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DAYTON - February 2014 - ISSUE 22

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Contributors Katie Modras-Anible Stephanie Baker Kerry Duane Brown Sophie Dannin Erin Dreis Adam Eckley Justin Gault Danny Hamen Brian Johnson Kelly Kristin Jones Natalie Krick Emily Mendenhall Mindy Parade Michael Perkins Cassidy Platt Xia Tio Wakka Lauren Weidenhammer Christopher ‘ETCH’ Weyrich David S. Williams Joe Williams Jason Young

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# weekly Photo Stephanie Baker table of contents

PHOTONS |6-7 Photography by Joe Williams Press 1 for “How Dare You” |8 M. Ross Perkins / illustrated by Sophie Dannin DIY: Dry Shampoo |9 Lisa Patrick-Wright Oh Gin! |10 Emily Mendenhall THERE ARE 10 KINDS OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD: |11 THOSE WHO GET BINARY AND THOSE WHO DON’T David S. Williams / illustrated by Erin Dreis The Skinny on Skinny Girls |12 Lauren Weidenhammer / illustrated by Sophie Dannin WHAT DO YOU DO? |14 Mindy Parade / illustrated by Erin Dreis Off The Radar: |16 Because Pop Stars Are People Too Jacob S. Combs Seek and You Shall Find |17 Christopher ‘ETCH’ Weyerich Romanticizing the Stoned |18 Randy Cornett / illustrated by Adam Eckley Westward Ho: Part Five |20 Danny Hamen / Illustrated by Adam Eckley Julie Jones on ‘A Strange Likeness’ |22 Katie Modras-Anible photos by Kelly Kristin Jones, Natalie Krick & Xia Tio Telephone Advice w/ Mama Cass |24 Telephone’s Phrasal Template Word Game |25 & Tic Keck Toe! Telephone Comics |26 Wakka, ETCH & Jason Young The Joy of Coloring w/ Ben Riddlebarger |27

# weekly joewilliamsphoto.com Joe Williams | Photos

6 | # weekly # weekly | 7 kind that is made from mixtures of earthy I walk through the crowded and noisy dyes and applied in ritualistic ceremonies. street of American discourse and I hear Press 1 for “How Dare You” Their war paint is visible in the periorbital poorly constructed sentences blasting BY M. Ross Perkins weathering underneath their eyes, in lines from megaphones; Americans are up in formed by years of glowing smiles, and in arms, claiming that they are dramatically unmistakable marks of struggles past and inconvenienced by the linguistic clumsiness present, now permanently stamped on their of English language learners. I walk through skin for the world to see. this volatile and anxiety-inducing street These warriors come to me and, like a while locking arms with my students and squire, I present them with their weapons: saying “Stay close. Keep your heads down. frail and delicate little pencils made of Pencils at the ready...” wood and lead and tin and rubber. This Suddenly, a voice in the crowd shouts weapon (though meek) pierces the hearts “there they are” and all at once we are of dictators, crosses out centuries-old doused with a bucket of frigid American laws of oppression, slices the throats of urine. The crowd goes berserk in a captors and rapists, and chops down the celebration of perceived justice, chanting fences of arbitrary territorial borders. Most “USA! USA! USA!” Shocked and outraged, importantly, however, this weapon becomes I look to my friends, my brothers and my a chisel when placed on its end. These sisters, and I see that some of them are students hammer the chisel with ideas and crying. Some of them are confused. Some of stories and love and intellect, over and over, them are angry. And some of them, having until their names are etched in the stone of experienced far worse before, are stoic. humanity, bold faced and underlined. Beneath us is a sidewalk made by stones that arrived in this country on a ship called Li Xiu Ying was here. the Santa Maria, were brought to this street Abdullah was here. by an Oriental railroad, were laid at the feet Ekta was here. of a Grecian column, were mortared into Alejandro was here. place by men and women with strange and Hadiya was here. unpronounceable names. I look down to this sidewalk and I see that dozens of sheets Controversy has recently erupted of paper reading “A B C D E F G” have surrounding a Coca-Cola commercial that fallen from the hands of my friends and are presented the song “America the Beautiful” now soiled and ruined like literary corpses in multiple languages. Immediately, strewn about. cries of “speak English or get out” began Being a natural-born citizen of the United emanating from dank conservative States, my instinct is to scream and claw ideological basements and the national and react with rage and violence. My blood media machine began churning its latest ill- boils, my face turns red, I draw back my fist founded outrage. The popular adage of “I in anger. But my fist is caught by a dark- shouldn’t have to press 1 for English” began skinned hand from behind me. resurfacing and complaints of convenience I look back and I see the warriors, quiet store miscommunications began circulating and unwavering. Clutched firmly in their once again. Those who kick and scream grips, the sabers made of wood and lead resemble children on the filthy floor of and tin and rubber remain unmoved, a toy aisle, having never attempted the unbroken, longer and sharper than they acquisition of a second language, having were before. My friends are not afraid. never made friends with a non-native They bend their knees, slowly assume a speaker, having never informed themselves ready position, and lean forward, prepared that English is one of the most difficult to charge. No crowd is dense enough, no languages in the world, perhaps even the bullhorn is loud enough, no jingoism is most difficult language in the world. These stifling enough to deter these people from profoundly insulting children do not realize participating in the human dialogue. They that for an ESL learner, it is an enormously are poised to overcome the obstacles of In my job every day, I get to experience (English as a Second Language) learning significant milestone to simply be able American stupidity one misspelling, one the privilege of sitting beside immigrants to process is actually more akin to going into to say, “Six dollars and thirty-five cents, mispronunciation, one beautiful and rich this country as they learn to properly use battle. I’m regularly reminded of this analogy please. Three dollars and sixty-five cents is foreign accent at a time. the English language. They come from all when working with women from Arab your change. Thank you and have a nice walks of life, all ranges of experience, and countries in the Middle East, specifically. day. Please come again.” These profoundly M Ross Perkins is a Writing Consultant at Wright from numerous areas of the world. Their Like the images of glorified male, Anglo- insulting children do not comprehend that State University. If you’re an ESL learner, he would skin is often darker than mine. Their eyes Saxon knights that I remember from my to many immigrants learning English, it love to be your friend and help you with your English. and noses are often placed and shaped in childhood, these women often come to is an incredibly meaningful achievement If English is your first language, visit http://www. designs that are minutely different from my me wearing armored gorgets and full-face to be able to communicate sufficiently omniglot.com/language/phrases/meet.htm to own. And their stories, though rarely told, helmets made not of steel, but of ornately enough to stand behind a counter and sell learn how to say “Nice to meet you” in several dozen are often filled with more anguish, more decorated silk. More often, the students you cigarettes. Press 1 for “How Dare You,” languages. strife, more complex cultural implication wear no armor at all. Instead, the bare faces you sad, shameful case studies in American than the story I call mine. of these individuals are smudged with a ignorance and ethnocentrism. For most of these individuals, the ESL naturally-occurring war paint. It’s not the In the furor of this language debate,

