8 - The Michigan Daily - Monday, February 27, 1998 I Guttermouth chuckles into Shelter4 By Cohn Bartos Daily Arts Writer If you take a name like Guttermouth, you'd guess that a band with such a name probably acts kind of rude and obnoxious and speaks with the eloquence and tact of a drunk truck driver. You'd be right on the ball if you were talking about this band. Guttermouth, another Southern California export, is a five-piece band where band members basically made their reputation with their totally un-P.C. observations on life and a fun spirit that recalls the beginnings of punk, when bands weren't careful about what they said and weren't out to impress any- one. Vocalist Mark "Half-Empty" Adkins, guitarist Eric Davis, drummer Capt. Jares T. Nunn, guitarist Mr. Scott Sheldon and bassist Steve Rapp fuse the intensity of hyper-speed punk music with the lyrics and rhyming schemes of a bathroom stall wall. "We do write very juvenile," Adkins said in a recent phone interview. "We know it, but that's how we write. We don't put too much thought into it ... We clown around; it's non-stop." During the span of seven years and four full-length records, Guttermouth's made .at least a few jaws drop. Even the band's latest record, "Musical Monkey," is chock full of more words of wisdom including a commentary on how punkers take them- selves too seriously ("Baker's Dozen"). "When I first got into this punk stuff at 14, there was punk ... not like today's hardcore who all have their little rulebooks and dress codes and whatever - weird New York stuff," Adkins said. "The hardcore bands were the ones that were way more aggressive like Black Flag and the Dead Kennedys everyone was the same" "Now its so separated. It's kinda bothersome that every- one has to have their own Guttermouth genre of music and claim they're from a certain area." The Shelter Adkins particularly can't Tomorrow at 6 p.m. understand the whole concept of straight-edge. "They're not getting anything accom- plished, No. 1. And they all grow out of it, number two," Adkins said. "My parents, they were totally down for their stuff but they grew out of it. Everybody does. They try to change everything while they're young, then they graduate from college or whatever, get married, buy a house, and forget about every- thing. I think we're one of the few bands that sees thai. We'ri or. likc reali-ns Another song "Abort Mission," deals with vegats. The band photo on "Musical Monkey" is cven a hamburger. "It's the best tour food. I et two or three a day, and we've gotten into it with veyn mnd vege- tarian bands before, ictailly isifiihts and stuff because our diets didn't match and they get rW upset about it Guttertiotith's careful about where it play,, too. "They could send us to Casper, Wyoming, but 10cowboys are going to show up and vandalize your car, which happened to us in a smll town injcltas before, where we didn't belong ... it was really ugly" Adkins said. So, as you can see, the boys are just making friends all over the place. And this new found popu- larity going to make Guttermiouth as big as the Spice Girls, correct? Not if Adkins is right "You need good looks and talent. One more strike and wQ're definitely out"A Guttermouth might not make the Top 20, but it will make you chuckle. Check the band out, ilong with old school jokesters Toy Dolls and Detroit's own favorite ska outfit, Telegraph. [lave a blast, have a beer and get a preview of the new Guttermouth live album, due to be released in a cou- ple of months. Members of Guttermouth challenge any norm which music audiences may expect. 'Boy' saves Friday night on ABC By Jie Lin For the Dily Yes, February sweeps month,the dompetition ofthe airwaves, has arrived yet again and will last until March 4. We wait and qluestiont: Who will walk iiway with the crown this tite? Last year during November sweeps, ABC came in dead last in the war of the three BOy Meets big networks with the peacock net- World work, NBC cad- *-ing the way. ABc In other words, Tonight at 8:30 and ABC is in desper- 9:30 p.m. ate need of a wiii- "Boy Meets World" does its part iicontribut- nI to February sweeps by airing two brand new episodes on Friday night as part of its T(IF lineup. "lii first episode, called "Tornt Between Two Lovers." is the basic stor O boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl and boy breaks up with girl. After seeing each other through thick and thin, fong time lovers Cory Matthews (Ben Savage) and topanga Lawrence (Danielle Fishell) have decided to call it uvenile plot cripples 'Tribe' 1 - 'J Jennifer Love Hewitt guest stars as Jennifer Love Pfefferman tonight on ABC. quits after Cory admits to having cheat- ed on her. The two actually broke rip on Valentine's Day in an earlier episode. Topanga got a hold of a letter meant for Cory .and reads about Iris kiss with Lauren (Linda Cardellini) at a ski lodge. In tonight's episode, the two try to patch things up. but find out that mak- ing up is harder than breaking up, espe- cially with a third party involved. The two have to work through a lot of con- fusion. misunderstandings and broken hearts. in the second episode of the eveningi, "Party of Five" regular Jennifer Love Hewitt guest stars in "And Then There Was Shawn." 