Arts ©Entertainment
Tuesday, February 27, 1996 Page 9
Cliff A. Hicks
Religious
web sites
give insight
Last week, a dear friend of mine
passed away ffomAIDS-related pneu
monia. It was, to say the very least,
upsetting.
There’s been quite a bit of pain, a
great many tears and several rounds
of talking to friends for longer than
usual. Even still, I wonder why. I have
to. For that answer. I’ve been looking
for a little guidance from above.
I’ve done some searching through
the Internet, among other places. It’s
been a lot to think about. Death.
I m agnostic, sort of.
I was confirmed Methodist and am
an agnostic only because there has not
been a religion that feels right to me.
The person who confirmed me, his
name is lost in the sands of time, told
me there was nothing wrong with
seeking my own path.
That’s been almost eight years ago,
and since then, I’ve looked at many
different religions, traveled many
paths, read a lot, listened to many dif
ferent people of many faiths, and I still
ddri’t Tiave an answer.'! doubt fever
will. What I feel after having looked
as long as I have is that there’s some
thing out there, but whether he/shc/it
watches over us I don’t know. Seek
your own answers.
There are many places to look; here
are a few.
The Pope has his own page (http://
www.pope.pfmc.net/) where one can
find out about the Pope’s visits and
duties, along with what it means to be
Pope.
Don’t stop with Christianity,
though. There are many other religions
out there, some older, some younger.
There isn’t one “right” religion,
merely different opinions.
The extremely old religion of
Wicca is explained at (http://
www.voicenet.com/~reinhart/rw) and
at (http://www.cog.org), which houses
the Covenant of the Goddess, a large
organization of Wiccans across the
United States.
Despite popular opinion, witchcraft
doesn’t involve placing hexes or riding
broomsticks. In fact, the Wiccan Rede
states “An it harm none, do what ye
will.”
Druidism, another commonly
misperceived religion, has a very
nice homepage at (http://
www.newageinfo.com/res/druidJitm/
). There one can look through the an
cient religion of Ireland and Britain.
Perhaps the best place to look, how
ever, is (http://marvin.biologie.uni
freiburg.de/~amueller/religion/ ),
which houses the World Wide Web
Virtual Library, a very good overview
of all the various religions of the
world.
There are a great many places to
look for answers. I may never be able
to say why people die, where they go
when they do and why some people
die sooner than others, but I have to
keep looking.
It isn’t easy losing a friend; I know
now. You can find friends on the
Internet too. Trust me. I’ve made a few
that way, and they are to be treasured
like any other friend. Value each mo
ment as if it were your last, and pray
that it isn’t to whatever God you be
lieve in.
Hicks is a freshman news-editorial and
English major aad a Daily Nebraska! staff
reporter.
Rock gods
Photo by Mott-ly Tisdale
Jason Gildow (left) and Patrick Hambrecht strut their rock-god stuff Sunday
night at the Wagon Train Project, 512 S. Seventh St.
Five quick and easy tips
for saining rock stardom
By Patrick Hambrecht
Senior Reporter
There’s nothing easier than playing a mu
sic show in Lincoln. Everyone who either has
a guitar, knows someone who has guitar, or
just enjoys screaming alone should try it at
least once.
I played with my band, American Goy, at
the Lincoln Youth Coalition concert on Sun
day using the following simple method. Fol
low it carefully, and you too can follow the
road of the dubiously talented toward rock star
dom.
1. Have an enormous ego.
As soon as I began contemplating playing
a show, I thought, “Why should people want
to listen to a jerk like me? Aren’t there enough
mediocre college bands in this world?”
But then I realized that I am really, really
cool.
Even if every interesting type of rock song
already has been written, I haven’t played them
yet. Just like Devo, Kiss or Elvis Presley, we
have the stuff of ROCK GODS!
2. Form a band, write some songs.
Just do it, and the less time you spend the
better. No one wants to hear some pretentious,
overwrought crap.
3. Sign yourself up for a rock show, with
no collateral or money down!
It’s even easier to play a show than to watch
one in Lincoln — you don’t have to be 21 or
pay a cover.
