Arts & Entertainment
Leafy Green Things play three-chord rock
By Ken Havlat
Staff Reporter
After paying their dues in various
cover bands, the members of the
Leafy Green Things are ready to
sprout on various stages.
The band got its start about two
months ago when University of Ne
braska-Lincoln students Mike Keel
ing, vocalist/bassisl, Chris Hillier,
guitarist, Mark Munn, drummer and
Dan Boardman, guitarist, decided
they wanted to produce some classic
three-chord rock.
Boardman said that the members
were tired of playing for “dirty, filthy
money.” They solved this boredom
by creating a medium for the band
members’ songwriting talents.
Keeling said the band wants to
prove to themselves that they have the
confidence to make it to the top with
original songs.
“Audiences in Lincoln always
wants bands to sound like their favor
ites,” he said. “We expected the pres
sure when we decided to go for it.
Some people go for a certain look, not
taking music for music.”
Both of them said the band is going
through a double rebellion — against
the normal and the weird.
“We are not a pop cover band,”
Keeling said, “Thirteen Nightmares
represents the scarier side of music in
Lincoln and the New Brass Guns the
pop side. We don’t want either tag.
We just play.”
At one time or another all four
members were in the Confidcntials.
“We are nothing related to the
Confidcntials,” Keeling said, “It’s
simply a reference point for all of us
and the band (Confidcntials) lacked
something.”
The band recently played for the
first time, opening for Charlie Burton
and the Hiccups at a fraternity party.
Both Boardman and Keeling ex
pressed optimism on how the audi
ence reacted to the Leafy Green
Things.
“I thought we were surprisingly
good,” Keeling said. “We were better
than we anticipated.”
Munn, Keeling and Boardman
said that they arc writing music that
caters to themselves.
“I write for myself,” Boardman
said, “I want to find out if the other
members like it. We need the ability
to laugh. I’m not going to change my
writing style so wt sound like
R.E.M.”
The band has worked up about an
hour’s worth of material. As in a good
democratic society, the band mem
bers share credit for the material. All
members have a say in how the song
is arranged and how a song is going to
sound. Boardman said the band
would like to keep this system.
“We would like people to like our
music for ourselves. It sounds cliche,
but we want to get this music out of
our heads,” Keeling said.
“We want to get a bandwagon
rolling,” Boardman added.
The band i s c x c i ted abou t per form
ing at the Broadside benefit on Oct. 5,
the members said. The band contrib
uted a song to the Broadside tape.
“We enjoy the challenge three
chord rock employs,” Boardman
said. “We also have a couple of great
lounge songs.”
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Feld Ballet wins audience
with grace and freedom
By Kelly Anders
Staff Reporter
Elegant, beautiful, racy, unex
pected.
And playful.
Fun was the theme of the Feld
Ballet’s performance Saturday night
at Kimball Recital Hall.
One was never bored. Attired in
bright yellows, blues and reds, and
muled grays and pinks, the dancers
danced a melange of classical ballet
and modern dance to music that
seemed to be composed especially for
them.
The show opened with “Harbin
ger,” a story -1 ike dance to Prokofiev ’ s
“Concerto No. 5.” The blue back
ground of the set, combined with the
flowing languid movements of the
dancers, gave one the impression that
they were dancing in water.
Part one featured Darren Gibson as
a young man fascinated with six yel
low-clad ballerinas who moved like
butterflies.
He was joined by Mucuy Bollcs
and Paul Vitali, in part four. The
performers wore the primary col
ors—red, yellow and blue. The three
acted more like children playing fol
low-the-lcadcr than the talented,
well-trained professionals they arc.
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Patty Hearst movie ‘fantastic;’
Schrader presents her story
By William Rudolph
Sl«ff Reviewer
One moment she was laughing
on the phone with a friend over
someone wearing white plastic go
go bools to a party. The next, she
was shoved into a closet by gun
wielding revolutionaries and told
she’d be shot if so much as a bird
sang outside.
For nineteen months, Patricia
Campbell Hcarst, the kidnapped
heiress to the publishing corpora
tion millions, captivated the na
tion. •
But, was she Pally Hear*|, the,
19-ycar-old college student ah
ducted in February 1974 from her
apartment or Tania, the bank-rob
bing revolutionary who aided her
Symbionese Liberation Army kid
nappers? Paul Schrader’s new film
“Patty Hcarst” addresses that ques
tion from the star player’s view
point.
Adapted by Nicholas Kazan
from Hcarst’s own autobiography
"Every Secret Thing,” “Patty
Hcarst” unflinchingly presents the
events of 1974-76 without senti
ment or sensationalism.
Natasha Richardson turns in an
outstanding performance as
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of a British accent, Richardson
creates a gripping portrait of a
rather sheltered, frightened young
woman who seems to gradually
change intoaconfuscd, gun-wicld
ing army member who accepts
whatever happens to her as long as
she slays alive.
Richardson is believable
whether nervously giggling as she
impulsively kisses tnc teen-ager
who sells the Syrian Liberation
Army his van or slai ing tiredly into
space as her three vulture-like
psychiatrists descend on her.
Richardson, who deservedly
won the best actress award at the
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