ENTERTAINMENTpage 15 Technique • Friday, October 13, 2006 • 15 CHEERLEADER RECOVERS POETRY@TECH KICKS OFF ENTERTAINMENT Erina Patterson was transported to a Approximately 300 people visited the local hospital after falling during last student success center to attend the Technique • Friday, October 13, 2006 Satruday’s football game. Page 28 first reading of the year. Page 9 Veruca Salt brings musical spice to Atlanta bar By Craig Tabita Sympathy for the Record Industry. opening acts even started. The of- Contributing Writer Along with them came opening acts ficial explanation was “Thank you The Strays and Agent Sparks. for your patience.” Well, so much The name Veruca Salt may sound This choice of venue documents for that. familiar to you. If so, it is probably be- the career path Veruca Salt has The Strays, a band with a sort cause you’ve seen or read Willy Wonka taken—from a major label and big of English punk sound and look & The Chocolate Factory (or seen the stadiums to the cozy upstairs lounge (think loud guitars, leather jackets, remake with Johnny Depp). of a bar on Piedmont Avenue. ripped jeans, and long hair), opened It’s also the name of a rock band But make no mistake, the band things up. that is at that odd level of fame where played for what was probably a Following them was Agent they have had some success and made Sparks, who had a slower sound that it all over MTV and pop radio at one more relied on melodies driven by point, but they still only occupy a The band played for the vocals of the male and female sort of fringe popularity. dual lead singers. It is rare for the band to keep what was probably Both bands sounded great, and the same lineup through its entire a couple hundred of by the time Veruca Salt took the existence and Veruca Salt, like stage at about 11:15 p.m. I did not most bands, has shuffled its lineup devoted fans who mind having to wait so long because through the years since its 1994 debut packed the lounge a I had already had a pretty good time American Thighs and its screamy hit hearing the first two acts. “Seether”. little bit beyond the The approximately hour long Almost a decade after the depar- point where comfort set featured a lot of the band’s new ture of guitarist/vocalist/songwriter album, like the lead track “So Weird” Nina Gordon and drummer Jim was a possibility. with its hard guitar sound underly- Shapiro, singer and guitarist Louise ing bristling lyrics (“You don’t know Post is the only remaining original me / You don’t own me / You’re just member in the band. couple hundred of devoted fans passing through my life”) in keeping At this point in their careers, who packed the lounge a little bit with the style that has worked for most bands would be resting on their past the point where comfort was them since their inception. Mixed faded glory. Instead, Veruca Salt is a possibility (not to mention any in were some old hits like 1997’s confidently charging ahead with new hope of coming home with clothes “Volcano Girls,”the other song that material that is on par with the work that didn’t knock you out with the experienced the most mainstream in their earlier incarnation. stench of cigarette smoke). approval. Veruca Salt played in Atlanta The opening time for the concert When they left the stage for the Monday, Oct. 9 at Smith’s Olde was listed at 7 p.m., but the upstairs obligatory “Wait for the crowd to Bar. The band is currently touring area did not even open up until about cheer for us to come back” water By John Drews / STUDENT PUBLICATIONS in promotion of their new album, an hour and a half later. As a part of their tour for their recently released album, IV, Veruca IV, released on the independent label It was another hour before the See Salt, page 17 Salt stopped in Atlanta to rock Smith’s Olde Bar Monday night. Book aims to advise, REEL inspire college students By Mallory Velten coach or psychologist (or any- Contributing Writer thing that has to do with, well, transitions, careers, or “The Real World” is not just decision-making), she does an MTV reality show: it’s what provide solid information that all of us must face after we leave new graduates may find useful, on Tech. The change from college life topics ranging from drug-addict to real world life is quite different roommates to various religious Mobster flick hits theatres from the transition students make customs one might encounter from high school to college, and in the workplace. By Daniel Griffin and Martin Sheen round out the on this Boston-Irish culture. a lot of new D o r m Contributing Writer supporting cast. 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He balances both a b o u t t o office poli- oozing gunshot wounds and f-bombs protagonists with an ease only an graduate and tics, busi- to make anyone smile. [Scorsese’s] name absolute expert can handle, lending you feel like ness travel, Following last weekend’s $27 both characters their due develop- you have no meetings, million debute, The Departed is on the director’s ment and consciousness. idea where presenta- shooting every other movie in the char apparently His traditional style appears you’re going tions, ap- skull while cursing them all to Hell through occasional tracking shots on the road of propriate in a thick Bostonian accent. pulls in talent like a and a comfortable swinging camera life, it might dress, man- Scorsese reverts to his comfort magnet the size of that catches the actions and expres- prove help- ners—you zone, the American gangster film, sions of his actors. ful to have a name it and with The Departed, yet he sets the plot Montana... Based on a popular Chinese film, map—in the it is prob- in Boston instead of his hometown The Departed gains its individuality form of a self- ably here. and usual location, New York. His As Costigan and Sullivan try from the setting. Much humor is help transitional guide. In fact, the book contains so name on the director’s chair appar- to uncover each other’s identity, derived from the Bostonian culture Dr. Victoria Pilate’s Dorm much information that unless ently pulls in talent like a magnet the result is an inspired bloodbath that surrounds this bloody tale of Rooms to Board Rooms: A Guide you are really worried about mak- the size of Montana— this film is of bullets and brain. The plot is a backstabbing and lost morality, For All Majors In Making The ing it in the real world, you will chock full of A-listers. joyous rollercoaster of blood and and the benefit of the outstanding Transition From College To The probably want to use the table of Jack Nicholson makes his return secrets, yanking the audience along cast in these respects cannot be Real World, is one book that aims contents (the book doesn’t con- to the screen as the mob boss Frank its two and a half hour running time underestimated. to offer helpful advice and insight tain an index) to get to whatever’s Costello with the plot revolving at a rip-roaring pace. The dialogue Perhaps The Departed will be into personal and professional life most relevant at the time. around the two leads, Leonardo is spectacular—the thick New unjustly overlooked come Oscar after college. Though the author is DiCaprio’s Billy Costigan and Matt England accents riddled with creative time, but it is truly hard to deny not a guidance counselor, career See Dorms, page 19 Damon’s Colin Sullivan. In addi- cursing, lending the film a particu- the energy and brashness of this tion, Mark Wahlberg, Alec Baldwin, larly amusing type of humor based outstanding film. 16 • Friday, October 13, 2006 • Technique ENTERTAINMENT N O T E W O R T H Y The Old Ceremony releases Third time’s a charm with eclectic mix on Our One Mistake mewithoutYou’s Brother,Sister By Jonathan Saethang, Contributing Writer By Kenneth Baskett, Senior Staff Writer Hailing from Chapel Hill, In short, The Old Cer- undertone of contemplative Occasionally an album of his ears. ing with a driving drum North Carolina, The Old emony is multifaceted. The sadness. The emotion is strong arrives that is not simply a Weiss has improved his beat and moving hectically Ceremony describes itself band unites a myriad of enough to tug at the listener’s collection of songs, but one delivery on this album, ex- through the first two verses, as “pop noir,” a reference to styles, instruments and lyri- heartstrings, evoking an un- cohesive work that forces panding his vocal range and Weiss silences the group with, the nostalgia of the artistic cal themes to create a unique settling feeling.