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The movie version of "Rock of Ages" — the jukebox musical featuring a lineup of glam metal rock music hits of the 1980s — is set to open in Chicago on June 15 with a cast that includes Tom Cruise, Julianne Hough (two-time champion on "Dancing With the Stars"), and Diego Boneta (the Mexican singer-actor familiar from the TV series "90210").
Meanwhile, a slightly scaled-down version of the Broadway edition of the show on which the movie is based has arrived on the stage of the intimate Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place with full-blown amplification and full-blown vulgarity intact. The only thing that can be said in the show's favor is that it seems to have a good deal more of a sense of humor about itself now. But while the audience at Wednesday night's opening could not have been happier — as drinks were brought to their seats throughout, and as the garter-belted actresses periodically danced up the aisles — I could not have been more miserable.
I confess: I loathed the show when it first arrived on tour at Chicago's Bank of America Theatre in the fall of 2010, and I quickly felt the wrath of outraged fans who remained unrepentant cheerleaders for the 1980s (the era of Reagan and AIDS — neither of which are referred to here — along with pole-dancing, porn, drugs and music, some of it stirring, by the likes of Styx, Whitesnake, Pat Benatar, REO Speedwagon and more).
But I, too, am unrepentant. The show's mock-biblical title could easily be replaced by something like "Moron-ophilia Meets Vulgar-itis." And please, spare me any mention of writer Chris D'Arienzo's attempt at post-modern hiccups as he gives us a cartoonish story spun by a narrator, Lonny (Justin Colombo), who is seen crafting the show we are watching by way of a book titled "Musical Writing for Dummies." Well, he got that right at least.
In a sense, the current version returns the show to its roots. "Rock of Ages" was first staged in a Los Angeles club in 2005, before eventually moving to Off-Broadway and then getting all puffed up for its 2009 Broadway debut. But while it is being played in a more intimate space, it still has the feel of a loud, naughty, suburban high school rave party, with plenty of talented, high-energy performers giving it their all. But you still have to ask: Why?
The story is about two somewhat naive young twentysomething dreamers — Detroit-bred rocker Drew (Dominique Scott), and Kansas-bred aspiring actress Sherrie (Shannon Mullen) — who meet at the scuzzy Bourbon Room rock club on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. Drew is shy, and Sherrie is misguided, so when the twisted, narcissistic rock star Stacee Jaxx (Matt Nolan) puts the moves on her, she is easily seduced (and quickly abandoned).
Believing she has lost Drew forever, Sherrie indulges in some good old-fashioned self-degradation by working as a stripper. But true love eventually triumphs for them, as well as for most of the rest of the losers and outcasts in this story in which there is a ridiculous subplot about a sinister plan for urban renewal that is led by a fascist German (who bribes a corrupt mayor), and who also has a goofy son. Don't ask.
The onstage band of five, led by Darren Ledbetter, is terrific. All the performers sing and dance tirelessly, with the best voice belonging to Amma Osei, the black madam who runs the strip club. Nevertheless, the mix of stupidity, crotch-focused sleaze and faux sweetness in this show still leaves me wanting to head for the exit.


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I spend many nights alone in my room watching the incredibly dull G4 Channel in the vain hopes of seeing my one true love Morgan Webb, or tuned to the Sci-Fi Channel -- the morons who cancelled Mystery Science Theater and replaced it with such drek as Stargate Atlantis and Battlestar Galactica. Recently, I've become enamored with the Sci-Fi Channel for their new never-ending quest to be the network responsible for creating the stupidest movie of all time. Tune in at the wrong time, and you can catch cinematic upchuck as Boa vs. Python, Frankenfish, and Mansquito -- a movie about people who turn into huge mosquitos. Inspired by this new direction in programming, I plan to pitch such movie ideas as Dracullama ("Witness the horror of vampire llamas!") and Manchigger, where men turn into giant vampiric chiggers. Anyway, I usually end up invading my DVD collection after trying to force myself to watch yet another intensely painful episode of Battlestar Galactica, because the Sci-Fi Channel sucks, and Morgan Webb wouldn't touch me even if given the chance to bash me to death with a crowbar.
