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* Malkmus Singer opitimizes Generation Xers CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 check him out. He is his own pri vate empire with limited avenues for entry. Malkmus optimizes the hip ’90s. A sarcastic, apathetic gen eration that simply had nothing to do, no war to protest against or fight and no massive front against social-injustice to support. A gen eration that was branded with the dreaded marketing catch phrase, Generation X. But Pavement fans have grown up. They’ve been forced to rip out the snooze.button, put down the pipe, and get out of bed. Some wonder if Malkmus will make it to work on time. Judging by the renewed freshness of his new al bum, he is more likely to have his shoes shined in the executive lounge while enjoying a Gin and Tonic rather than try to keep his cool in the mailroom when the hot young intern drops by to ask him, “Are you going to see The Strokes tonight?” Malkmus hasn’t lost his wry wit, but his joke seems dated. Which brings us to the ultimate question: Is he merely a ’90s peri od piece or does his music have the strength to remain significant? From the lackadaisical perspective that he helped initiate in the ’90s, it’s doubtful that it truly matters. Levereaux Voice inside knows what it’s saying CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 and my brain took me once again to faraway times and places. I reached instinctively for my pen and — “Miss Levereaux! I would greatly appreciate it if you didn”t work on other things while I am lecturing.” So I’m back at square one, studying things I don’t want to learn, with teachers constantly yelling at me to pay attention. I’m telling you all of this, faithful readers, hoping you won’t waste your time doing what I did. Don’t think college can change you. It might make you look different on the outside, and it might make you think in slightly different ways. But underneath it all, college can’t change what you are. It can’t change the feeling that you get when you know what you are meant to do. If you are meant to write, write. If you are meant to study microorganisms, study microorganisms. If you are meant to design bridges, design bridges. Don’t listen to what your advisors say you should do, because they’re just telling you what they think you should do. Listen to that voice instead, the one we rarely pay attention to, because it’s not very noticeable. Listen to yourself, just this once. Musicians unite BY WILLIAM MILLS THE GAMECOCK These days you never know who you’ll run into at a show. You might see members of Hootie and the Blowfish in a band with members of the Blue Dogs and Cravin’ Melon. Hank Futch of the Bluedogs and Mark Bryan of Hootie and the Blowfish are again combining their talents along with Gary Greene who has acted as drummer for both Hootie and the Blowfish and Cravin’ Melon to create the rocky bluegrass trio, Occasional Milkshake. A few years back, friends Futch and Bryan embarked on a short lived bluegrass project called The High Sheriffs. “Occasional Milkshake is kind of a continua tion,” Futch said. Six months ago, they asked Greene to play percus sion, and have played six shows since. They played in Charleston, Florence and Myrtle Beach, but this is their first Columbia show. They haven’t played many conoerts because of the member’s dedication to their full-time bands. They get togeth er between touring and recording al bums. Futch said they “will be play ing together for a long time. ’' “We’ve been having a blast,” Futch said. “We play rock and roll songs we don’t normally get to play. We play covers, and Mark has writ ten one song. We’re really pulling from all our different influences - frock, bluegrass, punkabilly.” The band’s bluegrass feel comes from all three members. “My dad took me to bluegrass festivals so Tve been around it ever since I was a kid. I think Mark got turned on to it in the past four years. He’s fallen in love with it. And Ggjy is related to some famous bluegrass musi cians.” If you’re coming out for the blue grass, Futch advised that you come out early. “WeTlprobablyplay blue grass the first four songs. After we’ll put on our punkabilly and rock hats.” All three musicians sing, cre ating a lot of harmonies, Futch said. Bryan plays guitar and mandolin, Futch plays upright bass, and Greene is the percussionist. “It’s kind of like a box of choco lates,” Futch said describing the sound of Milkshake to be a bit like life according to Forrest Gump. Let’s just hope that this group is as lucky as Gump and they don’t end up as another casualty of war. Play There’s more going on than you think CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 deal with, and for someone who re ally likes the theater, it’ll be a very enriching experience.” The play also deals with very heavy issues, such as life and the path to an unavoidable death. Kroeker said the play “deals with some very important issues that I think everyone of us is dealing with right now such as the journey from life to death, and the nature of‘what’s my purpose in life.’” Rutherford, third-year MFA di recting candidate, said, “This is a very comedic performance, and the idea of death, while it’s definitely prevalent, it’s notsomething that is dealt with in a tragic way. As a di rector, what I hope for is that the au dience laughs all the way through the show, and then go home and start to think about what they were laughing at. And essentially the fact is they were laughing about death, and in the times right now, I think that’s something that’s important to us, the knowledge that everything doesn’t have to be tragic, that we can have some levity in our lives.” Rutherford the stage set is “a lit tle deceptive, because when the show opens, it looks very bare bones ... but as the show goes on, we find out that there’s a lot more going on than what we first see, and there’s an entire set that we don’t reveal until the third act.” P H©E N IX "COLUMBIA MALL “Theatres CINEMA 8" ^ www.phoenixtheatres.com wim-inn u Two Notch & Parklane at Columbia Mall ¥ First Run Films ¥ Large Auditoriums ¥ Digital & Stereo & Surround Sound ¥ Daily Matinees ¥ Well Lit Parking ¥ Credit Cards at Box Office ¥ Computerized Advance Ticketing p - -a_ aCJX' 'v Paridane Rd._£ Decker Blvd. 1 ■"^^^nColumbla Mall o ^ Cinema 8 o a. ■ * i Columbia Mall "§ ►— ( SHOW TIMES 803-788-7664 or www.ph oen ixth eatres.com ► Imagine winning $25,000 to Studying Abroad. . . 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