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This Week in History Nov. 7, 1986 - The student senate finally approved the new constitution after four weeks of debate. . Monday, November 6, 2000 ■SB .Mili" - '' 'V" ’ rv*' ' Jucifer sticks to basics of music by Erin O’Neal The Gamecock For six years Jucifer, the collective name for anti-mainstream duo Amber Valentine and Edward Livengood, have stuck to their guns and remained dedicat ed to music. The hard work and commitment has paid off for this Athens, Geoigia-based band, as they continue touring the east coast to promote the 2000 Capricorn re-re lease of “Calling All Cars on the Vegas Strip.” While Capricorn carries big-name bands such as Cake and 311, it also backs the bands 3 Skinnee Js and Gov’t Mule. ' “We never shopped for a record label because we were pretty cynical about them,” Valentine said. “But it turned out that [Capricorn is] actually a really artist-friendly label.” vjiuuNC MJliic ui uicu icuuw Cll WJlO, JUU1C1 1103 a UCUU IU11C UCOUllU ing their sound Actually, they prefer not to be categorized “We really hate trying to describe it to people. If they’re asking about what we’re like live, I tell them that it’s really loud and heavy but also pretty,” Valentine said “\W’re not punk, but there are elements of that in our music. We’re not met al, but there are elements of that.” “I’ve noticed that everybody who conies up to our shows generally — like the punk rockers and the indie rockers, or whatever — they all compare us to what they listen to,” Livengood added. Even their opening acts come from a wide range of musical genres. Everything from country and hip-hop to a man dressed in a gorilla costume singing to 8-tracks. “We really like it if we can bring different people together. Because then they might realize that there is other music out there, other than what they’ve already been exposed to, that they might like,” Valentine said When the subject of Napster came up, the two laughed before explaining how the free downloading of MP3s effects bands. “It’s bad because you don’t get royalties. You don’t get rich off of royalties — you don’t even see your royalties — but your record label does. They put all this money into you, and if they don’t get it back, they might drop you. So it really hurts f » young bands. It really doesn’t hurt the huge bands as much,” Valentine said. While Jucifer realizes the promotional advantages to having its songs avail able to large amounts of people, both Livengood and Valentine recognize that not everyone who downloads free MP3s understands how the result can hurt bands. “It kind of pisses me off when people act like they’re entitled to having free access to stuff that cost a lot of effort for people to make — not just the writing of a song, but the recording. It can take some serious time and money,” Valentine said. Jucifer’s touring schedule includes a rigorous lineup for the weeks ahead, with back-to-back appearances scheduled in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Illinois. “You have to get used to it. The first week [of touring] always sucks because you’re not in that sleeping pattern,” Livengood said. Though the duo might disagree on things from time to time, their views on mu sic — and the sacrifices involved in being a musician — are similar. “You have to believe in what you’re doing. You have to want to do it so much that you will suffer for it,” Valentine said. The spotlight desk can be reached at gamecockspotiight@hotmail.com. Match-0-Matic site helps voters make election connection by Erin O’Neal The Gamecock Still having trouble deciding which candidate to vote for in the quickly ap proaching 2000 presidential election? Not sure exactly where candidates stand on the issues? “I know where [the candidates] stand on most of the issues, but there are some issues I’m kind of vague on,” business financing major David Williams said. f I For those students who are still undecided, 1V1llage.com has come up with a program that matches voters with presidential candidates. Village’s Candidate Match o-Matic asks