The Long and Winding Road
fr-
' i
Pm sure people see me as a screaming redhead with big boobs, but Pve got things to say n
d a m w a s ® ! * 7
ARTSWEEK CONTEST P. 7BÜ!
U T need to find somewhere that’ll do you’re good, but that’s not a story.*” I me a good bleach.... It’s peroxide at Looking back it seems strange how a band "*■ the moment. I had it bleached for THE LONG AND with fantastic tunes and what is actually a years, but then I gave it a rest for six months fantastic story behind the band members ’cos it all started to turn into like Barbie Doll WINDING ROAD themselves didn’t merit 1,000-word articles hair, snapping off and that, but nowit’s back and cover stories. Frontman Crispin Hunt’s on the old blond. Blond’s do have more fun, JOLIE LASH GOES ON AND ON ABOUT THE LONGPIGS own story is such an amazing tale of human I’ve discovered.” I triumph that you’d expect him to have not only hundreds of Longpigs bassist, the once brown-coiffed Simon Stafford, I press clippings about it, but an autobiography in progress is on the phone in Charleston, N.C., and he’s talking about I and a deal with Hollywood for motion-picture rights. his hair. Main songwriter Crispin’s story starts out with a child- ”1 don’t like having [fluorescent] red hair. I had red hair I hood spent in gaiety on a self-sufficient hippy farm, “where for a while. That’s too much. That’s ... just too over the top I we all ate our own lambs and grew our own chickens and attention-seeking. But bleached hair — it’s not quite as out things and harvested our own feast.” Here he spent hours landish. I think it just makes people think that there’s some playing in the garden, where he would often break out into thing to you, you know, it’s like something they can see. I f s musical numbers for his younger brother and sister. land of weird.” As he got older he used his natural musical abilities to All right, all right, I did ask him about it, but if you had write charming pop songs, and then recruited Richard to been on the road on an almost never-ending tour since 1995 play guitar, Simon to take on the bass and Dee Boyle to do wouldn’t you want to talk about something a bit off the wall? L the drums for his band. Wouldn’t the thought of actually being asked about some Despite the fact that Simon played drums, guitar and key thing other than how your band got their name get you going boards, but no bass when he was recruited, he knew that as well? And who doesn’t love a good hair horror story? - Crispin was a young man who had something special going If their impassioned song “On and On,” a twisted yet fra for him. gile indie rock ballad with its chorus of “and I wish you would “Crispin came up to me one time at a party and said, leave me/ and I wish you would go/ and I wish you didn’t 8 ‘Look, all the bass players I know are idiots or can’t play or need me/ and I wish I didn’t love you so,” wasn’t about love- * [are] too dull. Can you learn the bass guitar and join the hate relationships, it would be about how long the Longpigs I band, please?’ ’Cos at that time he’d had a lot of record com- have been on the road. rpany interest in his demos that he’d made and I was like In April o f1996, when I first met the Sheffield, England- 3 ‘Yeah, OK, let*s go see what happens.”1 based band, guitarist Richard Hawley estimated that they CLOCKWISE: CRISPIN, DEE, SIMON AND RICHARD 9 Crispin’s group quickly signed to a UK branch of Elektra had played some 280 gigs in 13 months. A year and a half la rand recorded an album. And then the first of several blows ter, that total is probably now close to 500. pigs no choice but to get out and play, hard. struck: The record company, due to too many bad film se W ith virtually no press support, the Longpigs had to tour. “Most bands land of buy themselves onto front covers and quels, went belly up and the Longpigs were left high and dry. In order to get their fantastic original sound — a unique we really didn’t want to do that,” Simon recalls. “Also we “We had a record deal and it was all new to us and we were blend of frank, eclectic and at times disturbing pop melodies didn’t really have a kind of instant image that you could get all Wahoo!’— going out for meals with people with alligator and lyrics — heard, they had bring it to the people them an angle on like a lot of the bands of the time — bands that shoes and things, and then we recorded an album and it was selves. W hen they first introduced themselves to Britannia, you’ve completely forgotten now [who] had pretty shiny just about to come out and the record company closed down. properly (in 1995), their lack of an image, when image was shirts... or a particular sort of hairdo that was likely to get re everything to boring old British press junkies, left the Long cords sold. So the press would say ‘Yeah we like you. Yeah See PIGS, p.4A 2A Thursday, December 4,1997 Daily Nexus