I'm getting to Akira, just hold your horses. One one particular Morgan Webb-less night, a commercial played on Sci-Fi shilling the cult anime favorite Akira. I'm well-known as not really being an anime fan (surprise!), because anything that inspires grown men to dress like anthropomorphic cats, rub blue Kool-Aid in their hair, and carry six-foot polystyrene buster swords while arguing vehemently with other cosplayers that Goku could TOTALLY kick Sephiroth's ass...well, it's evil and it must be destroyed. Like Enterprise. The commercial listed off a bunch of movie critic endorsements-- the kind you see so much your mind doesn't even process them consciously anymore-- until one in particular stood out. "Makes Blade Runner look like Disney World," it said.
I paused. I was intrigued. That's a bold claim for any movie. I know some guys who'd probably shoot you for talk like that. I'm not one of those people; I'm well-adjusted. But if you try to sell me the idea that Deckard was a replicant, I'll strangle you with your own small intestines. I had to see this movie now. It's not like I was doing anything more worthwhile, such as writing my Dracullama script.
Akira is based on the hit manga, which is Japanese for "twenty dollars a book." 'Akira' is a Japanese word that means "most honorable phone-book-sized manga you can easily bludgeon gaijin to death with." And 'gaijin' means "snarky American movie critic." At my last count, there are six total Akira mangas, and they all weigh in averaging 400 pages, and that translates to "not enough time in my life to read this stuff." Even Tolstoy managed to wrap up after about 1400 pages, but I've never managed to find a copy of War and Peace that had pictures. I felt cosmically inadequate in the face of comics that size, and so I abandoned my plan to investigate the source material before watching the movie. I'll just accept from the onset that Akira has a back story which rivals the most convoluted Gundam and DragonballZ series. Besides, I should approach this movie from the viewpoint of Joe Average viewer, without any advance knowledge of the story.
The movie begins with Tokyo exploding, which for anime is the cliché equivalent of "It was a dark and stormy night." The movie is actually set in a post-apocalyptic place called Neo-Tokyo, a place that has the whole cyberpunk motif of too much neon, bad highways, and pervasive gang violence. Sort of like now, only the gangs have better wardrobes. For some reason, the English dub on my copy has decided to give most of the characters New Jersey accents, so it's hilarious to hear Japanese people sounding like they're being dubbed by the cast of The Sopranos. From my conversations with various otaku (Japanese for "freaks who should never reproduce"), my version of Akira is known as "the bad dub." I still say there are few animes out there with worse dubs than Yu-Gi-Oh!, so anything is a step up from that.
Anyway, the movie's about two motorcycle gang members: Kaneda, a guy with a cool motorcycle and a strange jacket with a picture of a pill on the back, and Tetsuo, a whiny scrawny kid with a very large head. Everyone makes fun of Tetsuo because of his giant skull, which no motorcycle helmet will fit. Kaneda's gang is at war with The Clowns, which makes Kaneda a good guy, because nobody likes clowns. While engaged in a motorcycle chase with these clowns, Tetsuo swerves to miss a little blue person in the road and wrecks his bike. His name is Tito, rejected albino pygmy from the Blue Man Group. He's one of a race of blue people created by the government's Andorian/Hobbit Hybrid Program, and they want him back!
The blue guy just escaped from the military, but it isn't long before choppers swoop in and recapture him. They're led by another blue guy who looks like a shrunken Louis Anderson. All of the blue folks are short and wrinkly, like Smurfs who have Methuselah Syndrome. I have no idea where they come from, why they're blue, or what their role in anything is. All they seem to do is scowl and say foreboding things like "This chapter's finished," "The future is not a straight line," and "I'll never join you, Dooku." The blue guys take the injured Tetsuo, too, and take him back to a super-science lab to diddle with his DNA. But something goes wrong, and Tetsuo suddenly develops godlike power over every living thing on the planet. But Tetsuo is damaged goods because of all the teasing about the giant planetoid he calls a head, and instead of using his powers for the good of humanity-- like finding the ultimate no-workout weight loss plan-- he decides that inflicting horrible petty apocalyptic revenge on the planet is more fun. If I had hair like Tetsuo, I'd be angry and vindictive too.
