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Arts & Entertainment 4Always look on the bright side of life . . . • t _knu/Pi/Pr It’s easy to hate. It’s easy to com plain. It’s easy to be disgruntled. Just page through the Daily Ne braskan on any given day and you Jim Hanna find plenty of examples of angry, bitchy people raising a stink about one thing or another. Heck, I’m one of the biggest crybabies I know, and my column tends to be a series of bitter, cynical complaints. Our lives are filled with people who are mad. For a delightful change of pace, I feel like talking about some things that don’t make me mad. This column will be a pick-me-up. Recently, I’ve seen several issues in our campus world really rile some people up. I’m going to take a new tack on these issues. No matter how steamed some people get over certain things, I just can’t find it in my heart to get equally steamed. I’d rather be happy for a change. For instance ... THE ASUN ELECTIONS: A lot of people like to hop up and down about how unfair the elections are or about how apathetic the student body is. I, however, only can chuckle. I can’t think of any way that the Association of Students of the Uni versity of Nebraska directly has af fected me, good or bad, in my four years at the university. I’m sure they do some important stuff, but I’ve never really worried too much about it ei ther way. Sure, maybe it’s just a greek pet ting zoo stocked with political wanna bes and well-dressed hotshots. For all I know, however, ASUN senators could be intelligent, compassionate hard workers that represent students well. Whatever the case, I don’t know or care enough about it to get angry. I’d rather kick back and enjoy being a peaceful, contented individual. Smile everybody, it’s only col doom. As I see it, oveipopulation is the real problem since it exacerbates every existing environmental hard ship. Overpopulation will almost certainly bring about an end to our existence as we know it. (Hoo-boy! That Hanna, what a funny guy.) is a healthy, masturbatory pat on the back for their supposed good deed. Which is not to say that people shouldn’t stand up for principles that they believe in. I would probably do the same petty, meaningless protest ing for an issue that I felt strongly l_i lege. THE TREES IN COOPER PARK: I’ll probably lose some dear friends on this one since many of my friends were vehemently opposed to the fell ing of trees in Cooper Park last week to make way for a junior high soccer field. I guess I’d rather they didn’t cut down the trecscithcr, but I am amazed at the passion and self-indulgent ideal ism many of the opponents brought to this issue. I consider myself very environ mentally aware and concerned. In fact, I think there is little hope that humanity can stave off environmental Hootin’ and hollerin’ might make the protestors feel good about them selves, but it simply can’t do any thing more -- at least not on the small scale that existed with the tree protest. No matter how guilty the tree protestors try to make me feel about the slaughter of really old trees, I can’t help but think they’re in on it for all of the wrong reasons. It’s too easy to show up a tree rally and hassle (or punch) paid employees who simply are doing their job. It’s loo easy to climb in a tree and spout about the principle involved. The bottom line is that the only thing the tree protestcrsaccomplished 1_J dallaghor Daily Nebraskan about, but a few aging plants don’t really chap me. Feel free to write up and tell me how wrong I am and how we must do the little things in order to accomplish bigger things. You may even con vince me that I’m wrong, but I doubt it. I simply can’t gel angry about this. Thank God. THE GREEKS VS. THE DORM IES VS. THE OFF-CAMPUS FOLKS: This indirectly is related to the AS UN brouhaha. A lot of people around here just love to point out the differences among student groups on campus. When these differences in vuive wiicic; a aiuu^m»»* t —* it reaches a new high of absurdity. The typical perceptions are as fol lows. Dorm-dwellers arc geeks and social buffoons who contribute little of value to our campus. Greeks are vacuous, well-dressed snots who contribute little of value to our cam pus. Off-campus residents simply contribute nothing to our campus. I’ve never really understood what all the noise was about. Certainly I can’t pretend to know all of the greeks or all of the dormies. Silly old ideal istic me, I choose not to involve myself in gross generalizations. (Wow, ain t I humane?) The only thing this type of differ entiation really gives us is a few good jokes: Q: How many greeks does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: None, they make the little sis ters do it. Q: How many dormies docs it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: None, they call their moms and make them do it. Sure these jokes arc oflcnsive and inaccurate, but they might make somebody smile. And that’s how