To Elspeth, you’ve given me a home away from home and alive. You are one of the select few who have worked dili have been the kindest person I’ve met in Santa Barbara. I will gently to keep Artsweek filled with well-written intelligence. treasure the time I spent at yours always, Jenny included. Best of luck and keep reminding the “legitimate” press that I know the new Oasis album isn’t all it could be, Nick, but we students exist. The End. you have to admit they have had a truly phenomenal effect on Our art critic extraordinaire Tami Mnoian, you’ve always come back to us and we love you for it. You’ve worked hard and come a long way without anyone's help. I hope “Have a nice life,” was the inscription some guy named Mike wrote in my yearbook upon my completion of high school. And although L scratched it out, I still remember what’s underneath those dug-in ball-point pen lines that I the UK and America. Even at the most tense moments last etched over the message. year, you took the time to really listen to me. Nick, your abil Washington, D.C., treats you well. If someone is going to take the time to say a proper good ity to listen and think before judging things is one of your Thanks again for going to bat for me, Tybie. I also appre bye, like penning lines in a senior’s yearbook, you’d hope that greatest strengths, your open and friendly demeanor is your ciate you trusting me enough to share your knowledge with the person would say something more than “Have a nice other. me. You found me a home, too, and for that even my parents life.” You’d hope that you’ve had more of an impression on Mr. Pon, it has been my pleasure to work with you. You appreciate you. them than a careless, generic scribble. You’d expect to have introduced a new air of respect into a stale office and I salute left some sort of mark that means something, that means that Amy, Betty, Josh and Wendy, thanks so much for conti you meant something to someone, once. nually helping to make the section exciting every week. From Obviously, I left no impression on Mike in 1993, but he sending us CDs to giveaways and the like, we would n’t be the left an impression on me. He reminded me that the people same without you. who’ve affected you are worthy of and important enough to Pat and Rabia, your young enthusiasm fitted with its let them know how they affected you, even if you embarrass heavy dose of cynicism suits you and your writings well. yourself getting all mushy in the process. Please continue to entertain the people ofUCSB weekly with This is my last issue as Artsweek editor. I started assisting you. Thank you also for your patience and I wish you well on a warped edge on entertainment journalism. for the section last fall, and then in winter it became my total your upcoming magical mystery tour. And finally, to Tony; From the pork-link sausages to Fai responsibility. Over the last year and a half a number of peo Barb, you are the greatest. You’ve helped me figure out lure to Capitol, it is you I will miss most of all. When ple — including you, the reader — have made impressions how to deal successfully with people. Thank you so much for on me, and since we have reached the end, I wanted to letyou everything, you are the backbone of this institution. know how you affected me. Although you are already gone, Davia and Susan, and al First and foremost my thanks goes to Eric Steuer. Your though you don’t know each other, you’ve both been serious encouragement, support and willingness to listen has really supporters oiArtsweek. We couldn’t have turned out the kind helped out when times were tough. You were the first one to of quality magazine we did without people like you. You are my best friends and my crutches as well. And Miss Linda Apeles, thanks for your ear. You are a strong woman who can stand on her own; you have already shown us — now it is time to show the world. Where oh where has our little Keir gone? W hat a gift you have at writing, and we are so grateful that you have shared it came to the section you brought a breath of sweet-smelling with us. You’ve got two more quarters left to remind the air that you carried with you throughout our seasons at A rts campus how great you are before going off and taking over week. Thanks for your enthusiasm and openness to learn. for Hilbum. Use your gift wisely, it is very powerful. You are a fine writer and an even better friend. Oh, don’t worry, I didn’t forget you, the reader. Thanks for reading the section and a special high-five to our devotees who wait each Thursday for Artsweek, seeing you looking through our section as I walk across campus really means a lot give me a chance with this section and for that I can never to me. Thanks again and good night. thank you enough. Good luck with mic.edu and I hope you never have to open for a Pearl Jam concert at Harder Stadium. VINGS Don't forget OUR m REGISTER G). io S A L E O F
