The Arts and Entertainment Supplement to the Daily Nexus, for February 16th Through February 22nd. 1995
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YOU SHOULD JUST READ THE INTERVIEW WITH FUNKDOOBIEST ON PAGE 4A
ALSO: HIGHER LEARNING MASSIVE ATTACK THE POPPY FIELD AND MORE!
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In 1991, director John Singleton re rest of the audience’s eyes. Various Artists ceived national attention and acclaim for Adding to the portrayal of the charac Higher Learning Boyz N The Hood. It was unfortunate ter is the fact that Kristen is experiencing Epic that he followed this with the sophomoric sexual ambivalence, as she steeps with Poetic Justice. But any questions about both Wayne (Jason Wiles) and Taryn Take a stroll down any Singleton’s skills as a moviemaker are an (Jennifer Connelly), head of one of the college campus — w alk swered in Higher Learning, which is, university's women’s groups. ing through the dorms and apartments you can hear the music of America. So writes John Singleton in the liner notes of the soundtrack to his new film, H igher Learning. Singleton is right. As a freshman, a phenomenally diverse mix of music constantly pul sated within my dorm. One of the joys of living in those cramped quarters was that there was a pretty fair chance that any ima ginable CD was available to borrow from someone in the building. Yes, take a stroll down UCSB’s cam pus, and .while walking through tiie dorms you will likely hear the music quite simply, great The third freshman, Remy (Michael of Miles Davis, Led Zep chine an d M e’sh ell same album? Don’t worry, The film takes place on the campus of Rapaport) brings some strangeness to an pelin and Snoop Doggy Ndege’Ocello perform it’s not quite as weird as it Columbus University, and by depicting otherwise fairly normal college. Remy is Dogg. The music of some of their best work to sounds. In fact, the songs students of every gender, ethnicity and or an engineering hopeful from Idaho who America? Sounds like it to date on the Higher Learn fit together surprisingly ientation, it attempts to be representative has trouble fitting in, until he is recruited me. ing soundtrack. well. Likely, the artists re of America and its racial problems. The by the skinheads. “New music of The album’s lack of dis alized that they were given opening shot of the U.S. flag is a signal to These parallel lines gradually cross, America” is therefore a cernible genre consistency a unique opportunity to get ready for a fireball of chaos, power creating quite a bit of racial tension that is good way to describe helps establish the notion have their work heard by and tension that will erupt into violence waiting to explode. One of Fudge’s what’s included on Higher that what Singleton calls all types of music listeners and tragedy. friends, Dreads (Busta Rhyme z), explains Learning, as each of these “the music of America” and, as a result, they actu We track the lives of three freshmen as it perfectly when he unleashes a crazed, 13 tracks will likely be isn’t rock, rap or anything ally put forth some effort. they begin college. Malik Williams (Omar frustrated cry. It almost makes you want playing at a university near in between. Its nature is This album is filled with Epps) was a high school track star who to scream as loudly as possible. you sometime soon. Sin too large for it to be simply material which could eas now runs for Columbus on a partial scho gleton and Danny Bram- defined with labels. ily be released as singles. Higher Learning is definitely a movie It’s not a collection of half- larship. He quickly realizes that he’s no to see. It’s amazingly explosive, so be pre son, who produced the Higher Learning contains longer the bad-ass star, and in the eyes of soundtrack, should win elements of jazz, hip-hop, assed B-sides and studio pared. The only problem I have with it is outtakes. the university, is a thoroughbred to be that the characters represent their respec some kind of musical di rock, funk and R & B with trained for speed. This brings up the issue versity award for attempt out forming corny hybrids Higher Learning would tive groups a little too w ell, and unlike definitely be a good purch of colleges using athletes, especially Boyz, there’s little room for them to grow. ing to cover the wide spec or mixing styles as a African-American men like Malik, to trum of what is known as novelty. The idea is kinda ase for those who have bring in money and national recognition. While the audience’s reactions tended “college” music. Everyone cool: 13 very different eclectic tastes in music or Malik soon runs into quite simply his to be respectful, scenes