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Samurai Duck Friday, Oct. 11th • Dexter Grove Saturday, Oct. 12th • Silk 9 • Nail Mary • Dislogik • NorthWest Royale Monday, Oct. 14th • Lizard King (Techno Deejayees) Tuesday, Oct. 15th • Northwest Royale • Good Time Woman Wednesday, Oct. 16th • Dub Reggae Thursday, Oct. 17th • Stinking Lizaveta Friday, Oct. 18th •Joy Toy • Roy G. Biv Saturday, Oct. 19th • l-Chele • Metason 345-6577 990 Oak Street look into the OPE Classifieds 348-4343 ®0 Pulse reviews Tracking globe-trotting books is engaging BookCrossing.com allows readers to share good reads with book fans worldwide Book review Peter Hallinan Fine Arts Columnist A book sits by itself in the lounge of the SS Marco Polo, a steamship docked in the port city of Tallinn, Es tonia. The book, “Natural Causes” by Michael Palmer, is part of a global ex periment in which more than 100,000 books in dozens of coun tries have been deliberately left be hind by their owners. From Novosi birsk, Russia, to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, participants have left books in public locations to be found, read and “released” again. While many people leave books in far-flung locales, others leave them here in Eugene. In September, peo ple left books at Autzen Stadium, Espresso Roma and the Hult Center. The Web site BookCrossing.com acts as the central cortex for this glob al experiment. The nonprofit site is the brainchild of Ron Hombaker, a partner in the software-developing firm Humankind Systems. Since its inception in April 2001, the Web site’s popularity has increased exponentially, starting with only a handful of participants and now boast ing almost 50,000 members. The Web site likes to call itself a “reading group that knows no geographical bound aries,” and its goal is to turn the world into a gigantic library. BookGrossing.com is a unique cross-pollination of Internet tech nology and good ol’ fashioned book reading. Clearly, many people have fallen in love with experiencing “the karma of literature,” judging by posted testimonials that range from silly poems to essays gushing with praise. The Web site boasts many fun and engaging features that allow you to find out where books in your town have been released, where people in foreign countries are re leasing books, or what book has traveled the farthest. But the best part is to actually participate, dust off some well-loved books, and share them with a stranger. Contact Pulse columnist Peter Hallinan atpeterhallinan@dailyemerald.com. Here is how BookCrossing works: After reading a good book, a reader can register that book on BookCrossing.com’s site. The book is given an identification number and a note to be pasted inside the cover explaining that the book is “traveling around the world mak ing new friends.” Then the book is left at a public location such as a coffee shop, school or bus station to be found by someone else. When someone else finds the book, that individual can log onto BookCrossing’s Web site and find out where that book has traveled. After the book is released again,theWeb notifies by e-mail its previous readers about the current whereabouts of their book so the can follow the book’s travels across town or around the world. Maikov ich can’t help dull ‘Knockaround Guys’ Ryan Lewis Michigan Daily (U. Michigan) ANN ARBOR, Mich. (U-WIRE) — Apparently, the unfortunate sons of mafia bosses have little to look for ward to outside of following in their fathers’ footsteps. No respectable business will take you on as an em ployee, no matter how straight-edged you might appear. No future seems bright, and even the gangster life has faded significantly since its heyday because of snitches and the FBI. Without the experience of their predecessors, all they can hope for is the life of a “knockaround guy” — a gopher. That life, just like this movie, is drab, monotonous and completely stripped of the glory that it could have been. Matty Demaret (Barry Pepper) has it rough. As the son of infamous crime family leader Benny “Chains” Demaret (Dennis Hopper), he can neither get the sports managing job he desires nor become a legitimate part of the family. His friends, as it seems, all have similar predica ments. Taylor Reese (Vin Diesel) can never be a part of the mafia due to his Jewish religion, Johnny Mar bles (Seth Green) is a screw-up who nobody trusts and Chris Scarpa (Andrew Davoli) lives the legitimate life after his father was freed from prison. Nothing fits for any of them. After some pleading, “Chains” gives his son a job. It is so simple that it would take effort to err. Of course, Matty makes Johnny the main player in the action, foreshad owing the certainty of mistakes, and the action takes off from there. “Knockaround Guys” has a very interesting premise that has inher ent meaning for the next generation of adults moving up into the busi ness world. This idea of disenchant ment could have worked almost as a powerful antithesis to popular gangster films. However, the writer/director/pro ducer team of Brian Koppelman and David Levien drag the intriguing na ture of the story deep into blandness. It seems as though after the majesty of their first co-written screenplay “Rounders,” this pair ran out of inter esting material for their second at tempt. Directing and producing did n’t help — a flat script, insipid characters and absence of style con tribute to their problem. The characters are extremely one-dimensional and stereotypical, as if Koppelman and Levien had mixed and matched from past gang ster movies. Performances of equipped and capable actors suffer from lack of motivation and direc tion. Although Diesel has some bright moments and Malkovich is always a pleasure to watch, their acting is hampered by the stiffness of their characters and by poor di rection. Most problematic is the film’s lack of a defined tone. While it begins as a serious story, it develops into a cross-genre mess with attempts at humor, and it climaxes back to a se rious, action-driven cliche. Maybe with practice, Koppelman and Levien will evolve into an inter esting team. This sour failure of a first attempt, however, is one film that should be forgotten rather than used for development. “Knockaround Guys” proves to be a movie that could have been. North Campus 579 E. Broadway 686-1166 South Campus 2870 E. 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DeFazio said there is no evi dence to prove Hussein is an im mediate threat, citing a partially declassified CIA letter. The letter allegedly states that Hussein does not have nuclear weapons and has no relationship with terrorists who pose a threat to America. He added that working with allies and reinstating weapons inspectors in Iraq is his preferred alternative to war. Bradbury said a war with Iraq would only lead to greater world instability. “A preemptive, unilateral inva sion of Iraq, without United Nations support, would set an exceptionally dangerous precedent for the con duct of international affairs in the 21st century,” he said. “Any nation could justify attack ing its neighbors.” Contact the senior news reporter at janmontry@dailyemerald.com. Taurus: What are you doing this weekend? 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