 23 Raasch, including art-to-wear and • United Nations Day is Oct. 24 jewelry, are on display this month • Halloween is Oct. 31 through Oct. 30. A reception will be held Oct. 7 from 6 to 9 p.m. rossalmanac.com/journal
MILL October 2011 + carrborocitizen.com/mill 3 FAUNA BY MARY PARKER SONIS The Undaunted
Photo by Mary Parker Sonis
hen I was a little busy, we would all pile out to destinations. We find them in our terrestrial turtle that is more girl growing up look at the turtle. After the usual driveways or crossing grocery closely related to our aquatic in Virginia, my exclamations of delight, there was store parking lots. We see them pond turtles than to members weekdays were always an entreaty: “Why can’t in fields and on the trails. They of the tortoise family. It is the filled with school we keep him?” But my father are gentle, slow moving and only turtle in North America that activities.W We rarely left the would point the turtle back in the determined. can fully close the hinge on its neighborhood, and never even direction it was traveling, we’d The eastern box turtle is a plastron. The Blanding’s, mud got into the Country Squire station sigh as it disappeared into the wagon that my parents shared; underbrush and off we went to but when the weekend came, the our next destination. road adventures began. I was so enthralled by these Typically, we stopped at drive- beautiful turtles that I would sit in ins for burgers and then headed the back seat, week after week, out to wander the countryside staring intently out the window and visit all the special places hoping to see that characteristic where wildlife was abundant. dome on any and all roads that On the back roads that led to we traveled. I rarely joined in various swamps and meadows, conversation. I was intent on we occasionally would see an finding the box turtle. eastern box turtle crossing the Here in North Carolina, our road – a very exciting find. My dad children have this same privilege. would pull to the side of the road We get to see the perseverant and bring the turtle to the car for box turtles as they wander our all of us to see. If the road wasn’t roads on their way to their special
4 carrborocitizen.com/mill + October 2011 MILL and musk turtles also have hinged turtle has a completely flat if the turtle has to cross six lanes, taken from the wild each year in plastrons, but only the box turtle plastron, whereas the male has an it will do so. If you see a box turtle North Carolina, and most of these can close up shop so completely indented plastron. This concave crossing a road and have the turtles will die. An adult box turtle to exclude predators. shape allows the male to fit over ability to safely do so, pull over taken into a home will not be Box turtles are as slow to the female during mating. Finally, and help the turtle cross in the part of the breeding population. develop as they are to move. the dome height of the female direction it is traveling. Before reproducing, the box The average box turtle does not carapace is higher than that of the Some people kindly wish to turtle must survive at least seven reach sexual maturity until it is 7 male, presumably making room find turtles found on roads a years of highway crossings, to 10 years old. So, although they for the eggs that the females better home. So they put the attacks by hungry raccoons and can live a long life, with lifespan carry. Tail length and width differ turtle in their car and bring him foxes, bulldozer and lawn mower estimates ranging from 50 to 80 between males and females as to a wonderful new habitat free mishaps and, finally, the well- years, box turtles do not replace well. of roads. But this won’t work – meaning intentions of people themselves quickly, so the loss Here in North Carolina, the the relocated turtle will wander who want a quiet pet. Their care of an adult box turtle will have box turtle can live in a variety of in search of his old home, even is time-consuming and complex, serious consequences on the habitats, but its ideal home is crossing state lines. and as a result, most captive box population. a forested area with good soil I admire this determination, this turtles do not survive. The diet of the box turtle is drainage, plenty of leaf litter and sense of purpose. I once arrived During my high school and varied and omnivorous. They no roads anywhere in the vicinity. a little late to rescue a turtle from college years, I lived in the North, enjoy earthworms and insects Cars are the biggest threat to the opposite side of the road on and no matter where I drove, I but also have a healthy appetite box turtles, with thousands killed which I was traveling. The driver saw not one box turtle crossing for fruits and vegetables. I have crossing roads and highways on the other side of the road did my path. Box turtles are a rare noticed that they are especially every year. Box turtles living not understand my frantic arm find in most of the northeast, and I fond of red fruits – people with in forests that are fragmented waving, and ran over the very end often drove through beautiful rural tomatoes in their gardens often by large roads are the most of the turtle’s shell with his car. areas hoping to see that iconic find large chunks missing from vulnerable. Box turtles spend their The turtle flipped a few times on domed shell. I missed them. tomatoes that are within reach of lives in an area about the size of a the road, but his shell remained After many years of wandering, the foraging box turtle. football field. They have a homing intact, and he was OK. After a few I settled in Carrboro. As I drive I am often asked how to ability, and will return to their seconds, he popped his head out, along Greensboro Street, I often determine the sex of a box turtle. territory no matter where they looked around a bit and continued stop to allow a box turtle to cross Most males have bright red eyes, are relocated. Quite often, the walking to his destination. the road. The Country Squire while females have brown eyes. turtle lives in a territory that will be You might be wondering station wagon is long gone, but its However, this is not always true, subject to road development, but the same thing that I did as a passenger is home. so it is good to check the plastron this will never deter the box turtle youngster: Why can’t we keep shape as well. The female box from returning to a favored spot; him? Thousands of turtles are
