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Contact Us: Curtis Cartier A&E Editor 523-4921 ntertainment lumberjack@ nau.edu Page 15 | umberjack Nov. 29 - Dec. 5, 2007 www. JackC entral.com They may as well have been called The Shoes Ms. Dewey PIANPRA MARKGWAF that are sincere yet funny sass has a T he Lum berjack and especially energetic. As The Shoes themselves put “When you wake up in it, they make melodies that .new URL the morning and your toaster sound like how the band is hovering over you with a feels. Some songs start out spork saying, ‘I’m gonna gouge rather slow, but speed up as your eyeballs out.’ And he’s fla- the song progresses; and by min red inside, you’re gonna the end of the track, danc­ call The Shoes,” said Brandon ing around the entire room “The Everything Machine” Ar- and throwing your shoes on Tired of Googles bland gires. stage at any point in time is The Shoes started back and boring search page? MSN s a very real possibility. news clips and fun reads just in July. They were inspired by But why should any­ (among other things) mass not fun enough? Well, never one spend their hard earned fear, Ms. Dewey is here! amounts of alcohol, strum­ cash on a band that has yet ming guitars and karate kick­ Haven’t seen it yet? Check to release an album, a demo, out www.msdewey.com. You’ll ing robots into fire, which led or even play a considerable to the band writing an entire set find a Hispanic woman who’s amount of shows? What the image of modernity; using in a day for a house show later makes them so special? The that night. Since then they’ve Ms. instead of Miss or Mrs., answer is plain and simple. classy in sleek black and styled been pumping out debauchery “You’re not gonna see and musical creativity from an hair, and a woman who’s not a band like The Shoes in afraid to speak her mind. entirely new dimension, and Flagstaff’ said lead guitarist delivering it to unsuspecting Type in whatever your Gabe Bixler. curious brain finds interesting Flagstaff concertgoers. There are no words When asked how the that day and Ms. Dewey will that clearly define The Shoes’ make a smart-alec comment band settled on the name “The music. If any, it would have Shoes”, singer and guitarist such as “this is what your little to be “pirate rock" because mind wanted to know?” and Brandon Argires replied, “John everything The Shoes do, say Lennon had an interview once obediently bring up five or so or drink is something a pi­ results. Since she’s part of Mi­ where they said, ‘So howd you rate would do, say or drink. guys come up with the name crosoft, her results come from To get a taste of the true pi­ their search engine, except The Beatles?’ And John said, rate entity in The Shoes, ask ‘Well, it was just a random with less variety. Even when them when they’re walking you’re not doing anything, she’s j i word, we may as well have down the street about that been called The Shoes’” an active young lady. “pivotal moment” when Ms. Dewey obviously Since the band’s very first they first became a band. It’s “real” show, which involved feels she is too attractive to be a crazy story' that involves neglected, so she won’t let you. the consumption of 15 or so robots and dancing on roof­ live goldfish from champagne She’ll take props, like a sling­ tops, and is definitely guar­ shot or a shotgun, from be­ glasses, The Shoes have played anteed to shock and amaze. only four times at Applesauce hind her desk and threaten you On the other hand, with them. Or she’ll whine and Tea House so far in their short the band’s infectious music career as a full band. Even still, complain, wave and knock on drives the point home and the computer glass to get your The Shoes’ crowds are growing has the ability to turn any­ larger with every impromptu attention. one and everyone who lis­ It’s refreshing. Her re­ gig- tens to it into a wild, drink­ “This is the most people sponses actually consist of ing, dancing pirate because about 600 video dips which The Shoes have ever played it’s incredibly hard to go to for," said Argires at the bands were recorded over a period of a Shoes show and just stand three days. last show Nov. 16 where they idly by. Serine Halverson/The Lumberjack played with local reggae/punk band Brothers Gow. BRANDON ARGIRES, LEAD singer, performs with his band The Shoes on Saturday The Shoes write songs evening. See SHOES. Paqe 17 See DEWEY, Paqe 18 Safe on earth, Maria Lopez The Format unplugged still shooting for the stars PIANPRA MARKGRAF formed a snaking queue wailed at the singers every T he Lu m berjack through the Prochnow lobby mention of The Format. AMY JOSHU naut. still considered a minor at to shell out their limited col­ The theater grew dark, T he Lu m berjack From freshman year of 17, her parents told the Air Prochnow Auditorium lege dollars on Format mer­ the audience cheered, and the high school on, her flight plan Force for her, “Thanks, but was packed to the rafters Nov. chandise—everything from bluish glow of a few lonely A hopeful astronaut- was set and her mission: accep­ no thanks.” 