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DESCENDENTS
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Descendents
Everything Sucks
Epitaph
As comebacks go, this
one tops ‘em all.
Pop punk legend De-
according to the Jscendents has reformed,
eight years after losing be
spectacled nerd singer
MiloAukerman and be
coming a new band, All.
All singer Chad Smith
has retreated to the side
lines for Everything
Sucks, and Aukerman re
joins former Descendents
members for a reunion
album that makes the Sex
Pistols look like a bunch
of grandpas.
And in showing the
new wave of pop punk
rockers who’s the boss,
Descencients has pro
duced its best effort ever,
Everything Sucks.
At first, Everything
Sucks sounds a little like
the last All CD, Pummel,
jjwith a harder edge and
more straightforward song
structure. But as the new
songs bring back memo
ries of old Descendents
tunes, the CD plays more
like a career retrospective
ofboth bands.
Descendents kept the
love songs and general
bitching about teenage
concerns, like greedy girl
friends and the cops, but
gone is the '80s pop punk
influence that produced
duds like “Days are Blood,”
from the Enjoy! album.
Most notably, the boys
are getting a little older,
and a little wiser. They
are probably pushing 40,
but haven’t lost the spirit
of 1985’s “I Don’t Want to
— girls and
Icoffee are good, suits anti
M .ties are bad. “When 1 Get
--“Old” sums up their out
look on life:
“What will it be like
when I get old /1 don’t
! want to be like other adults
/ Cause they’ve already
died / Cool and conde
scending, fossilized.”
There’s a sense that
they know something has
changed, but the band is
n’t trying to fool anyone
into thinking it is still a
bunch of young, care free
losers. The “old-is-still-
cool” approach may fail
with most listeners, who
are likely to be the
younger, second genera
tion of Descendents and
All fans, but respect for
the band will probably
keep it afloat.
Descendents obviously
knew it had to bridge the
simpler music of old with
the more complex ideas
of All. So as a special
treat, Aukerman and
Stevenson team up with
Descendents’ original
guitarist and bassist,
Frank Navetta and Tony
Lombardo, on two new
songs. “Doghouse” and
“Eunuch Boy” are caf
feine-powered bursts of
energy reminiscent of De
scendents’ classics “Kids”
and “Wienerschnitzel.”
And remember
“Theme,” the goofy instru
mental that was subjected
to an even goofier rework
ing (“Gnutheme”) on All’s
Allroy’s Revenge? It’s back,
too, in another, unnamed
version at the end of the
disc, but sounds more like
an All tune.
Regardless, Everything
Sucks mostly stands out as
a Descendents CD — and
the boys are as fun as ever.
A band that “they” said
would never regroup has
defied the naysayers and
pounded out a sure classic
in pop punk legend.
A- John LeBas
III
Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Crow
A&M Records, Inc.
“I left a man/Asleep in
the nude/My name in my
pocket/With lipstick and
rouge.”
These lyrics assure that
Sheryl Crow is now grittier,
deeper and even more so-
—
daily conscious than she
was in her debut album
Tuesday Night Music Club,
and that’s just her clothes.
This time around, Crow
has opted for a more alter
native look and sound
with songs of prostitution,
religion and the many
facets of love.
Her debut single “if it
makeS you Happy” is
sure to be a lasting hit as
it appeals to the public’s
new division of women
rockers who scream
poignant messages with
catchy beats.
In the song, she sings “If
it makes you happy/It can’t
be that bad/If it makes you
happy/Then why the hell
are you so sad.”
It’s nothing too
thought-provoking, but
good enough to sell a few
million albums.
Besides, when music is
being played, who really
wants to have to think?
Well, for those who do,
the track “redempTion
day” should fulfill any de
sire to uncover the social
ills of today.
Crow’s lyrics pine away
“Fire rages in the
streets/And swallows
everything it meets/It’s
just an image often
seen/On television.”
The song continues
through with talk of great
leaders who fail the public
and the train to heaven’s
gate, all of which leads to
freedom.
Serving as producer of
this album, Crow proves
she can pull off an image
transgression with little
effort.
On this outing, her
lyrics are filled with mean
ing, vocals are genuinely
in tune as far as her range
goes and the actual music
is the remnant of a once
polished surface, now
scratched and bruised.
