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6 Thursday, April 12, 2001 Record Shows Bring Out Fanatics, Obscure Gems By Josh Love Staff Writer You think you know music. You’ve transcended Carson Daly’s idea of what’s cool (maybe that new BSB video isn’t so slammin’ after all). You take your music seriously, and you feel pretty fortunate that you dis covered Phish or Coldplay or De La Soul, because you’ve saved yourself from a lifetime of TRL purgatory. Now you safely boast among your less-enlightened friends that you know music. You may count yourself as one of those knowledgeable few - until you meet people like Letitia Walker and Whitney Shroyer and realize you still have a hell of a lot to leam. Co-proprietors of the Asheville-based Whizz Records, Walker and Shroyer were plying their wares at the Raleigh Recordand CD Show, held April 1 at the Four Points Hotel. It’s the regional record shows like this one where obsessive audiophiles come 'Chunhyang' Offends Western Ears, but Not Sensibilities By Jason Arthurs Staff Writer It was stupid, 1 admit, to fail to realize that a movie with a tide like “Chunhyang” would be a Korean drama with English subtides. But I refuse to take credit for the interludes of shrieks known as - upon further investigation - , “Chunhyang” “pansori.” Pansori is the traditional narrative stage that includes storytelling/singing to the beat (an ever-so random beat, may I add) of a drum. I don’t doubt that trained ears find this art pleasing, but to the uncultured Westerner, it grates like Summer Hi JYI • Walk during graduation ceremonies on May 20 but complete your course work during summer 2001. • Attend summer 2001 and take prerequisites for Graduate School or professional schools. • Take summer courses to impress future employers. Contact Summer School On the web at: www.unc.edu/summer 134 E Franklin Street (between Carolina Coffee Shop and The Subway) 919-966-4364 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Jf Members of The, Class of 2001: \ Your Presence Is Requested* At This Year's ( S&nooi, ( \ Thursday, April 19th, 2001 The> Carolina > Inn 4fL Reception A Jcuzrc Ensemble, at Bpm. VJ Cozart Will Spin From Ten Until Midnight. A Crush Bar Will Be, Present, A Appetizers Will Be Served, i Attire is Semiformal. h Cost is $lO Per Person. Tickets Sold In The Pit-April 16th-April 19th (10am-2pm) A on the Senior Class Web Page! CAROLINA CMro^KA ru l lUft! d"* M °dtsi(Uf or bevtraju be, brought to tiws event. O Ol.C\ 1 The, CmtoUm, bus, if UutuL m 211 Pittsboro Strut, At tke, comer of Columbia, Strut, in Chapel Hill. Z vyvZ/ I for cUiuur resuvrutumc prior to the. Bail, pltatt context the CjutoUma Crossßoads Restaurant at 918-2777. to haggle over the price of “deleted Smiths singles and original, not reissue, Frank Zappa albums,” as John Cusack observed in last year’s celebration of music fetishists “High Fidelity.” The success of that film might have given record junkies a stamp erf cool, but it’s business as usual on the record show circuit - the business of music fanati cism. Walker will debate the aesthetic mer its of an Allman Brothers Band record cover, and Shroyer will explain the overlooked genius of swamp soulman Raw Spitt All in a day’s work. “If you want to make music your pas sion, then don’t limit your sources or your options,” Walker said. “If you con sider yourself a real music lover, then you’ve got to go out and buy CDs, buy records, just try and hear everything that you can.” That’s no small feat even if you were to limit your options just to the Raleigh show, with roughly a dozen dealers but thousands upon thousands of albums. nails on a chalkboard. This is how it works: every scene of the play is interrupted by a man “singing” (although he sounds more like he’s vomiting a pair of antlers) the nar ration of the plot Sometimes, he even “sings” the words for the characters while they act out the action. It reminds me of opera, that is, if it were performed by dying monkeys. “Chunhyang,” as far as the plot goes, is best explained by a fusion of some of the classic few minutes in entertainment and literary history. Stay with me on this: