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Angeles on Tuesday. In between slow drags on a name-brand cigarette while his sweat dried in the warm air of Santa Mo nica Boulevard, he offered a few thoughts on making beautiful music and the ugly business of selling it. This Charming Artsweek: Is there any chance you might go electric, or would you fear a Jason backlash? Elliot Smith: Fear or expect? (pause) I Saltier don’t care: I do what I do and everyone can listen to whatever music they want talks to No one’s going to start making people lis ten to music they don’t want to. Mr. Smith Where are you living now? onight could be a big night for the Nowhere really, just moving around a downtown Santa Barbara music lot. I’m moving to New York; I spend a lot Tscene. Singer/songwriter/ of time there already. acoustic-guitar virtuoso Elliot Smith per Do you like Southern California? forms with Pete Krebs at Toes Tavern this I don’t know. Some parts of it. Every evening, offering a vastly different flavor one is dressed too well here. to the typical attempts at popular music Do you have a name for your guitar? and trends usually seen on State Street No ... Yamaha. Smith often receives mentions as the What records do you like that have latest “new Bob Dylan.” He emulates the come out recently? Dylan of the early ’60s—with captivating Right now? I like Quasi, a band from poignancy, artistic individuality, and Portland. And I like Pete Krebs’ [music], song-writing mastery. Alone, with only a that’s about it miked acoustic guitar and his voice, I’ve heard that one of your videos is Smith achieves a depth of sound and pas starting to get some play. sion that the typical four-person ensem Yeah, it’s the one for “Coming Up ble only dreams of. Roses” [off his first full-length album El His lyrics depict intimate situations in liot Smith). It’s old, they just decided to familiar terms that sound new and pro start playing it. vide universal kernels of wisdom, such as: Is it strange to see yourself on MTV? “’cos everyone is a fucking pro / and they I don’t know, I don’t see it all got answers from the troubles they’ve You don’t get too involved with the known / and they all got to say what you business part of this? should and shouldn’t do / though they No. I don’t know the situation at all. I don’t have a clue.” just like making up the songs and playing Elliot Smith took a few minutes to them. That’s where it's at for me. The rest speak to Artsweek after a packed perfor of that stuff, God only knows what that is mancein the No Life Record Store in Los all about. 2 A Thursday, May 8,1997 Daily Nexus
you say, ‘Wow. That’s pro found.’ [Shakespeare] lived, that’s what people forget. His plays are filled Shake 'Em Up with passion and joy for Hey, I M s Going On? life.” This marks the fourth A Noise Within is more than a simple stage direction Shakespearean play Manke has directed for ANW, but Oh boy. My girlfriend just left me this morning. Of from “Hamlet” It is metaphorical for the passion within he has acted or directed in about 20 different plays by the course, my boyfriend found this out, which prompted the artist released during performance—releasing a pas bard. Yet he doesn’t feel it can ever become mundane for him to dump me as well. Now I'm all alone, with a sion in the audience, according to Art Manke, director of him or the audience. weekend packed with entertainment just ahead. Hey. Shakespeare’s “The Winters Tale.” The work is being “The characters, relationships and plots are com What about you? What are you doing this weekend, hot brought to UCSB by the Southland Theater Company, pletely separate and unique. The more you work with stuff? duly named “A Noise Within.” and do detailed analysis, file more you realize what a ge Tonight, you can meet up with me at Toes Tavern, ‘The Winter’s Tale” begins as a story of Leontes, King nius this man was. He’s a dramatist, poet and comic. He where they will be hosting the Songwriter’s Acoustic of Sicilia, who suspects that his pregnant wife has been invented vocabulary.” Shows at 9. Jennifer Terran, Pete Krebs and Elliot adulterous with his childhood friend and house guest— The Glendale-based company prides itself in provid Smith will be performing. If you would rather stay on the King of Bohemia. His wrath is turned against his ing a unique service to its community by performing only campus, Monique Guillory will