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LITERARY Sandra Gutierrez — To discuss The Lynn Powell — To read from A Framing The Parchman Hour — Depicts a Carrboro Branch Library New Southern-Latino Table. Oct. 8, Innocence: A Mother’s Photographs, a variety show developed by inmates at Ongoing Events — Computer Classes, 11am Prosecutor’s Zeal, and a Small Town’s Parchman Farm Penitentiary during the Response. Oct. 22, 2pm civil rights movement. Oct. 26 – Nov. Saturdays, 10am; Storytime, Saturdays Ashley Memory — To read from Naked 13 10:30am, Ages 1-5 and Hungry. Oct. 9, 2pm NC Poetry Series — With Irene Blair Honeycutt, Debra Kaufman and Julie Deep Dish Theatre Chapel Hill Public Library Mike Wiley — To discuss Playmakers Suk. Oct. 23, 2pm Closed until early October. Will re- Repertory Company’s production of Nathan the Wise — The intricate story open at University Mall The Parchman Hour. Oct. 10, 6pm Robert Morgan — To discuss Lions of of a young couple caught between the West. Oct. 29, 2pm warring religious factions in Jerusalem Chatham County Community Valerie Merians and Dennis Johnson during the Crusades. Oct. 28-Nov. 19 Library — To discuss their books and Melville Flyleaf International Crime series. Oct. 13, deepdishtheatre.org Lisa Patton — To read from Yankee Ongoing Events — Storytime, Aspiring 7pm 543-3030 DSI Comedy Authors’ Workshop, Computer Class- Doodle Dixie. Sept. 29, 7pm Donna Johnson — To read from Holy es, Crafter’s Group 545-8086 Jenny Wingfield — Discusses The High School Improv — Oct. 6 8pm Ghost Girl: A Memoir. Oct. 15, 11am Marjorie Hudson — Presents Acci- Homecoming of Samuel Lake at Bring Mister Diplomat — Oct. 7, 14, 21, 28 dental Birds of the Carolinas. Oct. 4, Hazel’s Book Club — To discuss Your Own Lunch Author Chat. Sept. 30, 10:30pm 6:45pm Free Among the Hidden by Margaret Had- 12pm dix. Oct. 15, 2pm Harold Night — Oct. 7, 21 8pm John Warner — To read from The McIntyre’s Comedy Showcase — Bees Smell Dangerous Dames — Molly Weston Funny Man. Oct. 6, 7pm Jenny Wingfield — To read from The moderates a discussion with “Danger- Fear. Oct. 7 9:30pm Book Lovers Club — To discuss A Visit Homecoming of Samuel Lake. Sept 29, ous Dames” Deborah Sharp, Julie Best Show Ever — Oct. 14, 28 8pm From The Goon Squad by Jennifer 6:30pm Compton and Joanna Campbell Slan. Egan. Oct. 10, 7pm DANCE Sharyn McCrumb — To read from The Oct. 15, 2pm Linda Stout — To discuss Collec- Ballad of Tom Dooley. Sept 30, 2pm Ellyn Bache — To read from The Art of Ballroom — Seymour Senior Center, tive Visioning: How Groups Can Work Saying Goodbye. Oct. 22, 11am fourth and fifth Thursdays 7-9:30pm $2 Kate Whouley — To read from Re- Together for a Just and Sustainable 968-2070 membering The Music, Forgetting The Future. Oct. 11, 7pm Words. Oct 1, 11am Carrboro DanceJam — Freestyle Mystery Authors — Molly Weston mod- dance. Balanced Movement Studio, erates a discussion with “Dangerous first Fridays 8pm 968-8776 Dames” Deborah Sharp, Julie Compton and Joanna Campbell Slan. Oct. 14, Triangle StarDusters Ballroom — Cou- 12pm ples and singles are welcome. Fred For more information or to order tickets Astaire Dance Studio, second Satur- call 929-2787 x201 or go to THEATER days 8-11pm $7/StarDusters members and students, $12/others 942-7232 artscenterlive.org The ArtsCenter Shag Dancing — General Store Café, Funny Business Live — Presents Kyle Mondays, beginner class at 7pm, CONCERTS Suspense! presented by Transactors Dunnigan. Oct. 1 8pm artscenterlive.org dance at 9pm Improv Friday, October 28 @ 8pm One Flea Spare — By Naomi Wallace, Contra Dance — Sponsored by Foot- Blue Rodeo depicts plague-ravaged 17th-century Thursday 9/29, 8:30 pm Halloween Shorts presented by The Loose/Contrazz, Carrboro Century Playwrights Roundtable London, where social roles and their An Evening With Shelby Lynne Center. Oct. 1, lesson 7:30pm/ dance Sunday, 10/30 @ 7pm boundaries are thrown into chaos. Oct. Friday 9/30, 8:30 pm 8pm $9 ChildREN aNd Family 14, 15, 21, 22 at 8pm; Oct. 16, 23 at Comedy Night: Kyle Dunnigan (stand 3pm Contra Dance — With music by up) Floorplay, caller Darlene Underwood. Saturday 10/1 , 8 pm and 10:30 pm SuperFun Show Series (supported by Transactors Improv — Suspense! A Chapel Hill Tire Co.): Elizabeth Mitchell Carrboro Century Center, Oct. 14 Peter Lamb and The Wolves Saturday 11/12, 11:00 am one-act piece comprised of stand-alone tcdancers.org Sunday, 10/2, 7 pm episodes, is an improvised homage to Leon Redbone genres ranging from mystery to horror Contra Dance — Third Friday dance Thursday, 10/ 6, 8:30 pm to noir. Oct. 28, 8pm sponsored by Carolina Song and The ArtsCenter Honors featuring Red Dance Association. Carrboro Century Clay Ramblers and Battlefield Band Playwrights Roundtable — Presents Center, csda-dance.org Wednesday 10/19, 7:30 pm Halloween Shorts, an evening of short Swing Dance — Carrboro Century ThEaTER performance and film work. Oct. 30, 8pm Center, second Saturdays, lesson 7:30pm, dance 8pm triangleswingda- Garrett Davis Productions Playmakers Saturday, 10/8 @ 8pm nce.org One Flea Spare by Naomi Wallace In The Next Room — By Sarah Ruhl, in Square Dance — Caller Carol Thomp- presented by ArtsCenter Stage which a medical device to treat patients son, music by Tolly’s Rigamarollers. October 14-16 & October 21-23 Friday afflicted with “female hysteria” is in- & Saturday @ 8pm; Sunday @ 3pm Oct. 7 7:30pm/lesson; 8pm dance vented in the late 1800s. Through Oct. ncsquares.com 9 playmakersrep.org
