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PAPfi 6-THE MERCER CLUCTER-FEBRUABY 25,1983
ENTERTAINMENT
Macon’s Entertainment Alternative
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Do you find yourself getting caught in
that faqiiliar old bag every weekend;
emptying your pockets at the "local”
video game, snoozing in a good movie,
stomping out on the disco floor, looking
- for something - at everybody's favorite
bar. roller skating around in the same
circle again? Well, if you're one of the
great mob of Middle Georgians
mumbling "Maltin' iz soooo dead.”
hoping for just a small alternative to the
plip-drip of rain against the window
pane, a new brand of entertainment is it.
town.
SPACEPORT LASER PRODUC
TIONS, a Long Island, N.Y. - based
laser company with touring shows
currently in San Francisco and San Jose,
California, Hartford. Connecticut and
Louisville. Kentucky, has been perform
ing in the Macon Museum of Arts and
Sciences' Mark Smith Planetarium since
November 1982. Their light shows are an
exciting combination of multi-color laser
patterns, pulsating three-dimensional
figures, incandescent lights, vivid slides
Soft Cell: ‘"Non - Stop
Ecstatic Dancing”
and other planetarium special effects,
synchronized to great music in powerful,
stereophonic sound. The shows have
ranged from the broad appeal of the
jazz/rock classic "Cosmic Concert to
the Christmas fun of "Jingle Bell
Lasers" to the rock-n-roll energy of
"Rock Fantasy."
Now being presented by SLP every
weekend; Fridays at 9 and 10:30 p.m..
Saturdays at 7:30. 9 and 10:30 p.m. and
Sundays at 7:30 and 9 p.m. is "Starlight:
Featuring The Best of Pink Floyd." It's
quite likely that you've heard about
"Pink Floyd" and the other shows on the
radio. But listening to or reading about
how good or spectacular a laser show is
just isn't enough. You have to see it. You
have to see the light—and frankly. Macon
has never seen a light like this before.
Maybe you haven't either.
To find the action, keep straight out
Vineville Avenue, which becomes
Forsyth Road and turn left into the
Museum . of Arts and Sdences/Littls
Theatre driveway just before Rivoli
Crossing. The price (there's always a
price) for bringing your weekend alive -
just once, is *3.25.
If this little revelation is confusing or if
you need any additional information, call
the SPACEPORT HOTLINE - -474-2211.
Come on out and have yourself an
original evening. You're welcome —
here.
By John Young
I was initially unimpressed by Soft
Cell. I didn't like their cover of "Tainted
Love." a second rate tune by Gloria
Jones. They had an unpleasant persona:
twerps raised by pimps in Times Square.
1 also didn't like their pandering to the
punk and gay crowd. But I got respect
for these guys now, after hearing this
bargain-priced six-song record.
Except for " Where Did Our Love Go.”
which is the aural equivalent of a
limp-wristed mince around the boite, all
the vocal tracks feature really good
singing. Good lyrics, too: "Insecure...
ME? is the unhappy declaration of a
narcissistic follower of the fashion that if
it weren't for the insincerity, arrogance,
and blind acceptance of an outre
lifestyle, he'd have nothing at all. Cindy
Ecastasy (A Debby Harry Clone) is on
hand to enjoy the singer's self-loathing
and to urge him on in a cold-blooded rap.
This leads appropriately, intt^ "Sex
Dwarf” in which singer Marc Almond
recites a litany of leather-related
perversions amid orgasmic ... ‘'Cricket"
sounds (I think).
The real killers are on side one.
though.j "Memorabilia” is a morbid
rumination on memory and souvenirs.
The way Almond dead-pans the lyrics,
he should have named the song
• "Necrophilia." Great stuff, especially
with the rhythm track of all time.
Skip over "Where Did Our Love Go”
and you'll arrive at Perfection Itself:
"What?” by household word H.B.
Baraum (who?). With David Ball s airy
synthesizer work on top and ham-fisted
drum machine pounding along on
bottom, Almond takes the High and
Hard vocal approach to simple lost-love
lyrics and a tune copped from Petula
Clark's "Downtown" (sort of). A
refreshing change of pace from the
misery and urgency that pervades the
rest of this worthwhile L.P.
BOARDING PASS
Museum’s Fine Arts Lobby
Presents Mini-Exhibits
The Museum of Arts and Sciences is
proud to open two new mini-exhibits in
its recently designated Fine Arts Lobby,
located between the North and South
Galleries. MARSHALL DOUGHERTY:
SCULPTURES AND MEDALLIONS, will
he displayed through March 27th and
TOUCH ME PLEASE 0: A HANDS ON
VISUAL EXPERIENCE, will be dis
played through February 28th.
Marshall Dougherty, Chairman and a
Professor of Mercer University’s Art
Department since 1945, has gained
national recognition for his medallions.
Two of them have been placed in the
Numismatic Collections of The Smith
sonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
and in the Museum of The American
Numismatic Society in New York City.
Dougherty is also well known for his
sculpture of John Wesley at Savannah.
His sculptures “Last Invocation" and
"Miss Florence Bernd" and several of
his medallions are on view in the Fine
Arts Lobby.
TOUCH ME PLEASE D: A HANDS
ON VISUAL EXPERIENCE, is a reprise
of the IMPRESSIONS: A TOUCH OF
ART exhibit, held in the museum s
North Gallery lest fall. Emphasized
again are the tactile qualities of various
ait forms; sculpture, tapestry, basket
weaving and other crafts - all by
Georgians. "Touch Me Please" allows
the visually impaired as well as the
sighted to experience the nature of art.
Two new and unique/ mini-exhibits,
here for the eyes and fingers of
everyone, but here for just a short time.
Don’t miss the fun — at the Museum of