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Performance Art On The Edge Joe Goode Sees “The point that • Life I n A Way interests me is Most Can't the line between by laughing and Cynthia Gathman being disturbed”

There is a thin line to be drawn between the injustices in case, natural disasters, to make sense of shortcomings. have to laugh. The point that’s interesting to me is the line the world, and the humor which can be derived from them. When asked if his works are autobiographical Joe said, “I between laughing and feeling disturbed.” Joe Goode performs on this line, on a psychological high always tell people no, but I’m not sure that’s true. The ma­ Goode strives to attain a positive energy between the per­ wire that combines dance, music and dialogue. His Disas­ terial is real, and collagist, one experience, one thought giv­ formers and audience. His emphasis is upon the subjects ter Series, the current incantation of his commentaries, will ing way to others to create an array of feeling.” and crises that will apply to the lives of many. He said that be performed Wednesday, Nov. 14, at Campbell Hall. Sev­ Part of his material is from the people in his company. he has not succeeded if the audience is saying, ‘That’s terri­ eral natural calamities, including floods and landslides, are “‘The Doris Day* piece came from a Liz Burritt — a girl in ble and I’m glad that happened to you and not me.” When paralleled to personal crises in this series of 10 insightful the company who has always reminded me of Doris Day. asked if he was surprised at the positive public response to skits. She has very Doris Day qualities,” he said. his works despite the fact that they have been labelled “bey­ Goode is regarded as bne of the really serious dance ar­ He cited these “qualities” as being a girl-next-door inno­ ond conventional or polite,” Goode replied, “I’m not inter­ tists on the West Coast. According to Marty Pearlman at cence, which they decided to confront in the segment ested in pretty dances, parading around or how many times Arts and Lectures here at UCSB, “this is the most creative "Doris in a Dustbowl.” you can spin around on one leg. ... I am interested in the dance piece we have this fall.” His focus is on the epidemic problems facing humans. “I connection between my work and the audience, if I wasn’t Goode sees evety performance as a milestone, a mark and don’t want to be entertaining, I aim at providing an experi­ I’d stay home and perform in my garage.” an arrival at someplace new. He deals with aggregate prob­ ence,” said Goode. Furthermore, his works demystify many A six-foot-six actor and choreographer who deals with lems which each of us faces every day. In one skit he waters things we deny or ignore due to fear. Goode has dealt with such issues may seem intimidating, yet he is shockingly real a model village expounding various lines about the injus­ suicide, something he said “people don’t want to hear ab­ and engaging not only during his performance, but also dur­ tices which have occurred to imaginary characters in his out; it’s heinous and frightening. (If they can look at it in a ing his interview. mind. These characters are all related to him and have all different light and confront it, then maybe they can) laugh His use of laughter as a tool is extremely successful in dis­ fallen short of his ideal mark for them due to natural calami­ but at the same time feel uncomfortable.” This way, Goode pelling one’s fears and anxieties temporarily, thus allowing ties. This notion of a “disappointment” within one’s family feels that they are dealing with a problem. personal exploration without these barriers. The perfor­ can be universally applied. It can be hypothesized that most “The world is a scary and disturbing place. It’s terrifying, mance here at UCSB promises more then mere humans, loving their relatives, create excuses or, in this what are we going to do?” he said with a little chuckle, “We entertainment.

