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Top 5 at Mominglory Music: 1. Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mothers Milk 2. Tracy Chapman, Crossroads 3. Tears for Fears, Sowing the Seeds of Love 4. Young MC, Stone Cold Rhymin’ 5. David Byrne, Rei Momo At Rockhouse Music: 1. Bad Brains, Quickness 2. Red Hot Chili Peppers, ■ Review Mothers Milk 3. Meat Puppets, Monsters Monroe In Top Form In 4. Erasure, Drama 12-inch 5. Camper Van Beethoven, Key Lime Pie Billy Wilder’s Hilarious Cross-dressing Comedy This Weekend at the Vic By Brian Banks FI L M Reporter______|

FILM Tonight: Marilyn sings! Marilyn Weekend at Bemies, I.V. Thea­ dances! Marilyn barely ter, 7, 9 and 11 p.m.; $3 Tomorrow: wears a dress! And best of Major League, I.V. Theater, 7,9 all, Marilyn acts! and 11 p.m.; $3 Saturday: That’s right. Marilyn The Wall, I.V. Theater, 7, 9 and Monroe, poster girl extra­ 11 p.m.; $3, duuude. Better Off Dead, Campbell Hall, ordinaire, displays a great 7, 9 and 11 p.m.; $2.50 flair for comedy in the 1959 Some Like It Hot, Victoria St. Theater, 1:30 and 4 p.m. Phone: classic, Some Like It Hot, 965-1886 showing this weekend atj Sunday: The Navigator, Campbell Hall, the Victoria St. Theatre. 8 and 10:30 p.m. Teamed with Jack Lem­ Some Like It Hot, Victoria St. mon and Tony Curtis, the Theater, 1:30 and 4 p.m. 1 s blond bombshell holds her I own with the help of do-1 zens of snappy one-liners.

PERFORMANCE Tomorrow: Concert This Ascension, Ex- Voto and One Human Minute at , The story has two unem­ Anisq’Oyo Park at 7:30 p.m. Iployed musicians (Lem- Free. Tuesday: i mon and Curtis) on the run Drama Actors from the London Stage in “Stoppard This Even­ from the mob. Disguised as ing,” at Campbell Hall, 8 p.m. ( women, they join an all-girl Tickets: $12/10/8 for students, a I orchestra, where they meet $14/12/10 for non-students t « « Wednesday: I Sugar (Marilyn), the lead Concert David Byrne at the Santa Barbara County Bowl, 8 singer. Problems arise p.m. Tickets: $23 when the two (wo)men x à u J i Concert Yolocamba I Ta, Latin l- both try to get close to the Jazz from El Salvador, at the • ' S ê • Victoria St. Theater, 8 p.m. Tick­ lovely Marilyn and keep ets: $10 away from the mob. 1 The film features some | quick and clever dialogue, I See HOT, p.4A 2A Thursday, October 12 1989 Daily Nexus

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The More Things Change. . . When a group of 14th-centurf Englishmen escaping the Black Plague dig their way into a modern-day metropolis, what they discover is all too familiar — disease, fear of war, poverty. The Navigator, a New Zealand film, won six Australian Academy Awards and numerous other international awards for its distinctive portrayal of the modem (and not-so-modem) human condition. The film screens Sunday, October 15 at 8 PM in UCSB Campbell Hall as part of the International Cinema series. Tickets are $3 for UCSB students.

THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF THE Setting the Stage for Some GREATEST LOVE STORY OF ALL TIME.

