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ideo summertime in Isla Vista, long six pack. Here then is a list of some days and sometimes even longer movies you can rent throughout the nights. Most of your friends have Santa Barbara area. You may have to either gone home, went to Europe do a little hunting for some of these, (those lucky bastards) or just plain but they are all worth seeking out. Be graduated. Whatever the case you cautioned that this is a list of some of probably have a little extra time to fill. the more unusual movies that are out Summertime is a great movie rental there in rental land, some of the time, especially when the funds are movies you might have passed up on low you can always get enough people your way to rent Fatal Attraction. Check to pitch in for a couple of movies and a some of these titles out, have a groovy by Adam Liebowitz time and don't sit too close to the TV.

FORE]H jII through one more viewing of Caddyshack or any other FILM s____ film staring anyone else from these shows who Oh no, you say, none of that artsy-fartsy European escaped dying from a drug overdose. Comedy is a crap it's un-American. But these films are good for you tricky art form that rarely achieves the magic of satire and just think how smart you will seem when one of and true belly laughs. One of the funniest and most these films comes up in conversation and you can say ingenious films of all time is Stanley Kubrick's Dr. ■yeah I’ve seen that.’ As a general rule of thumb stay Strangelove, a film that has you question the unthinkable away from dubbed versions; they are usually pretty horror of nuclear war and makes you laugh. If Dr. poorly done and tend to take a lot away from the film. It Strangelove has you in the mood for the genius of Peter is equivalent to watching a colorized version of Sellers and you’ve already seen all the Pink Panther film s Casablanca. then rent Being There, a great satire on the power of If you haven’t seen anything from the late French television. You may be able to recognize Charlie director Francois Truffuat then you’ve been missing Chaplin's little tramp character, but if you haven’t out on one of the great masters of cinema. One of his seen one of his films then you are missing out on some earliest works is the now classic The 400 Blows a funny funny stuff. Modern Times has the little tramp up against and sad look at childhood. Also by Truffaut is Jules and the evils of technology; it is a timeless satire on the Jim, a love triangle story about love, death, friendship, very goofy state of modern man. You’ve probably seen the meaninglessness of existence and all that fun stuff; Back to the Future and by this point Roger Rabbit, but before actually it is a must see for anyone interested in film. If Director Robert Zemeckis formed a satanic pact with you are still feeling like a Frenchophile, then check out Steven Spielberg he made Used Cars, a great look at Jacques Beniex's Diva, a very witty and cool crime flick. ‘80s style American greed. I hate to recommend anything that is Australian simply Also Recommended: Spinal Tap, anything starring the because if I hear one more commercial with someone Marx Brothers. saying ‘G'day’ I’m going to vomit. But before there was Crocodile Dundee they were making a lot of groovy films. MICKEY ROURKE From the creator of Witness, Peter Weir, there is The Last He has definitely had his ups and downs both Wave, no it’s not a surf film, but does have a lot of trippy critically and at the box office in his still-young career, cosmic-voodoo weirdness about the end of the world. but without a doubt he is one of the few male leads of If you haven't yet seen a film by Italian director the decade to achieve a star status. Mickey Rourke has Frederico Fellini then rent La Strada, a bittersweet love a certain charisma on the screen, in other words story of sorts and if Fellini was your groove then check chicks dig him and guys think he’s cool, besides how out the classic 8 and a Half. many actors could have achieved fame being named