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Brevard Live May 2009 - 1 2 - Brevard Live May 2009 Brevard Live May 2009 - 3 4 - Brevard Live May 2009 Brevard Live May 2009 - 5 AND SEX THE BEACH PUBLISHER/EDITOR Heike Clarke STAFF SALES/MARKETING Charlene Hemmle Hot For Teacher! Heike Clarke CALENDAR/GRAPHICS Charlene Hemmle By Matthew Bretz MUSIC WRITERS his is my tribute to all the hot teach- and drinking beer with her and her Matt Bretz ers out there. Teachers are an amaz- roommate. Chris Long T OUT & ABOUT ing mix of intelligence, ambition, re- Who among us hasn’t embarked on Eroica Fedder, sponsibility, adventure, energy and fun. one of these late night chess matches? Mara Bermudez In my experience- this delicious combi- Wondering who’s going to make the first MOVIES nation very often adds up to a healthy move?…if you’re even allowed to make Greg Kimple, Franco Dean dose of stay-after-school-sexy. Recently a move at all? Sometimes the unspoken ART Lou Belcher the state has been putting the screws to attraction and understanding is so ob- PHOTOGRAPHY these bodacious book worms in the form vious that everything just flows. Other Terry Wallace of budget cuts and salary shrinkage, but times you spend the entire night waiting Tim Bretz, their spirit cannot be broken, and I have for a signal…anything that resembles a Misti Blu Day to applaud them for that. cue to take action, only to look at the COLUMNISTS So here’s to you, you sultry shapers clock and realize it’s 4am and nothing is Chuck Van Riper Joey Simao and molders of minds! You deserve that going to happen. Reproduction of any portion of happy hour margarita on Friday after- That was me. Hours of sitting on Brevard Live is strictly prohibit- noon…and I’m happy to be the guy to her couch looking for some kind of ed without the written permission buy you one. opening. Finally I had to give up and of the publisher. That being said, my column would call it a night. Beaten by a lack of com- not be complete without a story about munication I started to drag my tired ADVERTISEMENT/ SALES my own personal experience with one self home. Phone: (321) 956-9207 of your kind. Suddenly, a light bulb popped. Fax: (321) 956-9228 The increasingly Orwell-ian, tech- [email protected] As with at least half the girls I date- nologically enhanced world we live in COMMENTS & LETTERS I met Cindy at one of my gigs. I was has delivered an amazing device for Brevard Live Magazine playing with the 5th Avenue Onlys back use in the dating scheme…texting! In a P.O. Box 1452, then. One of my favorite things about flash I realized texting was the perfect Melbourne, Fl 32902 playing out live is that from behind the tool for the job at hand. Texting holds a microphone, while everyone is watching certain level of anonymity that let’s you Copyright © 2009 you, you have a perfect view of every- say things a little more directly and if it Brevard Live All rights reserved one else. That’s right…we’re watching doesn’t fly you can play it off as if you you just as much as you are watching were just kidding. We are not responsible for photos us. On my ride home I texted Cindy or scripts sent to Brevard Live Scanning the crowd, my radar and waited for a response- “I waited Magazine. Published photos and picked up on a cute little blonde with all night for an opening and nothing:)”, articles become property of this almond shaped brown eyes hanging out very important to include the smiley publication. We are not responsible for wrongful near the back and no matter where else I face icon. This simple little symbol is advertised or canceled venues. looked, my eyes kept finding their way your insurance policy incase your plans back to her. I thought about making a goes south. If your bluntness is taken Download a pdf file run at her, but it looked like she had a with disapproval the smiley face says BREVARD date so I did nothing. you were just kidding anyway. FLORIDA A week later I was playing another “You were? Damn it! I’m terrible venue and sometime during the second at flirting!”, was her first response. She LIVE set I saw her again, once again sitting took the bait and was using texting to www.brevardfloridalive.com near the back. I took it as a sign and say things she may have been too shy to www.brevardlive.com made my approach and the end of the say face to