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Dark and Eerie & Hot and Heavy its blood-and-guts scenes it’s not like last- Jacobs Ladder: (often unnecessary but White Palace: Halloween’s-pump- yeah, you still cringe), and kin-decaying-on-your- not the feet that Jacob’s girl­ front-porch awful, it’s just a Scary Movie friend Jezebel (Elizabeth Steamy Movie bit one-tracked. Pena) can’t seem to keep her White Palace follows the They say you know horrible hallucination to shirt on for more than a mi­ While Aretha Franklin burger hamlet harlot de­ development of Spader and whether you like a movie or the next. He can trust no nute or two, but the raw fear belting out “W hat you mands carnal payment Sarandon’s relationship not within the first 10 one — every time the situa­ and desperation of one hu­ want, baby I got it, * is used when Spader passes out on from the frequent passion­ minutes. tion seems stable, he’s wh­ man being. Jacob can’t es­ purely as a promotional de­ her couch, not easing up ate pit stops to the disastr­ Jacob’s Ladder took ab­ isked off into another ter­ cape, can’t shove it away — vice for Louis Mandoki’s until he begs for more. ous consequences of half- out a minute and a half. rifying trip into hell. He has the paranoia is in his head, new film White Palace, the Spader does eventually, like truths, culminating into one It’s one of those movies visions of demonic crea­ and it doesn’t go away by sexually repressed should 15-seconds-eventually, get giant horizontal reconcilia­ that grabs you in the open­ tures out of the comer of his itself. clue in to this movie. quite into the mood and we, tion on top of a New York ing scene and plunges you eye; as the story progresses, Director Adrian Lyne, The movie revolves ar- the audience, are allowed restaurant table. into the escape that is film, they become more like real- who has Fatal Attraction ound the eternal five more fascinating mi- Spader continues his suspended disbelief at its and 9 1 /2 Weeks to his cre­ relationship-type argu­ yuppie portrayal from Bad finest, one of those movies dit, was creative and daring ments like whose family to Influence, although he now that is too emotionally dis­ enough to play with the spend Thanksgiving dinner sports a freshly coiffed pom­ turbing to be really pleasing, convoluted script and make with and whether or not a padour. His acting has tre­ yet won’t let you look away it understandable. While in Dustbuster is a romantic mendously matured, allow­ for a moment. most films flashbacks are of­ gift. James Spader {Sex, ing him to capture multi­ Jacob, played by Tim ten confusing, Lyne transi­ Lies, and Videotape) and faceted characters and Robbins, is a Vietnam vet tions them well — there is Susan Sarandon {Bull Dur­ display them with confi­ plagued by bizarre flash­ never any doubt if Jacob is ham) tackle these issues dence and ease. backs and quasi-religious in the past or present. Vis­ and calm the domestic tur­ Stepping down a rung or hallucinations — but are ually intense and exciting, bulence with one remedy: two on the social ladder they his fantasy, or his Lyne’s style is in your face, sex. from her Bull Durham reality? with lots of graphic and dis­ Spader plays a yuppie ad­ character, Sarandon is con­ The plot is fascinatingly turbing shots. There are spe­ vertising man intent on vincing as the slightly sleazy vague, and raises difficult cial effects without the typi­ keeping his dead wife’s woman from the other side questions about Jacob’s Tim is scared. cal makeup and technology; memory alive and well, even Sadly, Moranis of the tracks perpetually past—what happened dur­ See Tim run. use of unusual and some­ in his vivid sexual fantasies. wasn't in Palace. searching for her knight in ing the fateful Vietnam times dizzying camera an­ He drives a Volvo, lives in a shining armor. battle continuously referred ity and less fantasy. Who are gles contributes to the un­ townhouse and constantly nutes of their sexual romps, This movie provides the to as ‘That Night,” when he they, and what do they-want settling effect and helps straightens the fringe on his thereby taking a scenic tour basic elements of most mod­ was bayoneted by an unseen with him? How does the Lyne create a story out of persian carpet. This should of Sarandon’s house. em movies, minus the vio­ soldier? Jacob searches for government figure in all pictures rather than words. give you an indication of his Spader so enjoys his new­ lence. You have your answers in cherubic Danny this, and who’s been trying This film succeeded in stress level. found sexual freedom that steamy sex, a car crash (al­ Aiello, who is Louis, a to kill him? Jacob must part because the surprising As a burger-joint wait­ he even hears distant or­ beit between a volvo and a chiropractor/advisor/ wrestle with these questions and provocative end pulled ress, Sarandon spits fire di­ gasmic cries while visiting trash can) and a turbulent father figure. His words are as well as with the personal it all together, not leaving a rectly on any customer dar­ his wife’s grave with his relationship. White