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On "Traffic and Weather," the band's new album, they pick up right where they left off with more catchy power pop. "Someone to Love," the opening of song from "Traffic and Weather," exhibits exactly what makes Fountains of Wayne such a likable and interesting band. On the surface, it may sound a little like the Killers with new-wave electronic synthesizers and a heavy dance-beat rhythm on the chorus. However, songwriters Adam Schlesinger (who has also written songs for the movies "That Thing You Do" and "Music and Lyrics") and Chris Coilingwood's lyrics are full of literate, cultural references like "It's Thursday night she should be out on the scene / but ny. Few of the songs on the album are as immediately catchy or memorable as "Someone to Love" and "Yolanda Hayes," and some, like on the simplistic "Revolving Dora," fall flat. But most of the songs are worth listening to due to Schlesinger and Coilingwood's interesting lyrics and knack for melody. 'Traffic and Weather Few artists could turn baggage claims, truck stops and airplane seats into interFountains of Wayne esting song ideas, but Fountains of Wayne Grade B+ thrives on the mundane and overwhelmingly normal symbols of suburbia and she's sitting at home watching 'The King mass-market society. They provide a of Queens'" that portray a unique vision soundtrack of modern life without ever of modern-day loneliness. sounding too serious or depressing as While Fountains of Wayne may sound many other bands with the same message like a power-pop band, they've always often do. reached back to pop, R&B and even some This isn't the band's best work (2003's country traditions to bolster their music, "Welcome Interstate Managers" and like using a sugary harmony, vocals and 1999's "Utopia Parkway" are both stronhand claps in their hit "Stacy's Mom." On ger albums) but it still makes for a catchy, the new album's standout song "Yolanda un and thoughtful listen. Hayes," they combine a guitar and piano Tom Liljegren is a music critic for The riff that could have been taken from late Utah Statesman. Send comments to him '60s Motown with a sunny pop harmoat tliljegren@cc.usu.edu. Tom Liljegren Mysic Review NBC's 'Raines' brings a little crazy fun to the wornout cop show genre "Raines" is a new show on NBC starring Jeff G ol d b I u m ("Jurassic Park"), playing Detective "Raines" M i c h a e l Grade 6+ Rai n e s, ^ — — who sees the victims of the cases he is working on. I really have to admit that I judged this show before I even saw it. I tagged it as another crime show with a detective that has some sort of bond with the supernatural. Dead people come back to talk him through the case 7 ™ ^ ™ T ^ ^ like in the Aaron Peck shows "Ghost Something that really impressed me with the show W h i s p e r e r " was that the hallucinations Raines sees don't actually a n d know anything about them"Medium," But "Raines" selves either; they only know has something what Raines knows. Their new to offer voices, mannerisms, clothing in the super- and personalities change as natural crime Raines finds out new inforgenre it mation about their lives. Another thing that adds — ^ ^ ^ ^ - ^ ™ isn't actually substantially to the show is supernatural that it actually has a mysat all. Detective Raines sees tery/noir feeling about it. The the victims in his cases, but music and narration are just they are only figments of his like an old detective movie, imagination. Raines is borderline and they suck you right into schizophrenic, but what sets the story. Overall, the thing that realhim apart is he knows how ly makes "Raines" work is Jeff to handle it. He knows how Goldblum. He's as funny and to channel his problem into quirky as ever. He talks fast something that can help him. Tube Reviews and has a sarcastic wit, even when he's talking to himself. "Raines" is a snow for people who are sick of the same old C5I formulaic shows that have clogged up the TV schedule. It's a breath of fresh air for the crime genre. The sad thing is the promos for the show make it look like he's talking to dead people, which could turn people off like it almost did for me. Definitely check out "Raines" if you're looking for something new. "Raines" is on NBC Fridays at 8 p.m. Aaron Peck is master of all forms of television watching. Send comments to him at aaronpeck@cc.usu.edu. Alaska's crab fishermen go prime time The combination of jackpot earnings, dogged crab fishermen and life-threat enCaptain Phil Harris lost a ing weather has made the crew member overboard. He reality TV series "Deadliest broke his back (twice), all his Catch" the top-rated show on fingers, both shoulders, an the Discovery Channel, with ankle and a wrist. Many of about 6 million viewers per the guys he started fishing