face. www.floridalive.org evening found me playing Guitar Hero I returned with “Maybe next time 6 - Brevard Live May 2009 Photo by www.mistibluday.com I’ll be more aggressive and just drag you off to your room and I weren’t serious, but I did regret my decision in the - lol!”, once again using text speech to keep it light just months to come. We kept a low level of contact for awhile incase. (lol is text speech for laugh out loud) but she eventually met someone else and moved on. There “Yeah, you probably should!”, LIKE A CHARM! It was actually a few times that she brought her new boy to was that easy, I’m not making this up! my shows and tried to use me to make him jealous. I was Now I knew that the pretense was over. She liked surprised by her actions, but it made me think that maybe me, I liked her and we both knew it. The very next time I I hurt her more than I thought and considered it my right- saw her I knew things would be a lot different…and they fully deserved penance. In truth I wish her all the best. I were. only wish I would have played things a bit smarter for my- self, but then again I’ve been making bad decisions about Cindy turned out to be a pretty great girl and a lot women my entire life - why change now? of fun to be with. Funny, smart, sexy and adventurous. Teachers I’m telling you! So once again, glasses up to all you titillating tutors We had a lot of really great times together, but in the out there!…educating our youth and making my pants fit end I had to break it off with her. The devil was mov- just a little tighter. And if any of you catch me around ing back to town and we had decided to give it another town doing something I should be punished for…well you go. It was probably a bad move but I was in love with know:). the devil and she had an unholy power over me. Cindy Brevard Live May 2009 - 7 8 - Brevard Live May 2009 May 2009 • Volume 18, Issue 2 • Priceless FEATURES MR OPEN MIC NIGHT Columnspage 51 WAR Matt Bretz has been to the Open Mics of- Founder and singer/keyboardist Lonnie ten enough. This time he’s in the audience 6 Sex & The Beach Jordan claimed that the band’s goal was watching Pete Spoth, a rookie-musician, by Matt Bretz to spread a message of brotherhood and stepping out. harmony, using instruments and voices to Page 22 26 Charles Van Riper speak out against racism, hunger, gangs, Political Satire crimes, and turf wars, and promote hope and the spirit of brotherhood. BREVARD LIVE MUSIC AWARDS 28 Movie Reviews Page 11 We will continue to let you know how the Brevard Music Awards are coming by Greg Kimple together. This month we want to introduce & Franco Dean BROADWAY IN BREVARD you to another hostess: Meet Miss Lena! Two Broadway shows are coming to the We also answer some of the frequent asked Out & About King Center’s stage: The Drowsy Chap- questions about the nomination and voting 51 by Eroica Fedder erone (May 12 & 12) and On Golden procedure. & Mara Bermudez Pond (May 15 & 16). Page 43, 63 Page 13 61 One For The Road CYNTHIA PERRY Political Satire by Joey Simeo BLUES BROTHERS Creativity has guided Cynthia Perry Big Bill Morganfield, the son of Muddy through every stage of her life. Whether Waters, and Steve Thorpe have been mastering romance languages or drawing, 31 Calendars friends for a decade - and occasionally throwing pottery, dancing, or painting, she Entertainment get together for a great show that you has used her talents to express herself cre- Theatre, Concerts, should not miss! atively to others. Festivals, Arts Page 18 Page 56 Brevard Live May 2009 - 9 10 - Brevard Live May 2009 Brevard Live May 14th, At Captain Hiram’s Sebastian he year was 1969. Peace was the slogan in volatile Burdon left the band in the middle of its European tour. Already starting to assert themselves, War finished the an anti-Vietnam War America. And this T tour without him and returned to record the next album. band had the nerve to name themselves War. War, the funk band from California, is known for the hit songs “Low Rider”, “Spill the Wine” and “Why Can’t Founder and singer/keyboardist Lonnie Jordan claimed We Be Friends?”. They are a musical crossover band which that the band’s goal was to spread a message of brotherhood fused elements of rock, funk, jazz, Latin music, R&B, and and harmony, using instruments and voices to speak out reggae.