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Show Wednesday, July 25,2007 Page 4 Arts & Entertainment The Signpost Cooper's Triple Scoop Nationally ranked drum corps will compete at Blue Knights to host Encore By Shirrel Cooper a&e editor | The Signpost "Can movies still leave me warm and fuzzy without being highly unplausable?" There's something about movies that makes me love them. Maybe it's the fact that the girl always gets the guy, or maybe it's because the good guy always wins. I love the fact that movies can take you places that you've never been and hold your attention for over 90 minutes. And after drawing you in, I love the fact that most movies never fail to end happily ever after. But how true to life is this? Granted, we want to be entertained and leave with a warm, fuzzy feeling inside. But how far is too far? I stumbled upon a cliche-movie website and had to laugh at the truthfulness of it. It made me wonder if movies can still leave me warm and fuzzy without being highly unplausable at the same time. I 'm going to show you some of the cliche"s found on filmcliches. com and you can decide if the movies would be the same if we went for more realistic. Movie Cliches 1. If you try to get your expartner back by going out with someone else in order to make your ex jealous, you will succeed, but by the time you have achieved what you set out to do you will have fallen for the other person. By Lynn Wilde business editor Trie Blue Knights drum corps sponsor the Corps Encore competition that will be held in Stewart Stadium on July 30 at 7 p.m. Tickets are available at the WSU ticket office or by calling 6268500. Tickets cost The Signpost Nine nationally ranked drum corps will compete at Weber State University for the Corps Encore, a semi-final competition on July 30. The corps has its origins in the military, said Thomas Root, who has been involved with the corps for almost 20 years. "It has taken on its own personality," Root said. "Like a football team, we meet head-to-head in a competition with one major winner." The other semi-final is in Boise, Idaho. Root said the competing corps, all from the United States, represent the top performers in the world. The winners and all the corps will then compete in Los Angeles. Then the winners of that competition will perform at the Rosebowl. "It's very much like a marching band, except a good corps will take apart a marching band/' said George Lindstrom, manager of the competition. "Seventytwo accomplished musicians playing brass has an impact you can't describe." Lindstrom said the competition is fierce, the work grueling and the players aggressive, with snare drums, tenor drums, bass drums and keyboard instruments, a color guard and a dance team. Root said there are 120 members of a drum corps. "We are not sedate," Lindstrom said. "Can you imagine 130 people inside in a concert? It would take the paint off the walls." The corps is not pampered. They have to be in the best shape possible. They between $10 to $25. PHOTO COURTFSY OF THE BLUE KNIGHTS DRUM CORPS sleep on gymnasium floors in sleeping bags, the staff cooks all their food and they "practice, practice, practice," Lindstrom said. The corps practice up to 12 hours a day throughout the summer and are in top performing ability. Corps is divided into the divisions one, two and three. The players competing at WSU are in division one, the top division. Lindstrom said judging a competition takes eight to nine judges because of the complexity of the competition. They judge 6. Breaking down doors requires three hits. _ocal band from Ogden ne eases ca 7. Women of action can run, do karate, kickbox, climb ladders and perform highly acrobatic movements while wearing six inch heals and either a miniskirt or a tight leather cat suit. @ t 8. People never get hiccups, sneeze or cough during movies. 9. In teen movies, the football player ALWAYS goes out with the cheerleader. 10. In scary movies, some girl ALWAYS has to trip while running away from the murderer despite how flat the ground may be. 11. The Eiffel tower is perfectly visible from any window in Paris. 12. Talking to someone in a coma will bring them out if it. 13. The murderers in horror movies always have to be some nerd seeking revenge on the popular kids. All right, so .1 admit that if things didn't end happily ever after I probably wouldn't keep coming back for more, and the cliche's make it so that happens. I guess cliches can be a good thing. If you want the full list of movie cliche's, check out the web, because goodness knows there are a lot! proud to say, where they had their very first show and have been one of our and my favorite It is refreshing to hear a band bands since." that isn't so Atencio full of itself, said the and better yet "It took us a while g r o u p ' s they are from unique jazz right here in to record (Things I and blues Ogden. Mean See), we did it all and rockin' Molly's Trio is sound have ourselves. We're that band. attracted a great local Here is a really proud of it." following of group of guys all ages. who have been tearing up M e a n - Clint Stanger, Utah's music Drummer Molly's Trio scene, and as has a fullMean Molly's Trio length album their Web site describes, has under their a "garage rock style and abrasive belts. The album, Things I See, blues swank." came out in June. Mark Young, Clint Stanger "It took us a while to record and Timm Gehrett created the that; we did it - band Mean Molly's Trio. Stanger, allourselves," Mean the drummer, described how the Stanger said. band was formed. "We're really Molly's Trio "They had been jamming for proud of it." Concerts: a couple of weeks," Stanger said, T h e August 10 "and they asked me to come play t h r e e s o m e the keyboards and I don't really will be @ Mojos know how to play the keyboard playing at Caffe, that well so I told them I play the the Diamond drums, and we just clicked." Ajgustir Lounge on The band started out playing Saturday, July at Mojos Caffe in Ogden. 28 with The Kami- ' "We played there every week Morlocks and for like four months and worked The Furs. kazes, all the bugs out," Stanger said. "It's kind of and "Mojos is cool, and there is a a rockabilly August lot of creativity and freedom blues set up/' there." Stanger said. 25 @ FMBRon Atencio, the owner of "The bands Monkeys,; Mojos, said he is a fan of the go together really well, ~~~ group. "I love them," he said. "Mean and we're really excited just Molly's Trio started here at Mojos over a year and a half ago, I am See Molly page 5 By Julie Lebo sr. reporler | The Signpost 3. There is always a full moon when people go to bed. When the lights are turned off, a delayed light turns on, causing a blue cast in the room in which they could read by. 5. Guns are always conveniently loaded with no more, and no less bullets than needed. See Drums page 5 Mean Molly's Trio rocks Ogden 2. In any musical, no matter how tough the gang and/or bad guy, they/he can always belt out a heartfelt melody in a deep and lilting baritone voice. 4. It is impossible for two colleagues of the opposite sex to have a completely proffessional relationship. on what make a corps successful: dance, performance and the entertainment factor. The Blue Knights from Colorado sponsor the competition as part of "Drums Along PHOTO COURTTSY Of MEAN MOLLY'S TRIO Mark Young, Clint Stanger, and Timm Gehrett are members of Mean Molly's Trio, a local band. They will be playing Friday, August 10 at Mojos Caffe, and Saturday, August 11 at Kamikazes. Something's Afoot Eric Schaeffer at "Sam Wellers" "The Secret Garden" Evren Ozan & Ash Daragan TREK: A Nashville Tribute Terrace Plaza Playhouse is pleased to present "Something's Afoot" Aug 4 - Sep 15, 2007 every Friday, Saturday and Monday evening at 7:30 PM. Directed by Dennis P. Ferrin, the show will showcase actors and actresses from across the Wasatch Front. Tickets are $9 and $11 for adults and $6 and $8 for children. To purchase tickets call 393-0070. For more information, visit terraceplayhouse. com Filmmaker and author, Eric Schaeffer will be at Sam Wellers Bookstore to promote his debut memoir, "I can't believe I'm still single." Eric Schaeffer has written, directed, produced, and starred in many films including: "If Lucy Fell," "My Life's in Turnaround," "Fall," "Wirey SpindeU" and "Mind the Gap." He has also acted in starring roles on network television, including First Years on NBC. Doors open at 7 p.m. on August 4, "The Secret Garden" will be performed at Ed Kenley Amphitheater in Layton on August 6. The show starts at 8 p.m. "The Secret Garden" is a musical based on the Frances Hodgson Burnett book of the same name. It premiered on Broadway at the St. James Theatre on April 25, 1991 and closed on January 3, 1993 after 709 performances. For ticket information call 801-546-8575 or visit the website, http://tickets.davisarts.org/. Tickets for the event are $12. Evren Ozan is a fourteen year old Native American flute musician whose compositions are heard on the radio and in movies. He will be performing at the Ogden City Amphitheater on July 28, at 7:30 p.m. He's been put in the same league as older whizzes like R. Carlos Nakai and Robert Tree Cody. For more information visit http://www.ocae.org/index.html or httu://www.ozanmusic.com/. TREK: A Nashville Tribute to the Pioneers pays tribute to the men and women who forged a westward movement that changed lives and history. With songs and narration that get right to the heart of the human experience, TREK is real. It's rural. It's rootsy. It's country. The event will be held July 25 at 7:30 p.m. at the Browning Center. Tickets are available at www. weberstatetickets.com/ and cost between $11 and $20.50. |