week. with were killed on the job. The show has turned Both his wives left him. craggy boat captains like Crab fishing's been better Harris into unlikely reality to him than most. TV stars, who now receive For starters, he's 50 and crab pots full of fan mail and still alive. romantic proposals. The Seattle-based captain In the third season, which of the Cornelia Marie has debuts TYiesday, cameras never returned to land broke. roll as crabbing crews leave His record annual haul: Alaska's Dutch Harbor seek$500,000. ing a windfall on the Bering Sea. The first episode ends in the middle of a Coast Guard search, with the ominous image of a yellow survival suit floating empty on the waves. "This ain't a hamburger stand out here," Harris says to the TV camera as he listens to the rescue operation on his radio. "This is the real deal, and people really die." Harris' perilous career started with run-of-the-mill car envy. When Harris was in high school, he drove a Volkswagen. His buddy, whose dad owned a crab boat, drove a Chevelle. He thought "something's wrong here." At 17, he volunteered to work for a crab fisherman for free until he could prove himself. His first day on a crab boat, the Bering Sea lay .T i::to I'M. still. He sat up on the stack, drinking beer and daydreaming about the millions he'd make crabbing. The next day, giant waves of frigid water flew over the boat. "I was so sick, I was literally lying in the bait pan, hating life, throwing up," Harris said in his sandpapery voice. "I walked up to the galley table holding on for dear life, thinking 'Dear God, shoot me now.' The captain chuckled at me, said VI didn't think you'd make it.'" BY SARAH HENNINC KRT April 12-16, 2007 "And I thought "(Expletive) him' and I got back up." Today, Harris has 30 years of crab fishing under his rain gear. He only remembers being scared a few times, including a day nearly 20 years ago he calls Black Monday. That day, a furious storm stirred up waves more than 50 feet high and sank six crab boats in less than four hours, according to news reports. "There were constant Maydays coming over the radio," he said. "In the moment, you're mostly just anxious because you're just working so hard to stay upright and on the boat, but when it's all done with and you have time to reflect on it, holy moley." Harris said obviously, he's a thrill seeker. But equally he's motivated by the big pay-less hours lifestyle. By fishing just a few months a year, he had plenty of time to help raise his two sons, Josh and Jake, and savor his hobbies: riding his Harley and making custom birdfeeders. Last season, Jake joined his dad's crew as a greenhorn. This season, Josh became part of the crew, too. Both are in their early 20s. Harris said some parents might criticize him for bringing his kids into such a menacing workplace. But he's convinced they're going to fish with or without him, so he'd rather they learn from his trusted crew. "Plus, if something were to ever happen to either of them, I'd want to be there," he said. "Deadliest Catch" cameras have caught some intense scraps as father and sons butt heads. Harris said the show doesn't exaggerate or twist anything that happens on his boat. "I have enough integrity, for all the people who taught me and people who know me. I wouldn't do this show if they told me one thing to say or one thing to act." Compare guys like Harris to stars on other "tough guy" reality TV shows such as "Survivor," and it's like comparing wolves and poodles. Crab boats are Indiana Jones-worthy obstacle courses, with all sorts of ropes, chains, winches and 1,000-pound steel crab pots. Temperamental waters can send the whole works hurtling across the deck. Add long hours, mental fatigue, backbreaking physical labor and the risk of falling into near-freezing water, and you've got TV executives salivating. It's one of the most hostile environments for the Discovery Channel, which has shot everything from camels in the Gobi Desert to ocean-bottom shipwrecks, according to Jeff Conroy, co-executive producer of "Deadliest Catch." Just transporting the L.A.-based production crew and its 5,000 pounds of equipment to Dutch Harbor is a financial and logistical nightmare. "I avoid looking at our shipping bills," Conroy laughed. Each boat has three fixed cameras and two cameras operated by hand, all of which need to be waterproofed and ice-proofed and pot-falling-on-them proofed. Every season, 60 cameras go out on the boats; only about a third make it back in working order. Camera operators go through safety training: If they can't get a survival suit on in 60 seconds, they don't get on the boat. Conroy, who has shot some footage on Harris' boat, said he has a "no convince" policy when it comes to hiring photographers for "Deadliest Catch." >CRAB see page 7 * |