Still Drinking

Vol. 7 march 2015 — issue 3 issue INSIDE: INTROVISIONAIRE - todd on film - STILL DRINKING - ask creepy horse you’re not punk & I’m telling everyone - how to be an asshole - keurig blitzkrieg - lighter side of nuthin - record reviews - concert calendar YOU’RE NOT PUNK & I’M TELLING EVERYONE: ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE MOTHERFUCKER I was younger, I used to get real excited by band reunions. I 979Represent is a local magazine thought it was cool that I would get a chance to see a band play that was before my time. I was far too young and inexperienced for the discerning dirtbag. in my own band trials that I didn’t realize why bands break up in the first place. I mean when you’re 14 or 15 all you really want to do is play, you can’t possibly see things like drugs, girlfriends or Editorial bored money and ego come into the mix. Then you grow up and get Kelly Minnis - Kevin Still real. Bands break up for exactly those reasons. After a few years it just becomes harder to find people who just want to play for the way it makes you feel, and if you do find that group of people, you never need to worry about breaking up because you Art Splendidness never do. As for reunions… they come off as a bit underwhelm- Katie Killer - Wonko The Sane ing. I have been to very few reunion shows where I caught that old magic, and even then it had to be a one time reunion, just for nostalgic purposes. If I was hard pressed to find a band that Folks That Did the Other Shit For Us reunited after 10 plus years and kept going with the old magic, I Timothy danger - MIKE L. DOWNEY - Jorge goyco - todd don’t think I could. If there is one thing that is certain in life, it is change and when you leave a band it happens more than you can Hansen - JESSICA LITTLE - amanda Martinez - WILLIAM think. DANIEL THOMPSON This was a particular thing I thought about when a unnamed band announced that they were back together after over a dec- On the Interwebz ade and wanted to play a reunion comeback show in the home- http://www.979represent.com town they cut their teeth in. Naturally excitement was shown, as nostalgia between the promoters came in. It was quickly dissi- Emails to pated when said leader of band began making requests that at first were thought of as a joke, but soon it became clear that it [email protected] was very real. The biggest thing? They wanted a stage. Over the course of the years its nice for a band to want something in their performance. A good sound system, decent lights that don’t Materials for review & bribery can be sent to: blind, maybe some monitors. These things are nice but not 979represent needed to put on a good show. I mean all you really need for a 15530 creek meadow blvd. n. good show is your band and yourself with balls to the wall energy. A stage is one of those things. I mean, I don’t even think I College station, tx 77845 like stages all the much to tell the truth. Like Raybeez from Warzone, I kind of like to be with the crowd, as they dare to come close to us snarling like animals. So I found it kind of funny when this band makes it a make or break issue. Their main reason? People need to be able to see them. I have a hard time getting behind this. Not just the ego of it, but for who they used to be. Here was a band that I knew in my twenties. We puked in shoe boxes, wrecked house parties and made our town quake in terror without any regard of what people thought. They certainly didn’t care if people could see them on a stage. It made me a little sad actually. That people could change their musical priorities in such a manner they forget the sheer violence and force in their message and worry more about being seen from all angles in the club by show goers. I guess the old saying is right. You can’t go home again. But, if you are sincere and honest in the path you take, you’re new path might be even better. You don’t need a stage. You don’t need fancy sound or expensive instruments. You do need the right people though. Then you’ll have the start of something that will never worry about breaking up.—TIMOTHY DANGER Todd on film: A most violent year One film that did not get talked about much by acquiring a large piece of property along the East River which this past December was A Most Violent Year, an would allow him to directly import his heating oil supply. The organized crime movie with a refreshing take docking area is owned by a group of Orthodox Jews that Abel has on the genre. The film depicts New York City in won over amidst other bids through his honestly and character 1981, a different era from today’s rampant but also through a large sum of promised money upfront in the gentrification and high-dollar developments, deal. Simultaneously, his company is under investigation by the when subway cars were still covered in graffiti district attorney for possible financial fraud, which puts his loan both inside and out, and malaise was thick enough for robberies applications and the real estate acquisition in jeopardy. The at gunpoint to occur in broad daylight. This is a city a couple years energy and tension of the plot hinges on how far Abel Morales is removed from The Warriors and Taxi Driver, only becoming willing to go to secure his company’s future. worse, and yet a place with opportunity for those looking As Abel struggles with the for it. The question, however, morality of his decisions due is how should that opportu- to the actions of his competi- nity be gained; what are the tors, his wife Anna is also means to get to the ends? pushing him do more than The traditional gangster film sit idly by and try to put would go the Michael Cor- distance between them and leone or even the Tony the violence. Anna (played Montana route and have the by Jessica Chastain), doesn’t protagonist vanquish all share Abel’s views of how to enemies in their way. A Most secure one’s place in the Violent Year has plenty of world. She grew up in an crime in the environment, organized crime family and is but Abel Morales instead used to getting what she wants to gain his power wants. While she is also fully honestly, an internal struggle invested in the success of which rears its head often Standard Oil, she repeatedly over the course of the film. accuses Abel of not acting like a man, and makes The tone of the film is set decisions behind his back as immediately as Abel does his she sees fit. The character morning jog during the doesn’t go into full Lady opening credits over the Macbeth or Betty Francis- music of Marvin Gaye’s mode, but you get the sense “Inner City Blues”. From the that that switch could be exercise it is apparent that he flicked at any moment. is a man willing to put in the Chastain does an excellent work to make himself job of balancing the iciness stronger. Morales owns and accent with moments of Standard Oil, a heating oil tenderness, morphing her company with a fleet of into more than one dimen- delivery trucks looking to sion. She has been doing take the product to the some great acting for a while homes of his expanding now, and her performance territory. But rather than here shows that’s likely to strong-arming his way into continue. other territories, Abel wants While his role in this movie to use a superior salesman was not as celebrated as approach to win over new Chastain’s, Oscar Isaac is customers. In one scene, about to become a major Abel (played with a fiery calm leading name. A year prior by Oscar Isaac) talks with his he starred in Inside Llewyn newly hired door-to-door Davis, playing the title char- employees to discuss how to present themselves in conversation acter as a social jerk with a battered soul that you couldn’t decide with potential clients. With instructions that say as much about if you were rooting for him. This year he’ll hit the super hero/ his image as that of his company, Abel tells them that they will science fiction movie scene, playing major roles in the new Star present themselves as better than competitors through better Wars and X-Men installments. Isaac is able to play Abel with more service and style. “If someone offers you a drink, always choose than words on the page, his facial unease and subtle body lan- the classier option.” guage telling you more than the dialogue, and holding his gaze for As an immigrant, Abel had to walk and talk the part in addition to longer than you are comfortable with. You can see the weight hard work in order to be accepted as he is now. Even Morales’ that the character is carrying around with him. It’s a bit like truck drivers are held to a standard of hospitality, and he goes out watching a more compassionate version of Corleone from The of his way to make sure they are doing well but also in line with Godfather, after the self-discovery of Part I but before reaching the company vision.

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