The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, April 11, 1979-Page 5 arts & entertainment PERE UBU'S FUN ANGUISH Datapanik in Ann Arbor By MARK DIGHTON and MIKE TAYLOR Imagine Eraserhead as a musical. Then hit it with a hammer. David Thomas lurches on stage, pacing back and forth like ofie of those targets in a shooting gallery. He mut- ters something into the microphone: "more junk to kick around/more gar- bage in the way. more junk to kick around/more garbage in the way, more junk to kick around/more garbage in the way. more junk to kick around/more garbage in the way." David makes noises with mysterious brass and wooden objects. "It's all noise, but it's the right noise in the right place." Imagine a rhythmic sound effects record. Then break it into a million pieces with the same hammer. ALLEN RAVENSTINE waits calmly at the side of the stage. He strokes his synthesizer up and down, up and down; it shrieks in delight. Tom Herman, who reminds us of Clark Kent, drives guitar shrapnel into our ears. Scott Krauss is the only one who looks like he belongs in a rock and roll band. He sings his own drum beats. Bassist Tony Maimone could easily have been an Italian restaurant owner; instead, he learned to forge unearthly sounds out of his bass strings. Imagine getting only a teasing glim- pse of another landscape. Then destroy it witl da power drill. MIKE WAS almost hypnotized by the last song. "I stood there. I couldn't move. The floor was throbbing; I thought we were all going to fall through any minute." David was carried away also. He seemed to be looking at and talking to people who weren't really there. "Codex" - "I think about you all the time"; this plaintive cry was all but buried in the relentless confusion. Hammer meets stell just at the threshold of pain - "The Modern Dance." Imagine there's no heaven; it's easy if you try. Then bake it in a pie. DAVID: "I'M really excited, about doing the next album. Scott: ( breaking into hysterical laughter), 'Cause he gets all the songwriting credits. (more laughter) David: What are you talking about? I'm excited today; I'll be depressed tomorrow. Us: Do you think it will have more commercial potential? David: (nonchalantly) Oh, I doubt it, I doubt it. Us: Do you think Dub Housing had more commercial potential than The Modern Dance? David: I don't think about that kind of stuff. It's too much trouble to worry. about. It sounds. okay - that's all I know. Imagine a paperback book called 1001 Private Musical Jokes. Then select one chapter and burn it. SOME PASSAGES are under tight control, others drift off into chaos. Within chaos there's the most com- pelling structure. The guitar masquerades as keyboards in "On The Surface." David moans, "help me, help, help." The P.A. breaks down.. David amuses himself: "This little piggie went to market, this little piggie went home.. ." Later, David says, "one man's normal is another man's poison." Imagine the first message from outer space. Then type it on a card and file it away. ALLEN RAVENTINE, keyboard player for Pere Ubu, a musical group on the rise from Cleveland, had this to say about the way his band functions:. "We just have a design in mind that's far enough back in mind that no one thinks about it, but it comes out. I mean that's how the whole thing works. There's something that exists within the band that is concrete enough that we don't need to talk about it. We just operate from it. It's not so much that you practice your instrument, it's that you practice the state of mind that it comes from." Imagine a concert at Sebond Chance Monday night. Then watch the Oscars instead. - Books Bought[ Top Prices Paid! (We'll Pick-up) WESTS(DE BOOKSHIiOP 113 W. Liberty 995-1891 Daily Daily Photo by SHANNON HURD What do you do with a drunken sailor-what do you see in Caligari's mirror? Not easy to answer, sure, but David Thomas, singer for Pere Ubu, pondered it often during the group's show Monday night at the Second Chance. Ann Arbor to get the Careytreatment By PETER WALLACH Timothy Carey is a veteran actor who first gained widespread acceptance in The Killing and Paths of Glory, two Stanley Kubrik films. His riveting performances in supporting roles have gained him the respect and admiration of filmmakers and audiences alike. His commit- ment to portraying a character as he interprets it, however, has caused him frequent trouble with his directors, who often have other ideas about how the role should be played. This dedication has even gotten him fired-more than once. To avoid such discrepancies in artistic vision, Carey has turned to making his own films. Thursday night in Auditorium A of Angell Hall, Carey will speak after the showing of three of his films. The World's Greatest Sinner, an independent production which he directed and starred in, was produced in 1962. This midwestern premier is the tale of an insurance salesman who proclaims that he is God, becomes a rock star evangelist (a sort of mixture of Elvis Presley and Billy Graham), and-to make a long story terse-runs for president. CAREY PULLED NO stops