International Film Series:
Corruption, beautiful women and fighting
by Sara Prosser
Collegian Stuff
What does corruption, a beautiful
woman, and fighting to overcome
evil have to do with this Monday
night?
No, the newest Sylvester Stalone
movie isn’t premiering at the local
theater. It’s the second night of the
International Film Series, and “Ay,
Carmela!” is showing.
“Ay, Carmela!” takes place in
Spain in 1938 during the civil war.
The film focuses on two cabaret per-
Inde
endent music labels:
Pay attention to the music not the money
by Tim Holsopple
Collegian Staff
For those of you who are tired of
the often predictable and undeserving
music that major labels crank out,
independent labels are your
salvation.
Unlike the majors, most indie
labels care about the people who
make music and are not obsessed
with turning a profit. In turn, the
only thing musicians have to worry
about is making music the way they
want to.
This comfort zone allows for the
creation of unbelievable original
compositions.
The last thing musicians need is
pressure from their labels to be
commercially accessible. This leads
to imitation and ultimately results in
the exhaustion of styles and sounds.
The one thing that indie labels
cannot offer their artists is mass
distribution. They simply do not
have the money to put their artists’
records on music store shelves
everywhere. Because of this, they
arc forced to rely on mail orders and
live shows to dispense their wares.
The following are my favorite
indie labels and their addresses, along
with some interesting tidbits: r^,-.\
Super Crossword
ACROSS
1 Queue tip?
5 Learning
method
9 Memo words
13 Toboggan
17 Fame
19 Munch
ausen’s title
20 Nuthatch's
nose
21 Musical finale
22 Champagne
vessel
23 Start of a
remark by
Ed Gardner
26 Puccini
princess
28 Writer Harte
29 Susan lucci
role
30 Carol opener
31 Upscale shop
33 Nav.
designation
35 100 yrs
36 Sobriquet
40 Genesis
setting
41 Singer
Redding
42 Barry or Kelly
43 “We
Family"
(79 tune)
44 Rent-
45 '95 Wimble-
formers who also happen to be hus
band and wife. Carmela (Carmen
Maura), and Paulino (Andres
Pajares) are hired to perform and
entertain republican troops during
the war.
One night on their way to a perfor
mance, Carmen, and Paulino end up
in enemy territory and are captured
by fascist troops.
Just as death seems almost inevi
table, one of the lieutenants comes
up with the idea of making the couple
perform fascist material for a group
Dischord Records
3819 Beecher Street, NW
Washington, DC 20007-1802
Dischord is run by lan Mac Kaye,
lead singer and guitarist for the most
indie of all indie bands, Fugazi.
Excellent music at rock-bottom
prices. Bands: Jawbox, Slant 6,
Shudder To Think.
Matador Records
676 Broadway 4th Floor
New York City, NY 10012
Matador not only offers their own
brilliant tunes, but distributes other
indie labels’ as well. Bands:
Pavement, Liz Phair, Guided By
Voices, Helium.
Kill Rock Stars
120 NE State Ave. #4lB
Olympia, WA 98501
Kill Rock Stars puts out rough
and tough Olympia punk. Run by
spoken word artist Slim Moon.
Bands: Unwound, godhead Silo,
Huggybear, Excuse 17, Phranc.
K puts out everything. You name
it, K’s got it. One of the most
artist-oriented labels around. Bands:
87 Neanderthals
90 Drink like a
dachshund
93 Rooster's
inamorata
94 Sheik site
don winner
49 Part 2 ol
remark
55 Kudrow of
“Friends"
56 Reasons to
95 Shelley
showcase
96 Nemorino's
love
re-tire?