voters twenty questions concerning issues such as education or tax es; hot topics, such as abortion, capital punishment and gay rights; and govern ment concerns such as immigration and military spending. At the end of each set of questions, voters are asked how important they consider those issues. Match-o Matic then compiles the percentage of issues the candidate and voter agree on as well as how important those issues are to the voter. Once all four sections are completed, the Candidate Match-o-Matic reveals which presidential hopeful best represents the voter’s position on the issues. An overall percentage is given to show how much the candidate and voter agree on the issues, as well as a break-down of percentages on each of the four main cat egories. For those who aren’t satisfied with just percentages, Village also offers voters the opportunity to compare their own views question-by-question on each issue with those of their candidate. p Another feature offered by Village’s Candidate Match-o-Matic is the ability to see how the voter’s viewpoint differs with those of other candidates. Voters are able to compare their opinions to those of Libertarian Harry Browne, the Green Party’s Ralph Nader, Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan, and, of course, Republican Cnrvrrro \\! TJiicVt anH Hnnin/'rotie \/iDrocirlflnt Al fiflFP. “I think it would be interesting. I’m not sure how much it would affect my de cision, but I think it would be interesting to see,” engineering major Katie Page said. IVdlage.com isn’t the only Web site that offers a voter/candidate match-up pro gram. SelectSmart.com offers a program that matches undecided or unsure voters with the candidate who best fits their opinions. SelectSmart focuses, for the most part, on controversial topics such as abortion, gun control and gay rights, but it al so touches on the subjects of education and tax reform. GoVote.com is another Web site that matches voters with the candidates who best match their views. GoVote.com is a bit more organized than SelectSmart, it in cludes a variety of topics including individual rights and domestic and economic is sues. “I think it’d be interesting to see, but I don’t see it swaying my choice,” sopho more chemistry major Emma Broom said i*>j The spotlight desk can be reached at , r gamecockspotlight@hotmail.com. Columbia to hear » - ‘Caedmon’s Call’ by Mackenzie Craven The Gamecock Caedmon’s Call is coming to Shan don Baptist Church Tuesday at 7 p.m. The seven-member Christian band has been on tour since Oct. 10 promot ing their newest CD, “Long Line of Leavers.” Cliff Young, vocalist and gui tarist, said the band has been playing a lot of college shows. “That was the audience who origi nally responded to our music,” Young said. The band started eight years ago. Young joined future wife Danille Glenn and songwriter Aaron Tate. Right now, Tate doesn’t tour with the band. However, Young feels that Tate’s songs are meaningful. “It doesn’t feel like it’s not ours, we are there so much together when songs are being written,” Young said. The band has many different influ ences, such as James Taylor, Indigo Girls, Rich Mullians, The Police and Vhn Halen. Young says he hates his music to be clas sified as Christian rock. “Christian music is not a genre. The best thing to do is to listen for style,” Young said. “You wouldn’t listen to the band Live and realize they are all Buddhist,” Young said. Young said the first group of people who gets interested in a certain genre of music put a label on it. Followers of Caedmon’s Call, in the band’s early years, met everyone in a church, so that’s how they were la beled as Christian music. - “I think the people who we played for initially are the people who labeled us that,” Young said. Then, once they were signed, they were labeled Christ lan because they were in Christian mag azines and Christian radio stations. Their name is also related to a spir itual song writer, Caedmon, who was an old English Poet. Young says the show on Tuesday will be casual. “Our hope in concerts is that the audience