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Now living linger on, it is hard to imagine the under Cavegarden Lake, she has eighth-century China of Jeanne appealed to the Moon Lady, Lady Larsen's Silk Road Gang-yin, and the Motherqueen, During the rule of the Brilliant herself, to guide Greenpearl to her. Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Greenpearl s quest to find her poetry flourishes, courtesans mother takes her across China cultivate their musical skills, and from the Great Wall to the sacred women have their own written mountain Mothbrow. language forbidden to men. Life , A ' slatCT <" Chinese verse, inter.wines ? ill, karmic destiny and LV.se" ,weav?S intrl?,e ,a'l the humor of the gods. sprinkled with poems, historical c ii d? a f i i narratives and even an ancient Silk Road focuses on the adven- T , n Taoist sexological text. She comtures ot Greenpearl along the ,. , , , , . r o ru .a Th bines mythology and history, famous Chinese trade route. The . ... young daughter of a great Tang "<*""8 a m>'s,lcal world w"h her general, she is kidnapped after ^a^ u Prose-T--i , j i-ii u Her prose is at times delicate but Tibetan raiders kill her nanny. u r j u cu , , * , . e- , straight forward as when She is bought and sold and final- ? & , , , . a, .u . Greenpearl narrates. The style then ly winds up as the apprentice , , 3 . , ei d . ,u- turns flamboyant as the 16thcourtesan, Dragonfly. But this is ,. . ... . r u century storyteller continues a tale lust the beginning of her journeys. r , / , J c for the marketplace crowd. In a celestial palace the Jade A powerful, magical work,Silk Emperor finds a green, odd-shaped Road will not give the reader a new pearl in his new Go eame. The bau- incioht inm rhino nitt? m^roi aH_ ble speaks, begging the god to send vice, or affect your life. 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MANPOWER Again and again. 916 Elmwood 765-2971 Patti Amick GIVE BLOOD, PLEASE RadQm (Drag the River plaj Band's ir By CHUCK DEAN Staff writer Often, Arista records recording artist Miche Malone is compared to greats like Joan Baez, Ju Collins and Joni Mitchell; this doesn't mean tl she must agree with the comparisons. The outspoken Malone once told a newspap "1 can't stand them. They play wimpy music. I have a lot of respect for Joni Mitchell, but the others are fraudulent. They don't feel anything 1 what they play. 1 could be wrong about that ttjjj guess, but 1 don't like real whiny music." pk The lady doesn't lie. Malone and her band, Dr The River, are miles from wimpy, whiny fraudulent. This Atlanta-based foursome has gai ed a reputation for their kamikaze live sho H chock-full of original songs, elongated musk melt-downs, and often hilarious impromtu ra Si with the audience. These performances seemingly skip, hop ai I* glide over one main goal, that is to provide || evening of no-holds-barred rock'n'roll that sta H with you long after the concert is over. Seldom < Michelle Malone and Drag The River fail in th< |1 attempts. Malone is a small woman who, while off stag P* looks as if she'd be quiet in some corner watchii \l everyone else have a good time. She seer withdrawn, shy and low-keyed. Yet, once in fro of the microphone, all myths are dispelled. Oi quickly finds that her size isn't any indication k the power of her voice. At times, she can be painfully honest when sin ing the imagery-enriched songs she wrote hersel ~ While singing "Into The Night", her face oft* becomes twisted; her lips will curl and quiver ov her words as she sings, "...Give me back n secrets/ And I'll give you back your lies/ Ever sini the day you said hello/ I've waited for goodbye. Inevitably, the intensity explodes as she coi tinues,"Into the night, into the night/ 1 w wander into the night/. You've shattered n dreams, and strangled my will/ Now I'll wander i to the night." As with this song, conviction is c appropriate word in describing Malone's deliver You see the singer wandering into the night, ar I Prk ? ^ 811 ^ j HpB ^ X iff $ :: . C v I-t* V f|M| I | ^pj^^Milllly \ ?