57 Phantom’s
instrument
58 Namibia
native 96 Spumante
59 Way out 99 Preprandial
60 Puppet quail
Mortimer 104 End of remark
61 Kermit's 109 Hackneyed
creator 110 Be all
62 de corps (listen)
65 Showy shrub 111 Screenwriter
66 The Rio James
Grande, e.g. 112 Toughen
67 Ward healer? 113 A la King?
68 Probe 114 Roster
69 Male deer 116 Wordless
70 Like Kansas? greetings
71 Myanmar, 116 Zola novel
formerly 117 Encounter
72 Wagner work DOWN
76 Ken or Lena 1 Departed
77 Part 3 of 2 Bill ol Rights
remark grp.
80 Wine valley 3 Disparage
4 Birmingham
bye-bye
6 Spellbound
6 Bonanza
material
7 Rocky hill
8 Make
61 Sore
62 Chianti color
83 Praise a
performance
84 Surfeit
85 Latin para
digm part
K Records
P.O. Box 7154
Olympia, WA 98507
possible
9 "Peer Gynt"
playwright
10 Tailed
amphibian
11 Stadium
shout
12 Scrape by,
with “out"
13 Trauma
aftermath
14 Spock's lorte
15 Draw forth
16 Moshe of
Israel
18 Fractional
amount
19 A hand to the
loot
24 Nutritional
need
25 Stack role
27 Conk out
31 Some Slavs
32 “Zip-
Doo-Dah"
33 Ogden native
34 Sovereign's
title
36 fooyung
37 Nest noise
36 Division word
39 Moment of
truth
41 Snow White
and friends?
43 Facilitate a
felony
Entertainment
of polish prisoners who are awaiting
their execution. They are threatened
with death if they do not conform to
the lieutenant’s plans.
Paulino gives into his fear and
collaborates with the enemy, but
Carmela isn’t as quick to sacrifice
her beliefs.
Some of those who have seen this
film, believe that it contains a very
symbolic theme; political opportun
ism, and Carmela and Paulino are
thought of as the reformers.
Others feel that this theory is to
Halo Benders, Dub Narcotic Sound
System, Mecca Normal, Fitz of
Depression, Karp.
Merge Records
P.O. Box 1235
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Merge has some outstanding punk
rock. More poppy than most punk
labels. Bands: Rocket From the
Crypt, Superchunk, Polvo, Drive
Like Jehu.
Tooth And Nail Records
P.O. Box 12698
Seattle, WA 98111-4698
Tooth carries Christian hardcore,
punk, ska, and rock. Bands:
Bloodshed, Unashamed, MxPx,
Strongarm, Starflyer 59, Overcome.
Cargo Records
4901-906 Morena Boulevard
San Diego, CA 92117-3432
Cargo boasts crushing rock by
some of the most creative bands out
there today. Bands: Hum, Big Drill
Car, Smile, 7-Seconds, Deadbolt,
Pitchblende.
TAG Recordings
14 East 60th St. Bth Floor
New York, NY 10019
TAG prefers intelligent crunch
44 Fuming 72 Holiness
46 Thyroid or 73 Get on
pituitary 74 First person?
46 Hair coloring 75 Heart bum?
47 Mary of The 77 Compact
Maltese cotton
Falcon" 78 Lackluster
46 Hawthorne's 79 Marsh
was marble 64 Everett of
50 '62 Four “Medical
Seasons Center”
smash 85 Art deco
51 Serum target designer
52 Got off 66 Fresno fruit
53 “Mellow 87 Thicket
Yellow" fellow 66 Noun suffix
64 Cara or 69 Song part
Castle 90 Tag
56 Wodehouse's 91 Dwight's
Wooster competition
60 Alabama City 92 *— Plowman”
61 Actor 94 Grate stuff
Buchholz 97 Settle down
62 *— Gay" 96 Seasoned
63 Remove 99 Taj town
varnish 100 Article
64 Neighbor of 101 Grocer's
Del. measure
65 Cheerful 102 Tennis pro
66 Blocks the Nastase
way 103 Means of
67 Sacred image perambulation
66 Westphalia or 106 Publisher
Saxony BaHarrtine
69 Card 106 DinhDiem
collection 107 nutshell
71 Burger 106 “Sound of
topping Music" extra
tally off base. To them, the idea that
“Ay, Carmela!” has political ties
seems totally absurd. The film is just
a story about two entertainers, who
are trying to survive m a difficult
time of war.