17 when Arizona’s own The shirts and hoodies to wallets lights illuminated the stage as turned singer seems an unlikely tance into the U.S. Air Force Panicked, Lopez called Format came to NAU as part and key chains with designs all Nate Reuss, Sam Means, Marko change of mind, but for senior Academy in Colorado Springs, on her father, who was for­ of their end-of-the-year “ran- created by Format guitaristypi­ Buzard, Mike Schey and Don music major Maria Lopez, the Colo, was underway. By her merly in the Navy, for ad­ dom-college" tour in support anist Sam Means. Raymond descended upon the transition from one to the took senior year, Lopez was in­ vice. He suggested getting of the release of their new “I’m flattered when col­ feverish fans of Prochnow. The its course accidentally. volved in nine extracurricular an “easy” four-year degree DVD, The Format: Live At the lege kids show up, but they set began with “Dog Problems”, Lopez said she had al­ activities, serving as a student that would hold her atten­ Mayan Theatre. never have a lot of money, so and the crowd went positively ways enjoyed singing but she ambassador, lettering in four tion and then upon gradu The pre-show hype began its extra flattering if they show wild. The sing-a-long frenzy had envisioned her future varsity events and carrying a ating, the Air Force would brewing near the crack of dawn up to see your show," Means started right off the bat. from the time she was a child grade point average of 3.9. She still accept her as an officer. on Oct. 26, when tickets went said. “Never in my life have as an astronaut working for even took the SATs five times, From there she could con­ on sale at 10:00 that morning. Inside tl«e auditorium, 1 been to a show where the NASA. Laughing, she admit­ determined to get the right tinue on her path to NASA. “I got in line at 7:50 in the audience’s anticipation for crowd knows the words to ev­ ted that she was a little nerdy score. “I chose music be­ the morning. I was getting a small glimpse of the quasi­ ery single song and sings them trekkie who watched Star Wars Then came the appoint­ cause 1 thought it would be tickets for my girlfriend," said hometown group could’ve been louder than the actual band," and Indiana Jones movies with ment with the academy, but the easiest degree one could Seth Hanley, the first of the cut with a knife. The open­ said freshman English major her dad. She wanted to be an due to rumors of sexual as­ obtain,” Lopez said. die-hards in the lengthy open­ ing act, Phoenix indie rockers Catie Bloomfield. adventurer, which sparked her saults on women at the acad­ ing <ky ticket line. Source Victoria, set the mood dream of becoming an astro­ emies and because Maria was See LOPEZ, Paqe 17 Before the show, fans for the night, and the crowd See FORMAT, Paqe 18 NAU Art Museum uncovers mysterious Mythical Objects HEATHER SAUNDERS they’re really different from the statement reads. “With­ T he L umberjack what we’ve had before. The out specific imagery, their frames that are made out of milky presence reminds us The NAU Art Museum’s wax are supposed to be saying that photographs maintain current exhibit features the that the memories are always their value long after their work of Brian Hoover, Su­ there; they’ll stay with you after subjects have disappeared." san Harris and Marlene Alt the picture." In addition to the wax The eclectic collection in the The wax picture frames picture frames, “Threshold” “Threshold" and “Mythical are from the “Threshold"' ex­ includes three large, mono­ Objects Redux” exhibits offers hibit by artist Marlene Alt The chromatic digital prints and a wide variety of artwork that impression Heredia received an industrial floor piece.

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