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Cibo Matto will present their unique flavor of
music Friday night at Cat's Cradle.
Cibo Matto
April 12
Cat's Cradle
Tickets $5 in advance
On April 12, that food-loving duo from
New York, Cibo Matto, will be serving up
their unique flavor of hip-hop, trip-hop
and ambient music at the Cat's Cradle.
Opening for the band is the distinctly oppo
site Pipe, whose short punk riffs (some as
brief as 45 seconds) energize any crowd.
Cibo Matto's main focus is definitely on
consumables, and the Record Exchange
will host the group for your dining pleasure
Friday between 4 and 6 p.m. before the
show for a set of DJing (both their and
others’ music) and to indulge in some of
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cluding beef jerky and birthday cake.
Cibo Matto’s debut, Viva! La Woman,
mixes some of the home spun beats of the
Beastie Boys with the childlike, perky vo
cals of Pizzicato Five for a mix that is part
sweet and part sour, and perhaps best char
acterized by their song, “White Pepper Ice
Cream. ” Pipe, on the other hand, takes the
celerity of punk to new levels but leaves the
listener wanting for more. Their two full
length albums clock in around twenty five
minutes apiece, but still manage to have as
many as fourteen songs, each distinct from
the others. Pipe, unfortunately, hasn’t felt
the success of a Green Day or Rancid, but
they far more accurately represent the fre
netic nature of “real” punk as opposed to
milquetoast pop guitar riffs or standard
ized theft of the Clash’s sound. Anyone
interested in something different than the
standard deluge of indie rock should check
Cibo Matto’s odd, edible brand of hip-hop
out. A show too unusual to be missed.
—Todd Gilchrist
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DIVERSIONS
Festival Promotes Independently Spirited Music
BY WENDY MITCHELL
SENIOR WRAER
Gary Miller, organizer of the Pop Fools
Festival, has learned a little about the head
aches of planning a music festival. The
headaches
started in Janu
ary, when his
band Gumption
was scheduled to
play a festival in
Pop Fools Festival
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Friday and
Saturday
Washington, D.C. Their performance was
snowed out by the “Blizzard of ‘96,” in
spiring Miller to try a festival of his own.
He named his festival in hopes of secur
ing a venue for the weekend preceding
April Fool’s Day, but Local 506 was al
ready booked.
Cher Lacks Needed Emotional Strength in ‘’Faithful’
In her first movie since the 1990 film
“Mermaid,” Cher emerges in the role of
Margaret O’Donnell, the neglected wife of
a New York trucking-company owner
(Ryan O’Neal)
who is having
an affair with
his younger
and bustier sec
retary in
“Faithful.”
DEAN HAIR
Movie Review
'Faithful'
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When Jack takes a business trip on their
20th anniversary, Margaret decides to end
her life. But before she can overdose on
pills, she is interrupted by Tony (Chazz
Palminteri), who ties her to a living room
chair.
Initially it seems Tony is going to talk
Margaret to death, but slowly (ever so
slowly) his motivation becomes painfully
clear. In his attempt to semi-torture Mar
garet, Tony only tortures the audience with
extreme boredom.
AdaptedfromPalminteri’splay, “Faith
ful” gives the audience a near roller coaster
ride between two telephone calls. (Tony is
supposed to kill her when the phone rings
twice.)
While waiting for the phone call, Tony
and Margaret engage in an edgy, give-and
take conversation, and the audience is
forced to ask: Why would any hitman wait
to kill a person, much less talk to them?
They dicuss everything from the fake
breasts of her husband’s secretary to how
blow jobs don’t really count as marital
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Now that all plans are finalized, Miller
realizes he’s up against some stiff competi
tion in area shows Friday: The Grifters at
Duke Coffeehouse, Jolene at Captured Live
Studios and Cibo Matto at Cat’s Cradle.