1er character Jennifer Lov e 'fefferman, is a suspect inl the mur- der spree that takes place at John Adams High School. Students and teachers are trning up dead left and right. I-ow did ABC get Jennifer Love Hewitt, i rising star in Hollywood, to make a special appearance? She just happens to be the girlfriend of Will Friedle who plays Eric Matthews, Cory's older and better looking brother, err the show. Now into his fifth season playing the adorable Cory Matthews, Ben Savage has wormed his way into our hearts playing a regular teenager juggling school, family and a relationship. While this is a common premise for the show, Savage has created quite a name for himself playing Cory. Savage follows in his older brother's (Fred Savage of "The Wonder Years" fame) footsteps; he is made for the role of a teenage boy struggling with adoles- cence. Just as we couldn't resist the charms of Kevin Arnold then, we cant resist the charms of Cory Matthews now. Until Savage outgrows hits lovable character like his brother did, "Boy Meets World" will be around on the TGIF lineup, fully entertaining its audi- ence. By Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud it takes no great genius to figure tt Daily Arts Writer that when you have a single father-1m1 a Does the prospect of seeing Richard Dreyfuss wearingjust a sassy blond woman you'"e going to hise loin cloth and colorful body paint turn you on? If so, Kappendo r ai element of romance. Krippend it "Krippendorf'sTribe," an inane and moderately funny comedy, Tribe seduces Micelli, gets her drunk, dre sscs will provide you with plenty of kicks. her like a native and then tapes their pt- Teeming with juvenile humor, "Krippendorfs Tribe" is a making so he can produce a video show- film that attempts to be touching and funny at once. But the At Brarwood and in" the Shelnikedmu Tribe's matingrit movie achieves neither; the cliches of the plot cripple ahowcase "Krippendorf." At this point, one might suggest th't a The film stars Richard Dreyfuss as anthropologist James person like Krippendorf should not be Krippendorf, a recently widowed father with three kids, his raising children. A man who lies,'lies "tribe." Krippendorf has a research grant designed to be used some more and then seduces a wtait for research into the discovery of a new tribe in New Guinea. and tapes them in the act is in despefate But instead, he uses it to raise his children. need of psychological help. Krippendorfs children are supposed to Somehow, the process of inventing a tribe and lying to the be lovably dysfunctional. But they're not nation brings the professor and hits children together. As so much lovable as they are stereotypes. expected, the mute younger child speaks up at tr erid Just as predictable as the children f to defend his father, so transforni l Krippendorf himself is unable to has he been by the whole charade. communicate to them, falling r Ain't that a wonderful message' asleep watching videos of a trip It's certainly no Oscar-winning with his wife and children to New performance, but Dreyfuss is passable-as Guinea. Krippendorf. Eilan, living up to the hype, What can bring together this dysfunctionalis surprisingly engaging as the ambitiolts family? The answer comes in the form of career woman. Krippendorf's colleague Veronica Micelli (Jenna The best performance comes from Lily Efmran). She informs Krippendorf that he is supposed Tomlin as Krippendorf's professional nemesis to deliver a speech on the "undiscovered tribe" in New Prof. Ruth Allen. Tomlin is catty and wicked just Guinea. Distressingly enough, all of the money enough to make us root for the ele from the grant has been spent on his children. Krippendorf The professor's answer to the problem is to For all the stupidity of the plot, make up the existence of the Shelmikedmu -'Krippendorf's Tbribe is at times funny. Tribe. When he finds out he must provide There are circumcision jokes and prims visual evidence of the tribe, Krippendorf sheathes. Crude as they may be, they oten involves hits children in the lie, dressing work. So, if one is able to ignore the them up as tribal members and filming abysmal character development and a them involved in arcane back-yard rit- Courtesy of Touchstone Pictures suspect storyline, it might be possible uals Richard Dreyfuss gives Jenna Elfman a lift. to laugh at the jokes. Comic Opera Guild presents Feb. 26 - 28 & Mar.1 matinee 1 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre Tickets: SKR Classical Records, 539 E. Liberty Mendelssohn Box Office (763-1085) Proyas' disturbing 'Dark City' delves into futuristic film noii DARK CITY Continued from Page 5 Just when Murdock feels he cannot pos- sibly get more confused, he receives a call from someone named Dr.Schreber(Kiefer Sutherland) telling him to get out of there. Before he could ask any questions, the good doctor tells Murdock that the Strangers are coming to get him, and he should leave, post haste. Murdock doesn't know much at this point, but he knows not to look a gift horse in the mouth. After lie successfully avoids the Strangers, lie spends the rest of the fni piecing togeth- er the mystery that is his life. The mystery comes together nicely, as a good puzzle should; the audience finds the clues as the characters do which is a nice touch. Clues come from different places: Dr. Schreber, Murdock's wife Emma (the stunning Jennfier Connelly) and Bumstead (William Hurt), a cop modeled afterthe great film cops of the of the film noir era. All the clues have some- thing to do with who he is, and more sig- nificantly, who those pesky strangers are. The Strangers are a hybrid between Death and Nosferatu - they are rather supernatural and have the white skin that Michael Jackson could have after a few more operations. To top it off they have the power of Tuning. the ability to con- trol people and objects with their minds. As the Stranger in charge of capturing Murdock, Mr. Hand (Richard O'Brien) is one of the most ghostly, creepy char- acters in recent cinematic history. O'Brien is the last guy who you would like to run into in a dark alley. His surre- al face and eerily soothing voice are rem- iniscent of Hannibal Lechter. The story has but one fault, and unfor- tunately, it lies in the climax. The scene is laughable, which is usually not the intention of a drama s ending. The movie suddenly switches from a film noir with a sci-fi background to a cheesy sci-fi thriller. But one cannot allow the conclu- sion to ruin what is two hours of quality filmmaking. With such recent films as "L.A. Confidential" "Palmetto" and now "Dark City," could Hollywood be headed back toward the popular film noir of old? Let's YARE MEN ENRICHING JEWISH K WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU MIX SEMICONDUCTORS AND AUSTIN, TEXAS? Jennifer Connelly vamps her way through "Dark City. hope so. "Dark City" is triumphant in goal to entertain and mystify the audience with a great story and breathtakinig rimaes 0 So your college knows where to send the bills. 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