\ - ?Nn i W<'*' " m rn ^isslisMI sSiMI A"^rs i People line up to get their tickets to the long-awa 'Batman' dc By PAUL CATALA nightmare Staff writer Cheshire c It started Friday. . .theaters imo a val around the nation and in Columbia ^'s b'zarrt premiered the long-awaited, and for Nichols some, anticipated screen debut of source of i D.C. Comic superhero "Batman." provides f The movie, starring Michael entei tainir Keaton as Bruce Wayne, a.k.a. chmen ma Batman, is arranged and put together at l^e ^ol in a set and production designer's vi- t0 e tun< sion of a megalopolis gone mad. which pla: From the opening camera shots Alter I that slowly zero in on Gotham City, (thanks the immensity of the movie's sets parent; isn't fully comprehended until the young, he bustling streets of people and traffic killer in the city come into view. should ha1 The movie's plot and somewhat good guy mundane development are really rather thai strung together by the intricate exact- ruption, v ness of Anton Furst's set production subplot, design (the new, improved Bat- !^im ? mobile, for example, is a marvel Williams compared to the old modified T-top needed su driven in the television series). plays Vic The premise for the plot, that photograpl Gotham City has become so l?ve outrageously corrupt that it has run a stubbc m.t nf sion that vy. l\J LtltUldlC IIS bicentennial, is at times no more than movie, filler between the elaborate sets. Williams However, director Tim Burton t'1e .^'st does such an excellent job of convincing manipulating the stars' interactions Since m; during their lines that the plot is are Pr?bab feebly feasible. T.V. series movie coul Jack Nicholson, the perfect Joker, wh or sar is allowed the freedom an actor of his liners that caliber needs to almost violently grab humor (wi the audience into his realm. Joker's biz His maniacal delivery throughout characters the movie conjures up surrealistic im- ticipating a ages usually reserved for your worst rives. Besic vs Thursday lusic has kain ^ I can't stand them. They play \ iat wimpy music. I do have a lot of r respect for Joni Mitchell, but those N Jo others are fraudulent. They don't a >se feel anything for what they play. I s ?J could be wrong about that, I guess, but I don't like real whiny music." N ag 11 or Lead singer, Michelle Ma/one in WS :al you want to hunt down the bastard who took liber- ? ps ties with her dreams. This is only one of Malone's el qualities that add to her appeal. C( nd In Michelle Malone's case, it's true: behind ir an every good singer there is a terrific band. Drag the J1 ys River consists of Billy "Deuce" Pitts on the drums, a' do Phil Zone on the bass, and Johnny Dee aiding ;ir Malone with his lead guitar. 111 They all fit well in the manic scheme of Malone's tc ;e, personality in that they can hang with doing a song ag straight-forwardly, but quickly adapt to the e\ns tended all-hell-breaking-loose mood Malone often nt slips into. fo ne For instance, once at the Royal Peacock, a legcn- Je of dary club in Atlanta where the likes of James lei Brown and Aretha Franklin have performed, th g- Malone was being heckled by a drunk audience wl If. member. She had just finished a song and the man so ;n yelled, "Get tough!" fk er Attitude in tact, Malone edged up to the iy microphone. Looking straight at the man she said, an ce "What if 1 did?" The audience supported her with M loud applause. at n- Malone nodded to her band, who quickly shifted ill gears to perform "New Experience", a fast paced wi iy rock number?perfect ventilation for Malone's of a- anger. tal in In this case, she kept her eye on the heckler and co y. performed the tune in a sarcastic, sexually- fyi id exaggerated manner, complete with her guitar Rc I H Hi 1L 1 mmi -^v | | ?|? n ^R1 | ' ., ' , I- $ - ^ .: ; ^^MHHHjHt Hk B| Hf f jm |^H|^ ||| S<%'A?$ ||||j|p>^'''' fferif^it "o- v "<" ^ RR9RM88M8SSnkiM?vi?,:: ited movie Batman. I #% ;ilVVI? VII 3|/YVI is gone sour. The Joker's Batman, humor should I :at grin, the result of falling prerequisite, of chemicals, only adds to Although the plot and most c ; nature. casting aren't of any real meri on who provides the basic production efforts are. In additi :onflict for the movie, also Burton's and Furst's work, 1 or one of the movie's most lg scenes. He and his henike a festival of vandalism 11nffyi OT"l YY :ham City Museum of Art lJCltliiCtii 11 ; of Prince's "Party Man" /s on a boombox. Jatman has a flashback lV/I V^V/lvlll Kung Fu") of witnessing >' murder when he was By J.R. WILLIAMS recognizes the Joker as Staff writer . At this point, the movie For the last two weeks, i /e stuck to a more typical been almost impossible to wal versus bad guy theme shopping mall without seeing 1 wading through city cor- dreds