Siddhartha Mongryong (Cho Seung Woo), or Master Lee as his servants call him, decides he wants to leave the isolated extravagance of the governor’s (his DIVERSIONS Wedged somewhere inside those bins, hard-to-find records await the appraisal of collectors, completists, obsessives and guys who should get rid of a couple thousand records before buying a thou sand more but just can’t live without a copy of Emmylou Harris’ out-of-print first album. But the question remains - when it comes to the music you’ve never heard of) how do you separate the junk from Three Souls on my Mind, a band that Walker lauds as the Mexican Rolling Stones? “You leam to develop the instincts to come across something you don’t know about and realize this is what will give me the greatest reward, either aesthetic or financial,” Shroyer said. That distinction between a good lis ten and a good investment seems to sep arate Shroyer and Walker from several of the other vendors, several of whom specialize in high-end collectibles rather than cheaper but still obscure vinyl. “The records we prize most of all are the ones that just continue to give every dad’s) mansion to see the world. Only he doesn’t find self-enlightenment, he finds a girl. And he comes right back home. Romeo and Juliet Master Lee sees a young courtesan named Chunhyang (Lee Hyojung) and immediately falls in love with her. The problem is, they are star-crossed lovers - members of two different social class es whose marriage will never be accept able. The Princess Bride Westley, I mean Mongryong, seem ingly abandons Chunhyang - despite proclaiming his undying love for her. When he returns years later, she doesn’t recognize him (see “Oh my sweet Westley, what have I done?”). Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves time you listen to them,” Shroyer said. “Like this Raw Spitt album, it’s just this great nationalistic social protest record, maybe the angriest soul album ever.” On the surface, not much is changed when the vendors pack up and head back to their stores or on to the next show. Everyone at the show sold a few extra records to make room for that next Holy Grail, that undiscovered three minutes of pure pop heaven from some long-forgot ten teenage garage band. That’s what dri ves record junkies past the point where the rest just give up and settle for Everclear or Dave Matthews Band or Pavement “We don’t discriminate against some thing just because it’s popular, but at the same time we won’t champion some thing if it’s mediocre,” Walker said. “We just search for things that are really good, and sometimes those things hap pen to be really hard to find.” The Arts & Entertainment Editor can be reached at artdeskOunc.edu. Not to give away the ending, but when the new governor wants to have his way with Chunhyang, it calls for the triumphal return of Mongryong - dis guised as a man that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. Despite the distracting musical narra tion, the performances by Jung and Woo are exceptional, and they do a decent job of carrying the movie. An especial ly solid scene for Jung was when her character was being beaten for disobe dience at the order of the new governor. Overall, I learned two things from this movie. One, pansori and film do not mix. Two, the love for feel-good romance movies is universal. The Arts & Entertainment Editor can be reached at artsdesk9unc.edu. I Graduation ; : .oui .a; a:.,', ■■./'MsyviCHt;:. gMEtSEc. : ___j_C£/v_p | CAKE S PIES COOKIES CANDY DESSERT BARS. CHOCOLATES CHEESECAKES CASSEROLES CAKES FOSTER'S mmarket ~ GR4P ityl at the top-of its class Visit www.fostersmarket.com for our special graduation menu! Congrats class of 2001 750 Airport Rd - Chapel Hill 2694 Dur-Ch Blvd - Durham Market: 919-967-3663 Market: 919-489-3944 Catering: 919-967-4383 £ Catering: 919-489-4114 7:3oam-9:oopm Daily 7:3oam-8:00pm Daily ANI, ANI, BO BANI IHHIf *v ™ H Mh 898 I|HL —j jkJ 11l jpr ■k J M j PHOTO COURTESY OF RIGHTEOUS BABE RECORDS Ani DiFranco's latest, Revelling/Reckoning, goes heavy on horns as the singer-songwriter explores new musical territory. 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