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® • The Red and Black • Friday, November 9, 1990
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TGIF
The best bet for this weekend Is obvious. Since this city will be a
veritable ghost town, it's the perfect opportunity to go out and
see the wonder of the place you call home. The fall color spec
tacle Is In full swing so head out and capture it on film.
Blake Babies: The Tootsie Roll Pop of progressive music
TATE CENTER THEATER
• Nov. 9-10: Sweetie. A "Whatever
Happened to Baby Jane?" (or the
nineties by director Jane Campion.
Dark and gripping.
• Midnight: Zorro, the Gay Blade.
• Nov. 11-12: Tie Me Up, Tie Me
Down! The weakest of Pedro
Almodovar's films, but anything he
directs can't help but be interesting in
some way. This is a story of love
amidst perverse sexual fixation.
• Nov. 14: The Killing Fields.
Courage and friendship pervade this
excellent rememberance of the U.S.
bombings in Cambodia. Absolutely
essential viewing.
• Nov. 15: Tales from the Glmll
Hospital. Odds are you've never seen
anything like it and never will again.
Give it a try.
MOVIES IN TOWN
ALPS
• Wild at Heart. And weird on top.
And your little dog Toto, too. And your
bird can sing. And so it goes.
• Ernest Goes to Hell. Whoops! I
mean Jail. Silly me.
CLASSIC TRIPLE
• Ghost. The top grossing movie of
the year. If you haven't seen it yet,
you are now officially a minority and
just might be eligible for Government
scholarship money.
• Child's Play 2. The first one was
okay, but even the previews for this
one look repulsive. I overheard an
eight-year-old girl talking about going
to see it. Innocence is dead.
• Jacob's Ladder.
GEORGIA SQUARE
• Avalon. Barry Levinson's saga of an
immigrant family in Baltimore is the
third in his Baltimore series, alter the
underrated "Tin Men” and the
comparitively overrated "Diner."
"Avalon" looks very good, but the
reviews have been mixed.
• Reversal of Fortune. Conversely,
the reviews for this have been
virtually all raves. Glen Close, Jeremy
Irons and Ron Silver star in this
irreverant docudrama about the Klaus
Von Bulow trial.
• Return of Superfly. I'm not going to
say anything. Good soundtrack. I'll
say that.
• Memphis Belle. Upon reflection,
Matthew Modine's performance as
captain is not as limp as I'd thought.
The character is limp, but Modine
does lend it some heart.
• Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael.
The tale of a "socially inappropriate"
girl and her nonexistent Mom. Sweet
and funny.
• Marked for Death. My roommate
had an interesting idea - legalize
drugs so that Hollywood can't make
anymore movies about evil drug
lords. I think it's worth a try.
• Pacific Heights. Go to the theatre
next to it and watch the trailer for this
movie, instead. It's much better.
• White Palace.
• Sibling Rivalry. To explain "Hoover
City": Hoover makes vacuum
cleaners. What do vacuum cleaners
do? That's what "Sibling Rivalry"
does. Get it?
LEFONT BEECHWOOD
• Mr. Destiny. Baseball and
ballyhoo.
• Quigley Down Under.
• Graveyard Shift.Hickory Dickory
Dock gone awry.
• Henry and June.
— Noel Murray
MUSIC IN TOWN
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COLLEGE CLASS RINGS
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5385 Five Forks Trickum Road
Suite 200-C
Stone Mountain, Georgia 30087
Telephone: 404/925-2832
or
University Bookstore
404/542-3171
ORDER: 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Monday and
Wednesday
UGA BOOKSTORE
• Nov. 9: White Buffalo. Sigh.
• Nov. 10: Now Potato Caboose. A
lot like White Buffalo, only two dollars
more.
• Nov. 12: Second Step.
• Nov. 13: September Facet. Rok
(without the c).
• Nov. 14: Loa Lobos. Think what you
will about “La Bamba," their first full-
length album “How Will the Wolf
Survives?" remains a classic. Roots-
rock that matters.