T H E Y E A R H u t ; SAVE UP TO $200 The Congressional Race ON COLLEGE RINGS Voter Registration /JRTÇ/IRVED Deadline is: Mon. Dec. 1-Fri. Dec. 5 December 15,1997 9 a m - 5 p m UCen Bookstore For More Information, UCSB Call Voter Registration at BOOKSTORE 566 2200 A Public Service Message Sponsored by the Daily Nexus Miniature Mastadons. Nexus Classifieds work. Hotline: 893-7972 Daily Nexiis Thursday, December 4,1997 3A created "a mood and moved charisma and attitude exud A t the Mayan Theater, two Through all the muck and people simply with their de ing from lanky frontman Ri weeks ago, concert-goers VARIATIONS Oasis ballads, two groups licately crafted and ex chard Ashcroft, The Verve were barraged with an artsy have worked hard to perfect tremely personal music. ON A THEME their craft and really stand have a Stones-like appeal. slide show presenting an un Just as moody as Radiohead, Everyone has their favo ness and made us think ab out. usual, tainted perspective of The Beatles or the but with a rockier edge, The rite bands, but the ingenious out music in new ways. Radiohead or The Verve? the members of the band Stones? The Stones or the Verve’s impact is growing. song craftings of these two The Verve or Radiohead? amid ordinary settings. Beatles? While Lennon and Hairing re-formed after a groups put them as top con Forging their own path, And then, in somber Ra For 30-odd years' the McCartney got us ponder breakup in August of ’95, tenders for a spot in modem ing the complexities of the brilliance obtained by diohead fashion, The Verve question of which band was The Verve have come back rock musical history music, Mick Jagger swag Radiohead with their last more , important to rock ‘n stronger than ever. Their gered an unbridled sexuality two efforts, The Bends and roll has plagued people melodies are strong and into our musical OK Computer, is not unlike drinking in pubs, bars and powerful, capturing the pizza joints. consciousness. that achieved by the Fab frailties of the human condi Two women foreign- Yes. Whether you were for the In more modern times, Four on Magical Mystery tion. Like the Rolling exchange students near the bands copying formulas set Tour and Sgt. Pepper. The Nice Dress. Liverpool groundbreakers Stones though, they are at I MCL: by these two groups are less % Oxford-based Radiohead, Yes. or the London soundbreak- their best live. Although he than a dime a dozen. But like the Beatles, has really Good-bye. ers, you still had to recognize does not ponce about like Where buy dress? finding true modern-day managed to get on the pulse Dress for less. how important both groups Mick Jagger, Ashcroft is as Dress for less. Were to defining what we equivalents who bring such of their generation, and their mesmerizing and titillating. I Huh? now call rock ‘n’ roll. passion and such a flare to a somber pre-millenium me And like Mick Jagger, | Dress for less. Ross, dress Solo artists like Elvis genre of music that is seeing lodies reflect that. The Verve frontman is just I for less. itself being washed up by - The Verve are in a similar aside, these two bands made as concerned about the over techno is a difficult task. position. Riding on the I Good. — Gavin Austin an impact on our conscious-. all effect of his band’s tour. I ___ __ S u n d a y T u e s d a y | Wednesday I T h u r s d a y S a t u r d a y A Dance UCSB presents C UCSB Gospel ■y Impresslens @ Hallen U Cheir concert UCSB Middle East Theatre 6 Ho, Ho, \ to. It’s noit a lump of coal @ L o tte UCSB Indian Ensemble L e h m a n n Ensemble Concert s Concert Hall in your tocking, it’s the Artsweek M ala @ Lotte Lehmann G a n g u ly @ Lotte Dance UCSB presents Holiday (Calendar! lah m a nn Impressions® Hatlen Concert Hall Theatre y A night off Surf Film: IfJSonto Barbara Bay Area Ska 8 Bjork w/ 9 ■w Muslc Club 11 Musk to 13 Acoustic The G lu ey Gus Gus @ Siestas Holiday Season Show@ Boogie @ and Olas @ Concert® Remember® Brothers @ Living Room Borders Shrine Lobero Sanctuary of Auditorium, Theatre the Unitarian Arlington The Nutcracker Books & Society @ L.A. 7 p.m. 1 0:3 0 a.m . Yucatan Music Theatre Arlington Theatre 14 15 Fiona Apple The Longpigs 17 18portishead@19 20 w/ Laika @ @The Nutcracker Andy Summers Hollywood Happy H elidays 1 Troubadour, Arlington @ Palladium, f r o m LA. Artsweek! Arlington Theatre Theatre Ventura Theatre L.A.
Live Auctions On The Internet!
vl, FREE Membership? Auction Sates S e c u r e T ra n s a c tio n s ^ S A L E S Where You Set The Price ! Y o u Will N o t B e L e t D o w n ! Auctioning: Laptops! PC's! Software! Peripherials! Hi-Tech! Much More!! RIVIERA www.auction-sales.com CaCifomia s Chssiest AduCt Store is Odgrv Open! 1000s of VIDEOS • CD ROMS TOYS • LINGERIE
$ 5 O F F Order now for the Holidays!