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6 carrborocitizen.com/mill + October 2011 MILL tHe READBY VICKYE DICKSONR All eyes on Chapel Hill
t was standing room only for the told of moving to a verminous home launch of Eno Publishers’ collection (with indoor plumbing!) on Justice Street 27 Views of Chapel Hill at Flyleaf and D.G. Martin brought us the sisters Books last Saturday, where attend- who for decades have shared their ees who’d braved the afternoon’s Gimghoul Road garden with anyone heavyI rain showers were rewarded with who wishes to enter. The sisters, though an impressive display of local literary they’re getting on in years, continue to talent. maintain that beautiful garden because, Host Daniel Wallace, writer of the “As long as we have the garden, we’ll book’s introduction and cover illustrator, never be lonely.” opened things up by noting how sedate Poetic talent was well represented a group the assembled writers were, too, with Alan Shapiro’s powerful verses unlike those unruly authors who made a about a singular basketball game, Paul sport of insulting one another in days of Jones’ poignant lines about a used yore. He quipped: “I would love to see bookstore’s forgotten volumes and a riv- Daphne [Athas] tackle Paul Jones, and eting ending performance by Sacrificial All eyes are on Mama Dip as she reads from 27 Views of Chapel Hill at Flyleaf watch “Erica [Eisdorfer] and Mama Dip Poet Will McInerney. Books on Saturday. Pictured, back to front, are authors Daniel Wallace, Alan in a little fistfight.” Which didn’t happen, Daniel Wallace summed it up nicely: Shapiro, Samia Serageldin, Elisabeth Spencer, Will McInerney and Mildred of course – but the event was plenty “This whole program is like being Tanta- Council (Mama Dip). lively all the same. lus – you just want more, and then they Photo by Robert Dickson And plenty enlightening too. First stop.” to read an excerpt was restaurateur But fortunately, there is more – all you Mildred “Mama Dip” Council, who re- have to do is buy 27 Views of Chapel counted how she opened her restaurant Hill. Not only will you get the full stories in 1976 with $64 – just enough to buy you’ve been tantalized with, you’ll get what she needed to cook the opening equally fascinating views of Chapel Hill day’s breakfast, but not enough, she re- by Wells Tower, Will Blythe, Bland Simp- alized later, to have enabled her to make son, Sy Safransky, William Leuchten- change if one of her first customers had burg and many others. Which will leave handed her a $10 bill. The proceeds you, in all likelihood, just wanting more from breakfast bought lunch, and lunch from 27 (well, actually 29 – or 30, count- paid for supper fixings … with the profits ing Wallace’s intro) fine local writers. of the day coming to $135. And thus the Those who couldn’t make it to Flyleaf UNC HUmaNities iN aCtioN at FlyleaF Books, oCtoBer programs: famed Dip’s Country Kitchen was born. on Saturday will have another opportu- Wed 10/12 5:30pm-7:00pm Among the afternoon’s other high- nity to meet Daniel Wallace and some Special Early Evening Session! lights were readings from fiction set in of the 27 Views of Chapel Hill authors, Against All Odds: The American Struggle for Health Care Chapel Hill over the decades, with Athas at the Regulator Bookshop in Durham, Reform with Jonathan Oberlander, UNC Professor of Social evoking the town’s life in the ’40s, and Oct. 11 at 7 pm. Medicine and Health Policy and Management, and Adjunct Lawrence Naumoff and Elizabeth Spen- Those impressed (and who wasn’t?) Associate Professor of Political Science cer doing the same for the tumultuous by Will McInerney’s reading might want times of the ’60’s and ’70s. to check out Sacrificial Poets Touch- Wed 10/19 3:30pm-5:00pm Charles Thompson offered a sober- stone Open Mic night at Flyleaf, the first Conspiracies in American Politics (encore presentation!) with ing reminiscence of an early ’60s sit-in Wednesday of every month from 6:30 Robert Daniels, UNC Associate Professor of Anthropology off Franklin Street, while Paul Cuadros to 8:30. showed us, in his vignette about the His- The Hinge Literary Center will bring Wed 10/26 3:30pm-5:00pm panics now working behind the counter Alan Shapiro back to Flyleaf on Oct. 20 Poverty and the Challenge of Equality in America with Gene at Sutton’s Drugstore, how much things at 7 p.m. for a lecture and discussion Nichol, UNC Professor of Law and Director of the Center on have changed since those days. entitled “Why Write?” And if you’re hav- Poverty, Work and Opportunity Then there was Bill Smith and his ing some trouble getting started, check tale of life (floral and otherwise) along the out “How to get past the first chapter UNC Humanities in Action at Flyleaf Books features afternoon and early evening discussions on contemporary bike path that connects Chapel Hill and and finish your novel,” which will be topics in the humanities. Events are ticketed. Call 919-962-1544 presented by writer James Maxey at the Carrboro, and Jock Lauterer describing for more information or to register. $18 advance registration the trepidation he felt after inviting the Orange County Main Library in Hillsbor- per program or $20 at the door. adolescent James Taylor to his house ough on Oct. 8 at 10 a.m. Aspiring nov- for a guitar lesson. Samia Serageldin elists should register for the free event described a Muslim woman’s trepidation at the library’s information desk, by 752 MLK Jr Blvd (Historic Airport Rd) Chapel Hill about throwing a party less than a week calling 245-2536 or online at the Orange after 9/11. Linnie Greene described County Library site, www.co.orange. Next to Foster’s Market, Kitchen and Flying Burrito coming to love the Nightlight, Eisdorfer nc.us/library/adultevents.asp 919.942.7373 * flyleafbooks.com
