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8___________________ WEdwEsdAy, OcTobER 17, 2001 A&E The ClAckAMAS P rínt Authors examine love and hate in the NW her first novel, All We Know of Love. It is the story of the creative and roman Contemporary fiction authors tic life of a young Jody Seay and Katie Schneider will read excerpts from their books dur woman, Joanna ing Authors’ Night on Wednes Shepard. She has her day, Oct. 17 at 7 p.m. in Gregory roots in the Pacific Forum. Northwest, where Seay will be reading from her her mother died, her grandfather raised second novel, The Second Com ing of Curly Red. The story is her, and her child about a lesbian couple living in hood friends Rene, Reliance, Oregon, who become the Chuck and Jack live. target of brutal harassment. When But after she nurses a racist, misogynist gunman shout her grandfather ing, “All women are vipers!” kills through his last ill ness, she takes her col lege money and goes to Florence, where she hopes to match the vi Jody Seay will read excerpts from her sions in her second novel The Second Coming Of Curly Red at Authors' Night. head with the art she needs to make. She of the Month Club Stephen meets Walter and Chad Crane Award for First Fiction, there: Walter has money The Pacific Northwest and likes to spend it, Chad Bookseller’s Association argues politics and studies Award, the Washington Center’s occasionally. Governor’s Writers Award, the Schneider is a native of Pulitzer Prize, The National Book Spokane, Washington, with Award and the Oregon Book degrees from Gonzaga Uni Award. She is currently working versity in both history and on a second novel. english. Her novel has re The authors’ novels will be ceived many a ward nomi available for purchase and sign Katie Schneider will be reading from her novel All We Know of Love at nations including Book ing after the event. Authors' Night on October 17at Gregory Forum. ERINNLERTEN Staff Writer Texan Jimmy Heron’s beloved wife of 50 years, Jimmy takes to the high way, hoping for a new life. Eventu ally, he lands in Reliance, where he is befriended by, among others, a lesbian couple who are eagerly awaiting the birth of their first child. All is not well in Reliance though, as the residents are subjected to horrifying acts of harassment led by the nefarious Reverand Darryl Dimmer. Seay won first prize in the 1998 Mendocino Coast Writer’s confer ence and was a finalist in the 2000 Oregon Book Club Awards. Schneider will be reading from Have some thing to sell? Take out a Classified Ad in The Clackamas Print Call Nick Barron @ 657-6958 X2578 Ben Folds offers solo stylings with Five flavor LUKE MAHAN Staff Writer bum tracks didn’t well up any awe within me. Paying $13 seemed a reasonable price to see them per As I handed the $26 to the lady formed live, in the hope that they behind the Fastixx counter in would be better. When I found out Safeway, I wasn’t quite sure what I the tickets were $25.50 a piece, at was getting myself into. l\vo years tending the concert was in great ago I paid only $ 18 for a Ben Folds question. However, my friends had Five concert, which I knew was already purchased their tickets, going to be the best show I had and I had already committed to pro been to (to date). In this case, I had viding rides. So I took a deep only heard short clips of Ben breath.. . Folds* recently released debut solo Citizen Cope took the stage first. album, “Rockin’ The Suburbs,” He seemed like your typical “guy with a guitar,” a concept I’m not particularly fond of. Af ter hearing a small sampling of his stylings, I decided to retire to the downstairs res taurant area of the Roseland Theatre to enjoy a burger and fries. Upon my return to the main atfdience chamber, I was shocked and appalled to find said “guy with a guitar” had abandoned his instru ment and was singing along to tracked music (enough Courtesy of cdnow.com said). My anticipation for Ben Folds recently performed ' Ben Folds grew; I’m sure my selections from his solo debut at feelings were shared with the Roseland Theater. most of the concert-goers. and I could tell only that Folds had Folds and his band finally took added guitars and more reverb to the stage amid much cheering and the same music his Five had been screaming, and promptly blasted playing for years. through “Not Hie Same,” a very With satisfying tunes but wholly BFF-sounding number, complete unimpressive production, the al with fuzz-bass and transcendent harmonies. I knew immediately that my financial sacrifice was not in vain. Then came “Losing Lisa,” “Zak and Sara,” “Gone,” “Fred Jones Part 2” and “Fired,” which sounds like a track straight off BFF’s al bum “Whatever and Ever Amen.” The band tore through the set with little talking from Folds in between songs (with the exception of a little background information about a new song titled “Hiro’s Song”). Turning to the crowd after each number, he showed his broad and humorous smile, relaying his high spirits. Joining Folds onstage were a drummer, a guitarist (whom Folds introduced as “Snuzz”), and bass player Millard Powers, who played with Folds and Bill Owsley in a band, called the Semantics in the early '90s. Powers also on Owsley’s self-titled debut album. Folds stuck to playing piano throughout the show. During the ninth song, the hu morous “Make Me Mommy,” the guitarist^broke a string, forcing a short break in the concert. Folds took it upon himself to fill the gap by playing an impromptu piano- only version of “The Best Imita tion of Myself/’ from BFF’s self» titled debut album. Taking advan tage of the situation, Folds then instructed Snuzz to sing along to a song familiar to them both. The guitarist’s seemingly sub- conscious hand gestures offered comic relief. They ended the somewhat short set with “The Ascent of Stan” and a powerfully en ergetic version of “Rockin’ The Suburbs,” during which Folds played a shoulder-slung midi keyboard, enabling him to go wild. The backwards red hat he wore during the song added to his middle class white Courtesy of BenFolds.com adolescent im Ben Folds returns to the music scene on a solo age. His zany project called "Rockin' the Suburbs", which antics only left keeps with the familiar sound of his former the crowd group, Ben Folds Five. wanting more. After about 10 minutes of an encore of five songs, includ cheering, clapping, chanting and ing a super-extended version stomping for an encore, Folds re of the hit “Song of the turned to the stage by himself for Dumped.”
