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DTHOmnibusThursday, February 9, 19899 Fugazi's energy proves hardcore isn't dead yet By RANDAL BULLOCK Staff writer And Nietzsche came down one time again and spake thus his stony words "Hardcore is dead" - to the huddled masses. A light appeared, whispers were exchanged and the believers shook their shaven heads . . . Yes, the massive, growling beast, the most abrasive protest music since Joan Baez. is toothless and drooling, a timely example of entropy wresting the order from an established system, leaving only various pockets of misdi- Sy CATHY MCHUCH Omnibus Editor Lefs chat for a while about those words for love and romance and all that syrupy trash we know and tove. You know terms of endearment. Dear, dearest, darling, sweet heart all are basic standbys, which arent too annoying, just kind of boring. But couples who go around in public calling each other by the "pet names" they created all by themselves deserve a special place in hell. Could their given names really be so bad that snookums, lovelumps or sugarbritches could possibly be any better? These are usually the same ones who seem to revert to age three In the pres ence of their BA BY, babyface, babycakes, babydolldollbaby or babe. But listen, ladies, it gets worse. Aiieen Pace Nilsen comments in her article titled, "Sexism in English A Feminist View," that American women are consist ently discriminated against and locked into stereotypical roles by the very language they speak. It's interesting to note that the stereotypical standbys for women include types of food. "Why you just look good enough to eat!" or "You have a peaches and cream complexion." You dont hear too many men being complimented in this manner. Nilsen's list also includes: cute tomato, sharp cookie, sweetie-pie, honey, sugar, dish, peach and cheesecake. To these you can add pumpkin, muffin, cupcake and sugar-pie. No wonder women are constantly paranoid about their weight. To get off this feminist kick, think about how good friends around this campus refer to each other, if a girl calls another girl a bitch, whore or slut, she may not mean anything malicious by it they're probably room mates. Cuys do this too, but the examples I heard weren't fit for publication. rected energy to delight the small brains of people from towns not much larger . . . Or so it would seem, at least. The DIY attitude that struck the heart of hardcore and fueled it also contained the seeds of its known destruction. As every kid with a hole in his jeans and snot in his mouth picked up a guitar to gripe, another slash was sunk into the shins of the beast, already busily thrashing its way into irrelevance and self-parody. But (pause for wistful sigh) the day when the beast was healthy was not so long ago, and the masters of the craft are still young enough to understand and feel the dynamic while at the same time having aged enough to realize that the old ways are in need of a transfusion. lan MacKaye, a founding father of hardcore and the epitome of the positive end of its spectrum (the nihilistic antithesis being the late Darby Crash), is still dedicated to creating socially-conscious music with muscle enough to force you to flex your head. His new outfit, Fugazi, (aptly enough, a slang term from the Vietnam era meaning "f--ked-up situation") understands the current dilemma of hardcore and seems bent on remedying it. But if l said Fugazi was lan's band, I didnt mean it. With help from other hardcore veterans Guy Picciotto (guitarvocals) and Bren dan Canty (drums) from Rites of Spring, and bassist Joe Lally round ing out the rhythm section, Fugazi performs and exists as a unit; a unit with an explosive elasticity that snaps your head back at the same time that it reprimands you for not keeping it upright to see what you are doing in your life. And if I said this was hardcore, I didn't mean that either. The rhythms here rarely approach the breakneck abandon of classic hard core, but instead maintain inten sity with some wicked, white-boy funk grooves that virtually crackle with potential energy just before blowing up right in your face. So this is a sort of neutron dance record, right? Well, not exactly, unless you are open enough to consider the channeling of the energy that used to go into tearing clubs apart into a focused force "dance." Fugazi seems deter mined to unify the disparate elements that once thrashed against one another in the stage side pit into a cohesive, viable force-with-purpose, a concerned youth movement that puts the blame on us as individuals and not on the "Establishment." If Fugazi's ploy works, and judg ing by the music at least, there is no reason why it shouldnt, the positive "message" of the band's lyrics could easily take root in the listeners and change the way they look at rape and apathy (just two of the lyrical concerns) better than hardcore ever could. That is, of course, only the vague dream, a long-term concern. The first and most important response would be to shake your ass to what hardcore has matured into and shake it like you mean it. Nietzsche would want it that way. fjn $&s$ chmS Hams 31 OW. Franklin 933-3767. Famous for our home-made chips and fries, deli style subs and sand wiches, burgers and homemade soups. 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