' Best Picture of the Year 1939. — A pit York Film Cntics Great Theater % discuss the actor’s trade and the joys and Actors from the London Stage challenges of bringing Shakespeare to die modem Tickets are going fast for the two upcoming stage. productions of Actors from the London Stage, Tickets for either “Stoppard This Evening” or The "Stoppard This Evening” and The Winter's Tale. Winter’s Tale are $12/$10/$8 for UCSB students, The first production, “Stoppard This Evening,” is a but hurry, these events are selling out. celebration of language—Tom Stoppard’s specialty. The playwright, who was bom in Czechoslovakia in 1937 and moved to Great Britain What’s Right? What’s Wrong? in 1946, electrified the theater world in the late Your roommate is selling drugs. Do you ignore the 1960s and early ’70s with his skillfully clever and situation, talk with the person or go to the highly imaginative creations filled with word authorities? Here’s a program designed to directly games, literary lampoons, puns, and verbal address such occurrences. A 15-member panel of pyrotechniques. UCSB students, faculty and staff will participate LAURENCE MERLE DAVID in a provocative discussion designed along the lines OLIVIER OBERON NIVEN

For “Stoppard This Evening1’ choice selections of the acclaimed PBS-TV series “Ethics in Samuel Goldwyn’s Production of include visits with the pompous critics Birdhoot and America” that aired last winter. The UCSB panel Moon from The Real Inspector Hound, barbed discussion, Ethics on Campus: Personal travesties of The Importance of Being Earnest in Relationships and Responsibilities takes place on Travesties and of Hamlet in Rosencrantz & WUTHERING HEIGHTS Tuesday, October 17 at 7 PM in the UCSB Directed by William Wyler Gildenstem Are Dead. Interspersed between the University Center Pavilion. Panelists will be asked excerpts are actual comments positive and negative, to assume roles — such as a lover, friend, parent or from critics and a few words from Stoppard teacher — and explore hypothetical situations It Was 50 Years Ago himself. The performance concludes with having to do with sexual values, personal The 1939: Hollywood’s Glorious Year series Stoppard’s one-act radio drama Albert’s Bridge responsibility and communication challenges. The continues with Wuthering Heights, a stormy tale of performed in its entirety. event is free and guaranteed to be thought passion that rriakes today’s love stories look like a provoking. On Saturday, October 21 at .2 PM and at mere drizzle in comparison. Laurence Olivier is 8 PM, the actors will take to the stage again for a Heathcliff, Merle Oberon is Cathy in this William Separation of Church Wyler adaption of Emily Bronte’s remarkable complete and unadapted, five-person presentation of The Winter’s Tale, a tragicomedy written during and State? novel. The film screens Thursday, October 19 at 8 PM in Campbell Hall. Tickets are $3 for UCSB the last period of Shakespeare’s career. Irrational Richard P. McBrien, the Chairman of the students. jealousies of a king, a queen falsely judged, a Department of Theology at the University of Notre princess raised by shepherds, and a prince Dame and past president of the Catholic disguised as a rustic peasant are the romance Theological Society of America, believes that Servicing the Student ingredients Shakespeare uses to fashion a play of organized religion has the responsibility to More than 20 campus departments that are here to possibilities both tragic and comic. directly participate in the great social, political serve students will be setting up their wares and and philosophical questions of the time. McBrien’s staffing information tables at the UCen Pavilion on This year’s participating actors include Sam Dale, address, “Involvement and Non-Involvement: Friday, October 13, for the annual Student Ann Firbank, Tim Hardy, Eunice Roberts and Religion and Politics in America,” on Thursday, Services Showcase. From 1 to 4 PM students are Richard Simpson, who have had extensive dramatic October 12 at 8 PM in Buchanan Hall, Room 1910, invited to stop by, visit and find out exactly what experience on a variety of London and other British will center on that very subject as he discusses what such programs as the Student Health Center, stages, television and film. The five actors will role he thinks religious values should have in Tutorial Service, and, of course, Arts & Lectures attend UCSB English and dramatic arts classes to shaping society’s conventions and customs. really do.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday For tickets or information call: 961-3535 12 13 14 15 R ichard P . McBrien Rhapsody m Taps The Navigator 8PM 8PM 8PM Buchanan 1910 Campbell Had Campbell Hall

