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The Arts and Entertainment Supplement to the Daily Nexus, for May 11th through May 17th, 1995 MATT MATT RAGLAND/Dailj Nexut 2A Thursday, May 11,1995 ______Daily Nexus aAChune Tunes ates sounds and woids Chuñe Chune? What is a know, Chune is a band out chime? I don’t think I’ll of San Diego that is as low- that throw its listeners for Burnt a loop. Even the simple al H eadhunter ever decipher the meaning pro and obscure as their of this word, but as far as I name implies. Chune cre- bum cover adds to their mystery, seemingly urging U the listener on to find an swers in the music itself The Multicultural Center Presents rather than in the glitz that normally surrounds a new band. Chune’s music does ^ o u ate cot&iallif invited to ail the talking. With guitar-driven angst backed by deep Chune shares the same is created, as all members An Opening Reception drumming, Chune label with several other play in rhythm with one searches out an identity of noteworthy San Diego another, they deconstruct Authentic History Window Open To Mornings its own in the stucco bands: Drive Like Jehu, what they’ve built up. It’s a monotony of Southern Three Mile Pilot and an Art Exhibit by an Art Exhibit byjam ila Arous-Ayoub simple plan which allows Betty Lee California. Their debut al Rocket From the Crypt. for creative interpretations Betty tee is a Chinese American artist whose Jamila Arous-Ayoub is a painter from Tunisia and a bum, Burnt, is a hard-to- And they seem to draw of rock music. work has been exhibited nationally. She is also Professor of Arts at the University of Tunis. come-by gem that rocks heavily upon these bands The track “C-Lord” is a a Lecturer in the School of Fine Arts at the like a psychotic grand for musical inspiration. prime example of this University of California, Irvine. For more inform ation c a ll tbe MCC a t893-8411- mother putting her grand Chune’s talent and style methodic music. Truffa child to sleep—gentle and makes it easy for me to lightly slaps his bass in çPlefireshments will be served rhythmic with the inevit place it in the company of anticipation of the dueling able propensity to snap. this elite San Diego scene. guitars that eventually TODAY, May 11 • 5-7pm • Multicultural Center And they do snap. Nicolosi’s complex drum steal the spotlight. The The vocals and guitar of ming on the track “Pasta guitars are not plucked, Andy Harris pierce with Fagioli” displays the skill but rather massaged and bursts of suppressed anger that will help lead Chune strummed like they have and the confidence of an into stardom. been kidnapped from GRADUATION SPECIALS indestructible voice box. Sonic Youth’s Daydream On the second track of the The sound of Chune is Nation. Pounding drums album, “Mel Brown,” fairly consistent through elicit images of teenage at the UCSB Bookstore Andy screams something out its album. Each mem suburbanites banging on Visit the Photo Electronics Dept at the UCSB Bookstore and fill out an entry about his buddy Mel while ber of the band takes his their parents’ Walls in the supportive bass of turn leading- off a song bored frustration. form for your chance to win a FREE Kodak Mike Trufia, the accom while the other musicians Chune satisfies the de Cameo EX Automatic Camera Retail price »UCSB panying guitar of Lance wait for their cue to enter sire for something a little $59.95. Drawing will take place June 9 at Martineau and the drum the game of follow-the- bit different from mass- BOOKSTORE ming of Rich Nicolosi egg leader. Chune slowly im produced radio rock. 12:00pm at the UCSB Bookstore. him on. 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TALK RADIO You Talkin' To Me? 990 KQSB-AM LEYKIS in the afternoon SANTA BARBARA Daily Nexus Thursday, May 11,1995 3 A 4À Thursday, May 11,1995 ______Dáily Nexus Lida Husik ida Husik first began recording in Bozo was more spooky than Joyride. to collaborate with a few people, and my boyfriend is in New York, so I sort of the mid-’80s on the Shimmy Disc LH: Yeah, Joyride is really more fruity, named me. So I think my Shimmy records split my time. I have one cat in D.C., and Llabel. After three albums and a not spooky. I think I got away from my were more listened to over there because, one cat in New York. nearly yearlong break, she’s come out aesthetic in Red Emma [the last Shimmy you know, maybe it was more exotic AW. By being in D. C., has your music with two new albums, on Caroline and Disc record]. And I really didn’t enjoy lis- there. So we called him, and it was really been politically affected in any way? Astralwerks. What first drew me into her LH: Yeah, Joyride is really more fruity, easy. He sent me some stuff and I worked LH: There was a period when I was liv music was the dark, haunting eeriness of not spooky. I think I got away from my up the lyrics and the singing, and then I ing at Positive Force House, which was her songs. Now after hearing her latest re aesthetic in Red Emma [the last Shimmy went over there. A couple of the tracks the political arm