Come out Monday, October 28
and decide for yourself. Does the
film have political ties or is it just a
story about two people lives during
the civil war? The film begins at
7:30 in the Reed Lecture Hall, and is
free.
rock lo everyday pop. Bands
Jawbox, Solution a.d.
Insomnia carries recordings from a
who’s who list of indie labels. The
prices are higher, but convenience is
the name of the game here. Labels:
SST, Mammoth, Bong Load, Drag
City, Wax Trax!, Caroline, Smells
Like Records.
This is by no means a
comprehensive list. There are
countless indie labels in the United
States just waiting to be discovered
by adventurous people who love
music.
If you’d like a catalog from these
labels, send a SASE to any of the
addresses listed above to find out
how. Some have web pages and e
mail addresses and they will give
you instructions as to how to access
them.
If you’d like to discuss indie
music, labels, or underground media,
my personal e-mail is
llhl9B@psu.edu.
Bob Fay, Jason Loewenstein, and
Lou Barlow, Sedadoh, have
concocted yet another 10-fi
masterpiece, worthy of praise from
all ye who roam the earth.
Sebadoh returned to form with
their latest record on the illustrious
Sub Pop label, Harmacy.
They each contributed their own
musical styles to the album, which
boasts 19 songs and vintage Sebadoh
pop sensibility.
The first single, Ocean, gleams
like a child who’s opening presents
on Christmas morning. Barlow
gives the gift of insight in a song
Magic Maze
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all directions-forward, backward, up, down and
diagonally.
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Insomnia Records
P.O. Box 86308
Los Angeles, CA 90086-308
ft.F.O. by MIKE MARLAND
Welcome to Sebadoh’s Harmacy
by Tim Holsopple
Collegian Staff
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Thursday, October 24, 1996 The Behrend College Collegian - Page 5
Entertainment Extra by Evelyn Ludvigson
Q. What happened to Demi
Moore’s hair? I saw her on a TV
news show the other day and she’s
practically bald. Doe she have a
head disease or what? Marvin W.
A. Demi shaved her head for a role
for which, I’m told, she’s being paid
a small fortune in spite of the failure
of her last several films.
Q. Is it true we’re going to see the
“Ellen” show ruined with another
gay character? I guess being gay
has become the new chic thing for
Hollywood. Don’t they realize .
their audiences are not happy with |
these shows now and don’t want
anymore? Ben McD.
A. As 1 write this, no decision has
been made about having Eljen's
character, Ellen Morgan, “come out”
or not. Some skeptics say this is an
attempt to wake up the viewing
public which has been falling off. If
so, it worked.
Q. Does Fran Drescher dress so
flamboyantly in real life as she
does on her show, “The Nanny"?
Liza R.
A. Yes, for the most part.
Q. This is not an important ques
tion, but it’s one I’ve wanted to ask
for a long time. Why don’t we see
more pictures of the White House
cat, Socks? Is he still with us or did
he die? Please answer when you
can. Laurie C.
A. 1 understand Socks is well and
still in residence at 1600 Pennsyl
vania Avenue. We don’t see as many
photos of him as we once did because
Chelsea, to whom the cat belongs,
felt all those flashes and clicks from
the cameras frightened him.
Q. Has Melanie Griffith had her
baby yet and if so, what has she
named it? Julia S.
A. Melanie and her husband,
Spanish actor Antonio Banderas,
welcomed Gloria Carmen Banderas
Griffith on September 24.
Q. Please explain, if you can, how
John F. Kennedy, Jr. was able to
pull off a secret wedding in a
Catholic ceremony when everyone
knows you have to call the banns
in Church well before the wed
ding. Marcie E.
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TO THE PITT JAZZ FESTIVAL!