If you've ever seen a Godzilla movie in your life, you won't be surprised to learn that the Japanese military is about as useful as men's nipples. The army goes to pieces faster than the Packers' secondary defense, but luckily Kaneda's around to save the day. Where the entire armed forces of Japan fail, Kaneda manages to duel the demigod Tetsuo to stalemate twice and escape with his life. It must be the motorcycle. Unfortunately for Tetsuo, he didn't have Master Yoda around to have him float stuff around while standing on his head, and he can't control his powers. The big-headed dope's powers go bonkers, and he transforms into a gargantuan city-sized mass of chaotic shrieking fleshy stuff (like Star Jones). And then Tokyo blows up again. I know, it seems like a minimal plot, but frankly that's all there is to it. Oh, they pad it up with other stuff. There are clunky, stilted discussions of how stupid politicians are and their inability to learn from past Armageddons, a romance subplot that stalls from the outset, and an attack by malicious teddy bears who spew milk. I can't make that up.
All that comprises a scant 45 minutes of screen time, however. Here's what they fill the other half of the movie with:
"TETSUO!" *zzzzaaaapppp!*
The majority of Akira is grunting, shouting, panting, growling, screaming, and Kaneda playing name tag with Tetsuo. You might make a drinking game out of it, such as taking a shot whenever someone shouts "Tetsuo" or "Kaneda," but I think you'd die of alcohol poisoning. I haven't heard this much angry screaming since I tried being a professional male stripper. Maybe the sidewalk wasn't the best place to try it. Becoming evil seems to inspire Tetsuo to speak like Jack Nicholson, but I suppose there are less-menacing people to sound like when you've become The Beyonder. I still can't stop wondering why an all-powerful being would pick that haircut. I'm also wondering how long it'll be before they make a good giant comic movie, like Watchmen. I love Rorshach almost as much as I love Morgan Webb. And if you don't know who she is, don't bother finding out, because she's mine. Mine! Mine, do you hear?? Soon I will collect all the Sacred Egyptian God Cards, and nations will kneel at my feet and weep at my glory! Any who resist will be crushed utterly by my Veritech squadrons and Gundam mecha! KANEDAAAAAA!!!!
I'll give credit where it's due. If you're watching a cartoon, it either has bad animation, good animation, or it's Akira. It's full of surreal, weird imagery on an epic scale. You'll see things that were never meant to be drawn, and they've made them breathtakingly gorgeous to behold. The action sequences are swift, gory, and brutal. I could say the words "a giant tentacle-covered fleshy cancer devours Tokyo," but to see it animated in Akira is akin to a religious experience. It's a rare movie that can show me something I've never seen before, and Akira is definitely one of those movies. It's also one of the most unfulfilling, confusing films you'll ever see, because by the time it's over, you'll have absolutely no idea what in the hell just happened. It's sort of like every girl I ever dated in college. I have no idea why Tetsuo has suddenly become the Kwizatz Haderach. I don't know who Akira is or why they've sealed all his internal bits floating in Tang in individual Mason jars. I don't know why he's buried under a football field. I don't know why people worship Akira as a savior. "Come back and kill us all, Akira! We love you!" I don't know who the Methuselah Smurfs are, or where they came from. I don't know why they're still continuing with this Akira-related experimental stuff, especially since he already nuked Tokyo once already and he's sort of making a habit out of it. I don't know why Kaneda--who is, as far as I can tell, a normal guy who is only cool because he has a motorcycle-- is able to engage in protracted battles with Tetsuo, who can make your head explode if a naughty thought crosses his mind. Why do teddy bears want to kill him?
What I really puzzle over is why Akira seems to want to end on a high, hopeful note. The entire city just got turned into smoking glass, and I'm supposed to be feeling good about it? The skies are blackened with the ashes of several million innocent people, crushed under the heel of a maniacal demigod, and they want me to be thankful to Akira and his holy blue gnomes for saving the day? Suck it, Akira!
So I return to the issue at hand. Does Akira make Blade Runner look like Disney World? I'm not even really sure what that's supposed to mean, but if we're talking about an overpriced waste of time with a lot of running and screaming, then Akira should be wearing the Mickey Mouse ears. There's nothing as memorable or as visually unique as the urban wasteland of Blade Runner, nor as poetic as Roy Batty's musings on the brevity of life. Best of all, I can watch Blade Runner and know what the heck just happened! Not only does Blade Runner win this contest, Ridley Scott holds Akira down and slaps the stupid out of him.
