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JUPITER ONE,
STEGOSAURUS
When: 10 p.m. Wednesday
Where: Go Bar
Also Playing: Misfortunesoo
Eclectic
bands to
grace Go
Bar stage
By KATIE ANDREW
The Red & Black
Ladies and gentlemen,
behold The Greatest
Show on Earth!
Let your senses run wild
and your amazement be
known! Tonight’s three
ring spectacular is brought
to you by the razzle-daz
zle, riffraff staff at Go Bar.
Featured acts include
the magically danceable,
genuinely relatable Jupiter
One, Stegosaurus and
Misfortunesoo. Tighten
your boot straps, ’cause
these guys can really make
your jaw drop!
To be fair, Jupiter One
is a band now —but years
ago, the fate of this ener
getic outlet rested in the
hands of two musicians
who had run away to join
the circus.
“Ringling [Bros, and]
Bamum and Bailey tried
to have a competitive cir
cus called Kaleidoscape. It
was their take on Cirque
du Soleil. It was supposed
to be really interesting
musically and visually,”
said Jupiter One drummer
David Heilman.
“Zac [Colwell] was 19
years old playing saxo
phone and flute. K
[lshibashi] was playing
violin. Those guys were
touring together, and they
met and liked each others’
musical interests.”
From there, Colwell and
Ishibashi traded in their
big-top dreams for the
Austin, Texas, music
scene. It wasn’t long before
they picked up a few more
members from all over the
country, and Jupiter One
became official in 2004.
Since then, the band
has gone about getting
their music out in a rather
non-traditional way.
“We recorded an EP
that was self-titled ‘Jupiter
One’; it had six songs on it.
Three of those songs we
never played again, and
the other three we totally
rearranged so they don’t
sound anything like that
anymore,” Heilman said.
That EP was re-worked
and re-released several
more times, which
Heilman admits must be
annoying to fans, but the
band is finally ready to dis
tribute some brand new
material. The new album,
“Sunshower”, is scheduled
to drop in May.
“If you thought the first
album was eclectic, the
second album is probably
even more so,” Heilman
said.
The next part of this act
is local band Stegosaurus,
which consists of three
University students from
Atlanta with a burning
desire to entertain.
“It sounds kind of like
Pavement and Guided by
Voices-informed indie
music,” said guitarist
Marshall Yarbrough of
their new EP “Life’s a
Beach.”
The guys of Stegosaurus
feel very strongly about
the way live music should
be performed and enjoyed,
and they intend to do it
right.
“You [see] bands that
are so into their songs,
they assume people will
like them, so they just go
up and play them,” said
Yarbrough. “You have to
approach as a performer.
You’re up there entertain
ing. You can’t have so
much faith in your songs.”
Drummer Daniel Gold
agreed. “It’s a little cynical,
but you can’t lean on your
audience. Unless you give
people a reason to care,
they’re not going to.”
Yarbrough said that
Stegosaurus sets itself
apart from the mindless
drones of indie pop bands
by “playing every show like
it’s a house show.”
L “Nobody wants to see a
1 band at a house show play
I for like an hour and do all
L their slow songs,” said
R bassist Jeff Gess.
H “Seriously, if you’re not
■ a big band if you’re not
K Of Montreal or Animal
■Collective why would I
■ want to listen to you for an
■hour and a half?” Gold
■said.
Professors to perform at reading
By JULIE LEUNG
The Red & Black
Three letters separate “profes
sor” from “performer,” and for the
latest VOX Poetry Reading, two
poet-professors will take the
stage. Sabrina Orah Mark, a Park
Fellow and creative writing
instructor at the University, and
Christine Hume, creative writing
director and associate professor
of English at Eastern Michigan
University, answer questions
about their work.
CHRISTINE HUME
Hume is the author of “Musca
Domestica” (2000),
“Alaskaphrenia”(2oo4) and
“Lullaby: Speculations on the
First Active Sense” (Ugly
Duckling Presse 2008).
Q: Tell me about the works
you’ll be sharing at the reading, is
there a unifying theme?
Ar I will almost exclusively be
performing and playing my exper
iments in sound poetry. It will be
a sonic carnival, full of cami-vocal
strangeness. I read with some
prerecorded sounds and voices to
create a more fully engrossing
and nuanced experience of poet
ry.
Ql What are your works driv
en by?
A: I’m motivated by projects.
Politically-infused fashion retains ‘wearability’
Fashion and politics had a
love-child, and its name is
activism.
Political supporters no
longer have to defile their
cars with a bumper sticker to
show their support for the
new president. Instead, the
Presidential Inaugural
Committee with its “Runway
for Change Inaugural
Collection” wants to outfit
you in Obama swag.
The Inaugural Committee
hit the ground running by
fusing fashion and politics in
an effort to raise money for
Inauguration Day. Designers
such as Zac Posen and Derek
Lam lent their creative efforts
in support of the 44th
Presidential Inauguration.
Indeed, fashion and poli
tics have reached their pinna
cle this year. Although not
politically in-your-face,
Michelle Obama upped the
fashion ante since donning a
runway creation by Narciso
Rodriguez on Election Day. If
you ask me, Rodriguez must
get down with the Obamas,
as he, too, contributed to
Runway for Change.
