1995_02 The Daily Collegian February 1995

              2—The Daily Collegian     Friday, Eebruar^lO, 1995
Arte & Entertainment
'Madness' consumes Box Office
the curse of olive oil,
the thrill of Hanford
Ifs a lesser known feet among American culture, but Ifs bad
luck to break a bottle of olive oil. Ifs actuaUy.an old Italian myth,,
but it is also a proven fact
Last Saturday at the Italian deli where I sometimes work,
this couple was buying some groceries. Pasta, cheese, coldcuts
and this bottle of olive oil. Anyway, these people are stacking
their stuff by the cash register when I see this bottle of oil slip¬
ping out of the cart I dove for the bottle, but alas, it shattered oh
the ground, sprayin g a slick of oil on the Formica floor.
\ Now, you may be asking what this has to do with arfe and
entertainment .
The answer of course is not a darrul thing, but I really enjoy
telling that story.
Let the cursed be damned - thaf s what I always say. WelL
actually I don't Actually I've never said that before but it comes
to mind right now.
On to the scene.
I'm always talking about the lovely city of Hanford, 40
minutes south of Fresno, and this weekend we really have
something to mention At the Bastille restaurant and club in the
small ag city will be Susan Sheller and theGreasy Spoon Broth¬
ers.       . . .) s
fhey call Sheller "the golden throaf' and golden it is. The
band rips through classic soul material like a hot knife through
oil The band has a tape out now called "Vibe Tribe." Ifs funky,
if s groovy, if s in Hanford.
In our own local, good things are happening as well.
Picture this. Spandex, whipping hair, grinding thrash metal.
Sound good? Don't go to Club Fred Friday night because there is
a reggae Show there. aMala^MBaMaMBMBa^a^a^a™*
The Cardiff Reefers are
back, dreads a-flappin',
grooves a-thumpin'. Positive
vibes that could lift even the
most persistent curse.
Saturday if s a plethora of
bands at Club Fred. Mind
Bender, Spit.Muffin, and the ^
masters of Fresno funk,
Thumpasaurus.
Erroneous spreading of
information alert Remember
last week how I was talking
about the free shows-at
Intermezzo that might have a
cover charge in the near
future. Well, ifs not so near
now.
In fact, last Thursday they
were charging a dollar cover.
So my sources tell m e. 1 gues-,
thaf s not bad for a live show. I —
mean,' heaven forbid we should buy something while we're     /
there.
You car) still walk fifty feet across the street to Butterfjeld's
Breweryand see Tuff Talk, a funky acid jazz, group that is as cool
as it is groovy.
They play mere every Thursday.
Well back to the olive oil. You know some days you feel like
you've? broken a bottle of olive oil, even if you haven't. Even if
you don't like olive oil, or don't consider breaking it to be bad
luck
So what does this have to do with anything? Ifs like my_ 'J~:
friend joe at Piemonte's deli always says'. "Some days you eat
the chicken, some days you eat the leathers/'
If S like that you know. It's just like that.
You can respond, comment or make disgusting suggestions
toJoeRosatojrbye-rnailatjwr01@mondrianxsufiesno.edu
Seeyouout.
'So what does
this have to do
with anything?
It's like my w
friend Joe at     *
Piemonte's deli
always says.
"Some days you
eat the chicked
some days you
eat the feathers.'1
) Reality has ended. The face of madness is our
own. Opulent evil abounds in us. We as a human race
do not ownme world as we so arrogantly assume.
The rancid guts of hell have exploded into a night¬
mare .before our ingenious eyes. The smell of a
sinister- rawness, permeates the olfaction of the ex¬
tinct homo sapien population of a world fated for
utter destruction.
Director John Carpenter ("Halloween") takes
audiences into the world of fear in New Line Cinema's
most recent release "In The Mouth Of Madness."
Carpenter, once again, astounds with his ability to
capture the fear of man with a visual bombardment
of neurotic strangeness. .   '.
The script, written by Michael De Luca, is a tale
whicjx. questions the reality of the human race. De
Luca found his poetic horror muse in the writings of
American horror author HP. Lovecraft. Lovecraft
often questioned whether humanity is on this planet
by mistake. "In the Mouth of Madness" essentially
does the same thing. The film explores the possibility
that the human race is an unwanted borrower of the
world and the evil in which We secretly fear wants
this world back. V
The film stars Sam Neill ("The Piano") as John
Trent, a skepticalinsurance investigator who discov¬
ers more evil than he bargained for. Trent is the
perpetual disbeliever until he sees the mouth of
madness face to face. The film also stars Julie Carmen
("Fright Night 2")as Linda Styles, a phantom editor,
Jurgen Prochnow ("Beverly Hills U"\as the sinister
novelist Sutter Cane. Chariton Heston also stars as
Jackson Harglow, a powerful publisher. '_^ >/'
AHere'sthebreakdownTrentishiredbyHar^k>w.
to investigate the disappearance of the world's most
read author Sutter Cane, Cane'sjtooks, by the way;
tends to make people a little loony to say the least. In
fact, those who read his books go absolutely insane
and start killing people with hatches. That is what I
'Shane Harvey/New One Cinema
Sam Neill stars in John Carpenter's "In the
Mouth of Madness."
call a hell of a book.      ^
Anywav, Trent believes all this killing stuff to
be a publicity game. He sets off to find Cane in a
town named Hobb's End. Hobb's End is also a town
is Cane's books. Harglow sends Styles with Trent
and they are soon on the trail. Once in Hobb's End,
Trent and Styles dis over Cane to be living in an
ominous old town church with slimy walls, a type
writer and really EVIL things all over the place.
Cane soon tells Trent and Style that they are the
characters in his next book. He then lets themin on
the fact that this book will also be the end of the
world because the evil behind the slimy wall wants
out Trent ends up in a mental hospital and soon
finds out that all of Cane's predictions came true.
By the end of the film my bu ti-cheeks were so
clenched from fear that I couldn't walk for two days
All in all I had a good time at this film and so should
everybody else who likes to get the bazookas scared
out of them.
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