members are coming into our living room,” Young said. They usually pull out some random stuff, for their covers, anything ranging from folk band to mainstream. Young said the goal of a live show is to get everyone involved. “The ultimate thing is to get 1,000 to 2000 people responding to stuff, get ting songs and understanding lyrics,” Young said. < The band has had a lot of changes since their start eight years ago. “We are playing for a lot more peo pie, we ve changed hand members, we ve added members,” Young said. “We just sold out a show with 6,000 people, we’ve been on the cover of mag azines,” Young said. They have changedtand members for different reasons. “A couple of band members were over 40, and they need ed to stay at home,” Young said. The youngest member of the band has brought a lot of attention, especially from the female crowd. “Moore is still in high school. He is amazing, he has been getting a lot of at tention. Within the last year, he picked up the guitar, harmonica and accordion,” Young said. The spothght desk can be reached at gamecocks potiight@hotmail.com. Special to The Gamecock Caedmon’s Call, a group that’s seen many changes in its lineup, wants to be thought of as more than just a Christian rock band. Four rap stars form 'Constellation by Phil Watson The Gamecock “Collaboration Of Nations Striving To End Life Long Aspirations To Intro duce Our Narrations” is better known as “Constellation.” The four-man rap group hopes to put South Carolina on the rap map. Big Kahuna, Loc, Sir Larice-a-lot, and Jon Blak form this constellation. Orig inally from Greenwood, S.C., these guys have been friends since they were chil dren. They started seriously pursuing their dreams of breaking into the world of rap in 1998. A wide range of rap artists has in fluenced the group. Outkast, Tupac Shakur, Jay-Z and Notorious B.I.G. have all had an impact on Constellation. “We’re influenced by anyone who really goes out there and lays it down,” Big Kahuna said. Constellation’s DJ Tim-E, said the group is going to bring widespread fame to South Carolina. “These guys have their own style of music. It’s an overlap of what hap pened when South Carolina first seced ed from the union,” he said, jokingly. “You ’re not going to hear all Atlanta bass booty music, you’re not going to hear all up-North hip-hop and you’re not going to hear all West Coast hip-hop. It’s a mixture of all flavors. Really, they’re four stars that came together,” DJ Tim Esaid. The group tries to rap about real-life experiences. They say this makes them different front a lot of popular rap artists today. One of the songs off Constella tion’s new self-titled album is about Pres ident Clinton’s oral sexcapedes in the oval office. This kind of song is what makes constellation unique, said Big Kahuna. “We talk about a lot of issues and re al life things, but we make fun of a lot of them at the same time. Wfe talk trash about them because we’re mad about them,” said Big Kahuna. “We strive to be different. Overall, we have a positive message going out to people. But it’s reality at the same time, so you can’t be all positive. You have to tell them how it is, and maybe stop someone from going through what we went through. But they’re probably going to go through it anyway, so we just let them know about it,” Big Kahuna said. One of Constellation’s new songs is called “Cloud Killer.” Sir Lance-a-lot ex plained that a real-life incident inspired the song. “We were at a club and a fight broke out. Someone started shooting, but they weren’t shooting at anybody in par ticular. They were just shooting up in the air. So we called them cloud killers,” Sir Lance-a-lot said. Constellation’s live shows are known for their lively energy. Their next appearance in Columbia will be on Nov. 21 at the Elbow Room. The group’s new self-titled CD will be available at the show. The spotlight desk can be reached at gamecockspotIight@hotmail.com. Limp Bizkit’s frustrated, angry album tests boundaries of dirty imaginations Special to The Gamecock Limp Bizkit has released its new album, “Chocolate