of Dischord. We did a lot lease, Joyride, it was a surprise to hear her Disc record]. And I really didn’t enjoy lis were just me — the first one, “Prome of organizing, a lot of demonstrations, a style change into what she describes as tening to it, but I think on Joyride, there nade,” and “Gregory Peck” and the lot of meetings. It got really boring. I was more “fruity” than spooky. What follows were good things from Red Emma that I others were stuff I’ve worked on. Basi doing the whole vegan thing, getting ar is an edited transcript of my recent con kept, yet soundwise I went back to Bozo cally, it was a matter of me singing vocals rested, the whole thing. This was back in versation with Lida. in terms of production and the echoness over stuff that he had done on the around '87, ’88, ’89. And I just got burnt Artsweek First of all, how do you pro out. I have always been politically nounce your last name? minded. Lida Husik: Husik, which rhymes with music. AW. How did you start in music? LH: I am from a musical family, so “I went to school in there was always music around, and in struments. I played the violin since D.C. with all the elementary school, and my sister played Dischord and Fugazi guys, so I consequently cut all my hair off and put a dog collar on...”
I am extremely depressed now, with this new regime. I must have been asleep the guitar. So in junior high I started play when Bill Clinton pulled his big crime—I ing her guitar and I was always in choirs, sort of missed what the big, bad thing he glee clubs and plays and stuff. Then punk did was. So I am a little confused. But my rock really hit my high school in about third Shimmy record had a little more of a ’79.1 went to school in D.C., with all the social content, and even Joyride has a lot Dischord and Fugazi guys, so I conse ofstuff. My latest song is about the change quently cut all my hair off and put a dog in the government, but it’s very metaphor collar on, and I was a drummer in a punk ical. It's not literal writing, I could never rock band, and a guitar player later on in be, like, “take down the government.” It’s the early ’80s. not me, but in my own little way, I try to be Then I started working on a four-track. subversive. I knew Don Fleming from D.C., and he was in Ball at that tíme with Kramer from Lida will be touring in the beginning of Shimmy Disc. I moved to New York and the fall with a new band she is excited sent Kramer a tape, and that was that. about. And so I did the three Shimmy Disc re cords with Kramer, which were veiy off the cuff and, you know, sort of fast re cords, but they kind of got my music out there at first. And then 1 didn’t want to do another Shimmy record because I thought I wanted to move on. So I kept on going to the studio... and Joyride was a re sult of a bunch of different demos in studios. AW. After hearing Joyride I noticed a definite change from your older stuff, such as Boza How do you feel about this change? LH: It’s really funny because I don’t notice my progression. It all sounds the same after a while. But I was really glad to go back and play stuff from earlier records as well. AW. My favorite song from Bozo was “Farmhouse. ”
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'You Chink that everybody special. __Miz_Ej f -- r ’fjB-f ... on a sea of indie- Lp ° p - J 6 A Thursday, May 11,1995 Daily Nexus Willful Country Wilco, like Uncle re-exammes a breakup Tupelo before it, is a prog while poring over love let ressive rock band which ters and memories. Lines manages to get across a like “I’ve got your records country sound different in a separate stack” makes from the horrible popular the separation feel real and country music currently vivid. “Letters” has a on the air. strange, comforting, Re Paul Simon Uncle Tupelo was the placements feel. The Rhythm of the Saints creation of Belleville, 111., From “It’s Just That Warner Bros. 1990 natives Jay Farrar and Jeff Simple,” about the ease Tweedy. When Farrar de and comfort of falling in Oh, Alexxis, where have you gone? parted, Tweedy and the love, to the acoustic You’ve been returning my letters—well, someone rest of the band formed “Should’ve Been in Love,” has. They all say “Recipient Unknown,” and I’m Wilco. What carries over is Wilco looks at relation afraid they’re right. Perhaps I was wrong all along. Tweedy’s raspy, Paul ships from all sides. “Pick Perhaps you were just some configuration of my Westerb erg-sounding Up the Change” creates mind, not the lovely, well-spoken person you are. voice and an electric inter the tension of two people I haven’t told this to anyone else yet, which is why pretation of a classic, becoming wary with each I’m printing this and all my future correspondence to country feel. other, a relationship that is you in my school’s newspaper. Maybe by some turn of The old radio on the still intact but losing its the wheel of fortune you’ll pick up a copy of this, cover sets the mood per excitement wherever you are, and read my pleas and apologies. fectly. Wilco follows the They also have a look