8 | # weekly Press 1 for “How Dare You” DIY: Dry Shampoo BY M. Ross Perkins by lisa patrick-wright

The perfect shampoo for lazy butts that don’t want to be dirty butts! Whether you are feeling lazy, don’t want to shower or it’s just to cold to get your hair wet. Try this way easy recipe for dry shampoo for all types of hair.

Supplies: Dry shampoo for light hair • 1/4 cornstarch • 2 Tbsp. baking soda • 2 Tbsp. flour (any kind, even oat), optional • 5-8 drops essential oil such as tea tree, optional (more for scent than anything else)

Mix all ingredients together and store in container of your choice.

Supplies: Dry shampoo for dark hair: Basically you’ll be substituting cocoa powder for much of the cornstarch. Here’s what I find works best after trial and error: • 1/4 cup cocoa powder • 2 Tbsp. cornstarch • 2 Tbsp. baking soda • 5-8 drops essential oil, optional • 2 Tbsp. flour, optional

Application: Use old make up brush or if you are really in a pinch use your hands

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# weekly | 9 Oh Gin! BY Emily Mendenhall

But let’s get back to gin and tonics. They are not inherently hateful. I used to think they were just for Christmas. (So piney and Christmasy!) I later thought they were great for summer. (So piney and refreshing!). And now I believe they are a year-round drink of champions. Finding the gin for you is the best way to start. Drink with me when I’m behind the bar on Tuesday nights at Lily’s Bistro and we can find a gin you love. I recommend Citadelle, Death’s Door, Hendrick’s, Watershed, and Aviation if you’re anti-juniper and pine-iness. If you’re not opposed to juniper, let’s talk Brokers, Beefeater, and Plymouth. Avoid Bombay Sapphire and Tanqueray. They are fine, but there are so many better options that are tastier and more affordable. Just nerd out with a bartender for a minute—your pocketbook will thank you and your friends will be impressed. A lot of times you’re paying for marketing, and name recognition does not always make for the best spirit. Plus, it’s our job to know about spirits and we’re always trying to make our work and home bars the best. Additionally, in any superb drink, every ingredient matters. This is especially true for two-ingredient drinks. If the bar is using tonic off the gun, skip it and opt for a gin and grapefruit, or the aforementioned gin and soda. (A splash of cranberry is good too!). If you’re making G&Ts at home, seek out a superior tonic, like White Rock, Fever Tree, Q, Fentimans, Schweppes, or Canada Dry.

Here’s a gin and tonic recipe that I’m currently digging on, in an effort to make the world a little more delicious:

1.5 ounces gin (I use Death’s Door, an organic gin made on an island in Wisconsin with lovely peppery notes and a little vodka burn.)

.5 ounces fresh squeezed ruby red grapefruit juice Please don’t tell me that you don’t like gin. vines for it to be interesting. That’s like saying you don’t like fun. One Gin is incredibly diverse. It’s made from a 2 ounces White Rock tonic water of my greatest passions behind the bar is slew of delicious botanicals—such as, but not convincing a world of non-gin drinkers that limited to: violet, cardamom, anise, orange .25 ounce float St. Germain elderflower liquour they do, in fact, like gin. Follow along and and lemon peel, juniper, coriander, nutmeg, we’ll go through how to be a better drinker. cinnamon, almond, rose, licorice, savory, Garnish with a sliver of grapefruit We all approached gin wrong once. When cumin, fennel—with each gin striking it’s we say we “don’t like gin,” what we mean own balance. But most people just think of The theory behind this recipe is that you is that, one time, we got a really terrible juniper and remember that bitter hangover. can take things that have bitter notes—gin, hangover from bad gin and tonics. And that So let’s start there. Almost every bar has tonic, grapefruit—and balance them with the is a horrible, terrible hangover. I did it too Hendrick’s. Try it. Hendrick’s has very little fantastic floral sweetness of elderflower. Trust and swore off gin for years. But dang, were juniper taste and beautiful cucumber and me, you’ll like it. And no longer will you be we missing out. Get hip to gin and realize rosewater notes. It’s clean and tasty. Try it that person who says “I don’t like gin.” Now that you don’t need to flavor a neutral spirit with soda water instead of tonic and that you are the person who just likes good drinks with whipped cream or gummy bears or red bitter quinine memory will fade away. and your bartender will love you for it.

