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that has become known as hard-
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To highlight his newest proj-
By MIKE KUNTZ ect's stop tonight at the Magic
Daily Arts Writer Stick in Detroit, Morris talked
with The Michigan Daily about
t hearing Keith Mor- the band's throwback album
k about his music - heck, packaging, time travel, and why
in general - is like listen- Pitchfork's music selection just
an evan- ain't too exciting.
1 soapbox OFF! "Maybe it'sjust our turn," Mor-
her rave ris said of the positive reaction to
the eter- Tonight at OFF! from the music industry
lamnation. 8p.m. at large. "Sometimes you just do
eaks about what you do and let all the pieces
cords and The Magic Stick fall the way thatthey fall."
he loves From $15 OFF! released a string of EPs
a charge last year, packaging them togeth-
iakes his everyday thoughts er in a Raymond Pettibon-illus-
nds like the Seeds sound like trated four-by-10-inch collection
ospel. titled, simply enough, First Four
rue believer in the power EPs. Channelingthe raw sound of
damn good record collec- early hardcore punk - think The
Morris has been a mover and Germs, X and, yes, the first Black
r in the world of DIY music- Flag recordings - OFF! captures a
s his entire life. Through group of aging punks (Morris is in
tort-lived stint as the first his mid-50s) banging away with
san of Black Flag, then the the same fury they had 30 years

ago. If punk's dead, it sure doesn't
sound like it when listening to
these guys.
"When Dmitri andI were going
through our songwriting process,
he created a time-travel device
through his guitar that took us
back to a Baptist church on Man-
hattan Avenue in Hermosa Beach,
where a lot of the blueprint was
drawn out for (hardcore punk),"
Morris said.
This blueprint proved to be
the birth of an entire movement,
Black Flag's classic 1978 Nervous
Breakdown EP paving the way for
an entire generation of bands in
the coming decade.
"What we were doing was just
moving at our own pace," Morris
said, describing the M.O. of early
Black Flag. "There was no man-
ager, there was no record label,
there wasn't anybody standing
over us saying 'Well this is what
you need to do if you want to get
from point A to point B.' There
were no rules, there was just a list
of things to do today."
Given his past, it's no surprise
Morris is a little put off by today's

age of required online exposure,
overnight YouTube sensations
and up-to-the-minute critiques
of new music by amateur bloggers
and professional critics alike.
"The waythat Iwould describe
a site like Pitchfork is that it's very
horizontal, and we're vertical,"
said Morris, in reaction to OFF!'s
critical success in 2010. "They
were excited about us because
we're pretty exciting. A lot of the
bands that they write about aren't
very exciting bands, they come
from the head more than the
heart or the soul."
Which isn't to say Morris is
out of touch or swears off today's
more cerebral brand of indie rock
- he confessed to being a fan of
groups like Deerhunter, Thee
Oh Sees, Ty Segall and Nobunny.
The guy is far from having been
asleep for the past 30 years - and
he wants you to know it - though
fortunately the sound of First
Four EPs is as frozen in time as a
record like GI. The sound, energy
and attitude that OFF! exudes is
so iconic that Morris would be
forgiven for being surprised when

newer fans marvel at its "fresh
sound."
"There's a lot of people out
there who like my other band
(Circle Jerks), but there's a lot of
new people out there, like fresh
young pups that aren't aware of
some of the other bands that I've
been in," Morris said. "This is
actually a new thingto them. And
the situation is that not only is
it new to a lot of the kids but it's
also new to a lot of the people who
work for the magazines and blog
and people who are part of the
music industry."
Whensittinginhis livingroom,
surrounded by the records he
loves, Morris can't help but relate
the best way he knows how -
through music. But really, he just
wishes people nowadays would
listen to more of the classics.
"People need to listen to more
Sonny Boy Williamson," he said.
"And Blue Oyster Cult. And Gil
Scott Herron, and Golden Ear-
rings and Television and Burning
Brides and the Who and Sparks
and..."
The listgoes on and on.

BASEMENT
From Page 5
budget of $100, "Boy Gets Girl"
received $800, which helped
construct the five sets through
which every aspect of Theresa's
existence is visible at all times to
the audience. Just as Tony moni-
tors every aspect of Theresa's life,
so can the audience inspect every
moment on stage.
"We had the opportunity to be
a little more elaborate than other
Basement Arts shows," said LSA
sophomore Tim Wood, the assis-
tant stage manager.
While the theory support-
ing the story is pivotal and far-
reaching, Cohen said Gilman's
dialogue performs the necessary
job of breaking the tension when
it needs to. For instance, after
finding a graphic and upsetting
note from Tony, Theresa wonders
aloud if the Yankees won their
game that day.
"You can't beat up the audience
and then say, 'OK, bye,"' Mangan-
ello said. "There is a message to
this play, but there is humor and
entertainment as well."
In a story of boy-doesn't-get-
girl, this production investigates
the harmful effects a subject-
object description of romance has
on the people involved.

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