Is the Obama gear too
much? Is it creating a notion
of celebrity that needs to stay
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VOX POETRY READING
When: 8 p.m. Wednesday
Where: Cine
Price: Free
My first book took the fly as a
guiding flight [“Musca
Domestica”]. My next took on the
mythological place of Alaska in
our national and my personal
psyche [“Alaskaphrenia”]. The
next one, not yet out, deals in the
magical, f-ked up, enlightened,
haunted, erotic realm of psycho-
logical and physical |
darkness night.
Q: Tell me about
your journey to
becoming a writer.
A: Pure acci
dent. A roommate
in college was terri
fied to take a poetry
class, which was
required of her because of her
major, and convinced me to take
it with her. I was an art history
major at the time and had some
thing of a conversion experience
in that class. Finding contempo
rary poetry, and in it language to
express the inexpressible, was
spectacular in every sense.
Ql Do you believe your poetry
comes across differently when it’s
read out loud as opposed to read
ing it on the page?
separate from politics?
Maybe. It depends on the
motive. Some vendors seem
to be exploiting all the excite
ment to make a quick buck.
“I think [the Runway for
Change clothes] are more
long-lasting than a lot of the
stuff I have seen here,” said
Rachel Bailey, a senior maga
zines major who’s in
Washington, D.C., for the
inauguration festivities.
“Some [souvenir shirts] were
homemade, others reminded
me of something you would
see on a redneck guy at the
VFW,” Bailey said.
Many of the designers who
took part in Runway for
Change intentionally left poli
tics out of the design.
A shirt from designer
Derek Lam, for example, was
inspired by politically-neutral
ticker tape. The imagery
expressed the idea of “dialing
back to zero because we’re
starting fresh,” said Lam in
ment, which brings humanistic qualities to
today’s and tomorrow’s engineers. These are
the traits needed to resolve the complicated
issues in our society,” Flurry said.
Engineers at the University must have a
fundamental understanding of economics, his
tory and even art, he said.
“This benefits the state as we provide more
engineering opportunities to students who
want to pursue [engineering] and therefore
we strengthen the workforce in the state for
A: Absolutely. Even a terrible
performance enlarges the experi
ence of reading what’s on a page.
The voice, the rhythm, the impro
vised moments, the energy, the
relationship with the audience,
the fashion sense all informa
tion that stimulates.
SABRINA ORAH MARK
Mark’s works include “The
Babies” (winner of the 2004
Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize)
and “Walter B.’s Extraordinary
Cousin Arrives for a Visit & Other
Tales” (2006). Her next book of
poems, “Tsim, Tsum,” is set to be
published in October 2009.
Q: What kind of pieces are
you going to be reading?
A: I’m going to read a couple
from “Tsim, Tsum,” and then a
short story that is part-dream
essay that I’ve just finished.
Q: Tell me about “Tsim,
Tsum.” How does it differ from
your previous work, “The
Babies”?
A: It actually .came out of
“The Babies.” There is one sec
tion of the book called “The
Walter B. Interviews,” and the
characters Beatrice and Walter B.
emerged. I missed them so much
when I was done, I wanted to
write a whole book about them.
“Tsim, Tsum” revolves around
HUME
an interview with the
Associated Press. “We’ve
hopefully moved past the
partisanship, and we’re all
celebrating the inauguration
of anew president.”
Still, many may wonder if
this apparel is going to be “so
over” after Inauguration Day.
It won’t if you ask me.
Each shirt, scarf and tote
has wearability. It’s like wear
ing your school colors after a
big game. Showing support of
our president, whether you
voted for him or not, is essen
tial in this push for change.
So, in a few days, months,
maybe a year, go ahead and
“Ba-rack” that election or
Inauguration Day shirt that
might be at the bottom of
your drawer. Hopefully, it will
bring you back to Jan. 20 and
the dawn of anew era.
Obama, if you’re reading,
I’ll be trolling the Web site in
a few days to check if the Zac
Posen shirt is on sale. I want
to contribute all I can mone
tarily, but hey, I’m a college
kid after all and I, too, am
awaiting some change.
Karla Misjan is a
contributor for
. The Red & Black.
The Red & Black [ Wednesday, January 21, 2009
this world where Walter B. and
Beatrice seem to be at the center.
Q: What is the meaning
behind “Tsim, Tsum” and how
does it play into your characters?
A: It’s a Kabalistic term that
refers to the fact that a creation
cannot come into being unless
the creator departs from that cre
ation. In other words, the creator
has to put himself or herself into
a kind of exile to allow for the
thing that they created to fully
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I imagine [Walter B.
and Beatrice] as
inhabiting a state
of exile. They’re
kind of strangers in
their native land.
Q: What influ
ences you most?
A: Definitely my
religious background influences
my work. I went to Yeshiva, a reli
gious school, so half the day was
Hebrew, half the day was English.
We would study the Old
Testament, and we would spend
hours on one word. That, more
than anything else, taught me
how to be a reader and a listener.
Because when you spend an hour
on a sentence or word, you start
imagining these words as these
little mythical creatures. It starts
tobreathe.
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Narciso Rodriguez runway creation on
Election Day.
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