4 ARTS Pa'ge 6 The Michigan Daily Friday, September 16, 1983 Musical union 4 Lou and Peter Berryman, although no longer married, still perform together and will be at the Ark Friday and Saturday nights. By Deborah Robinson SOME PEOPLE get married for the sake of making beautiful music together, but for Lou and Peter Berryman, nuptial agreements don't work that way. That is, they gave up their marriage to make beautiful music together. Instead of wedding bands and bouquets they have an accordian and a guitar, binding them to the things they really love - performing. The Berrymans have released two of- fspring, No Relation and Cupid's Trash Truck. In the Berryman tradition, these works have inherited hints of a "folk" genre - covering material as diverse as a hippy-turned-fastfood-franchiser- cult-member to what bars on Mars would be like. Admittedly, their humor is rather corny. "Too Stupid," a song from their first prodigy, is a good example - Too stupid to want to be crossed/Too stupid to want to be bossed/Too stupid to push me around/It's then that I'll know it's a husband I've found. Marriage, being low on their list of appealing ideals, is just one subject ripe for the satirical pens of the Berrymans. In the tradition of the Smothers Brothers and Tom Lehrer, they turn harmless situations into hilarity and imaginary situations into everyday irony. Lou and Peter will be wed in song Friday and Saturday nights at the Ark Coffeehouse (1421 Hill), which should prove an ideal setting for them - it's a small enough place to allow the audien- ce to feel as though they are a part of the entertaining performance. And with jokers like the Berrymans, anyone could be included in a sarcastic cliche, even without notice. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. for the show at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5. Call 761-1451 for further information. Dhance Theatre Studio 71 N. University, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 4 Come to Beaver's For a current schedule of these and other classes cals 995-4242 F * Hard core By Joe Hoppe " YOU KNOW, WALLY, I'm sure glad the football game is away this week." "Gee, how come, Beav?" "Well this way I won't have to decide between the Wolverines and the har- dcore show at Joe's Star Lounge." Yes, aftertafun-filled summer of Necros, JFA, the F.U.'s, and the State and other ever-increasing, ever- improving local bands, the all-ages matinees at Joe's are still going on. This Saturday afternoon's fare features White CrossafromnVirginia, co- headlining with G.O.C. (Gaurdians of Chaos), an all-star young band from the fabled halls of Ann Arbor's Community High. Starting the show will be Wrong Verdict and Euthanasia, two bands that have played places like the Second Chance and have even opened for the famed Cult Heroes. White Cross is a standard respected thrash band, guitars more shrill than heavy metalish; then of course loud and fast. They come from the part of Virginia viewed more as bedroom communities of Our Nation's Capital than as hill country, so don't take the name to have any Klan/racist associations. Take the name as a pun on Red Cross or if you must, a reference to amphetamine. Which brings up a point of interest: matinee I they're close enough to DC to call them- selves DC hardcore - but don't. The name might indicate a non-straight edge stance, in a hardcore, straight- edge world - yet they have an anti-caf- feine song. Ah, wait and see, that was just an interesting aside at best. G.O.C. is a young and coming funner- than-hardcore band. The songs issue straight from the halls of Community High where they are written (about friends and others) to great perfor- mances by Scene all-stars culled from Ground Zero, the Lunatics, Mac- Donald's, and the Variables. Wrong Verdict and Euthanasia represent a widening from previous all- ages shows, not being what you'd call real hardcore at all. But they're still going to be energetic enough to earn their places, and the musical syles should compliment nicely. Euthanasia is hoping for a place where they can finally play as loud as they want. Joe's on Saturday should be it. Volume and a Stooges influence are their main recommendation.Not much is known about Wrong Verdict. Mysterious. Joe's on Saturday will be exactly where it's at if you've been searching for this city's wonderful underground music scene. Past that, any all-ages show is going to be where the cutting edge, energetic grass roots band scene around here is going to make itself heard. The fun starts at one and it's $4 at the door. Michael Keaton may not look like your mom, but he's learning in 20th Cen- tury Fox's latest release 'Mr. Mom.' Does your mom look like this.? 4 By Emily Montgomery M R. MOM is not just another bum- bling comedy. Based on the now familiar husband/wife role reversal popularized by John Lennon among others, it is an amusing backlash to the avalanche started by Dustin Hoffman's kitchen role in Kramer vs. Kramer. Directed by Stan Dragoti, Mr. Mom stars up-and-coming talent Michael Keaton (Night Shift) and Teri Garr, who again proves herself an outstan- ding actress after her Oscar-nominated performance in Tootsie. With Michael Keaton at the apron strings of a hilarious homestead, Mr. Mom takes househusbandry in a new direction. Its universal appeal makes everyone, not just housewives, laugh. Given free reign of the screen, Keaton proves just how far his lunacy will stretch. He plays poker with neigh- borhood housewives for rebate coupons, reheats a grilled cheese san- dwich with an iron, and wrestles with a vacuum cleaner nicknamed Jaws. Drapes, rugs, and even small children aren't safe. Tender scenes include the night Michael Keaton, as Jack Butler, spends all day preparing a candlelight dinner for his wife, and still doesn't get upset when she arrives at 2 a.m., and the night that Jack convinces his son Billy to give up his security blanket. At the outset, Jack keeps up with the game. The kids are fed, the house is clean, but later the drudgery of daily routing wears him down and it is downhill from there. Finally his once immaculate house is proclaimed "fit for condemnation" and he awakes from a nightmare in which his wife shoots him and runs off with her boss. Jack, then realizes that the role of housewife is just as important as that of wage- earner, and decides to do the job with pride. Mr. Mom has an impressive suppor- ting cast. Martin Mull is great as Teri Garr's :amorous boss, and Ann Jillian ("It's a Living") does a terrific job as: Jack's philandering neighbor, who at-: tempts to teach him a few household hints - in bedroom etiquette, that is. Harriet Nelson she is not! Disappoin-: ting, though, is the misuse of the; outrageously comical Christopher' Lloyd ("Taxi") as one of Jack's co-; workers who gets too little screen time- in a two-dimensional unfunny role. Mr. Mom is set in Detroit, but besides Jack being an automotive engineer, and: a brief aerial glimpse of the Renaissan- ce Center, this movie could have taken,. place in any fair-weathered city ink America. Dragoti has directed two other, feature films, Dirty Little Billy and Love at First Bite, (both with little critical success) Mr. Mom is proof that he is making progress, though he hasn't reached aesthetic perfection. In an age of inane comedies, Mr. Mom is always amusing and sometimes very funny. Join the Daily Arts Staff I ~e gi ~We ~etL 0t 5 0 t Gti i _ A 4 Photographers The Michigan wtJ-l Daily r'here be CO lio review on ;Dept. 18, at of 2nd Iloor .tudent bldg. for aPort Junday 6:V0 the photo n . 4 -- all - rapbhrs ~t I , _ _ I'