Palace few, but key: “When you demons that haunt him: the messy, open-ended ques­ ing to challenge her cashier­ mother. (A very sensitive does, however, offer a die, and you keep your me­ death of his favorite son Ga­ tion for the audience to ing ability. Hit* victims touch added to reinforce the cinderella-type couple that mories with you, the devils briel, divorce from wife ponder. Jacob’s Ladder is a include Spader, creating the attraction between these doesn’t end with roses and will tear them to pieces. Sarah and his war stairway to hell, or heaven scene of their auspicious two opposites.) One would champagne. If you’re into But if you let them go, they memories. — once you take the first beginning. have to be an earless mutant torrid sex scenes or just out will turn into angels and What makes this film infi­ step down, you’ll go all the At some point, the idyllic with vacant eye sockets not to see an entertaining flick free you from earth.” nitely more horrifying than way ... kicking and scream­ picture must crack, and it to pick up on that point. about ordinary folk, this You feel for Jacob, as he is Halloween XIV or any ing ... and like it. does from the sheer force of So now you’re thinking, movie is for you. helplessly tossed from one Freddy Krueger movie is not —Stacie Hougland Sarandon’s lust. This ham­ “This movie is awful!” But — Shira Gotshalk Ari el Graffiti Bridge Icicle Thief mance with the hard- work­ and a cuter little six-month- ing Irmeli, who, with her old Maggie who was always Foreign 10-year-old son, sticks with Crazy playing with light sockets Taisto through the down­ Prince Phooey and bowls of spaghetti. ward spiral of events that The Tiny Purple Master, Prince, has returned once Meanwhile Marge wants to Movie turn him into a fugitive on again to the big screen. Last Friday marked the ecstatic Movie be a singer/songwriter and the lam. and turbulent release of Graffiti Bridge, billed by those is fed up with homely When you’re out of work, In Ariel, Kaurismaki cre­ “in die pithy rotunda” as a sequel to Purple Rain. If Buster Keaton took Homer’s shortcomings. The down on your luck, on the ates a bleak landscape with In mid-August, when the Graffiti Bridge soundtrack acid and ran across David result is a twisted conglom­ wrong side of the law stoically determined char­ hit the stands, each cellophane-wrapped copy rested Lynch in Italy, he may have eration of sub-plots of diffe­ through no fault of your acters that never loses its eagerly in the racks, waiting to be escorted home by one come up with something rent times and dimensions own, there’s something ab­ comic quirkiness. He mixes of the tens of thousands of Prince fans lurking about in like “Icicle Thief,” but mixed with the original out having your own white minimal dialogue with both shopping maUs*ar driving across the country in black Maurizo Nichetti saves him Simpsons storyline set in vintage Cadillac convertible Finnish and American foreign Imports. the trouble by doing it the television set of a that keeps life from being songs, whose lyrics become While the Prince fanatics were heralding, and buying himself. modern-day, Italian one long, bad dream. even more humorously ap­ up, yet another great Prince album (Every Prince song, By using fantastical edit­ middle-class family. . Director, producer and propriate when printed on you'll notice, is great — once you get past that denial ing techniques which merge Nichetti, frustrated that writer Aki Kaurismaki {Le­ the screen as subtitles— the liMri j.flmjrmnmutiff rnffrirHVrqrtii iho ittnwi fJiotfTnf ~ 1940 black-and-white ide­ his films were being inter­ ningrad Cowboys Go Wizard of Oz’s “Some­ fiti Bridge would be delayed some months. als and imagery with 1990 rupted every 12 minutes on America, A Match Factory where Over the Rainbow” m t After viewing the 1M M concea^ed tw oll color and context, Ni- his native Italian television, Girl) combines deadpan narrates the melodramatic | hours of MTV at Ate theatre, which will cause you to chetti’s latest comedy is a interrupts his own film regu­ comedy with Hollywood ending. wretch from nausea at such pretense and sap, it will be successful snubbing of tele­ larly with his own commer­ genre films in his 1986 film Ariel, another film in agPlPIpl^Iw i the movie release was delayed in hopes vision, marriage and mod­ cials, plot twists and a self- Ariel, about life in contem­ UCSB Arts and Lectures' K; that sales of the new Prince album would not suffer by em day movie-making. induced blackout. porary Finland. International Cinema Se­ ft. Because Nichetti’s means Laid off when the town’s ries, will be screened on Homer Simpson was an un­ of transporting his charac­ i l l Did 1 mention ... don’t go? employed Italian who had a mine is closed down, Taisto Sunday, Nov. 11, at 8 p.m. ~ lisS -i u Os Tyier i ters between times and Kasurinen (Turo Pajala) is in Campbell Hall. cute little Bart scrubbing the places is so hokey, it is given a Cadillac convertible — Karen Peabody floors for the local Padre doubly believable as a fan­ by a destitute co-worker tasy set within a