be presenting a lecture, wife, who dies just as their only daughter is bom. The classical plays. Every season it include a Shakespearean “Some Enchanted Evening on the Auction Block,” at 8 child is ostracized and sent to be raised by a lowly she and an American classic in its repertoire, Manke said. p.m. in the Women’s Center. pherd. Sixteen years later the orphaned girl falls in love “L.A. doesn’t need more of the commercial. There is No? You have to wash your hair tonight? OK, well on with the Prince of Bohemia. When her father comes to an audience for this kind of material.” Friday we can go swing at the Veteran’s Memorial Build terms with the ramifications of his jealousy, the play be According to Manke, one of the reasons for perform ing, where the Swing and Ballroom Dance Club is host- comes an inspired tale of love, redemption and rebirth. ing plays like “The Winter’s Tale” is because they are ing a shindig at 8:30 p.m. Slimer with One by One and This production is a blend of tradition and mysticism. challenging. This play in particular is one of Shakes The costuming is very eleg peare’s more obscure, less ant, yet not from any parti performed plays because it cular period. Manke ex is so difficult to make clear plains that because the and exciting to a modem play deals with mythical audience. ideas and fantasy, setting it “[Shakespeare] intro in modem times wouldn’t duces fantasy and magic. work for the audience. He experiments with Riff Raff will play at Emerald City. Spank, Drop, “It needs to be far forms, qualities, themes nine and Grain of 8 will be shaking up the Living Room. enough away to be able to and poetry. The vocabul Also, Cool Water Canyon will be at Toes with Mother believe the fantasy,” he ary is more complex,” Hips. said. Manke said. What else to do Friday night? Well, the undeigraduate For the same reason, the ANW has about 20 ac- one-act plays will begin and run through the weekend at actual set revolves around _ tors who are cast through- 8 p.m. in the Studio Theater. Or maybe we could go to a giant zodiac. Lighting design, the choreography of two season, giving the^company a collective know the Fiji house to see Buck-O-Nine, Gravity Kills and dances in the second act and the original musical score ledge and experience in classical, especially Shakespea I.V.’s own Henchmyn at 10 p.m. all contribute to the cosmic, distant, fantastical setting. rean, drama. Roles that cannot be filled by resident ar What’s that? You have to wash your dog? Well how *But this tragi-comedy offers more than great words, tists are filled by guest artists and students in the com ’bout Saturday night? Yet another swing dance will be settings and emotions. pany's intern program. hoppin’ at 8 with a live band, this time at the Living “Parts are very funny and sexy. It’s all part of the play ANW has performed at UCSB twice in the past. Two Room. What about seeing Electric Blue and Calobo at — the humor and excitement,” Manke said. years ago the company presented Oscar Wilde’s “The Toes? Or we could make yet another attempt to see Cool ANWis not new to performing Shakespeare. In fact, Importance of Being Earnest,” and the group brought Water Canyon at Emerald City. it’s the group's specialty. Of the 35 plays the company Moliere’s "Tartuffe” to campus last winter. Huh? You have to bathe your elderly uncle, Amos? has performed since its inception in 1991, this is its 11th The company enjoys coming to UCSB because the au Sunday would be fine with me. We can head over to Bor Shakespeare production. dience draws out the metaphorical noise within. der’s Cafe for the inspirational sounds of Karie Hillery at “He’s the greatest dramatic author in our language,” “The audiences are tremendously responsive and in 7:30 p.m. There is also a show at the Living Room with Manke said. “He’s the cornerstone of the work we do as telligent. Very stimulating,” he said. Capitalist Casualties, the Missing 23rd arid a whole a classical company. Everything else is measured by it.” Arts & Lectures presents A Noise Within in Shakes bunch of other punk rock tonnage. Manke points out that in. the past, every English peare’s “The Winter’s Tale" Thursday and Friday at 8 Yeah? You’ll actually go with me? OK. I’ll be the one household was raised on the Bible and Shakespeare be- P-m- in Campbell Hall. Call A&L at893-3535 for more with the sharkskin suit. See you there! At what time shall we meet? cause there is so much to learn from the material. information. —Deborah Finestone ; “It’s passionate^ exciting, thrilling,” he’said. "It makes I Now, exactly when will monkeys fly out of your ass? NBA & NHL PLAYOFF HEADQUARTERS ~ You Don't Have To Go To Sea LAKERS - BULLS - DUCKS - DODGERS To Enjoy A Fine Cigar...