Just bring 12 of your photos to The Pulse with the attached coupon and we will create a 1998 calendar.
A calendar is a personalized gift that will last the whole year! Xmas Holiday Shopping Check out our amazing selection of toys & gifts! $5 Off Coupon YOUR This coupon entities you to $5 off the original $30.00 Retail « - t o UCSB Hwy 154 calendar price. (Customer must bring in photos. Some reprographic limitations may 101 FREEWAY FIRST RENTAL apply. Expires 12/18/ 97.) t h e State St. Exit Please print: IS ALWAYS
Hollister Ave State St tO LA _ÿ Dept/Major: FREE! Address:____ , COPY & TECHNOLOGY CENTER R 1XIEBA with Student I.D. 4135 State St. Phone: Copy * Print • Fax • FedEx 967-8282 Order Taken By:_ ADULTVIDEO CENTER Located at UCEN 893-3869 R IVI *Please allow 5 -7 working days 4135 STATE (State & Hwy 154) 967-8282 4A Thursday, December 4,1997 Daily Nexus
¿V- FREE ADMISSION WITH THIS AD’ •EXCLUDING SPECIAL EVENTS FOOD POISONING TONY BOGDANOVSKI DISCOVERS WHAT’S SO SPECIAL ABOUT G. LOVE .. When G. Love and Special Sauce squeezed out their de That Easy. but record it created a buzz, people ate it up, and the press was not far behind. The hype surrounding their first record Artsweek Some o f the other bands you’ve played with like dried up in traditional post-buzz bin fashion, when the Kings Court make appearances on this album. 22 E. MONTECITOST. band’s second effort, Coast to Coast Motel, was released. The G. Love: Yeah, Kings Court is a Boston band... but a lot SANTA BARBARA lack of media attention for that album resulted in a “sopho of the bands are incestuous. more slump” which seemingly left G. Love pointed in the di I ’ve beard that you guys have never been directed toward a 568-1620 rection of die unemployment line and washed up behind the specific style, so bow would you describe your sound to some Fraternity Party Accommodations Goo Goo Dolls and Stone Temple Pilots. one who has never beard o f you? • Nude Table Dancers Now you might have assumed that without critical sup G. Love: Philadelphonic street-side blues. • Topless Couch Dances port, G. Love had thrown in the towel, but then you would Does the first single, “Stepping Stones, ” represent the new Afternoons & Evenings Daily have made an ass out of u and me. The band’s third album record? • Open from Noon until 3am has just hit the stores in G . Love: Yeah, ’cos it’s a • Friday & Saturday Evenings hopes of reaffirming the hit. • 12 noon-2am All Other Days group as one which doesn’t Wbat do you think about rely on hype, but simply style tbe Spice Girls? • Wednesday: $500.00 Exotic Amateur Contest — gritty, but bumpin’ style. G. Love: I love the Spice N O W HIRING DANCERS Making down-home,. Girls! Especially (singing) bluesy, acoustic rhythms TH tell you what I want, mesh with hip-hop-style W hat I really really w ant...’ lyrics has become a talent Being that you have bip- only to be mastered by G. bop influences, wbat do you Love. He picked up a guitar think aboutgangsta rap, and LET’S PARTY! at age 8, and hit the streets of does it overshadow or Philly in high school, play wrongly encompass bip-bop? ing original songs. In 1993, he met Sauce drummer Jeffrey G. Love: I just like good music, and I think gangsta rap is “Thunderhouse” Clemens, and they played as a duo until part of American culture. There are a lot of played-out rap they were joined by bassist Jimmy “Jazz” Prescott. Through pers, but the masters have come ... Tribe Called Quest, hard work, rapid-paced touring, and a fresh debut that took a U.P.M.D., KRS-1... these are people who have profoundly twist from much of the rap released in 1995, G. Love made a changed the course of music. Even Celine Dion raps on her name for himself— although it was abbreviated. Artsweek had the opportunity to shoot the shi-, uh, sauce, new record. I go all around the world. I see people rapping in as the dust settles from the new record. Yeah. I t’s Japanese. a serious motorway incident. hearing it for the first time. one and say ‘Can I have this After getting well, he One of the first striking dance with you?’” B Continued from p.lA came back and the group re ROCK NS#tVL indie-rock love ballads, it’s a It’s been a long road “The American head of recorded their album for the song you can sing along to traveled that has finally fice got in touch with the new label. Singles for “Far,” THURSDAY NIGHTS without sounding sappy or brought the Longpigs to our English branch and said W e “Jesus Christ,” “All Hype” having to pretend you don’t shores. However, now that 9:30 pm - Midnight can’t afford to run this any and “Happy Again” were re