The Oregon Daily Emerald's Entertainment Guide I iiuilnt |«huli l ot til musii inn Shirk \lnn li.is rrlrasml a iww album. Wi>od\. anil w ill hr pvrformini• in Shalrr lnunt;r loniuhl at '/ Popular Eugene musician brings honesty to performances, albums Bv I .iv nc* I .ikctish I nt ore Reporter Mark Alan has made a thimc ten himself tin e ampus Hr his vim r and Ins guitar haw been t ailed entertaining ruin.intu ‘ and tun to listen In It's this combination that gets Imn united hark tor l niversits performances and lie’ll he hat k on t ampus Tm?s(la\ night at *1 m Walton’s St hater lounge hu a tree peihu inaut e As with most mush ians Alan's stnrv is long • •i than audiences might assume I r an irmcmlirr following m\ mom around the house ami singing when i w as tour andTise years old said Alan, describing Ins t hihlhood in (.o lot ail o Ami l remember watching I Ivis Piesles iiuiMfs and womlemig wh\ *vervbod\ Yvas streaming at I Ivis when he sang bet ause I just assumed ever\one t oiiltl sing like that Me was wrong about ever\hod\ being aide to sing like Idy is, hut as .ill this w.is going on. he had taken his tust musi. al step toward a peitnrm mg i areer he had started singing He took Ills set mid muse al step when he Was 10 he pit krd up .1 guitar i dei hied 1 wanted in pla\ the guitar when I was watt lung the (den t amphell Show with mv tlad he r\ plained It was all I c «Hilt I do lt» t.dk him into Inning me one but he did lit- bought me a St'* one (.lowing up with a song in his heart did more than just giw Man tun ami enjnvmeut When I was young 1 liked rnusit bet ause it gUYe me a None when I otten limes didn't base one he said I could ( reate whatever I wanted to (.rente and sa\ whatever ! wanted to sa\ My music was mine though he did spend the next decade ot Ills life singing m churt h and sc hoot c lions, he basi callv tlropped the professional ideas until he w.is m his twentles He said In* dec ided to give up music after fin ishing high sc hool he« .him' it wasn I something he thought he could make a living at Instead he headed oft to the l ' mvei .its ot Northern ( ‘nlorndo to studs Iuglish ami plulosophv Ills idea backfired however I studied l ug hsh and plulosophv llimking that I probablv wouldn’t get a degree but I wanted a direction and the 1 omblnat 1011 of the two re.ills ic tualls led me hat k to ms rnusit And the lest is his musical histors He phiseci in some ditlerent hands, started doing shows and then remembered Ills «me e tm gotten c hildhood dream That memurs didn’t come I mi k to me until I s\ as at tualls playing m * lubs in I was riding home from .1 gig Id |»l«i\ *‘tI m ( nlui ido and I remember looking up .»t the stars and thinking t»> myself (aid this is so strange I alwavs knew dial I would he 1111111111* home aflei ha\ mu plt what l use lor Ivru s «.nines from w luit I write about in niv join ual he explained I m also treijuentiy inspired by things 1 read II I lta\ e soilir .pair to lliyseif I (an write songs he said l fi.it makes writing songs sound easy, hut he savs 110 'The miisit « time' pi* !t\ iMsy to me hut writing Ivrit s is far and awav mote ditto lilt and what is said 111 the songs is ieall\ important I just at down with a Luge pad of hi.ink pa pel and work and rework the lines he r\ plained I like m\ musit to in•< imh iiui .h \ ou < an t help hut move to the musii i write and the musit I learn migmutes mainly from m\ need to e\press my self he said lh- lias already put Ingr-thei two lull length albums and is 1 mo nth working on a fluid Mis III'-! allium titled See thr l\rti Was re corded m Colorado I named the alhum aftei a line in one of 111 v songs. Alan said Kiwi is sym hole of passion whit fi to me is about being alive being reall\ «i11 v e So t<» me the title is saving, see life and Iive life I he set ond alhum was recorded last I t hru ai\ here m }• a 1 gene and is tit let I So/igs /»»/ 11 innl\ \\ ooth is m\ friends’ dog and he s kind of a neurotic dog and I could relate to him he said ( )ne day l was doing some ret oitlmg at the house where Woody lives, and she stalled balk mg m the middle of m\ ret ording. and I gut kind (»f uptighl about it Xml then I thought wail a minute This is no tlitteieiit than me needing to plat tit r \atmal h I eijiiateil that with both of us needmg to < \ press ourselves and he true to mu liatuies lie said I lent e .Su/rgs tin llont/i was hoi n Man soils his albums for SH. and thev t an be pun based dim tl\ from him I feel like on sm h turn to \Lin, /Mgr ft SPEND SPRING TERM ON THE COAST Ml I niu'i mis * 'I < he m students arc ins lied In s’nnsidci a Npi me I crm ol small classes enthusiastic pmtessnrs ami Inis nl nulls ulu.il .illciilinn Intcrcsiing classes incluilc course ssnrls and pmieels in a care-lulls inleei .lied studs nl real problems nt pcnplc and naiural resources on the (Jlccon ( nasi I n.c ss nr k and studs nr) the new l> ie1111deled held station nl the I msersiis \ ( ireenn Institute nl Maruu Hmlous m Charleston a small hshine sillaec ai llic ninulh nt ( nns Has l uitinti is the same as the main campus Knom and Outstundme meals . ns| v»( I a week Mm c mini m.i! inn is as a liable in Suite I I Ml n, call I'.ill i (rump al IcSIi Si)|s ’ nr 'll (Ml \ < ,n»i:raph> Cartography KfM/Uf t. h (ico HM Murhk Hu»l»»t;> Hi 14' I ub pi«»)ctiN C ou-vlai Biolops Hi 4(»Mi I k-M MiihmN m Hu‘lop \ Hi bw>(i ( t*u\(.i! 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