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It's time
to build
the arc
By AARON SHEININ
Waterlogged editor
All right everyone, the aik is
almost finished. All aboard
who's going aboard.
Is this rain out-of-hand, or
what? Seeing cars float by unmanned,
or unwomanned for all
you feminists, is not a comforting
sight. I half expected to see
the Coast Guard patrolling Five
Points Saturday night during
The Great Hood. The water was
knee deep! The only people getting
through were those in fourwheel
drives or the big tanks.
Everyone else got stuck and
practically became submerged.
Isn't it great to be living ]
through such exciting <
times!. . . Holy bulging body
parts, Batman! Michelle Pfeiffer j
has been named Catwoman to
replace the pregnant Annette j
Benning in Batman 2. Sean ,
Young is suing the production ,
company claiming she was j
promised the part after she
showed up in five-inch heels,
black tights, a tube-top and a
Batman hat on. I'd promise her ,
anything to get her out of my
office, too.. . I started to tell j
you about this a few weeks ago, ,
but left you hanging. So, if you
haven't already heard, the radio
station 96.7 FM, otherwise j
known as Yes 97, is switching ,
to a country format as of tomor- ,
row. That's right, no more New
Kids and garbage like that . \
From now on, you will here the j
twangy sound of Garth Brooks, <
Clint Black and Randy Travis. ,
Some may wonder why such a ]
drastic change, but WCOS, 97.5 (
FM, the other country station in .
Columbia, has been the ,
number-one rated station for
weeks on end. Country is the ,
fastest growing radio me- ]
dium... What do Saddam Hussein
and little Miss Muffet have
in common? They both have
Khurds in their
way. . . .Terminator 2: Judgement
Day remained number one
at the movies this past weekend,
raking in $11.1 million for a
total of $133.6 million since
opening. Bill and Ted's Bogus
Journey was second, followed
by 101 Dalmations and Boyz N
the Hood. Kathleen Turner's
new movie, V.I. Warshawski
grossed $3.6 million, and Mel
Brooks' Life Stinks made $1.9
million. . . The words for the
day are indecent exposure. Peewee
Herman got caught playing
with his wee-wee at an adult
theatre in Sarasota, Fla. Paul
Reubens, who plays the hyper
Herman denies that he ever exposed
himself or engaged in
any other improper activities.
He does admit to being at the
theatre, however. . . Tickets are
on sale now for Van Halen with
Alice in Chains Aug. 16 at the
Coca-Cola Lakewood Ampitheatre
in Atlanta. To see
these guys in such a small
venue as Lakewood, not to
mention outside, is an opportunity
anyone who ever heard one
of their songs and liked it even
a little should not pass up.
Lakewood is one of the best fain
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Llliucs "? ",v "uuuicasi anu is
easy to find, just off 1-75 on
Lakewood Boulevard, just south
of the city. I'll be there this
weekend with fellow parrotheads
to see Jimmy Buffett on
Saturday, a summer-time tradition.
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Go out with
each other,
name, addrt
JL I others.
On a first
public place.
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By DAVID BOWDEN
Editor in Chief
Some wit gave the new movie
title: Young Tommy guns. I agree wit
stars a bunch of cute young hunks 1
ter and Richard Grieco. It is a rehas
ties gangster film ever made, but it's
The movie's biggest weakness is
editing. The film cuts from one see
rapidly and makes the plot muddled
addition, first-time director Mich
selects some really bad camera angl
hardly see the actors that are doing
belniicoff tries to be a little too arty
times. This is just a gangster movie,
Despite these flaws, there are sc
commend this film. Christian Slatei
mpsey turn in very convincing pc
other two guys, Grieco and new-corn
If anyone
'Robin Ho
By BRIAN MCCARTER
Staff Writer
It might be strange to bother this
late with a review of Robin Hood,
is anyone who cares at all about it
has probably seen it. Still, that
which is strange is not necessarily
useless, and in the case of this
film, I am moved to write to advance
a principle: the quality of a
work of art is diminished in exact
proportion to its tendency towards
the teaching of moral ideas.
Robin Hood is not a bad movie,
in spite of its vicious reviews. It is
merely a severly compromised
?ood one. Compromised by what?
Well, Kevin Costner's occasionally
iimp acting, for one thing, though
this is not as bad as it's been reported.
The contrast between his
altogether undisguised American
^Midwestern?) accent and his
pompous lines, for example, produces
an engaging goofiness that
may actually enhance the film. The
real problem with the movie lies
;lsewhere, mostly in the dialogue
and in artistically questionable
tamperings with the legend.
What is director Kevin Reyiolds'
motive for having Robin
flood be a part of the crusades?
Local mu;
By KIPP SHIVES
Music Guru
The evil cloud of censorship has
artist with the trend of moralism
through the music industry.
Blightobody fans beware. The n
Pressure Vessel was sent back from
plant it was sent to. Why? Because
claimed the lyrics are obscene.
I, for one, would never equate the
body with rappers 2 Live Crew,
Never fear, the band says the tape
another plant and will be available ir
Frank Zappa would be proud.