of the lesbian rela from altema-rockers Eve’s songs with one unifying are looking to get turned opposite, Kristen Connor (Kristy Swan tionship between Kristen and Taiyn were Plum to club favorites theme — they’re all on to some new bands. It is son). Kristen is a sheltered, middle class met with stunned silence, muttering and Zhane contribute tracks, “American music.” a quality compilation of white girl from Orange Counfy. She is whispering, laughing and even a cry of most of which are surpris- But how do all of these some of today’s most intri date-raped by a frat boy, who then experi “ewwww!” ingly good considering mismatched styles of guing artists. Hopefully, ences a sort of justice at the hands of Higher Learning and the crowd’s reac that they were recorded music sound together? people will be open- Fudge (Ice Cube) and his friends. The tion to it show that as a society, we still specifically for a sound And who in the world minded enough to take a rape scene, with Tori Amos’ version of have a long way to go. track album. In fact, Out- thought to put Ice Cube chance and listen to some R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion” in the kast, Rage Against the Ma and Tori Amos on the cool new music. background, brought tears to my and the —Michael Iin —Eric Steuer
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Associated Students PROGRAM BOARD Various Artists ______presents______Best of House M usic'. Tribal Smile HIP HOP HEAVEN II
When I first saw this disc, I immediately ex pected some collection of rONIGHT candy-ass “house remixes” O D M $6 for Students! of top-40 classics. y riv i Whenever something says $9 at the door j “the best of,” it usually « m FEATURING: THE means “the most popular of,” and that means “the BEATNUTS worst of’ to me. But then when I saw that it was put together by Smile Records, f t m on and that it was a tribal- variety. open air of a jungle, with house disc, my interests This particular disc is an bird calls and all. Off in the picked up again. excellent collection be distance, a haunting tribal Due to illness, Organized Konfusion will not be performing Smile (they print it cause it offers music from call disturbs a short bongo tonight. The other 3 groups are still going to be there to make Sm:)e) is actually a fairly many different artists and line, a steady beat and Jt a great show, and hopefully you will too. good record company out labels, which guarantees a other such percussion cre of New York. It is well little diversity, while at the atures. Soon, the forest is known for domestic house same time retaining a alive with deep, trancey WED. FEB. 22 FREE IN STORKE PLAZA! vinyl. So by the time I cohesive element by stick undulations, riding under @ N O O N looked at the back, I was ing with tribal-house tribal calls and rampant San Francisco’s jazz/hip-hop fusion not that surprised to find songs. I was very happy to percussion. 12 strong house cuts by find Lectroluv’s “Dream A favorite track of mine very good groups. Drums” because I some is “Follow Me” by Bascut, R]lphafc>et S oup What surprised me was how missed it when it was which I have been search that they were all on diffe released on vinyl a while ing outfor months. Here, a rent labels — none from back. This high-energy little bongo action leads Smile. Usually, a compila track starts with a pound into some of the purest 22 in the UCen (^tickets now orvsaie^> tion which is on a particu ing beat accompanied by vocals I have heard. An 9 PM ------lar label will feature tracks layered conga and shaker ethereal voice soars above, by artists signed to that rhythms, before dramatic, beckoning you to “Walk members of M inistry an d the Revolting Cocks label. They can be good, searing synth stabs slide into my life” and then but oftentimes these types about This builds to a swoops down to bring in a of collections get bonng mini-breakdown in which deep, catchy bassline — quickly. This happens be a choppy, descending or and the whole track takes Chris Connelly Band cause each label has a gen gan melody sets the song off. After listening to this low eral style, and all the artists off. Ihe track continues one, it’s hard not to hit re P|us pop Suicide on the label emulate this with the kind of steady in wind and listen again, but style. Therefore, these tensity that makes one you must resist or be types of collections often want to bang their head doomed to have the me the Cherries become monotonous. like some angry rocker. lody stuck in your head for Some people get in moods In contrast to this high- the rest of the day. Smile and want to hear the same energy track is Dearboy’s has delivered another Sat. February 25th type of music for two “Grey Clouds.” Dearboy solid compilation. hours, but I like a little begins this cut with the —Matt Turner in Campbell Hall
