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6 Art ntertainment Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2006 Clackamas Print GWAR to rock Roseland known as Death Piggy. With a stage show that 11 Co-Editor-in-Chief includes dismemberment, vio lations of decency and all- Phalli, foam, fluid and filthy around depraved behavior, GWAR released Hell-O in music. That’s GWAR. Demons, swords, giant slugs 1988. From that point on, GWAR and pre-vulcanized latex rub unleashed a tidal wave of ber. That’s GWAR. Jerry Garcia, Michael obscenity that has lasted for Jackson, Lacy Peterson and two decades, 33 different band every president since Reagan members, more than a dozen have been dismembered on albums and 15 home videos. Oderus Urungus has fronted stage. That’s GWAR. GWAR came from the other the band since its beginning. side of the universe, banished He’s the only original mem to planet Earth, for they became ber, playing the part of Trent too powerful for their Lord and Reznor, without the scars on his wrist. In fact, I wouldn’t master to control them. They were frozen in be surprised to learn that the Antarctic until Global Urungus has inflicted many Warming kicked in, and they flesh wounds upon Reznor’s were thawed back to life. Soon tiny body. Music videos for “The Road they learned to play music and kill their slaves, also known as Behind” and “Jack the World” were featured on episodes of humans. Actually, GWAR is a group “Beavis and Butt-head.” When of former art students from the videos premiered, Beavis Virginia Commonwealth said “all music videos should University that formed in be like GWAR videos.” ‘Nuff 1985. The band emerged from said. the collision of a failed indie While GWAR’s stage show film called Scumdogs of the is more than any concert-goer Universe, and a punk band can ask for, they still have . Sam Krause When Microsoft released its newest console a year ahead of its competitors, people died. This is not an exag geration ... there were riots, people were robbed of their X-box 360 consoles at gun point in parking lots, and every time somebody paid over $1,000 USD on-line for a console that retailed for less than $400, God killed a kitten. There’s less than two weeks to launch for Sony’s PS3 and Nintendo’s Wii (pronounced “we”), which leaves a small hope that Nintendo still might change the name of its newest con sole, but there’s an even big ger problem that - based on the launch of the 360 last year - needs to be addressed: don’t camp in front of stores. Camping in front of a store for a console on launch day is both dangerous and degrading. The gaming companies send out a mini mal shipment on launch day only to create a sense of urgency. Their marketing scheme is Sales 101: make the customer believe they “have to have it,” and it’s insulting to think that sothe gamers buy in to that crap, like an addict looking for a five-year fix. Of course I’d like to urge everyone to buy a Wii even tually, and if anyone feels like blowing money on a PS3, then I urge diem to have fun with that, too. I just can’t support the idea of putting one’s self in danger and in desperate need of a shower just to get their hands on a product that will ultimately be available to everyone. Instead, I’m urging would-be campers to go home. Sit down in front of the X-box Live Arcade and play some Street Fighter II or Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. Better yet, dust off an old Genesis or SNES and show it some of the love it has patiently waited for these last 10 years, since the 16- bit era died out. Another way to pass the next couple months until the consoles are a bit more common is to pick up a DS. Nintendo has two new col ors available for the DS Lite (Pink and Black), as well as several titles that will be released this month, in time for Christmas shopping. Or, since it’s the season for spending cash, pick up a PSP and some games (since they finally have a couple of fun tides out). It only took Sony all year to put out something interesting for the PSP, and its uselessness is finally waning. Simply put, I’m urging anyone who plans to camp out for their consoles to “just say no.” Say “no” to spend ing days in the rain, say “no” to urinating in botdes or on buildings to avoid los ing one’s place in line, and say “no” to justifying these ridiculous sales tactics. For God’s sake ... do it for the kittens. some good music. “Saddam a Go-Go” is like listening to Mr. Bungle if someone had slit Mike Patton’s vocal cords. “Fucking an Animal” would make Andrew Dice Clay blush, and Bob Hope turn in his grave. GWAR has been described as shock rock, thrash metal, heavy metal and comedy rock. There should be an emphasis on the last description, comedy rock. It’s all fun and games ... no one actually gets hurt ... unless you like that sort of thing. Well, I do like that sort of thing, so I’m pulM my sorry carcass over to tiJ Roseland Theater on Friday J 8 p.m. to watch GWAR’s vial act rain on the audience .¡H locusts on Egypt. Internet Y: The Last Man gets rid of Y Chromosom David Stark I The Clackamas Print George W. Bush: dead. Paul McCartney: dead. Johnny Depp and Harrison Ford: both dead, too. Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt: all dead. In feet, all of the men in the world just died in bloody, agonizing spasms - at least in DC comics’ Vertigo line’s Y: The Last Man, that is. Many see comics as a means of telling the most infantile stories about people in spandex fighting other people in spandex. And while graph ic novels may not yet carry the pres tige of “true” novels, there are many writers who are working to change that Brian K. Vaughan’s Y: The Last Man joins Neil Gaiman’s Sandman and Alan Moore’s Watchmen, a story that transcends not just its medium, but also conventional storytelling. 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It is handled primarily by series co-creator Pia Guerra. Many have posed questions regarding having a woman draw a comic about a female-centric world, but when asked Vaughan has insist ed that Guerra’s sex is incidental and her style best fitting for fee story. Y: The Last Man has man aged to take fee comic book While starting out rather unkJ word of mouth has been all unanimously positive, and it has g nered an amazing amount of pl larity swiftly. It has become so popular ti New Line Cinema acquire® rights for a film version, schel to be released sometime in 2001 Anyone interested in a good! that will give you a lot to ■ about should give Y: The Last I a read.
