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Community Canter tar the Performing Arts ■ Friday ■ Gypsy Flamenco featuring Vanessa Alvarado, Laurena Marrone, Cristo Cortes, Ricardo Diaz Dance Berformance l:oo pm, $12 advance, $14 door ■ Saturday ■ North Mississippi Allstars with Clarence Bucaro Blues Rock •:oo pm, $13 advance, $1$ door ■ Sunday • The Fruit Bats, The Litys, The Veils, Alpha Charlie Indie Rock 1:00 pm, U door • Monday ■ Pedro the lion, Irving, The Holy Ghost Indie Rock l:oo pm, $10 advance, $12 door All Ages Welcome • 6H7-2746 We've got sports 24/7 www.dailyemerald.com Come Dance To The Music of SILAS Friday November 7th - 9:30 PM Sam’s Place 323 Wilcor. St. Eujcr.e (N:rtr. :f: Wcc*. lit© . 434-1155: wwv/.sal'staveln.cOia: iumv miiMsuHV *idi>m«sh 80's Night IH11NSUMV, KUMMIVSHHIII Pablo Moses, Katt, Revolutionary Dream Band Doors'® 6pm $ 10 advance tickets @ House of Records I UIUHV. 71H • 111 f*M • SH HOE DOWN Co me dressed as your favorite cowboy, cowgirl, or trailer trash. Check out The Koozies, The Sawyer Family, and The Whopner County / Country All-Stars SHIIINUHV, HIH • 111 I'M • SH Real Kidz/UNU Productions presents FRESH Hip-Hop Electronica Dance Night 1 Ul 14V SIINUHV *111 PM • s.H John Henry's Broadway Revue MIINUHV, IIIIH • III l*M • I Ml Strange folks present LIVE HIP-HOP HiisuHV. niu«iiii>M«mit • Mine 37, Pellet Gun, The Better Angels (ex-Oswo/d 5-0) HJINV 1III IJNI SIIHV • 111 I’M • S/ ’| Hllll S I ME Higher Ground Sound Dance Hall Reggae Vs. Hip-Hop fUlHISHHV, IH IH • 111 MM • S/t The Spits, Capgun Suicide, Blasphemous Abnormality, PB Army 77 IJlHSt Hniddllunj (iihkI tnI.JAirsH.i/.wr) M7-H35H • mt i n i j j<nhnhenry sell ib.nnm Carl Sundberg Reasoning with Madness Life, not suicide, creates heroes When I found out about Elliott Smith's recent suicide, I initially felt a tinge of shock. It was sad. People all over the country were talking about his death. I read somewhere that Smith was considered a hero. Up until he stabbed himself in the chest, that is. Maybe I'm just a bitter, savage, un caring type of guy, but I'm growing terribly bored of the sad-genius who puts himself out to pasture. Don't get me wrong, it is never a good thing when someone dies. Death is the ultimate tragedy. But I feel no sympathy toward someone who gives up and takes their own life. The world doesn't need whiney self loathing heroes anymore. It's time to evolve. Why should we put these people on pedestals? "Oh, they had it so bad." Yeah well, so do a lot of other people, but they don't kill themselves. They push through. To me, the people who transcend misery and strife are the heroes. Take Johnny Cash. Here's a man who, like Elliott Smith, had it rough for much of his life; battling with drugs, love, loss and the music indus try until the end. Unlike Smith, Cash pushed through the good and the bad. He made it to the end. To me, he was a hero. His death was a true loss, an honest tragedy. Elliott Smith's death wasn't a tragedy; it was a fashion statement. A cliche. A shame. His suicide mimics the most famous of rock star suicides: Kurt Cobain. I re member the sinking feeling I had when I heard the news. I remember it was raining and I listened to Nirvana for a week solid. At some point during my tribute I thought about Cobain's daughter. I grew angry at Cobain for leaving his daughter with that witch of a wife, Courtney Love. His daughter will never know her father, except Turn to SUNDBERG, page 12 MARIO KART continued from page 8 Kong and the real fossil of the game, Super Mario Bros. 2's Birdo. (Which go-cart players can choose depend ing on the drivers they select.) Even better, two players can team up and each take control of a single charac ter, splitting the driving and gunning responsibilities for a cart. There's more to drivers than weight class now, too, adding strategic depth to character selection: There are some items that only specific characters can score. In the regular GP (grand prix) racing mode, only Koopa Troopa ("turtle" in