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DiFranc o's hard hitting lyrical style will take tin* monotom out <d musii. lor her audience She will lit* appearing along with Virginia Cohen in the FMU Ballroom Tuesday Tir kets an* $H lor University students; and SlO for the general publk and an* still available PREVIEW In October, DtFranco released l.ikr I .Soul, which is a c ompiln hon of songs from her first two albums 'combined, re recorded, embellished, and generally mossed with DiFranco gathers writing mate rial from evervdav experiences siie tries to tell the story ol what it’s Ilk*- to he of her parte - ular make model, and time and plat e Much of her material comes across as being angry to the listener, hut it is a venting prm ess tie* ause she never reallv iiad the opportunity to he angr\ "I've been taught not to stand up for myself, to not he aggros sue or angry," she said "Or if there’s a problem, 1 don't deni with it. and if it’s a big enough problem. I just leave, as opposed to really hammering out a place for myself and telling people what I need and what I don't want Many of DtFrant o's songs deal w ith gender roles in society and what she finds frustrating about being u woman in today 's soci ety In order to deal with this frustration DtFranco concentrates on what she as an individual can COOBTESV PHOTO Folk singer AnI DiFranco will bring her original brand of raw and angry social commentry to Eugene Tuesday DiFranco's show is sponsored by the Cultural Forum <)o to improve her situation DiFrnnca finds Iter work very satisfying It s great to l»e able to (inspire people) and to help in some wav." she said, "but I think that, that's too easy, you know, to just sort of make me into some thing I'm not. some sort of super hero or something, and 1 think that it's harder to think of me as iusl as fin ked up and just like anybody else, bemuse then it puts the listener in the position of, 'Well, I could do that too.' or There's no different e between me and her, and the expectations I have of her 1 should have of ills sell ' So 1 think the w hole cult of personality thing isn't really condut ive to getting things done f ollowing along those lines DiFranco has produced II of her own recordings under her own Righteous Records label She does not feel at home with peo ple in the recording industry "After being approached more and more hv music business types wanting \ nrious things and offering various things, I |ust sort of decided that for the most part those are not 111) people." she said Formany years DiFrnnr.o has toured and promoted herself. DiFranco's challenge to her audience is for them to listen to one another even it they don't agree so they have the ability to decide what they should think and do CINEMA Continued from Page 10 ,t'SM \ awesome skill with thi* basketball, Tlu Air lift Thru- is a kind of patchwork of trim! nnd true movie elements See i! you t an remember where these plotlines have l>een list'd tiefore The main rharat ter is an athlete who would’ve made it to the pros il it hadn’t been lor an injury Hull Durham The main character jumps feet first into a < ulture tie doesn't understand, and all the people tie meets make fun of the wav lie doesn't fit in. Crocodile Dundan. Indiana /ones. Commg to Amrrica It ins times necessary for the Amenum to tie made a momhur of the tribe, which of course involves a drawn out rightof-passage /cue/of l/w \'ilr. Indi ana lours again Humorous subtitles ("Who stepped in tunnel s— arc prov idi*d for tin* tin\ minority of characters who don't speak perfect f-ing) ish Major League. Uutne's World ! lie team overcomes adversity and meets its archrivals in a winner take-all game at the end of the movie, which can you belie v e if:' the good guvs end up winning at the last minute Hnnsiers. Tin Mighty Out ks, h'asthreak. The Had Sen s Hears. I een Wolf, etc What we get when we put all these piei es togeth er is a movie as predictable as movies can get 1 was partic ularly [Hit off hy the right-nf-pas sage stuff, in whic h Mac.on's c haracter has to climb a mountain to breathe "the air up there,'' and then, seemingly for no reason, throw something (I won't tidl you what, hut you'll lie able to guess if you see the film) off the top, Along the way, there's a scene where Dolan, feeling discouraged, sits sob bing in the rain as lightning flashes. That's the moment I gave up completely on the film's [dot //ir / ^lll Cutfunil lomm 1'iouHly I'rrsnib ani difranco with Special Guest Virginia Cohen Tuesday, January 18th 8:30 P.M. EMU Ballroom, University of Oregon. TICKETS ON SALE NOW! Avaliable at Baba Yaga's Dream, Ruby Chasm, Mother Kali's Books, EMU Main Desk, CD World, Balladeer Music I at mart info call 1 hr l ultur,il lot uni <0 540 4