With the Beastie Boys
The Arts and Entertainment Supplement to the Daily Nexus, for May 4th through May 10th, 1995 UNDERNEATH 2 A Thursday, May 4,1995 Daily Nexus
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Spend Granada Thea Mother's Day with the Beastie Boys MAY 14,3:00 pm at the Ballet I still can’t believe that the end of The Roots’ set sight of a pit at one of his songs with energy that LIVE ORCHESTRA the Beastie Boys played Just in front of us, the shows that I attended, he most musicians would GUEST ARTISTS the Santa Barbara County small, “preferred seating” said, “What is that? The consider more than exces Bowl. What a blessing to section had begun to fill hot new MTV dance sive. At one point, near the * Patron's Reception have hip-hop pioneers with high school-age craze?” Boy, did I feel end of the show, a young $21 Adults 1 Siam: and the revivers of old punks with chain wallets dumb. woman took off all her $16 Sr Citizens j school in our county. The and pants with size 45 As we waited for the big clothes and got on stage. $11 Students J in show was awe-inspiring; I waists. A couple of mi act to come on, I could not Rumor has it that this was Granada Box Office: 966-2324 had a great time despite thè reason Mike D. left the Call 687-6086 for group discount»C^|», nutes later, my friend Pete, stand the anticipation. getting my ass kicked sev who had said, “If someone The lights went out and stage, but I think it was just ‘West Coast (BaCCet eral times during the even offers me $70 each for my eveiyone rushed to the because he had to pee. 1)16 Supported by Ellen Scfaipper Classical Ballet Studio ing. The merciless beatings normally spry and enthu West Coast SympHony were ironic because the siastic MCA seemed dis Beastie Boys are staunch Christopher Story VI • Conductor tracted during the perfor advocates of friendly mance. Maybe the Santa crowd etiquette. They Barbara crowd didn’t even published friendly quite do it for him. I ex crowd suggestions with pected a little more punch diagrams in their free tour from MCA, the man who IMPORTANT NOTICE !! magazine. But all that mat hosted MTV’s 120 Mi tered last Friday was see nutes disguised as the fic ing MCs Michael Dia titious Australian intellec mond, Adam Horovitz tual Sir Stuart Wallace. and Adam Yauch. The tickets, I’ll sell ’em fast,” front of the lawn section, Ad-Rock was as crazy as Beastie Boys are more showed up. No one had smashing me and Morgan usual with his whiny, 900 Embarcadero than a band to me — offered. against the fence. When I D el M a r nasal scream. He seemed they’re the only really suc We all stood and pushed back using the to enjoy giving those who Isla V ista cessful guys I know of who watched the incredible fence, a small, son fist jumped up on stage a light manage to be total smar John Spencer Blues Ex nailed me in the spine and kick in the butt The fun tasses and get away with it. plosion set. Spencer a small, boot-clad foot niest part of the evening We almost got left be looked really drunk as he struck me four or five was when a junior high- THE TELEPHONE NUMBER FOR JUST hind by the geniuses of moaned and strutted. The times in the calf. I turned aged girl got on stage and Bill’s Party Bus, because combination of his and Ju around to see who it was, ANOTHER @#%*1 VIDEO SHOP gingerly jumped off, as if to the number of people in dah Bauer’s exploding gui but all I saw was a sea of say, “Everyone please WAS PRINTED INCORRECTLY IN THE our party didn’t match the tars was so exciting that I people. Oh, well. Beating catch me. I’m worried.” To UCSB CAMPUS TELEPHONE number on our reserva didn’t notice the gang of number two. this Mike D. replied, tion. After what seemed ' angiy muscle boys smash The show went on and I “Take that shit to Beverly DIRECTORY. THE CORRECT like an hour of riding that ing into each other just be couldn’t have cared less Hills 90210.” NUMBER IS: bus with drunken guys in hind me. Bamm! An elbow about the pain in my head, After the show my Mossimo T-shirts whis right in the back of the spine and leg. They friend Jason said, “I can’t 968-7227 tling the beginning of the head, he didn’t even know opened with “Stand even describe how great Beasties’ “Flute Loop,” we he hit me. Beating number Together” and ended with that was!” Exhausted and PLEASE MARK THIS CHANGE arrived at the Bowl. My one. It was the words of “Sabotage,” and in be pummeled, I couldn’t help ON PAGE 66 OF THE YELLOW PAGES. girlfriend Morgan and I Fugazi’s Ian Mackaye that tween was a thoroughly but agree. rushed to the front of the ended my “slamming” enjoyable experience. XT ■ n n iiiiiiiiii lawn section and caught days in grade 10. At the They played nearly 30 —Noah Blumberg