movie, and who, after urging Taisto to so it doesn’t get in the way. hit the road and head for the Similarly, when black-and- big city, proceeds to shoot white characters are sud­ himself in the men’s room. denly colorized (and vice- So Taisto takes his money versa), the attention is fo­ out of the bank and takes off cused on how the director for Helsinki. pulled it off, instead of on its Life in the citygets off to a believability. bad start when he is hit over The escapism Woody the head and robbed by two shot for, and missed, in muggers, but Taisto is able “Purple Rose,” Nichetti to get work at the docks and scores a bullseye with in & bed in a flophouse. Things “Icicle Thief,” now in the begin to pick up when he middle of a two-week run at gets out of a parking ticket the Victoria Street Theatre, by going to bed with the me­ ending on the 17th. ter maid. Thus begins a ro- — Tony Pierce 6 A Thursday, November 8,1990 Daily Nexus

Don Dokkensky but what can I do, it’s the way I think. N o ! It's I: There was some difference in the type of lyrics you wrote. LUNCHEON DINNER COCKTAILS D.D.: We all grow. I’m not into making the same record year after year; that’s boring. I: Most of the songwriting credits on the album are yours. Courtyar§II)ining How does the band develop the songs? D o k k e n , An D.D.: We all wrote together. But I’ve written songs over the last couple of years. We had like 50 songs, we just picked the ones we wanted to do. JAZZ ENTERTAINMENT Interview With I: How did find your guitarist, Billy White, who before this ' -In the Bar- band was virtually unknown? D.D.: My friend Bobby Blotzer (of Ratt) and I were fooling around making a song one night at his house. He just reached down into a box of about a hundred cassettes and Don Dokken! pulled one out to make a copy of the song. I took it home and listened to it. On the other side there was this guy playing on like a by Seana Fitt home machine and I thought, “What the neck is this?” He In the early days of the 1980s, the seeds of a new genre was blazin’. ... I called and asked how he got the tape to were planted. Emerging as a retaliation to the East Coast’s Bobby. He said “Well, two years ago I threw a tape on stage short-lived punk movement, the club scene of Los Angeles’ infamous Sunset Strip began to resonate with the sounds of a new kind of noise. The bands were made up of lower- middle-class white boys who grew up listening to Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Kiss. They wanted their music They wanted loud and fast, just like their chicks. The locals called it heavy metal. By the end of the decade, with the help of an evolving radio format and the creation of :heir music MTV, so were millions of record buyers around the world. A few bands, like Motley Crue, Guns and Roses, and Ratt, led oud and fast, the pack. Closely following in their wake were a host of grade-B bands. They weren’t racking in the millions, but they packed in the arenas, and they had their own head just like their bands. Dokken was one of these groups. In a move significant of the beginnings of the ’90s, the namesake and head crooner of Dokken, Don Dokken, has chicks. gone and got himself a brand-new band. The band is called “Don Dokken,” and they’ve just released their new album at a Ratt show.”... Somehow, by an act of God or fate, it en­ ded up in my hands. I: What do you think of videos? D.D.: I’m not an actor. The only time I like to do videos is when I’m performing. I: Do you think there’s a difference between European and American metal bands? D.D.: Absolutely. ...The Scorpions don’t sound like Motley Crue. That’s apples and oranges. I: You’ve done some producing, including Great White and XYZ.. Why did you agree to produce such a new band? D.D.: I produced XYZ to get my producer’s ears back so I could produce my own album, kind of like a practice. I: What is it you like about producing? D.D.: I don’t. I hate producing. But it has to be done.... If I found the right producer, I would love to have somebody From L to R: Norum, Dee, Dokken, White, else do it. We couldn’t find the person we wanted so I did it Baltes myself. HEY UCSB! Up from the Ashes. It sounds hauntingly like any other KTYD 99.9 AND ORCHID BOWL PRESENT Dokken album, with the exception of former Dokken axe­ man George Lynch’s burning licks. In fact, the group’s logo looks exactly like the former band’s logo. Actually, if you sort of squint at side-by-side pictures of the two bands, they even look alike. So what the hell is the difference? Don Dokken: (I’m) just trying to learn from my past mis­ ROCK takes. If you’re going to be in a band you should like them. (Dokken) had a lot of internal turmoil and I tried to eradi­ cate that with this band. I: Dokken had basically the same line-up for seven years. nr Do you think this type of unity is important? D.D.: Once you’re a band, you’re a band. Once you have a sound, you have a sound. I hate seeing bands changing members every week. I: Did you intentionally create a similar sound for this al­ e # i / v v bum to that of older Dokken records? D.D.: I never try to do anything