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THE BATTALION
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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.
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