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Daily Nebraskan
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The Connells will play tonight at Tooth's Gallery.
Six-string hypnosis
Connells play ECZUM benefit
By Charles Lieurance
Diversions Editor
The Connells have been kicking
around the dark side of the southern
alternative music scene for two years
now, scoring a stupendous series of
near-misses in England and the United
States.
Concert Preview
No one could deny the Connell
brothers' and their three accomplices'
talent. That hound for talent, Elvis Cos
tello, nudged their first single, "Darker
Days," a respectable distance up the
British independent charts. Their only
LP, not surprisingly titled "Darker
Days," gradually sells out of the nation's
import racks.
The North Carolina quintet's two
videos show up on MTVs hopelessly
repetitive "120 Minutes" and are never
seen again. I mean, this is the same
show that has played the Rainmaker's
"Let My People Go-Go" every Sunday
for the last three months.
Now, they're touring into the hinter
land and playing at Tooth's Gallery
tonight for a KZUM benefit, an approp
Culture is more than a kegger;
visiting artists fight hillbillyitis
By Matt Van Hosen
Staff Reporter
Culture. Art. -
Many Nebraskans equate
these two words with a kegger where
Prince is played and the general sub
ject of conversation is where Nebraska
will be ranked in the AP and UPI rat
ings next week. Luckily, for those of us
who aren't members of the Big Red
Cult, there is an antidote to the disease
of chronic hillbillyitis that has been
Art Preview
plaguing the aesthetic mentality of
Nebraskans for years. This antidote is
none other than the UNL art depart
ment's visiting artists program.
The visiting artists program is a ser
ies of six exhibits from six different
artists around the country. The works
of each artist will be displayed at the
Richards Hall Gallery, open from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m., Mondays through Thursdays.
Each artist will conduct discussions of
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riate four days before their illustrous whole thing, just reverent acts of guitar
peers, REM, grace the cavernous Persh- worship. Worship the way monks wor
ing Auditorium. ship, not pagan bacchanalia.
The Connells have never quite burst
into the light they've been tunneling
toward since 1984. Perhaps they are
unwitting victims of the college charts'
REM overload, roadkill tire-striped by
the tons-over-capacity semi-truck of
"American" bands.
All in all, the Connells sound prett
ier than REM, a little more coherent
than REM, more elegant than REM and
a little less exciting, mature and origi
nal than REM.
However, comparing the Connells
and REM is both unfair and critically
belligerent. The Connells are younger,
and they are obviously steering their
sound in a different direction (lyrical,
soft-edged pop). Their only real sim
ilarity with the pride of Athens, Ga., is
their blatant homage to the almighty
guitar band.
The Byrds. Television. The softer
side of the Velvet Underground.
'Nuff said. Cathedral chime guitars
swallow up swan-graceful melody after
melody. "Darker Days" is as beautiful
an album and single as you're likely to
come across. There's nothing particu
larly adventurous or intense about the
their work at the Sheldon Memorial Art
Gallery. Times and dates will be
announced. Contact either gallery for
further information.
The work of Judith Roode, an artist
and faculty member at the Minnesota
College of Art and Design, is presently
on display. Roode's works are drawings
focusing on the relationship between
inner and outer human expressions,
displayed in a variety of positions.
Roode, told the audience at the
Sheldon on Friday, that she "digs down
deep beneath the surface" to properly
express the "struggle of the two sides
of the self."
This idea of expression began in
Roode when she was a child. The house
she lived in was being renovated and
there was much urban housing devel
opment in . her neighborhood. From
these two factors, she came to view the
house as a human body. She was used
to seeing the "skeleton" of the house.
The frame became the "skin." Her line
of thought is similar to the slogan of
architect Louis Sullivan that "form fol
lows function," but Roode is more con
Courtesy of Black Park Records
Occassionally, the Connells pull out
of the standard FeeliesWinter Hours
PrimitonsRecreation Bones. . . guitar
rut (see "1934" with its anglo-edgethat
almost manages to produce something
like tension to replace the omnipres
ent psychedelic euphoria), but they
easily slip back in before they can truly
surprise anyone.
As with many of these bands, the
Connells' live show is much less clon
ish. On stage the band chooses their
influences more specifically, opting for
the endlessly recyclable guitar clarity
of "adventure" era television.
If you can take massive doses of this
kind of six-string hypnosis without
your head snapping back, your facial
features going agog and your posture
dissolving into the consistency of
plankton, thenusetheConnellsasawarm-up
for REM.
If you have to choose.
Well, the Tooth's show is a benefit. A
noble band playing for a noble cause at
a venerable venue for $3, a pittance by
live show standards.
The opening acts will be the ever
evolving Playground and Necktie Party.
cerned with displaying the two sides of
the self, not just human architecture.
Roode commented that she was influ
enced by the Baroque period of art.
Comparing one of Roode's drawings
with the corpse in Rembrandt's paint
ing, Dr. Tulp's Anatomy Lesson
will verify the influence of Baroque art
on Roode. Furthermore, Roode said she
draws rather than paints because
drawing is a "more personal medium of
expression." Last of all, Roode said of
her own work "that it is a struggle to
relate, not dissimilate." Roode's work
will be at the Richards Hall Gallery
throughout October.