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In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) PlayMakers Repertory Com- pany’s Mainstage Season gets cranking with Sarah Ruhl’s In The Next Room (or the vibrator play) running through Oct. 9. In the Next Room is a 2010 Tony Award nominee for Best Play and a Pulitzer Prize finalist – a “modern masterpiece,” says the Los Angeles Times. It’s set in the late 1800s, and centers Julie Fishell as Annie, Matthew Greer as Dr. Givings and Katie Paxton as Mrs. on the invention of a “miracle Daldry instrument” used to treat an affliction, not uncommonly diagnosed at the time, called “female hysteria.” The play is, yes, an orgasmic celebration of longing, desire, jealousy and motherhood. Performances are 7:30 p.m. nightly except Mondays and Sundays and 2 p.m. on Oct. 1, 2 and 9. Tickets run $10 to $45. For information or to purchase tickets, call 962-PLAY (7529) or Kelsey Didion as Mrs. Givings and Matt Garner as Leo visit playmakersrep.org Irving Photos by Jon Gardiner Katie Paxton as Mrs. Daldry and Julie Fishell as Annie
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8 carrborocitizen.com/mill + October 2011 MILL Caught on film By Margot c. Lester
CINEMATOGRAPHER SPOTLIGHT: TIM ORR
Like a lot of folks, Tim Orr bounced around after college, look- ing for a career that would stick. “After working a series of really crappy jobs, I started to have an ar- tistic awakening of sorts,” says Orr, the Hendersonville-born cinematog- rapher of several great indie films and some of your favorite Eastbound & Down episodes. “I began to paint CUTLINE: and write. Then I started to watch movies seriously. That’s when I thought that it was something that I wanted to do with my life.” So he decided on film school and was accepted at the N.C. School of the Arts in Winston-Salem. He was leaning toward writing/directing, but NCSA is structured like a conser- vatory, exposing students to all aspects of making films, regardless of their primary interests. “When it came to camera and lighting, I discovered what I was most interested in, and I had a cer- tain talent for it,” Orr admits. “I had Cinematographer Tim Orr capturing images at Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland in 2009. Photo courtesy of Tim Orr no formal training in photography at all – I really didn’t understand the – it seems to always be in the per- vision and taste in filmmaking,” of the life as we know it.” fect place,” Orr explains. “Conrad explains the Portland, Ore.-based technical side, but what I had was Small screen instinct and an eye for framing and Hall’s lighting is gutsy and natu- cinematographer. “Early on, the first camera placement. The technical ralistic, and his day exterior work four movies especially, we found Though he loves the big screen, side of things fell into place after a is exquisite. His use of the zoom, that it was a very easy partnership. Orr relishes his work on Eastbound bit of obsessive study.” lens flares, widescreen composi- I knew what he was going for in the & Down (on which he also col- tion – and his use of overexposure performances and the tone of the laborated with Green) because it Inspirations and to temper color – played a very film, and that allowed me to get into gave him more leeway to try new or influences influential role in my development the skin of the movie in terms of the unconventional things. as a cinematographer.” visual image. I would know where “We strayed from the conven- As part of that study, Orr discov- to put the camera and how to light tional expectations of what a com- ered the work of still photographer Big screen the scene to underscore what was edy should look like,” he explains. William Eggleston, who’s credited Orr’s first professional film was going on emotionally in the story. It “It was approached much more as a with elevating color photography to The Lesser Evil, an independent has become a real shorthand, and drama than a comedy, with natu- an art form. film shot in Winston-Salem in 1996, an extremely rewarding collabora- ralistic lighting and a ’70s-flavored “He has the most amazing eye when he still had two more years of tion.” ‘Altmanesque’ style of camera for telling a story with simple im- school to go. He was a day-playing Orr was also behind the camera movement. We exploited the use of ages,” Orr says. “I also appreciate grip – one of the people who main- for 2008’s Choke, an adaptation of the zoom lens and shot coverage and connect with his approach of tain production equipment on the the Chuck Palahniuk novel writ- in an unconventional manner, often finding beauty in ordinary subjects. set. ten and directed by former Chapel with two moving cameras shooting He trusts his instincts, with beau- He has collaborated with writer/ Hillian Clark Gregg (he and Gregg an entire scene in one setup.” tiful, poetic results. That’s what director David Gordon Green will team again on Trust Me, which Like anyone who’s found his call- I strive for: simplistic honesty in on seven films, including 2000’s begins shooting next month), and ing, Orr is as humble as he is happy. photography.” George Washington, which received several comedies starring Seth Ro- “Everyday, I feel blessed,” he Many of the same things appeal multiple Independent Spirit Awards; gen, most recently 2009’s Observe allows. “I feel blessed and thankful to him in moving pictures. Orr was 2003’s All the Real Girls, which won & Report. Orr’s current project is for a wonderful family and an excit- inspired by films like Butch Cas- two Special Jury Prizes at Sun- called Seeking a Friend For the End ing and rewarding career as a cin- sidy and the Sundance Kid, shot by dance; and 2004’s Undertow, which of the World (with first-time director ematographer. When I go to work, it Conrad Hall. took three awards on the festival Lorene Scafaria), a film Orr de- doesn’t feel like work, because it is “It’s a film where the camera is circuit. scribes as “a beautifully written love something that I love doing.” an evocative tool in the storytelling “David and I share a similar story set on the precipice of the end
