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Show life B2 TUESDAY • FEBRUARY 20 • 2007 Heather's Cookbook Spencer speaks Proudly submitted by Dave Jensen The dark side of the force but I've been having a duel with it for the past week. Spencer King It all started when I was Life Writer driving to Salt Lake to perform at Wise guys Comedy Cafe. Life was good. School was good. I was There are two forces that good. I was on Interstate exist in this universe: One 15 and traffic was the usual of those forces is a posi- ... it sucked. I looked to tive force that drives us to my right to check my side achieve great things; it in- mirror, and when I looked spires us and gives us hope. in front of me, everyone And then there's that had decided to suddenly other negative force that stop. You know those sudsquashes the positive force den stops Utah drivers love dead. Let's talk about that to make. "Well, I've been second force. It's the force driving without a problem that laughs at you when for a while, better stop you trip and no one is look- suddenly for no apparing. It's the same force that ent reason." This caused comes out every time you a chain reaction, which get turned down for a date. I ended with my car sliding don't know what it's called. on the freshly wet pave- ment {thank you, Mother flipped me off. That's when Nature) and slamming into I knew that I had been the car in front of me. This "punk'd" by the universe. I tried to get out of my sent that car hurtling into car to go kick the crap out the truck in front of it. Hurray! I've just been involved of this little monkey, but I in my first 1-15 accident. couldn't. My car door was As I sat there pondering jammed shut. As a matwhat just happened, I saw ter of fact, the front of my something out of the cor- car was spread across the ner of my eye. I looked out highway, like soft marmy window, and I saw that garine on warm toast. nameless, negative force. Luckily, no one was hurt, It seemed to be growing but my car was totaled. and gathering together. I Since then, I've been watched it as it began to sick and missed work slowly take shape. It took and school, all while the shape of a little mon- trying to find a new key with a funny hat rid- car. It hasn't been fun. ing a tricycle along side I've learned somethe highway. As I looked thing from all this: The at this little tricycle-rid- universe is out to get us. ing monkey, it held out its Run! Or the tricycle-ridlittle monkey hand, and ing monkey will get you! World-famous Root Beer Floats Ingredients: 1 1/2 gallon of vanilla ice cream 1 2-liter bottle of root beer (A&W is preferable.) Directions: Place three scoops of vanilla ice cream into a 12 oz. glass. Next add root beer. Let fizzle, then enjoy. (Add additional root beer or vanilla ice cream as needed.) If you have a good recipe. The College Times would be happy to print i t E-mail us at heatherscookbook@yahoo.com Local music review Obscure album title for semi-obscure local band Local music review Dave Eaton releases his second album, Ataraxy UVSC student releases second CD Chad Hunt Life Writer "Ataraxy" is an interesting word. Obscure as to usage, it defines a state of freedom from emotional disturbance. In other words, it's a not-too-often used synonym for "tranquility." Upon first listening to Ataraxy, an album by Salt Lake City's Dave Eaton, the name Dave Matthews immediately comes to mind. Of course, this sophomore attempt by Eaton has plenty of inventive material and sound to qualify it as his own. Eaton and his band manage to put together jazzy piano with smooth guitar to make an easy-listening album with Eaton's salty voice lulling the listener while he tells his stories. A/tf/m-vhasamuchmore upbeat and developed feel from his previous album, 267 NORTH 100 EAST. The only drawback to Eaton's music is his lyrics. The album seems to want to take you into a story, but through what feels like attempts to make sure the song rhymes, it devi- Local indie artist, Jason Pyles, plays On Sacred Ground Photo credit/Jamie Teerlink Songwriter Dave Eaton on his Ataraxy album cover. ates from the direction the song is trying to go. Eaton's sound is generally classified as indiefolk-rock, with a hint of country, but Ataraxy actually comes off with more of a jazzy feel, like Vince Guaraldi Trio jazz, except short and to the point. Dave Eaton and his friends have produced a local diamond that is still