m m I mmmim Also Recommended: Some more films you can use to Mickey and not be a mouse or a midget. He has ac­ CHRISTOPHER impress a date with — by the maker of Diva, Betty Blue, tually been in a few other films besides Nine and a Half p u m w t cmmmsamx also from France Subway, from China A Great Wall; from Weeks and Angel Heart, films which are worth seeing if HERBERT10M B razil Eu te Amo; from Argentina The Official Story, only to watch one of the most talented actors of our anything by Wim Wenders; from New Zealand The Quiet time. In Francis Ford Coppola's Rumble Fish he plays the T h » enigmatic Motorcycle Boy, one of the great scruffy S U lit r it Earth; from Australia Bliss and from England Prick Up Your Ears. rebels of moviedome, played with the perfect amount c P » JPinh COMEDY of overblown irony. In Diner he plays the misun­ j W t h e r derstood Boogie, in what is one of the great film It seems that every comedy film in the last decade classics of the '80s. One of the overlooked films in has starred somebody from either Saturday Night Live or recent years was The Pope of Greenwich Village, in which SCTV. Not that I don’t think most of these films have Rourke starred with Eric Roberts as small-time been funny, it’s just that I don't think I could sit hustlers who get in a little too deep with the Mob. ^ A Wednesday L l \ July 13,1988 features HEY ISLA VISTAI

GREAT great Robert Duvall. If it's action that you want, go RIBS TRIP OUT with some 70s style mean and gritty realism, in fact AND I cannot recommend substance abuse (God only make it a triple feature of the very cool Shqft, drug wars CHICKEN knows what that includes) but unless you work for a in the early days with The French Connection, and the very company that demands drug testing your body is your mean Robert De Niro in Mean Streets. Above all don't own. If someone suggests watching The Wall one more forget the movie that discoed a generation Saturday Night time I’m going to be forced to confiscate their VCR, Fever. D ELIV ER S 967-3775 because there are a few other films which one can Also recommended: Shampoo, Car Wash, American enjoy by staring with dilated pupils at the screen. One Grqffiti, The Last Detail, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, of the best is Koyannisqatsi, the title of which means ‘life and Billy Jack. out of balance.’ It’s a documentary of sorts with some beautiful photography showing the intense beauty of UNUSUAL Ifs time for the natural world compared to the very strange way in The last few years have marked the appearance of which human beings have chosen to live; there is also some very good but off-beat movies. The excellent Blue GRANDMA GERTIE’S a great score-by Philip Glass. Also there is Altered States Velvet seems to have cornered a lot of the college (need i say more) which has William Hurt taking audience's attention, but there are several other films 991 Thursday! Mexican Mushrooms and going ape. While we are on worth seeing other than David Lynch’s masterpiece. the subject of our ancestral kin, The Monkees actually Director Jim Jarmusch has created two excellent films, made a movie called Head and it's pretty groovy, not to the funky Stranger Than Paradise and the equally off-beat mention it was directed by Jack Nicholson. Dorn by Law which starred singer Tom Waits. If you Also recommended: Bliss, the classic Tommy, and The haven't seen the hilarious Repo Man then put it at the Hidden. top of your list, but if you've seen it too many times already then check out Alex Cox's Straight to Hell, ANIMATION starring the Pogues, Joe Strummer, and Dennis Hopper. If those last films weren’t enough good weirdness Also recommended: Choose Me, After Hours, In- for you, then go mainline with some very off-beat signifigance, and River’s Edge. animation. The Fantastic Tourney of Animation is kind of a pitchers home version of one of those festivals of animation and FREAK/HORROR includes some classics such as Closed Mondays and So these aren’t hardcore enough for some of you burgers Moonshadow. Before