.ontia, April 21, ICCG Daily- L'-.w'a:knn Page 9 Aits Glee club starts statewide tour t?T jfoeumicrt ( ujitw ucoaice f) ItRG. SCAM--) 7 AiOQ JuOS OF S H6M ) J( Cft) VwiOEPoftr fiCA -v Sometimes life hurts like hell; comic understands humor is pain By Chris McCubbin Staff Reporter Matt Groening, "Love is Hell," Pantheon Books, $5.95. 1) Humor is pain which happens to somebody else. People who ask if a Book Review pratfall or a dead baby joke is really funny are missing the point. They're t he funniest things in the world because humor equals pain and all humor is innately sadistic. - 2) The '80s is the decade of ungodly honesty. It used to be if you asked someone out they'd say "No, thank you, I'm busy." Today they say, "No, thank you, you're repulsive and obnox ious." . - ; ; Once you understand these two rules you understand "Life in Hell," a comic strip by Matt Groening. Life in Hell: 'Wax' album is more pop pablum By Chris McCubbin Staff Reporter Wax "Magnetic Heaven" RCAAriola The airwaves today are a mess. It is inadequate to say that today's charts Record Review are bland and boring. It's more accu rate to say that a glossy, dull feature lessness has become a basic prerequi site to having a hit. Today's corporate hit machine regards non-distinctive-ness as a highly marketable commodity to be eagerly sought and recruited. Wax is perfect radio fodder. There's Not some steamy, smoky.sulphurous spiritual plane where malignant spirits poke your butt with forks. I mean life in Hell. Right here, right now, what I did on my vacation . . . Life. Think about it. You're in the '80s and you're stuck. There's no way you can possibly get out for at least four more years. The first "Life in Hell" book, "Love is Hell," has just been published. "Love is Hell" is the funniest book in the world, and one of the most depressing. Groening's peculiar twisted genius consists simply of seeing things exactly the way they are, and, most horribly, telling us about it. His revelations on the fundamentally absurd insignificance of human existence have an effect rather like being disemboweled with a feather. You don't know whether to laugh or scream. Groening on love: "Love is a snow mobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flops over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come." Groening on "why you might feel nothing bad about this album. How could there be? There's not enough substance in Wax for them to be bad, or good, or anything. This album barely exists at all. Wax is a pop duo, and they sound exactly like what a pop duo is sup posed to sound like in the '80s. The music is a combination of teeny-bopper pop and (though it truely pains me to use the word), what the band itself would almost certainly call "soul." Wax is firmly on the well-worn path that Hall & Oates, Wham! and Go West traveled before them. Still, in their own limited genre these guys are far from the worst. They don't adopt Daryl Hall's used-car sales Reprinted with permission of Pantheon Books unloved": 1) "You are such a dreadful person that no one could possibly love you. 2) You are the only one who really exists in the universe, and the rest of us are just phantom images. 3) Who the hell cares?" The protagonists of "Love is Hell" are a rabbit named Binky, his unnamed wifegirlfriend, and his one-eared kid, Bongo. Groening's rabbits are not cute, cuddly cartoon bunnies. They're not particularly attractive. They're awk ward and inarticulate. Just like we are. About half the book deals with love. Most of the rest is about childhood. There's a short selection of intellectu als and a few miscellaneous cartoons. Your first reaction to "Love is Hell" will be to laugh until your gut hurts. Within a couple of hours, the book will start to come true. Little bits from "Love is Hell" will start popping up in your own life, and when they happen to you, they're not funny. They hurt, like Hell. Review copy courtesy of the University Bookstore. manrevival preacher self-pimping, and they stay away from George Michael's frowzy sluttishness. Wax just seems like a couple of guys who want to make music. Who can blame them if their taste isn't world-class? The songs on "Magnetic Heaven" are mostly competent, professional, assembly-line pop. The melodies have more than their share of hum-along hooks. The production, while disingenuous and predictable is, at least, seldom overdone. If you like this kind of pablum you probably won't find any that's better than this. I wouldn't be caught dead with this album, but I probably wouldn't be ashamed to have my 12-year-old niece seen in public with it. The INI, Varsity Men's Glee Club will be on tour in Western Nebraska today and Tuesday. The OS member group, under t he direction of professor Hay Miller, will perform concerts at Henderson. Adams Central, Holdrege, Hastings and Seward High Schools. The Glee Club's repertoire includes two antiphonal choir pieces done in Latin, spirituals, folk songs, a sea chanty, Gabriel Faure's "Cantique de Jean Racine" sung in English, "Taren tella" by Randall Thompson, a setting of a poem by Hilaire Belloc, a medley from the Rogers and Hamiuerstein musi cal "Carousel," and a medley of songs by Duke Ellington, arranged by Jon Ranard, who also serves as an accom panist for the Glee Club. Ladies and gents, the circus is here The circus is coming! If you're one of those people who believe you're too old for clowns, trapeze acts, elephants, tigers, magic and monkeys, you'd best not read on. Lincoln's Sesostris Temple will host 1 1 performances of the Shrine Circus Tuesday through next Sunday at the State Fairgrounds Coliseum. Perfor mances will be at 7:30 each evening and at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, noon Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday. As per tradition, the circus festivi ties begin with a parade. At 3:30 p.m. Tuesday uniformed Shriners on motor cycles and in miniature cars will join the circus performers in an 11-block journey through downtown Lincoln. The parade will form at 15th and N streets and proceed wst on N Street to 1 1th Street, north on 1 1th Street to 0 Street, Galder works at Sheldon Alexander Calder (18981976), the sculptor credited with the creation of the mobile, will be the subject of a special exhibition at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. Calder was an American artist whose works are on display in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Chicago Art Institute and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. The Sheldon already owns and dis plays nine of Coder's works, - - - The proposed exhibition is to be titled "Alexander Calder: An Amer ican Invention" and will run from Sept. 13 through Nov, 9, 1986. The exhibition will illustrate Calder's CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING CALL 472-2588 $2.75 minimum charge per day on commercial ads. Ten words included. $2.00 minimum charge per day on individual student and student organization ads. $ 75 billing charge on noncommercial ads. All personal ads must be prepaid. NO REFUNDS ON PRF-PAID ADS. NO RESPONSIBILITY ASSUMED FOR MORE THAN ONE INCORRECT INSERTION. FOUND ads may be submitted free of charge. DEADLINE: 1 p.m. day before publication (Monday through Friday) The Daily Nebraskan will not knowingly accept help wanted ads from businesses that are not equal oppor tunity employers. HALF PRICE! Large flashinq arrow signs! Lighted, non arrow S279! Nonlighted $229! Free letters! Warranty. Only a few left this price. See locally. 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Among the circus' 20 acts are The Holidays, a couple who combine dance, magic and big cats; The Centrons, an aerial motorcycle act and Aerialetta, who hangs from her neck and performs swinging drops from a single trapeze. Circus tickets may be obtained at Sesostris Shrine Temple, 1717 Yolande, at the gate or from Latch's, Russ's IGA, West Gate Bank, Hinky Dinky, Dal lman's IGA, Save-Mart, Havelock Bank, B & R IGA, West A Food Center, Lincoln Bank South and Super Saver. Aboug 30,000 free tickets will be given to area children, the underprivi leged and shut-ins. Ticket sales will support the operation of the Sesostris Temple and transportation for children to Nebraska hospitals. inventive and unique contribution to the development of 20th century art with a focus on the pieces already owned by the gallery. In addition to these works, the museum intends to draw from ex amples in local collections and area museums. 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