COACHELLA
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final song, "Intensify."
Legend-in-the-making Sage Francis
performed with a CD player as his only
accompaniment. Dressed like some
break-dancing druid, he delivered a bar
rage of eccentric and introspective hip
hop. As usual, he placed an original
twist on every song, improvising and
reinventing as he went along. During
the show he pelted the audience with
broccoli, broke a chair, removed his
pants and sodomized a George W. Bush
doll. As usual, he took control and
walked offstage as if nothing happened.
If Radiohead was the overall high
light of the festival, then The Flaming
Lips were the highlight of the second
day. Even though set-up time cut into
their set by about 15 minutes, the show
was amazing. It began with lead singer
Wayne Coyne being passed around by
the crowd in a huge plastic bubble. The
stage was packed tight with people in
furry little animal suits and dancing
suns, fake blood was everywhere and a
good time was had by all. The only dis
appointment of the Lips' performance
was Coyne's attempts at being political.
He rehashed the same anti-Bush
rhetoric everyone had been saying all
day, but he took a lot longer than most
to say the exact same thing.
1 don't know what it was, but 1 have
to admit that The Cure was a disap
pointment. Maybe I was tired. Maybe
The Flaming Lips performance over
shadowed The Cure Or maybe Robert
Smith just looked too creepy. The point
is, I was expecting a lot more than what
was delivered. I guess 1 wanted more
from them than songs performed ex
actly the same way they have always
been played. Maybe some kind of stage
antics, maybe some personality. When 1
go to see a band live, it's because 1 want
to get something I can't get from listen
ing to their album, and quite frankly,
The Cure did not deliver. But come on
— it's still The Cure.
While life as we know it was not
changed drastically by the festival, or
nothing of real significance was accom
plished, 1 don't think that was the point
of the festival, like action films and Cal
ifornia gubernatorial elections, some
things just don't need to be meaningful.
Sometimes, they just need to be fun.
Ryan Murphey is a freelance reporter
for the Emerald.
LOVIN'
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keep it moist. Or, go the sensual rout<
with chocolate covered strawberries
Simply dip berries in melted, bitter
sweet chocolate and refrigerate on ;
wire rack until hardened.
A date that combines delicious fooc
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rinse, wash, repeat for the entire album
It's a tried-and-true formula, to be sure,
but the band can't even find variation*
to such a simple structure.
To top it off, the lyrics descend tc
depths of banality where few othei
bands have dared to tread. When no)
ranting about the standard set of rela
tionship troubles, lead singer KaiaWilson
waxes poetic with lines such as, "Can'i
shake off all your water / like tides and
howls and the moon." Pardon me, bu)
could you decode that one for us, please?
Even the love lyrics are completely
devoid of any sort of interesting con
tent. "I'm not going anywhere bu1
here / you are everything and every
where." Just about makes your hear)
melt, doesn't it? While the chorus thai
and the outdoors is a great springtime
enhancement to a romance. Awaken
your senses with the tastes, sights and
sounds of an outdoor feast with your
honey, and see if it doesn't lead to more
sense-awakening activities indoors.
{ Contact the Pulse reporter at
natashachilingerian@dailyemerald.com.
Her opinions do not necessarily
I represent those of the Emerald.
contains this line is delivered soulful
ly, as are all the choruses, the melodies
are rarely interesting beyond the first
listen. When they do work melodical
ly, they are usually torpedoed by the
empty lyrics they are conveying.
It's difficult to blame the band for
simply being a bland imitation of other
bands. They don't make any claims to
being anything different. And while the
music is boring, it's never outright des
picable. Still, sounding like everyone
else is hardly a laudable act, and if the
Butchies were any more conformed,
they would simply cease to exist.
The Butchies will be performing at
WOW Hall tomorrow as part of Les
bopalooza. Tickets are $7 in advance
and $ 10 at the door. WOW Hall is lo
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at ryannyburg@dailyemerald.com.
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