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BUSINESS
by EMERSON DAMERON
What happens when you give a child a gift is
that, at least for a little while, the new gift over
shadows all previous gifts to the point where they
in effect cease to exist. This can be problematic if,
for instance, after he's been accepting gifts of
perishable fruit and dairy products all day, you
give Little Reynard a birthday shotgun. While he's
out destroying ant colonies and blowing holes in
abandoned buildings. Little Reynard's papayas and
limes will grow soft and moldy and his milk will
slowly spoil and harden. So, when attending a
child's birthday, remember this simple rule: the
sooner Little Reynard gets distracted from
weapons and starts getting his daily allowance of
Vitamin C, the better off we all are.
Scope this, musicians: If your demo sounds like
ass, it's time to re-record, 'cause Ghostmeat
Records is revving up to accept submissions for
the fourth annual AthFest compilation disc. To be
considered for a coveted slot on the disc, hand-
deliver CDs and CD-Rs only (thank you very much)
to Musician's Warehouse at 447 E. Clayton Street
in the heart of downtown Athens, intellectual
center of the Western world and home of the first
Olympic Games. There's a release form at the store
you must sign, and only Athens-based acts are eli
gible. (Not to sound like a jingoist, but we've
been through this before: If your band is from
Atlanta, Decatur, anywhere but Athens, you may
be a regional band, but you're not, by definition, a
local band. It's right there in Webster's if you
don't believe me.) Exclusive, previously unreleased
ditties will earn ynu brownie points with
Ghostmeat. E-mail ghostmeat@aol.com if you've
still got questions.
On a sour note, The Colt 45s, the most successful
(11 wins, 4 losses) and collectively musically-
inclined (starring members of The Glands, Eli and
National Anthem, among many others)
team in the Athens Area Men's Baseball
League saw their season come to an end
at the hands of their arch-nemeses The
Desperadoes on Sunday, August 6. Oh
well... at least now we don't have to
loot stores on College Ave. and flip over
police cars. It's too hot for that shit.
As promised, Cartoon Network and Rhino
Records have just released < Heroes
And Villains: Music Inspired By The
Powerpuff Girls, a loving tribute to the
adorable, huge-eyed, animated heroines,
with new songs from Athens-connected
artists The Apple; In Stereo, Dressy
Bessy and The Bill Doss. The Apples
tune "Signal In The Sky (Let's Go)," is
also separately available on a pink-vinyl
single (or "seven inch," as the kids are
saying these days) along with Bis'
theme song from the TV series.
The third annual Atlantis Music
Conference 2000 begins proper in
Hotlanta on Wednesday, August 9 and
carries on through Saturday, August 12.
The annual event features a golf tourna
ment, three days of informational panel discus
sions, and a collaborative presentation of the 6th
Annual Atlanta Local Music Awards at the
Tabernacle on Wednesday, August 9 at 8 p.m.
More than 200 performances by local, regional and
national live music acts will play a variety of
venues around Atlanta during the festival. A
Flagpole-sponsored music showcase takes place
at The Star Community Bar in Little Five Points on
Friday, August 11 from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. featuring
Athens bands Vigilantes Of Love, Five-Eight and
Wide Receivers, with Atlanta bands Young
Antiques and Kickstand. Check out altan-
tismusic.com for the whole scoop.
From the drumstick-related eye injury file: During
a show in downtown L.A. a few Saturdays ago,
Jurifer dnimmer Ed Livengood lost control of a
stick, which ricocheted off a cymbal and into a
bystander's lower eye socket. Livengood took a
second or two to make sure th*» patron hadn't
incurred any serious deep hurting, then returned
to his "barbaric percussive trance." The drumstick
recipient was later seen hovering over the merch
table and commenting, "That guy's a fucking
animal." Thanks to eyewitness reporter Daniel
Ewen for this tidbit of rock and roll masochism.
Athens-based Kindercore Records is recruiting
new meat nationwide for a battalion of field repre
sentatives. KinderCorps, they're calling it.
KinderCorps privates will be assigned tasks like
radio and retail promotion, setting up for bands,
posting K-Core propaganda, and "basically being
our go-to guy/gal for (your] area... recruits must
be reliable, reachable and, most importantly,
enthusiastic about music. Bonus points for cre
ativity, 1-UP mushrooms for friendliness." Damn,
I'll throw in some fire flower power to the extra
kind press promoters. (Hint: Free CDs are a won
derful standby, but what I really need are t-shirts.
Detergent prices have gone through the roof
lately.) If this sounds like a deal, contact Amy
Dykes at amy@kindercore.com with your name,
contact information, last five records you plunked
down for, and an essay on why you deserve a shot
at KinderCorps membership.
Athens cinematographer, musician and restaura
teur Ted Hafer >• has wrapped up six years of
production on his latest film Fatal Outlet, the
story of an electrician, his daughter and his future
son-in-law. The touching "Southern tragicomedy"
was written, produced, directed, scored and com
mitted to HI-8 digital video by Hafer himself. Its
local premiere is slated for September.
If you feel like scraping the inch-thick layer of
late summer college town ennui off your brain,
maybe a day trip to Atlanta is in order. In that
case, the Echo Lounge is hosting plenty of talent
in the next few weeks, including the lovely and
smokin' Catfight! on Friday, August 18, The
Queers on Monday, August 21 and The Cigar
Store Indians (as part of a S.A.N.D. benefit) on
Saturday, August 26.
Then again, maybe you're thinking of really
blowing our little berg. Maybe you're packing up
foi New York City, an inexplicably popular desti
nation for all sorts of Athens expatriates these
days. In that case, I highly recommend you read
Josh Saitz's polemic "How To Visit NYC Without
Pissing Me Off," featured in his self-written, self-
published and scathingly funny public
journal/zine Negative Capability. Amid plenty of
useful advice for newcomers on where to stay,
where to eat, etc., you'll find basic truths such as:
"As soon as you've decided that you're coming to
New York Citv to visit, every single person that is
already here has decided that they hate your
fucking guts and would like you dead. It's nothing
personal, but the thing is, everything is going
smoothly without you." Write Josh Saitz, Box
225338, San Francisco, CA 94122-5338 to request
a copy. That's right, San Fran. By the time his zine
hit the printer, Saitz, a lifelong New Yorker, had
decided that even he would be better off outside
the Rotten Apple. In his words, "While I've come
to realize that I thrive under pressure and adverse
conditions, I might possibly do even better if life
were working for me rather than against me." See
you in about six months, Leif Erikson.
Local musician and sex-symbol-on-his-own-terms
Bill Scoggins recently signed a contract with the
1 Def-Ear Entertainment, Inc., which reportedly
funnels 50% of its profits back to its artists.
According to his handlers, Scoggins had no intelli
gible comments concerning his breakthrough at
press time
Send local music news, coffee stained commu
niques and Wild Turkey stained napkin drawings to
omnivore@starplace.com, voice mail: 549-2630,
fax: 549-8981, or by pony express to P. 0. Box
1027, Athens, GA 30603 Attn.: Emerson™. So,
2+2=(2+2), you say. Bull-Shit. 2+2=4. Always has,
always will. Fire those intellectual pistons, for
Douglas A. Martin's sake. O
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