Despite this disheartening bit of
fantastic shows are sweeping througl
No matter what kind of music you
something for you.
Tomorrow night at Rockafella's
from Atlanta will perform with D<
Deacon Lunchbox.
The Jody Grind, with one album 1
be an acoustic bass-crossover treat f<
They blend a soft rockabilly sour
smooth rock and roll. Vocalist Kellj
ily give the Indigo Girls a run for
her dynamic voice.
Desolate James is a rock band fn
and for the more poetic crowd, si
Deacon Lunchbox will start it off
style brand of performance art.
Columbia pop-lords Hootie and t
return to Greenstreets two night
weekend. Stop by and see them Frid
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Antiseen, who played backup on
xnt seven-inch Carolina Up My A
friends and keep track of
Don't broadcast your
3ss or plans in front of
date, plan to meet in a
Let people know where
>e and let your date know
low. Stick to your plans.
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and confusing. In does move along a
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for Pete's sake. lacks most.
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Could it be so that he might have
the character say that his father
"called the crusades a foolish
quest," and that "it was vanity to
force other men to our religion"? It
does not matter whether the crusades
really were vain. The question
is, why must this be pointed
out in the movie?
And what is his reason for including
Morgan Freeman as a Muslim
Moor? No such character exists
in the legend, and yet Freeman's
is made to be the most
noble, disciplined, austere religiously
faithful character in the
film. His Azeem is set alongside a
most appallingly gluttonous and
festive Friar Tuck, whose every utterence
amounts to a revolting
mockery of Christianity ("the Lord
giveth, and the Lord taketh away,"
he says sadly when the woodsmen
co-opt his booze). Indeed, though
Freeman's acting is as usual, impressive,
an honest mind cannot
ignore the extra-dramatic purpose
of his character. What devout Mu
sum would say to a man promoting
the amorous uses of mistletoe,
"in my country, we talk to our women,
we do not drug them with
them with plants"? Really, why
sicians cen
Columbia Sunday
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the plant owneis a stretcher foUowin
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core outfit
music of Blighto- Monday, Kindrei
but anyhow . . . special 8 p.m. sho>
has been sent to and Bad Brains-s
i two weeks. powered sound.
Kindred Soul co
info, some rather and also has a pletl
fi town this week. Tuesday, Aug. i
are into, there is acts at 8 p.m. to be
Zero Hour, high
kick in some head
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their money with m,usic scene- He "
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available at Tracks
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loken-word artist J*** a
with his absurd- other instruments. I
cover charge alone.
he Blowfish will Bootleg, a local i
s in a row this j^e headliner, 4
ay or Saturday or their orignial rock t
sic to dance to or
roverbial breeze. The cover is onl
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surprised me. I never thought of
or before, but he played gangster
n appropriately low-key, intelligent
ler extreme, Anthony Quinn goes
old crime boss. His performance
wnright weird. Quinn must be getl
good action scenes and the movie
it a quick pace, so I can't say the
However, this material has been
mes, it would take a dynamite
ector to put a new angle on this
ose are the two elements this film
see a recent gangster film with a
ind underseen Miller's Crossing. If
a thoroughly average movie, see
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oo bad
hint at a fictitious gender equality
in Muslim countries? And why
make the Christians look so bad?
Other political slaps in the face
abound. Duncan, his eyes gouged
out, conveniently calls the Moors
savages in the presence of Azeem,
whose race, of course, is unknown
to the blind man. Maid Marion,
while behooded, fights Robin
Hood with the strength of a man.
Friar Tuck, after living with
Azeem for days and surely seeing
what he can do, spouts angrily that
if the Moor tries to deliver Little
John's child, he will kill it, for "he
is a savage." The child, of course,
is delivered without incident, and
Tuck at last is reformed.
All this distracts one's attention
from the good stuff in the movie:
the English landscapes, the enormous
castles, the lighting, Mary Elizabeth
Mastrantonio, a truly beautiful
cataract in the eye of a witch
and the wonderful performance of
Alan Rickman as die evil Sheriff
of Nottingham, to name a few
things. These things make the movie
worth seeing, if you can stomach
these lapses into social sensitivity
instruction. I, unfortunately,
cannot
sored
for a Rockafella's 6 p.m. all-ages
for drama majors and people who
fly. Last time my friend Jennifer
guys in their home city Charlotte,
er Jeff Clayton split his head open
r the first set and was carried off on
g the fourth song.
tiseen is Final Fate, a local hardi
Soul will play by themselves at a
v. Kindred Soul mixes funk, reggae
tyle thrash into their own highvers
Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley,
lora of groovy originals to boot
), Rockafella's will host five local
nefit WUSC's local music show,
school metalheads from Irmo, will
s and provide some tunes to mosh
ot a little-known band from Col~
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luding Sonic Youth, the Sugarcubes
; fairly well-known in the Columbia
scently released a new tape entitled
id The Washing Machine, which is
:oustic guitar in addition to many
le is a one-man act well worth the
netal team will perform next
9 Reasons, will then plug in with
unes.
