Arts ©Entertainment
Travis Heying
Kid courting
easier than
mature love
No schoolyard soccer game could
have possibly continued.
When she stepped off that bus for
her first day of school, the entire fifth
grade male population, myself in
cluded, stood mesmerized.
I was convinced, as were some of
my fellow classmates, that not only
would I be dating this girl by the time
the afternoon bell sounded at 3:30, but
also that she would be totally in love
with me.
So began a day, like many others
preceding it, of communicating like
only love-sick school kids know how.
Unlike today, when you actually
have to participate in dreaded conver
sations, relationships began and ended
in a Hurry of note passing and mutual
inquiries.
In this case, the new prospect was
given about 10 minutes after stepping
off the bus to solidify some form of a
friendship. Within minutes she was
approached by a member of my party
and bluntly asked: “What’s your
name?”
Once the message was relayed back
to me, this step was repeated about
eight times, with each question get
ting a bit more personal.
“Do you have a boyfriend?”
“Do you want one?”
It wasn’t totally harsh. She was
given the course of the morning to
weigh her options. By the end of re
cess though, she would be forced to
spot me out at the other end of the
playground and make a decision.
Introductions? Who needed 'em.
Romance? For the birds.
Thingsare certainly different nowa
days. There are new variables involved
in the dating process that take all the
fun out of it. Money for example, and
most of it coming from my pocket, has i
to be somewhat abundant. And then
there’s that four letter ‘L’ word that
one must decide on. Sex? Well ... I
don’t mind that part so much.
I wonder if kids today still practice
this form of dating. After all, they
carry guns to school, don’t they?
It was completely worry free. All
she could do was say no, in which case
you then, ofeourse, would ridicule her
with the nastiest names that entered
your little, uneducated head.
On this particular day of school,
things worked out in my favor.
Granted, I had to wail until the end of
the day for an answer, but it all worked
out quite nicely in the end. Thus began
the beginningofa wonderful relation
ship.
One that lasted about a total of
three days.
It’s terrible what happens when
two people get to know one another.
Heylng Is a senior news-edltortal major
and the Dally Nebraskan photography di
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Courtesy of London Records
Artists featured on “Help,” a compilation album to aid the children of war-torn Bosnia,
include, clockwise from top, Robbie Maddix and Ian Brown of Stone Roses, Noel
Gallagher of Oasis and Sice of Boo Radleys.
Instant relief
Artists aid young Bosnians
By Ulltt A. Hicks
Music Critic
How fast can a compilation
album be pul together? Six days
may well be the record, just set
by 20 bands on “Help,” an album
dedicated to relief for Bosnian
children.
“Help” was recorded entirely
on Sept. 4 and released to the
British public on Sept. 9. In one
day, it outstripped the weekly
sales of every other album in
Britain, entering the British charts
at No. 1 on Sept. 10.
The album will be released in
the United States today.
The project was inspired by
John Lennon’s “Instant Karma”
album, which was put together in
about the same amount of time.
Only a couple of weeks were
spent getting prepared for the rush
project.
WAR Child, an organization
working with the organizers of
“Help” to provide relief for
Bosnian children, has been in
existence for about a year, said
Regina Joskow Dunton of Lon
don Records.
Why was the album put to
gether now, in such a rush?
“Why not now?” Dunton said.
“When Band-Aid went on to ben
efit the people in Ethiopia, the
“ Vie project bega n
with about a dozen
bands, and it just
caught like wildfire. ”
REGINA JOSKOW
DUNTON
London Records
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problem had been there for years,
so should we just say F—it, we
don't give a shit.’?”
So far, the album has raised
close to S4 million in the United
Kingdom for war relief.
• “The project began with about
a dozen bands, and it just caught
like wildfire,” Dunton said.
The compilation album in
cludes 20 di fferent bands, includ
ing Oasis (which plays with
“friends” on its track, including
Johnny Depp), Blur, Stone Roses,
The Charlatans, Paul Weller,
Portishcad, Suede and Stereo
M.C.’s among others.
The track from the Manic
Street Preachers, a cover of
“Raindrops Keep Failin’ On My
Head,” almost didn’t make it af
ter the band missed a deadline to
submit its recording. An engi
neer from the group’s studio
missed a ferry and had to drive
the channel tunnel, where a cou
rier waswaitingat the British end
to dash the recording to the
townhouse where everything was
being put together by executive
producer Brian Eno.
Sinead O’Connor was sud
denly added to the list when her
producer showed up at the Ab
bey Road Studio with a newly
finished track, “Ode To Billy
Joe.”
Paul Weller recorded a cover
ofthe classic Beatles song “Come
Together” at the Abbey Road
Studio. Noel Gallagher of Oasis
is featured on the track, as is
original Beatle Paul McCartney,
who also just happened to show
up, telling producers that he
wanted to get involved because
he also had children. In the stu
dio, McCartney realized it had
been exactly 33 years to the day
since the Beatles had recorded
“Love Me Do” in the exact same
room.
“Help” benefits everyone in
volved. All profitswill gotoward
an immediate relief program pre
pared by WAR Child, and the
buyer gets a great collection of
music.
Courtesy of Standout Publicity
Tommy Davidson, of “In
Living Color” fame,
performs at the Lied
Center tonight.
Davidson
rescues
the show
By Jeff Randall
Senior Reporter ’
Many students have only had the
chance to see Tommy Davidson in
living color. But tonight, they have
the chance to see him in real life.
Davidson will be the featured
Comedy
penormer in
tonight’s com
edy/music show
at the Lied Cen
ter for Perform
ing Arts.
Known for his
stand-up rou
tines and his
sketch comedy
work in the long
-running televi
sion series “In Living Color,”
Davidson promises to appeal to a ,
wide range ofstudents. Rich Caruso,
coordinator for campus events, said.
Tonight’s show is part of the
university’s homecoming week
events and is sponsored by the Uni
versity Program Council. The event
director is John Kalkowski.
MTV host and stand-up come
dian Bill Bellamy was originally
slated to headline the show, Caruso
said. But after Bellamy canceled,
Davidson became available for that
dale.
“We were scrambling there for a
few days, wondering if we would
even be able to have a show at all,”
Caruso said.
But the unplanned change in
events turned out to be a blessing,
Caruso said.
“Bill Bellamy may have more
name recognition amongeollege stu
dents, but most of the calls we’ve
been getting have been from people
who are glad that Tommy Davidson
will be performing.
“They think that lie’s funnier, and
we couldn’t be happier.”
The opening act for the show
may be even more familiar to some
UNL students, because lie’s a UNL
graduate.
“Rude Boy” Rudy Moseley will
open theevening’s performance with
his hip-hop/rap act. Moseley won
second place at the “Cribstock” tal
ent competition earlier this year.
Daphne Airan and Cecil Howell,
two other UNL students, will be
performing with Moseley as danc
ers.
The show begins at 8 tonight.
Tiekets are S5 for students and $8
for non-students.
Caruso said the show was a good
ehanee for students to have some
fun on a night that is usually rel
egated to studying.
“Besides, people need to laugh,”
he said. “They need to go out and see
good eomedy. This is a ehanee to do
] that.”