16 17 18 19 2 0 21 2 2 Gloria A n n eb b ia Ethics on Campus Wuthering Heights Actors from the L a L e a r ic e 1 :3 0 P M 7 PM fU Ccn Pavilion 8PM London Stage 8 P M Gown 1 0 0 1 Actors from the Campbell Hall W inter’s Tale Campbell Hall London Stage Robert Greeley 8PM Campbell Hall S toppard / 8 PM 4 PM / UCen P a vilio n Campbell Hall ARTS & LECTURES Daily Nexus Thursday, October 12 1989 3A Mickey Rourke’s Resume Doesn’t Carry ‘Johnny Handsome’ Despite Admirable Casting, Predictable Screenplay and* One-dimensional Characters Hurt This Wanna-B-Movie

By Jesse Engdahl Staff Writer______

Oh Mickey, you’re so fine, you’re so fine cause the world’s greatest plastic surgeon you blow my mind... happens to be a young, black man working Jeezo! Mickey Rourke. in County General who feels for Johnny He blew onto the scene with the stea­ and gets him Mickey’s face and parole for miest five minutes of “Body Heat’’ (where just that reason. he lectured John Hurt on car bombs with So Johnny, with an unbelievably fresh more sexiness than Mr. Best Actor could lease on life, defines the existential di­ muster in the extensively explicit sexscenes lemma by not being able to forget where he with Kathleen Turner), and followed with came from or the murderers of his old an equally stand-outish performance in buddy (but he is able to completely over­ “Diner” against the (then-) powerful en look getting them thrown into prison not semble of Steve Guttenberg, Kevin Bacon, Ellen Barkin and Mickey Rourke try to look sleezy-yet-cheezy only because cops are assholes, but prob­ and Treat Williams. ably because prison turned out to be so It’s really been nice how our latest, all his knowledge of his own limitations. some, which is so lame I don’t even want to good to him). strongest “next James Dean” has managed Beautiful, but not too pretty. Self- review it. Just as Mickey is great for lots of What they were going for was the best B to make quite an interesting string of films, conscious, because of all he knows he reasons I can’t put succinctly, Johnny is movie ever made, but all they ended up filling a resume with depth and variety — wants and needs and can never hope to be. terrible because it is neither truly tough nor with was an incredible waste of talent; be­ movies that share his own determined Controlled, yet explosive. really tender, simple nor deep. sides Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Morgan Free­ stance that we should never sell out to Just the usual string of shallow, cliche It tries to walk the post-noir, sleezy-yet- man, Forest Whitaker, and Elizabeth market-headed studios and their banal, descriptions we use to explain who most cheezy world of strip joints, pool halls, and McGovern are forced to stumble through blood-sucking commercial principles, nor modem actors really want to be— Brando, one-night, cheap hotels all populated by the one-dimensional, wildly uneven roles to the overly indulgent, hyper- and hypo­ Bogart, Dean (or Clift, O’Toole, Pacino, to degenerate — but deeply philosophical — the script has for them. critical, non-entertaining mush of the reac­ lesser and greater degrees). They are what characters who have beautifully ratted I could go on and on about how hilari­ tionary “art- cinema.”, they are by virtue of our inability to define hair, uncannily oily clear skin, and impec­ ously predictable each of them and the plot And damn, it’s been good. Rumble Fish. them, and our desire to be them (or pressed cably dusty designer clothes. is, but this is getting long. In Rumble Fish, The Pope of Greenwich Village. 9 1/2 against them). Johnny Handsome is about how cops Dennis Hopper describes the Motorcycle Weeks. Angel Heart. Barfly. Rourke may have shown more promise are assholes with impractical principles but Boy as being bom in the wrong time, with Even A Prayer for the Dying was over- than proof so far, but Barfly exhibited the principles are still all that work in a soc­ the power to do anything but with nothing maligned and underrated, with Rourke clearly how “great” a performance he was iety that is structured against anybody who he wants to do. making good company for the excellent capable of, as well as (and precisely for) the is good on the inside but was bom on the This is what happened to Mickey in performances by Bob Hoskins and Alan ability to carry these intangible strengths to wrong side of the tracks. Johnny Handsome, but the movie’s so bad Bates. A cool mix of characters, all intrigu­ a character so foreign to his own. The Os­ In this case it’s Johnny, bom with Ele­ that his attempts to save it are just stupid, ing, multi- dimensional. car Nomination he never got probably re­ phantiasis of the face to a dope-addict not tragic. He has given us plenty of variety — Bu- flected his condescension for Hollywood prostitute, only to grow up a criminal who kowski, the Wall Street sex broker, The industry glamour as much as most people’s sees the only real friend he ever had gunned Johnny Handsome Motorcycle Boy—yet developed a singular condescension for gorgeous, self- down during a heist by double-crossing Directed by Walter Hill persona that we tend to hope isn’t unlike enveloped Dean types, but his portrayal of partners-in-crime (who had made fun of Written by Ken Friedman his own: tough, but only because he is vul­ the skid-row poet absolutely blew doors on his affliction, no less). Johnny is the only Now playing at the Fiesta 4 Theatre. nerable. Sensitive, yet strong because of it. Michael Douglas’ Boeskyism. one caught because he stays behind with Phone: 963-9503 Wise, for all the mistakes he’s made, and for And so that brings us to Johnny Hand­ his (dead) friend, but gets out of prison be­

