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Show life Ways to balance your school work and social life 10 Courtes y of John-Rlley Harper Parallax performs at Steamers in one of Blake Dormer's last performances. Do your socializing in the Hall of Flags like everybody else Parallax will play on John Ditzler 9 Bring your homework with you to F.H.E. 8 Prop your book on the dashboard behind the steering wheel and read on the freeway 7 Hide your Lit. book behind a Hymn book and take full advantage of Sacrament Meetins 6 5 Executive Editor Parallax band members, fans and fellow musicians remember Blake Donner and share their thoughts on such topics as the Provo and Salt Lake hardcore music scenes, straight edge, violence, songwriting, and the state of current music. Gregg Berwick is the Lead Singer of the Seattle Band Trial. He performed a track of spoken word on Parallax's upcoming album Mediums and Messages set to be released October 8,2005. to keep the name Parallax and we're going to continue playing together but we're going to retire all the songs which Blake once sang. We don't want to replace Blake, so we're going to continue writing new songs and instead of looking for a new lead singer we're going to sing them ourselves." Parallax will be traveling on October 8 to Seattle to play with Trial's lead singer Gregg Bennick before Trial's October 9 reunion show. People can get a hold of the band at paralla x@goldenspikemusic.com. Secrist says they will answer emails and people interested in making the trip up to Seattle can join a caravan of people already planning on going. Misty Harajuku was a close friend of Blake Donner. Elliot Secrist is one of Parallax's guitarists. Buy your clothes at the bookstore On Style Over Substance Jonathan Tayler was the lead singer for Blind the Fold and Contralingus better known as Maraloka. Secrist: Our goal was to start a scene separate from all the fashion and tough-guy bullshit. We never cared about fashion: spike belts, Mohawks or fauxhawks, hair dye, seven jeans, whatever is cool. When asked if the band was staying together after the death of singer Blake Donner, Parallax guitarist Elliot Secrist said, "The romance will continue." Drummer Charles Bogus said, "We're going Harajuku: Not one single member of Parallax cared at all about fashion or "image" as far as their music was concerned. If their house burned down before a show, and they had to play naked, or in their grandmother's Michelle Walker Alicia Lee A year has passed. Tempers have subsided, lawsuits have been dropped, and our happy valley is just as happy as ever. But some of you may remember (though many of you may have chosen to forget) the chaos that encompassed UVSC campus last September. In fact, one of my teachers actually shuddered last week at . the mere mention of the name V Michael Moore. Remember the yelling in the hallways? The petition to remove student government from office? The rants of a certain Mr. Kay Anderson? This is not an event to be forgotten. And luckily, filmmaker Steven Greenstreet has brought us a pretty vivid reminder. Greenstreet's documentary "This Divided State," winner of Best Documentary at the Santa Cruz Film Festival, follows the controversy from day one. It captures students' and community members' reactions from the first announcement of Moore's invitation to coverage of both Sean Hannity and Moore's visits, with plenty of mob scenes and light-shedding interviews in between. Life Writer Give up on MATH 1050. You can take it next semester with 39% of the same people Pioneer Theatre Company presents the award winning play by Mary Zimmerman, "Metamorphoses." With a large pool of water as the backdrop and stage, Metamorphoses brings to life the ancient myths of Orpheus, Narcissus, Midas, Aphrodite and Apollo in a fresh and Write the same modern re-telling of Greek paper for all six poet Ovid's enduring tales of of your classes love and transformation. The play has been a critical success; Time Magazine hails that Metamorphoses "shows Between classes, that theatre can provide not split a Twix bar just escape but sometimes a with your girl- glimpse of the divine." friend and chalk Metamorphoses is playing it up for Friday at the Roy W. And Elizabeth night's date E. Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre, located at 300 South and 1400 East in Salt Lake City, September 14 through October 1, 2005. For Lots and lots of ticket and time information, caffeine call 801-581-6961 or visit the PTC web site at www.pioneertheatre.org. top 5 book/ from omazon.com lop 5 movie/ lo/l weekend Harry Potter & The Half BloocJ Prince Just Like Heaven Woman in Your Life J The World is Flat Cry Wolf On Violence, Straight Edge, and SLC compared with Provo Blake felt Straight Edge had most likely literally saved his life. He had done so many drugs when he was in junior high that he felt if he hadn't come across Straight Edge he'd be at least creatively brain dead if not actually dead, long before he did finally die. He was absolutely sober for nine years. Before he passed, Blake expressed an increasing hesitance to call himself Straight Edge because of the violence sometimes associated with that label. He vehemently rejected that violence, although he never rejected the principles of straight edge. Bennick: Violence and Straight Edge are not linked, other than by idiotic people who happen to be straight edge. Secrist: Through a couple of incidents and some ba(n)d apples in the scene, Blake figured there was no point to the label of SXE. You can be drug free and not straight edge. Harajuku: I think that Blake was one of like top 5 itune/ download/ I The film, which is being released on Tuesday, has been re-edited since its original on-campus screening last February. Some of the more drawn-out segments of Hannity and Moore's speeches were cut, and more hallway scenes were added to better represent the upheaval among UVSC Councsy graphic/ thisdividedstate.com See PARALLAX-A9 Photograph- Nickelbac1 Fever Pitch West JL Crash My Humps- Black Eyed Peas # i\ Freakonomics - Wake Me Up When I Sept. Ends- Green Day Help! Mom! There are _ Sugar-We're Goin' | 0 Tim Renolds @ Suede, 9/26 5 Inferno Dance @ McKay Events Q O Monster-ln-La\ W Sahara V * to the Galaxy students, faculty and community members. The hallway scenes (or, debates turned screaming matches) are "where the real action takes place and the real issues are approached," Greenstreet said. The documentary is definitely worth your time and money, if for nothing else than the phenomenal bonus features menu, which includes several interviews of UVSC professors, extra footage from both speeches, and ' more Kay Anderson antics than you can probably handle in one sitting. The most powerful addition is the segment featuring Jim Bassi and Joe Vogel, regarding Vogel's resignation from student government. "We interviewed both , Jim and Joe at length, and they explain what REALLY happened," Greenstreet said. "It is definitely my proudest, most important addition...it's a pretty emotional piece." Greenstreet and his assistant directors Elias Pate and Bryan Young, along with Michelle Pate, production manager, will be at a DVD signing in the bookstore at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 27 for the film's release. (op 10 thing/ lo do Ihi/ week top 5 dvd rental/ * . " ' • • The 40-Year-Old Virgin nightgown, they would. Ancient This Divided State: DVD reviewed Or, just join Student Government and get your clothes for free Life Editor I MONDAY-SEPTEMBER 26*2005 Center, 9/30 Isaac Hayden, Acoustic Tuesdays @ Fat, Dumb & Happy's 9/27 A Battle of the Bands @ UVSC Ballroom, 9/30 Acoustic Open Mic Night @ Muse Music, 9/27 V Emo Philips @ Johnny B's, 9/30 * Bouncing Soul @ In the Venue, 9/28 ' Monty, These Green Eyes, A Demolition Derby 2005 @ * Golden Spike, 10/1 |