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The Stories of Aids It was Andrew Magill’s dream to por- tray reality through song and dance, and now that dream is coming to life on stage through the Stories of Aids project. The Stories of Aids is the culmination of a multi-year project that started as an idea Magill had in the fall of 2008. Like most seniors at UNC, Magill was trying to decide what his next move would be after graduation; his decision took him to the African nation of Malawi on a Fulbright-mtvU fellowship in 2010. Magill said he knew he wanted to focus on AIDS in Africa and its effects on people’s lives. “What could I do about this?” Magill asked. “I am not going to be a doctor. Music is a place that I excel, an area that I could invest my time and energy to change this.” During his time in Malawi, Magill met with people who were living with AIDS/ Andrew Magill after a concert at a school assembly in Malawi Photo by Kaitlin Houlditch-Fair HIV or had in some way been affected by the disease, and recorded their “The music is the centerpiece of the and the native Malawian language, and stories. He then took these stories and larger project,” Magill said, “which is a powerful quotes from the stories Magill expressed them through music with desire to share the human story of AIDS recorded, comprise Mau a Malawi: the help of Malawian musician Peter with people.” Stories of AIDS, a concept album that Mawanga. The songs, with lyrics in both English will be released in conjunction with a performance. The performance will be held at Memorial Hall on the UNC campus on Friday, Oct. 14 from 7 to 10 p.m. The show will feature a multimedia presenta- tion with actors portraying the people Magill recorded, film of his time in Malawi and musical and dance interpretation of NOW OPEN the stories. The 90-minute show is free, CALL FOR A TOUR but donations are strongly encouraged, and tickets are available at Memorial Hall box office. • Low Student—Teacher Ratio “This show is going to be a holistic • Brain Considerate Curriculum encourages Inquiry Based Learning experience of stories of AIDS.” Magill • Caring for children ages 6 weeks to 4 years, Before/After school care, said. “I can guarantee you will have some Kindergarten and Summer Camps for ages 5 - 12 Peter Mawanga recording at Kujumbula sort of emotional response.… At the end • Music and Foreign Language included in tuition Studios at Children of the Nations in Lilon- of the day, you will be entertained, but we • State of the art classroom environments and materials gwe, Malawi. also hope you get fired up and commit- Photo by Kaitlin Houlditch-Fair • The freshest, most nutritious natural foods - lunch & 2 snacks daily ted to the issue.” • Learners will take an active part in their educational journey • Legacy Academy is a partner with all parents Legacy Academy for Children, Chapel Hill 515 East Winmore Avenue Chapel Hill, NC 27516 919-929-7060 [email protected] www.legacyacademy.com Legacy Academy Chapel Hill provides a developmentally appropriate program that will support each child as they prepare for academic success. At Legacy Academy our mission is to serve our children, families, staff and communities in a manner that positively impacts their lives. 10 carrborocitizen.com/mill + October 2011 MILL
taste of the town: Panzanella Located in Historic Carr Mill, Panzanella offers Italian-inspired dishes with rustic and Jim Nixon, Panzanella chef modern combinations of local and seasonal Photo by Alicia Stemper ingredients in a casual, friendly atmosphere. As part of the Weaver Street Cooperative, the staff strives to create a restaurant that supports the local community and is a great place to relax and enjoy a delicious meal. Panzanella features food from local farmers, and on its menus diners will find all-natural poul- try, local pasture-raised beef and pasture-raised pork, as well as sustainably sourced seafood. “This dish uses local flounder from Core Sound Seafood. It’s a nice balanced dish – great for cooler weather. The lightness of the fish pairs well with the earthiness of the porcini mushrooms in the risotto.” – Jim Nixon, chef Core Sound Seafood Flounder with Porcini Risotto
Porcini Risotto Ingredients 1 ounce porcini mushrooms, soaked in two quarts of warm water for 10 minutes (reserve liquid for rice) 1/2 yellow onion, diced 2 cups Arborio rice 1/2 cup white wine and bay leaf to the pot and cover with 1 1/2 tablespoons salt cold water. Bring to a simmer. 1 teaspoon pepper Separately, add the tomato paste to the cup of water and stir until Procedure smooth. Add to stock. Soak mushrooms and drain Let broth simmer for three hours. OKTOBERFEST through a cheesecloth (reserve liquid) Strain the broth through a fine In a saucepot, sauté onions until strainer or cheesecloth and place soft. Add rice and stir. Add wine and back on the stove over medium heat ALL OF stir. for 30 minutes to reduce. Roughly chop softened mush- Flounder OCTOBER: rooms and add to the risotto. Add reserved liquid from the mushrooms a Ingredients Daily Specials on small amount at a time, until the rice is 1 large flounder filet German Food & al dente. 1 cup flour 1 tablespoon paprika Spaten Oktoberfest Lobster broth 1/2 teaspoon cayenne Ingredients 1 teaspoon salt 1 pound lobster shells 1/2 teaspoon black pepper 2 quarts cold water (for stock pot) Procedure 1 medium yellow onion, peeled and Dust flounder with flour. In a sauté diced O'zapftO'zapft is!is! pan, heat olive oil until just smoking. (it means the kegs are tapped!) 2 medium carrots, peeled and Carefully put the flounder in the oil diced and sauté for three minutes until light 5 stalks of celery, diced brown. Turn the flounder over and Oktoberfest 1 head fennel, diced continue to cook for two minutes. 1/4 cup tomato paste Place in a 350-degree oven for 5 Celebration 1 bay leaf minutes. Remove and place on risotto. 1 cup water (for tomato paste) Ladle the lobster broth over the fish WITH THE Procedure and risotto. Serve. Little German Band DININGandDRINKING.com Roast lobster shells in a 350-de- on Saturday Oct. 29th gree oven until pink. Place the shells 307 East Main - Carrboro in a deep stockpot. Add vegetables beeratmilltown milltowncarrboro phunco11-192