I can't even decide if there's any real message to this movie. What else is there than a Godzilla story about a kid driven by an inferiority complex that goes postal on an unsuspecting city? Don't tamper in God's domain? Those who are stupid enough to screw around with the Destroyer of Worlds a second time deserve to die? Don't pick on the runty kid in your high school, else he taps into the Power Cosmic and annihilates your ass? I've learned one thing for sure: if I see a teenager crushing tanks with his mind on the news, I'm driving somewhere safer. Like Camp Crystal Lake. And I'm bringing mansquito spray.


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After weeks of paparazzi-fuelled interest, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick have welcomed twin girls into the world, a few weeks earlier than expected.
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Garfield Book Company at PLU forges new ties with Parkland community
By Megan Haley, Photos By Jordan Hartman '02
At the beginning of any school year, staffers at PLU's bookstore log long hours unpacking boxes, stocking shelves and preparing for the crush of students eager to purchase textbooks for the upcoming semester. On a drizzly late-July evening – the day the sparkling new facility opened in its new location – this was certainly true. But textbooks and school supplies were not on anyone's list. Those in line included a handful of high schoolers and their parents, waiting to purchase a copy of the seventh and final book in the popular Harry Potter series.
A pack of gum-popping high schoolers isn't something one expects to find in a college bookstore. In the case of the newly opened Garfield Book Company at PLU, however, this scene is one they anticipate to see more often. The bookstore moved off campus to anchor a new retail complex located at the corner of Garfield Street and Pacific Avenue. It is part of a novel strategy to strengthen the relationship between the surrounding Parkland community, local high schools and PLU.
The 32,000-square-foot, $8-million commercial development, known as Garfield Commons, provides an inviting entrance to the university. Moreover, the complex is part of an ambitious plan to reinvigorate the local business district.
"Historically, businesses on Garfield Street have struggled," said Mark Mulder '93, director of auxillary services. "In recent years though, the number of thriving businesses has improved steadily."
Garfield Commons will increase pedestrian traffic between campus, the bookstore and Garfield Street merchants. It will also provide opportunities for further economic development – along with the bookstore, a gourmet pizza restaurant, specialty coffee shop, tanning salon and smoothie establishment are also open for business.
For its part, the Garfield Book Company at PLU targets more than the campus community. "By and large, campus bookstores are sheltered from the real world," said Kristi Dopp, director of Garfield Book Company. "But we're not just serving PLU; we're serving the greater community and the school districts."
In addition to items typically carried by a college bookstore – textbooks, PLU memorabilia, school supplies – the 15,000-square-foot, two-story store carries products for the greater Tacoma community, the Franklin-Pierce and Bethel school districts, and home-schooled children. It's a unique combined college and independent community bookstore based on a model Mulder calls "community-embraced."
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PLU had been eyeing the corner lots at Garfield and Pacific Avenue for more than a decade, said Sheri Tonn, vice president for finance and operations. In the past, Piggly Wiggly, O'Neil's grocery store, and most recently, a thrift store, were located on the site. With each business venture, the corner continued to deteriorate and become more of an eyesore.
To make matters worse, that corner served as the gateway to PLU.
"Everyone agreed that the corner was not very attractive and something had to change," said President Loren Anderson.
Something did change. The university used endowment funds to purchase the property and an adjacent vacant lot for redevelopment. PLU partnered with Lorig Associates LLC to co-develop the property.
Pierce County Councilwoman Barbara Gelman '74 saw the corner as an opportunity to partner with PLU to enhance Garfield Street. For more than 20 years, Gelman has been a fierce advocate for a pedestrian friendly Garfield Street and Pacific Avenue.
"With the purchase of the property where Garfield Commons sits, Garfield Street essentially became the connection between PLU and the new development," Gelman said. "It's almost as if (PLU) wrapped its arms around Garfield Street."
Prior to the Garfield Commons project, Gelman's focus was on Pacific Avenue and its $13 million streetscape improvement plan. Pierce County originally planned to construct sidewalks along a five-mile stretch of the road, but Gelman wanted more.
"They were just putting in sidewalks," Gelman said. "The plan didn't include curbs and gutters or amenities like pedestrian lighting or trees."
She successfully halted the project and had it redesigned. Gelman also secured a $5 million grant from the Transportation Investment Board, which provided curbs and gutters along the entire five-mile stretch and added amenities at five major intersections.
When PLU announced the development of Garfield Commons, Gelman embraced the project, seeing it as a chance to improve the streetscape of Garfield, she said. The plans also fit with Pierce County's interest in encouraging redevelopment and improvements in the area.