• Nov. 15: Qlen Phillips and Tinsley
Ellis. Roots rock that matters redux.
ROCKFISH PALACE
• Nov. 9: Michelle Malone and Drag
the River. Pretty good Etheridgesque
rock, though a tad dry.
• Nov. 10: Vigilantes of Love and
Cordy Lon. Two flawed but intriguing
bands. Acoustic-heads will love it.
• Nov. 12: Rockafellas.
• Nov. 14: Dylan Fence.
DOWNSTAIRS
• Nov. 9: The Drovers, The Drovers,
send Bucky right over. Scamper
Avalon: L-R: Mindy Loren Isenstein, Grant Gelt, and Elijah Wood.
scamper. Scream scream.
• Nov. 10: Second Skin. From the
ashes of Fetchin’ Bones comes ...
Hugo Largo? Sounds interesting.
• Nov. 12: Nlckl Meets the Habachi
follows Poets Mudwrestling.
• Nov. 13: Movie Night. No special
glasses necessary.
• Nov. 14: Wet Grass. Debut of a
new band featuring Dan Famz and
John Crist.
• Nov. 15: Magister Ludl. and 28
Days. Killer double bill here. In all, it’s
a good week for unique pop bands
across town, with these two right at
the top, after Blake Babies.
— Noel Murray
Second Step: Blues
meets funk Monday
By JASON PASTRAS
Contributing Writer
Fresh, exciting, original and
funky are all good words to de
scribe The Second Step, who will be
playing at the Georgia Theatre
Monday night. After one listen,
any human will agree that this
band is a major contender for fun
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The main attraction of the band
is the vast array of styles they
cover within the context of single
songs, and the fresh new treatment
they give those styles. Ska, pop,
jazz, funk, rock and rhythm and
blues are just some of the styles
that their alarmingly original com
positions contain.
Tim Champeaux, the trumpet
player for the band’s three man
horn section, said “the band is a
professional working unit.”
“We don’t have day jobs,” Cham
peaux said, elaborating on the ded
ication of the band’s members. “If
we wanted to be rich, we would
have stayed in the studio.”
They didn’t stay in the studio,
but instead chose to take their
music on the road and pursue suc
cess with the band.
“Some bands have good inten
tions, but can’t pull it off musi
cally,” Champeaux said. “When it
comes to brass tacks, we’re ready
to rock. We’re all experienced, but
we’re young cats.”
He said many of the other mus-
cial styles arose from the vast
amount of experience the mem
bers, as studio musicians, have had
with other musical forms.
Since the different styles have
made the band’s style so difficult to
classify, a new term has been
coined: ethnofunk.
“We were the first and only band
in New York City to play ethno
funk and now there’s like eight
bands doing it,” Champeaux said.
The band has won several com
petitions in New York and was
even proclaimed Best Unsigned
Band in New York City. In Co
lumbia, S.C., the club that hosted
them offered a moneyback guar
antee if the patrons didn’t like
them. Champeaux said, “No one
asked for their money back.”
Although that deal won’t be in
effect at the Georgia Theatre, it
makes one thing clear - this band
will be worth the cover.
Wogglea. Experience energetic pop-
rock from a modernist perspective
with Greenhouse, and from a
classicist's perspective with The
Woggles. Funn (with two n’s).
• Nov. 10: Rein Sanction. Meaty
noise, played with love. Low on
material but high on power. Worth
seeing.
• Nov. 12: Blake Babies. Chewy
deconstructionist pop songs abound
with this crunchy Boston trio. Hmm.
Chewy and crunchy? Blake Babies
are the Tootsie Roll Pop of
progressive music. Show of the week.
• Nov. 13: The San Franciscan
opium-pop of X-Tal meets the
Athenian gutter-pop of The Violets for
the championship of the world.
• Nov. 14: Blind Lemon Plo.
• Nov. 15: Heavy Ethel and Cancer.
GEORGIA THEATRE