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by EMERSON DAMERON
Among the many powerful incentives to jettison
"like" from our collective menu of verbal tics, one
sticks out as stark as a wallflower at a rave: the
use of "like" submits to your audience that you're
fundamentally incapable of standing behind any
thing you say. Even when you're speaking in exag
gerations, this little milquetoast of a modifier
covers your ass by suffocating the drama, imme
diacy and honesty of your statements. Similes are
for cowards. We deal in METAPHORS in these parts,
muchachas. Grandiose sincerity invites laughter
and condescension, but for that very reason its
steel toes kick understatement's reticent ass
across the street every time.
Tuesday, August 22 brings Rising Tones Cross,
Ebba Jahn's 1984 documentary on NYC's then
largely unrecognized free-jazz/improv scene,
to the Flicker Theatre.
Following that will be a
live performance from horn
terrorist Daniel Carter ►
(who has paid his dues
alongside such jazz lumi
naries as Sun Ra, Cecil
Taylor and William Parker,
not to mention sprucing up
efforts from those undisci
plined whippersnappers
Thurston Moore and Yo La
Tengo) and drummer Andrew
Barker (who once lived in
Atlanta and still plays with
Gold Sparkle Band). The film
shows at 7 p.m.; Barker and
Carter Lake the stage around
9:30 p.m.
Athens' own improv kingpins
are getting some attention
these days, too. The enigmatic Medicated
Furniture recently scored a gig at the Birmingham
Improv Festival, in the Alabama town from which
it clipped its name, on Saturday, August 19 at
Birmingham-Southern College. Contact Craig
Hultgren at hultgren@mindspring.com for more
information on the weekend-long festival and a
full itinerary. Meanwhile, the ongoing local
jazz/drum n' bass experiment Baghouse is tenta
tively scheduled to represent our tuneful little
berg in Portland at the NXNW Music Fest on
Saturday, September 23. The show is slated for 10
p.m. at the Green Onion. Unfortunately, the band
may have to skip out for lack of sufficient green
stamps. Any publishers, web sites, vendors, etc.
interested in sponsoring the band's journey are
strongly encouraged to contact bassist Jeff Rieter
at (706) 548-2994. Finally, Bablicon isn't content
to sit on its last crop of laurels, The Orange
Tapered Moon (on Mirsa Records, for those of you
playing along at home). Nope, the band has gone
and recorded another album, already in the can,
but not tagged with a street date just yet.
Apparently, FableFactory not only still exists but
is working on 25 new songs at Radium Recording
over in Hull, the town that Athens should be
assimilating at around the same time Atlanta
assimilates us. The band plans to tour in
September and release its new' platter next spring.
Wade to fablefactory.com for all the FableFactory
you can hand*e.
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Want to live the excesses of your rock star idols
while weaving your musical yarn ,n with a cello, a
viola and drums? Flash To Bang Time is in search
of an energetic, versatile bassist. Experience
playing large chains and electric rakes is an acute
plus, but not required, according to co-tourder
and head of the FTBT PR division Charles
Greenleaf ) Potential car didates are beseechtd to
call 613-8215 or 549-6367 post haste.
The Lures, w'ho're tightening up exponentially
every time I've seen them lately, are braving the
merciless streets of Augusta for a Saturday, August
26 gig at the Soul Bar. Incidentally, why don't we
have dives called the Green Onion and the Soul
Bar in Athens? We're stuck with nonsensical names
like Lunch Paper and Tasty World, and we've just
come to complacently
accept them. That
goads me.
The fine Americans at
90.5 FM WUOG have a
few promotional shows
lined up for Friday,
August 18 at the Tate
Center Plaza. The art-
metal piledriver Sci-Fu
goes on at 11 a.m., fol
lowed by Espizito at 12
noon and an acoustic
set from Lona and The
Lures' Clay Leverett at
1 p.m. 90.5 is also seri
ously revamping its
schedule for the Fall
semester, so check out www.uga.edu/~-wuog (you
need the W’s this time) and
stay current.
"What's poppin ?" R.E.M. com-
pletists may ask. Well, for one
thing, Warner Reprise Video
releases the home videos Pop
Screen, Parallel, Th's Film Is On
and Tourfilm on the increas
ingly popular DVD format on
Tuesday, August 22. In
related news, I could really
use 50 buftcs.
Atlanta's Demagogue
Productions is finally ready
to drop Love In Song: An
Atlanta Tribute To Sir Paul
McCartney on Saturday,
October 14, subverting the
dominant paradigm of
releasing every new disc on
Tuesdays or Halloween (Danzig only).
There'll be a release party at the EARL (East
Atlanta Restaurant and Lounge) with appearances
by Catfight! Kenny Howes. Christopher Robin
The Blacklight Posterboys and scores of other
ATL power-poppers.
As usual, it’s a swell time to be in love with The
Posies. Not lame Recordmgs and head Posies Jon
Auer and Ken Stringfellow are assembling a
career-spanning, four-CD box set called At Least,
At Last. It'll be in a box-long, bookshelf package,
like the Cheap Trick box set, and will contain
plenty of rare and unreleased tunej. As if that
wasn't enough to flip your pancake, the band is
swinging through Athens for an acoustic show' at
The 40 Watt on Saturday, August 26 in support of
its new live acoustic record In Case You Didn’t Feel
Like Plugging In. Hear it for the particularly
Another year, another A Man... Or Astro-Man?
record. The 2000 edition, A Spectrum Of Infinite
Scale, was recorded and/or engineered in Iceland,
Atlanta and Athens (showcasing the gadgetry
pinache of Andy Baker, the newest Gland, among
so many other things). "Dr. Steven Albini" gets
production credits, which reminds me: there's a
new Shellac slab out too.
Send lawyers, guns and money to omnivore(S>
starplace.com downloading attachments from my
account is a lot like scraping barnacles off my
computer, so just paste it into the body, alright?),
voice mail: 549-2630, fax: 549-8981, 24-hour
"phone fun" hotline: 1-900-EMERS0N, or by snail
to P. 0. Box 1027, Athens, GA 30605, Attn.:
Emerson for Mr. Dameron, if you're weaker than
me). Too many juvenile delinquent ratchet jaws
on this channel—let's bug out and take it to
double barley. C
haunting reworking of the Hiisker Du tribute
"Grant Hart'' and some mushy, vulnerable stage
patter on "Sick Fucks." Shannon Wright warms
up.
In the long view, the Athens Green Party has a
couple of cool benefits lined up. On Friday,
September 9, Le Guano, RadiorTahiti, DJ Klon
and Taking Robots To The Prom set up shop at
Tasty World. On Wednesday, September 27, Kevn
Kinney, Carrie Dixon and JoAnn Steele (the
latter two of whom served as delegates at the
2000 Green Party convention in Denver) will play
the Georgia Theatre, with a possible (but at this
point unconfirmed) appearance from a certain
Sling Blade bit player. Willie Nelson is also affili
ated with the Greens, so don't be surprised if he
offers his services to the cause when he comes
through.
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