the uninitiated vernacu lar) and Koopa Paratroopa ("flying turtle") have access to the powerful three-shell items, and (Princess) Peach and Daisy reinforce the Mario series' overstated gender roles with the useful heart items that absorb weapons fired at the cart, letting that driver use them. Still, there's not so much to keep track of that a new player can't blind ly pick a pair of characters, start play ing, and be comfortable with the game in 10 minutes. Like earlier games in the series, Double Dash!! will probably be best remembered as a classic, masterfully executed party game. Using broad band adapters, players can hook up GameCubes and televisions in myri ad permutations, allowing up to eight single drivers or 16 teamed-up players to compete in real time. Yet, unlike some titles where single-player modes are just a shell to make essentially multiplayer games more accessible — say, Dead or Alive 3 — Mario Kart's solo play looks as robust as ever. According to Nintendo, there's more to unlock in this game than in any of its predecessors. This begs the question: Is there a Rainbow Road in Double Dash!!? "There may or may not be," a Nin tendo representative said, and added something about wanting to keep his job. The highly recommended Double Dash!! is slated for a Nov. 17 release. Contact the editorial editor at traviswillse@dailyemerald.com. His opinions do not necessarily represent those of the Emerald. NYBURG continued from page 8 rockers to the big-name stars. They want to be taken seriously so much you can almost feel them strain for it, yet they never seem to take into ac count the fact that they are playing an incredibly simple form of music. It seems rock has been overcome by a constant stream of boring hacks who play the same rote nonsense over and over, holding their guitars as if they were the world's loudest phallic symbols and playing chords eighth graders could learn after an hour of lessons. Am 1 expected to take this seriously? This is not why I listen to rock mu sic, or any music for that matter. I am not interested in the god complex these mega-stars always seem to de velop. They perform as if they must be worshiped by their fans, like they can move the world by pure force of will, when in fact they would be laughed off the stage if they tried to play anything more complex than "Wild Thing." I am also not interested in the latest breakthrough in rock form commit ted by a small indie band. An artistic breakthrough in rock is like an artistic breakthrough in Lego construction. Combining two forms that have never been combined before does not make - you a musical visionary, it makes you a chemist. So why do I listen to rock? I guess I . see it as a sort of modem folk music, but not in the highfalutin' coffee shop singer form of folk. I mean the kind of music people played before radio, recording technology or any multina tional form of "music industry" came about. Simple, to the point and often highly creative. Taking the confines of a simple form and doing something really gnarly with it. So I listen without feeling any need to take part in this cult of celebrity that some musicians seem to develop. I also don't feel that there is any artis tic relevance in whether music is made by someone in a basement or made by someone with a million-dol lar recording contract. 1 just dig the tunes, man, not the hype. And that's about as simple as it gets. Contact the senior pulse reporter at ryannyburg@dailyemerald.com. w ■ A campus tradition—over 100 years of publication. the Ken Kesey Symposium five scholarly panels on the work of Kesey in the Fir Room, EMU, at , starting at 7 pm on November 1 the Merry Pranksters at 2:15 15 in the EMU Presented by the Council for Theatre and Performance with the departments of Theatre and English. Panels and Pranksters open to the public and free of charge. November 14-16 http://kesey.uoregon.edu Don’t miss the UT production of Flew Over the Cuckoo’s N 346-4363 for tickets and information. University of Oregon
