Features Editor:
Lisa Toth
lisatoth@dailyemeraId.com
Thursday, October 18,2001
Win Tickets!
The Pulse Costume Contest is on! It will take place Wednesday,
Oct. 3t from 4 to 6 p.m. in the EMU Amphitheater. The grand
prize will be tickets to see ‘The Rocky Horror Show’at the
McDonald Theatre that night. It will be a defining moment
in your life. Look for more details in future issues of the ODE.
■ David Lynch’s latest film
offers more questions
than it does answers
^ MOVIE REVIEW
‘Mulholland Drive’
★ ★ M ■'>
By Mason West
Oregon Daily Emerald
m m Mulholland Drive” is like a
* HH Rubik's cube: Some peo
■VII pie will love to spend
IVI hours figuring it out , and
others will get pissed off and throw
it away.
The newest film from writer/di
rector David Lynch ("Lost High
way,” “Twin Peaks”) is a puzzle
with an unknown number of solu
tions. The ambiguity is lost after
Lynch turns reality on its head
halfway through the film. The
pleasure of this movie is not in
watching it but in piecing together
fragments that Lynch presents.
The story revolves around a road
in both physical and allegorical
ways. The title is associated with
Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles,
where the story takes place, but it
is also about a journey that has
some hints of linear progression —
though not in the way the film is
disclosed.
The film opens with a car crash
on Mulholland Drive, and a
woman named Rita survives. After
the crash, she wanders to an apart
ment that is not her own. It turns
out to be owned by an aging movie
star whose young niece. Betty, is
coming to stay while she pursues
her fledgling acting career.
When the two women meet.
Betty doesn't suspect anything is
wrong and thinks Rita is another
one of her aunt’s guests. However,
Turn to Mulholland. page 6
Michael is back — and
not playing basketball
OK, so I really wanted to
start out this week’s mu
sic news wrap-up with
some info about the new
Michael Jackson album. Unfortu
nately, the Gloved One is still
keeping an airtight lid over the
proceedings, and news has been
scarce — apart from the fact that
you can see the unimpressive al
bum cover
hanging on the
walls of Face
The Music. .
However,
Jackson fans
should be re
joicing this
week, as his
hi muDi aui.'
cessful solo al
bums were re
released
Depper Tuesday.'“Off
“Dangerous” are all digitally re
mastered and contain bonus
tracks.
“Bad” contains two previously
unreleased songs, plus a Spanish
version of “I Just Can’t Stop Loving
You,” but most people will proba
bly be more excited about the new
In Stereo
the Wall,”
“Thriller,”
“Bad”and
fangled “Thriller.” It has the demo
version of “Billie Jean,” two unre
leased songs and a new mix of
“Thriller” with an extra verse in
cluded in Vincent Price’s rap!
Furthermore, Jackson’s recent
tribute concerts will be airing on
CBS on Nov. 13. Ladies and gentle
men, it’s a great time to be a
Michael Jackson fan.
No Doubt fans may still vividly
remember the wait between their
last two albums. What was it, four,
five years? Anyway, the band, per
haps wishing to avoid a repeat of
that embarrassing situation, will be
releasing the follow-up to last
year’s “Return of Saturn” on Dec.
18. “Rock Steady” was helped by a
slew of producers, including
Nellee Hooper (Bjork), Sly & Rob
bie (reggae masterminds), William
Orbit (Blur knob-twiddler and ge
nius behind Madonna’s “Ray of
Light”) and Ric Ocasek (ex-Cars
frontman and current Weezer pro
ducer). Oh yeah, Prince produced
and played on a song as well.
Speaking of Prince, the Purple
One will be releasing his new al
bum, “The Rainbow Children,” on
Nov. 30. The album will be his first
since his high-profile conversion
to being a Jehovah’s Witness. Pre
Turn to Depper, page 7
Courtesy Photo
The ‘Real Game of Life,’ disease, drug addiction and divorce included, offers a new twist to the classic Milton Bradley game.
‘Real Life’ game offers sex, drugs, war
■ Chris Pender believes life is about more than
pink and blue colored pegs in a plastic car,
so he redesigned the old game to fit new times
By Anne Le Chevaliier
Oregon Daily Emerald
Sitting under a white tent on 13th Avenue on
Wednesday at the ASUO Street Faire, local vendor
Chris Pender was selling a game based on personal
experiences — and it’s even called “Real Life.”
In the Milton Bradley version, “The Game of Life,”
every player receives a car, job, spouse, child and re
Real Life, is not so easy.
Role a one on the first throw of the dice, and the
game is over. The player has been aborted. Land on
the war square, role a six, and the game is over for
everybody. There has been a nuclear war.
Wearing a tie-dye shirt, Pender, who grew up dur
ing the Vietnam War, said he enjoyed the original ver
sion, but he remembers thinking, “Why isn’t war (in
cluded) in this game called ‘life’?”
Thus, when Pender created his parody in 1997, he
added the missing ingredient: a complex dose of the
modem world. While theplayer faces poverty, addic
tions, diseases and death, he or she can also gain in
Turn to ‘Real Life’,-page 7