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FILMTHEATRE COMMENTS ★ ★ ★ ★ The Wizard of Oz Arlington Miss it and you’re a commie. (Doug Arellanes ★ ★ ★ ★ Some Like It Hot Victoria St. (Reviewed this issue) ★ ★ ★ Vi Animation Celebration Victoria St. Several superb shorts shine supreme. (Todd Francis) ★ ★ ★ V4 The Navigator Campbell Hall (Reviewed this issue) ★ ★ ★ Vi Sex, Lies & Video Tape Goleta, Riveria Underwhelming, but watching it is like having a long, in- depth, probing talk about sex with a close friend. (Doug Arellanes) ★★★ Parenthood Granada 3 It didn’t quite make me want to go out and father a gaggle FREE admission • Old-country food of whelps, but the little kid’s stressed-out mug made me • Music, dancing • Entertainment want to rest nonetheless. (Jeffrey P. McManus) ★★★ In Country Cinema Twin Bruce Willis is surprisingly good in a movie whose only flaw is a somewhat sluggish script. (Brian Banks) Oak Park Old Gringo Fiesta 4 lane’s good, but not that good. ★ ★ A Drv White Season Plaza de Oro (Reviewed this issue) Santa Barbara ★ Black Rain Granada 3 Part “Dirty Hany,” part “Robocop,” part “Year of the Dragon,” the movie plays like this year’s Yankees—lots Saturday, October 14 of power but no point. (Jesse Engdahl) ★ Tohnnv Handsome Fiesta 4 (Reviewed this issue) Sunday,October 15 ★ - Sea of Love Fiesta 4, Cinema Twin A1 Pacino is flawless, Ellen Barkin wears a tight red 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. dress, but the characters are cardboard cut-outs. Why, Alr why? (Julee Stover) Not yet reviewed: An Innocent Man, Shirley Valentine, Welcome Home ‘Navigator’ Rethinks Time Travel Genre in 14th centuiy England, while cars whizzing by confused group. Crisp Direction where a small group of men emerge as a deadly obstacle The others on the jour­ set off on a spiritual quest to when trying to cross a ney, including Bruce Lyons Saves Film From ward off the imminent highway. and Marshall Napier, are Black Death. They follow But Ward does not let also excellent. In fact the en­ Cliches; 10-year the visions of a mne-year- their journey pass without tire cast— new to American old boy, who has had pro­ some humor. At first audiences — is equally de­ Old Steals Show phetic dreams that the villa­ stranded helplessly (al­ termined to the point where gers interpret as a chance for though right next to a 911 no emotion or expression is salvation. call box) they are mistaken wasted. By Brian Banks Needing to erect a cross f o r “ H a r e - b i o o d y - With the help of an en­ Reporter on the cathedral in the boy’s Krishnas” by some foundry hancing musical score by dreams, the group sets out workers who agree to help Davood A. Tabrizi and Billed as “An Odyssey on a journey “to .the other the travelers fulfill their superb images captured on BOWLING film by Geof Simpson, ‘The Across Time,” The Naviga­ end of the earth.” After days mission. tor certainly does not disap­ of digging, however, they As the young boy with Navigator” becomes more point. From the haunting fmd themselves in New haunting visions, actor than your usual predictable black-and-white images Zealand — in 19881 Hamish McFarlane is al­ science-fiction movies. It is IT'S A that open the film to the ma­ It is at this point that ta­ ways on target. He appears Ward’s rare feat of imagina­ jestic nighttime colors that lented young director Vin­ at first innocent and naive, tion and originality that greet the astonished eyes of cent Ward shines. He lets us but gradually emerges as the make this a fresh and pow­ its 14th centuiy adventur­ see the 20th century leader. McFarlane excels in erful adventure. BLAST ers, the film is a work of through the eyes of the his ability to translate the The Navigator will be fresh and unusual talent. travelers. A submarine be­ boy’s frightful and graphic shown Sunday night at It begins a mining village comes a giant sea monster, dreams to a terrified and Campbell Hall, at 8 and •AUTOMATIC SCORING 10:30 p.m. • Minutes from UCSB • A Great Place To Party • Billiards • Video Games • Coffee Shop • OPEN 24 HOURS Brando Dominates ‘Dry White Season’ Since Brando only has movie, and probably the few). 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HOT : Monroe, Curtis and Lemmon Hilarious BETTER OFF DEAD