Starfish and Hotdog Flavored Water" by Phil Watson The Gamecock \ Last time they did it all for the nookie, and now they’re doing it for \ the ‘‘Chocolate Starfish and Hotdog Flavored Water.” Although \ Limp Bizkit’s new album’s title is extremely disturbing and tests ' \ just how dirty your imagination is, it doesn’t fail to pump out \ more of the breakneck music that made Fred Durst and the \ boys famous. g^^ \ After a shaky debut album that didn’t do too well, Limp Bizk it released “Significant Other,” which was a best-seller with Hjjfl smash hits like “Nookie” and “Break Stuff.” ■ In their latest album, “Chocolate Starfish and Hotdog Fla _^PPf vored Water,” Limp Bizkit doesn’t disappoint. It’s the kind of album that brings rap, rock, uncontrollable anger and sporadic jSIr violence together for a unique CD that you can listen to the Wr whole way through... while beating to death with a rusty shov el the guy your girlfriend used to cheat on you. That’s right, lis r tening to this new album makes you think of violence. Fred Durst’s angry voice and attitude is still an inspiration to mil lions of frustrated suburban white boys in this heaviest of heavy albums. But frustrated suburban white boys aren’t the only ones who will en joy this CD. All people, white, black, purple, yellow and red will en joy this album, just as long as they’re frustrated and angry. The spotlight desk can be reached at gamecockspotiight@hotmail.com. Movie Times Carmike-Wvnnsong 10 5320 Forest Drive7/82-8100 Bring It On (PG-13) 2:00,7:30 The Cell (R) 4:30,9:30 The Contender (PG-13) 1:30,4:15,7:00, 9:45 Dr. T & the Women (R) 1:30,4:00,7:00, 9:45 The Exorcist (R) 1:15, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Get Carter (R) 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:15 Ladies Man (R) 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:15 Legend of Drunken (R) 2:00,4:30,7:15, 9:30 Lost Souls (R). 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30 Pay it Forward (PG) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30 . What Lies Beneath (PG-13) 1:30,4:00, 7:30,10:15 Columbiana Grande Cinemas 1250 Bower Parkway, 407 9898 Almost Famous (R) 2:05,4:50,7:25,10:05 Bedazzled (PG-13) 1:05,2:10,3:30,5:00, 7:05,7:55,9:35 Best in Show (PG-13) 1:00,3:10,5:20, 7:15,9:20 Book of Shadows (R) 2:00, 4:30, 7:25, 9:30 Bring It On (PG-13) 1:05, 3:20, 5:30, 7:45,10:20 The Exorcist (R) 1:00,3:45, 6:30,9:10 Legend of Bagger Vance (PG-13)1:15, 4:00,4:30,6:50,7:30,9:25,10:15 Legend of Drunken (R) 1:05,3:25,5:45, 7:50,10:00 Lost Souls (R) 1:40, 4:00, 7:45, 9:55, 12:05 Lucky Numbers (R) 1:20,4:35,7:00,7:10 9:35,9:40 Pay it Forward (PG-13) 1:25,2:00,4:10, 6:55,7:35,9:45,10:20 Dutch Square 14 800 Busn River Road, 750 3576 Bedazzled (PG-13) 1:50,4:50,7:45,10:10 Blair Witch Project 2 (R) 1:00,3:00,5:00, 7:40,10:00 • Charlie’s Angels (PG-13) 1:00,2:00,3:05, 4:10,5:15, 7:05,7:45,9:20,10:00 The Contender (R) 7:10 The Exorcist (R) 1:30,4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Ladies Man (R) 2:30,5:00,10:05 Little Vampire (PG) 1:10, 3:15, 5:20, 7:25,9:40 Legend of Bagger Vance (PG-13)1:10, 4:20,7:15,10:05 Legend of Drunken (R) 2:00,4:40,7:15, 9:20 Lost Souls (R) 2:20, 5:10, 7:30, 9:40 Lucky Numbers (R) 1:40, 4:10, 7:30, 10:10 Meet the Parents (PG-13) 1:50, 4:30, 7:20,9:45 Pay it Forward (PG-13) 1:15,4:00,7:10, 9:50 Remember the Titans (PG) 1:40,4:00, 7:00,9:30 Regal Cinema 7 Richland Mall Rooftop, 748 9044 Book of Shadows (R) 2:10,4:40,7:40, 10:00 Charlie’s Angels (PG-13)1:40,4:10,7:20, 9:50 Legend of Bagger Vance (PG-13) 1:30, 4:20,7:10,10:00 Little Vampire (PG) 1:55, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 Lucky Numbers (R) 1:35, 4:35, 7:30, 10:05 Meet the Parents (PG-13) 2:00, 4:30, 7:05,9:45 Remember the Titans (G) 1:50,4:25,7:00, 9:55 WRHA Channel 8 Monday Don’t be a Menace, 2 p.m. Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, 5 p.m. Center Stage, 8 p.m. Shanghai Noon, 11 p.m. Don’t Be a Menace, 2 am. Tuesday Absolute Power, 2 p.m. .Analyze This, 5 p.m. Keeping the Faith, 8 p.m. The Patriot, 11 p.m. Absolute Power, 2 am.