TheIk Blue Aeroplanes (irai mes 9a Rough Music Beggars Banquet In an industry where trend prevails over talent, it’s good to know a band like The Blue Aeroplanes with special guest can still preserve their in tegrity. Throughout their JE 11-year tango with the n music industry, the Bristol TEA“ collective has released eight acclaimed, full- length LP*s. All Tickets are available at the A.S. Ticket Office, To mark their 10th an on the 3rd floor of the UCen, or charge by phone: 893-2064. niversary, 25 band mem bers came together to cre ate Rough Music, a 13-song extravaganza. Sa tirical lyrics and brilliant orchestration are embed American Pictures ded in a set of songs which by Jacob Holdt seem mostly unrelated to each other. The Aeroplanes bril Join us as we share a Danish liantly layer their poetry vagabond's personal journey with insinuations and self- throughout America from the politics. Songs like “Sugar As if it had tile intensity such as R.E.M., with Almond,” “Worry Beads” of a live track, the end of whom they’ve toured, the bottom up & the top down. and “A Map Below” are “Secret Destination” Blue Aeroplanes have Made with the money Holdt preservative-free pop strings out over a three- long been recognized as a songs made to please the minute jam, highlighting a band of its own kind. They received from selling blood, to rock-eager ear. saxophone, an organ and even have a dancer, buy the film for his camera, he But songs like “James,” three guitars. Wojtck Dmochowski, as a traveled for over 118,000 miles to “Wondering Wild” and The music is so varied, permanent member of the “Dear, Though The Night even classifying it under band. capture some of the most Is Gone” are ballads sung one genre would not do it In conclusion, I would profound images of this like an open-mic night at justice. It’s energetic, recommend any self- the local coffeehouse, with jazzy, melodic, poetic — proclaimed critic of the country's ’peoplescape'. that sense of intimacy and unclassifiable. filthy top-40 oligarchy From migrant workers to the individuality. In “James,” The band has filtered which has plagued the ra Tues. Feb. 21 lead singer Gerard Lan through 29 band members dio waves to give Rough Isla Vista Theatre Rockefellers, drug pushers to the gley and guitarist/vocalist and has been known to M usic a try. It is certainly a Klu Klux Klan, this is defintely Jon Wygens write, cryptic have 14-guitar finales at tasteful change of pace in ^ 7 pm and confident, “They their concerts. Today they my personal battle with to an experience wouldn’t serve a woman are on the Beggars Ban day’s pointless, mindless, < $4 stu. / $5 gen. you won't want to miss! and they wouldn’t have I l at the door quet label, home of the Dy distorted contrivances. m called time. / The bell in lans and the Charlatans M l poet’s comer has a thiev- U.K. —Radha Patel U H 4A Thursday, February 16,1995 Daily Ne* noriNti
The Los Angeles rap trio Funkdoobiest (Sondoobie, DJ versal language.... Funkdoobiest, sm Ralph M and Tomahawk Funk) stopped into the Nexus for We all contribute a style. That’s h F IN A L D A Y S an interview on Feb. 7. It was my first interview, so I was sources together to kill a comn nervous having people just listening to me ask questions. AW: “Rock On” has a lot of rei Everything The guys, who brought their seven friends and a machete, you religious? were fairly intimidating. Anyway, we all settled into KCSB’s SD: Well, no. There’s a lot of C M u st Go! Studio A to talk about Funkdoobiesfs new material from was just saying, “They left it all to their upcoming album Brothers Doobie and the state of hip- the pieces.” Everybody's leaving t Save Up to 80% hop. ligion. We didn’t want to direct an] Storewide pie but we just wanted to give evei Artsweefc I heard your new single and it was way diffe think. >1 THRIFT CENTER D ying for a Cigarette? rent It sounds like it’s about knowledge of self. RM: Broaden their perspefctiv 5718 Hollister • Goleta Sondoobie: It’s just hip-hop.... “Rock On” is definitely AW: Is there a difference |bet Next to Wendy’s ___ You’re not kidding! more spiritual. It’s like no matter what happens, rock on. SD: Hell, yeah.... Rap is a coir You know, all the stuff that happened in '94, we made a song put on hip-hop. You know, th| ra like a pick-me-up. section in your store. Rap is not h AW: On a campus like this with mostly white suburban hip-hop. ’Cause then you got eraf kids, what should be the function of hip-hop for them? the language. The language is cfiffe SD: At