Continued from p.lA some of the greatest comedy almostseems like another of when it was first released, Oct. 14 teams. those “Marilyn” roles— the “Some Like It Hot,” has written by director Billy A number of stars from ones where it now appears stood the test of time. Its 7*9*11 p.m. Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond. that era lend credible sup­ that Hollywood was using dialogue remains as fresh $2.50 No line is wasted as Lem­ port in small roles. George her for her appearance. and funny as the perfor­ mon, Curtis and Monroe all Raft does a funny take-off of But her performance mances. It has an enduring Campbell Hall get plenty of hilarious his coin-tossing “Scarface” squelches that thought. She quality that ranks it as the material. role, Edward G. Robinson makes the most of her char­ best film in Marilyn Mon­ Lemmon and Curtis dis­ does another of his gangster acter and gives the film roe’s all-too brief career. play courage as the men bits, and wide-mouthed Joe some of its best moments. Some Like It Hot who wear flower patterns E. Brown delivers the film’s With lines like, “I could quit Directed by Billy Wilder Sponsored by Psi Chi and carry purses years be­ classic closing line. drinking anytime I want to Written by Billy Wilder fore the 1970s, when it re­ And, of course, there’s ... I just don’t want to,” she and LA.L Diamond ally became fashionable. Marilyn. Wearing dresses proves that she could have Playing at the Victoria St. They form an excellent that look like they were been one of the great comic Theatre Sat at 1:3(0 and 4 comic pair who trade one- glued on and sometimes actresses of her time'. p.m.; and Sun. at 1:30 p.m. liners in the tradition of playing the dumb blonde, it A hugely successful film Phone: 965-1886

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EVERY SUNDAY 7 AM - 4 PM 9 6 4 -9 0 5 0 TUESDAY, OCT. 17,8 PM S an ta B arbara TWin D rive-In Swap Meet Information 907 S. Kellogg Ave., Goleta I LO BER O THEATRE > 963-0761 (Voice or TDD) ARLINGTON COURT GIFT SHOP 9 6 6 -3 6 3 8 1317 State Street, next to the Arlington Theatre Gift Shop Information Presented by the Lobero Theatre Foundation Open 12-8 PM Daily 6 - in association with KTYD 99J9K 6A Thursday, October 121989 MUSIC Daily Nexus Grapes of Wrath: Canadian Rock Dudes Without Gimmicks folk-rock Grapes of Wrath a somebody will put on our But Success Is By Seana Fitt listen, okay? It could be record and still think that Staff Writer even better than Elcenor. it’s valid,” Kane said. Difficult South Then again, having brain Grapes of Wrath is not Okay, hosers. Looking surgery is probably better saying they wouldn’t like to of the Border, for some good Canadian than that shitty beer. see a little dough for all their music, eh? efforts. “One thing about They’re Finding Give British Columbia’s Hailing from an average the whole concept (of com­ B.C. town called Kelowna mercialism) is that we’re t$< U nb erg tou nb playing rock music, which is © (population 67,000) the four man band began be­ a pretty commercial thing to a l t e r h k x l cause they were “the only begin with.... I don’t think \ \ ^ 9\ people in our town doing a commercialism is a dirty band, writing our own word, what’s really impor­ d a N c, songs,” according to drum­ tant is the intent.” mer Chris Hooper. Being a Canadian band “Yeah, we were the only can also present some un­ people who thought we ique problems that their were great,” lead singer/ Average Canadian Guys in Grapes of Wrath (left Yank peers don’t have to guitarist Kevin Kane to right): Kevin Kane, Tom Hooper, Chris deal with. While Americans proudly added. Hooper, Vincent Jones spend their time on the road Grapes of Wrath (the Mends. That Grapes of Wrath are fighting off easy women, band, as opposed to Stein- ‘They think we suck,” average Molson-swilling keeping up with the con­ b e c k ’s n ig h s c h o o l Kane chuckled. Canadian guys probably stant flux of free drugs com­ required-reading) played a American acceptance, doesn’t help in the ing their way — but still major role in the flourishing however, has been slightly gimmick-crazy American finding the time to write Vancouver music scene harder to come by. “Being music market, Kane said. sensitive, heartwarming during the mid 1980s. With from Canada, there’s al­ “You can just do a groove songs like “Faithfully” — the September release of ready a million American with a guitar riff... just kind Canadian acts are placed tn “Now and Again,” the bands we’re competing of crunch along and shake much more challenging si­ Grapes’ third album, they with, right off the top. Up your spandex clad hips. tuations on the road. have begun to receive con-, here it’s easier for us ... peo­ (Our music is) more some­ “We almost hit some siderable Canadian accep­ ple want to help Canadian thing that hopefully will be moose a few times,” Hooper tance, except from their bands,” Hooper said. around in 20 years time — wistfully recalled.