actually like it and are just they’ve finally achieved suc more, we’ve lost too much leased. A buzz started ar making fun of it (think cess in Britain with their de $5 money on “Police ound the band, and then in Whitney Houston’s “And I but record, The Sun Is Often Academy,”’ and all that, so spring of ’96' they released Will Always Love You” ...). b e s t p « t y Out, and have a blooming technically they still owned radio hit stateside with “On our songs. So we couldn’t and On,” why are they still JOIN US & KTYD’S DAYNA BIRKLEY play them, we couldn’t re touring? AS SHE ROCKS THE LANES record them, we couldn’t do “Well it’s partly ’cos we anything, basically, until we love it and partly ’cos we’re got out of it legally,” Simon Tuesday Nights stupid, I suppose; no it’s be explained. cause we didn’t do the hard After a year of taking their PER G AM E sell,” Simon stated. “It’s music underground due to great to go around and play 9pm-Midnight legal constraints, the Long- to different people. It gets pigs eventually managed to “On and On” to a UK audi “I’m a massive fan of the music across direcdy and get a lawyer who got them ORCHID BO W L^m ence which, with that single, mushy love songs, but peo you can t beat a live gig. It’s back on track. The after 5925 Calle Real, Goleta began to embrace the band. ple like Bon Jovi have given what we do. We’re a band so noon after the Elektra sepa One of the best songs in Hwy. 101 at Fairview • 967*0128 them a really fucking shit we’re bound to play a lot.” ration papers were signed, the world, ever, (or at least name,” Crispin began. “We another label, the Island- on several compilation al wrote that as a slow dance Tbe Longpigs play Dec. affiliate Mother Records, bums bearing that title) “On ’cos you can’t slow dance 15 in San Diego, tbe 16tb in quickly signed them up. and On” has. really reached these days. You know, you DA. and tbe 17tb in San Hydrate Yourself! And just as things seemed to out and touched people. It’s go to a rave, you dance all Francisco, and as you return be turning around, Crispin Drink 6 -8 glasses of water each day. bittersweet, and each time night, you fall in love 15 to your homes fo r tbe holi found himself in a coma for it’s played its genuineness times [and] there’s no op days, Artsweek suggest you i around two weeks following makes it sound like you’re portunity to go up to some- try and check them out. SAVE $75 SDCLC AUDITIONS By trying Acuvue, Surevué, 1-Day Acuvuue, or Vistavue contact lenses at UCSB Eye Clinic. C abaret MONDAY DECEMBER 8 6:00 PM: Male and Female Dancer/Singers 8:00 PM: Prlncipal/Lead Auditions (by appointment only) Granada Theater -1216 State Street, Santa Barbara (use front doors) All roles are open! Male & Female Dancer/Singers are especially needed. $50 off contact lens fitting fee. All performers receive an expense honorarium of $100 per week. $25 off contact lens purchase of 4 or more boxes. Bring a photo and resume and your own music in the key in which you wish Now Available At: to sing to the auditions. An accompanist will be provided. Wear appropriate dance attire and shoes. UCSB EYE CLINIC Rehearsals will begin January 6 during the evenings on weeknights and Located in Student Health Services during the day on weekends. Performances will be held at the Granada Theatre 8 9 3 -3 1 7 0 from February 6 through March 1. FOR MORE INFORMATION & PRINCIPAL This promotion does not apply to students who already wear Acuvues, .Surevues or 1-Day Acuvues. AUDITION APPOINTMENTS: (805) 962-1922 Student must have had a general eye examination within the past year or at time o f contact lens fitting to qualify. Offer expires Dec. 19, 1997. Small Is Beautiful. Nexus Classifieds work. Call 893-3829 for more info. Daily Nexus Thursday, December 4 ,1997 5A
M.V.: Well, what do you comic book scenes put compare to its predecessors? AL.IEIM expect when she’s standing together. M.V.: “Aliens” was the next to Winona, who’s K.K.: I was taken by the best one. The thing that put spring break fever 5-foot nothing. visuals, but that was about it. me off about this one was CONVERSATION This was definitely the best- that it was too over the top. Artsweeh How did Wi looking “Alien” movie so far. ... Part of did allure of-the After Lt. Ellen Ripleys Ryan Altoon, Jodie Stout nona Ryder’s character fit J. S.: One thing I didn’tfirst two films was that you fatal swan dive at the end of and Kazuhiro Kibuishi. in? get was that the first film rarely get to see the [aliens], “Alien 3,” many felt that this J. S.: I don’t know, itcame out in 1979, and there K.K.: But with all the was the end