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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
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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.”