first, acknowledging the contributions that white different on the West Coast. folks have made to hip-hop, and then take it from there. RM: Rap is just one faction in a' We’re about acknowledging the contributions that every opposed to what hip-hop is. Hip-h H in AMATI Vi one's made to hip-hop. bined. Rap is a planet and hip- from AW Most of the hip-hop community are African- AW: Who are you listening ; I J Thursday Nights Americans, and their ethnicities play a lot into their TF: I try to listen to a lot ______7 to 9pm in front of Nicoletti’s music. How do your particular ethnicities play into your SD: Srrnf n Wessun. m usic? TR A little rock ’n’ roll once SD: As far as Latinos go, we try to contribute a not- SD: Redman, Keith Murray, Bi watered-down version of hip-hop. We have our own style vintage hip-hop. like everyone else. The same goes for anyone who wants to AW: Everyone’s saying L.A. is practice or subscribe to hip-hop. For example, Blacks have ally violent Is this true? used it with R & B and soul. Latinos just want to keep it real. RM: You can’t believe everythii AW. Is selling a lot of records important to you? olence goes on everywhere. Ever] SD: Nah — I mean we would like to ... if people like the department’s a gang. They label song and they buy it, cool, God bless, but what we wanna fo they’re a gang,” when they [the po cus on is raw hip-hop. If we were just concerned with selling should watch out for. records then we’d just make a booty record like “Whoomp SD: Even when the brothers co: Co-sponsored by UCon Dining Services and the Aicohoi/Drug Awareness nogram. Health Edxatbn Dept, Student Health Services. There It Is” or another “Tootsee Roll.” cool. There ain’t no set trippin’ a AW. Who else do you think is wack, besides Miami bass Everybody just comes in peace groups? RM: But there’s always gonna SD: I don’t think they wack, it’s just like I said, people there’s always ignorance. Don’t ! who are just in it for the money are senseless. There’s no that LA. is all about gangs and We’re as wild as Santa Barbara gets. point in going into the studio for an hour and then selling where that’s happenin’, but ther four million copies. We know, in the music business, careers makes everything balance out. Y ÇPEC/ and you have your fuckin’ hell, tJ are made, but that’s irrelevant to us. We just want to make With over 600 ani- , dope, quality hip-hop. And make a contribution to rap be lucky and the other side of the tow mals from around the u / / / » » , fore it gets killed by another form of music. lucky. world, there’s always l |/ > AW. What do you think about the new trend with jazz SD: We represent the unhapp something new to discover V » / and hip-hop? ence. [they laugh] at the Santa Barbara Zoo. x jT E Tomahawk Funk: We ain’t got nothin’ to do with that We AW: How so? The Zoo is proud of our new just stay with hip-hop. SD: Just reality. Our single, for Amur leopard habitat. Fewer than 50 of DJ Ralph M: The thing with jazz is that it’s always been in- is a joyous song, but at the same til these big cats remain in the wild, making corporated into all forms of music. What people rail to real problems of the world and a vision the Amur leopard the most endangered ize is that rap incorporates a lot of drum beats from rock re of this [violence and pain] would big cat in the world. cords, jazz records. You can’t separate them, you can’t say happens, rock on. Students who present current student that they’re not connected. They are. Music is connected, AW: When your first record ca ID in February get a special admission from gospel to rock, even heavy metal, all of it is connected. Hill were the first groups talkin\ rate of $3.00. Discover your Zoo! The blues... rap is the modern-day blues. To put music into everyone’s talkin’ about it Do y santa barban categories and say it’s different... yeah, it’s slightly different out of hand? zoological sardens but you got similar tones coming through. You use the same SD: Well, Cypress had a big in instruments to play all those types of music. You use flutes, nation with their concepts. AH of clarinets, trumpets and stand-up basses. It’s all relatively the Hill. We were new, as Funkdoob: Amur Leopard same, meat off the same bone. with all these weedheads ... we TR Tell ’em where hip-hop was bom. TR Everybody’s rappin’ about i Panthern Pardas Orientális SD: Hip-hop is like a religion. You live it eveiy day. It’s got SD: Funkdoobiest is tryin’ to Native Habitat: Russia-China- its own language, its own art form, its own dance. It’s a uni- We’re live and direct There ain’t m Ni&os Drive off Cabrillo Boulevard at East Beach. North Korea Border For more informatioii, call 962-5339.
