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APAL.O F E S T 1 V VI Jane's Addiction headlines summer's hottest concert Lollapalooza Festival rocks Dallas By Kevin Robinson The Battalion As I walked into Dallas' Starplex Arena, it struck me as kind of an odd place for some thing that had been called the "Woodstock of the '90s." The inside is carefully de signed with modern food courts, restroom facilities, and a tree adorned landscape that gives it the appearance of an outdoor shopping mall or amusement park. The actual concert area con sists of a covered area in front of the stage that contains the re served seats for the shows, and a large sloping hill for general ad mission. Hardly the place to show off any kind of a non-conformist attitude. The original idea behind the Lollapalooza Festival seemed like an interesting one. Jane's Addic tion vocalist Perry Farrell had pro posed a summer festival celebrat ing various aspects of a so-called "alternative" lifestyle. In addition to concerts by Jane's and other bands he would personally invite, there were plans for exotic foods, booths for local artists and crafts men, stages for poetry readings and performance artists, and ta bles for organizations such as PETA and Greenpeace. I don't know if that's the way the early shows really went, but by the time the tour found its way to Dallas on. Aug. 23, the focus of the event was only on the music, with the restbf the fe&frval thrown back behind the food courts sell ing beer and burgers. As soon as I had staked a claim for myself on the hill with an old blanket, I wandered around look ing for the rest of the festival. Alongside the obligatory concert souvenir booths selling shirts and buttons, the food courts were hawking overpriced edibles with the various bands names as a sell ing point. In one corner there was Jane's Addictive Food, Rockin' Rollins Beverages and Siouxie Shaved Ice. I had to stop and wonder who the marketing genius was that came up with the idea for having Butthole Burgers. It really makes you want to part with your money doesn't it? A little after 1:00, the Rpllins Band took the stage. Out of all the acts of the day, I think I was most surprised to see Henry Rollins participate. Although he was in a kind of hazy spotlight in the 1980s as lead singer of the es sential punk band. Black Flag, Rollins' solo career for the past few years has been relatively un known outside of the punk under ground. Since leaving Black Flag, Rollins has only become more in tense and brutally personal. To see Rollins in a small club is to witness a painful catharsis enact ed on stage. Seen in this carnival atmosphere, Rollins lost the sense of personal confrontation that feeds his club performances.The mood picked up when the Butt- hole Surfers joined the band for a 10-minute improvised jam,” but Rollins' songs of anger , alienation and self-hate fell flat with most. At the party of Lollapalooza, Henry Rollins was like somebody getting sick in the car. For those that have never seen these Texan acid-heads in action, a set list usually goes out the wjn- dow by the second song. Surfers concerts usually seem to be deter mined more by the drugs they take backstage rather than any kind of logic. True to their reputa tion, the band lapsed into a long psychedelic medley of tracks from albums as old as 1986s "Rembrandt Pussyhorse" and the next years "Locust Abortion Tech nician." They shied away from playing much of their more main stream recent material, a move that proved popular with the au dience and gave the band an ex cuse to do plenty of playing around with both the guitar dis tortion and vocal delay. All in all it was great stuff, but again some how lacking the mood that this band usually generates by itself. Although the general admis sion hill was crowded, many of the shaded reserved seats went empty for most of the afternoon. Seeing my chance, I got choice seats for Ice-T's performance, and the set proved to be one of the best of the afternoon. I'd never really liked Ice-T all that much before. His macho pos turing and gangster image has never been something that I con sidered all that hip, and his atti tude about women put him on a low spot of rap performers that I wanted to see. Nevertheless, it was Ice-T that got the entire crowd to their feet and dancing, even those baking on the hill. Strangely enough, it was Ice-T who had the most to say about the idea behind Lollapalooza, saying it was a chance for different peo ple to experience different kinds of music and get to know each other. As if offering proof for what he had to say, Ice-T launched a rapid fire rap set that climaxed in his song "Colors" written as the theme for the film of the same name, and then immedi ately brought out his new band, Body Count, that tore into a set of hardcore songs provided the most intense set of the day. Just as Body Count seemed to be winding up their set, Henry Rollins made a reappearance and taking the mike from Ice-T, thrashed through the remaining three songs - this time really showing the audience the intensity he was capable of. The appearance of the Violent Femmes shortly afterward only increased the excitement in the au dience. Although rather lacklus ter after the assault of Rollins with Body Count, the Femmes had the advantage of familiarity with the audience. The band led the crowd through a sing along through most of their greatest hits, includ ing "Blister in the Sun", "Add It Up" and "Kiss Off". Like the But thole Surfers, the Femmes concen trated on their classic early materi al with only a couple ot tracks from their new album, "Why Do Birds Sing". Although the set didn't con tain any of the bizarre cover song choices for which singer Gordon Gano is known, the band per formed an upbeat set that put a relaxed edge on the crowd for the end of the first half of the day. During the intermission, I had a chance to take in some of the people that were in attendance. 1 wish I could say that the crowd was really as varied as Ice-T had said, but from where I was sitting, it all looked pretty homogeneous. Sorry, but this was "alternative" in the MTVs 120 minutes category. And despite Ice-T's message of racial harmony, it looked like it fell on mostly young white ears. Living Color emerged with on 'Alternative Film Series' hosts foreign, avante-garde films By Julia E.S. Spencer 77ic Battalion Those of you who deplore Ag- gieland's lack of an "art house"- type movie theater will be happy to hear about Aggie Cinema's new Alternative Film Series, on Thursday nights this fall at 7:30 in the Rudder Theater. Film series chairman Paul Al- varado-Dykstra says,"The series endeavors to provide our audi ences with an alternative to stan dard Hollywood film fare," and specializes in "films from domes- t i c inde- pen dent [produc ers] and. .from for eign coun tries." He added that "an impor tant quality for this series is that the films be critically acclaimed and/or award winners." Programming for this series consists of foreign films, domestic and foreign avant-garde art films, and documentaries. Most of these movies never make it to smaller communities like Bryan-College Station because of the paucity of available screens and the smaller target audience. The fall lineup begins Septem ber 12 with "Cyrano de Berger ac," a 1991 Oscar nominee for best foreign film (France), starring the ubiquitous Gerard Depardieu, in perhaps his finest performance yet; "La Femme Nikita," French director Luc Besson's stylish thriller about a beautiful but lethal hit woman (Anne Parillaud); and American comedy "The Tall Guy," starring Jeff \AGGIE CINEMA Gold blum. F i 1 scheduled for October include the steamy, atmospheric "Henry and June," an Oscar winner for Allen Daviau's stunning cinematogra phy; "Camille Claudel," the trag ic story of sculptor Auguste Rodin's talented mistress, starring Depardieu and Isabelle Adjani; "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," based on Tom Stop- t h i s fall in cludes "Silence of the Lambs," "Kindergarten Cop," "Sleeping with the Enemy, " New Jack City" and "The Rocky Horror Picture Show.' A fall schedule for September and October will be available in the MSC, and upstairs in the Ag gie Cinema cube, room 216 in the Student Programs Office. For more information, contact Penny Ditton or Paul Alvarado-Dykstra at 845-1515. See LOLLAPALOOZA/Page 6 pard's satirical play; and "Ju Dou," (China) another 1991 nomi nee for Best Foreign Film. 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