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The Eugene Rock
Music showcase
will take place at
the WOW Hall on
Friday at 7p.m.
for a $5 cover
charge.
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Music: Local talent underappreciated
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regular shows.
"We get up to four or five local
bands that wouldn't normally get to
play a nice stage, we getto give them a
show every month and the WOW Hall
gets to fix everything that's broken and
keep themselves running efficiently,"
he said.
Morden currently plays in two
bands, alterEGO and F. Capone, and
has a lot of experience on and off the
stage. He has been involved in many
aspects of the music scene, including
promoting and volunteering atthe
WOW Hall. Morden figured that his ex
periences could help new bands with
two of the main problems in the local
music scene: show attendance and the
lack of all-ages venues.
"Bowling for Soup just came to town
and I had to work atthat show and it
was completely sold out" Morden
said. "A good local band would play the
next day and there would be 10 people
there. That's backwards. The people in
this town don't really appreciate all the
local talent that there is."
Morden added thatthere are few
dedicated all-ages venues.
"There's just bars," he said. "And it's
not very fun to play at bars."
Ron Bullard, who was a member of
the now-defunct Courtesy Clerks and is
the current drummer in the Sawyer
Family, echoes the sentiment
"Basically, you have the WOW Hall
or you have a party, and for not being 21
that sucks because you know you can't
go out and see a band," Bullard said.
" If you're 21, you've got probably five or
six clubs on the weekendsthat you can
see live music at but if you're 20 you
got to waitforthe right showto come at
the WOW."
Morden's main goal in creating
Eugene Rock Music wasto help uni
fy the scene and increase support
for local music.
"I remembered when there was a
better scene, when there was a bet
ter atmosphere for playing music in
this town, and I wanted to try to
bring that back and do things to help
out the younger bands," he said.
"It's hard to get gigs, it's hard to get
people to listen to your music, and I
thought maybe I was in a position
after all this time and all the connec
tions that I have to do something
to help."
Nyburg: Essays an unexplored territory
Continued from page 5
But enough tooting my own horn.
Let me introduce you to the world of
the essay, where opinions are
jagged and grammar is jaggederer.
You could read David Smith's classic
"A Theory of Comedic Polemics, or
Why Dennis Miller is No Longer Fun
ny," to start. Or maybe take a gander
at Aaron Smith's "The Roots of 20th
Century Postmodernism, As Told
Through the Perspective of an Auto
matic Hand Dryer at the Gateway
Mall Men's Restroom."
Forthose interested in literary sub
jects, I politely recommend Gerald
Smith's "Classics of Canadian Natural
ism," if you're into the pervo stuff.
There are also such titles available as
"An Essay About an Essay About Mod
ern Metafiction," as well as "Why We
Don't Read So Good No More."
There is also a wide range of
cinematic essays, such as Pauline
Kael Smith's "The Subversive Na
ture of Terror: The Film Career of The
Rock," or Jude Ebert's "Symbolism
in Propaganda, Plus 10 Other 'Tri
umph of the Will' Drinking Games."
Cultural criticism is a popular es
say topic, with titles ranging from
"Why P. Diddy is a Really Stupid
Name" to "Why You, Personally, Are
a Rotten Little Son of a Bitch." There
is also Calvin Smith's "Do Pants Mat
ter?" and Woodward Holms' "Funny
Names: They Are Not Funny."
Political essays are also fun to pe
ruse. My personal favorite is the 1786
classic anonymous treatise "I Predict
America Will One Day Be a Whiny, In
sufferable Country Full of Fat, Over
bearing, Ignorant Bastards." For
those looking for something in a more
nationalist vein, I would recommend
the more current piece, recently
published in a bathroom stall at the
University Bookstore, entitled "Cana
da is for Pussies."
Personally, I've always had a
fondness for essays with a philo
sophical bent. Eugene Sanders' "Ni
etzsche Screwed Up Everything"
has always had a special place in
my heart, as does the group effort
"We Are Not Amused By Neo-Kant
ian Ethics."
So you see, there is a whole world
out there of unexplored ideas just
waiting for you to, well, explore
them. So whatever your cup of tea
is, you can probably find someone
with an opinion about it. I promise I'll
return to a normal column topic once
the medication wears off. Now stop
reading my column and go do some
thing productive.
ryannyburg@dailyemerald.com
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