And Today's Best New Rock n1 Roll Daily Nexus Thursday, May 4,1995 3A Cory Sipper Makes Associated Students Program Board H e r M a r k Cory Sipper Szuimology Drumdrum Records With an impressive re EXTRAVAGANZA cord of musical experi ence, Coiy Sipper’s debut re le a s e Swimology breathes genuine acoustic rock. Out now on local May 13 - Harder Stadium label Drumdrum Records, the 10-song LP is essential for those who appreciate candlelight-crispy music and poetry that rummages in the comers of your right brain. sublime Having written songs since she was 12, Sipper has persistently dedicated her career to creating music. At age 18, she at tended the Berklee School COOLIO of Music. In addition to playing gigs in the Santa Barbara area, Sipper wrote and co-produced two cas settes: Life Affirming and Bloom. Now after the release of Swimology, Sipper is fi nally receiving the local at THE UNTOUCHABLES tention sher deserves. Us- ing unorthodox struc said. “There’s no real notice her insistent pre FREE ADMISSION Doors Open at 11:00 am ture?,-’ Sipper’s music is chorus, just a voice. It sence. Having played live varied and not typical of could be anything from gigs since she was 18, Sip anything I have ever meditation to drug use. I per has done exceptionally J a n d d ) heard. Some combina think people may take a well capturing audiences. tions of vocals and guitars while to get it. It’s not a In addition to opening for MOUNTAINEERING make me uneasy. How simple pop song. The peo Frente!, she has also WARNER BROS. ever, the album as a whole ple who are going to like opened for Geggy Tah and is an eye-opener for any this have to spend some Toad the Wet Sprocket one who’s been ignoring time with it.” Since the release of Swi RevoSUNGLASSES the local music scene. The record holds itself mology, Cory Sipper has UKP I Z Z A . Songs like “Crazy” and very well. Much of it is forced more ears to be “Fire Song” arrive as sin stripped of flowery chords open, and thus will be cere,. spirit-touching food or textured overproduc headlining more live gigs. for'jymjf rii tion*' § ip p ej j^elixrers, So the next .time you have oneofSipprar s fevonjes, g. ^ simjjye tunes, mlowing'ter' doubts' .abQuf' ".chugging a sweet folk-trine that gives voice tpmakeand take the beer ar a worn-out shack thei4^4 fffrA U&npse ’pt: song. in I.V., consider a Cory how she can stretch her When I saw her opening Sipper show. boundaries. for Frente! at the Ventura “It’s got weird chords Theatre last year, it didn’t —Radha Patel May 16 -A Jill G oes 8 pm W Up the Hill Jill^Sebuie in clothes and guitars / wood / We all thought she Corwin Jill Sobule And very young girls.” She could make it” until she Atlantic continues this back- finds her “in bad lingerie handed flattery with on a Cadillac fender.” If you’ve seen MTV in “Well, your smile is as Against these lyrics is an Pavilion the last couple of weeks, wide as Montana / And upbeat tone. you might have noticed a your eyes as deep as the Sobule also uses intro $4/$5 Students quirky little gem about Caspian Sea / Well, I guess spection in songs like “The kissing a girl, nestled in be these don’t count as the Jig Is Up,” about “holding tween the countless Green things from inside.” on to childhood’s dream” $7/$8 General Day, Offspring and Spike Mixed into her irony is as it slowly fades away. Jonze videos. This little ex her ability to tell stories ab She echoes the fears of periment — into lesbian out people. One of the best everyone as they proceed Tickets on sale TODAY ism? — is sung by Jill So is “Karen by Night,” about into adulthood. “Hou- bule. While thrs self-titled her boss at a shoe store. By dini’s Box” describes at the AS Ticket Office! album is not her first (she day she “dresses in style, those times when you just had one on RCA), it seems pretty conservative,” but want to disappear from the like her breakthrough. Lis at night, “The leather troubled world. She does The Quick tening and relistening to it this by playing an escape F brings on the strength of artist with “a secret pas the album. It has no fillers "Listening and sage out of here / But I — every song is great. don’t want to reappear.” Her music brings back relistening to it It’s a familiar feeling. and the Dead memories of other Rounding out her al Starring Sharon Stone acoustic-based singers: brings on the bum is a set of songs that the storytelling of Suzanne can only be described as May 9 8 and 10 pm Vega, the composition of strength of the folk noir. These songs M Joni Mitchell and the bring to mind memories of IV Theater quirkiness of Victoria Wil album. Every song classic movies. The “Resis liams (but not as annoy tance Song” recalls the ro $3 students/ $5 general at the door ing). This combination is great-there are no mantic films about the could result in some bad French Resistance, “Ur- RIDAT IN THE HUR clichés and even worse fillers." bana Bridge” sings about music, but Sobule avoids eternal want and desire, this and creates something comes out under the and the Hawaiian feel of that is original and moonlight / Takes off her “Now That I Don’t Have wonderful. Chanel and hops on her You” accents