The other artists in the visiting
artists program include Thomas Bar
row, who teaches at the University of
New Mexico; Phyllis Branson, an artist
from Chicago; Louisa Chase, a New
York City artist; Robert Reed, a teacher
at Yale University; and Jaune Quick-To-See
Smith, an art teacher in Al
buquerque. A variety of art will be displayed:
paintings, photographs, charcoal draw
ings and pastel drawings.
Herbie's just too ugly
It's time we got rid of Herbie
Husker. It's time to burn that ugly,
misshaped, hideous fleabag, moth
eaten rag that embarrasses our state
every time it appears on national
TV. Please, somebody, take that
irascible, louse-infested mascot and
burn it. (Not with the guy who wears
the suit inside it, of course) but
burn it and spread the ashes over
anywhere but Nebraska Herbie
has done enough harm to our state's
image.
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Let's face the facts. Herbie is the
ugliest mascot in the Union. Have
you seen those frightening eyes? It's
the only mascot I know of with a
thyroid problem. I beg the sports
department to take just a tiny por
tion of their massive budget and get
a new mascot. Or at least they
should spend a little money on
mothballs for Herbie's summer stor
age. OK, maybe I'm just a little too
sensitive. Maybe I have one of those
Midwestern inferiority complexes.
But I've traveled all over this great
land of ours, and I know that the
only impressions most Americans
have of Nebraska are of our football
team's TV appearances and one bad
Bruce Springsteen album. And the
only Nebraskans shown on TV dur
ing games are old hayseeds wearing
red polyester from head to toe, our
anorexic cheerleaders with rouge
on their face brighter than their
uniforms and the Moth-Eaten One,
Pozzatti art
on display
at Sheldon
Internationally acclaimed printmaker
and artist Rudy Pozzatti returned to
Lincoln Oct. 1 for Haydon Gallery's
opening of "A Celebration of Memo
ries," a 30-day show and sales offering
of 40 of his prints, drawings and water
colors. The distinguished professor of fine
arts at Indiana University at Blooming
ton taught at the University of Nebraska
in the early 1950s.
A restrospective exhibition of his
works was held at Sheldon Memorial
Art Gallery in 1970. His work was the
subject of the book "Rudy Pozzatti:
American Printmaker," by Norman A.
Geske, Sheldon's director emeritus.
Pozzatti has had more than 150 one
man exhibitins in museums and galler
ies throughout the United States, Italy
and Germany. His work is represented
in more than 200 U.S. public collec
tions, including New York's Museum of
Modern Art, the Library of Congress
and the Smithsonian's Archives of Amer
ican Art.
Other works are in museum collec
tions in Paris, London, Sweden, Aus
tralia, Canada and the U.S.S.R. and in
private collections of the Mayo Clinic,
Nelson Rockefeller and J.C. Penney &
Co. among others.
Included in the works offered by
Haydon Gallery are original engravings
of the illustrations for "Darwin's Bes
tiary," a collection of 11 poems by
Philip Appleman, distinguished pro
fessor of English at Indiana University,
and 1 1 lithographs and five woodcuts
by Pozzatti. One copy of the 175 limited
edition books will be for sale.
Pozzatti was born of Italian immi
grant parents in Telluride, Colo, raised
in a small mining town educated at the
University of Colorado.
The gallery is operated by the Nebras
ka Art Association in the support of
the programs at the Sheldon Memorial
Art Gallery. The exhibit will continue
through Nov. 2.
Herbie.
And what better time to get rid of
Herbie? The louse-infested one is
currently knee-deep in controversy.
Herbie did a big no-no and went to a
political rally for Kay Orr and gave
President Reagan a Big Red jacket.
Obviously, the fellow who wears the
suit didn't realize he was helping
endorse a candidate who certainly
will be less than generous to UNL's
already tiny budget.
Well, the White House specially
requested that Herbie appear with
the Prez. The reason why the White
House wanted Herbie is obvious.
The presidential aides wanted some
thing more wrinkled than Reagan
on stage.
So now is the time to get rid of
Herbie! He's malformed. He's ugly,
And what's wrong with being ugly?
you might ask. Well, I've watched
small children run away in terror
from Herbie. He's probably given
hundreds of innocent children night
mares and bad cases of fleas as well.
If we can't burn Herbie, let's at
least give him a facelift. Let's make
his hideous face somewhat symmet
rical. Let's get him deloused and
put some new fuzz on him. Let's give
Herbie a complete make-over just
like they do on PM Magazine. Let's
take some pride in our state's image
and do something about Herbie. If we
can get rid of Moe Iba, we can get
rid of Herbie.
Editor's note: Herbie,
don't be alarmed by my colum
nist's diatribes. You can be
beautiful and glamorous with
the right makeup and hair
style. We need you for "The
Diversions Halloween Celeb
rity Makeover." Contact Scott
Harrah or Charles Lieurance
at 472-1756-if you want us to
create a new you.
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