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Barkers Humor Is Just Right
What can you say about a movie with
an unbelievable storyline whose few brag
ging rights include slapstick physical com
edy and juvenile sarcasm? It was okay.
Adam Sandler’s second attempt at tack
ling the big screen in “Happy Gilmore" is
pretty much just what you’d expect from a
Saturday Night
Live cast mem
ber turned
movie actor
outrageous an
tics and prat-
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Movie Review
‘Happy Gilmore'
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fells stretched almost painfully into an hour
and a half long skit. The movie doesn’t
deserve to be trashed completely; it does
have some extremely comical moments,
but it also has its share of comedy gone
awry.
AdamSandler plays Happy Gilmore,
Yeti Say That Rocking Is
‘Most Natural Thing to Do’
■ The trio’s dedication and
cohesiveness were key in
releasing their first CD.
BY WENDY MITCHELL
SENIOR WRITER
Yeti bassist Mike Beck and drummer
John Lohr admit to enjoying a rousing 4-
hour chess marathon and the occasional
Mozart CD. Guitarist/vocalist Christian
Fisher does primitivist-inspired paintings
in his spare time.
Don’t let these guys fool you: They’re
not completely refined and sensitive. Their
self-titled debut CD is evidence enough
that they aren’t afraid to rock, hard. The
CD shows the trio’s darker side, lyrically
and musically; recurring images of flesh
and organs
punctuate ques
tions of aban
donment and
control in failing
relationships.
Yeti with
Quatro at
Liiard and Snake
Cafe on Monday
“l’ve always thought this album could be a
soundtrackforadarkpsychothriller,”Beck
said.
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easy to simply rock,
especially in W'lA
Chapel Hill. But
Fishersaid, “It’s the
most natural thing 1 —
to do, for us.”
He said the stigma against hard rock
these days was primarily targeted against
“stupid, pointless rock.” Which they’re
not.
After playing together for three years,
the trio have become more comfortable
with each other and their sound. Fisher
said, “Being together for a while, we’ve
solidified our style, who we are.”
They recorded Yeti over several days
around July 4 at Wavecastle Studio in
Hillsborough with producer Caleb South
ern. Southern also produced their May
1994 7-inch “Vacuum/Mountain.”
They said the CD’s material was a little
more original than the single, and the pro
duction wasn’t as glossed.
Fisher said prior recording experience
was helpful: “We knew what we wanted to
do with our respective instruments and
how we wanted it to sound rather than just
going in and saying, ‘Well, whatever
works.'”
Beck agreed that pre-production plan
ning was essential to the finished product.
“It’s a good representation of what we do
live,” he said.
But there are some differences between
Yeti recorded and live. The CD’s “rock”
shifts to “RAWK” as the knobs edge closer
to 11. Fisher said, “(The CD) is more
subtle; you can hear the vocals. The live
shows don’t always have a whole lot of
nuance.”
Fisher said he preferred having an ele
ment of spontaneity and rawness on stage.
That’s not to say the live shows are un
bridled noise—they still have the selective
restraint that adds detail to Yeti’s sound.
Their next local show will be Monday at
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an aspiring hockey player who gives up
his lifelong dream when he realizes that a
career in golf would be more profitable.
Reluctantly, Gilmore trades in his jersey
for a more sophisticated uniform of
sweatpants and flannels, enters his first
club tournament and— guess what
wins a spot on the Pro Golf Tour. That
happens, right? Gilmore’s charisma and
lack of inhibition quickly transform him
from uncouth outsider to blue-collar cult
figure, while he manages to hold rank with
the real pros.
Gilmore cruises through his stint on the
tour, picking up women and endorsements
effortlessly. Sandler plays Gilmore well, if
you can say he is acting (it’s not inconceiv
able that Sandler does all this stuff in his
free time). But if you’re looking to see any
classic personalities like Opera Man or
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the Lizard and Snake, with Quatro open
ing. During Spring Break (Beck’s a senior
majoring in history) they have planned a
Southeastern tour which probably will
stop in Columbia, S.C., Athens, Ga., Sa
vannah, Ga., Pensacola, Fla., and
Gainesville, Fla.
Following that, they’ll work on songs
for a couple of months and head out for a
more extensive tour in May.
With the CD out only a few weeks,
they’ve already discovered some perks.
Lohr said, “It’s easier to get shows."
In addition to the practical, Beck said
releasing a CD was a symbolic step for
Yeti.
“It shows dedication on our part, ” Beck
said. “It’s something we’ve been doing for
three years now, and we’re putting it out
independently. It’s giving us a lot of re
spect. We’re getting a lot of good feed
back.”