While the Parkland-Spanaway-Midland community plan set the framework, the 2006 "Garfield Streetscape Improvement Plan" specifically targeted the Garfield Business District. The collaborative effort strives to improve the pedestrian experience on Garfield Street by providing an environment for people to walk, shop and dine.
"When you come past the Commons buildings, you'll look down Garfield and you'll say, 'Oh, what's that?' Just like a college town," she explained.
PLU and Lorig incorporated the first phase of the streetscape plan in the Garfield Commons development. Along with wider sidewalks, benches, trees and improved lighting, the development includes bike racks and outdoor plaza gathering spaces. The buildings themselves vary in height and shape. Canopies and a variety of building materials create an inviting "urban village" feel.
"We now have a complete new look on the corner and we expect that this will be a very good investment for the community and the university," Anderson said.
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In the past, the idea to move the bookstore off campus had been discussed in order to free up space in the University Center, Tonn explained. So with the purchase of the land, Mulder took a sabbatical to examine the idea's viability.
He found PLU wasn't the first to consider relocating its bookstore off campus. In fact, the trend began several years ago as colleges and universities nationwide began looking for ways to branch out into the community, said Tony Ellis, director of education for the National Association of College Stores.
"A long standing goal of colleges and universities is to balance the campus community as well as benefiting the towns that host them, a situation that's historically been referred to as 'town and gown,'" Ellis explained.
"The bookstore is a logical part of the campus community to branch out. It can meet the needs and interests of many
A number of pioneering schools had successfully moved into their communities.
Located a mile from downtown Hamilton, N.Y., Colgate University decided to relocate its bookstore into the heart of the town center and sparked a renaissance of the area. In Washington, D.C., Howard University moved its bookstore and campus security office into the surrounding deteriorating neighborhood, successfully providing an anchor to the area.
"We had a few successful models to look at, so we could see that this project had good potential," Tonn said. "We knew we had a real opportunity here, and we didn't want to miss it.'"
Placing the bookstore off campus also provided a unique opportunity for PLU to interact with the community.
"I wouldn't say we've had an adversarial relationship with the community in the past, but we hadn't necessarily reached out to the community in a really strategic way," Tonn said.
The university's first intentional step into the community began in the mid-1980s with the formation of East Campus, a collection of social service organizations and community programs for low-income families. Then the School of Business reached out to Garfield Street businesses, pairing merchants with student groups to strengthen their business operations.
The bookstore seemed the next logical step. The "community-embraced" concept encourages increased interaction between students and the community, Mulder said.
Mulder has already forged partnerships with the local school districts and home-schooling community. The store will carry apparel for the local high schools and innovative teaching and learning resources for students and parents based on curriculum used in surrounding school districts. It's a feature that isn't found in other university bookstores, Tonn said.
"We're hoping to be seen as a leader in the community with regard to education and educational materials," Tonn explained.
"It really allows us to showcase our faculty, our research, our student projects. We feel we have a lot to offer the surrounding community."
The rooms and layout of the store add to its community appeal. The interior mixes industrial materials, such as brick and cement, with comfy seating and cozy nooks.
The store features a large general book section, placing academic titles alongside popular favorites; a children's learning nook; apparel and school supplies; and fair trade global products and Pacific Northwest gifts.
The Fireside Lounge has casual seating, a fireplace, a stage and a kitchen for cooking demonstrations. Upstairs, The Perch features views of the entire store and, on a clear day, of Mount Rainier.
The Community Room hosts large community events, including the Writers Story for the English department's Visiting Writer Series, seminars and luncheons as well. Even yoga. At the beginning of each semester, it is used for textbook overflow.
The room features space for catering and, Dopp said, the store is currently working to partner with Garfield Street restaurants to offer catering services in the space. It's one more way the bookstore is helping bolster the local business district.
"This development will help the community feel like they're being served," Dopp said.


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Two hard-nosed teams with tough defensive outlooks met at FedExForum for a pre-New Year's Eve game. For the Chicago Bulls and the Memphis Grizzlies, winning is built on a hone-in-on defense foundation.
Similar stats aside, it was the Bulls' defense that prevailed and their offense that propelled Chicago past Memphis (91-95) on Monday night (Dec. 30).