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C H S T ic Introduction to chst 168P Prosem inar in We all thought horror was dead and bur Like many horror films, this one has a Chicano/a Studies Chicano History ied since the mid-’80s. Only a few of us afi great idea, but probably the wrong execu Rafael Perez Torres, TR 2-3:15, GIRV Gabriel Gutierrez, M 630-820 p.m., Ellsn cionados await the next phase in the cyclical tion. Carpenter’s concept of making his pro 1004, One hour per week discussion sec 2816, code 49262. history of film: the inevitable return of this tagonist (hence, the viewer) go crazy is inter tion required. This course satisfies G.E. CHST 170B Chicano Com m unity fabulous genre which would be marked by a esting and scary, but the film’s structure gives Area D2, Writing, and the Ethnicity Re Organizations single, glowing jewel in the rough of poorly away in the first five minutes that Trent will r quirements. Canos Ornelas, T 4-6:50, Phelps 2514, made, straight-to-video, low-budget mon go mad, with a needless “story within a i CHST 12 Introduction to Chicano code 06684. ster Sms ... and we will just have to wait a story” flashback format In other words, since we see Trent being checked into a men Spanish chst 178 Theories of Social little longer. Dina Gutierrez Castillo, MW 2-3:50, Changes and Chicano Society In the Mouth of Madness is not it, and its tal hospital in the beginning, we aren’t quite Phelps 2507, code 47662. Dionne Espinoza, TR 1230-1:45, BRDA director, John Carpenter, who brought us as scared when we realize that his vision has CHST 131 Introduction to Issues 5014, code 49288. Satisfies Ethnicity. record-breaking ticket sales and many a been blurred by his encroaching psychosis. sleepless night with his 1979 film Hallo Nonetheless, trippy visuals of monsters in Chicano Bilingual Education CHST 181 The Chicano Novel María Fránquiz & Ana Inés Heras. TR 8- Luis Leal, TR 11-12:15, NH 2215, code ween, indisputably one of the greatest horror nonchalantly coming out of the woodwork, 9:15, code 50450. Satisfies G.E D4, and 49254. Satisfies G.E. F2A, Writing and films ever made, is not our savior. much like Jacob’s Ladder, provide for some the Ethnicity Requirement Ethnicity. Don’t get me wrong, In the Mouth of downright frightening moments. But unlike M adness is not a bad film. It’s just not a great CHST 138 Barrio Popular Culture CHST 186P Chicano Dance Jacob’s Ladder, Carpenter begins to rely too Ruben Martinez, R 4-6:50, Girv 2115, Juan Rios, W 4-7, code 06700. film. It stars Sam Neill in the role of John much on cheesy special effects when the code 47688. Satisfies Ethnicity. Trent, a middle-aged insurance adjuster who scare meter runs low. idii CHST 191D Chicano Studies goes stark-raving mad while investigating Like many horror films, M outh begins the CHST 144 The Chicano Research Methods Com m unity the disappearance of one of his client com with a philosophy of subtlety: that what is the Sal Guerena & Patrick Dawson, MWF 10- pany’s top-selling horror writers, Mr. Sutter Beatriz Pesquera, TR 1230-1:45, IV The 1030, UB 1575, code 06718. not shown can be the most frightening, is e ater II, code 47696. Satisfies G.E. D2, Kane. Kane’s books apparently have the However, it begins to take on the look of a his Writing, and Ethnicity. CHST 191 uu Community Service ability to drive maiginal readers over the poorly made homage to George Romero’s brc CHST 168B History of th e Internship edge, and his latest novel, In the Mouth of Living Dead series, as gangs of hatchet- inti Yolanda Broyles González, T4-630, Place M adness, is expected to top the bestseller wielding zombie monsters from hell take her Chicano TBA, code 50443. Zaragosa Vargas, MWF 9-9:50, Phelps list— if only they can find it. Trent’s journey over the streets of picturesque Hobb’s End. poi 1431, code 49270. Satisfies G.E D2, and CHST 195/HISTORY OF ART 197 leads him to Hobb’s End, a small New Eng And it’s all downhill from there. This is all is 1 Ethnicity. Problems in the History of land town where his greatest fears are manif particularly disappointing, since it was Car- chi CHST 167 Chicana Feminism Chicano Art ested in what becomes one of the most con penter who made the definitive statement ne\ Osa Hidalgo, TR 2-3:15, code 50484. Ramon Favela, M 10-1, Arts 2622, chst fused and convoluted screenplay middles with Halloween, virtually void of special ef- I code 50492, histart code 50179. the film world has ever seen. I think it’s appa chst 168E History of the fects, that suspense is the key to good horror, froi Please obtain the consent of the instruc rent here that John Carpenter got writer’s Chicano Movement tor prior to enrollment (Arts1139, *2351, It just goes to show that horror directors Juq Lorena Oropeza, TR 930-10:45, GIRV Wednesdays, 1-2) block. Anyway, Trent goes mad, and then shouldn’t ever be allotted the budget to foil Sut 1108, code 06668. Satisfies Ethnicity. the world ends, and then the movie ends, or back on effects. the something like that Hie story relies on characters who behave vill; lily Nexus Thursday, February 16,1995 5A
