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‘lackamas Print Wednesday, April 19, 2006 Arts Entertainment 5 -------- ------------------- -------------------------- Isen’s ‘10:01’ reads like poetry en Conley for just what it was — images, ideas and beliefs strewn together trying to convey something to us without ever having a whole story - then I enjoyed it. Olsen’s fictional creations, although sometimes less than half-formed, show a great flair for what some would call the “unique.” His words had a way of making me think of things I never had before, or think of things I had thought of a million times before in a new way. This, com bined with the book seen from the perspective of a cat, a ghost and the consciousness of a once- beautiful woman compressed into nothing by a tear in reality, made me wonder what form Olsen’s muse takes. On the down side, sometimes UnnusPrint lite the fact that the hectic |ts in Lance Olsen’s “10:01” j simultaneous effect of I me in while being just led enough to fade parts of ■ blur, I thought that over Is rather interesting. Iretically the book chron- jie seemingly random I of movie goers at one (Mali of America’s movie I The entire contents of ■-page book take place |re 10 minutes and one ton as I stopped searching ■plot and started reading [ would poetry, taking it reading it gave me a feeling simi lar to talking to a pseudo-intellec tual who seems insistent on using overly embellished vocabulary to show how intelligent they really are. Something I did like was Olsen’s ability to capture true emotion and desperation in his characters by expressing their hopes and dreams in one sen tence and then crushing them in the next, in a way mirroring our own perceptions of our lives. At the same time he portrays with almost sickening accuracy how truly pathetic and mediocre some branches of the American popu lation have not so much let them selves become, as have chosen to become, and the truly mundane paths people walk. Olsen also gives an excellent view into the perverse sub-lives and cultures those who we deem “normal” create for themselves. Whether those stories came from his own mind or experiences related to him from others I don’t know, but they are truly chilling at times. . When all is said and done I thought the book although cha otic was well written and thought provoking. It held my attention and my senses and drew me in, so that my own mind started working in the way I believe Olsen’s must have while writing it. Whether or not one would want to read this book depends on taste in literary style, but I’d recommend it to those who have a taste for truly bizarre, those QLSEN who like peering into the crevices of the human psyche, where no one else wants to look. al ‘Sopranos' season makes offer you can't refuse iDelzell thrnias Print i... you may not be like [complete ‘Sopranos’- or you may not even be ¡ob-related stories at all, s last season of the hit ¡how may change your ode 66 starts out with ¡io character and New Inob boss Tony Soprano Gandolfini) doing his mobster thang, thang. horoughly enjoying the ! until the last scene he former boss Junior o (Dominic Chianese) emented and shoots fraight-up in the gut. I eechless. The episode painfully confused and more. ’ next few episodes show i the hospital in a very na... the writer take us Tony’s dream-world, lay see it as Tony’s trip ■atory. It was a jump from the normal knee bashing, whacking and shaking down that one is accustomed to when watching mob. drama. It goes way more into the drama side inish your college degree of the characters life and much less into the mob side. As the season progresses, Tony wakes while half of the family has already counted him dead. It makes for quite the interesting story lines in epi sodes 67-69. I would have to say that the most dedicated fan will probably question the Quasi performance hits the Jackpot Sam Krause The Clackamas Print ■ Bachelor's degrees for working adults 16-month degree-completion programs Multiple bachelor's degree options Class one night a week Credit for life experience ■ Information meetings at 6:30 p.m. May 8,23, and June 5 Portland Center 12753 S.W.68th Ave., Portland May 4 and June 1 Providence Medical Plaza 3510 NE 122nd, Ste.200, Portland G eorge F ox UNIVERSITY sps.georgefox.edu • 888-888-0178 F9e Fox University is ranked by U.S. News & World Report as a top-tier [university and as a "Best in the West" selection by The Princeton Review. story lines and wonder why the producers would take the show in a direction like this. Well, here is my answer: If a show doesn’t make one ask questions, then the viewer is not interacting with the show. Why would you want to watch a series that numbs your mind? This season of the ‘Sopranos’ has much less to do with mob violence, making it easier on the average one-time viewer. This brings us to the latest episode, 71, entitled “Live Free or Die.” In episode 71 Tony is back to about half strength after the shooting. Tony has to coral a mob family that was counting on his death. He has to deal with a capo (under boss) that has been ousted from the fam ily when it was revealed that he is a homosexual. He also grapples with the idea that his cousin Christopher (Michael Imperioli) may be selling guns and stolen credit card numbers to Al Qaeda members. In this latest episode, the writers do an excellent job of keeping the last season of the ‘Sopranos’ relevant with cur rent events in the world. It seems to me that the writers of the show have tried to show a different side of the mob, a real life side that takes the viewer on a toller coaster of emotions. And with Tim Van Patten and Steve Buscemi as directors the last season may be the best and most significant season yet. Yeaha-Yeaha! Fhagetaboutit til next week, dedicated viewers. Portland band Quasi per formed their new CD “When the Going Gets Dark” to an elat ed and faithful audience on Friday evening. Quasi’s show at The Wonder Ballroom on NE Russell Street in Portland was an extended encore to a free CD release show at Jackpot Records on E Bumside on March 21. When I arrived at The Wonder Ballroom on Friday, The Minders were performing. They had a sound more upbeat and straightforward. I liked their energy, especially the communication between the only female in the band and the rest of the geeky looking band members. While some of the songs they played were similar (they pulled a John Fogerty), they weren’t shy on experimental sounds either. Most notably experimen arranging her drum set just so. At tal about the band is the lack of a - this show, as at the Jackpot show, bassist. But The Minders set was a bassist joined them - Joanne not hurt by how “out there” they Bolme of Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks. This was a break from past performances where Coomes and Weiss performed as a duo. Each song from the new album was played. They even played a song from Built To Spill’s new CD “You in Reverse” in which Coomes is. fea tured on the organ. Since I first started listening to Quasi about three years ago, the music has morphed into pseudo-psychedelic/j azz /rock — very different from their beginning as a raw, unadulterated indie band. Coomes and Weiss have created a sound that is defi nitely unique to the PDX music scene. With bands like Quasi, Quasi took to the stage in a Modest Mouse and Built to Spill rather unassuming way. Pianist/ gaining national notoriety, it’s guitarist Sam Coomes just mean very evident that these region dered on and off stage while ally renowned bands are making drummer Janet Weiss was busy their permanent mark.