10 | # weekly Hari Curry Oh Gin! THERE ARE 10 KINDS OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD: BY Emily Mendenhall THOSE WHO GET BINARY AND THOSE WHO DON’T. Garlic by David S. Williams Tandoori Naan Bioshock is no stranger to those robots we love to hate. Although not true robots, Big Grilled Daddies and Handy Men are those rare breed of humans who have taken way too many Vegetable robotic upgrades. Now all that’s left of them is a heart in a jar or a crazed man strapped Burger into an irremovable suit. Your first time against one of these heavy hitters will leave you terrified, their hulking masses tearing Roasted you asunder. It’ll take all your courage not to run screaming through the halls of Rapture Yellow as a giant hand-drill comes hurling at your face. Tomato Ok let’s see. Crazed robot that controls an entire building and wants nothing more than to kill you? Check. Monstrous cyborgs who want to kill you? Check. Aren’t there any sweet lovable robots who don’t want you Red Onion dead? Never fear folks! There’s always your favorite backpack/robot! From the hit PS2 From the dispensable minion of every evil years and even cemented herself at the top and PS3 franchise Rachet & Clank, Clank is genius, to the bot that’s got a few screws of IGN’s 100 Greatest Villains the straight man to Rachet’s laid back surfer loose, they’re all such lovable scamps with as numero uno. (Not to mention making a attitude. Throughout the game franchise hearts of gold…Well, gold-plated circuitry guest appearance in the game Poker Night Clank goes from a cold, “We must save the Green Pepper anyway. Today we’re talking about our 2 and a cameo in Pacific Rim as the Gypsy universe,” un-fun machine, to a character favorite video game robots. So what makes a Danger AI.) that you grow to see as Rachet’s equal. Like good robot in a videogame? It’s all about the Speaking of Poker Night 2, there’s another Jak and Daxter and Banjo-Kazooie, in Rachet human element, the little bits of personality little robot that made a guest appearance & Clank you control the main character that make them the lovable characters that in that game: ! This funny and for the majority of the game, but that’s we remember through the ages. mentally unstable bot made an appearance not to say the secondary character doesn’t Not every video game robot is as memorable in Poker Night 2 alongside GLaDOS, Brock have their own place in the series. Clank Goat Cheese as we would like. Most simply act as minions Sampson (Venture Brothers), and Ash (Evil becomes just as funny and wise-cracking as for the hero to blow up. It’s easier for a game Dead). Claptrap is the one-wheeled, yellow Rachet and sheds his uptight attitude from to be rated “E” or “E10” if the main character bundle of stair-inept joy that graced the the beginning of the first game all the way is blowing up robots instead of hitting screens of vault hunters everywhere. In the through the IP’s dozen titles. A dynamic duo Churrasco humans or poor defenseless squirrels. Even franchise, Claptrap is a crazy to the end, Ratchet and Clank shows us that newer games like the PlayStation 4’s Knack little bot that you meet along the way in both you can have the best friendship in the galaxy Curry Sauce still offer a never ending swarm of robot games. In , he digs you out of with something that most people would call minions to smash and clobber. Does this the snow and tries to loot your corpse. Then an overgrown toaster. mean that robots get a bum rap? That all after realizing that you are still alive, he dubs So whether they’re sitting between the hero they’re good for is being crapped out of you as his “minion” and has you do menial and the main objective, blowing up your the assembly line only to be disassembled tasks. If R2-D2 could speak English and had fragile, little mind with unsolvable puzzles, by a killing blow from the game’s hero/ the processing power of someone with their or riding on your back to provide that much heroine? Not in the slightest. frontal lobe missing, you’d have a mirror needed heli-pack boost, we love our robots Jason Watkins We love robots; they’re the greatest…or copy of Claptrap. As the first story character to their nuclear-powered cores. So, next time most terrifying. Every time I get my hands on you meet in Borderlands 2, Claptrap you’re having fun storming the castle and a Gun, I kind of forget whether robots cements himself as one of the only characters blowing robot minions to kingdom come, are supposed to be awesome or terrifying whose crap you can deal with. In every RPG remember that robot minions are the coolest beyond all belief. One of the greatest robots (Borderlands not excluded), you have to do minions. What’s more fun? Smashing lame from video game history is the malicious AI, so many tasks for so many characters and it security guards that look like Kevin Smith GLaDOS. She’s a spitfire and will set you can get pretty annoying. Luckily, your little or dodging buzz saw wielding robots with ablaze faster than you can say, “The cake is buddy Claptrap is always there to brighten up glowing red eyes? The decision isn’t hard, my a lie.” The Rat Man, Chel, Peabody and your day with his special brand of insanity. dear gamers. It’s robots, all the way. Atlas, a whole testing facility full of scientists, But video games don’t always feature robots all become lab rats to GLaDOS. Voiced by that are trying to kill you…Sometimes they’re Ellen McLain, GLaDOS has become one cyborgs! And with the diver suit wearing Big of the most memorable characters in recent Daddy and overly prosthetic Handy Man,