of the legendary Artsweeh What did you seemed like she was doing a is like 200 years between the special effects these days, Puerto VuKarta 2299. sci*fi series. And after a dre think o f Sigourney Weaver’s variation on her usual dis first one and this one, but you gotta show it. ... The Cabo Son Lucas $369 j ary third installment, few character? gruntled teen role. the ships look flicking ex- special effects are what hold were complaining. But M.V.: I liked Sigourney K. K.: I thought her roleacdy the same. Cancún $604 - the film up. with parly package thanks to some wacky scien Weaver’s character. was predictable, there’s al M.V.: And who’s that ac J. S.: Speaking of sequels, tists, Ellen Ripley returns in RA .: Hey, did you notice ways a “Blade Runner” ele tor who looks like deputy this one left a huuuuge Honolulu $524* ment in all the “Alien” mo Prices include air. hotel, ano transfers. ‘ “Alien: Resurrection.” that she had green finger dog? He’s always the bum opening for another sequel. Prices are subject to chance. However, saving the nails? vies, and she filled it. bling authority figure with a K . K .: (Sarcastically) Restrictions apply. world isn’t the most difficult M.V.: I didn’t notice that ' lot of body hair. . H i l i M Maybe the next one will be S : (TEE: Couacil oa lateiMlioaal Artsweeh What did you [ y Edacitioaal Exchange task Ripley faces here — she ... I was too busy looking at K. K.: Dan Hedaya. “Aliens in America.” Winona. think o f the story? I 903 Embarcadero Del Norte is now charged with brea M.V.: Yeah, he’s the guy RA.: No, it’s gonna be thing life into a tired franch J.S.: I just liked how she M.V.: The terrorist part they hire when they can’t af I- Isla Vista like “Boogie Nights” with ” (805) 562-8080 ise. Here to talk about this was tough; she kicked ass.... was lame. ... There was no ford Chazz Palmienteri. the aliens having afros, disco plot to the whole movie — it latest sequel is a panel of the It seemed like they made her garb and rocking out and IJ Nexus’ finest: Marc Valles, look really big. was just a bunch of different Artsweeh How did it stuff. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ SILVER GREENS'* ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ reens *★ Free M eal | on Your | Birthday g With proof that it is really your & ! birthday. No half-birthdays. «
Textbooks are arranged on the shelf by course number. Our full refund policy removes all risk of buying your books early.
$ 8 0 1 N e v i y o u * I ¿ S E D * 6 0 . 111 QOUJIMIlVJIOJtOKOK III M LIHPfl (. t i l l « ; IL To get the advantage, check die day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the bScSB classe^ USB?! ★ most challenging. Aries (Match 21-April 19) - Today is a 7 - You and your team perform ★ brilliantly today. It’s important to make sure the job’s done perfectly. Itty bitty errors will be noticed and pointed out. You don’t need to liave any ★ more of that, so rio your best to avoid it. Encourage your associates to ★ strive for perfection, too. Taurus (April 20-May 20) - Today is a 6 - An authority figure - boss, teacher, ★ parent - will be annoyed if he or she catches you daydreaming. If you (A show mild interest, your preoccupation will go undetected. You’re pretty z good at covering up your inner thoughts. Do dial again today. III Gemini (May 21-June 21) - Today is a 7 - Get together with a friend you 111 haven’t seen in ages. If you wait much longer, other obligations will inter t c fere again. A gathering at your house should go well. Don’t just think 0 about what you can get this holiday season. Think about wliat you can Used B °°ks give. That’s a lot more satisfying. t c Cancer (June 22-July 22) - Today is a 6 - Don’t let your money go down the drain today. An idea that works for somebody else may be nothing OVS FQeU-Ou t FaSt 1 but anguish for you. The only investments worth making now involve Ixxne improvements. Fix your place up the way you’ve always wanted ¡7) and you can’t go wrong. ★ Leo (july 23-Aug. 22) - Today is a 7 - Something you thought you’d have to replace might be salvageable after all. You're a good planner, and a ★ risionary for die future. You have a friend, however, who's better at the ★ nuts and bolts patt of die operation. That’s the person you need to talk to. Virgo (Aug 23-Sept. 22) - Today is a 7 - One of your assignments is some- ★ . tiling you’re not sure how todo. You don’t like to be in the spodight. You’d much rather have somebody else take over tliat honor. Actually, you’re ★ doing just fine. Continue to follow die plan and your success is assured. o Libra (Sept. 23-Oct 