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line, singing “1 don’t even wanna try me /tcll him that I’m still your
to name it/explain it for the one who friend/and maybe you would like to
couldn’t carc/all that matters is the see mc again.”
way you choose to frame it. Once again changing the pace.
The next song, Nothing Like Sebadoh’s Love to Fight is a punky
You, slows the pace considerably 53 second song that sounds a lot like
and depresses even the happiest of Mudhoney. Can’t Give Up
people. The lines, “figure how to be provokes thoughts on pcrserverance
a friend to you/God knows I want in a WO rld thal constantly stifles
to/there’s a lot of girls in the those with radical thoughts and
world/that are nothing like you, ideas, while Open Ended confronts
cover a topic Barlow constantly tries issue of privacy and honesty in a
to make sense of: relationships with wor | d lhal constantly invades
theopposite sex personal lives and lies as a means for
The instrumentals Sforzando! and monetary gain
Hillbilly II are bookends to the Thc , ast son on thc a|bum js #
second single from the album, cover of Xhc Bags - , w// A Ra[ .
Willing to Watt, which is to be pop-punk with that Sebadoh twist,
released on October 29. A drifting Once again proving they’re in it
song dilute with references to a for lhe music Scbadoh . s Harmacy
relationship gone sour, Willing to de i ivcrs lwo scoops of who lesome
Wait goes for the throat with the pop goodness.
biting request, “when you see him
Itchin’ for Italian?
by Jennifer Reisenweber
Collegian Staff
There are now four great
locations for excellent pizza and
Italian f00d... Valerio's Italian
Restaurant and Pizzeria,
specializing in homemade pizza and
pasta, has die answer.
Valerio’s is located at four
locations on Pittsburgh Avenue,
East 38th Street, Powell Avenue
and East Main Street.
Valerio's opened three years ago
by Mike and David Valerio, an
uncle and nephew team. According
to the Valerio’s, it was a dream far
many years that has now come true.
The restaurant is decorated with a
touch of Italy to create the
ambiance of a small Italian cafe.
Appetizers include cheese sticks,
pizza logs, mini tacos and many
other mouth watering starters.
ASK EVELYN
A. I spoke with someone in New
York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral who
said that banns are no longer neces
sary, although in some instances, the
tradition is carried on. The
spokesperson also told me that the
priest who will officiate will advise
the couple on what their obligations
are and how their personal cir
cumstances may be factored into the
situation.
No doubt, every attempt was made
to protect the sanctity of the service,
as well as the privacy of John and his
bride-to-be.
Q. About 20 years ago, I saw a
movie in which Arnold Schwar
zenegger played a body builder. It
was never released on TV as far as
I know. Can you give me the title
of the movie so I can check to see if
it’s carried in my video store? Jim
K.
A. That movie was a documentary,
more or less, about body building.
Arnold was not an actor when he
appeared in the film; he was in it as
a you guessed it champion
body builder.
One of my colleagues a former
magazine editor met him when he
did some publicity for the film and
was impressed by how courteous he
was and one of her coworkers said it
was too bad such a nice guy had no
future in the movies. Right!
Have a question? Send it to Evelyn
Ludvigson, King Features Weekly
Service, 235 East 45th Street, New
York, N.Y. 10017.
©1996 by King Features Synd.
Valerio’s also offers a variety
soups and salads. In addition
pizza and subs, pasta dim
include spaghetti, fettucini alfre
chicken parmesan, and the t
dinner lasagna. There are stafi
dinners and deliciously, fres
prepared pizzas.
All meals are served with i
and bread, and all under ten do)
Valerio’s also offers daily h
specials through Sunday com]
with a tossed salad and drink.
Open Monday through Thursday,
11:00 a.m.- 12 midnight, Friday
and Saturday 11:00 a.m. -1:0(
a.m., and Sunday 12 noon -12
midnight. .
If you are itchin' for Italian, this
is definitely the -place to be!
Definitely a must try restaurant an
take out. Delivery is available fo
Behrend from the East 38tl
location, 825-2693.