New Records: ■ SOUNDBITES Bad and Just Ugly looked quartet, he experi­ The Artsweek Star System Bad Brains Show ences the same disappoint­ ment air guitarists get when They’re Still In they open their eyes. The □ □ □ □ Buy Immediately same downer Rob Lowe’s □ □ □ Solid Impulse Buy Full Effect With girlMends realize when he □ □ Buy If You're A Fan cracks open a Genuine New ‘Quickness’ Draft. □ Seriously Think Twice Poi Dog Pondering But (no pun intended) Pol Dog Pondering because Reid has the gutless Columbia Records By Tony Pierce record industry behind him, Staff Writer Mick Jagger & Co. spread­ The debut from this nutty gang of Hawaiian crafispersons is undoub­ tedly the most original collection of tunes in some time. PDP consists of ing out the red carpets be­ about a dozen groovy vocalists and musicians playing flute, violin, man­ Bad Brains fore him, and MTV and Ra­ dolin, steel and acoustic guitar, with probably a few metal rain buckets Quickness dio deciding whether Living and washboards thrown in. But don’t be haired-out by the fact that Caroline Records Colour is “Black Music” or they’re Hawaiian—this is not traditional “Hawaiian music” a la Don Ho. It’s mind-teasing, good-humored, European-modeled acoustic music ★ ★ ★ ★ “Rock Music,” Bad Brains with a snappy beat and an intensely likable personality. Besides, how can will be easily overlooked you argue with pale white Hawaiians who make fun of pale white tour­ Bad Brains appears in and lost in the machine. ists? Watch out for this band — they’ll shake your coconuts. every “established” guitar Jeffrey P. McManus “hero”’s wet dream in vivid If you haven’t realized ... Neil Young living color. Coincidently creativity in rock ’n’ roll is a Freedom they are also the demons in dying beast. Ever since the Reprise Records every wimpy record exec’s Clash broke up, the freshest ★ ★ ★ ★ darkest nightmare. breath of air pop music has I first heard “Eldorado” on the radio about a month ago while eating They’re easy to write ab­ had is the renaissance of rap hot cereal in L-A. It put me into a trance, from which I have yet to recover. music. Bad Brains, by mix­ “Eldorado" is just one of several incredible songs that Neil Young has re­ y OPEN HOUSE y out, though, because they’re leased on his latest, entitled “Freedom.” Young combines a handful of hyperactive reggae dudes bluesy, introspective songs with occasional good-n-hearty thrash guitar Thursday, October 12th, 1989 who thrash out psychedelic ing punk with reggae and injections that had become a Neil Young trademark in the early and 9:00 a.m. -1 :00 p.m. roots punk metal while sonic guitar leads, have re­ mid-70s. Love songs are love songs that avoid being smothered in cheese, social commentary refuses to become bogged down in jargon and jingo, 961-3665 singing about Jah. A little volutionized both now- and Young’s ability to create an almost atmospheric quality, evident in like Bob Marley, Metallica, dead traditions. But by ad­ “Eldorado” and “Too Far Gone," nearly burst my appendix like a bubble. and Stryper’s grandchildren ding to the noise lyrics Todd Francis having a gang fight in a Ja­ chock full of insightful mes­ maican guitar shop. Just as sages, the band has claimed The Sugar Cube« WOODSTOCK’S loud too, thank God. a stake in the future of rock. here today tomorrow next ieeehl Disagree? Buy the vinyl Elektra Records and eat your words. This is why when Vemon The second release from the Sugar Cubes won’t put Iceland on the TTZZA presents... Reid dreams about one day map any more than volcanoes will, but there’s plenty of seismic activity having a band as thunder­ Quickness is what rock on this album as well. Sure, the title is poorly punctuated, but it ain’t bad with ously creative as Bad ’n’ roll is hyped up to be. for a second album, here today doesn’t expose quite as many raw nerves They just keep getting the as the Cubes’ debut offering, but it still howls and wails its way into obliv­ this Brains, his johnson gets as ion decently. Conversation overheard in a record store: “It’s okay, but THE FAR SIDE By GARY LARSON hard as a forest of petrified band’s names wrong. Bad they use their dude singer too much on this album. He sucks.” ad bowling balls. Brains is rock and roll. It’s — Jeffrey P. McManus not ’90 Stones. And Axl’s band can kiss my ass. When Max Q However when Reid Max Q wakes up to the grim reality Dr. Know walks his 6 string Atlantic Records that his band is only a mere into a room, Slash should ★ ★ glimmer on the yellow teeth take off his Abraham Lin­ Walking hairdo/lead vocalist/songwriter Michael Hutchence tries of Dr. Know’s grossly over- coln hat. his best, but this just ain’t INXS. Max Q does have its jumpy moments, es­ pecially on the infectious