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* Malkmus
Singer opitimizes
Generation Xers
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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
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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
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ally likes the theater, it’ll be a very
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The play also deals with very
heavy issues, such as life and the
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Kroeker said the play “deals with
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Rutherford, third-year MFA di
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Rutherford the stage set is “a lit
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bones ... but as the show goes on,
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