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Show u ilia It- - S33l3aiMii vFamnBm - i M A I 1 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2015 DIXIESUNNEWS.COM book on alt rock band spirit' 1 BY STEPHEN B. i .1 ARMSTRONG For Dixie Sun News In the after rolling through London and into New York City, punk rock music continued its North American migration all the way to California, where bands like the Germs and j , .v ,' '4 c tt ISVAa&e.pw' Josh Pedersen, a senior business major from St. George, canoes down a river in Thailand. Pedersen has traveled to 25 different countries. BY SPENCER RICKS SpencerRicks As a young boy, Josh Pedersen would flip through magazines and gawk at the pictures of faraway lands, letting his imagination take him across the world. A 8t. George native, Pedersen is now a senior business major at Dixie State University. Today at age 25, Pedersens travels have spanned 25 different countries across five continents. An avid globetrotter and culture vulture, Pedersen has grown to love exploring new lands and experiencing new cultures. He has tramped across the African Serengeti, visited the iconic European landmarks, climbed to the top of Machu Picchu, and kayaked the ed Phang Nga Bay in Thailand. Pedersen has taken what he has learned about world art and culture and applied it to graphic designing. He hopes to incorporate designing into his career someday. I love the ability in graphic design to organize thoughts and pictures aesthetically, Pedersen said. Rachel Ramsay, a visual technology instructor at DSU, has noticed Peder dim: blanketed angel-hapasta. To pair, I chose a Pinot Gris. I know youre asking why I paired a French wine with an Italian dish. I dont feel the need to confine my experience with food, wine or music within boarders. And, if you must know, Pinot Gris is made with the same grape as Pinot Grigio; however, Pinot Gris flavor is slightly heavier than its Italian cousin. Can I taste the difference? Not really; Im a pretentious foodie who listens to Andrea Bocelli, Josh Groban, 1L Divo, Luis Miguel and Nana Mouskouri when I cook Italian food. The most important part of the meal is the cheese because good cheese has sens ability to always go above and beyond on all of his projects. I think most of his strength in design comes from his experience traveling and his exposure to different types of art and culture, Ramsay said. It really has helped him break down all kinds of barriers and biasses. see TRAVEL page 8 D the Flesh Eaters banged out aggressively antiestablishment songs with angry guitars, caterwauling voices and crashing drum kits. Punk in the West differed in one big way, however, from the stuff that emerged in Britain and up and down the Eastern Seaboard. Instead of reworking and deconstructing traditional pop music structures and themes as the U.K.s Clash and New Yorks Ramones and Blondie had, bands like X, Rank and File and the Gun Club drew inspiration from country music, lifting riffs from Chet Atkins, sneering like Johnny Cash at social injustice, and wearing, more often than not, the boots and bolo ties that Buck Owens made popular before he sold out and joined the cast of the Hee Haw TV show. One of the early perpe- trators of this countrified cow punk as sound was the critics called it Meat Puppets. A trio comprised of brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood and their friend Derrick Bostrom, the band did not hail as so many other western punkers had from southern California but emerged instead out of the working class suburbs of Phoenix. The first couple of records the band released were harsh and fast, with leader Curt Kirkwoods reedy voice calling and screaming above waves of pretty noise that owed as much to Richard Hell and the Voidoids as the Lou-vi- n Brothers and Ralph Stanley. But with the bands 1985 release, Up on the Sun, an hallucinatory sound emerged more often psychedelic than punk, more jazz than thanks primarcountry ily to Curt Kirkwoods wheeling guitar, which seemed to be guided at once by the ghost of Jimi g Hendrix, the Neil Garcia, Young Jerry and Pat Metheny. This rich, swirling quality has infiltrated the Pups sonic output ever since. Unfortunately lost at times, perhaps, amidst the beauty and strangeness of the bands music are the complexity and resonance of Curt Kirkwoods lyrics, which Rolling Stones Kurt Loder thirty years ago described as then-livin- One person who has long recognized and admired the songs verbal properties, however, is Dixie State University Professor of Sociology Matthew And with The Meat Puppets and the Lyrics of Curt Smith-Lahrma- n. see PUNK page 9 JAM ir P CODY SMITH J 4 casweekly fa. Legend tells that Alfredo sauce was invented by a guy named Alfredo who frantically combined ingredients to satisfy his wifes pregnancy cravings. The first dozen tunes I tried cook an Alfredo, I broke the sauce. Im not sure what I Was doing wrong, but clumpy milk it became. Nevertheless, I have grown and so have my skills. With Pandora as my disc jockey and the citric perfume of freshly cut lemons, I made clams and shrimp in a garlic butter sauce over simple Alfredo sauce that to 7- Dixie State University professor publishes student' s -- -- - see ITALIAN page 8 I with asparagus and King Estate Pinot Gns Reporter Cody Smith prepared garlic butter shrimp and clam pasta of the in cooking and eating. experience Smith examined the role music plays heightening |