23) - Today is a 6 - Tlie controversy you’ve had rag o ing lately needs to be resolved. The disagreement seemed important at C a l c v l ^ N die time, but now it’s starting to look trivial. It might even he getting funny. This is an indication of growth and health Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21) - Today is a 7 - Have you got your holiday A i t S«PPU - a i d s 5 greeting cards out yet? That would be die perfect chore for today. Not o only will you beat the rush, but you'll also inspire your whole family to get ★ busy and get theirs out soon. Again, you're doing a good deed just by a i r d doing wliat comes naturally. ★ Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) - Today is a 7 - New skills you’re acquiring w l lead to an advance in your career. You do need to be applyingyourself ★ in a marketable field, but you don’t need to be totally inhibited. If you do ★ wliat you love, the money will follow, right? Today, that looks quite likely. We Buy Used Textbooks All Year Long. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Today is a 7 - Sending money to a distant ★ place will help die people who receive it and make you feel better as well. Bring your unwanted books in for an appraisal. We pay cash. f c By getting involved, you’re manifesting your best destiny. You’te not only an entrepreneur, but aLso a philanthropist. Share your wealdi in a way that benefits otliers. Aquarius (Jail. 20-Feh. 18) - Today is a 7 - If you distribute your resources wisely, youll make a good impression on an olderperson. That one could III he in a (xisition to increase your income. You’re going to be creative to day, that’s assured. Be practical too, and youll win in more ways tlian you o can imagine. ui Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) - Today is a 7 - You’re under pressure, but ui that’s all right. You’re forced to think on your feet and be creative, You t c have resources you 've harely tapped. A person you know from a big com- paiiy is helpful. Don’t be afraid to make unreasonable requests.
Today’s Birthday (Dec. 4). Focus on education. Skills you learn now will ★ lead to die career of your dreams. Be hold yet intelligent with money in December. Take the test and win a joh you love in February. Old contacts ★ haven't forgotten good deeds you’ve done. They’ll repay your kindness ★ in A|iril. Accept more work in May. Resolve an olri dispute easily in June. Schedule a vacation for August. Stepinto a new role, and possibly a new The off-campus college bookstore serving UCSB since 1965 ★ title, in September. Your team wins in October. Clean house in November. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ SILVER GREENS***** 6553 PARDALL ROAD, GOLETA, CA 93117 • (805) 968-3600 6A Thursday, December 4,1997 Daily Nexus
Delivery Cocktails A s we reach Food-To-Go Lunch • Dinner Jolie Open 7 Days Banquet the new year, your Artsweek times. He brings an earnest CHINA CASTLE editors, Jolie quality to the band’s rock ON THE and Tony, sound that makes their RESTAURANT have new material for this record. jKancfarin, ôzec£uan an
Among the satire-, American music. Not much Various Artists / Bob R iv drenched remakes featured of that is. included here, but ers’ Twisted Tunes: Volumes is a tune thatactually sounds Tony there arc some nighthawk- 1 and 2 / Atlantic esque sax ramblings that very true to life— the Doors’ “You Send Me.” “Hello, I Love You,” only prove Tom Waits was in Do you ever find yourself RECORD Will that man ever write now with the line “Hello, I deed a big fan. O f course, in a drunken stupor, singing an original song? Will you will hear more than just love you/let’s get tested for haired, bearded mutation of Kenny G ever get the swift standard influences such as AIDS.” Ha Ha, AIDS is INTERPRET the progressive jazz world kick in the arse he has com- Charlie Parker (which he pretty fucking funny, Bob. ■ Continued front p.6A that could have lived peace ' ing? Only one thing is sure pays tribute to on “Birds La You will easily learn to deci If their British accents fully among the cast of “De in this tired genre of post ment”) inMoondog’s exper pher song titles before the were' real and they had better signing Women.” He plays elevator music: It’s gonna imental sound. track even comes on: “What haircuts, The Interpreters that thing, and if you can suck no matter how many Sax pax for sax makes re If God Smoked Cannabis?” might have something going name it, you know your duets and compilations are ference to the different “When A Man Loves A for them. - music. In a nutshell, he’s pumped out. sized saxophone