# weekly |11 The Skinny on Skinny Girls by Lauren Weidenhammer

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by Harvey Fierstein featuring Jamison Stern with Jamie Cordes Lisa Ann Goldsmith Patricia Linhart Jon Hacker Philip Thomas Stock Join Us directed by Scott Stoney Online In the North African country of Mauritania, question our idolization of Disney princesses Now Playing thru February16 brides are often sent to fattening camps and Victoria’s secret models. Though their before their weddings to be more desirable critiques are probably reasonable and valid, Final Week! $25 SeatS available for their grooms. In Polynesia, women cover our continual obsession with them is only every inch of their exposed skin with ornate perpetuating their dominance. The truth is, Performed live at THE LOFT THEATRE in Downtown Dayton • 126 N. Main Street tattoos, embodying a rich cultural tradition. our definitions of beauty continually evolve In Zambia, the trend is for females to bleach within our society. For tickets: 937-228-3630 their skin in an attempt to lighten their In an interview with Bon Appetit magazine This production complexion. In regions of Burma, long necks last year, actress Drew Barrymore candidly contains adult content or online: www.humanracetheatre.org or www.ticketcenterstage.com are the epitome of beauty, which lead women said, “I hate women who say they can eat to “stretch” their necks by wearing brass coils whatever they want, because I don’t relate to The LofT SeaSon SponSor addiTionaL LofT SeaSon SupporT and rings. Obviously, in the western world, that at all.” our ideals of beauty are no less extreme or This quotation shocked me, though I’m skewed. It seems no matter where you look not sure why. It should not have shocked on the map, women face the innate challenge me, as people have callously made such of living up to a cultural definition of beauty. remarks to me over the years. Here’s the organizaTionaL SupporT provided by As young women, one of the most prevalent injustice in Barrymore’s comment: she is discussions forced upon us is that of body only contributing to this unjust standard of image. As my hot pink nails gloss over the beauty as stick-thin silhouettes. When you keyboard, I am reminded of the American bash naturally thin girls, you are holding a Torch Song Trilogy SponSored by icon, Barbie. For decades, she has endured double standard. No rational person would Sam Rinehart CFP, CLU Private Wealth Advisor. Ameriprise Financial, Inc. ridicule for her too perfect curves and “fake imagine calling someone out on a recent Rob and Leesa Comparin • AIDS Resource Center Ohio • Dr. Robert L. Brandt, Jr., MD • The City of Dayton Human Relations Council Larry S. Glickler—Bradford, Connelly & Glickler Funeral Home • Miami Valley Fair Housing Center and bake” tan. Critics have called into weight gain—that would be insensitive.

12 |# weekly So why is it deemed appropriate to tell my (eating only what my orphan family ate) I family that I’m looking frail or need to go had dropped weight significantly. The Skinny on Skinny Girls eat a Big Mac? Who made you the expert on One night at dinner, in the months after by Lauren Weidenhammer my weight? I returned to the US, I began to realize There truly are girls in existence who are that it hurt to sit on the wooden chair for naturally tall and lanky by design, girls who the duration of the meal—I wondered why, do not take a second look at their breakfast and resorted to sitting on my rolled up in the toilet to fit into a pair of jeans. I should sweatshirt, to add cushioning. After weeks of know. I am one. painful sitting, I finally realized that it hurt I can’t help that I was born into a country to sit down not because of the texture of the which glorifies my kind of silhouette, no chair, but because my derrière had lost any more than I would suffer if I had been born cushioning it once had, in exchange for a into a culture such as Mauritania, where I bony behind. Despite just dealing with the could have spent months at a fattening camp lash of being underweight when I returned without much success. Is it my fault I have a home, I’ve had a young adulthood marked rapid metabolism and have always come in by the trials of finding the right pair of pants. underweight for my height? Do you know just how hard it is to track Unfortunately, I have spent the later years down a pair of size 2 long dress pants? What of my adolescence and early 20s fighting about finding stylish denim that is long off stereotypes of “thin girls.” I cannot enough to cover my ankles? help that I am 5’9” in flats or that I could It’s easy to blame the media for our western DAYTON eat junk food every day and never gain an culture’s obsession with skinny, for instilling extra pound. No, it may not be fair, but it in young girls the idea that not eating will CONVENTION CENTER is reality. Throughout my life, I have battled be the key to happiness. But the hard truth the insensitivity of complete strangers as they is that we as individuals often encourage FEBRUARY badgered me about my natural tall and thin the obsession and the double standard. We 201420 – 23 silhouette, probably assuming I would take encourage it by buying the diet pills and the it as a compliment. I’m not sure it ever got cellulite lotions. Society is defined by the under my skin until last year, when I returned population which inhabits in. Which means back to the States after living in Africa. After that you and I are defining our society and its four months of a sparse and imbalanced diet values…How will we define it?

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# weekly | 13 WHAT DO YOU DO? by Mindy parade

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14 |# weekly however, do multiple things. Many of us hole/gym/second shift of the day at the wear a multitude of hats and some of us embalming institute/ napped... then it was (me!) look good in none of them. I can not dinner/begging for food/feeding my child WHAT DO YOU DO? possible sum them up to you. You can not the good food while I ate rice and beans/ by Mindy parade possible sum your things that you do up to dining at that fancy-ass place...and then me, either. This question poses such anxiety bedtime/more nap time/fb time/ tv time/ within me as im sure it does you. But we reading time/ taxidermy time/making art all muster up the automaton responses time...how much more could you learn of job descriptions usually better left to about a person? Ever heard that one famous applications and resumes. saying by that one famously anonymous What if we tried this? What if we all said person that says, ‘Never judge a person until what we really do? Let’s not sugar coat it in you walked a mile in their shoes because sweet prestigious granules. Let’s connect so everyone is fighting a battle and suffering’ we can start becoming BFF’s. Lets describe or some shit? That would no longer be a what we did THAT DAY. What did you do cliche. That would become real and “What today? You can find out a lot more about a do you do?” would be the cliche. person by what they do on any particular What do you do? Well thank you for day than with a “What do you do?” query. asking! I just wrote an article about that… Bike MIami Valley Quarterly Can you imagine if upon meeting someone Mindy Parade wants you to text her and tell you said, “I slept in/woke up early... then her about your day. 937.610.8895 She has a I ran a mile/slept in some more/worked/ blog thingy over at ConversingWithEarthlings. Social will be held on March searched for a job/swam in my pile of wordpress.com. You can email her money... then it was off to the local watering [email protected]. 11, 2014 at the Yellow Springs Brewery.