the joy of “Good Person Inside” bike.” She shows that the leaving a bad relationship. OINOO DE MAYO highlights one of the major quiet people are always the Basically, this is one elements of her music: ir craziest. great album. Go to the featuring Hybrid Soul, The fuzz and Soil ony (it feels like she’s tell This fun also brings on a nearest record store and $3 cover charge after 8 pm ing stories with a guitar by sense of sadness in "Mar buy it immediately, or a campfire). She sings ab garet.” Margaret is that po copy it from a friend who Beer and Wine Available out someone (probably a pular, beautiful, glamor has it If you’re not a fan of Sponsored by AS Program Board. ChlUtos, and UCen Administratior boyfriend), “You seem ous girl from back in high folkish pop, you will be af very nice to your sister / school, a “lucky girl” that ter Jill Sobule. You have very good taste “moved to West Holly —Michael Lin /
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been proven whether the who Martin Scorsese is, An intervew with director by audience at large is getting they know who Woody Al a little more interested in len is, but other than that, I independent films. can’t think the public re What about ally knows or cares who Steven Soderbergh Chinatown? makes these things, which I think that is an excep is why I never have taken he compelling, and produce it. Universal everybody I thought put not a very sympathetic tion —• all of us would like possessory credit, or in the twist-filled new had sent me a copy of the out die vibe that I thought character, but he is inter to make a movie that well. ad. The public doesn’t re T thriller The Under original film, and I looked the character should be esting. It’s a very fine line It is so good because that ally care. neath is the new film di at it and thought it was OK putting out. he needs to walk. It’s a movie works on so many Part of the suspense in rected by Steven Soder — not a great movie, but You cast Peter Gal very unmannered perfor levels. And most people, The Underneath centers bergh. The plot revolves with good ideas, and I saw lagher. Is it because you mance, a really secure myself included, trying to around David Chambers, around ex-gambler Mi it as a great framework to have worked with him performance. make noir pictures were the jealousy-driven po chael Chambers, played by delve into some issues that lice officer brother of Mi Peter Gallagher. He re I am interested in. I chael, the main charac turns to his home town of wanted to make sure it ter. He seemed to come in Austin, Texas, after a didn’t get ruined. I wanted and out of the movie to three-year absence, only to to direct it, and about half cause intense hatred and find his girlfriend in the way through I really then would disappear, hands of club owner and started getting interested and there was no trace of mobster Tommy Dundee. in it. him. Does he have a The setup of the story You seem to have point? may seem like another made mostly dark, in No [laughter]. He’s a “guy wants to win girl from ward films. Any plans for little bit of a red herring. I other guy and end up a anything lighter? think a lot of people great hero” movie. But The four films I’ve made thought he would return. Soderbergh does not allow seem a little too sedate. 1 During our screening, for such banality. He crea want to make something a under curiosity we asked, tively unwinds the plot as a little more energetic. I “What if the brother series of story fragments don’t want to look at showed up?” and the au that spread out into past, drama for a while. This dience was like, “Oh no, present and future events. movie came out much dif we’d hate that!” — the The audience must con ferent than I thought. I only time they reacted to stantly be thinking and love this genre, I love film anything. piecing parts together in noir. I guess I just want to How much control did order to unite the time per find a different way to ex you have over the film? iods into one continuous plore these issues, a little Everything! They know narrative. less morose. that when I see the script Soderbergh, well What do you think of before and you know you Did you see a lot of film not as ambitious as Robert they agree with me. They known in the world of in violence in films? won’t have to go through noir to leam from? Towne was, which is why have much bigger projects dependent filmmaking for There are only two that process of getting to Since I didn’t really it sets us outside that genre — they won’t come down his hit sex, lies and video shootings, that’s not very know him? want to re-create the look, a little bit. on a $6 Vi million movie tape, brings a whole new violent Violence does not 1 wrote it with him in I had seen a lot. I read What do you think of when they are making dimension to suspense. really interest me much — mind. He just has a feel for more stuff than I watched. how you have been recog Waterworld. We