Not completely content with their cur
rent accomplishments, Yeti said they would
be excited to record again, and they’re
shopping the CD to labels large and small.
Fisher said the band was working on
new songs, which are in a slightly different
vein.
“I think we’re experimenting with dif
ferent kinds of heavy, as opposed to brood
ing, slow, dark, rocking heavy work,”
Fisher said.
They say the songwriting process is
“pretty democratic.” Fisher brings in a riff
and some lyrics, and Beck and Lohr write
their parts. Beck said, “We go over and
over it for a few days, maybe even a month,
before everybody’s happy with their part. ”
Lohr added, “Or we ditch it. ” Thus far,
they estimate they’ve abandoned about 30
songs.
The process also is influenced by a vari
ety of musical tastes. Beck is the classical
fan, also listening recently to Bob Mould,
Neil Young and the Minutemen. Fisher
enjoys the soul of Foxy 107, as well as
anything from the Jesus Lizard to Nick
Drake. Lohr sticks to Dinosaur Jr. and Dr.
Dre.
They practice about once a week, which
proves to be enough since the three share a
closeness and friendship that extends be
yond Yeti. Lohr said, “We learned how to
play our instruments together. We’ve never
had to adjust to somebody that we don’t
know.”
Beck said that all the members’ perse
verance and dedication to the band made
them lucky.
“A lot of bands form, and everybody’s
had previous band experience,” he said.
“But this was our baby, and we’ve watched
it mature.”
DIVERSIONS
Canteen Boy take shape in the movie .well,
it doesn’t happen. Lee Trevino, Kevin
Nealon and Bob Barker make cameo ap
pearances in “Gilmore,” but only Barker
adds anything significant to the humor of
the film. The other cast members are people
you know you’ve seen in other stuff but
weren’t memorable enough to engrain their
names in your head. Gilmore’s nemesis
McGavin is played by Christopher
McDonald (“Quiz Show”), and Gilmore’s
mentor, Chubbs Peterson (Carl Weathers)
who was Sly Stallone’s opponent in the
first four “Rocky” movies. If you’re willing
to tolerate insane predictability, Sandler’s
childish taunts masquerading as comedy,
there’s still hope for you to enjoy the truly
funny elements of “Gilmore.” Cinematic
masterpiece it’s not, silly and braindead
comedy, it definitely is.
Harvey Milk Lurches From Nausea to Vertiginous Panic
Harvey Milk.
Not your normal band.
Let’s just start with the name of the
album, their first album, My Love is Higher
Than Your Assessment ofWhat My Love Could
Be. Etiliolated, elided and obtuse, hidden
in the strangulated clauses of grammatical
nausea, lies a sentimental regret which.
Puppy Love, stronger and harder and
faster than your parents think it could or
even should be.
Yet, rising like a major fifth above the
loving insinuation comes a frothing, scar
let, mad-as-hell
wave of unre
pentant anger.
This band
has rediscov
eredirony.only
this time, they
brought ma
chine guns.
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Album Review
Harvey Milk
My Love is Higher Than
Your Assessment ofWhat
My Love Could Be
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Can you see Travis Bickle saying this to
his child love? Gasped, choking terms lurch
ing from between clenched teet?
Well, that’s about the sum and glory of
Harvey Milk—banal, frustrated and sure
as hell gonna do something about it.
Listening to My Love is Higher Than Your
Assessment of What My Love Could Be, one
lurches from ennui to nausea to sheer ver
tiginous panic, as chords and skeleton
drums strip away the lucidity of speech,
leaving fragile, quivering jelly.
We begin with a drone. The sound offer
off sirens, announcing the arrival of the B
-52s and the napalm.
The quiver of cymbols in the eviscer
ated air, ripples through the air.
That dumd sound a computer makes
when you’ve hurt is feelings. Your skin
crawls.
You wait.
The sirens bum a hole in your forehead,
for three and a half minutes, a steady sim
mering drone.
But this is not the way the world ends,
not with a bang but with a whimper.
And then the “music” of My Love is
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Higher Than Your Assessment of What My
Love Could Be, the predictable components
of guitars, powerchords and feedback,
slurred into fury.
Y et, rather than the avalanche of sound,
the long introduction leads us to expect,
the guitar gruints inarticulately. A frac
tured pressure on the string, lost in the blur
of a feedback loop.
On Codeine, but more broken by your
assessment of his love, chords crash and
tumble off each other, a random, non
causal avalanche of structures which would
nothavebeenoutofplaceonthe soundtrack
of “Eraserhead.”
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that the Foo Fighters just couldn’t reach.
And suddenly, a tender place visits us. In
the sweet strings of “The Anvil Will Fall, ”
a village green preserved, except its the
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well. Opening for Shellac about and year
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