The Grizzlies (13-17) wanted a year-end win going into 2014. Chicago (12-17) was trying to bounce back after suffering a home loss to the Dallas Mavericks on Saturday.
Both teams finished with 37 rebounds, 21 turnovers (Memphis' season high) and 13 steals. The Bulls set a season-high with 10 blocks. The Grizzlies' bench only scored 27 points. Memphis was 0-of-5 from the three-point line for the first time this season.
"We played poorly," said Grizzlies head coach Dave Joerger. "We played poor in the first half and worse in the third quarter. We battled back and made a good run. We just had to get some energy in the game."
Mike Conley led the Grizzlies with 26-points, nine assists, six rebounds and a season-high six steals.
"It's very tough to play against them," Conley said. "You can't give them a 15-point lead and expect to not be worn out by the time you get the ball back and you're down two points. They work hard. They have a bunch of guys that love to play 'D' and it was tough."
James Johnson came off the bench with 13 points and 10 rebounds for the Grizzlies. Tony Allen also pitched in 13 points.
Memphis went into the third quarter with a two-point lead (46-44). The Bulls used a 20-4 run to take an 18-point lead (66-48) with 3:19 left in the quarter. Memphis gained some momentum at the end of the third quarter with an Allen dunk and then a big block by Kosta Koufos at the buzzer.
The Grizzlies began to chip away at the deficit, closing the gap to one point (72-72) with 9:01 left to pay. Chicago held firm and maintained the lead until the final second.
The loss snapped Memphis' three-game winning steak against the Bulls. It also marked Chicago's first road game win this season against a Western Conference team.
"It was awful," Joerger said of the turnovers. "We threw the ball all over the place. We lacked focus. We lacked screening and cutting. We were loose with the ball in the first half."
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No, I'm not talking H.G. Wells here, but Gary Numan and Thomas Dolby. For Koepper is a synthesizer player, collector, repairman, and rabid enthusiast. His basement is brimming with keyboards, modulators, drum machines, and sequencers dating from the golden age of wires: the analog era, before digital technology reduced music to a series of ones and zeroes.
"Most of this stuff is from the late 1970s to early '80s," Koepper says. "I'm a purist. The sound quality you get from modern equipment is nowhere near this stuff. This equipment has an organic, flowing nature to it. To me, digital sounds hard and cold and sterile."
What you don't see down in this sonic cellar are any computers. Koepper wrinkles up his nose at there very thought of having a monitor and mouse down here. "I should put up a sign reading no computers," he says.
Koepper doesn't even know how many synths he has. Dozens, easy. They're literally stacked up everywhere, and most are hooked into a bank of sound processors and a huge mixing board. He bought his first in 1985--a Crumar Spirit, still plugged in and playable--and has been accumulating them ever since. The most common makes are Moog (which rhymes with "vogue"), ARP, Sequential Circuits, and Oberheim. Since, as Koepper explains, "anything can wrong with them at anytime," along the way he has become a self-taught synth technician. It's even turned into a sideline business. Some replacement parts are still being manufactured, but many are not. "You have to have a keyboard junkyard," Koepper says, nodding to the heap of forlorn synths stacked in a corner of his workroom--all giving up their capacitors and transistors so that others can keep playing.
Koepper, who studied film at Towson University (then Towson State), is also a self-taught musician. He walks over to one of his myriad keyboards and effortlessly taps out the bouncy little principal riff from Gary Numan's 1979 hit "Cars" (perhaps the first synth-heavy new-wave hit on these shores). He's been in bands since age 15, recording and playing out with outfits such as Social Skill, Immortal, Limited Express, System X, and Still Life. Presently he is teamed up with an old high-school friend, guitarist/bassist/vocalist Piotr Wolff, to form Machine Age. A tap of a button sends a song from the group's recent EP filling the basement.
And back I go in time, once again, to my dorm room. All the Big '80s touches are there: the shimmering, jittery guitar and snaking bass lines, the plaintive vocals, and, of course, the rich bed of swirly, whirly synth sounds. It's Flock of Seagulls meets Ultravox meets Human League meets Depeche Mode meets, well, 2004. (Listen for yourself at www. machine-age.net)
"The sound is definitely coming back," Koepper says, adding that a full-length Machine Age CD, as well as club appearances are in the offing.