could Artsweek recently spoke it is kind of a necessary the kind of rhythm that I It was a mindset I was nized for what you have not even get people on the with Soderbergh at a press part of this film. I try to write, and certainly a lot of looking for, more than just done? phone at Universal when conference. His com keep it to a minimum and it is because we have individual looks. I don’t think that any we had questions for them. ments, an edited transcript not glorify it. worked together. But the What do you think of one really knows who I W hy call it The of which follows, gave in Do you give the actors character was designed in the direction of indepen am. I think there is only Underneath? sight into The Underneath a lot of freedom with their my mind to be somebody dent films these days? one director that the The most interesting as and into the world of the roles? that was the good-looking It amazes me if any of public really knows, and pects of the movie are not director. I tiy to cast the person guy that has gotten away these are interesting to he has the same initials as the superficial, not the who I think is perfect for it, with a lot. I knew Peter anybody but filmmakers me [everyone laughs]. But plot, it’s the subtext I was What inspired you to and then let them go. What could play the part the and journalists because other than the people who thinking that that would direct this film? I do mostly is very minor right way because it is a none of them have really know who Oliver Stone is, clue people in to look else I was just going to write course direction. I cast very difficult part. He is broken through. It has not who have a vague sense of where than the surface.
independent films and Why did you say that? Melissa Altman interviews actor now you are making more Guys and Dolls was a studio films. Do you have great experience doing the a preference or is there a show day to day, singing real difference in the those songs and playing making of the movie? Sky and rolling the dice. It eter Gallagher is of his actors again. It sounds like life to me, there are people. I love doing them both. was something I had al quitq a versatile ac How did you get the it sounds like people who Do you get the girl, The experience isn’t really ways wanted to do! There P tor on the indepen part in sex, lies and have thoughts. People Sandra Bullock, in your that different The differ was a style of management dent market He worked videotape? who are alive in the world new film While You Were ence is instead of sharing that I had not quite ever extensively with film I heard the title. It’s too that I occupy, too. People Sleeping? one bathroom with 40 encountered on Broadway maker Robert Altman in bad the title is great be who are not obliged to do It has been decided people, you have your own before, but it did not di The Player and Short cause that means the script things that people somewhere, and I am go bathroom, [laughs] In minish at all the experi Cuts, and starred in Steven will be terrible. So then I wouldn’t do or behave as ing to find out where, that I terms of the actual experi ence of doing it. Soderbergh’s critically ac read it, and I couldn’t be one wouldn’t. The notion am going to be denied the ence, it is surprisingly si How was it working claimed sex, lies and lieve how truthful and sur that there is dignity and girl for at least the next five milar. Working with John with Robert Altman? videotape. prising it was. And I woke power in many human years, and I don't under What drew you to the up at 4:30 in the morning moments. There is some stand it! part of Michael Cham and went into the bath thing to be learned and il Are you filming any bers in The Underneath? room and read the whole luminated. There is some thing right now? I would have been in script again. thing to get out there, that I am currently working sane not to do it! Steve just It was one of those truly if you are successful at it on Last Dance with Sha asked me. I would say yes amazing moments. I could and behave well in the cir ron Stone. It’s a death pen to whatever he throws have kissed him, but I cumstances like a person alty story— Sharon Stone down the line. I was didn’t. would, then chances are is on death row and it is a touched — it was a lead What is it about Ste the audience members will terrific story. Jack Thomp role — and he had the ven’s dialogue that you have as many different re son plays tiie governor. I courage to work with one like? sponses to that moment as play his chief of staff and my brother’s a screw-off, Rob [Morrow]. And I get him a job in the clemency department, run by Randy Quaid, and he assigns Rob this Sharon Stone case. The film doesn’t take a side either way. ... What Turtletaub in While You I love Robert Altman. I you do see is you get to Were Sleeping, that was thank him from the bot know someone who is my first studio film, I tom of my heart for intro