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The Battalion .1C E Page 3 Friday • March 21, 1 997 Friday March 21 Breedlove, a bluesrock band om Austin, is playing with Jazztop, rock band from Bryan-College tation, at Dixie Theatre at 9 p.m. Mike Cansellare, an acoustic uitarist from Austin, is playing t Sweet Eugene’s House of ava at 9:30 p.m. Kid Fantastic, a rock band from ryan-College Station, is playing lith 100 Watt Clock, a rock band om Washington, D.C., at the Cow lop at 8 p.m. MSC Film Society is showing liars Attacks at Rudder Theatre. I Steve O’Neill, a rock musician, i; playing at Chelsea Street Pub Ind Grill at 9 p.m. Don Overby, a classic rock mu- licianfrom Bryan-College Station, I playing at Fitzwilly’s at 9 p.m. I Puerto Rico Student Associa- ion is hosting a dance and party itRamada Inn at 9 p.m. Saturday March 22 Big Apple Trio, a jazz band from Bryan-College Station, is playing at fJweet Eugene's House of Java at ):30 p.m. Blue Valentine, a classic rock Bnd R&B band from Bryan-College Station, is playing at Fitzwilly’s at 9 Citizen Lane, a funk band from \ustin, is playing with Kid Fantas tic, a rock band from Bryan-College (Station, at Rudder Fountain at Is-.SO p.m. y^/r/ne Gardner, a comedian, is srforming at Caffe Capri at 9 p.m. Lost Prophets, a rock band femBryan-College Station, is play ing with Jester, a rock band from Bryan-College Station, and Com mon Groove, a rock band from Bryan-College Station, at the Cow Hop at 8 p.m. Steve O’Neill, a rock musician, is playing at Chelsea Street Pub and Grill at 9 p.m. Vertical Horizon, an acoustic rock band from Washington, D.C., is playing with Fysher, a rock band from Bryan-College Station, at Dix ie Theatre at 9 p.m. i 1$ the By Michael Schaub The Battalion K athleen Ferrara is, like, a profes sor or something, and she teaches all this random stuff about language, 24-7. Ferrara, an associate professor of English, is also one of the few peo ple over 30 who can understand that sentence. “My daughter is my main source of youth slang,” Ferrara said, “and she just turned 25. She’ll be out of the loop soon.” Young people who speak jargon are not just “mall rats” or “Val ley girls,” Ferrara said — they are linguistic pi oneers. “Youth language has always been very dy namic,” she said. “College students are at the fore front of clipping and adapt ing new words. So many peo ple of the same age are clustered together, it’s like a cauldron.” Ferrara has studied linguistics and society for years. “People sometimes report slang words to me,” she said. “I have a cousin who’s a fifth-grade teacher who told me there’s a new word that means ‘cool’ — ‘tight.’” Changes in vocabulary are hard to keep up with, Ferrara said, the chief reason being the proliferation of slang language in television and movies. She points to the popularity of such lines as “Show me the money” from Jerry Maguire and “Hasta la vista, baby” from Terminator 2 as evidence of popular culture’s influence on the English language. “A CEO would quit, and the news papers would say, ‘Hasta la vista, baby,” she said. Although vocabulary changes al most daily, A&M students said they have noticed new phrases and words pop up in the last few years, such as: -Don’t go there. Definition: Let us not talk about that. The phrase appar- ently gained popularity on daytime television talk shows. -What’s up with that? Definition: Do you understand the logic and/or explanation behind this particular situation? -My bad. Definition: My fault. -24-7. Definition: All the time. This abbreviated form of “24 hours a day, 7 days a week" is an example of what Ferrara and other linguists call “clipping,” or shortening words and phrases. See Slang, Page 4 ^Don’t go there. Definition: Let us no tnlk about that. Triz . K television talk shows. -What's up with that? Definition: Do you understand the logic and/or explanation behind this particular situation? James Palmer, The Battaeion LeDoux's influence spans Texas Vertical Horizon By Karen Janes The Battalion hris LeDoux has every right to sing about cowboys, good horses and rodeo life. "I won the Little Britches rodeo cham pionship title two years in Wyoming high school rodeo championship and the inter collegiate rodeo champi onship. It was a long row to hoe!” he said. LeDoux, who is headlin ing a show at Hurricane Har ry’s Saturday night, began his music career by selling tapes to fellow riders out of the back of his pick-up truck. LeDoux’s unique sound, which he calls “a combina tion of western soul, sage brush blues, cowboy folk and a little rodeo rock ’n’ roll,” caught the attention of Liberty Records and country singer Garth Brooks. Brooks even mentioned LeDoux in a line of his first hit song, “Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old).” “At the first show we did together, Garth said to me, ‘You don’t know what using your name in that song has done for my career.’ I always knew people would like my music. Garth just let them know where to find me,” LeDoux said. LeDoux’s influence has crept into the Texas music scene as well. Cory Morrow, lead singer of the Cory Morrow Band, will be playing with LeDoux this weekend. Morrow said he has been a longtime fan of LeDoux. “When we first started playing in Lubbock, we would drive around listen ing to old LeDoux tapes,” he said. Along with LeDoux, Mor row said his band also is in fluenced by classic country artists like Conway Twitty. “Willie Nelson, Robert Earl Keen, Jerry Jeff Walker and Merle Haggard have all influenced us.” Morrow said. “Any of the highway men. Local artists, too.” Morrow describes his music as Texas-style coun try. Dub Miller, a senior recreation, parks and tourism sciences major and lead singer of local band Highway 6, said the same about his band’s sound. “We’re a modern-day version of old 1970’s bands,” Miller said. “We make no rules.” Highway 6 is made up of six Texas A&M students and will be the opening band a row, the u We love playing to college kids. That's our favorite thing to do. It's when everyone has the most fun in life. 55 Pat Green Country musician Saturday night. “We are very excited about playing with Chris LeDoux,” Miller said. “He’s something else. And Cory Morrow and Pat Green are great. We played with them on 6th Street (in Austin) before the Chris LeDoux, a country musician from Wyoming, is playing at Hurricane Harry's Sat- t.u. game.” Highway 6 has been together since the beginning of August. They play mostly covers, but have written some of their own music. Miller’s favorite original song is the “Fightin’ Texas Aggie Song.” “It’s one long inside joke about life at A&M,” Miller said. “We’re hoping to come out with a CD single of it in September.” Pat Green and his band will also be play ing Saturday night. They recently complet ed their second album, Georgia’s Bar. Green said country music has become his biggest ambition. “Our success is growing at a much faster pace than I thought it would,” Green said. “I just want to keep doing it. The love of my life is to sit down with my guitar and write a new song.” The Cory Morrow Band has released a self-titled album, which Morrow said is a little bit of everything. “It has an an outlaw feel with ‘in your face’ lyrics,” Morrow said, “but there are some nice waltzes and good driving music, too." Morrow said he likes to write about per sonal experiences and fictional events. “Some of the songs reflect exactly what I’m feeling or thinking, but I also use the music to put me in another world, to recre ate life and make it more interesting,” Morrow said. See C&W Show, Page 4 Oass IUG OF HONOR Oass So °th side Horn?' Wsit/e *°nit e S <> iV, 'Ar- 'G vi E "T-a- 96 Non-Reg vs Corps Tug of War & BBQ Sunday, March 23 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. Duncan Field (Behind Duncan Dining Center) BBQ for a $5.50 charge Come out for good food, fun, and competition! 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