intentionally, I just write EVERY what I write. I didn’t think it was gonna sound like Dokken I: Up from the Ashes took 10 months to record. Why do you Don Dokken's former band think it took so long? THURSDAY D.D.: I’m nuts. “Dokken” was one of the first I: A perfectionist? bands to use the last name of D.D.: Neurotic. MIGHT I: Do you consider yourself a metal band? one its performers as a title. D.D.: We’re not a metal band.... It’s just a rock and roll re­ 9:30 pm - Midnight Other bands include: cord. A metal band is Metallica. I: I saw you play with Dokken at Candlestick Park in San Winger Francisco for the Monsters of Rock Tour. With this tour, • All you can Bowl for $10/person Nelson your new band is going to be playing small theatres. What’s • KTYD 99.9 Plays Rock Music Videos it going to be like to go back? Bon Jovi D.D.: We did it on purpose. We had offers to go out and do • Prizes CD's, Tapes & Giveaways from delRubio Triplets arenas,... but if s a brand new band. I wanted to get down to where it was real so I could have a connection with my audi­ in Goleta Van Halen ence. ... We have to start over, work our way back up again. • 990 Beer, Domino's Pizza Specials Bonham In a club situation, it all boils down to the band and the & music, and that either makes you or breaks you. OBCH/D BOWL # Slaughter The Don Dokken band will be appearing with Trixter 5925 Calle Real • Hwy 101 at Fainriew la Goleta • 967-0128 this evening at the Ventura Theatre. For information, call 648-1888. 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II are dealt with in lyrics pre­ all held the enviable posi­ succeeds as a showcase of IV Theater $3.50 Cultivate that feeling for a sented as a single poetic pas­ tion of featured soloist in the talent that the Chicago Sponsored by bit in songs like “3 A.M.,” sage on the sleeve.- the Muddy Waters Band, blues scene has and will Beta Theta Pi and and “Green Heart;” and This is a great album for and, along with fourth continue to develop. AS Underwrite then jump into the sixth those in-between times and member Billy Branch, have — Todd Francis song, “More of the Same,” a those who need a little ca­ appeared frequently with breath of fresh air in the maraderie in their loneli­ Willie Dixon, Howling middle of feeling down, just ness. Not recommended for Wolf, Buddy Guy, Johnny like a mid-depression binge. the frivolous or top-40 Winter and Koko Taylor. Driven by a few choice minded. Together, with the back-up V l o i n e chords and a great rumbling of some fine studio blues- sound (achieved by Nor- — Mike Blois men, they fulfill most listen- College Tao Jonz Tao Jonz Tao Jonz Records Funky, upbeat reggae. Tao Jonz has all most incredibly comfy chair, double-fisted the fixin’s to make it big, at least in Santa with Southern Comfort. I couldn’t help but Barbara. groove with "Jezibell” and “Riki Tiki Tavi.” The songs on this album are all produced The bass of Tao Jonz just gets inside you Need a ride? and written by Tao Jonz themselves. They and shakes its way out just leaving you with range from the cool, jazzy beats of “The that post-sex grin. Neighborhood” to just plain danceable The entire album’s mood is consistently funkiness. comfortable. Tao Jonz proves themselves Offering a ride? The lazy kickback vocals are what set to be chock full of potential. this group apart from the others. Their style —Cindy Kemakom seems to purposely shove you back on 5ie Nexus Classified Shrub Shrub Ad Special: Manchu Records 3 Lines — Shrub is a bunch of Santa Cruzians who an oak tree of a voice. are mercifully free of the neo-hippie angst For an independent release, the quality which is so fashionable in that glassy-eyed of the recording is pretty good. It doesn’t town. Their self-titled, 14-track debut al­ capture the eneigy of their live perfor­ $2 50 Per Day* bum is a funk-a-delic smorgasbord. mance, but nothing ever does, does it? Singing songs about burning down Wis­ “Dinosaur” is a great song about our fos­ consin, getting naked in the woods, and sil fuel addiction and how it’s going to kick their weird artist friends, Shrub know how us in the balls one of these days. While Mi­ Last Daily Paper of the Quarter to lay down a funky beat. Drummer Karen chelle sings about how huge inefficient Stackpole is not just another pretty face. beasts went extinct because they consume Her drumming is the two whole beef patties too much, a male voice recites the names of November 21st! of Shrub’s rhythmic Big Mac. The bass, different dinosaurs in the background in a played by various members on various style very reminiscent of early B-52’s. 2 Special Issues 11/30 and 12/3 songs is a definite sesame seed bun, and un­ Be on the lookout for this band. They are • Don’t forget Christmas rides too! • fortunately the guitar is little more than going places, and fast. If you ever see them special sauce, which we all know is really playing, buy one of their tapes. It’s worth *Price for “Ride” ads only just thousand island dressing. several times its $5 price tag. Michelle Green scorches on vocals. 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