But there's really more to Koepper sonic tastes than what he terms "early-'80s electro art rock." There is also the less dancey, more trancey "space music," wherein his equipment is called on to create moody ambient soundscapes. His heroes in this latter style include Tangerine Dream and Jean Michel Jarre. Notable ambient artist Steve Roach helped Koepper produce his first CD in the genre, last year's Etherea.
While Koepper clearly feels the analog synths are undergoing a sonic resurgence, he dates the equipment's initial demise to 1983, when Yamaha released its DX7 digital synthesizer. This very popular keyboard lacked the proliferation of output-altering knobs, which are the hallmark of analog equipment--and, Koepper asserts, the source of its strength. These knobs, you see, are twirled and tweaked in combination to create custom sounds.
"When they took the knobs away, everybody just played presets," Koepper says. "Everything sounded the same. You could buy a cartridge with sounds on it and just pop it in. What's really important to me [is] making my own original sounds. It's almost like audio sculpture. It's in the moment--if I change the knobs, that sound is gone forever."
As it turns out, Koepper's in-house subterranean synthesizer playpen may also soon be gone forever. In the very near future he faces the arduous task of moving all his equipment to a rented studio space. His machines make sounds both time-warping and otherworldly, but they're banging up against something grounded and practical.
"My wife," Koepper says with a slight grin, "wants to make a family room down here."
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The Estevan Bruins will have an unlikely opponent in the first round of the SJHL's playoffs.
Estevan will face the Flin Flon Bombers in a best-of-five survivor series match-up. The Bruins wound up as the league's seventh seed with 63 points, thanks to a 27-20-3-6 record, while Flin Flon is the 10th seed with 49 points (23-29-1-2); the Bombers have one game remaining.
The top six seeds received a bye to the league's quarter-finals; Estevan wound up four points behind the Humboldt Broncos for the sixth seed.
The Bruins finished the season by splitting a home-and-home against the Weyburn Red Wings. Estevan won 1-0 on February 28 at Affinity Place, thanks to Matt Gibney's 29 saves to pick up the shutout, Tanner Froese's game-winning goal late in the second period, and a strong team effort.
But the Bruins lost 3-2 in Weyburn the following night. Michael Sagen and Austin Roesslein scored for Estevan, while Brett Lewchuk made 29 saves.
The Bruins hopes for finishing in the top six were dashed even before the game in Weyburn was finished, as Humboldt had already secured the necessary points to finish in the top six.
This is the fourth straight years that the Bruins will play in the survivor series. Estevan has won that first round showdown each year, and Froese, who is the Bruins' captain, is hopeful that experience will pay off.
"You can't be scared going into it," Froese told Lifestyles. "We're going to be the underdogs (if we advance), so everyone's going to be looking down on us. So if we play with confidence, and play the way we can, we'll have nothing to worry about."
The Bruins won three of four meetings against the Bombers this year. Flin Flon won the first meeting, a 3-1 decision on October 16. But the Bruins then won twice in Flin Flon –2-0 on October 24 and 5-2 on December 7. And Estevan shelled the Bombers 7-1 on February 1 in Estevan.
"We know we can beat them," said Froese. "We've proven that in the past. We just have to keep coming out with that effort against them every time."
When Estevan routed Flin Flon on February 1, the Bombers were languishing in last place overall. But they won six of their last nine games to seize the final playoff spot ahead of Weyburn.
"The team that we saw in Estevan appeared to be defeated, and down-and-out," said Bruins' head coach and GM Chris Lewgood. "They must have rallied around one another, and dug in, and they've been playing really good hockey for the last month."
If the Bruins play well together, then they should be all right, Lewgood said.
Lewgood admitted he's disappointed that the club wasn't able to secure a top-six seed.
"There are benefits to resting the ailing bodies, and things like that," said Lewgood. "But I want to be clear that it's not just a disappointment from tonight (the loss against Weyburn). It's for the entire season. You have 56 games to secure one of those spots, and we fell shy."
Lewgood expects that the Bruins will have all of their players back for the series, except for forward Keaton Longpre, who remains sidelined with a back injury. Forward Ben Johnstone and defenceman Nick Egan missed the final game of the regular season due to injuries, while league scoring champion Austin Daae was suspended due to a boarding penalty on February 28.
