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11 hand, a man code- named Bulldog eyes t^e,
lis target 30 feet away. He lines up the j
amoflagued intruder in his sights and ^er
queezes the trigger. ^
Before he fires he feels a thump on his -j(
iack and sees a splatter of red. He grunts in
rustration as he stands up, hearing the sound ^
f a voice behind him. lltp<
"Player out!"
Rugging his barrel, Bulldog walks out of
he forest, past a fence, toward a picnic table ^
vhere his compatriots sit, also covered in >
ed. Lucky for him, though, the red liquid is c^a
laint, not blood, and he isn't stuck in Cam- 281
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For Davi d "Bulldog" Phifer, paintball is t
nore than just a sport. For the past five years, .
hifer and his semi-automatic paintball gun
lave been participating in the nation's fore- i
nost "weekend warrior" game. Ite(
"I always liked cowboys and Indians," ^
hifer said. "This is just fun. We're not prac- aj^
icing to take over the world." ^
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5aintball is played with a number of groups
) have carbon dioxide-powered guns that
round balls of paint that splatter when
y hit something. If you get hit, you're out
5hifer is team captain for "Silent Thun,"
the Columbia- based team that pracs
at Vanguard Paintball Games, just out
i of Columbia.
Dennis Day, owner and founder of Vanird,
got the idea from watching "60 Mini."
The field has been open for eight years.
"We're trying to get paintball into the
mpics," Day said. "That's the hope and f
am of the elders."
rhe age group playing paintball has
inged, Day said, from an average age of 1
/ears old to around 22, with a significant 1
nber of USC students who come out to I
the sport.
It's a child's game grown up," Day said. J
\ a high adrenaline sport."
\ group of Towers residents recently vis- (
i Vanguard, most of them for the first 1
e. Most studentB commented on the "adren- 1
le rush" and the teamwork that comes ]
h the games.
Towers RA. John Gadsden had other con- i
ns. "I don't know what's worse... the pel- <
i or the giant mosquitos." 1
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ich allow for a variety of different games, i
at are capture-the-flag type fields, taking ]
ce in different scenarios, including a town, ;
)rt surrounded by a moat and a strip of
est. i
Laurel Irving taught anti-terrorism tech[ues
in the Air Force before becoming a <
ntball player in 1987. He is now a coach.
Taintball helps a lot of folks fulfill fanies.
It is aggressive, but legal," Irving said,
hat you might not expect is that females
s more agressive than the males."
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orost dodging palntballs at tho Vanguard
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"It's a lot of teamwork. We're all good
riends that get to shoot one another and
augh about it afterward," April Hakim, a
lanker, said.
There's no gender to this," said 1988 USC
graduate Rose Flint. Tt's sweaty but fun."
Irving said most first-time paintballers
ire concerned by the "sting" when the paintjall
hits. "There's all kinds of protection,
hough?breast protectors and cups, so any
Dain you would feel goes away fast."
"With the safety equipment, this is as safe
is possible," Gadsden said. "It gives you kind
if a feel for what the militarv croes through.
Dut without having to join."
"The Citadel guys get knocked out every
time they came, because they have orders
not to back up," Spring Valley High School
junior Scott Serbin said.
Field fees for Vanguard are $12, which
includes a gun, paintballs and a carbon dioxide
cartridge. According to Day, most players
end up spending closer to $20 after buying
extra paintballs.
"Paintball is a childhood game we played
as youngsters. Now we play on an adult basis,"
Phifer said. "It's basically just hide and
seek."
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Lay Quiet Awhile's "almost monthly" show li
at Rockefellas' tomorrow night lands in the mid- s
die of a busy and transitional time for the Columbia
band. fc
Made up of Danielle Howie on vocals, broth- s
ers Dan and Phil Cook on bass and guitar and f
David Wright on drums, the band is in the t
process of writing songs for their second full
length album, while playing sporadic shows s
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will be released in about four months, accord- c
ing to Howie. t
"The rest of the band is in a hard situation
right now because they have to deal with the
fact of me going away and playing by myself ]
sometimes, and they like me to do that, they're c
not mad about it, but we do have to make some
concessions for one another's extra-curricular j
activities," Howie said of the band's long record- c
ing process. s
Her personal "extra-curricular activities" ^
include opening for the Indigo Girls with solo,
acoustic acts on a 13-show European tour be- r
ginning Nov. 5. LQA's 1993 studio recording, f
Delicate Wire, was put out by Daemon Records, j
the label owned by Amy Ray of Indigo Girls.
Howie released an untitled, solo, seven-inch j,
record four months ago on a separate label,
Simple Machines, and recently finished a two
and a half week tour with the band Tsunami, *
the owners and operators of Simple Machines. ^
The current members of LQA have been
playing together for almost five years now, af- ,
ter Howie met Phil through school. Lay Quiet
Awhile had already put out one record, but
Howie says their sound changed after she joined.
"They had this weird, redneck girl running j
around now...they used to be a lot more, I thought
psychedelic," Howie said. "We didn't really 1
know what we were doing. We didn't want to 1
know. We were just having fun."
What has evolved is a band Howie now de
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cribes as thrash/folk metal. She believes the
ive record will add more to the band's overall
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"It was just one show when everything was
lappening in a good way," Howie said "There's
omething me and Phil thought was missing
rom Delicate Wire, sort of a live edge, a cerain
amount of energy there."
As for the full-length EP in the works, Howie
aid it could be better or worse than any preious
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After Howie returns from her stint with the
ndigo Girls, she said the band will concentrate
in completing the new studio EP.
"We're going to try to not go out and play a
ot so we can focus on our record," Howie said.
She also plans on recording her own full-length
10I0 album, a project she describes as a crazy
tang.
"I started recording it in London about four
nonths ago, but parts of it are going to be recordid
in the yard, in the house, in my car..itfs gong
to be a weird record," she says.
It's the band, however, that Howie says helps
)ring out more creativity in her music.
"They make me think of things I would nev- ,
jr be able to think of by myself" Howie said.
They totally make me think differently, and
hat's probably the greatest thing in the world."
According to Howie, the band just wants to
"write good songs and play as long as we can,"
major label or not looming in the future.
"We're the kind of band that's not going to
make any decisions that are going to cause
barm to our personalities or what we believe
in," Howie said. Tm not going to say I would
never do it (sign with a major label), but we
dont think of music like that. We think about
music of the creating of it."
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