lamentation “Way of the World,” but the album as a whole is obviously an exercise, a hobby for Hutchence to engage in New Kids on the while his real band (from which we have heard nothing since 1987) com­ placently kicks back on a beach somewhere, eating something. Where Hutchence can do no wrong is as a performer. He is one of the most hon­ Block: Somebody est, consistent and powerful male vocalists of the decade, and his work on this album is true to form. Please Euthanize Jeffrey P. McManus Animal Logic ‘Em — Quickly! Animal Logic I.R.S. Records By Jeffrey C. Whalen I wanna know which one Staff Writer of these kids is Donnie The re-emergence of percussionist Stewart Copeland with a new Wahlberg, ’cause I gotta group is unsurprising and thoroughly unremarkable. Although he’s not the drummer he used to be, his brother does own the record company, cream pie waiting for him. and he did used to be with the Police, so he basically gets to do anything New Kids on the Block Donnie say: he wants, unfortunately. This collection of cheap ballads and utterly pre­ Merry Merry Christmas “Last night I couldn’t be­ dictable sub-pop is saved only by the interesting, original guitar work of Columbia Records lieve my eyes, y’all/I saw a Stanley Clarke. Now, if we could only axe the cheesy Copeland rhythm ★ cliches, we might have an album worth missing lunch over. big fat man in a red disguise, — Jeffrey P. McManus See NEW KIDS, p.7A Daily Nexus THE ARTS Thursday, October 12 1989 7A Rhapsody In Taps Gives New Life, Meaning to Tap Dancing Critically Praised L.A.-based group perform­ travel in space and use their flow of feeling within their ing tomorrow night in upper bodies in a way which tightly rehearsed moves. Troupe Performs Campbell Hall, would is not necessarily the norm Their shows have been rather be on a sidewalk out­ for tap dancing,” Sohl- well-received, but is Rhap­ side the theatre polishing Donnell said. sody In Taps inspiring a re­ at Campbell Hall their moves. Sohl-Donnell’s choreo­ PERFORMANCE surgence of the style, or is its Tomorrow Night Rhapsody In Taps’ style, graphy is also unique be­ revival short-lived? developed by choreogra­ cause the pieces are per­ performance. “There is definitely a need pher and artistic director By Charlie Denny formed to live music. (Most “(Working with live for (tap dancing’s) preserva­ Reporter Linda Sohl-Donnell, is a companies dance to tape re­ music) provides a freshness tion,” she said, “particularly more demanding blend of corded music.) and a little feeling of change because the experts in its rhythm (or jazz) tap, and Additionally, the com­ every time we’re on stage,” field are growing old and At the mention of tap several other forms of pany rehearses for months she said. leaving us.” dance, what first comes to dance. in silence or with a metro­ The group also includes Rhapsody In Taps will be mind is Shirley Temple as “Much tap taught across nome. According to Sohl- more emotional range in its appearing at Campbel1 she clops her way across the the country is like processed Donnell, the dancers are work. So while they impress Hall tomorrow night at 8 Eddie Brown and deck of the Good Ship Lol­ sugar,” she explained. “I not provided with “the com­ the audience with their skill, p.m. Tickets are $14/12/10 lipop on a movie screen. need more than just the abil­ plete coloration of the fin­ control and precision, the for non-students, $12/10/8 Linda Sohl-Donnell of ity to do footwork. The ished piece of music” until dancers have the additional for UCSB students. For Rhapsody in Taps But Rhapsody In Taps, an dancers have to be able to immediately before a public challenge of maintaining a ticket info, call 961-2080. Installation Examines What We’d Do When the Bomb Drops Each installation differs performance art. A worn Traditional Styles from the next in terms of armchair, beaten coffee That is a possibility, but ing this exhibition. media and artistic practice. table, and a blaring T.V. are something more definite is Thrown Out By Of the four installations, strategically positioned the fact that this exhibit will CURRENTS one collection really cap­ complete with magazines close Saturday. The onset of at the Santa Barbara Mu­ ‘Postmodernists’ tured my attention. Patrick and overused ashtray. nuclear war would be the seum of Art Nagatani and Andree Tra­ As I walked closer, the only good excuse for miss­ Phone: 963-4364 at S.B. Museum cey have combined photo­ most striking images over­ ART graphy, painting, installa­ whelmed me. A painting, tion, and performance art to made to look like a window, By Sara Getzkin WORLD FAMOUS present their theme of just behind the armchair. found that a group had Reporter______threatened nuclear disaster. The scene