at time-honored honky-tonk while putting in a serious I was so upset last week, when I received an entire old country tradition of life in a small town on the feel, especially with the twist to create something boxful of my most recent mailings to you, that I had to singing about love and feedback-driven yells ana fiddles. Hie only new. It’s sort of a back- play one of my favorite albums just to make it through loss. The melancholy “I “Shouldn’t Be Ashamed” scary song is “That’s Not with-the-future thing. the day. I’m going to recommend it to you now, Must Be High” looks back and look at the trauma of the Issue,” with a high Keep an eye out for them Alexxis, even if you don’t hear me. You know about at the stupidity of neglect losing a driver license for speed banjo that brings up — they might change how my stories of the past, how I was essentially raised on ing a girlfriend “who never drunk driving on “Passen memories of Deliverance. you think about country. Paul Simon (and Barry Manilow — even he could needs this.” An imagina ger Side.” The wild, rauc Wilco brings country tive “Box Full of Letters” ous “Casino Queen” has a music back to its roots —Michael Lin B ru ta lly Sloppy Sometimes, probably mobster friends. Caruso is more times than we would a decent actor, and his at like to admit, an idea looks tempt to play the “crook a lot better on paper than it with the broken heart” is does when it actually turns genuine, but he seems like out Hollywood is no ex too much of a wimp to ception to this phenome have ever hung out with non, and Kiss of Death the caliber of criminals could well serve as an he’s with. example. Nicholas Cage plays the A remake of the 1947 brooding psychopath vil film of the same name, it lain with conviction, but I has a great premise and a think we’re all equally sick cheer me up nowl), which instilled in me a desire for decent script, but lacks the of brooding psychopaths. decent, literate lyrics in my music. Simon (don’t you overall feeling and power I would like to see a psy remember our joke about people with first names for of the original. And that is chopath with a little depth last names?) has always had a unique knack for writ Kiss of Death’s fatal flaw: for a change. ing songs about exactly what goes on in his mind, the film is cold and brutal, Shining out (once even analyzing his subconscious within them, pro but not sinister or bizarre ducing genuinely satisfying pieces of pop. again) is Samuel L. Jack- Throughout his career, even as the leading part of enough to make the cold son (of Pulp Fiction), who brutality interesting. Simon & Garfunkel, he has toyed with a wide array of brings a sort of subtle class musical styles and influences to back his stanzas. Kiss of Death stars Da to his character, a cop who poorly developed, as ex cop film and the gangster vid Caruso, whom you There was, Graceland, of course, with its so-called seeks revenge on Jimmy traneous information ab film, showing both the cop groundbreaking use of African tribal rhythms and might have seen in sup for an unspecified past ac out them is belabored, of side and the robber side, porting roles in films like tion, only to end up help singing, and his most overlooked and eclectic album, ten at the expense of cru which is an interesting 1982’s Hearts and Bones. The Rhythm of the Saints First Blood, China Girl or ing him in the end. cial information (such as concept. On the other now stands as an excellent, cohesive result of Simon’s Mad Dog & Glory, as Something is lacking in why Jackson’s character hand, by trying both per Jimmy, an ex-gangster/car further exploration into Brazilian textures. this film: it definitely tries wants revenge on Jimmy). spectives, we are never al You, Alexxis, can hear awesome drumming by the thief/convict trying to set to cover more ground than Finally, the film attempts lowed enough of either to his life straight after get Grupo Cultural Olodum, a band of nearly twenty Bra it possibly could in a two- to deal with too many make it interesting. For zilian professionals, who played an extensive beat live ting out of prison. The plot hour running tíme. The characters and subplots to better viewing pleasure, takes a number of twists for this album in the central square of Salvador, Bra film has a poor sense of really focus on one, and watch American Me and zil. On “Can’t Run But,” a delectable blend of synthe and turns as Jimmy ends rhythm, alternating be the result is often confu Deep Cover as a double up going back to prison, sizer melody, bells and other percussion play against tween intense action sion or boredom, or both. feature. lyrics describing one of the enduring sentiments of the getting out and then turn scenes and boring interac The film attempts some ing state’s evidence on his tions. Characters are ’90s: “I can’t run, but I can walk much faster than this, sort of hybrid between the —Kelly L. Hartman cannot run but...” And “Spirit Voices” includes two verses of an original Portuguese love song, perfectly complementing Simon’s lyrics about his