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i Currie spins raunchy tale of love
j Donald Currie’s audiobook
j gives an amusing glimpse
into the performer's life
I Audiobook review
Helen Schumacher
Pulse Reporter
I Donald Currie’s knack for self
dramatization makes his audio
book “Sex and Mayhem Part One”
an amusing, raunchy tale of the
performer’s first love.
Winner of the StoneWall Society
Pride In the Arts Literary Award
for 2002, “Sex and Mayhem” be
gins on the narrator’s first day of
college in 1964, where his crush
on drama Professor Joseph
Demione begins.
The story follows the young,
“wretchedly virginal” student as
he spends his time fantasizing
about the professor and becoming
his star student. Or as Currie puts
it, “I was really just a lonely kid
who shuffled up the aisle of the
cow palace to be given Billy Gra
ham’s blessing, only now Billy was
in tight white chinos and looked
like he had a darn nice rocket in
his pocket.”
The story continues with an in
vitation from Demione to join him
in Idaho for a theater camp. It
seems as though all the narrator’s
dreams are about to come true.
Although Currie’s bravado can
be a bit cheesy at times, his over
all performance is charming and
humorous. The book is decorated
with tales of Currie’s early theater
experiences and love of the spot
light in the conservative ‘50s.
Trips to the cinema with his se
nile grandma and later perform
ances of “There’s No Business Like
Show Business” and “Auntie
Mame,” complete with such ex
cesses as “peeling off my mother’s
white gloves (wrist length, not el
bow — her set didn’t go in for such
display) and flinging them with
saucy abandon into my grandma’s
lap,” explain how Currie ended up
studying drama in college.
Currie, an acupuncturist, had
been performing “Sex and May
hem” at slam events when one of
his clients, who had just pur
chased a large amount of record
ing equipment and needed an op
portunity to learn the machinery’s
nuances, asked Currie if he’d like
to record the piece.
Currie said he plans on making
“Sex and Mayhem” a four-part se
ries. The complete story centers
around the first sentence in part
one: “My first lover went mad, the
second went straight, the third guy
turned into a Christian fundamen
talist, the fourth took to drink, and
the fifth became a woman.”
Currie said the second installa
tion is almost ready to be released.
He added that the creation of
the audiobooks has been a learn
ing experience.
“I’ve learned that my life was re
ally full of interest,” Currie said.
“I’ve never really lived anywhere
besides San Francisco and I’ve
been front row for a lot of history.
I really appreciate that. My life has
been a really rich thing.”
This appreciation of life and the
experiences that go along with it is
something Currie said he wants
listeners to take with them.
“I think everyone’s life is impor
tant and I hope listeners realize
that,” Currie said. “I hope people
are open to the piece. It doesn’t mat
ter if you’re gay or straight. It’s about
busting out and wanting to live.”
Contact the Pulse reporter
athelenschumacher@dailyemerald.com.
Scrutiny
continued from page 1
physics, said he believes the regis
tration process is discriminatory
because only certain countries are
required to register. He added that
he feels vulnerable because inter
viewees must answer all immigra
tion officials’ questions in the inter
view, regardless of the language
barrier or the potentially intrusive
nature of the questions.
“Anything can happen because
they have full right to detain me,
arrest me and deport me,” Rah
mat said. “The victims of registra
tion cannot have the right to re
main silent.”
Some students said the process
has been relatively simple.
University students Talal Al
Rahbi and Khaled Ishaq said the
registration process was not hos
tile, even though they had to
provide a great deal of informa
tion under oath and were pho
tographed and fingerprinted. Al
Rahbi registered in early
January, while Talal registered in
late December, but both said
their interviews only took 20 to
30 minutes.
“The process wasn’t like an in
terrogation, it was more like what
you’d go through to apply for a
job,” Al-Rahbi said.
He added that the wealth of in
formation required for registration
— such as proof of address, proof of
registration for classes, credit card
numbers, parents’ names, birth
dates and contact information —
would deter dangerous individuals
from actually registering.
Although both Al-Rahbi and
Ishaq said the procedure itself was
not intimidating or uncomfort
able, they felt the prolonged
scrutiny of their personal infor
Flying
continued from page 1
pilots, said he started his military
service as a “colored boy,” and was
not referred to as a Tuskegee Air
man until his retirement in 1970 be
cause the popular term in the ‘40s,
‘50s and ‘60s was “colored flier.”
“The Air Corps had ... a segrega
tionist policy that excluded African
Americans from entering,” Drum
mond said. “The country’s policy
was to split races.”
Holloman said while there were
black pilots prior to World War II,
many flew for other countries be
cause the United States would not
accept them.
The pilots spent time Monday
telling stories and discussing the his
tory behind their airplanes.
“Everybody had nicknames back
then,” Holloman said of his flying
comrades and their planes.
The famous 99th Squadron, of
which Holloman was a part, was the
only squadron in the world com
mation was troubling.
“It certainly doesn’t feel good to
know that all your personal trans
actions might be used against you,
just because it would look suspi
cious at the outset,” Ishaq said.
“And those who are less proficient
in English would find the inter
view a very stressful process,
since what they say might be mis
understood easily.”
Lee said GTFF is ready to pro
vide moral support to University
students who are concerned about
special registration, and the group
is planning on organizing a car
pool to provide international stu
dents with transportation to the
Portland District Office of BGIS.
Students interested in this service
can contact GTFF through Sebast
ian Zwicknagl at szwickna@dark
wing. uoregon. edu.
Contact the senior news reporter
at jenniferbear@dailyemerald.com.
pletely separate from its Fighter
Group, which is made up of several
squadrons. The squadron was incor
porated into the 332nd Flight Group
by the end of World War II, but Hol
loman said it would not have taken
so long to join with a flight group if
there had not been so much racism
in the military.
About 100 people, most of them
students, attended the discussion,
which was organized by University
Professor Emeritus William Lamon
to honor the centennial of aviation.
Lamon, a native Belgian, said that
when he immigrated to the United
States in 1963, he was horrified to
see how blacks — native to America
— were treated , and he naturally
wanted the Tuskegee Airmen to be
recognized for their accomplish
ments.
“There’s lots of camaraderie be
tween pilots — no matter what na
tion you’re from,” Lamon said.
Contact the reporter
atromangokhman@dailyemerald.com.
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