that Rabbit movie there was the weirdos. If your tastes run to the bizarre then rent fries very groovy Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat. Created by Ralph Freaks, a self-proclaimed docudrama from the '30s that 996 Bakshi, this very cool cat was up to some dirty deeds in uses some real circus freaks in a mystery with a very 3-8 pm 968-8888 this animation social satire originally rated X. chilling moral. Still not enough for some of you slime- Also recommended: Fantastic Planer, B a ksh i’s Wizards. balls? Well then, delve into Herchell Gordon Lewis's 9 6 6 -B Em barcadero del Mar I. V. masterpeice trilogy of gross Blood Feast, 2000 Maniacs, THE SEVENTIE and Color Me Blood Red. If you’re still in the mood after that (and I doubt it) then watch a couple of funky The decade when people knew how to party, knew WELCOME TO freakouts from toe '80s, the bizarre creation of some how to boogie, and never knew the word AIDS is back SANTA BARBARA of toe members and friends of Oingo Boingo Forbidden and is as styling as ever. Not to jump on a trend but Zone and toe strange creation of some twisted some great films came out of the decadent decade. Manhattanites Liquid Sky. One of the greatest films of all time, actually there are Also recommended: Any of toe creations of toe new two, is both parts of Coppola’s The Godfather, the master of horror Stuart Gordon, including Re-Animator American dream gone bad. Also by Coppola there is and Dolls, Basket Case, Phantasm and the seriously the mesmerizing The Conversation starring the always disgusting Mother’s Day. artwork supplied by Rental Network

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FRIDAY - COMEDY NIGHT THE GRAUDATE AND BOB regular film critic for toe arts desk. It was his idea to would I have fallen head over heels with the discovery H B D A Y S nyenterprises p r e s e n t t h e b o b » N Y COMEDY OUTLET. LIVE STAND UP COMEDY FOR p ervert you to toe size of a TV screen. of jazz? Where can you sit and be civilized, drink beer EVERYONE 18 AND OVER. SHOW STARTS AT 9:30. IT’S THE ONLY LIVE COMEDY IN SANTA BARBARA DANCING STARTS WITH THE Jay Hinman is a regular 1-2-3-4 hard rock man on ... oh your friend would rather have coffee? Hungry? GRADUATE AFTER HOURS 12-3 18 AND OVER WELCOME. toe last page. You can hear some of his best picks on Tell me where're you going to eat your blue spaghetti? SATURDAY - THE PARTY IS BACK OOUNTOO^ PM WITH 5 FOR 1 DRINK FfMCESANO DANCING ALL NIGHT FOR THOSE 21 AND OVER. AFTER HOURS KCSB on Wednesdays from 8-10 p.m. TILL 3 .18 AND OVER WELCOME Beth Allen stormed into journalism this summer with TEEN NIGHT • WE OPEN OUR DOORS. PUT UP If there is any justice, the wood paneling will never SUNDAY - THE ALCOHOL AND PUMP UP THE VOLUME FOR • THOSE UNDER 19. OPEN FROM 8 PM TILL 1 AM. an unassigned story on Zodiac Mindwarp. Kudos, see the light of neon. But don’t hold your breath. Look COVER IS $5.00 BETTER THAN A MOVIE... babe. Actually, she used to edit and distribute her own across this abode’s street. No. That kind of graduation . 935 EMBARCADERO DEL NORTE ISLA VISTA, CALIFORNIA 93117 hardcore fanzine. She interviewed Social D. last week shouldn’t happen. But it will take some convincing and her disgusting tastes can be heard on KCSB support to make sure it-doesn't. Do you want a place to .Thursdays from midnight-2a.m. show your art even if you can’t wait for toe annual Michael Singer is a summer trooper from UC undergraduate show? Maybe you aren’t even (gasp) Berkeley who says he can't write. But we don’t believe an art major. Does your band still want a place to COMPACT him. Ask toe computer that lost his story this week. stand? Don't look for a shack. And the world down­ Nowhere to be found, but Singer cranked out another town is a big place for newly risen poets. Write a one for us. letter. Write a lot of letters. And in toe meantime, I’m nearly too depressed about Borsodi’s being sold thank the crew by going to the Last Hurrah this Friday. to tell you about this week’s coming events. Read the Collage of I, Jeff Levy and the general manager, Jill ads in toe papers. (Rosa Luxemburg, The Dead and The Kelly-Moore, will play, goodbye gang. NEW RELEASES Manchurian Candidate, Buster Poindexter, and toe Thai —Ilm NOW IN STOCK: Festival.) Every college artist deserves a place like arts editor