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# weekly |15 and self-released a tape, Astrionics (which has they do it. As much enthusiasm as I have for since sold out), and supported it with a month- the band (I listen to Pristine Origin at least five Off The Radar: long tour of the country almost immediately times a week), I am fully aware that they are after forming in 2011. Following their rather not everyone’s cup of tea. What attracts me to Because Pop Stars Are People Too ambitious debut as a band, they quickly got to Hyrrokkin is their unpredictability. Rarely do by jacob S. Combs work on their full-length LP, Pristine Origin, I find music that temporarily makes me lose which was released by Sick Rooms Records in my concept of time, stimulates my creative October of 2013. processes, and still serves as background music Since the novelty of a fresh record has far from when turned down low enough. The record worn off, let’s talk about Pristine Origin for a even sounds great when played at the wrong paragraph. Brett Nagafuchi’s drumming nails speed. irregular time signatures and peppers them Hyrrokkin will be performing at Blind Bob’s with frequent, improvised fills. Guitarist in Dayton on Thursday, April 3 with Chicago Edward Ricart and bassist Paul Larkowski weirdos Dead Rider and Dayton sweethearts utilize dischordant, percussive styles of playing the Motel Beds. I’m usually the first to say that take their compositions everywhere February is far too soon to make plans for from atmospheric jazz to polyrhythmic, springtime, but I highly suggest that you mark caucaphonic noise rock. Aside from blasts the date and do not miss this performance. provided by an improv horn section on the Jacob S. Combs is a daydreamer who is easily tracks “Haarp” and “Tamariz,” the music on startled and doesn’t know what he wants to be Pristine Origin is made by none other than when he grows up. If you see him in public, give him Ed, Paul, and Brett. Without the use of a high five. Jacob S. Combs is all about high fives. synthesizers, loops, samples or even vocals, this record is arguably the most music I have What is it that makes music so listenable? much comfort as we may find in recognizing heard come from three people at one time. Some would say the secret to an auditory similarities in most songs that were released A live performance from Hyrrokkin typically bliss that the masses will agree upon is in in the past five decades, we cannot depend on begins with Ed saying directly to the audience familiar song structure: memorable choruses music to stay the same. This is why we have something like, “We’re Hyrrokkin and we’re eloquently placed around accessible verses, bands like Hyrrokkin. going to play some songs,” followed by a usually interrupted by a bridge, occasionally Hiding in the sleepy village of Yellow Springs, mention of whatever touring band is on greeted by an intro and concluded by an Ohio is a trio of well-mannered, soft-spoken the bill. They stay hard at work throughout outro. The basic pop song is what makes gentlemen whose musical output blurs genre their set, maintaining their impeccably teenage girls swoon, old folks feel young again, lines and tests the attention span of their tight musicianship, opening their eyes and would-be nobodies laugh their way onto audience. Taking their name from one of only occasionallyomegamusicdayton.com to keep up nonverbal the Billboard Top 40. We owe these beloved Saturn’s moons, Hyrrokkin (pronounced like communication (or, “jazz eyes”). No pageantry, pop songs for making high school dances less “high-rockin’,” conveniently) has a style that no theatrics. There are no choruses to sing awkward than they could have been and for actually makes me want to use terms like “post- along to, and innocently rocking your head or film credits seeming mildly interesting. As ” or “fusion” to describe it. The group recorded tapping your foot requires one to count while

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16| # weekly Off The Radar: Because Pop Stars Are People Too by jacob S. Combs Brent woke up at four in the afternoon and filled with well whiskey. He thought she was tried to make it to the bathroom to take the really cute even though her head was shaved Romanticizing the Stoned first of six whiskey shits that day. He didn’t and she kept one giant greasy dreadlock by Randy Cornett make it. “Oh man,” he laughed to himself. growing out of the side for whatever reason. “Wait ‘til I tell the guys that I got the pimp The night was going well. Two men in the skitters all over my bathroom floor! That back were locked in an arm-wrestling match is classic Brent!” He cleaned himself up, that was approaching its second hour. The reached in the pocket of his shit-stained jeans guys in Hair Witch were passing a one-hitter and pulled out a used condom, a scratch-off, around the bar. A small cockney child with 87 cents, the lyrics booklet for a Manowar soot on his face was standing in the corner cassette tape and a crumpled photo of a ‘92 reciting the Lord’s Prayer. Everyone was Nissan Infiniti M30. On the back, someone having fun. Carol, it turns out, was a friend had written, “This is the greatest damn car of the band and had riden down with them ever made.” He put on a pair of unsoiled from Indiana. Seeing as he probably would jeans and put all of the items in his pockets. never see her again, he made the decision Realizing that he had to be at his line cook right then and there that he was going to job in twenty minutes, he went to his fridge sleep with her. “Kill that whiskey, baby. Let’s and cracked open an ice cold tall boy can hop back to my place and make my mattress of Steel Reserve. “Can’t go to work without stink.” A hand fell on his shoulder and spun gettin’ my buzz on. That’s just how this him around. It was the bassist of Hair Witch. one honest man plays the game.” He took several deep pulls from the can and it was “What’re you doin’ hittin’ on my girlfriend?” gone. Before making the two mile walk to work, he took whiskey shit number two and Without hesitation, Brent jumped on the grabbed another tall boy from the fridge. man and began to pummel him. He was an When he got to the bottom of his apartment unstoppable slurricane of flashing fists and staircase, he jump-kicked the front screen maximum cusses. It took several people to door open and let a Ric Flair into the air. pull him away. Once separated, the other His elderly neighbor, a busybody piece of band members helped escort their dizzy antique furniture named Arliss, was sitting friend to the door. Carol turned to Brent. on his stoop with his pipe, gathering dust. Brent cracked open his beer. The mere sight “What the Hell is wrong with you?” of him brought on the ire of Arliss. Brent pulled his pants and underwear down “Look at you, ya young punk. You can’t drink and made a crude shape with his testicles beer out in the open like that! What would your that resembled the top of a mushroom folks think? That’s shameful!” house.

Brent took a large drink and spit it into the “We don’t play games around here! WE’RE air. “Shut up, you old buzzard, I’m from Dayton!” FROM DAYTON!!!”

