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Mark McCambridge Photographer Les Claypool of Primus performs to a packed, hazy Hult Center on Saturday night. Primus sucks? Primus wowed fans on Saturday at a sold-out Hult Center show, revitalizing old favorites with their familiar eclectic panache and style Carl Sundberg Pulse Columnist I The bizarre freak show that is Primus rolled through Eugene on Sat urday night in support of its new al bum, "Animals Should Not Try To Act like People." The three original members of the band — Les Claypool, Larry LaLonde and Tim Alexander — joined forces once again for a reunion tour extrava ganza, playing two sets clocking in just under 180 minutes to a sold-out crowd at the Hult Center for the Per forming Arts. CONCERT REVIEW The crowd did not explode when the band took the stage just after 8 p.m. Instead, they roared, then fell silent as the band slid into the Pink Floyd-ish "Southbound Pachy derm," a trippy, lurching song about flying elephants. They stretched the song out for nearly 10 minutes, bend ing it into new shapes that I'd never heard before. However, the crowd was Turn to PRIMUS, page 12 “Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a | Black Sailor” Wednesday, October 29 Knight Law Center Room 175 7 p.m. FREE Reading and discussion by former Wayne Morse Professor, William B. Gould IV. Booksigning to follow. Visit UOBookstore.com for details. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON BOOKSTORE Filmmaker Moore tells Portlanders Bush is on way out Michael Moore, speaking to a crowd of 10,000 on Thursday, said the majority of Americans are liberal By Julia Carr Freelance Reporter "(Portland) is the 25th city of my tour and if you could see what I see you would know Bush is doomed!" best-selling author Michael Moore said to a crowd of about 10,000 sup porters in Portland on Thursday night at the Memorial Coliseum. Moore is on tour to promote his new book, "Dude, Where's My Country?" Portland State University's con tinuing education department sponsored the event and local movie maker Gus Van Sant gave an introduction speech. Moore opened with an explana tion of his speech at the Oscars. "It seemed like the right thing to do," he said of the speech, adding that his house was vandalized sever al times afterward. He discussed the growing strength of the liberal movement, calling them "the majority," and said 60 percent of voters are either female or people of color. "The majority of Americans are pro-choice, for affirmative action and pro-gun control" and support stronger environmental laws, he said. Moore mocked the Democratic Party by calling them "The Pleather Party," and he said that voters often have difficulty choosing between two parties that are so similar. He added that he believes America lacks a true representation of Congress. "If 10 percent of the country is Green, then 10 percent of Congress should be Green," he said to audi ence applause. Not everything Moore said was greeted with such support, however. "It was the Jesus jokes," 29-year old Portland resident and Moore supporter Olin James Longworth III said. "A lot of people don't respond well to Christian jokes." Moore said he's "a recovering Catholic" and read a passage from "Dude, Where's My Country" that he claimed was written by God. 'The majority of Americans are pro-choice, for affirmative action and pro-gun control." Michael Moore Filmmaker "Let's get this straight, God don't bless America, God don't bless any one, God's got a tee time on the back nine and he doesn't have time to be interrupted with all this patri otic mumbo jumbo, 'Go bless your selves, and quit using my name as justification for feeling superior to everyone else,' you aren't!" he read. Moore said political commenta tors are angry and called them "dy ing dinosaurs." To illustrate his point, he used his cell phone to place a live call to local conservative talk show host Lars Larson. "Hey Lars! This is Michael Moore, and I'm at the Memorial Coliseum and we just wanted to hear what a dying dinosaur sounded like, could you tell us please?" The call provoked an explosion of laughter, applause and bantering from the crowd. The audience was composed of all ages. "I liked seeing old people there tonight," Longworth said. "I liked seeing them laugh." Portland resident Christine D'Es posito, 27, said "Michael Moore is a good symbol to the younger gener ation. He wears a baseball hat, a T shirt ... he keeps himself looking approachable." Moore ended the evening by telling people to get out and vote. "We need to defeat PGE (Portland General Electric) here in November and we need a government watch dog so that this never happens again." He encouraged voters not to make a decision on presidential elections yet and to "push the candi dates to do a better job." He told the audience to vote be cause "they have got the money on their side, and we've got the people." Julia Carr is a freelance reporter for the Emerald. STUDENT GROUPS Advertise in the Emerald. Call 346-3712 to speak with a rep. We have great University rates.