Miller doesn’t seem fazed, despite the
setbacks. Call it the power of pop music. “I
think we’ll be OK; I don’t think we’ll be
squashed,” he said.
The six bands who will be playing the
festival three locals and three nationals
are a good representation of what pop
music can be in the ‘9os. They range from
Charming, a Virginia band that has draw
comparisons to Madder Rose and Juliana
Hatfield, to The Raymond Brake, the
Greensboro band which starts with local
influences (Superchunk, Polvo) and fuzzes
things up in its own special way.
infidelity. Tony constantly tells Margaret
she is a fool for having put up with Jack for
so long.
He uses sarcasm and anger to force
emotion out of her.
However, one of the central problems
of the story is that there is not enough
emotional response from each of the char
acters.
Tony tells Margaret he has to rape and
kill her, yet she seems almost unconcerned
aboutthesituation. Palminteri, who’sehar
acter can only express anger and hatred,
seems almost bored with his performance,
meandering along at a slow pace.
Their conversations are only briefly in
terrupted when Tony’s psychiatrist, Dr.
Susskind (“Faithful” Director Paul
Mazursky) calls to tell him not to kill this
woman, because he is making such ‘great
strides in his life.’
When Jack finally returns from his ‘trip’
and finds Margaret still alive, he begins to
discuss with her the dead carcass his mar
riage has been over the past two decades.
They throw every problem they have ever
had at each other. The audience also learns
their company is in Margaret’s name only,
therefore she has the upperhand.
This is the only time in the film when the
writing, acting and direction are superb
and concise.
But then Palminteri returns to wrap up
the plot, and the audience is left again in
utter boredom.
The central problem of this film is that
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Miller explained his selection process:
“I picked bands that I like, but since it is
supposed to be a pop festival, I wanted to
get as many shades of pop music as I could
get, within the constraints of people that I
knew I could get in touch with.”
Friday’s line-up is: Gumption and
Grover from Chapel Hill and Charming
from Charlottesville, Va. Saturday’s line
up is: Racecarfrom Wheaton, Md., Witch
Hazel from Kent, Ohio and The Raymond
Brake from Greensboro.
Miller said, “Overall, I think it should
be pretty interesting because all six bands
sort of fall in the pop music format while
sounding very different from one another. ”
Miller, also the Academic Affairs Coor
dinator in the Physics Department, said he
hoped this festival would be a positive
Cher stars as the not-quite-so-faithful Margaret O'Donnell in
the boring and lifeless comedy, 'Faithful.'
“Faithful” was obviously written for the
theater.
The screenplay stays too faithful to
Palminteri’s stage play and traps the audi
ence in the utter confiision of a slow-mov
ing plot.
Cher seems to have difficulty moving
from one end of the emotional spectrum to
the other.
Her performance is credible, though
there are times when her effort is obvious.
Palminteri saves all the best lines for
Thursday, April 11,1996
outlet for pop music in the Triangle. Since
so-called “alternative country” bands are
today’s local rage, Miller said there cur
rently wasn't a large community of pop
musicians, which could make it hard for
clubs to book openers for pop shows. “I
don’t think it's that the town ignores pop or
doesn’t like pop, I think it’s that there
aren’t that many pop bands from here,
which can make it hard to get a show, ” he
said. Miller said he hoped local music fans
would come out and show support for his
“poor little Pop Fools Festival." He said,
“It’s a little daunting for me thinking about
the bands coming in from D.C. and Ohio
if Saturday was a washout. I would feel a
little ignorant if they had to play to 15
people or something.” Bands are sched
uled to start at 10:30 p.m., and cover is $5.
himself; however all his lines are theatri
cal, and he fails to present them in casual
conversation.
For better or worse, I would recom
mend being faithful to oneself and not
seeing this film.
Cher should remain faithful to herself,
avoid comedies and stay in dramas —and
in tight, tight pants.
Palminteri should not remain so faith
ful to his stage plays and adapt them better
for the screen.
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