Arliss shook his head as Brent headed The bar erupted in a chant: “DAY-TON! DAY- out. Upon arrival at work, he jolted to the TON! DAY-TON!” bathroom for whiskey shit number three and then clocked on. In the kitchen his co- Brent, Chud, Teeny-Tony and the rest of workers/best friends/bandmates Chud and the bar - a motley crew of stoners, drunks, Teeny-Tony were listening to the cherriest musicians, hipsters, beards, hair, and of crunchy riffs on the kitchen stereo. tattoos - all stumbled out onto the street in The three reminisced and laughed at the an impromptu parade through downtown. memories they made night before. They all They all drank and spiraled their empty had gotten totally funhouse on some drink bottles through car windows. They all high- at their favorite bar, The Booter Bub, for fived and Ric Flaired. They all continued the sensory overload of Hair Witch, a local their chant, their mantra, the basis of stoner grind group. The beer was cold, their inebriated existence and the only the girls were wet, and Hair Witch played justification for an unimpressive life spent approximately 137 riffs. Towards the end of avoiding themselves: “DAY-TON! DAY- the night, Brent met a crustpunk girl named TON! DAY-TON! DAY...” Carol who was double-fisting pint glasses

18| # weekly Brent was driving through the old Brent didn’t have a lot of people to shoot neighborhood on a chilly, gray day. The the breeze with these days, but it was okay. Romanticizing the Stoned last seven years had been unkind to a lot His concern was focusing on his job and by Randy Cornett of downtown, and most of the old familiar saving money. He had just gotten his license haunts had either closed down or changed back, so things were going just fine. entirely into the sorts of places that Brent, As he drove by house after dilapidated now 36, had no interest in hanging out house, Brent began to feel lightheaded. He at. The Booter Bub had become a tacky pulled his car over, slightly driving onto the bar and grill called Chauncy’s and his one sidewalk. He turned it off and took several time there under the new management had deep breaths. In and out. In and out. His ended with a police escort. Lady servers in breathing became increasingly sporadic. He ties apparently don’t know how to party. was hyperventilating and began to sweat, His line cook days were behind him. He freezing and on fire at the same time as his was currently at a different sort of culinary vision began to blur. He opened the car occupation - Grill Master at Wendy’s Old door and started to violently vomit onto Fashioned Hamburgers, where he was a shift the sidewalk. A small girl on a bicycle slowly supervisor. It was a lot of responsibility but approached him. She stopped and watched he had proved his worth there over the last as he finished, grabbed a napkin from his several years. And you couldn’t argue with glove box and wiped his chin. He started to free hamburgers. He felt a sense of honor in shake uncontrollably. His breathing started the idea of giving free eats to his friends at to calm down. He opened the center console the end of his shifts, as if he were a modern and pulled out a pint of Kessler whiskey. day Robin Hood stealing from the rich and His shaking hand reached for an empty giving to the stoned. But there weren’t too Speedway cup. He removed the lid and many people left to bestow his hard-earned poured the liquor into it, oblivious that the bounty of burgers to anymore. Chud had little girl was standing no more than three gotten into some trouble over the years. feet away. She looked on as he put the cup He hit the sauce with a vengeance after a to his mouth and drank the contents with particularly nasty falling out with the mother the vigor of a parched man stumbling upon of his five year old daughter. He wasn’t a canteen in the desert, whiskey dribbling allowed visitation rights after an incident down his chin. He laid back in his seat and involving a stolen car, a police chase, and looked over to the girl. a 30-rack of Busch Light riding shotgun. The authorities charged him with “child “Are you alright, mister?” endangerment” but he never thought of it that way. To him, he was merely liberating He wiped the sweat from his face. “Leave the two of them. Three months in a psych me...l-leave me alone, kid...” He took another ward and now he lives with his grandmother giant drink of whiskey. in Celina, spending his days thumbing over his old Rock zines and building model “You shouldn’t be doing that,” she said to him. planes. Brent took another drink.

Teeny-Tony had passed away two years “K-kiss my...kiss my ass, alright? I’m from...I’m ago. It had been a harsh winter and he’d from Dayton...” simply disappeared for several days. This wasn’t cause for concern. He had been The little girl hopped on her bike and sped known to fall off the grid occasionally and off. Brent looked at himself in his rearview could usually be found at his apartment mirror. He shook his head, popped in his Closed Mon & Tues (except for photoshoots) drinking by himself in a reclusive mood, not Manowar tape, cranked it up and pulled out Wed & Thur: 12:30p - 5p wanting to deal with the pressure of making - Speedway cup in his hand, a dream in his conversation with anyone or constantly heart, and a dialysis appointment at 3:30. Fri - Sat: 12p - 6p answering the question of “How you been?” His body had been found behind a Rumpke Randy Cornett is a good man, but he never Sun: 12p - 5p near a Dollar General by a local mailman said he was a great man. You can see him making his rounds. They say he blacked out performing TED Talks with his band Roley on his walk home in the snow. Yuma whenever.

# weekly |19 Westward Ho: Part Five by DANNY HAMEN

Four months have passed since I was in for their life. I ran away for a month. And the sky. Mountains have an inexplicable what I found was that I am capable of being way of immortalizing themselves in your whomever I wanted. I am not bound by my soul, their gargantuan presence swarming circumstantial upbringings, for when you your mind and body with spiritual force. are in a new place all you have is your new For as cliché as it sounds, humanity and and unfamiliar body. peace can be found in the most desolate As human beings, we exist according to of places. I left for Colorado to escape those we surround ourselves with; our from myself and the world around me, to actions, thoughts, feelings and emotions journey into the strange and to deviate from are interpreted by others, partly identifying my daily routine. I left to lick the swollen who we are. Our reputations can be a large canker sore inside the mouths of every lost part of our existences. So, when isolated twenty-something in college who is afraid from the people that “know” us, we begin to