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OF’ striking is that all the x 2) 18 to 30 years of age people were filmed Stop by psychology room 3105 (3rd floor) or separately and thus seem call 961-2446 entirely oblivious to one another. The animation llllllillllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllflllH Ililil FESTIVAL process is pixillation (as in “pixie dust"), in which people are filmed in stop- motion. Usually, the If you haven’t ANIMATES process is saved for gimmickry, but Rybc- been bowling lately, zynski's pixillation makes for an exciting short with you ought to see only one camera angle. VIC. ST. Watch it and try to follow what you’re missing. every line of action (there are at least 20). AUTOMATIC The recent release of A second esstential film “ Papa-Oo-Mow-Mow" Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, is Tim Burton and Rick and “Thank God I'm a SCORERS X the genre-spanning H einrick’s Vincent. Country Boy." While the mixture of actors and Produced by the Disney film is no great shakes Fun and excitement are the name of the game when state-of-the-art cartoons, studios, Vincent is an technically, it's certainly you bowl at ORCHID BOWL! Automatic Scoring has spurred -a renewed effective reminder of the cute, and its roots in keeps score for you and shows it in color on a 25" interest in animation. creative factors that made seventies culture are so screen. Watch live TV while you bowl, too! It’s a And, the technological Disney such a force in the strong that you can’t help Ball! Minutes from UCSB! advances of Roger Rabbit world of animation. It’s but get a warm feeling Spike & Mke, Y-97 and Stale A A announce OPEN 24 HOURS certainly point the the story of a young, from it. Also, you may The B E S T of the medium in exciting new sweet boy named Vincent never be able to shake FESTIVAL Of ANIMATION ORCHID BOWL Hwy 101 at Fairview July 15-21 (Fri-Thurs) directions. However, the who secretly emulates the the idea that John Denver Victoria St. Theater 592S Calle Real Goleta • 967-0128 success of the film is also Vincent Price of Roger actually is a melon. 9:10 Nightly • 33 W. Vietata S i • 965-1886 a sad reminder of the lack Corman films. Ap­ by Michael Singer of appreciation that faces propriately, the film is what is potentially the accompanied by the verse Not all the films are this "...a SUPERB film...in every most creative of cinem atic narration of no less then entertaining, nor are they way EXCEPTIONAL.." fie ld s. Vincent Price himself. If necessarily the greatest -Kevin Thomas. LOS ANGELES TIMES In America, the you ever had to deal with animated shorts common perception is a truly perverse child, available. However, it’s that all animation of note Vincent will no doubt be a certainly a good starter was the product of Walt heartwarming ex­ kit for cinemaphiles IFCHEN Disney and his crack perience. Also, it’s curious about animation. team of artists. This view another product of Tim In addition to the films □TO. suggests that all Burton, whose penchant noted above, the Best Sept. 15-21 • 7:15 nightly • Sun. Mat.at 5:15 animation is best suited for turning everyday includes the ever-popular VICTORIA ST. THEATER • 965-1886 for family-oriented fables. objects into comic in­ Snookles, Betty Boop’s Outside of the Disney struments of torture has towering portrayal of Snow studios, animation has earned him notoriety in White, and Lenny Bruce’s METROPOLITAN SANTA BARBARA been used for more the hits Pee-Wee’s Big (yes, that Lenny Bruce) THEATRES CORP TWIN DRIVE-IN disparate purposes by Adventure and Beetlejuice. homophobic and Great Outdoors (PG) Movie Hotline 963-9503 8:30; Fri & Sat also 11:46 artists such as Ralph Beautifully lit and tightly technically inept Thank You n r r e C ro c o d ile Bakshi, Jiri Trnka, and edited, Vincent is one of Masked Man, among many ARLINGTON GRANADA Dundee II (PG) Bruno Bozetto. the program’s highlights. others. The show will run 1216 State S t., S .B . 