combina Chicken.” See the pattern Unfortunately, being lame. tions present on this release. here? Moondog / saxpaxforasax from the East Coast and at But what is surprising ab Much of the music here is of popular songs with a few A Soundgarden spoof, / Atlantic tempting to style your vocals out Kenny’s compendium de a classical nature, although friends and replacing the “Asshole Son,” and “Take a after Gaz Coombes of crap also attempts to give it “Dog Trot” seems to have words with your own? W hat Whack on the U.S. Side,” a some credibility within the Louis Hardin, known to some boogie to it. Hell, the kind of loser are you? song set to Lou Reed’s multiple generations of jazz music hall of fame, namely guy is 81 years old. Most of Well, if you want to make “Take a Walk on the Wild aficionados as Moondog, that Sinatra, Frank Sinatra, a fast buck, do like Mr. Riv Side,” are mildly amusing, “ recorded a duet with this has resurfaced with a somber ers here, and hire a bunch of but only the first time fool. Oh yes, it’s here. So are collection of tunes recorded bands to perform carbon around. duets with Toni Braxton, in conjunction with the copy covers of radio faves, Yes, doing this type of Peabo Bryson and that slow- London Saxaphonic. Pre but rewrite the lyrics so the thing is fun when you’re jam fella, Babyface. Most sumed deceased in the ’70s, world will think you are a big drunk, butyou do remember the legendary New York fitting of all, fellow curly smartass. Then plop ’em all why you’ve never wasted haired pansy Michael Bol street performer has always his peers are sitting on a on compilation after compi money actually recording ton appears with Kenny, believed that the roots of nehru couch somewhere lation, and you have Twisted yourself inebriated? The Oxford-based Supergrass performing a banal cover of jazz can be traced to Native pooping in their pants. Tunes. proof is in the pudding. doesn’t really help if you’re trying to establish a degree of credibility. Attempting to copy formulas set by early ’60s Who, the now- forgotten Menswear, or Northern Irish teen sensa tions Ash, is pretty pathetic if your band was born and raised in Philadelphia. Sure, The Interpreters might say that because their album was recorded in Bri tain and produced by limeys that good old Britannia had a huge influence on them, • but then they’d just be ad CRAMMING mitting they were sponges, wouldn’t they?
\ H W H o lid a y s
Timbaland and Magoo / Welcome To O ur World / Atlantic Timbaland and Magoo are terrible. The power-pop equivalent of the hip-hop world, this not-so-dynamic duo relies on an annoying mix of slow jams and played- out beats, along with guest appearances by Playa and Ginuwine. Oh boy. As laborious to listen to as I am sure it was to overpro duce, the record begins with annoying ramblings not much unlike those from the onset of the W u Tang dou ble LP. Only here, no politi cal statements are even at tempted. Instead, the lis tener gets to discover how bad-ass Timbaland and Ma goo really are, and if you are SUPER STAR® WITH CHEESE a woman, why they luv 2 luv u. And do we really need re When you're studying for finals, you need a big, mixes • of these half-assed messy burger from Carl's Jr? The Rorschach test on “songs,” which were prob your shirt might even be worth extra credit. ably pasted on just to take up space? Yeah, go ahead and C a r l’s J r . © 1996 Carl Karcher Enterprises. Iric. bump this in your lowered Honda. You’ll be surprised 8 6 5 by the looks you may get. FREE Classic Bacon 869 S a v e $1.00 Cheeseburger on a When You Purchase Another Charbroiled Sirloin Steak Sandwich Kenny G / Greatest Hits / Present this coupon and receive a Free Classic Bacon Arista Present this coupon and Save $1.00 on a Cheeseburger when you purchase another at the Charbroiled Sirloin Steak Sandwich. regular price. Yanni, look out. The or Offer valid at participating iginal “G ” has finally re * Offer valid at participating Santa Barbara/San Luis Obispo leased his musical memoirs I Santa Barbara/San Luis Obispo area restaurants through on disc, and the 30-some- area restaurants through January 11,1998. I January 11.1998. thing crowd is ready. For One coupon per customer per visit. One discount per coupon. Ndt'valid with'any other offer, discount, or combo. Tax not included. those not familiar with the I One coupon per customer per visit. One discount per coupon. | Not valid with any other offer, discount, or combo. Tax not included. ©1997 Carl Karcher Enterprises, Inc. C a x fe J k 1 G-man, Kenny is a curly ■ ©1997 Carl Karcher Enterprises, Inc. C a r te J r .1 Ü