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Daily Nexus Thursday, May 8,1997 3 A Feelin' Randy What’s the difference between Mike to save the world, he has to deal with the Myers and Elvis Presley?... Elvis has been vastly different ’90s lifestyle, where safe seen recently. sex and dental hygiene are in, and promis Myers left “Saturday Night Live” three cuous shagging and bad English teeth are years ago, and after the box-office disap out. Let the culture clash begin. pointments of his last two films, Myers “Liar Liar” may have hauled in the seemingly disappeared from the public most money this year, but “Austin Pow eye. But with the newly released “Austin ers” is this year’s best comedy by far. Powers: International Man of Mystery,” Myers’ script is full of classic one-liners, Myers is back in a big way. innovative bits of physical comedy, and a Myers writes, produces and stars as sense of humor that doesn’t just spoof the both Austin Powers and his nemesis, Dr. spy genre, but actually pays tribute to it as Evil, in this hilarious spoof of ’60s spy well. Hurley turns out to be a surprisingly movies. In the wrong hands, this project good comic actress, and I really can’t say enough about Myers’ performance. It’s al most impossible for him not to be funny, especially when he performs a show stopping striptease to the Divinyls’ “I Touch Myself”. ’ ’Pse-EXTRAVAGAHZA Kiew#** And even though this territory has been covered before in films such as “Ca featuring: sino Royale” and last year’s atrocious “Spy Hard,” this film stands on its own as an original comic gem. After all, how many films do you know that feature a cryogenically frozen Gary Coleman, hair less cats and a character named Alotta che Q oodhind^^^, Fagina? —Patrick Reardon could have easily become an extended “SNL” skit or a run-of-the-mill, fish-out- of-water comedy, but in Myers’ hands this movie is truly an original piece of work. The plot is inspired. The year is 1967 and Austin Powers is a fashion photogra pher by day and a swinging secret agent by night, who wears crushed velvet suits, and shags every female in sight. When Austin foils one of Dr. Evil’s plans yet again, Dr. Evil has himself ciyogenically frozen and sent into orbit inside a giant Bob’s Big Boy statue. Fearing that Dr. Evil will come back some day, Austin vol untarily has himself frozen until his coun try needs him again. Things quickly move to 1997 — Dr. Evil is back on earth with another plan for world domination, and there is only one man who can stop him. Guess who? 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And if this is the case, then need for it—you know a need for dancing and stuff, and Come Check Out Our shouldn’t artists in this genre of music reflect that state? I’m sure people in the states want to dance too. There’s Wide Selection o f You’d expect to call them up at their hotel in Chicago been so much rock and that everybody forgot how to and have their pierced tongue reach through the phone dance and to have fun in a happy way.... All the people Fuji Color Print and and slobber on you. Or maybe their contact-induced we’ve seen, all the reactions we’ve had, are very good and Slide Film and hypnotic blue eyes would sear down on you via AT&T. people are going mad for it— like house music and stuff. Disposable Cameras Or if not that, then at least their green devil-homed hair It’s good. It’s gonna do well, I think. offer expires 5-11-97 would reach through the phone lines and stab you in the In Britain the Chemical Brothers don't headline ear. copying • binding • laminating • computer rentals like they do here. Most of the time they serve as resi But what would you do if none of this happened? dents or guest Dps at different dance clubs like Cream full color print & copy • scanning • typesetting How would your image of techno change if, when you film processing • passport photos • & more... in Liverpool Is that the same for you or do you do your called up techno-funksters Daft Punk, they were hack own shows? ing into the phone spewing their cold-laden crusties We are not doing