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Spring Weather Can Be... PAINFUL! Great weather means more time spent outside. And, after all this time on the couch, your fun activity may produce muscle and joint pain. Call the experts at the Sports & Back Clinic. With over 30 years of experience, you could be pain free. (Physician Referral Required) 776-2225 Sports & Back Clinic 2011 A Villa Maria • Bryan, TX AGGIELIFE Page 4 THE BATTALION £>pwr) and oo+ at ^000 BY KYLE WHITACRE The Battalion S pring break is just getting started and so far I’ve been spoiled by the great films showing at SXSW. I don’t know if I’ll be able to return to boring Hollywood releases now. After staying out late for the documentary Dark Dews, 1 am a zombie Tuesday morning. The 20-hour days of non-stop working and watching films is starting to get to me. This is supposed to be my break. The lounge is dull and cold, with the Atom Films booth starting to get on my nerves by showing the same short films over and over again But it’s my last day at work sol don’t mind. When the afternoon ar rives, Janeane' Garofalo’s pane starts, and afterwards she makes her wa down to the lounge for a press interview, where she mentioned a future televi sion series she will be wTit ing, producing and starring i lor I mo. At night I saw Steal This‘S' Movie with the MSC Film Society execs, the second of the Garofalo films in the festival. Steal This Movie is a bio-pic about activist Abbie Hoffman, whose life consisted of damning the man, smoking a lot of pot, sex w ith many women and being chased by secret gov ernment organizations. Hippies would love this movie. very one else will fall asleep. Garofalo does give a good dramatic perfonnance, though. After the movie we try to make it to the film closing night party at Antone’s, but find out San dra Bullock brought her lame-ass boyfriend’s band and packed the place out so most film peo ple couldn’t attend their own party. On Wednesday the festival changes gears. Films are still playing, but all film interactive shut cody WAGES/Minfl down to be replaced by the 800-plus bands in at- Kcldore? herforiwr at Sooth fry Sootfiwesi tendance, most of which are unsigned acts trying to get their big break. With the closing of the filmmaker’s lounge, I de cide to sleep in until early afternoon. The first thing on my list is to see Dropping (hit, a dark comedy by the Osborne brothers. Dropping Out is hilarious during the first half, then suddenly changes the sec ond half with very few laughs. Thursday J wake up late again, then attend the screening of Target Shoots First, a documentary ere- , ited from the hundreds of hours of footage shot by Christopher Wilcha, a Columbia House employee who brought his camera to work everyday. Sharp and wit ty, this film excellently portrays how youth, re bellion and commercial ism are all tied together in modem society. That night the main at traction of the SXSW music fes- ^ "u, tival. Cypress Hill, takes the stage at La Zona Rosa, in support of their new album. The dou- erdisc contains all rock songs. Cypress Hill issti! good as e\ er and puts on a great show to apadei dience w ith the lingering smell of pot and swell new album is one to Icxik forward to t rida\ I see Du It". 1 Kahuna, my secotldfau film of the festival behind Dark Dews. Based® play. The Big Kahuna is a deeply thoughtful filr ble disc, titled Skull & Bones, is due to be released May 2. One disc is comprised of all rap tracks and the oth- wonderful performances by Kevin Spacer Danny Devito. I hat night was the see show case 1 wanted to see. I erend Horton Heat playing Ml killer line-up including TheFfc rick Subs and Nashville Pussy' show rocked but the Reverendtei been the same since losing theird drummer. 1 le can still put ononeofl best show s around though, withfe tricks and showmanship. By Saturday . 1 am burnt out compfe 1 leave early, not staying for the iii of music. With the sun setting behindrc start the long bum back to the cultural void; is College Station, starting hack on my is, dane schedule of classes. But this time I In Ox# the memory of the amazing week that wasaue that did not offer half-naked drunken Women i beach, hut the spark of creativity and hopewii human spirit. i For every Aggie who fills out a Census form, the community gets $2,000. That’s right! By filling out your Census form, you tell the government how much money is needed for College Station and Texas A£M University. THIS IS IMPORTANT! - Money for financial aid, including student loans and grants, is funded based on Census numbers! Census 2000 also means money for: ^ new roads ^ schools ^ libraries new restaurants & businesses ^ health facilities and much more!!! Answers are absolutely confidential - not even the President of the United States can obtain your information. Census 2000: How America knows what Aggieland needs! www.ci.college-station.tx.us/census2000.htm Listen to Aggie 96 and Mix 104.7: the official radio stations of the College Station Census 2000. Arrests made in Oscar the! LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two ployees of a shipping company wer( rested in the theft of 55 Oscar state most of them found in a trash bin,aurf itics said today., Three of the gold-plated Oscars still missing, police said. The rest of Oscars were found Sunday night At a news conference, Police Cl Bernard Parks said two Roadway Exp Inc. employees were arrested Saturday!! were being held on $100,000 bond. They were hooked for investigate grand theft, police Officer GuillermoO | pos said earlier. Parks says the two suspects t< lice where they thought they couldf the missing Oscars — but police didi | find them there. Instead, salvage man Willie Fills found 52 of the missing Oscars late Si day while rummaging through atrasM in the city’s Koreatown section, “I’ve got more Oscars than any the movie stars,” said Fulgear,* makes a living salvaging andrecycl discarded items. Fifty-five of the gold-plated staltf vanished and were presumed stolenf!- 1 10 from a Roadway Express loading^ in Bell, the same Los Angeles-area® munity where 4,000 Oscar ballots! misplaced at a post office earlierthisw The 8 1 /2-pound statuettes were pa® in 10 boxes and wrapped together on a palette, which weighed about 470po® Police Capt. David Powerssaid> day that investigators checked [ academy and verified that Fulge® discovered at least 53 of the missing uettes. There were 55 Oscars in the ment that vanished. Powers said a special mark proved were the awards. But it is unlikely®! the awards would be returned inti® 1 Sunday’s presentation. “If it were just a matter of reco' 1 the Oscars, I’d say let’s open them fi now. But this is a theft, a criminal®' 1 gallon, and we have to proceed cant ly,” Powers said early Monday Regardless, the show will likely : 11 The academy placed an emergency last week for dozens of replacen# cars after the theft was discovered. Police had opened some box® placed about 12 of the statuettes® ground. They appeared to be in, condition, despite the condition® soiled, puddle-filled parking lot. Fulgear said he found the stat about 9:30 p.m. Sunday stackedh trash bin. The awards were still" 1 * in plastic, padded with plastic foan' ; individual white boxes. Planning to move from his new room apartment, Fulgear said hell 11 stumbled over one award whiles®® 1 for large packing boxes. “My foot hit one. It was heavy ^ opened it up.... Everybody knows'v' 1 car is,” Fulgear said. He stuffed the trunk of his car" 1 boxes and called his 22-year-oldy help him find out what they were the trash. The son called police. I;:®