in this controversial film, refusing to compromise his artistic integrity. Needless to say, films of this sort are either loved or hated. The World's Greatest Sinner received reviews ranging from "fabulous" and "revolutionary," to "the rawest made!" Frank Zappa assembled a fifty-two piece orchestra to score the film in his inimitable style, completing all the ingredients needed to make a cult classic. Another film made by Carey, Tweet's Ladies of Pasadenia, will be shown Thursday evening. Made in 1974, this is a sixty-minute comedy starring Carey as Tweet-Twig, the only male member of an old ladies knitting club. These two films, along with a short, Tarzana, which stars Carey, will both be followed by Timothy Carey in person, who will speak, probably, on whatever he feels like. (His talks are rumored to be shows in them- selves.) Stones pair coaing to rislper Arena -I The Ann Arbor Film Cooperative presents at Aud A Wednesday. April 11 LA NOTTE (Michael Antonioni, 1961) 7 ONLY-AUD A An afternoon, an evening and a night in the lives of on Italian couple whose existence had become bleak and hollow. Among Antonioni's best works, LA NOTTE is a slow, intent and moving examination of the barrenness of love in contemporary society. Stars MARCELLO MASTROIANNI, JEANNE MOREAU, MONICA VITTI. Subtitled. ILLUMINATION (Krzysztof Zanissi, 1973) 9 ONLY-AUD A This is an uncommonly engrossing film about a young physicist who isn't quite sure that science alone holds the key to life, yet doesn't know where else to look. ILLUMINATION builds steadily, beautifully, and surprisingly, layer after layer, managing to be at once tantalizing and refreshing. "Leaves the spectator breathless. The year's best film."-INTERNATIONAL FILM GUIDE. Subtitled. Tomorrdw: Timothy Carey in person with TWEET'S LADIES OF PASADENA & THE WORLD'S GREATEST SINNER Yakshagana dancers confusing, lack spark he 1979 wood 119M Vcls T. By ANNA NISSEN The University Musical Society's Asian Series events usually draw spar- se audiences, but asubstantial group turned out for the Yakshagana South Indian troupe Monday night at Rackham. Unfortunately, only a few audience members could understand the dance-drama's Hindi dialogue, and the body gestures were not emphatic enough to carry the narrative alone. Despite a language barrier, the story from the great Indian epic, the Mahabharatha, was not totally lost on the average Western spectator. A classic descent into the underworld showed the demon king Trigartha primping before battle. Trigartha wails a paean before attacking the young warrior-hero Abhimanyu, a Hector of the' East who dies fighting. The program even opened with an epic in- vocation to the patron god of poetry, the elephant-headed Lord Ganapati, whose task it is to remove all obstacles from the course ofsuccess.s THE PERFORMANCE might have been more successful if Lord Ganapati or even a program note could have revealed the significance of obviously critical stage ornaments. For instance, what did the fig leaves strung across the stage symbolize? Fertility and regeneration? The reincarnation of Abhimanyu into a higher form of life? Some of the dancing was capable of being appreciated without literary See YAKSHAGANA, Page 8 All Media Company present multi-media-musical theatre YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT THEY'LL DO NEXT starring the NON RETURNABLES Residential College Auditorium E.G. Aprl 3&14 8:00pm $1.50 TICKETS-Michigan Union Box Office Sponsored by Ml Student Assembly. LSA-S.G., R.C., U.A.C. will be announced Wednesday, April 11, 4:00 p.in RadlrhLednre Hal Main Floor, Rackham Building Open to the Public "Making Up Stories" Lectinfcby Essayist and Nwlist Author ot - Run River (1963) Slouching Toxwrd Bcthlchem (1968) Play It as It Lays (19) A Book of Common Prayer (1977) Spawned by Keith Richard's penitent promise to perform in Toronto for charity after the guitarist was convic- ted for possession of heroin, the group* called "The Barbarians" will roll into Ann Arbor April 24, playing at Crisler Auditorium. Tickets for the show are $12.50 and $10.00, and will go on sale this Friday, April 13, at 10:00, and will be sold out soon after. The Barbarians as of now consist of Rolling Stones Richard and Ron Wood on guitar, Stanley Clarke on bass, for- mer Faces member Ian McLagen on keyboards, and pseudo Rolling Stone Bobby Keyes on saxophone. The drummer has not been named yet, although a torrent of rumors surrounds the event. The group will also be appearing in Detroit, playing to a sold-out Cobo Hall audience. Unlike the Detroit show, however, a spokeswoman for the University's Office of Major Events, who are promoting the concert, have announced there will be a limit to how many tickets will be sold to each person in line. There has been no word on whether Richard is planning to donate proceeds from the Crisler show to charity. listening.. c .g7 Gooc great new albums DRACULA Your favorite pain in the neck is about to bite your . funny bone. A 1-2-3-4 COMING SOON! - E VE Joe Sample "Carmel" .. .., _' l ' _a_ ...... c' _ ' ....