20| # weekly lose a part of our existence. And that is one spectators to bob their heads recklessly. I They were set to open for a dirty desperado station where I dreamed about giant bugs of the most liberating experiences I have would cheer as a drooling Vegas seductively band called Willy Citro and the Dusters, and bongs. Westward Ho: Part Five ever felt. I can be anyone. I am everyone. deep throated a drum stick. I devilishly who had become pseudo internet famous Roaming around with a band was a surreal by DANNY HAMEN I sang and I danced, and I got high in pine gawked at Franklin’s shirtless guitar solo for a music video of a plastic baby with a experience. I felt like a celebrity when we trees and ate grapefruit. I played games with mid-pit, encircled by awestruck fans, while mustache smoking a cigarette. Their hit would arrive to a venue; my golden lanyard strangers and left my worries back in Ohio. Christian methodically pounded away single was entitled “Piss Covered Possum.” dangling from my pocket, symbolizing my And then after living and loving for as long on his bass, head down, his lengthy mane Their set included a piñata stuffed with importance. I would haul bass cabs and set as I could, it was ending; my ride, a stellar kissing his toes. Their music screamed broken Marlboros and free drink vouchers. up their merch table, flirt with locals and rock group from Columbus, was driving throwback rock nostalgia, with a heavy I recall shamelessly bull rushing the pit to enjoy complimentary beverages. When back to the homeland and was to meet me sound that was comforting to Bon Scott claim my prizes, screaming “DEATH TO they played their set, I would lose myself to in Denver to drag me back into reality. fans everywhere. Without hesitation, I feel WILLY!” Afterwards, we smoked clouds sweat, encouraging others to follow. And Their tour van pulled into the apartment that the Cadaver Dogs accurately embody in the band room and drew pictures of then when it was over, I would sell records complex with great authority while I was the essence of what we love about rock and skeletons on the walls. We were offered a and move everything back to the truck, snoozing at 7AM. The Cadaver Dogs, roll. To some, possibly a walking cliché, place to snooze by one of the band managers, knowing deep down that my company was Mathew Franklin, Lex Vegas, and Cole but to most a living portrayal of the id; the so we tossed the roach and carried on. not necessary, but thoroughly appreciated Walsh Davis are good friends of mine from walking, boozing, sex-crazed head bangers; We piled into his apartment like drunken and enjoyed. Columbus. It was only by the grace of the the weird, drug abusing, leopard printed, dogs and started pouring shots. I noted After the cockroach fiasco, we made it to universe that our trips west had timed tattooed archetypical assemblage of rocked the ten foot glass bong on the table and Iowa in roughly eight hours. We stopped themselves in this fashion, allowing me to out freaks. got to work. Our host was busy boasting at a Casino to gamble. Like the big kids we receive a free ride home in exchange for However, there is juxtaposition in his gigantic CD collection of avant-gard were, we got bored and frustrated and made minimal hard labor. Mathew Franklin is everything. Behind the tight leather and post-punk bands as we helped ourselves our way to the giant arcade just behind the front man for the Dogs. He was snoring facial hair, these were some of the kindest to his GWAR themed hot sauce. Then we the casino. We gathered enough tickets to loudly in the makeshift loft bed when I boys I had ever met. They constantly noticed the scurry. Cockroaches, swarms acquire a handful of candy and a parachute climbed into the van. His electric guitar engaged their fans with enthusiasm of cockroaches, detected our presence alien, which we liberated into the sky from squeals as loud as his blonde retro hairdo about each other’s art, celebrating each and began to hide away in the drain and the Casino rooftop, requiring only a small and unruly fu manchu. Multitalented as a other’s existence. We started in a dive the cupboards, their tiny legs creating a amount of trespassing. We held hands painter, sculptor and songwriter, Mathew bar in Denver. They were to headline a din similar to that of a furious sewing on the roof as I whispered a prayer gazing affectionately embraces the notion of burlesque show and a “Love Talk” Q & A. I machine needle. I could feel the GWAR into the unimpressive Iowan landscape, my artistry. Lex Vegas, the drummer, was in stumbled onto the stage and spoke into the sauce making its way back up. To be fair, heart thudding under my sweater. We were the driver’s seat. He greeted me with a big microphone about how high I was and how this host could not have been kinder. He children of the world, lost in the U.S.A, hug, his sexy rock mullet thrashing inside the whiskey was still burning in my tummy. was genuinely excited to host a rock band with nothing left to say but one more show. my grin. Though the most collected of the I recounted a particularly embarrassing that he truly respected, so it broke our On the final leg of my journey, a patchouli group, his stage presence exerts pure sin; story about a “first date from hell” to the hearts to tip toe towards the door. I doubt soaked jam band called “Nizzard” sounds his salivation, blood and sweat, lovingly audience, slurring my words into the mic. I he believed that we had to be at a gig at 9 like dog shit and I move into a Craigslist drips onto his high hat and cymbals during finished with a great applause to learn that AM, or whatever fib we had muster to get mansion. See you then. every show. Then there was Christian it had been recorded for a podcast, which I us safely back to the van. We closed the - Danny Hamen [email protected] Roerig, who was filling in for Cole. I had hope to God won’t come back to bite me. doors, shared a laugh, and then realized we The Cadaver Dogs will kick off their first show met him only once prior to my trip. We We slept in Christian’s cousin’s gorgeous were too drunk to actually get anywhere. of the year on February 20th in Columbus Ohio looked at each other with curiosity, noting home after the set. I almost vomited out Vegas slowly pedaled us to a nearby filling at Rumba Café. each other’s “haven’t had a full night of the memories of the night in her sink. She sleep in too long” presence. He looked like was also an eccentric musician and was kind a grungier, stockier Jesus, who was much enough to give a light tour of the town after better at the bass guitar and had a more letting us play with her plethora of bizarre impressive mustache. I closed the van door, musical instruments. Her roommate was an lit up some grass, and we wandered to the engineer that grew medical quality grass. He Red Rock Amphitheater in Denver like the gave us two giant scoops from a monstrous archetypical little music nerds that we were. sized baggie for eight bucks and with that, Their shows blew my mind every time. we left at sunrise. The Cadaver Dogs’ existence emitted pure The Dogs had been on tour for a lengthy sexual energy. Each song was typically three months before they plucked me from introduced with a quirky erotic anecdote the mountains. It was the wind-down of by a charismatic and plastered Franklin, their tour, now with only two shows left. encouraging audience interaction. Though We made it to Lincoln Nebraska in no time. dissolute in their song texture, each While the other members dreamed about unadulterated riff excited even the squarest solid gold guitars and topless chimpanzees, of concert attendees. The band’s sensual Christian and I bonded over strange music verve oozed off the stage and compelled and Arnold Schwarzenegger sound bites.