any shows now. We are planning across interstate lines? I guess you’d have to change your them for the other half of the year. But when we play in Classified Hotline: 893-7972 image of techno artists, wouldn’t you? Europe we often play in raves and in clubs with other After trying to spell Guy-Manuel De Homen Christo people. .Phone in your Daily Nexus ad to the operator at die band’s hotel in Chicago, I eventu So have you played a lot of raves then? with MasterCard or Visa ally caught up with half of the French dance artist duo Yeah. known as Daft Punk. If you’re still clinging to guitar re Which was the craziest one? mnants then you won’t really know what it means to call I don’t know there’s so much good ones. X X X X X j fr XXXXXX^ : XXX them The Orb meets Rick James at House Music Night at What makes a rave good in your opinion? some club in Europe. When everybody’s dancing, not just the people on the Artsweek: So how is Chicago this time of year? dance floor. You know when it’s good and when it’s not. Guy-Manuel De Homen Christo: We’ve got snow. Wow, exciting. If you go to a party on Saturday, when you’re waking up ★ It’s not fun when you’re sick. on Sunday you know if you had a good time or a bad time g r e e n s When did you set sick? so I think when it’s there it’s there. ... When you don’t ^ PRESENTS ^ :v o u 4 DJiiivji(M (O pn x tv UHM (. SIDO! X ★ x To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the X most challenging. atT We've got some ★ Aries (March 21-April 19)-Today is a 7 -There have been all softs of i glitches lately in the area of your money. Nokidding, eh? At any rate, all ^ O RBScure J L thatisoveranddonewith.Youllstaitfeelingbetterbythisevening.Your b-side/rem ixes CDs to coordination will improve. And, in (he next few weeks, you’ll even make , give aw ay. X more money. The worst is past! X Take dow n an i Taurus (April 20-May 2 0 )-Todayisa 7 -You’ve made allsorts of mistakes J L election poster and ^ lately, lots of them not even your fault Well, that’s all over now. 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The shows allow the directors to experiment with the it Ifw The undergraduate-directed one-acts, which begin theater as a performance medium, according to Baldwin. Day Friday with “Ghost World” and “’Dentity Crisis,” are an “We’re really pressing the boundaries,” he said. introduction to theater direction for drama majors, said “We’re not afraid to explore new areas [by] trying to “Ghost World” director Daniel Baldwin. bring in experimental theater. We try to raise the ques “[It’s] an opportunity for new directors to really go out tion of what theater is.” there and practice their art,” he said. Cash believes that the two plays work very well P i According to Baldwin, the shows present these new together, for they explore similar themes despite being directors with the chance to learn more about the theater very different Monday, May 12 as a whole through the experience of directing a play. “Thematically they cover the same questions of real “As a director, you really learn everything about thea ity,” he said. “But they contrast greatly in style.” 6:30pm, a t th e La goon Lawn ter,” Baldwin said. “You are involved in every aspect of The hope of both directors is that the evening will be (Behind the UCen Patio) the production. You name it, the director’s involved.” enjoyable for all involved, from cast to crew to audience. '’Dentity Crisis” director Jesse Cash agreed. "We’re trying to produce a really fun night of theater,” Everyone is welcome! Baldwin said, "And at the same time have really good Questions: Yonlt 96 0-644 4 or the Hlllel office at 960-1200 quality theater.” S p o n s o r e d by UCSB Hlllel, A S Finance, UCen Programming, Many valuable lessons a n d t h e Education Abroad P ro g ra m — such as the importance of teamwork — were in stilled in the budding di UCSB ARTS & LECTURES PRESENTS rectors by the experience. “I tried to emphasize the collaborative art. It’s never A Noise Within about just one person, the IN SHAKESPEARE’S stars on the stage... it’s ab out everybody working The Winter’s Tale together and that’s some thing I try to stress,” Bald- | win said. * The undergraduate one- 1 acts open this weekend | with “Ghost World” and | “’Dentily Crisis.” Perfor- | mances are at 8 p.m. in the jj Studio Theater on Friday, £ Saturday and Sunday. 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