Only in “everyday is a
winding road,” Crow slips
back into the happy-go-
lucky singer she was on
her previous album, but
all other tracks remain in
her updated persona.
With her vocals in gear
and her image somewhat
akin to the movie that
shares her last name, this
is the year of a dark bird
by the name Sheryl Crow.
A- James Francis
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A Texas A&M professor offers a
story of romance in an unconven
tional play he wrote and directed.
Cody Bland, a senior theater arts major, plays a blind
man an old blind man in Fragments of Pirate Trilogy.
By James Francis
The Battalion
N o ships will set sail, and there will be no swash
buckling today.
Eye-patches will not turn men into cyclopses
and there will be no peg-legs clunking across the star
board bow.
Instead, audiences will see Fragments of a Pirate Trilo
gy, the new play from Dr. Oscar Giner, showing at Rudder
Forum this Wednesday through Saturday.
“It’s a Caribbean legend of love
between two figures,” Giner said, “a
woman and a man, a priest who be
came a pirate.”
Giner, director of Fragments of a
Pirate Trilogy, wrote the play in of music and petry.
memory of his friend and first act- 1 ^
ing teacher, who died of AIDS at
age 52.
He said it was challenging di
recting his own work, but found di
recting as a further step in finaliz
ing the play.
“The director did alright,” Giner
said jokingly.
"It's not a narrative se
quence. It's a concert
...
Dr. Oscar Giner
writer and director of
Fragments of a Pirate Trilogy
As far as his interaction with the other characters, the
play works in a unique way, he said.
Steven Dekome, business manager for the theater arts
program, said his character is another example of the var
ied personae of the play.
“I am the Greek chorus,” he said. “I help the old man
through his spiritual journey.”
Dekorne said the actors find a certain unity off-stage,
though the on-stage atmosphere is multi-characteristic.
“It’s been peaceful and steady among the actors,” he
said. "It’s an eclectic group but a cohesive one.”
Bland said the on-stage perfor
mance also creates an unusual
bond between the actors.
"It’s very abstract the way we all
fit into the story,” he said.
He said one may find the
thought process a bit confusing,
since the play does not flow in a
conventional structure.
“You don’t have to understand the
storyline,” Bland said. “It’s not going
to affect everyone the same way.”
Bland said the play affected his
life, and although Fragments of a
Pirate Trilogy represents his last
While writing and directing may have been an intrigu
ing process, the inspiration for his writing came from
something as simple as the grass students walk on.
“A lot of the inspiration came from nature,” Giner said.
"I think of all the characters as a personification of the
natural setting.”
Much like the workings of nature, the play does not fol
low a typical format. Instead of having a beginning, cli
max and denouement it is divided into bits and pieces.
“It’s not a narrative sequence,” Giner said. “It’s a con
cert of music and poetry.”
Giner said he wonders what Texas A&M students will
think of the fragmented presentation.
“I wanted to see how an A&M audience would react to
my kind of work,” he said.
The work Giner speaks of is a three-part story about
love. When the play opens, the audience is presented with
the third part first.
Cody Bland, a senior theater arts major, said his char
acter is an old blind man who has visions.
“I’m somewhat of a storyteller,” Bland said. “I’m kind of
angry at the modern world, the past.”
acting project at A&M, “it’s been absolutely incredible.”
“This is certainly the best role I’ve had here,” Bland said.
"The writing is incredible. It’s dramatic poetry.”
Jessica King, a junior theater arts major, is another stu
dent influenced by the play and its characters.
“I play Mother Sofia,” King said. “She’s a flamboyant
personality, which I suppose I sometimes lean towards.”
In the play, Mother Sofia is the ghost of Paloma Blan
ca’s (the woman in love with the pirate) teacher.
“What I am is a comforter for Paloma Blanca,” King said.
King said her portrayal of the character Mother Sophia
has taught her not to take herself too seriously on stage.
On-stage or off, King said her state of mind stays the
same, because she finds comfort in acting.
“I get a lot of pleasure doing what I do,” King said.
“There’s no emotional roller coaster or seesaw — it's OK
for me.”
King said with the assurance of herself and the ability
of the other actors to present the play well, people should
go into the performance with an open mind.
“As long as [the audience] takes away something,” she
said, “we’ve done our job.”
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