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WELLS FARGO AGGIELIFE Page 6 THE BATTALION Friday,Api;, Sly Letter Norwest and Wells Fargo are teaming up - stop by the station to celebrate Please join the Norwest staff you've always known as we celebrate our new name and a new stage in banking convenience. Stop by the Pavilion location on Friday, April 28 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. for refreshments and customer giveaways. Continued from Page 4 "We didn’t want to be just another electric guitar band,’’ Smith said. Ginsbach said the mandolin is not used in all songs. Some heav ier songs are played during live shows to get the crowd going. “The sound [on the album] just hap pened; it wasn’t a conscious effort. We didn't say ‘Oh, let’s go for a mellow sound.’ We all just played our instru ments and recorded it, and that's the way it came out. It came out pretty well so we’re just trying to take it as we go. The heavier songs w ill be on the next album,” McDavid said with a smile. The CD was mixed and mastered by Bob Boyd, Caedmon’s Call producer, giving The Sly Letter’s efforts an acoustic influence. It is easy to see the band members are close as e\ ideneed by their playful picking and smart remarks aimed at one another. "We all pick on each other,” McDavid said. "It works well because it keeps everybody’s head small, not that we have any real reason to get big heads, and a lot of the time w e do it for no reason. "It’s a lot more comfortable to play for people you're familiar wit" "1 played drums in highs Ginsbach said. "1 didn’t thinkl'i here and be in a hand, and the® the CD. I never thought we’d w e had the opportunity at it was great. We just liketomi and if I can make a living do® that’s great.” As for the future and thek reer track, McDavid said, “We ally have any defined goalsritk We j ust w ant to take it as fares The Sly Letter’s CD release he held Saturdav at ShadowCar;: lay. April 28. 2000 'oCcCVPte The Sly Letter T)\ese Autumn Skies CD Courtesy of Slv l etter The Sly Letter’s new album These Autumn Skies, has a sound close to Cowboy Mouth (perhaps even bet ter) and vocals that sound like the band kidnapped Sponge’s lead singer. The lyrics are heart felt and full of emotion, making them the album’s strong characteristics. The sound the lyrics are tilled with a feeling of hesitant hope. A collage of sound from the variety of instrument mixed with the soothing voice of Sean Smith is ca| putting almost anyone at ease, but those listeners wilt sleepy, drooping eyes should beware because the bar; tucks m two upbeat tracks, “So Many Times" and“ki Thereabouts," with happy guitar and percussionsotm Many of the songs sound alike but still hold a set? my sticism listen closely to the lyrics. I his Cl) is capable of growing on listeners if Ik; give it a chance. For a debut album without any excitable songs an: mellow sound, it is worthy of a thumb’s up. (Grade f idA5 Pt 6c l£/ } foe THE T^lPS C/ \fiotE ^ A)b ,A: LovE LIa - Julia k ‘South Park’ makes quick work of Rem Creators rush to make episode with commentary on Elian Gomalm wow in rHf ROOM? VERY The Pavilion 979-268-3238 NEW YORK (AP) — Only four days — and two all- nighters — alter the Elian Gonzalez raid. Comedy Central’s “South Park” aired a parody that depicted Attorney C ieneral Janet Reno in an Easter bunny outfit capturing Romanian contortionists. The cartoon was completed only hours before it was telecast on the cable network Wednesday night, a Comedy Central executive said Thursday. In the episode, a rifle-toting cartoon Reno drops from a helicopter with a team of commandos to grab Romanian quintu plets from a c loset, disabling their new fam ily with tear gas hidden in an Piaster egg. The girls had escaped from a circus, but Reno ordered them returned to their home country after their father with a gun to his head — begs for them to come back. As they leave for Romania, the girls have harsh w ords for protesters w ho w anted them to stay in America — "get a life” and lor the “South Park" kids who harbored them. ”You know nothing about Romania, and yet you assume that it is so much bet ter than America," one girl said. With that, they lefl for a book tour and appearance on "Oprah." In a perfect world, "South Park" cre ators Trey Parker and Matt Stone give Comedy Central their episodes three weeks in adv ance. They often push those deadlines, but never as dramatically as this week, said Debbie Liebling, a net work senior vice president. Last Thursday, Parker and Stone told Liebling they were writing an episode that paralleled the Elian Gonzalez ease. But it required some furious rewriting alter Saturday’s real-life raid. For in stance, the rough draft had Reno in a bun ny suit, but she wasn’t commanding a raid until alter Saturdav’s events, she said. With the help of computer® and an extensive "South Park" ■ of images used during their te | on the air. Parker and Stone wr;. to quickly make the episodeJtto [ full nights of work, Lieblingsaii “This is the lirst time they've: such an immediate advantageofa ing news story,’’ she said. It's amazing to he able to take animaK be that timely. I don't thinkanyke ever done that.” Like students who don'tcradi a book until the night before the a Parker and Stone seem to workte deadline, she said. They cut it so close that Liebfe n’t even able to see the finalprodeel fore it aired. "It’s been that way more like.” she said, "but in this case it act ly worked out very well.” Parker and Stone weren’tiMM about their handiwork on Thi "They're sleeping," LiebM inwoman Bob h«r«. 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