covered in the rough due to a lack of public view and marketing. The band has marketability, but finding access to the music is difficult, unless you happen to catch a show or contact Eaton online. There is an opportu- nity to catch Dave • Eaton in concert in Provo at Velour on March 3. His CD, Ataraxy, will be available at the show. More information about Dave Eaton and how to purchase his CD can be found at www.myspace. com/uncledaveeaton Great movies to stall the drought A look at the good flicks being released between now and summer Luke Hickman Life Editor When the awards season rolls around each year, studios release their stockpile of not-so-good movies. Every February is filled with great hits like this year's Ghost Rider, The Astronaut Farmer ami Hannibal Rising (please lay the sarcasm on thickly). Here's a look at the "breaths of fun air" that will be coming out between now and the bright-looking summer ahead of us. 300 - 300 Spartan sol- diers must find safe grounds to defend their country from a million-man army. In the same style as Sin City, Frank Miller's 300 was shot entirely in front of green screens to apply dreamlike backgrounds to every single moment. Black Snake Moan After premiering at Sundance, this off-beat flick in the south about a religious man (Samuel L. Jackson) holding a whoremonger (Christina Ricci) hostage until God changes her from her evil ways, has gained lots of hype. Sunshine - Writer/director Danny Boyle dives into a new genre with this bigbudget, psychological, sci-fi thriller. A team of astronauts heads toward our dying sun in an attempt to reignite it and save all humankind. Hot'Fuzz - In case you didn't know, "fuzz" is BritGrindhouse - Quentin ish for police. From the Tarantino {Pulp Fiction) brilliant minds behind the and Robert Rodriguez (Sin mock zombie film, Shaun City) team up in this double of The Dead, and the guys feature that mimics the vio- that "have seen every aclent, sensual exploitation tion movie ever" comes flicks of the '70s. Taran- Hot Fuzz, yet another mock tino brings us Deathproof, action comedy about the a slasher show about a guy best cop in all of the U.K. with an indestructible car, HELP W A N T E D i JLdJUtoAJx i and Rodriguez delivers Planet Terror, a zombiethemed movie where Rosa McGowan has a massive gun welded to her body to replace an extremity. Expect lots of well-planned cheese. \ xucxpiy. Photo credit/Jason Pyles The cover of Jason Pyles' new album On Sacred Ground. "There are still spiritual songs, but this is a more intimate, bare-bones, acoustic collection of lyrical message songs/' Spencer Shell We Writer Five years since his first CD release of Things To Come, UVSC student Jason Pyles released his second album. On Sacred Ground, last month. "This second album is quite different from Things To Come" Pyles said. "There are still spiritual songs, but this is a more intimate, barebones, acoustic collection of lyrical message songs." Accompanied by his own guitar playing, piano playing, and his bass player Eric Fichtner, Pyles primarily sings autobiographical songs on this latest CD. But a few of his songs reference historic individuals and events of the past, including a tribute to the musicians of the ill-fated Titanic and songs about the life of Jesus Christ. Pyles started his musical adventure at age 14 when he heard his friend play the song "Silhouettes" by The Rays on a miniature keyboard. "I was fascinated that someone could reproduce a song that was on the radio,'1 said Pyles. Shortly thereafter, the selftaught musician began writing his own music. "In my 16 years of songwriting, I have written more than 100 songs; I can't readily recall how to play them all, but since I know how they're supposed to sound, I could figure them out again on the piano," said Pyles. Thesongwriterdescribed his music as being "either spiritually oriented or everyday-life-issues songs." "My professional recordings are mostly spiritual tunes," Pyles said, "with a few radio-friendly, temporal songs sprinkled in." Pyles has performed in several states across the country and has even played in Canada. He was among the opening acts for Julie de Azevedo, Greg Simpson, Paul Cardall and Peter Breinholt at the Sandy Amphitheater in 2003. But presently, Pyles said he's content with simply playing in his living room. For more information on Jason Pyles and his music, visit www.jasonpyles. blogspot.com |