The tentative schedule for the series is: Games 1 and 2 would be March 7 and 8, respectively, at Affinity Place at 7:30 p.m. Games 3 and 4 are scheduled for March 10 and 11 in Flin Flon. The latter game would not be needed if there's a sweep. Game 5, if necessary, would be March 13 in Estevan.


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- Sylvia K said...
Lovely captures, Titania! Love the composition in your first shot with the trees framing the sky! Beautiful colors and what a beautiful way to start the day! Have a wonderful weekend!
- 30 July 2010 07:03
- ρομπερτ said...
How I long to see/feel/smell clouds ...
Please have a great Friday.
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- 30 July 2010 07:37
- Colin Campbell said...
Very nice. I have a tree shot too.
- 30 July 2010 07:50
- eileeninmd said...
Beautiful skywatch photo, Titania! Love like a great start to the day!
- 30 July 2010 09:15
- Hildred and Charles said...
Lovely gentle skies Titania.
- 30 July 2010 09:43
- lotusleaf said...
Beautiful sky photos. Have a nice weekend!
- 30 July 2010 10:48
- Rinkly Rimes said...
I love the way the sky is framed in number one!
- 30 July 2010 12:25
- J Bar said...
Great shots.
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- 30 July 2010 15:35
- Bonnie Bonsai said...
I love the beauty of the morning glory. I see them from my window.
Sorry for my absences. Been so long.
Hope your Winter is not as cold as ours.
- 30 July 2010 17:01
- Pearl Maple said...
Lovely collection of photos to celebrate Sky Watch Friday. Have a great weekend.
- 30 July 2010 20:01
- Autumn Belle said...
This is like a painting in the sky. Love the pastel shades and puffy clouds.
- 30 July 2010 23:31
- Manang Kim said...
I really wonder where those fiery color sky came from. The sky always reminds me of how beautiful nature is and it could never be duplicated for each second and minute they brought an awe to us. Happy weekend!
- 31 July 2010 03:43
- Pietro said...
Hello Titania! I really enjoy these fascinating skies, what a nice light!
Happy weekend!
- 31 July 2010 03:52
- Ann said...
Does the trees frame the map of Australia in the first photo?
How cold is your temperature?
This year's winter flu is very contagious. My whole family is suffering. I had a flu jab, but working with kids who come to school doesn't really help.
- 31 July 2010 18:09
- diane said...
The clouds are painting pictures in the sky.
- 31 July 2010 20:33
- Denise said...
Pretty skies Titania, love the pastel colors and I particularly enjoyed the first photo framed in the dark silhouette of trees. Enjoy your weekend and thank you so much for stopping by my blog.
- 1 August 2010 05:50
- Kcalpesh said...
Remarkable composition for the first one.. you framed the sky perfectly between the branches...
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- 1 August 2010 08:01
- Autumn Belle said...
Titania, I am featuring your blog on my sidebar this week.
- 1 August 2010 18:31
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Hi Titania,
I need your advice. I went as far back as your December posts, and I didn't see any post on this flower.
Do you know what it is? It seems to be a common garden plant, and it is also used in floral arrangement by florists.
- 2 August 2010 18:51
- Kathy said...
I'm always intrigued by your sky pictures. Nice job!
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- Janie said...
The skies are truly glorious. What a great beginning to the day.
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Michael Carrick has paid tribute to long-term midfield partner Paul Scholes, declaring him to be one of the greatest players to ever grace the game.
Scholes will hang up his boots after this Sunday's clash with West Brom at The Hawthorns, calling time on an illustrious, trophy-laden career in which the Middleton-born man has become a bona fide Manchester United legend.
A midfield maestro in his own right, Carrick is arguably the perfect candidate to evaluate his team-mate's immeasurable quality and having thought about it, the 31-year-old is adamant the 'Class of 1992' graduate is still criminally underrated within football.
"First and foremost, I'd like to say that Scholesy still doesn't get enough credit as he should for me," Michael told MUTV. "He is not regarded as highly in the game as he should be. If you ask anyone who has played against him or played with him, he is right at the top of their tree of players.
"It has been such a privilege to play with him. Even on Sunday (against Swansea), knowing it was his last Old Trafford game, it really meant a lot to me and I really enjoyed it. I made the most of it.
"It is sad to see him go but he has earned his retirement, he has done more than enough in the game and everyone has learned more than enough from him. I'm sure he'll enjoy himself."
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