963-1671 1317 State S I.S .B . 9659362 If Roger Rabbit has made If you helped the recent at 9:10 p.m. every night, Big Business (PG) C o m in g to It T a k e s T w o (PG13) Wed-Fri ft Sun-Tue Am erica (R) 8:40; Fri ft Sat also 11;» you curious about other California Raisins album from July 15-21, at the 12:46,3,6:16,7:36,9:50 developments in attain its platinum status, Victoria Street Theater. Sat 1,3:16,6:30,10:16 L ic e n s e to Preview Sat at 8 pm Wed-Set 12:30,2:40,6,7:40.10:10 "Midnight Run" 1 D rive (PG13) animation, or if you were you will certainly be There is an additional Sun-TueFIESTA 11:46.2.4:30.7:16,9:30 FOUR just interested to begin intrigued by a film from matinee on Sunday at W h o Fram ed 916 State S t. S.B. 9650781 with, you would do well to John Wokluk called Melon 2:30 p.m. Tickets are Roger Rabbit (PG) Dead Pool (R) 12,2:20,4:86,7:10,9:30 2,4,6,8:15,10:16 6050 Hollister Ave., Goleta 967-9447 see the Best of the Festival of Madness. The title fruits available at various local No passes or group salas Animation, showing this are granted faces so that agencies, including Isla L ic e n s e to Dead Pool (R) Short Circuit II (PG) 3:30,6:46,8.10 Vista's Morninglory D riv e (PG13) W*d-Fri & Sun-Tue week at the Victoria they might perform in­ 1:15.3:30.5:46.8.10:16 Sat fir Sun also 1:30 Records. 1:16.3:M. 6:46.8,10:16 No passas or group sales Street Theater. The Best is spired lip-synchs of RIVIERA Sat 1:16.3 :» . 5:46.10:16 a collection of short films Sat Preview 8 pm 2044 Alameda Padre Serra "A Fish Called Wanda" culled from the annual S.B. 9656188 B a m b i (G) 3,5:16,7:46,10 Original Festival of |, 2:30,4.5:30,7 Sat & Sun also 1 The Moderns No passas or group salas Animation. Not all the Join Us For Some 7,9:30 Red Heat (R) Sat & Sun also 2:06,4:30 FAIRVIEW shorts are excellent, but ! Separata admission required 251 N. Fairview, Goleta 967-0744 the representation is PLAZA DE ORO B ig (PG) C o m in g to fairly democratic, 349 Hitchcock Way. S.B. 682-4936 Wad 1.3:16,6:16,10 Thur-Tue Am erica (R) Arthur II, on 1,3:16,5:30,7:46,10 exhibiting everything 1,3:15.6:30,8,10:16 Wad Preview 7:30 pm from American student the Rocks (PG) "Die Hard" 3:20.5:». 8.10:10 Phantasm II (R) films to abstract Eastern Sat ft Sun also 1:15 GOLETA Wed-Thur 1,3,6,7:30.9:46 No passas or group salas Fri-Tue9:30 Bloc productions. 320 S. Kellogg Ave., Goleta 6852265 Bull Durham (R) B a m b i (G) Notable among the B ig (PG) Frl-Tue11,1,3,6.7 3:10,6:20,7:40.9:60 No passes or group salas shorts is the Academy Sat ft Sun also 1 6:16,7:30,9:30 Sat ft Sun also 1:16,3:16 Separata admission required Award winner, Tango, by & Help Us Celebrate No passas or group sales the noted Polish director All program« showtime* and t est rut ions subject to change without notice Zbigniew Rybczynski. 9 Rybczynski is perhaps PREVIEWS OPENING FRIDAY SWAP MEETII 907 S. Kellogg. Goleta best known in this TONIGHT FAIRVIEW 964-9060 country for the Art of At the Fiesta Bambi ‘Die Hard" — 8 pm 11,1.3,5,7 Wednesday Evenings Noise video “Close to the 4:30-10 pm Edit,” where a small girl SATURDAY EVERYSUNDAY 5th Anniversary At the Granada 7 am to 4 Dm leads a cadre of men in "Midnight Run" — 8 pm the destruction of various At the Fiesta musical instruments. "A Fish Called Wanda" — 8 pm The Show Remains The Same Tango is set in what looks PARTY!!! at all the other theaters like a dollhouse room. Beginning with a boy who • Monday, July IB, 1988 SPIKES PLACE repeatedly retrieves a • Celebrating ALL DAY LONG! 6030 Hollister Ave Problems with alcohol and/or drug abuse? We can help ball, various anonymous • Specials on food & drinks 964-5211 people enter the room • Commemorative T-shirts on sale July 7 The Drop-In-Center 962-6195 music fi e j a s P a g