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oobiest, we try to putitali together. ♦ PERSONAL INJURY That’s hip-hop, putting all the re- a communication gap. ♦ LANDLORD-TENANT lot of references to the Bible. Are ♦ B u s i n e s s i lot of Christians in the U.S., so 1 t it all to ]esus and I’m picking up leaving their responsibilities to re- lirect anything in particular to peo- give everybody a second chance to The Multicultural Center Presents erspeptrves..V.. “A terrifically engaging performer. ” enee between rap and hip-hop? is a Commercial label that they’ve h _ _ —THE WASHINGTON POST tv, thè rap charts, rap singles, a rap > is not hip-hop, rap is an aspect of i got graffiti, break dancin’ ... even Charles Brown ;e is (¡Efferent on the East Coast and hast. A Performance of (he Blues don in a whole circle of fictions, as is. Hip-hop is all the factions com- and hip-hop’s the universe. itening to now? a lot •oil once in a while, urray, Biggie Smalls, O.C. A lot of % LA. is all gangs and that it’s re- e? everything you hear. Of course, vi- re. Everybody’s a gang. The police ey label minorities and say, “Oh, y [the police] are the ones that you »thers come out to the show, it’s all rippin’ around us between gangs, i peace — it ain’t a gang thing, ys gonna be negativity in the air, . Don’t let them make you think mgs and lootin’. There’s sections ■ I but there has to be. That's what An exceptionally soulful Friday, February 17 • 8pm at e out. You have your Disneyland tin’ hell. Disneyland’s happy-go- X t e t a UCSB's Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall fthetownain’tsohappyandsogo- raw energy. AW: When you guys came out, all anyone talked about legendary blues pianist and Tickets: $12 Students and $18 General unhappy hip-hop listenin’ audi- was how you were in Cypress Hill. Was that annoying? singer, Charles Brown. Tickets available at the UCSB Multicultural Center. RM: Yeah, yeah it was. Partially it was our own fault ’cause we allowed that to happen. We allowed ourselves to C osponsored by th e UCSB Department o f Music n d d ie Santa Barbara H ues Society. ngle, for example — “Rock On” — be cast under their shadow. What we did was, we rode it out. For more information, call tbe UCSB Multicultural Center at 81&8411. e same time it points at some of the But now we’re in our own light—all that’s in the past. We’re iavision [that] maybe someday all notdenyingit,butitgottothepointwheneveryonewassay- l] would end. But no matter what ing, “They’re just riding on the Cypress Hill bandwagon.” It just got out of hand. ecordcame out, you and Cypress AWi Are you listening to anything besides hip-hop ^ V o o d o o s talking about marijuana. Now records? 1 it. Do you think that it’s gotten SD: Hell, yeah. All that shit oldies, blues, jazz.... Santa Qiurhara ta
Carol is reading from her notebook. or imply. Carol quickly concludes that his “The 12th: 'Have a good day, dear.’ The words are like rape. They imply male Good afternoon! Welcome to the new year! I 15th: ‘Now, don’t you look fetching....’... superiority and sexism. haven’t gotten one of these Poppy Field columns I saw you. I saw you, professor, for two The film is a moral debate. It is like a together in quite a while, though definitely not for lack semesters, sit there, stand there and ex Greek tragedy in that the hero is ambi of material. Just lately, there’s a singles collection from ploit as-you-thought, ‘paternal guous, they both have faults, and unlike the Television Personalities and new albums by, among prérogative.’” your basic Hollywood film, you don’t others, Lois, Epic Soundtracks (I can’t account for this Sexual harassment is the issue in David know whose side to take. It’s a very frus man’s name) and the Pastels. Mamet’s film of the ’90s, O leanna, based trating feeling, and yet still entertaining. Those Pastels are on Matador Records, who now on his successful play of the same name. A I’d recommend seeing the film because DEPARTMENT have a distribution deal with Atlantic. It’s seemed to female college student accuses her male it is a platform for deep thought and de me for a while that Atlantic has been better than it OF ECONOMICS professor based on her perception of his bate — it makes you wonder what sexual used to be. According to Atlantic representative Academic Peer “paternal prerogative.” The film presents harassment is and think about all the the ensuing verbal war between Carol, as times these scenarios have happened to Bobbie Gale, "the label used to be the home of more Advisor Program the ignorant, stubborn student, and John, you. John doesn’t touch her to instigate hard rock acts,” but when Danny Goldberg joined the 1995-96 her intelligent, defenseless male these accusations (though he does touch label a couple of years ago, he brought with him a Job Responsibilities: professor. her in trying to console her, partially in batch of people who were more alternative/indie- • Works approximately 5 hours per The progression of the film presents criminating himself). He doesn’t use any minded. Goldberg has since gone to Atlantic’s parent week. • Advises undergraduate and pro her questioning his style of teaching by in words linked with sex, doesn’t question Warner Bros., Gale said, but the people he brought in spective students regarding major terrupting him with impulsive outbursts. her personal life. Instead, he uses familiar are still at Atlantic. These people have probably been requirements and policies of die He can never finish a sentence without sayings and an erudite vocabulary that Department of Economics. part of the reason why, in the past couple of years, • Assists