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12 carrborocitizen.com/mill + October 2011 MILL the eaterby kirk ross Eat Fall of the best college towns for food, in an article entitled “10 College Towns with the Best Food.” Pepperfest The rather uninspired headline, typical of 10 Best pieces everywhere, notes the Get ready for an event that’s way up there on the Scoville scale. The 4th highly inspired offerings at Neal’s Deli, Sandwhich and The Pig. The article also Annual Pittsboro Pepper Festival has moved to Briar Chapel Community Park namedrops Farmer’s Daughter for “provisions.” this year, promising more A nice nod to the places mentioned, but the sentence that says Chapel Hill room, more heat and more “conjures images of biscuits, gravy and endless green lawns” does not instill a variety, with 24 chefs and lot of confidence in the research. plenty of pepper events The Eater suggests you try the aforementioned establishments (you’ll have to along with green workshops pick up your Farmer’s Daughter provisions at the Carrboro Farmers’ Market) and courtesy of the Abundance draw your own conclusions. Foundation and Piedmont Biofuels. Pepper providers for the The bounty of our wonderful Oct. 2 event include Dog coast Day Farm, Dutch Buffalo, A couple of recent trips out east of here, including one to the disaster area on Fiddlehead Farm, Granite the north end of Hatteras Island, has once again brought home just how many Springs, Okfuskee Farm, people on our coast still engage in bringing in fresh wild-caught seafood. This Bennett Farming, Edible year, storms and fires have made making a living on the water even rougher. Earthscapes, Screech Owl’s (Even the good news of an unusually successful year for the endangered Kemp’s Greenhouses, Hope Garden, Ridley sea turtle had consequences, as it delayed the start of commercial Cane Creek Farm and flounder fishing in Pamlico Sound.) Everlaughter. We’re coming into the season for cooler waters, and the shops should be The festival menu includes plentiful with bluefish, flounder, speckled trout and other fall fish, making it a dishes such as Chile Shack fine time to support your local fisheries. John’s famous poblano Frito pie from Angelina’s Kitchen, the General Store Café’s pepper and okra étouffée, Crook Corner’s Tobago pepper jelly and crackers, Chicken Bridge Bakery’s yeasted corn bread with roasted peppers Over Over ChapelChapel HillHill and Glasshalfull’s smoked- pepper soup. Choose from a large variety of wings, boneless In addition to checking out the flavors and testing their wings, sandwiches, wraps, Over ribs,Chapel salads Hill & more! capsaicin capacities, visitors will be treated to the tunes of Lonnie Walker and OverOver Chapel Chapel Hill Hill Justin Robinson and the Mary Annettes. A $25 donation goes to support the Choose A dfromelic iao largeus s avarietymple of o fwings our, Fbonelesslavors wings: , Abundance Foundation. Choose from a large variety of wings, boneless Bar-B-QuesandwiChes, wraps, ribs, Jamaicansalads and more Jerk! wings, Hot sandwiches, Garlic wraps, Mustangribs, salads Ranch & more! Close of season Cajun A Teriyaki delicious sample of Oriental our Flavors: Sesame Speaking of peppers, if you missed the annual pepper-roasting exhibition Citrus A delli ic Chipotleiious samplle o Garlicf our ParmesanFllavors: by Alex Hitt at Carrboro Farmers’ Market, you’ve got to wait another year. Bar-B-Que Jamaican Jerk BuffaloBar-B-QueHot Garlic Style WestJamaicanMustang Texas JerkRanch Mesquite Throughout the region, the markets are making their transition to fall, with Hot Garlic Plus Mustang Ranch midweek markets shutting down in Hillsborough, Carrboro and Chapel Hill at the Cajun Teriyaki Plus many more!Sweet Onion BBQ Citrus Chipotle Garlic Parmesan end of the month. Cajun Teriyaki Many Oriental Sesame Buffalo Style West Texas Mesquite That said, the markets are anything but slowing down with the fall vegetables Citrus Chipotle View our menuMore! online Garlic at Parmesan pouring in. Seems like a particularly good year for various late beans. And don’t Buffalo www.wingsoverchapelhill.comwww Style.wingsoverchap Westelhil lTexas.com Mesquite forget that it is shitake mushroom season, with several growers hopeful of a View Plus our many menu more! online at good harvest. Open till 3amwww.wingsoverchapelhill.com on Fri & Sat | Free Delivery Open till 3am View ouron menuFri & online Sat |at Free Delivery Another hat tip www.wingsoverchapelhill.comwww..wiingsoverchapellhiillll..com RDER ONLINE OR CALL A Huffington Post writer has informed the rest of the world that this place is one O Order online or call 919.537.8271 919.537.8271 Open Open tilltill 313 3am3am E. 313M AIN E.onon Main S FriFri T .,St., C Carrboro,&& ARRBORO SatSat NC || , 27514 NCFreeFree 27514 DeliveryDelivery MILL October 2011 + carrborocitizen.com/mill 13 O RDER ONLINE OR CALL 919.537.8271 313 E. M AIN S T .,., CC ARRBORO , NC 27514 DOWntOWn CArrbOrO’S OWn OPtiMiStiC Wine bAr, Wine ShOP & reStAurAnt