THE RAMONES...PUNKERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY You can believe anything you want yeah, forgot the post -Road to Ruin cinema on the topic of how punk rock started, classic “Rock ’n’ Roll High School," but any discussion of this all-important with a tremendous acting job by the matter must have the words “The Ramones as well as lesser per­ Ram ones” breathed well before formances by Vince Van Patton and moving on to the 76-77 Limey ex­ P.J. Soles), and how, like a phoenix plosion in England. The first Ramones rising from the ashes of armegeddon, L P , The Ramones, released in 1976, was they slapped back in 1984 with the and still is a benchmark that those who gargantuan Too Tough to Die and Animal know rate as one of rock’s best ever Boy in 1986. and as a definitive starting point for the But hey, we’re not gonna dwell on louder-harder-faster movement that that,.'cause the present is now and the has somewhat continued to this very day. The next three LPs, Leave Home, by Jay Hinman Rocket to Russia, and Road to Ruin, w ere Ramones are still a part of it. Their LP likewise a breath of fresh air in a from last ye ar, Halfway to Sanity, caused a seventies dominated by keyboard rock few sneers to form on the faces of some operas like the Captain &Tennille, and diehard Ramones-ites, but if anybody K.C. and the Sunshine Band. The ethic told you it was time for the Ramones to of the time was who cares if four ugly hang it up, bring them to the Graduate, guys from the bowels of New York can’t Sunday, July 17, and watch those play beyond three hyperfast chords — sneers turn to faces awash with glee. what a three chords they were. Even Really, there’s nothing quite like having your average “Countdown at the Grad” anywhere from 30 to 50 songs bashed attendee knows at least who the out in a quarter hour set, each Ramones are — such was their impact separated by bassist Dee Dee’s on the stale music scene of the time. patented “ 1-2-3-4!" and nothing else. It’s hard to imagine any band And how can you beat lyrics like: associated with the word “punk" not (c’mon, sing ’em) “Beat on the brat, having the Ramones somewhere near beat on the brat, beat on the brat with a the very top of their influence tree. In baseball bat, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh ho" 1976, a young Johnny Rotten and Sid or “Fun fun, rock and roll high school, Vicious saw the Ramones play their fun fun, rock and roll high school?" first tour of England — subsequently, You're gonna have to take your music from the British Isles turned midterm thinking caps off for this one, One of the only bands who could put wrath as you burn in hell if you decide loud, hard and snotty — ha! Kind of like and in the meantime get your ears up a decent fight (and perhaps win, to be “fashionably late." Don’t cheat the Ramones! Go figure. melted by Johnny Ramone’s wall-of- says I) is the opener for the fiesta (at 2 yourself. Oh yeah, The Adolescents are So, we could go into a detailed pu re-distortion guitar. The Ramones p.m., in the afternoon, got it?), The playing between the Lazy Cowgirls and history of how, after those first four (called “Da Ramones” in newspaper Lazy Cowgirls. This amazing all-male the Ramones, but I guess we all have to initial molten slabs of vinyl the ads for the show for some inane foursome from L.A. are hands-down use the bathroom sometime, don’t we? Ramones started to “peter out" with reason) are old enough to have the most exciting band going right now, The Ramones with the Adolescents and the their next three releases, how they fathered some of the attendees of this playing sloppy and L-O-U-D punk rock Lazy Cowgirls, Sunday, July 17, 2 p.m., the started writing songs designed for house of learning, but put ’em on a as it was meant to be played. Can’t Graduate, 935 Embarcadero Del Norte, Isla heavy FM rotation, how mean folks stage and they’ll destroy virtually all think of a better opening band for the Vista. Tickets: $17.50 at Rockpile, Morninglory, started calling for their retirement (oh com ers who try to play in th eir style. Ramones and you’ll earn my eternal or the door.

