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Singer's extraordinary style hits John Henry's on Sunday Self-described ‘indie/pop/punk' artist Inara George brings musical background to her first solo project BY AMY UCHTY PULSE EDITOR "Will you take me as your mis tress?" asks singer Inara George in the opening track of her solo debut "All Rise." Sure, it isn'tyourtypical love song, butthen again, George is notyourtypical singer-songwriter. Luckily for Eugene, she'll be making an appearance Sunday at John Hen ry's. Growing up in a home full of music in Topanga Canyon, Calif., George had decided early on to not take the road set out in front of her. Her dad Lowell George, the late legendary front man forthe rock band Little Feat had set a path for her that could have easily been taken, but she decided to ex plore her love of classical theater in stead. "(Because of my dad), there was a bit of me that didn't feel like going that route because it almost seemed that the path had already been forged for me," George said. "So that was my re sistance, and I wanted to take the road where there was least resist ance." So George packed her bags and headed across the country to Boston, where she focused her studies on classical theater, having been influ enced by her own performances in Shakespearean plays atTopanga Canyon's Theatricum Botanicum. But one summer home was all ittookfor George's life to completely change. On a whim, she and some friends from high school decided to start a band, which they called Lode. They were quickly picked up by Geffen Records and spent the next two years touring. That was twelve years ago, and that's when George realized that music was simply in her blood. "I kind of just found myself in this scenario," George said. "When I was 18,1 joined a band, and I had never played in a band before. I wasn't real ly completely 100 percent excited about it And then, when time went by and I had better experiences and more fun, it sort of seemed like the thing that I might be better atthan oth er things, so I sort of just stuck to it" Afterthe implosion of Lode, George found herself tangled in another band, Merrick, with which she put out two CDs. When Merrick called it quits in 2002, George decided it was time for her to do things on her own. With the help of producer/guitarist Michael Andrews, who has com posed scores for Donnie Darko and Freaks and Geeks, George found her self back in the studio. This time, she was doing it on her own, but she had a team of musicians to back her up every step of the way, That team in cluded keyboardist Greg Kurstin, who has played with the likes of Beck and Ben Harper, Greyboy Allstar bassist Chris Stillwell, former Cake drummer Pete McNeal and of course Andrews backing her on the guitar. Although George's home life pro vided many different avenues of GEORGE, page 11 Lichty: InTouch ranks last Continued from page 7 ft's almost impossible notto be at least somewhat curious about the private lives of stars. Celebrities are every where. From the movies to TV to adver tisements, they put their two cents in on what we wear, what we smell like and what we use on our hair. Although celebrities surprisingly don't influence me on any of those things, I am in con stant need of knowing who's dating whom and who's fighting with whom. Luckily for people like me, there's a steady supply of tabloids to feed my hunger. Just go to the nearest grocery store and you'll find plenty of choices. We'll start with my favorite, my per sonal Bible. I am one of Us Weekly's million subscribers, and Us Weekly is definitely the glossy that I trust the most Although it has gotten a few things wrong—they reported "exclu sively" that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie adopted her second baby, Za hara, together, which was quickly proved wrong by paperwork—it scoops a lot of stories, like Britney Spears giving birth and Moore and Kutcher's wedding. But a major prob lem with Us Weekly is that it tends to play favorites. I mean—how many times are they going to kiss Jessica Simpson's ass by plastering her all over the best-dressed list? Did you see her atthe MTV Music Awards? She looked —as she usually does in my opinion — like a wad of crap. People is my second-ranked glossy, but it definitely takes the cake when it comes to subscription numbers, boast ing a whopping 3,350,000 paid sub scribers. My only beef with People is that it isn't as sassy as Us Weekly and I enjoy the sass. People tends to get more exclusives, like Spears' wedding and baby shower, but that is a title quickly being taken away by the newest celeb rag outthere: OK! magazine. OK! magazine has its roots in the UK (Brits tend to be just as celeb-happy as Americans). They just launched their U.S. edition this summer, which focuses on exclusive celebrity interviews, with the likes of Simpson, Hilary Duff and Nicole Richie posing on the covers— all eagerto get their mugs spread across as many magazines as they possibly can. OK! claimed to have the first pictures of the Spears/Federline collaboration, reportedly paying close to $2 million forthe pics, but when I snatched up the latest issue, baby Sean/Preston/Christian (whatthe hell is that baby's name already?) was no whereto be seen. So, I'll believe it when I see it. There is one magazine that I refuse to buy and that is InTouch Weekly. I will tell anyone I know that InTouch has gotten so many things wrong, it's not even funny anymore. 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