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The Michigan Daily Friday, September 30, 1988

Page 7

BY BRIAN JAR VINEN
DEMOCRAT or Republican? Wimp or Shrimp?
Poppy or Duke? With choices like these, it's no
wonder only 30 percent of students vote in presidential
elections. This year, voters have another choice,
courtesyof MTV. Randee of the Redwoods has, as
MTV puts it, "thrown his bandana in the ring."
Who is Randee of the Redwoods, you ask? Randee
is a candidate for people who enjoy uninvited guests, a
candidate unafraid to admit having difficulties when
From
Ronnie
to
Randee
placing an order at Dairy Queen, a candidate who is
proud that he got Camper Van Beethoven's "Good
Guys and Bad Guys" video onto MTV, and most
importantly, a candidate who probably can't remember
where he was during the Vietnam War.
Randee of the Redwoods emerged into the public eye
from his time capsule in grand '80s style last year with
a new catchphrase - "Either Way It's Fine With Me,"
a hip video to match, and a guaranteed media deal. After
Randee presided over MTV's Primary '88 coverage, a
germ of an idea was planted somewhere in the venal
minds of the spin doctors known to populate most
cable network headquarters. A few months later, Randee
delivered his confused "Mountain" manifesto. From
that point, Randee's campaign slowly began to build
up smoke. A new video and catchphrase appeared last
summer, "Just Say Whoa," shortly before Randee's
triumphant nomination in August.
After being nominated, candidates have to hit the
campaign trail and Randee is no exception. Randee is
stumping across the land from the back of a VW
microbus, and the campaign swing includes a stop in
Ann Arbor tonight. The Daily spoke to Randee a few
days ago:
Daily: What is your name?
Randee: Randee.
D: What is your quest?
R: To make everyone happy most of the time and
give them a place to stay.
D: What is your favorite color?
R: People keep asking me this. This is a trick
question I think so I'm gonna have to say blue.
D: What is the capital of Assyria?
R: This is another trick question. Norfolk.
D: Who is your running mate?
R: The Joan of Arc, but she doesn't fly so we're
gonna pick a new one at the show.
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BY JIM PONIEWOZIK


Ah, my junior year in college.
I remember walking home from a
party on State Street late one
September evening, hearing "Com-
munication Breakdown" blare out of
the speakers of a passing car ...
I remember waiting for my 12:00
class to begin as a long-haired, tie-
dye-clad student sat down next to
me, singing Buffalo Springfield's
"For What It's Worth"...
I remember a crowd of my fellow
students gathered about, excitedly
telling one another how great Eric
Clapton was last night ...
No, I'm not 39 years old.
But I might as well be, for all the
cultural heritage I'll have to share
with the rest of my age group when
I do get that old. For I was unlucky
enough to be born into this, the
generation without identity. No,
scratch that. Make that the gen-
eration with someone else's identity
- its parents'.
It's become an axiom that, if you
want to encapsulate the essence of a
generation, you need look no further
than its pop culture. Mention the
'20s to someone and chances are
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and flappers long before they think
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of the Teapot Dome. The '50s don't
mean Dulles; they mean Elvis. And
the '80s?
The '80s mean the Grateful Dead.
STATE OF THE
ART
I hate the Grateful Dead. I'll
probably get a thousand hate letters
for that. Well, OK, make it two
thousand - I hate the Grateful Dead
again. It's not merely that I find
repugnant the idea of paying money
to gaze through a miasma of
marijuana smoke at a bunch of fat,
near-comatose old men playing
soporific solos and spouting hippie
clich6s - although that would be
enough in itself. But for God's sake,
do the people doing this have to be
members of my own beloved 18-to-
24 year old market sector?-

man...'
still the '60s
So maybe it would be .more
accurate to say that I hate everything
the Dead stand for. Which is, to be
precise, the fact that my g-g-
generation has taken its cultural
identity and traded it for a couple of
joints and a string of love beads. It's
a crime repeated daily on the streets
of Ann Arbor, from the first frat boy
to tie-dye his letter sweatshirt to the
last dorm resident to buy Americap
Beauty on CD.
But in all fairness, I should say
that Jerry and the Boys have one
singularly redeeming quality -
their ironically apt name. For it is
in fact the dead - small "d" -that
most thoroughly inform the artistic
sensibilities of youth today. After
all, who is today's Jack Kerouac?
Today's Jimi Hendrix? Today's Andy
Warhol? The answers, respectively,
are of course Jack Kerouac, Jimi
Hendrix and Andy Warhol. Or wasn't
that you walking into the showing
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