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14 carrborocitizen.com/mill + October 2011 MILL hop line by jason cole To brew is human, to be craft toward Gemuetlichkeit. It enhances it, nurtures it. No people divine more understand the true nature of beer than the Bavarians. For a people to have such a grand festival founded on these Beer is beautiful. Beer is plain. Made from grains, plants principles, the Bavarians understand what we mean when we and water, beer is of the earth, born of human ingenuity and say “craft beer.” necessity. As we have evolved, so has our relationship with the world around us. Our understanding of science and our As craft beer continues to gain strength and popularity, it is environment moved us from necessity to luxury and then to art. very important to remember why we call it craft beer. It is not What a fascinating creature we are, to be able to take those a particular flavor or the quantity of beer produced in a year things so basic a need as to eat and turn it into an art form. – craft beer is a mindset, an outlook on life and a view of the Whether a chef, winemaker or a brewer, using a medium of world. It is a celebration of humanity and its positive effect on necessity to create things that move us is a true art. the things around us. To be craft is to be natural. Craft is a response to the mass-marketed beers created in boardrooms Craft beer is a celebration of both the earth and art. There is no and marketing focus groups that are thoroughly un-human. better time to reflect on this than at harvest. Since ancient times, Craft beers are born from artisanal-thinking men and women humans have used beer to celebrate the harvest. Thus beer and with a passion for edible art. Much like harvest festivals of the festivals have become companions. The most famous of these ancients, craft beer is saying we acknowledge the earth and is the Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany. Most people know our relationship with it. Craft is a part of the larger movement of the massive amounts of beer that is served, the oversized to celebrate the givings of earth and man’s ability to create pretzels, the funny attire of the locals and the sheer debauchery beauty with it: the human triumph. Those principles are not that results. But that’s a tourist trap. Oktoberfest is a celebration far from those of the Bavarians, who 200 years ago found that of what is at the heart of the craft-beer revolution. We need only celebrating the good life, appreciating the beautiful and using to look at its roots and the people who keep it alive to know beer as a backbone for it all was worth remembering once a why. year in grand style. And at its heart, we find it was born of a In October of 1810, the Bavarian king invited the people of celebration of love. Love for each other, love for the earth and Munich to the fields outside of the city to celebrate the marriage what it gives us, and there is nothing more craft than that. of his son, Prince Ludwig, to his bride, Therese. The festivities included a horserace, a parade and (of course) beer. The king commissioned the breweries of Munich to brew a special beer to celebrate the wedding. As a basis for the wedding beer, the breweries used a harvest beer; Maerzenbier, or “March Beer,” was a beer that was brewed in March and then stored in caves over the summer to be consumed in the fall. The people had such a great time at the wedding that they decided to throw the same party again the following year. A tradition was born, and Oktoberfest became a signature festival for the Bavarians. Bavarians live by one word: Gemuetlichkeit. It has no direct translation to English. In a few words, it means “the good This month’s special is: things in life.” It is a sense of place, of togetherness and of friendship. I’ll bet Bavarians smile more than any other people in the world, and that’s not just from the beer – though beer Buy a pasta dish, does play an important part in Bavarians’ lives. It is a vehicle get a second pasta dish of equal or less value free! Not valid with other offers Expires October 31
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MILL October 2011 + carrborocitizen.com/mill 15 MUSIC calendar August The ArtsCenter table Graveyard, Gasoline Stove (10/8) John memorial hall LOCALH 506 Blue Rodeo (9/29) Shelby Lynn (9/30)Peter Craigie (10/11) Tim Stambaugh, Birds and Anthony Dean Griffey (9/29) Angelique Kidjo Lamb and The Wolves (10/2) Triangle Jazz Arrows, Crankshaft (10/13) (10/16) Mary Chapin Carpenter (10/18) 9/29 Thu SUPREME FICTION CD Release Show Orchestra Night (10/5) Leon Redbone (10/6) 9/30 Fri VIVA VOCE / THE PARSON RED HEADS Burlap To Cashmere (10/7) Red Clay Ram- city tap Nightlight David Quick (9/29) Tracey Wiebeck, Joe Seal/Mother, Ani Stark, Ghost Hand (9/29) 10/1 SaT Signalfest 2011: DJ FM / GALDYTRON! / blers, Battlefield Band (10/19) SWIFF Bell and The Stinging Blades (9/30) Daniel Cave, Drag City, Dino Felipe and This Heart bynum front porch Sean (10/1) Joe Gore and The Alterna- Electric, Boyzone (9/30) Tomas Phillips and 10/3 Mon PETER WOLF CRIER / MILAGRES Front Porch Pickin’ (10/8, 10/22) tive (10/2) Doug Largent Trio (10/6) Patrick Jason Bivins, PAS Musique, Derek Piotr, 10/4 Tue THE RENDERERS / SORE EROS / THE SUZAN Dyer Wolf, Brenda Linton (10/7) The Swang Ballon Animal Farm, Powercloud, Subscape 10/6 Thu AMERICAN AQUARIUM / WYLIE HUNTER & caffe driade Brothers (10/8) George Worthmore (10/13) Annex (10/1) Horseback, Atlas Moth, Ken THE CAZADORES Second Shift A Cappella (10/21) Justin Johnson, Doug Largent Trio, George Mode (10/4) Gem Club, Animal Alphabet, 10/7 Fri THE DESIGN / HADWYNN / LIZH carolina inn Worthmore (10/14) Steph Stewart and the Holy Spirits (10/5) JSwiss, Optimus Rhymes, 10/8 SaT L in JAPANESE Dance Party Boyfriends (10/15) Laura Thurston (10/20) JayRock, Will Hoggard (10/6) Brainbows, Mel Melton and The Wicked Mojo (10/7) 10/9 Sun DOMINANT LEGS / NURSES cat’s cradle Roy Schneider, Sarah Shook and The Devil Useless Ears, Lame Drivers (10/7) Unholy N.E.D. Birds and Arrows (9/29) Who’s Bad? 