The BAD Line-up The following is a very preliminary Battle of the Bad lineup, with brief descriptions (most of them pretty wrong) based on conversations with Beth AUen, Brett Remy, Greg Mcllvane, Stephen-Lynne Bachelor, Marc Brown, my mother and Chuck D. 12:noon — Neon. In the same vein, and per­ haps featuring the same players, as last year’s Rayon. They’ll be doing covers of big, big eighties hits. Film Studies audiotronics whiz Dave Cash is involved. Hopefully, there’ll be medleys. 12:30—Umbilical Chords. A reunion gig, fea­ turing, among others, Beth Allen and Jay “Jay” Hinman, gathering at the scene of the crime to play together for the first time in two years. Very serious cabbage core band. Bring your own. 1:00 — Xion. A heavy and perennial favorite. All-Jewish hard rock, all of the time. Last year they shocked the housfe with a lip-synch set which no one figured out till way too late. No one’s quite sure what they’ve got up their sleeves this year, except that they’ll probably play "I Want My Foreskin Back.” 1:30 — Mrs.. Basically PMS reworked. For those of you virgins, it’s an all-woman band who sing Hungarian love songs. “Sort of a sa­ tire on what we don’t want to become," says Beth Allen. Kitchen appliances will be in­ volved. "I don’t even really know exactly what we’re doing.” 2:00—MC Brown and His Posse. Failed pres­ idential candidate and terminally OKguy Marc Brown is going to furnish the first rap act in BOTB history, complete with DJ HighStyle, the Minister of Revised History and security of­ fers. Too bad he can’t rap worth a shit. 2:20 — Weekend Connection. From the same nucleus of last year’s Long-Haired Leaping Gnomes, who brought you a rock opera of Mil­ ton’s Paradise Lost. This year they’re threaten­ ing a rock opera based on an original screenp­ lay. Very, very, glaring lack of talent. 2:50 — Boiling Idiots. “You know that tall skinny guy with the big poofy hair?” Well, this is his band. They’re kind of like the Angry Sa­ moans, apparently. This is their third consecu­ tive year. Whipped cream. Last year they were covered with the most food. 3:20 — Little Company of Maty. Easily the worst concept of the bunch: Four guys who were bom in Little Company of Mary hospital in Torrance within a year of each other. There’ll be songs about birth, doctors and MOISH Daily Nexus hospitals. Battle of Bad Bands: 3:50 — Damn the Torpedoes. Yes, it's about time: An all-Petty cover band made up of I.V. rock veterans. Don’t know the song list, but here’s hoping for a rippin' version of “Needles and Pins” or “Zombie Zoo.” W Extravaganza 4:20—Shaggs. An intriguing collection of wo­ men, including Santa Barbara guitar wizard By Matt Welch Dierdre Lynds. Fear not— she won’t play well. and his evil sidekick Kevin “Trout” Casagranda Apparently, the Shaggs were some kind of at­ Staff Writers______________________ ■ rocious ’60s band of enormously untalented women whose music has been reinterpreted. A must.- Most people who recall being there remember it like a bad dream, a bad, 4:50 — Pee-Wee’s Apostles. Don’t know a damn thing about this band, except that Tony fuzzy dream in which you can’t quite tell what year it is, who exactly is there Ozuna is somehow involved and his phone number has been disconnected. He once stole or where they have hidden the outhouses. The scene was something like my microwave and my desk. Throw rocks. this: 5:20 — The Mystic Sultans of Ben-Wa. I.V.’s It was the first, or maybe second — definitely not the third — annual “Isla reigning worst band, looking to reclaim the throne in what some are saying is their farewell Vista Battle of the Bad”. The Mystic Sultans of Ben-Wa, the self-proclaimed concert. No truth to the rumors about special guests. Unless.... and ingloriously-realized “Worst Band in I.V.” were playing at the tail end — MATT WELCH of a bad, bad set at the tail end of a bad, bad, bad afternoon. The stage was See BAD, p.6A 2 A Thursday, May 31,1990 Daily Nexus The university community joins together to give praise and thanks to those graduates who have demonstrated excellence during their years here. The Thomas More Storke Award for Excellence, symbolized by a 1 bronze model forged by Francis Minturn Sedgwick, is given to the outstand­ ing graduating senior. This year this distinction is awarded to: Sean Patrick Murphy The Jeremy D. Friedman Memorial Award is presented in grateful rec­ ognition of outstanding leadership, scholastic excellence, and innovative con­ tributions to student and community life at the University of California, Santa Barbara in memory of Jeremy D. Friedman, undergraduate 1979-83. Lisa Lauren Frankenberg Helen Lan-To Quan The following Seniors have been selected as recipients of this year's University Service Awards, ‘ given in recognition of unselfish and dedicated service to the university, its students, and the community. Darbie Marie Andrews Tasha Lynn Phillips Cindie L. Bowles Robin Joy Richardson Elizabeth Ann Estrella Monique Antoinette Robertson Mark Allan Etzel Irene N. Rodriguez Sylvia Alvarez French Robert James Sim es Jim Garrett Nicole Oriana Singer Cecilia Hernandez Michael Lawrence Stowers Andrew Leonard Hurley Allison Jennifer Tom Juliette Robyn Mackin Michele Lee Trebino Bernadette Ann May Thomas R. W idroe Carlye Siobhan Needle Valerie Yoshimura Below are listed those students who are receiving the University Award of Distinction, given to seniors and graduate students who have contributed greatly to the quality of life by giv­ ing unselfish service to others within a particular arena during their tenure here. Jose Perez Adame Francisco Javier Leon Lee Brian Aronson Yolanda Loza Marquez Victor Alan Blanchard — Singing Eagle Maria Guadalupe Morales ! Amy Nancy Blunden Martha Alicia Navarro Jay Scott Finnecy Eve Kathleen Peek Marc Samuel Grobman Deborah Lynn Wieder Gabriel Gutierrez Donald Craig Young Alan G. Hull Christiana Antigone Zafiris Michelle Rae Johnston The following Seniors have also been selected by their campus organizations to receive awards for scholarship or special achievement. Alpha Lambda Delta Awards Mortar Board Award The Alpha Lambda Delta Award recognizes the graduating Senior The Mortar Board Award is given each year in recognition of the having the highest cumulative grade point average of all graduating graduating Senior having the highest cumulative grade point average Alpha Lambda Delta members. This year's winner is: in the graduating class, combined with the fewest number of transfer units. This year's recipient is: Cheryl Annette Rode Jeffrey Wayne Chapman Warren E. Schutt Memorial Awards Jeffrey J. Smeding Benjamin J. Sullivan Award winners, their families and interested Faculty and Staff are invited to be the guests of Chancellor Uehling at the University House Friday, June 15,1990 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. ggSBS3 Thursday, May 31,1990 @ S 3 S 3A Knot for Kids"* SAILING pendently — Ricky only brown. By Michelle Ray kidnaps Marina so that she His female characters are Staff Writer_____ will have the time to get to far from the traditional know him and fall in love. American ideal of “perfec­ With a title like “Tie Me Ridiculous? Si. But Al­ tion.” The Picasso woman is Up, Tie Me Down” you modovar, creator of “Wo­ a tough drug dealer on a might expect to see a lot of men on the Verge of a Nerv­ scooter who has turo thugs bondage with some ob­ ous Breakdown” and “Ma­ working for her. 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