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Page 12 Daily Nebraskan Wednesday, August 27, 1986 Drumstick encourages truancy; tell professor your mom died By Charles Lieurance Diversions Editor You have lots of good reasons to miss class. The Drumstick is a real good one. You educate yourself musically night after night with bands like Get Smart, Savage Republic, and the Tail Gators and you miss math. Look at that sentence. Get Smart, Savage Republic, Tail Gators. . .math. Which looks more important? In September the Drumstick has set your priorities for you. You go see Get Smart next Tuesday, hear their undergroundanthology hit "Back into the Future." It's impos sible to wake up the next morning, you tell the professor your mom fell into a grain auger, eventually you flunk math. You'll catch up Thurs day. Get Smart plays atmospheric funk. There seem to be two major events for youthful alternative guitar frus tration. If the high speed riff is the game, as it is with most new bands, there's hardcore or white funk. Get Smart goes for white funk, jagged whips of guitar laid into your brain and limbs the way construction workers with biceps the size of your average Daily Nebraskan reporter's head lay in a major freeway through a mountain range. Got through math on Friday. The professor even believed the grain auger st ory. He said if things didn't improve at home he'd do the folks' taxes. Nice of him. You weren't thinking about much in class but the Tail Gators from Austin. All day swamp rot's been running through your veins, tepid and slimy, a stagnant, mildewy blackness akin to the Tail Gators music. If you head deep into the mighty Bayou you're in Creedence Clearwater territory, all menace, evil and reverberation, guitars swim ming through fuzz and distortion like alligators through green scarves of swampweed. If you just ramble round the edge of the swamp where the roadhouses seem to move ever downstream ahead of the law, where John Fred and the Playboys got their start, howling out Rhythm and Blues to the Cajuns around Shreveport, you hit the Tail Gator's sound. It's part Cajun and part R & B, fractured roadhouse rock'n'roll from some expatriates from the Le Roi Brothers. Weekend. You think you're life less, but you're not. You can get up and you can dress. Don't look on your desk. Your mathbook was lost in the shuffle long ago. It's Savage Republic and Live Skull for you. Savage Republic is an asylum of musical influences. It's fiddle, a coustic guitar folk music if your folks used to sit around ground zero to warm their hands. It's experi mental avant-gardism if you're a spike-headed experimentalist who listens to melodic, sappy Chieftains classics. As for Live Skull, it's pretty much a poor, morbid imitation of the hell and feedback that Sonic Youth have used to prey upon the intelligentsia of New York City. Tell the math professor you're sorry, you need "No Report" to graduate. Children 's theater presents three plays By Kim E. Karloff Staff Reporter Peaches, penguins, a man named Popper, and apes. You'll find them all during the 1986 87 season of Theatre Arts For Youth, the Lincoln Community Playhouse Children's Theatre. "I'm looking forward to three great shows," said Lenette Nelson Schwinn, director of the Children's Theatre. The season productions include "James and the Giant Peach," "Mr. Popper's Penguin," and "Tommyknock ers." According to Schwinn, all three productions will be presented in the L.L. Coryell & Son Children's Theatre at the Playhouse, 2500 S. 56th St. "James and the Giant Peach," is the adventure story of James Henry Trotter. James escapes from his cruel aunts in a giant magic peach. James' tale unfolds as he and his band of human-size garden insects travel across the Atlan tic Ocean from England to the United States. Their journey is filled with sharks, angry beasts called Cloudmen and, eventually, a warm welcoming committee in New York City. Written by Ronald Dahl, author of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," 9 Greek, Private Or Any Party! 1 Cnslll'mr A t milnlrln Complete Sound System ( ) V Dance Floor & Bar Free Parking Your Choice of 3 Buildings 7 CJS For more information & reservations call Stan or John at 475-8875 between 9 am & 1 pm or after 6 pm, 2604 Park Blvd. on the way to Pioneer Park H FRINGE & TASSEL' I :( Q COSTUMES' open I 11-6Mon-Fri 735 "0" (under the Viaduct) - I f 10-5 Sat I I S?, COSTUME PARTY J f Y I m i i 'VW7 WMI .(9H v&Aff I' l t WfM V J pi ' - i. m i i it u, i- w r- mm the story is adapted for the stage by Richard R. George. Rehearsals for "James and the Giant Peach" begin Sept. 2. The production will be performed Oct. 10 to 12 and 16 to 19. "Mr. Popper's Penguins," adapted from the book by Richard and Florence Atwater by Albert 0. Mitchell, is the story of the Popper family and their penguins. The Poppers receive a gift of two penguins which multiply and threaten to eat the family out of house and home. The transition of the Poppers' home to a penguin refuge is amusing enough. The fact that the birds eventually make the family a fortune adds to the comedy. "Mr. Popper's Penguins" is sche duled to run Feb. 20 to 22 and Feb. 26 to March 1. The production is sponsored by Lincoln Benefit Life. "Tpmmyknockers," inspired by the mining community of Creede, Colo., was first performed at the Creede Rep ertory Theatre in Colorado. Written by Chris Thompson, Mark Houston, Eric Engdahl and Richard Baxter, the musical tells the legend of tommyknockers, troll-like creatures who inhabit the area's mines. "Tommyknockers" is set to perform April 24 to 26 and April 30 to May 3. Season memberships include three admissions at $16 for adults and $8.50 for those 18 and under. Theatre Arts for Youth (TAFY) members receive dis counts on theater classes and the TAFY Special Events. These events include "The Dinosaur Show," a puppet pres entation by Paul Mesner on Sept. 13 as well as "Funtasia," a film and activity festival scheduled for January. For season memberships and more information, contact the Lincoln Com munity Playhouse, 2500 S. 56th St., Lincoln, 68506, or call 489-9608. The Lincoln Community Playhouse's Theatre Arts For Youth season is sup ported in part by the Nebraska Arts Council. fir pLPSM,l For one week only, order and save on the gold ring of your choice. For complete details, see your Jostens representative. OSTENS AMERICA'S COLLEGE RING TUES. & WED. AUG. 26-27 10AM-2PM $25 deposit required Open Monday-Friday 8-5:30 Saturday 9-5:30 14.W MliUIVfU mose than a Bookstore. 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