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Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance As the heat index settles into the double digits and the leaves begin to un- dergo their annual identity crisis, autumn is once again making its presence felt in the Piedmont. What better way to celebrate than with lively music, local crafts and deli- cious food? The eighth annual Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance will be held Thursday, Oct. 6 through Sun- day, Oct. 9. The weekend will feature more than 50 bands and performers, and while the fes- tival’s roots are in bluegrass, there is sure to be something for everyone. Acts include Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Brett Den- nen, The Old Ceremony, Bela Fleck and The Flecktones, Donna the Buffalo and many more. Kids 12 and under get in free, and there will be plenty of activities to keep them en- tertained. Camping space will be available for both tents and vehicles. The festival will be held at 1439 Hen- derson Tanyard Road in Silk Hope. For a list of activities, performance schedule, Bela Fleck & The Flecktones directions or to buy tickets, visit shakori- hillsgrassroots.org
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OCSC 10-year anniversary cel- ebration It’s time to celebrate 10 years of making new friends and re- Spider Bags acquainting with old ones in one Photo by Rodney Boles of Carrboro’s favorite bars. The Orange County Social Club is 10 years old! Following a weeklong cel- ebration, OCSC will commemo- rate its 10th anniversary with an extravaganza so massive it’ll span two nights at Cat’s Cradle. Spider Bags The shows, Friday, Oct. 14 and The Carrboro-based band Spider Bags will bring Saturday, Oct. 15, should prove their sometimes loud, sometimes acoustic blend of to be the event of the year for country, punk and rock to the intimate space of the all Carrborites. It will featurea Nightlight on Friday, Oct. 14. Benji Hughes, Crooked Fingers, Band members Dan McGee and Gregg Levy have David Bazan, Gross Ghost, The been making music for 15 years and have released two Toddlers, Seven Brides for the albums as the Spider Bags, on Birdman Records and Meat Wagon, Kerbloki, Ghost on Durham-based label Churchkey Records. Their lyr- of Rock and a special ensemble ics tell the tales of a life influenced by alcohol and filled performance with members of with heartbreak and the occasional down-and-out mo- Mandolin Orange, The Light ment, but are delivered in such a way that makes their Pines, the Tomahawks and Ryan music easy and enjoyable to listen to. State Champion Gustafson. and Animal City will also perform. Both nights, the doors open The show starts at 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $5; be sure at 7 p.m. Shows start at 8 p.m. to bring along your Nightlight membership card. Those and should wrap up around Poster by Ron Liberti without a membership can purchase one for $5 at the midnight – leaving plenty of door. time to finish your night off right at OCSC, toasting another 10 years of happiness. Tickets are $10 for one night or $18 for a two-night pass.
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Ashley Melzer writes the Gimme Five! column for The Carrboro Citizen’s MILL blog (carrborocitizen. com/mill/tag/gimme-five), in which she asks local bands five probing questions. Below is a selection of favorites from the column to date. Daniel Lawrence and5 Kenny Jones of Supreme Fiction The Citizen: What can listeners expect Southwestern to hear on the new seasonal - local - fresh record? Lawrence: When I cuisine started working on the material that ended up on Berliners, I Timberlyne Shopping Center thought I had finally 1129 Weaver Dairy Road, Chapel Hill hit upon the type 919-942-4745 of bright, upbeat, margaretscantina.com concise, pleasure- center-seeking- missile pop songs Serving lunch weekdays that every hopelessly and dinner Monday-Saturday longwinded songwriter secretly dreams of writing. Then I got carried away and ruined everything by being hopelessly longwinded. Songs like “Me and the Kiddie KGB,” “What is the Moon?” and “Song for Space Bear” started out almost as joke songs, but I got really Friend us on Facebook energized when I realized I could make my subject matter as outlandish as I wanted Please recycle this paper to and still maintain a genuine emotional core. When we started the band, that sense of exhilaration transferred itself to learning and playing those songs, which tended to come together really quickly. The result was a really musically and lyrically playful album, and I hope people will share our feeling of – HEY! WOW! A SONG! – when they listen to the record. Jones: Genre-bending literary pop/rock. Although not really. Ideally it should sound energetic and effortless. A collection of songs that are funny but meaningful.
Mark Holland of Jennyanykind TC: When was the moment you first thought music was something you might like to try?
Holland: I thought when I heard the Stones at age 7 I wanted to play piano like Ian Stewart. However, that quickly went away when I actually started taking piano lessons. It was really Charlie Watts. I heard him and made my old man buy an old Ludwig kit with the name “The Singing Disciples” on the kick. I still wish I played it.
Wylie Hunter of Wylie Hunter and the Cazdores TC: When was the moment you first thought music was something you might like to try? Hunter: I don’t know that there ever really was one moment. I can’t remember a time when music wasn’t a huge part of my life. Driving to elementary school, my mom and I used to sing along to cassette tapes by The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan. I’ve been singing ever since I can remember. But when I got to high school and finally picked up a guitar, it all just clicked; I suppose that was the moment I knew I wanted to be a “musician.” It was a realization that I could make my own music, and use it to say what I wanted to say. I guess the rest of my life has been spent trying to figure out what it is I want to say.
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