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■ 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
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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
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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.
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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
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346-4363 for tickets and information.
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