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Page 10 rs-T-i P wKr 17th & ‘N* St. •j No Appointment Necessary < 3 476-9466 • i $700 on I Full Service Oil Change INow For $ 4 e95 Only 1 V (Itag. 23.95) We change oil, oil filter IWc lubricate the chassis | We check and fill: transmission fluid , battery I fluid, power steering fluid, washer fluid j We check anti freeze, air niter, wiper blade, ■ LJally incui aorxai i 9 I Shocked’s talking distracting, annoying j By John Payne I Staff Reporter !| — ’ Michelle Shocked 3 “Michelle Shocked Live’’ PolyGram For years, Mel Tillis has suffered from a severe stultering problem that has hampered his ability to speak, but not to sing. Pop-folk artist Michelle Shocked suffers from a similar afflic tion: When she sings, she is easy to I listen to, but when she speaks she has the ability to annoy the hell out of her audience with endless, pretentious jabber. So, there arc problems with a live album. Recorded at London’s Oxford Apollo, “Michelle Shocked Live” really is a mini-album, containing a I total of just 17 minutes of music. The Five tunes on the LP all are pretty good, representing the range ot Shockcd’s musical interests. “My Little Sister” opens up side one of the album with a fine rock abilly pace and fierce horns. Shockcd’s voice is perhaps best suited for this style of music as she screams out her warning: “Don’t you mess around with my little sister.” Shocked seems to love to talk between songs though, and if she had something especially important to say, this would be OK. But her ridiculous babbling only serves to interrupt the album’s flow. She comes off sounding like a second-rate Arlo Guthrie as tries to make some sort of point about law enforcement’s treatment of drifters in the United States: “One of the dan gers of traveling on your own, espe cially if you’re a woman, is that from time to time, it’s likely you’ll be picked up by the police and taken to the local psychiatric hospital, and they’ll call you a psychotic ...” Maybe if you’d shut up and sing, Michelle, that sort of thing wouldn’t happen. With songs like “5 a.m. in Am sterdam,” however, Shocked proves that she can be quite eloquent at times. “5 a.m.” is a melodic folk lunc about being a drifter that elicits more empa thy than all of Shocked’s preaching. Shocked has a knack for sultry blues vocals as well. She moans her way effectively through “Sleep Keeps Me Awake” and “Silent Ways,” the two best songs on the album. It’s too bad though that every song must be undermined by a lot of use less talk. Shocked should have heeded her own words form ‘ ‘Silent Ways”: “ . . . silence is golden, words arc made of lead. And in the apathy of love, somethings arc belter letl un said.” Just shut up and sing, Michelle. -1 f »' HOMEMADE PASTA FOR TWO PLUS ONE QUART OF PEPSI | 5.95+tax j | Two orders of spaghetti with red sauce and four | I pieces of garlic cheese rolls. Plus one quart. | Dine In. Carry Out or call for Delivery in service area 9 | a One coupon per order, please. V ’W \ a * 134140*. 47S-124S dftVlIICi% I ■ 14tl & Superior ...435-6000 <3F I ! H'**1 ...477-4441 EXPIRES II «t»SOSl .475-4070 UADni II toon I 11 4120 So 44tft Si ... 443-2441 DM MARCH 31,1990 I h TWO 8" CHEESE STEAKS 1 Ij PLUS ONE QUART OF PEPSI j || 5.95+tax 1 | Dine In, Carry Out or call for Delivery in service area ^ I One coupon per order, please W ■ '3**0 Si. 475-1240 ’ I 14* A Superior .... 435-6000 Or I ! 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This modern-day Cinderella story features Julia Roberts as Vivian Ward, an 1 lth-gradc dropout who came to Beverly Hills from small-town Geor gia. When the money ran out, Vivian was too ashamed to return to her hometown, so she moved in to a run down apartment on Hollywood Boulc vard with Kit Dc Lucca (Laura San Giancomo) and became a prostitute. Vivian has a very low self-image, but she’s irrepressible, appealing and full of spunk. She doesn’t think much of herself, but she doesn’t let a whole lot get her down. She tries to remain optimistic and upbeat. The movie also features Richard Gere as Edward Lewis, a rich corpo rate raider from New York. Edward is a contradiction in terms. On one hand, he enjoys, as businessmen would say, “playing hard ball with the big boys.’’ He is extremely lough in business. He doesn’t lake no for an answer. He buys billion-doliar companies like they arc candy bars, proceeding to break the companies up and sell the pieces. 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