Bakker, Jerry Falwell, as well as on the power of she stood up to all the unimpressed assholes who had HAMSTER NIGHTMARE Reagan and Gorbachev. “Hide the Hamster" is a chosen to protest the music by spitting loogies at her. disgusting story about what a kid "Billy” does to his One large glob hung suspended from her mirrored The Dayglo Abortions, hailing from Canada, are pet hamsters (“cover them with neet and wash them sunglasses until she took them off. Rather than dodge well-known for their poor taste. Here Today Guano down so they are nice and clean") and their “habitrail the flying mucus, she justcooly ignored it until she had Tomorrow is a followup to their Feed U.S.A. Fetus L P , maze.” I almost forgot to mention the latest Dayglo the opportunity to tell the spitters to "fuck off” bet­ which sported a drawing of Nancy and Ronald Reagan recipe — bet you wouldn’t have guessed — it’s ween songs. in front of a plate of a bloody fetus on the cover, and a “Hamster in Cream Sauce Flambe" this time. Are the Social Distortion arrived around 11 p.m., after lyric insert complete with a recipe for “Dayglo Abortion Dayglo Abortions trying to prove something? Is being opening for Iggy Pop at the Whiskey, and were chili” — all the usual chili-type ingredients with the th is gross stupid or funny? You’ll have to decide. warmed up and ready to put on a good show. Un­ addition of “ 1 beer" and “ 1 ripe human fetus.” It’s not fortunately, this didn’t last long, due to a crowd of even a suprise that on the back cover of that album it ignorant, apathetic kids that were in the mood to act says "Dedicated to Tipper Gore (play it loud, tough and start fights. Scattered arguments had been Douchebag).” (Gore is the spokeswoman for the erupting all night, but the peak came during Social Parents’ Music Resource Center, a group of Distortion's set when at least three major fights broke congressmen's wives concerned about the evil im­ out. The bouncers were quick to headlock and drag plications and influences of rock ’n’ roll music and its out the various individuals they felt were responsible. lyrics. Remember the Jello Biafra trial?) Now, with But, the scene proved to be too much for the Theatre their new LP, the Dayglo’s prove they have not lost staff, who proclaimed to a friend of mine outside, their sense of humor. The front cover shows a hamster ‘There's a riot going on in there!” Obviously unused to nibbling from an open heart-shaped box of assorted these punk-rock vibes, one of the Theatre’s owner/- nuts and grains — all against a pink, frilly, lacy manager’s mentioned to me later that there would be background. A gun, pointed at the hamster's head, is SO CIAL D. no more concerts like this in the future. Too bad that a coming from the corner. Flip this cover over and SO CIAL D. small group of spoiled kids had to ruin what could you’ve got the “after" scene. Bits of blood, hamster have been a fun time. flesh and fur are splattered all over the pink lace and SOCIAL DESTRUCTION In the shorMime they played, Social D covered old what’s left of the nut box. If this isn't bad enough, a material like "Lude Boy" and “1945," cuts off both glance underneath lists the album's songs — the first When I arrived at the Ventura Theatre last Friday for their LPs, a couple of Johnny Cash covers and even two being “Fuck My Shit Stinks” and "Fuck Satan to the Social Distortion concert, some skinheads (white had a rippin’ harmonica player. For a short set, they Death.” These guys are obviously a twisted bunch. supremacist right-wingers with shaved heads) were really held their own and it's too bad they got cut off Photos depicting each in action and labeled with their clomping around out front, nostrils flaring, bitching early, because I, and I’m sure many others, would names — Spud, Jesus Bonehead, Cretin, Nev (The about the "no skins” policy. This was surprising, have liked to have heard more. Impaler) and Mike Anus — hints even more to the especially since I noticed there were quite a few — Beth Allen types of personalities this band contains. scattered inside once I had gotten in and looked The Dayglo's musical style is still fast, fast, fast and a around. Irony opened up the show with a typical punk- classic example of what “crossover” (punk + metal— rock, sometimes slowed-down style and a crowd of ■BEHBzasBEBaaiiaa speedmetal) is. The new addition of a third guitarist local followers was headbanging and forming a small has also added an overdose of guitar solos. "Fuck thrash pit (for slamdancing) in front of the stage. MMENTARY Satan to Death” reminded me of Metallica's metal style L .A .'s Legal Weapon came on next to change the slam into me baby, your beautiful swan dive, it's so and “Drugged and Driving” sounds similar to Suicidal pace. Trying to get past the bands visual attributes — much fun to run and dive onto your head, do it with Tendencies or some other Venice thrash band. A few their lead guitarist’s “Chicks in Chains" T-shirt did me. to them, so they can do it to me. move back farther of the songs get carried away with being centered nothing for me, not to mention the female vocalist's baby so i can jump higher on you. here, here's my around, or mentioning, “Satan," “Lucifer," “the heavy makeup and waist-long hair extensions. Aside shoulder in case two of yours aren’t enough, three BEAST," among similar evils. Title cut, "Here Today from this, Legal Weapon had a bouncy rock-n-roll slammed ones are better than none, oh i like to get Guano Tomorrow" is the Dayglo’s attempt at being sound and the singer’s voice reminded me of Maria bruised, and i like to bruise you more, rage on me. we political and rips on evangelists Jim and Tammy M cKee of Lone Justice. This woman also had guts, as are so tough. nm