eventually put to death. think. There is a willing ducing me to what can be The wardens say, regard ness to conspire, to tell the truly rich and exhilarating less of what you think ab story the best you can, on about acting in the movies. out the death penalty, you independent films. The I just remember thinking, can’t imagine what it is difference is there is less “Oh my god, it really can tike day to day... getting to instruction or filtration be what I imagined it to know these people. process that occurs. If you be.” Instead of feeling tike How is Sharon Stone only have so much money you are locked in an in the new film? and so much time, and no aquarium under water, She was spooky, man. one has much expectation you actually have freedom. She was really wild. She anyway, you are free to I had a great time in The goes through a real trans employ your best instincts. Idolmaker. formation. [Her character] It is the individuals that After playing Sky and has been up doing crack determine the experience, now this character, who for three days — that was not the genre, not the stu are both gamblers, have never entered as evidence dio, not the distributor. you taken up gambling? in the trial. She looks wild You had mentioned I am terrible at gam during those scenes. that Guys and Dolls bling. I really don’t get it. I You have done many wasn’t a good experience. tike golfing. Daily Nexus Thursday, May 4,1995 5A REALLY B lu Cockney Love MUSIC Me and My Girl, the Sally, his girlfriend, Eliza self-sacrificing Sally, but be too much and seems Moby newest production of the Doolittles herself and ap appears much too indiffe slightly forced and over Everything Is Wrong Santa Barbara Civic Light pears prim and proper at rent to earn her much done. The show begins to Elektra Opera, is something of a the Hareford mansion. success. feel like a musical built ar paradox. In a day and age Bill is the comic role to Bill Mullikin pleases ound this routine. Like a Dearest Alexxis, of big, bold, high-tech die for, a comic Hamlet. when playing a drunk Sir stand-up comic on a late- Yo, what it is, long time no speak, sorry I been gone! musicals, somehow this He is constandy poking, John, and Kathi Gillmore night talk show, Kennelly Will you still accept me? simple yet entertaining tripping or groping some teases as a sexy and skimpy seems determined to inter I’ve been busy, busier than ever before with this hope British musical made it one with a Chaplinesque, Lady Jaqueline. Coke ject his “shtick” into the ful publishing thing, although Timm and Kharen across the Atlantic to wow slapstick style. Morgan and Margaret play whether, dramati wouldn't say the same. They only see me on the Broadway audiences. Played with unending Nesbitt round out a cast cally, it is needed or not. weekends now, and I give them my all. Joe is, well, Joe. When die words British energy and comic verve by that complements Ken What this show does need You know — he’s once again trying to see how long he import are uttered, images B.K. Kennelly, Bill scram nedy’s performance well. is more emphasis put on can follow his scheme of eating one more Belgian waffle of Andrew Lloyd Webber bles around posh ’30s En The role of Bill is liter- spreading some of the hu each morning than the previous. or Les Miserables come to gland, terrorizing the up aUy a performance rather mor around, which be But when I haven’t been busy, I’ve made periodic trips mind, not Me and My comes quite flat when to our premier local retail music establishment, and on Girl. Yet this little show, a Kennelly is offstage. one of those I bought a CD, luckily while it was still on revamping of a 1937 musi Scenically, Me and My sale — Moby. cal, has somehow set Girl benefits from an ex I call it the Moby album (although it’s really his sec American audiences afire. traordinarily low-tech set ond), ’cause I love to say “Mmmmmm-moby,” and Even without rotating bar Even when on Broadway, “mobymobymoby!” Try it! But it’s officially titled Every ricades, helicopters on Me and My Girl retained thing Is Wrong. stage or Glenn Close belt an old-fashioned set, com- There’s this theme throughout the album’s inters ing out ballads, Me and plete with wings and persed lyrics, some shouted, some whispered, some My Girl has captured au cutout-looking cars. Jay sampled, some sung by a wafting, Swiss chocolate- diences’ hearts and be Jagim has done a wonder smooth voice named Mimi Goese. It says Moby’s belief is come a huge success. ful job creating the lush that so much is socially, politically, humanly, naturally, It is the show’s simplis greenery of the English intrinsically wrong today that the time to fix all of these tic nature that is its attrac countryside and the or problems is passing us by right now. tion. Me and My Girl nate beauty of the upper- Around the theme is music, mostly electronically harkens back to a day of class dwellings. generated, much easily