undergraduates in course being interrupted—the audience feels for Carol fails to understand, or even try to. Atlantic has released or distributed the likes of Grant selection. McLennan, Bettie Serveert, Dillon Fence, Frente!, • Refers students to other resources on campus. Eugenius and Daniel Johnston. • Informs students on how to pre A major label may improve for a while, and then it pare for and apply to graduate pro grams o r CPA exam. will likely swing in another direction, wherever the • General Administrative tasks in economic winds may take it But in the world of the cluding: filing, typing, answering phones and directing office traffic. smaller release, an unassuming charm and love of Qualifications: • Undergraduates majoring in Eco nomics, Business Economics or Economics/Mathematics. • Must have a minimum 3.00 cu m ulative GPA. • Completed a total of 8 upper-di- vision units in economics by the end o f Summer 1995. • Must be available to work the him, in a sense, because of how the dia entire 1995-96 academic year (Fall, As a woman, I usually cheer for the her Winter and Spring). logue goes between these two sole oine, but this movie gets into your blood • Should be familiar with campus characters. and makes you hate the female lead for resources. Carol is infuriating— she accuses John her ignorance and narrow-mindedness. • Must be available for 10-15 music may prove to be the rule rather than the excep hours of training during Spring of sexual harassment based on his words. O leanna presents a situation on the Q uarter 1995 and for the follow-up He is presented as a very honest indivi tion -- artists whose sales might have made them not training (approximately 6 hours) rise today, marked by such cases as the dual who wants to help his students. He Navy’s Tailhook Scandal, the Clarence economically feasible somewhere else. One such outlet shortly before Fall Quarter begins. has a wife, is applying to get a new house Salary: Thomas hearings and the sexual harass is Long Play Records, out of Atlanta, Ga., which has $6.00 per hour and is a candidate for tenure. She takes it ment accusations against President Clin just released a reissue of L iza rd la n d by Martin For more information call: all away from him — job, family, reputa ton. It makes you question the grounds of Newell’s ’80s band, the Brotherhood of Lizards. It’s all (80S) 893-2981 tion. The movie makes you wonder at the those accusations. pop songs - pretty, catchy and lush, though they were potential damage of mere words. Application deadline: If you are interested in only films with recorded on an 8-track borrowed from Captain Monday, Mardi 6,1995 She keeps a notebook of her visits with straightforward plots and flashy scenes, Sensible. Return applications to: him. "The 12th: ‘Have a good day, dear.’” then you will fall asleep during this two- The Economics Undergraduate Is his saying “dear” a deliberate attack hours-plus drama of two characters and Newell and Sensible (formerly of the Damned) are Office, 2121 North HaU on her status as a woman? Is that verbal their accusations. But if you are a person both inventive, English pop songwriters with a rape? The film causes the viewer to ques who questions society and wants to draw predilection for little round specs. One of Lizardtand’s tion society. These small expressions are your own conclusions, this film will sa strengths is how it staves off the hunger pangs for more so engraved into our language that we tisfy your tastes. music from another of those little-round-specs guys: don’t think twice about what they mean —Melissa Altman Andy Partridge ofXTC. Newell and Partridge made an album together, though, last year’s The Greatest Uoing Englishman. It satisfies in all the XTC ways, as does Lizardland. "Get PILPiRT«DBy3AYHK (tMPITEXS another driver for your clockwork train,” Newell sings, and, “The twisty trees in the stationyard sing the prices I W AS 50 out when the wind blows hard, on market day...” THAT'5 NOTHING. He’s looking at the absurd and the gloomy with a LATE I HAD YEAH, I HAD I WAS SO LATE THAT I TO PUT ON TO SHAVE IN wan smile, with English resignation, with the deadpan W MAKEUP THE CAR. HAD TO GIVE MYSELF silliness of psychedelia. By the time you get the picture, the images are your own. It’s like what a Partridge IN THE CAR. A SPONGE BATH IN THE CAR. song does, at least to me. “It was all a bit rural with us Lizards,” Newell [n recounts on the sleeve. “There was an old bantam chicken in my garden and she used to get a bit miser able if it was cold and rainy so we’d let her sit in the recording room while we worked sometimes.” Ä 1B 2/16 Asked if they would tour, Newell replied, “Only by bicycle.” So he and Nelson did a low-key tour of Hardware*Software •Printers «MultiMedia* Accessories «And More! England, guitars on the backs of their bikes. From their Custom Computer Systems at Affordable Prices! demeanors to their music, Newell and bassist Nelson (of the New Model Army) are refreshing and heart Receive $50 Off any Base 486DX or Pentium System warming, and Long Play deserves kudos for releasing Lizardland over here. Well worth checking out If you can’t find Lizardland in the shops, Long Play We Now Take VISA, M/C & Discover! 6 8 5 - 1 7 5 9 can be reached at P.O. Box 55233, Atlanta, GA, 30308, 250A Storke Rd. Goleta. K-MART Shopping Center! or at [email protected].