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ort five original local acts and alWNCiMENT?)
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By DAVID BOWDEN touch I
Editor in Chief on this.
Of rock music's many forms,
heavy metal (hard rock, what- |?io
ever) is still my favorite. I do Sabbat
mean real metal, not the crap in togethe
an MTV Hard Block. However, tent
I don't want to argue about se- R
mantics: I consider such diverse Straigl
bands as Guns N' Roses and an(* D
Metallica as being in this categ- Guit^
ory. When you start splitting 131
hairs over whether a group is ^ed
thrash, speed metal or funk- entitled
punk rockabilly, you're just mvente
spitting in the wind. hard-pr
In this column, I have made a ^ep alb
completely subjective list of picked
what I feel are some of the best P\
albums in hard rock history. For "Jeta* '
the sake of fairness, I have lim
ited each band's contribution on but |t"(
the list to only one album. timeles:
Appetite for Destruction: a8_
Guns N' Roses, America's fa- ?ow
vorite heroin addicts, kick butt Comn
on their full-length debut. Every ^d "G
song on this album is fantastic. nam(
The Gunners were one of the k?u(
few bands in the Eighties to de s Sc
have a truly original rock the*r s
sound, and nothing proves it 1
better than this LP. gningy
Diary of a Madman: Ozzie dalist b
Osbourne and phenom guitarist usu
Randy Rhodes team up for an they p
incredible album. Despite Oz- l*1 8
zie's bad press, he really has an *ous
accessible, commercial sound hear a
on his solo stuff (not so when ence. 01
he was with Sabbath, see below).
Rhodes died in a plane 38
crash, but this recording shows JJ03
his amazing guitar talent. As for ^eppeli
Ozzie Osbourne, he is one of a b
the best, most distinctive rock "upPet
vocalists ever. 0 the
great t
Dirty Deeds Done Cheap: and "I
Australia's AC/DC has a hell of Not B<
lot of good songs, but few con- guitar j
sistently good albums. I almost is rippe
said Back in Black, but that's Zep.
too obvious. Anyway, I like or- Pari
iginal lead singer Bon Scott's plays d
voice better, and he sings on This g
Dirty Deeds. This is a very creepy,
good album, although the lyrics to this
are a little silly (particularly on time. "
"Big Balls"). and "In
Electric: Hie Cult came out finest n
of nowhere with this awesome bum t*11
release. Produced by rap pro- Sere;
ducer Rick Rubin, the band Judas F
rocks like they never have be- this LI
fore or since. Most of the songs You'v
are basic two- and three-chord Coming
progressions, but they all sound ^eve *5
original and all rock loud. commit
this rect
Fair Warning: Van Halen at Wroi
their hardest. No crummy notmea
"Dancing in the Street" covers, but it is
this is pure hard rock. Eddie lented j
Van Halen created some great Vancou
guitar riffs, particularly "Un- some g
chained" and "So This Is cially "
Love?" Sammy Hagar can't and Bor
Think of the six women
Now m less
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which one will be rapi
One out of six college women will be sexually assaulte*
the odds of it happening. Simply by trying to avoid si
friends vulnerable. For starters, follow security measu
doors open. Walk with a friend after dark. And be a'
I problem on college campuses. With many of these rapes
Then share these facts with six of your friend. And ma
another statistic.
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list
)avid Lee Roth's vocals
Diver: Ronnie James
rmer frontman for Black
h) and company put
r an amazingly consislection
of songs, includainbow
in the Dark,"
ht Through The Heart"
on't Talk to Strangers."
work by Vivian Camper
of Whitesnake.
Zeppelin: The selfdebut
of the group that
:d heavy metal. I was
essed to only name one
um fen: this list, so I just
the first one.
)elin is hardly just a
jand, as any listener of
of the Holy can attest,
;ir first album includes
5 hard rock classics such
azed and Confused,"
Many More Times,"
mniratinn Rr<?alrrtr*vun"
ood Times, Bad Times"
3 a few.
ler Than Love: Seat>undgarden
released this,
econd full album, in
lie band has a full, rich
sound with odd, existen,rrics
that are a cut above
al dumb cliches. In fact,
arody the sterotypical
ong-lyrics with the hilartig
Dumb Sex." You can
Zep and Sabbath influi
the band, but they are
>ff artists.
ter of Puppets: Metalis
me in the same fix as
n: it is hard to pick only
urn of theirs for this list.
s is very representative
band's sound, and has
unes like "Sanitarium"
he Thing That Should
Metallica's layered
sound is incredible, and
d off constantly, just like
moid: Black Sabbath
eath metal at its finest,
roup is so eerie and
you won't want to listen
album alone the first
War Pigs," "Paranoid"
>n Man" are some of the
letal tunes. I like this almensely.
aming for Vengeance:
tiest is at their best on
\ The title track and
e Got Another Thing
are my favorites. Beor
not, I didn't want to
suicide after listening to
>rd over and over,
tg: No Means No may
n much to most readers,
die name of a very tagarage-rock
band from
tver. This album has
reat songs on it, espeTKo
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