danceable, some melodic, some feel-good theater, where industrial, great keyboard glissandos — we’re talking the boy always gets the girl layers here. and the bad guy always Aside from some comic loses. In these respects, overzealousness, Me and Me and My Girl is almost My Girl is a rousing and a cliché. per classes. Kennelly’s than a role, as the entire fun show. The show’s The stoiy follows young performance is one of show revolves around simple nature really leaves Bill Snibson, a Cockney SBCLO’s finest perfor him, even beyond the plot it open to the kind of gent from Lambeth, as he mances to date, and he is Entire scenes are put on comic inventiveness that discovers he is heir to the ably backed up by a score hold or drawn out as Bill Bill shows. Strewn from Earl of Hareford. Forced of fine performers. prances around the stage, end to end with jokes and to choose between his in Gene Sager turns in a engaging everything from slapstick humor, Me and heritance or his working- side-splittingly funny turn a tigerskin rug to his an My Girl and B.K. Kennelly class girlfriend, Bill takes as Herbert Parches ter, the cestral busts in his own will tickle your funny bone inaction to new limits. It is family's light-in-the- private comedy routine. with no mercy. It’s a blast. only through a My Fair loafers solicitor. Betty Eventually, Kennelly’s Lady-like ending in which Mann croons well as the hilarious slapstick gets to —Davin McHenry
Moby’s most discernible influences, from Mozart to Nine Inch Nails (also one-person creative forces) to Mi Art, History and Lies nistry to Pat Metheny to George Clinton, and anyone who ever wanted to mix fuzzy, overdubbed guitar or Jeanette Winterson reality while moving clear, placid piano with a groovalicious sound, shine out writes with amazing, para through it. For the three here. But, like on many great albums, he pulls it all noiac detail, like someone artists portrayed, art is the together, adds his own ideas and aspirations, and pro with too much time on her lie and art is the truth, and duces something which pushes further. hands. And yet, her sen they flicker back and forth Any album that starts with a track called “Hymn” (and tences flow freely in a com between the two spheres, continues on to titles like “First Cool Hive” and “God plex focus about her sub knowing that it is the only Moving Over the Face of the Waters”) can’t be that bad. ject, like a butterfly woo way they can live. They What you have here, pal o’ mine-o, is one of those piano ing a flower. She can transgress their name melodies which is then layered with an airy, electronic, capture an image with a sakes in the course of the almost Moog-like counter-melody. The song proceeds dozen different phrases, as book, teaching the reader for three minutes, gaining more background spatial sup if there were a dozen diffe to transgress labels and port, before ending — without the piano. The song is rent approaches to its es preconceptions and to ideal to introduce the album because, compared to its sence and she was too shy pinpoint the identity pleasant beginning, by the end of the song, everything is to limit herself to just one. within. wrong. She has an obvious fond Handel’s story is con “Feeling So Real” first looked to me like a perky dance ness for language, which cerned with the many var she uses to great effect in number in which a prerecorded voice shouts or lilts “I’m ieties of passion, light and feeling so real” during the song, over a funky beat I was her new book, Art and movement, God and sci Lies, in putting words in right, but Moby adds his special touch here, too. In this ence, and the question track, you are introduced to a new voice, a Caribbean- the mouths of her three that ties these disparate characters Handel, Pi sounding guy who delights in echoing, “Yeshyes— Here worlds together: “How we go!” before the faux feminine voice screeches the title. casso and Sappho. shall I live?” He is a sur This book does not Grooves me in the shower. geon who used to be a “All that I need is to be loved!!” “Going down to see claim to be a “novel” in the priest, disillusioned with my girl / Gonna see her right in time / Going down going typical sense. The reader is both and struggling to find forced to time travel along down....” It’s this kind of sentiment that flows on the feeling without becoming Moby album, as in these lines. I must say that when I hear with the characters, more “a brute.” dark, forbidding lyrics like these, when they are set in an attempt to identify Picasso is stid an artist, against pretty melodies, they always lose their bite for than to sympathize with but Winterson reincar me. That’s why I like the Smiths: a great voice and some them. It is difficult to fully nates him as a woman who awesome, simple music — and here, Moby gives you comprehend, being part is discouraged from paint something to dance to as well. criticism, part philosophy ing