I choose to handle this ongoing “de bate.” Come on everybody, just relax and be happy. Now the typical things that I whine about in most of my columns still make me mad. The always-stupid parking policies on campus, the over priced, overrated hunk of crap Lied Center and the painf ully putrid Office of Scholarships & Financial Aid will all continue to make me seethe. But I cannot and will not allow myself to ruin my day raging against the injustices mentioned above. It’s easy to complain, but it’s more fun to be happy. Hanna is a senior theater major and a Daily Nebraskan Arts & Entertainment col umnist and reporter. ‘Mudhoney’ takes roller coaster ride through wonderful muck and grunge By Michael Deeds Senior Editor Mudhoney “Mudhoney” Sub Pop Right now, Seattle is THE homing point for powerful new bands. Suf Pop is the big label these days, turn ing out bands like Soundgardcn, Nir vana and Mudhoney. Unlike the immensely populai Soundgardcn, Mudhoney docs not rely on Led Zeppelin influences that bor der on heavy metal gutting. In fact, they just aren’t hcadbangers. Headbangcrs always cut their bangs. I’ve been told. Mudhoncy arc those boys who never got haircuts when they were kids. Courtesy of Sub Pop They listened to a lot of grungy late '<501 psychedelia and look it all to heart amidst the drifting aroma of cheap ganja. Mudhoney has a Jimi Hcndrix/Neil Young guitar sound ~ one that regur gitates every few minutes, basing it self on a very low tonal quality and plenty of splattering feedback. It's just wonderful. Guitarists and vocalists Steve Turner and Mark Arm border on Greg Ginn-style annihilation when they begin wandering around minor scales and dancing on Hendrix’s grave, but all in a warm manner. Songs like “Flat Out F-cd’’ and “Magnolia Caboose Babyshit’’ take off like turbo-driven demons and never slow down. The driving drums of Dan Peters and the pummeling bass lines of Matt Lukin carry the garage gui tars along on a screaming roller coaster of muddy muck. Mudhoney talks of rotten experi ences and day-to-day frustration, but in a never-give-up style. These guys grew up taking a few punches with grins on their faces. Mudhoney takes the ever-present guitar screeching that metal bands stick in the middle of a tunc and draws it throughout the whole song, wailing and wah-wah pedaling until nobody knows the license plate of the solo. Arm’s vocals are transistor-radio laden, screeching out over the moshy chords. If anything, Mudhoney is underproduced. At times, the sound quality is a little poor - but hell, that’s what these guys are all about. Grunge, grunge, grunge. So forget to take a bath, go out and roll around in the driveway for a while and put on some Mudhoney. Mom will love you for it. -to t) r IfiftERTAlNMENTI Band brings anti-drug message to VNL Illustrator will bring its “celebrate life, anti-drug, anti-suicide” message to campus tonight Touted as a “performance band” with more than 10 tons of equipment worth at least $250,000, Illustrator will spread their pop oriented, positive message to anybody who will listen. “It’shard to tell (if people are listening), but you hope someone listens,” Kirk Allen, Illustrator’s drummer, said in a phon’c interview from North Platte. “We’re basically Christian young people who have watched friends go down the tubes,” Allen said. Even though Illustrator is made up of Christians, it isn’t considered a Christian rock band. we re a very pop-onented group,” Allen said. Illustrator addresses strong issues such as child molestation and sexual abuse as well as the main theme of celebrating life in general. Despite playing songs of such a serious nature, Allen said, Illustrator tries to perform in a fun manner. “Sometimes when we come in with a strong message, some people think performing is wrong. We don’t feel that way,” Allen said. The audience docs “a lot of partying and has a really great time ” he said. Illustrator has two record releases, “Illustrator” and the new album “Somewhere in the World,” on Ocean Records. IHustrator plays more than 200 dates a year and has played in 12 different countries. Illustrator will play at 7 p.m. tonight in the Centennial Ballroom in the Nebraska Union. Admission is $7. Cerebral palsy triumph detailed in ‘My Left Foot’ fc*y Julie Naughton Senior Reporter Sctagainst ihc beautiful Irish land scape, “My Left Foot” tells the true story of Irish author/artist Christy Brown, Brown was bom with an extreme mnvip case of cerebral palsy, and for many years his family’s neighbors believed him to be a half-wit. How Brown proved them wrong makes for a very compelling story, a talc of triumph over adversity. The film traces Brown’s life, from his birth until the point where he sells his book and achieves success as a writer. For years, Brown’s cerebral palsy prevents him from communicating in any way with his family. His father begins to doubt that he has the ability for rational thought. His 10 brothers See LEFT on 7