Knickerbockers, Mudslide Slim’s, The
Coffee House, The Purple Moon, The Q and
many other venues are always ready for new
talent, as long as you don’t suck. If you think
you might suck, refer to rule one.
Then make a tape of your songs, give it to
the manager and call them constantly until they
let you play a gig. The Purple Moon signed
American Goy for two performances on
March 12 and March 29 (at 9 p.m. both nights)
instantly, without having heard us (which may
have been a mistake).
The Wagon Train Project can be booked
for any performance at a $25 cost of member
ship, plus $7.50 an hour. Anyone interested
should call company manager Stephanie
Beerling at 435-5592.
The Lincoln Youth Coalition is another
good resource for finding a place to play. Call
Shane Critel at 438-4491 for more information.
4. Avoid personality conflicts.
Artists all seem to quickly develop the ner
vous, high-strung personalities of poodles, es
pecially as the performance date nears.
5. Show up and play.
We showed up at at the Wagon Train Project
at 7 p.m., then waited another 30 minutes for
an audience to show up.
After people began to arrive for Suckface
and Mercy Rule, we played 15 minutes worth
of music.
I jumped up and down and screamed, “I
knew in this great big world there was some
thing just for me, so I almost finished high
school, and I got my GED!”
The guitars were really loud. We became
rock gods. It was a lot of fim.
White Zombie's
ghoulish rock
hits Pershing
By Patrick Hambrecht
Senior Reporter
White Zombie will pound and hammer out its
own distinctive style of ghoulish metal music to
night at the Pershing Auditorium, 226 Centen
nial Mall South.
- Filter will open the show.
Concert Wicker Man, origina ly slated
pr Aifipuif to open, has canceled.
r I vVicw a veteran of the New York
hardcore metal scene, White
Zombie draws from the vio
lent, showbiz mysticism of
’80s metal bands such as
Slayer, Alice Cooper and Ven
geance Rising. But its super
natural theme is thoroughly
modernized, infused with a
mix of ’90s funk and industrial rhythms.
White Zombie bassist Sean Yseult’s aggres
sive instrument tactics have made her one of the
most prominent women in hard rock today — a
stomping, angry-faced fury whose colored hair
constantly whips around.
No less visual is frontman Rob Zombie. With
a thick, gnarled beard of black, the singer goes to
great lengths to appear possessed.
Even if White Zombie’s precision assault of
quick, thick peals of thunder leaves some cold,
its energized stage presence has to be admired.
Emerging in an age of self-defeating grunge and
mature alternative rock, this band hs tried hard to
bring back the youthful Roman-styled arenas of
Van Halen and Black Sabteath.
With mesmerizing light shows, large stage
props and a strong rapport with the crowd. White
Zombie ushers in a new level of rock entertain
ment for the combat-boot set.
But White Zombie still will have to work hard
to reverse the somber, no-fun ethos of its open
ing band, a terse, sulky one with no sense of hu
mor whatsoever. Filter, which sings despairingly
about the death of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain, will
begin at 7:30 pun.
Tickets arc $22. The doors will open at 6 p.m.
‘Rumble’ tops
blockbusters
at box office
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Rumble in the
Bronx,” the martial arts film starring Hong Kong
star Jackie Chan, knocked “Broken Arrow” from
the top of the box office by grossing $ 10 million
in its weekend debut.
“Broken Arrow,” a military thriller starring
John Travolta, fell to second place in its third week
with estimated ticket sales of $8.3 million, in
dustry sources said Sunday.
Two other debuts made the Top 10: “Before
and After,” starring Meryl Streep and Liam
Neeson as parents whose son is charged with
murder, placed seventh, followed by “Mary
Reilly,” a Jekyll-Hyde tale with Julia Roberts.
The top movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters
are based on estimated ticket sales Friday through
Sunday. Final figures are due out today.
Weekend money A
makers j
1. Rnmblelo theBroax I. lit million
2. Broken Arrow $8.3 million
'. 3. Moppet Treasure Island m.’.$&£ million
4. Happy Gilmore $6.4 million
ic wm $5.3 minion
6. City Hall $4.4 million
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8. Mary Reilly $3 million
''JttilMI' Wm 1 s S $2.9 million
10. Sense and Sensibility $2.3 million
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