because it is a man’s and part histoiy of the Numbers eight through 11 are my favorites because field. She is trapped in a nister of the Body. Winterson looks much they are likely to be vintage pieces of quiet industrial world. At times, it is like farther back, into history family which ignores the Their stories rotate music. “First Cool Hive” features over five minutes of a reading 10 years worth of incest within itself and through the book as they and culture, for clues ab postcards sent by a cosmo- caressing voice, humming and oozing out the speakers which strives to make her encounter one another in out why a person is who he with the calmness of familiar afternoon conversation. politan, schizophrenic or she is. as “dead” as they are. Her seemingly chance meet Goese gives “Into the Blue” its character and mettle, ad friend. One needs to be struggle is an attempt to ings and come together on In the end, the dialogue cold-sweating and ready ding lyrics to the flowing runoff of her voice. keep the “life” from being a mystical train, gravitat of the characters on the' Toward the end, Moby hands down “Anthem” and for redemption to survive extinguished without feel ing toward one another in train is almost anticlimac- Winterson’s stew of junkie the album’s title track, both equally satisfying and com ing so much that she stinctively for protection tic. They would not be pletely involving. Analyzing these short works would be pleading and scathing would go mad. from the “art and lies” the there if they had not al useless, for they are meant to be heard. This is music you sermons. Sappho is the firmed, world presents them. ready escaped what they want to fell asleep to. While Art and Lies fails tragic, lesbian poetess. She Winterson is adept at feared, and learned what I’ll leave the beaten-down effects of “When It’s Cold in certain respects, it suc mingles her efforts to keep treating sexuality with they were looking for. The I’d Like to Die” for you to discover, as I’ve written all this ceeds in its attempt to por her sexuality and the truth creativity and reverence, beauty of the book is the because I know you want this album. I still think when I tray the Genius and the of her words alive through though she presents all of journey Winterson leads listen to it, ‘This is Alexxis music.” Simple concept, com Everyman as one and the the ages because they are the forms it can take in the her characters and her plex product Let it play while you pass time doing rou same when viewed from a one and the same. In a human spectrum in turn. readers on in the attempt tine tilings, while brushing your beautiful hair, and see certain perspective. That way, while she is a wor Art and Lies is not about to relinquish oneself to the your mind expanded.... perspective is the one shiper of the Word, Pi discovering one’s true magic of Art without —Your loving JeWeL found in one’s own mind, casso is the mistress of identify just by clearing up artifice. that of displacement from Color, and Handel is a mi any sexual ambiguities. —R ena Tom 6A Thursday, May 4,1995 Daily Nexus best known for his Marky and immature to survive Mark and Guns N’ Roses the roles they are merely music videos. playing. Inhaling helium out of While we are supposed lunch bags and stripping to see lower-middle class down to their Calvins to street kids who just hap dive off a cliff into putrid pen to attend Catholic Dunks and Diaries cify water seems child’s school, they come across play enough. 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Instead, ruffians nant 1978 memoir of being prio (This Boy’s Life), ond the confines of the jacking cars and scoring transition, the movie does always seek adventure. a New York City basket Carroll is a diarist with the parquet floor because the product. have its moments. DiCa- Capturing and celebrating ball star with hoop dreams requisite emotions and the they’re bored, being the Within 20 minutes, the prio and Wahlbeig can act, thnlls to bond through — and a penchant for star of his Catholic school best private-school hoop- GQ-looking crew are ex especially in the begin kicks. They play hooky, trouble. basketball squad, whose sters in the city. (You may pelled from school, pack ning, when we see in them name best friends and pop The stakes of kicks are, ballhandlers — including find this a little dubious ing heat, kicked out of so perfectly the cocky off to one and all. of course, much higher in former Calvin Klein model once you see the brat-pack their homes and con jocks that govern all high actors dribble and dunk firmed heroin addicts. schools. Life pn the streets Paid Advertising by Party Team Offering Alternative Drink Services over Harlem players who This descension into is animated enough, with look like they’ve been paid addiction is the biggest fai outrageous characters bre to play worse.) lure of the film. 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