# weekly |21 Julie Jones on ‘A Strange Likeness’ by Katie Modras-Anible

Photographer, curator, and educator Julie photographs is summed up in what I just Jones shares about her upcoming show at UD talked about when looking for artists to featuring the current work of three portrait exhibit in the show. It’s all about the power photographers. of photography to take something completely expected and ordinary and transform it into K: Tell me about the show’s concept and the a surreal scene that has the power to reveal photographers exhibiting. the intangible and put into an image what is J: The artists selected for “A Strange Likeness” too hard to put into words. I also love light; are Kelly Kristin Jones, Natalie Krick, and I’m constantly watching it, recording it, Xia Tio. All of these artists have extensive even changing the way I decorate my room backgrounds in fine art photography and at to correspond with the light that filters in first glance, work with photographing people through my windows. And photography is all in a way that photographers and artists about light. I know that most people would have been doing for over a hundred years. call the medium I work with photography, Photography raised the bar high for those but what I am really working with is light. artists and photographers making portraits Photography is the desk tool for me to work because here was this machine that could with it. seemingly capture reality as we see it. And so this idea that a good portrait contained K: Tell us where and when we can see the elements that revealed something deeper, show more enigmatic, and telling about the person J: The reception for ‘A Strange Likeness: being photographed surfaced. The idea Perspectives on Contemporary Photographic that a good portrait photograph is highly Portraiture’ will be held on Feb. 20th, 2014, intimate, vulnerable, and a little spiritual from 5-7pm at the University of Dayton, has always interested me - even in my own Gallery 249, College Park Center – 1529 work. I believe that all of these artists work Brown St. Dayton, Ohio. The exhibit will be with this ephemeral, intangible quality in the shown until Mar. 20th. Gallery hours are photographs they make, albeit in different Monday through Wednesday from 9am-5pm, ways. Thursday from 9am-7pm, and Friday from 9am-2pm. (Closed Saturday and Sunday.) K: You were a featured photographer in the Photo Xia Tio last Telephone issue; Julie Jones – what do Julie Jones work can be found at you love about taking pictures? www.juliereneejones.com. J: A lot of what I really love about making

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Photo Natalie Krick

# weekly |23 ADvice w/ MAMA CASS

Dear Mama Cass, taking sides, it seems that there are some historical lines drawn in the sand amongst I am the youngest of three girls and my sisters your family. If I were you, I’d focus on and I are very close with our parents. The erasing those. Appeal to your mother first. five of us regularly gather for Sunday night Show up early to a Sunday dinner or catch dinners and I see every member of my her at her office and ask her to listen to your family at least once during the week. I am a concerns. Fill her in on the vastness of your graduate student, with a very heavy workload. course load without whining. Perhaps include Juggling family and responsibility had never some of your projections for the future, when been much of an issue for me until this you’re through with school and have more most recent stint of schooling. As a result, time to see her. Share with her the stress of my sisters and my mother have been giving defending yourself against her and your sisters me a hard time about my less frequent visits. and ask for her support. If you empower her However, the three of them are consistently to help you, she will feel less left out of your tardy to engagements we’ve planned. They life choices and more actively involved. claim that I should be able to devote more Talk to your sisters, too. Again, I recommend time to them. I love my entire family but I can you do this separately. Give them abbreviated not forfeit my school work for them. I see my versions of your conversation with your options limited to either diminishing contact mother and remember that these people or neglecting my studies. What should I do? love you. Invite them to fulfill helping roles and the resulting feeling of usefulness could --In Familial Flux very well bridge the gaps that have grown since you made the decision to pursue your Dear Flux, goals. Growing up doesn’t have to mean growing apart, especially if done with a little Congratulations on your pursuit of further grace. education and the endowments to do Also, don’t threaten to cut them off. TICK KECK TOE so. Being educated is a wonderful privilege Being dramatic will only serve to have you and I hope you make the most of it. disregarded as childish and in turn, your While your father shares some attributes pursuits will be viewed in the same way. and credentials with you, it seems that you are on your own against your mother and sisters, Good Luck! right? If nothing else, you’re outnumbered. Mama Cass While conflicts do not have to center around [email protected]

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24| # weekly Telephone’s phrasal template word game New At The Tavern Valentine’s Day Share a Pizza With a ______winter setting in, there is one bright spot, Valentine’s adjective Day! It’s a perfect time to show your ______best ______friend(s) number gender Special Sandwiches how much you truly ______them. There are many ways to express your verb total and devout ______for them. You can try to be ______and take Pizza & More emotion adjective them someplace exotic like, ______. Then, you can go on a ______fake restaurant adjective stroll through ______. Or perhaps you’re the ______type of person country group of people Rev Roxy, Sat 2-6p who prefers to ______your loved one a ______meal at home. Then verb adjective drink some ______by ______lights. Regardless of your style, it a liquid noun is important to ______your love in a very personal way. With your verb ______staring at them longingly, let them know how ______it is to body part adjective be sharing a life with your best friend, ______. name TICK KECK TOE

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