vision of Brazil. There was quite an opposition against Simon when the album came out, something a little more severe than what was brought up when Graceland came out, over his “borrowing” of native music and blend ing it with his own, assumedly all in the name of mak ing money. The album also received considerably less fanfare because of Graceland’s earlier prevalence, as MC if Simon had beat himself to the punch. He seems to be interested merely in pushing both his own and gen eral pop music boundaries here, however, and on the whole he pulls it off successfully. A set of three fine examples of this second attempt are found in the second half of the album. “Further to Fly,” “She Moves On” and “Bom at the Right Time” all combine lyrics from Simon’s observances of his life and the interworkings of relationships with intricate rhythms and light guitar, and multiple percussive sounds for more than just the sake of substance, or publicity. I’m telling you, wherever you are, my lost darling, please heed my call and, after getting your own taste The annual Reel Loud performance, with of this album, drop me a line.... I’ve even got a couch silent films, live music, and stuff, comes ready for you. to Campbell Hall this coming; Wednesday, —Your loving JeWeL the 17tn, at 8 p.m. Admission is $6. Pictured is a scene from Urban Myth, which is among the films showing. Daily Nexus Thursday, May 11,1995 7A Truly Damned Coppétta! Spend Before I even begin this prosecution, and the near Brown he isn’t arming scene. Granada Thea Mother's Day est help is at least 40 miles review, I want to make one The children are even “What can I teach at the Ballet point clear — Village of away. tually bom and begin to them?” he asks. MAY 14,3:00 pm the Damned is a bad mo Suddenly, from out of grow up, but mysteri “Humanity, humanity!” LIVE ORCHESTRA vie. If you are even slightly the ocean depths, a vile ously, all of them look and she replies, as he meaning GUEST ARTISTS interested in seeing it cloud of black scum rises act alike, excel incredibly fully walks away. 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Together with Tucker, a when it makes an unsuc nutes after lecturing, —Davin McHenry 8 A Thursday, May 11,1995 Daily Nexus THE SHACK IS BACK l ù t T H ... Do you believe in true love? Not the kind you fall in and out of, but the real, forever kind of love? This was the question posed by Kate (Meg Ryan) to Luc (Kevin Kline) in French Kiss. Similar in many ways to When Harry Met Sally, this film follows the comical friendship of two people who BÛÛGIE search for love without seeing what’s in front of them. It contains the same snappy dialogue shared by Harry and Sally, contemplating and bemoaning the differences be tween men and women. Beginning as a dreamer who wants the perfect mar riage, children and house, Kate must overcome her fear of fiying to win back her fiancé, Charlie, who has fallen under die spell of a glamorous French woman while BY GkùQO£L//ìE SOUTHERN CMJfORNINS f u n k i e s t c i r c u i t O /SCO SONO TONIGHT and every traveling in Paris. What makes her journey interesting is Luc, a French thief who charms her and slips a stolen diamond necklace into her backpack. Of course, all her Thursday luggage gets stolen, and the two team up to traverse France, retrieve the luggage and charm Charlie. ÔQORS OPEN 8 M . Throughout their adventures, they argue about their beliefs on true love. Meanwhile, both slowly begin to ORRIOE EORLY& O M M SPÉCffiLS find the answers in each other. The lush setting added a romantic quality to the film. OOOÎÛ W E UNE While the couple aigues on the train, quaint countrys U CALL IT ides pass quickly by the window. As Luc frantically searches for the necklace, they dine on the veranda of a mansion overlooking a breathtaking vineyard. Finally, 2 *4*1 the couple plot to win back Charlie’s heart while stroll ing along tiie scenic French Riviera. Another entertaining aspect of the film was Kate’s ste til ri reotypes of the French. Every American touristis warned about the inhospitable French, yet no one ever considers Q1.S0 DOMESTICS how whiny and demanding traveling Americans can be. 2S<- Ù R S F T S Kate transforms from a complaining tourist into a pol ished woman and discovers that the treatment she re UNTIL 10 m ceives improves. Likewise, she discovers a hidden sweet ness behind the abrasiveness of Luc. Perhaps the ending was predictable, but the way they reached it was entertaining and original. THE SHACK My favorite scene occurs when Kate is knocked over by a dessert cart while spying on Charlie and his new wo 966- f 63? man. Ryan, wearing white, awkwardly crawls out on all fours to avoid making a spectacle of herself while cov ered with chocolate, strawberry sauce and other colorful sweets. Superdupercalifragilisticexpialidocious! French Kiss is an adorable love story that may not ______Yes indeedie! The Weekend Connection— next Friday in the Daily Nexus! prove true love exists, but sure makes it worth looking *or‘ —Monica Morrissey SSQ And Today's Best New Rock n1 Roll