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onight, reggae fans a few of the themes fea from across the tured in the band’s music. TSouth Coast will These medleys will primar a g» A Musical jouraejf in Search of Routs bum incense, dress in red,ily fill Pulse’s play list yellow, green and black, However, a couple of Mar- and groove to the eerie ley covers are also ex /£ /% J r L . Latcho Dram plays tonight at 7 p.m. in Campbell Hall. tunes of three prominent pected to be performed. Rastafari groups at the Inner Circle will also Latcho Drom is a film journey through India, Egypt, Bob Marley Day concert in play its own songs with a Turkey, through Eastern Europe, to France and Spain, the Arlington Theater. few Marley songs added and traces the music, culture and history of the Roms. Featured British band in. The group is famous for We know these eternal wanderers as gypsies, but over Steel Pulse will perform its rendition of “Bad the centuries they have been called gitane, haleb, tsigare along with Inner Circle Boys,” used as the theme and bohem ians. and Ventura-based Lion of TV’s Cops. (Ironi- In 1980, director Tony Gatlif s quest for his roots took I’s in their Santa Barbara the song mocks die him to Spain. Though he had no luck in finding the graves of his Rom ancestors — “they had to change names many times to protect themselves”—it was his ex periences with gypsies of Spain and other countries which led to Latcho Drom. Told in Romany with English subtitles, the film is a travelogue, documentary and geography lesson from the perspective of a wandering people. It follows the tenu ous trail left by a diverse culture which covers the globe — a culture which preserves its traditions while aug menting them with the cultural flavors of wherever they find themselves. Gatlif describes his film as “a musical that tells the story of the historical odyssey of the gypsies from India to Egypt” Thus the film takes us along on a voyage of music, dance and perseverance in the face of persecu tion. The gypsies have been around for a thousand years and probably will be around for another thousand. As long as they are, they will continue to enrich the world with their music, artwork and history. —Sarah Crane
Reggae at the Arlington At noon next Wednesday, the San Francisco tribute to reggae legend very policemen the series Bob Marley. portrays.) The band recen jazz-rap band Alphabet Soup will play The concert is part of tly performed with Steel Steel Pulse’s Bob Marley Pulse at the Bob Marley Storke Plaza. They are fresh from the S.F. Day Tour across the West Day concert in Oakland. Coast, which will con Lion I’s, formed five tinue through February to years ago, plays a unique jazz scene to promote their new LP Lay in' commemorate the works style of music, combining of the Jamaican musician. reggae, ska, jazz and im Low in Ike Cut. Alphabet Soup should not be The group, whose album provisation, performed V ic tim s was a 1992 with a complete horn sec Grammy nominee for Best tion. Having released its missed. Reggae Album of the Year, debut album, O riginal has been together since Style, in June, the group J975, when rhythm guitar first played with Steel ist David Hinds joined Pulse Monday night in San keyboardist Selwyn Luis Obispo. It has created FREE MEMBERSHIP “Bumbo” Brown to form a a version of Marley’s présents... group that has been at the classic “No Woman No EMERALD VIDEO with major credit card forefront of contemporary Cry," which begins tradi 6545 Pardall Rd. CALVIN & HOBBES tionally but evolves into a $1.00 OFF ANY RENTAL reggae music for 15 years. Isla Vista, CA 968-6059 By Bill Watterson with this comic (void with other offer) Steel Pulse’s songs fast-p aced ska tackle important issues of performance. racism and discrimina The concert begins a t 8 tion, addressing these tonight, with the doors problems with political opening at 7 p.m. Tickets anthems. Gang warfare, are stiu available at the apartheid and taxi drivers Arlington box office, 1317 who refuse to pick up State S t African-Americans are but —Nick Robertson
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