of people wearing tw vhich barely works as a three items of Bat paraphernalia. asinger and Billy Dee So much so that if Ba offer the movie much- himself were to come to Colui pporting roles. Basinger he would think he was st ki Vale, a newspaper Gotham City, ber and Bruce Wayne's Well, he did come to tovsn F it, with barely enough heat (but not in person) as the r >rnness to give the impres- opened in main release in she was, in fact, in the Columbia-area theaters. "I'm very surprised that a ., somewhat dryly, plays city like this would have this i rict attorney fairly enthusiasm," said Gene Wad ly. 20, a Columbia native who w any of Batman's viewers the main premiere of the mo\ ly old enough to recall the Dutch Square Mall ' self-mocking humor, the But the Batman shirts, d have used a little more posters, clocks and other bat; casm than the few one- have been selling for two v are used. The movie's since the Batman hype was puI th the exception of the full throttle, arre quips) stagnates. The "People buy things they i will deliver a line, an- they can make money off of," pun that never quite ar- Kim Mitchell, an assistant mat les, with Keaton cast as _____ likaze style lestled like a weapon between her legs. She sang. Til do anything for a new experience/ I'll give 'ou my left wing for a new experience/ Give you 15 ucks for a new experience/ I'd give you all my lust or a new experience." When the song climaxed, dalone, soaked in sweat, cocked her head and askd the drunk man, "It was good for me, what bout you?" He remained silent for the rest of her how. Along with their original material, Michelle lalone and Drag The River perform some covet laterial including songs by The Rolling Stones, anfiv NIpwmnn Qlv ar?/^ X Cn.-M.k; ?. ?-! .. uiuii, uuu n\- I ci 11 I 11 > OlUlIt UIIU uitsionally, The Jefferson Airplane. Although the band's strength lies in their riginal material, they handle the unoriginal just as fectivlev. When Malone sings Randy Newman's mfessional "Guilty", she adds so much atlosphere that one envisions some lonesome extnkie walking down railroad tracks thinking x>ut his life and what went wrong. She sings, "Got some whisky, from the baran/ Got some cocaine, from my friends/ I've got i keep moving baby, till I'm back in your arms tain/ I'm guilty..." Also, Drag The River have been known 1o perrm hard-rock, hand clapping version of The ffersons theme song that prompts all the band to loose as Malone wails, "....beans don't burn in e kitchen/ fish don't cook on the grill/ took a iole lot of pushing/ just to get up this hill." This ng beckons practically everyone to the dance )or. You can have the chance to experience the music d madness for yourself Thursday night when ichelle Malone and Drag the River take the stage Roekafellas'. What can you expect? You can expect no whiny, mpy or fraudulent music. Instead, expect a night loud, abrasive, quality music, some unpredic3le madness, and a heck of a good time...so me out and get hooked. It'll be a new and satising experience. For additional information, call >ckafellas' at 252-7625. : m sfiHl fl m ; ' 'H I i WPPmp* * tsSJtpl W*4 f t * IwPlllliPl -! V ^W?P l.es Alverson/The Gamecock a I effects )e a Pratt's cinematography, Ray Lovejoy's editing, and the enveloping >f the richness of Danny Elfman's musical Lhi2 \cnre mate "B-""1-"" ~ "MU'IU" v. i h v. I (clllIIIIU, on to with no real threat to anyone's ioger intellect. leans big bucks ibia merchants at Spencer's novelty store in Columbia mall, "and Batman will t has definitely be a collector's item in 10 k in a years." hun- Mitchell said when the sneak o or previews began Thursday up until m a n Saturday the store sold 50 Batman T-shirts at $13.99 each, nine Battman man dolls at $40 each, 50 buttons nbia, tor $7.99 each and eight Batman ill in auto sun shelds at $5.99 a piece. "Friday, people were in here riday buying $20 to $30 worth of Batman tlYWiir* cJiifT " TV*** T " (Ttjvv^fVU MUWVU. J JIV ^IWIV four also sold 72 Batman posters at S2.99 each. small nuch Even non -licensed sellers are ford, making money off the Caped as at Crusader. ie at An illegal merchant said he sold S200 worth of Batman shirts hats, Friday. items "They are bigger than Cocareeks Cola was when it First came out," into ">aid the merchant, who asked not to be identified, think Shirts, legal or not, were worn by ' said masses of people to see the film tager over the weekend.