painted was that formed around the T.V. set Using a process known as of a tremendous mushroom On the outer walls, a se­ Art lovers, photo fana­ two diffusion transfer print­ cloud billowing in a red sky. ries of a dozen photographs tics, or activists for disarma­ ing, the artists have created Then I turned to see what depicting similar living ment will not want to miss incredibly graphic yet hu­ was being projected on the room scenes from across the the new exhibition at the morous depictions of a nu­ T.V. screen. Over and over country intensifies this ex­ Santa Barbara Museum of clear aftermath. “Nuki the classic tune from the 40s plosive theme. In this “Ra­ Art. Sushi” and “Atomic Cock­ song “Til we meet again, dio Active/Inactive Series,” It is called CURRENTS, tails” are wonderfully in­ don’t know where, don’t the facial expressions of and is a fine collection of ventive, tremendously know when...” while vivid everyone — from a Wall EVERY THURSDAY “post-modem” art. CUR­ funny, and rudely awaken­ black-and-white scenes of Street Tycoon to a beer­ RENTS is actually four in­ ing pieces. nuclear testing played again drinking Texan t— are cap­ IS COLLEGE NIGHT stallations (exhibitions in In addition to these and again. tured while they all sit in themselves) that are de­ pieces, Nagatani and Tracey Various clips from the awe during a televised nu­ C A T C H THE BUS voted to spiritual, social and have ingeniously fixed a typ­ 40s and 50s were spliced clear disaster. Could this be Cruise downtown & back In style & safety. The political content. In other ical American living room together to create a montage an indication that we’ll all bus gets loaded at 8:15,9:00 & 9:45 at Greek words, classic art forms setting in the center of the that literally blew me away. be sitting at home like Park, then you get loaded here. have just been thrown out room. Once I got closer, I After I came out of this T.V. couch potatoes when nu­ the window. was amazed at this piece of coma, to my surprise, I clear war erupts? • 75$ Bud Draft • $ 1.00 Kazi's • $2.00 Specials every hour Need Drinking Games? Buy This Book • Live Rock N Roll with New Volume Has THE R A V E UCSB Faves and Please Don't Drink Drink-fests From A n d Drive Across the U.S. 35 STATE From The Beach 963-9477 By Seana Fitt BOOKS Reporter_____ desire. Here is the beauty of it. How I survived my first The only rule is “the player ü i ü year of college without this who drank just before the p n book as my guide I’ll never player who finishes the Sinai know. 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This Perfigliano!” at each other parts but well worth “buzzed” can settle for Boot game was custom made for while foam runs down the learning. Factor One games like Pizza Bob’s, or a similarly side of their mouth. Weds., 1slov. 8 The games are ranked ac­ “Murder.” gnarly drinkin’ joint. A The Complete Book of Beer cording to amounts of alco­ “Murder” is the corrup­ pitcher of beer is passed ar­ Drinking Games hol consul: ?d under “Boot tion of an innocent slumber ound the group, each player By Andy Griscom, Ben Wed., Factors.” Small toilets at the party game. Each player is drinking as much as they Rand and Scott Johnston i s f f l l i Nov. NEW KIDS stupid, sad, gooty, and com­ same guy who brought us In a word, The New with 1 5 pletely devoid of talent, but New Edition. Starr writes Chips Off the Old Block’s E.G. DAILY & SLAVE /all.” And he says stuff like they’re also chock full of so­ and produces most of their Merry, Merry Christmas that all through the brand- cial “commentary” like: songs, even though he’s not personifies all of the pain new New Kids on the Block “Peace to the world, from in the band and he has as and suffering that they talk SITUATION album Merry, Merry the New Kids on the Block” much business writing about so much on this al­ Christmas. SIN (Dance band or ‘There are some people songs as his half-brother, bum. But if you like hon­ of the 90's) It’s a craze, this New- living in this world/They Ringo, does. The New Kids estly bad pop fluff, fire-up Kids-mania, sweeping the have no food to eat.” end up sounding like the the fireplace, dim the lights, Every Thursday country like Beater-mania The New Kids on the Bee Gees gone chartreuse, curl up on the couch with a back in 1987. But it’s even Chopping Block was the Air Supply on Xanex, and cute 14-year-old, and put Tickets Available at ROCKHOUSE and CARNAVAL more confusing, because brainstorm of pop master­ Burt Reynolds’ toupee all the album on. these kids are not only ugly, (All shows 18 & over) mind, Maurice Starr, the singing “Muskrat Love.” 634 State St. • 962-9991 8A Thursday, October 121989 Daily Nexus

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