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Former student stars in independent film
By BrAnne Hess
writer@kansan.com
Kanson staff writer
By BriAnne Hess
Two guys, a girl and Thanksgiving break.
This love triangle and all its complications are the basis of the independent film, Love 101. The movie opens tonight at Southwind 12, 2393 Iowa St., and will be shown for one week.
Will Carpenter, former University of Kansas theater major, plays a muscle-bound guy. Steve.
"It's a college romantic comedy," he said. "It's a fun film that makes me laugh."
The movie centers on college roommates, Joe and Steve. Joe is in love with Shayna but too shy to tell her. Steve, who is content and able to have any girl he wants, sieeps with Shayna during Thanksgiving break. The melee ensues.
Carpenter and writer/director, Adrian Fulle, will be at the movie's Lawrence opening tonight to gauge audience reaction. They're on the last leg of their three-month tour through the Midwest to distribute and promote the movie.
Equipped with posters, T-
Fulle said he usually could gauge the audience reaction within the first part of the film.
shirts and an RV, the pair took the nonconformist approach to distributing and marketing their movie.
"The first 15 minutes on the average is when people have laughed," Fulle said. "Will's character, Steve, is kind of an in-your-face guy. He has some disgusting habits."
Fulle and Carpenter said they modeled Steve after some of their goofer roommates in college.
"I knew this guy at Western who would put tubes through his screen and would pee out of them." Fulle said.
Steve's character doesn't opt for the window, but often urinates in cups and leaves them sitting around his residence hall room instead of walking down the hall to the bathroom.
Carpenter said the high points of his trip were the sense of adventure that came from hitting the road and revisiting his old haunts in Lawrence. He also has visited former professors.
Adrian Fulle, writer and director of *The Lodge 101*, left, and Will Carpenter, actor and 1992 KU graduate in the theater and film, stand in front of a sign advertising their new movie. The movie will play at the Southwind 12, 3433 Iowa St., tonight and will continue until Thursday.
Portrait by Matt J. Daucherly/KANSAN
Jack Wright, professor of theater, invited Carpenter to share his experiences with
his acting and auditions classes. And Paul Meier, associate professor of theater and film, said he wouldn't miss the movie for the world.
"It's a very enterprising thing to produce a movie and be on the road to distribute it," Meier said. "That's unusual, but more power to them."
The methods behind their madness are done mostly because of budget constraints. Filming was done at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill., in 1997 because they were offered free housing and meals in exchange for the university's final approval of the script. Fulle decided to rent an RV to
distribute the movie because it was cheaper than staying in hotels and eating in restaurants.
And when they were selected to be played at the Cannes Film Festival in France next week, they opted to stay in the United States and save money to use for more advertising.
Bands bring new sounds, CD to The Bottleneck
By John Audlehelm
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Two bands with a new, eclectic rock sound will perform tomorrow night at The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St.
described the band's music as acoustic-groove.
Shaking Tree, one of the bands from the Kansas City area, also will release its new CD at the concert, Matter of Choice, three days before it will appear in any stores.
The second band, Calobo, from Portland, Ore., is in the fourth week of its first nationwide tour. Tomorrow will be the band's second performance at The Bottleneck.
He said that two of the band's singers, David Andrews and Caleb Klauder, recently had started playing the electric guitar. Band members also play the mandolin and piano.
"It creates a pretty unique sound," he said.
Eric Mavers, manager of Calobo.
Mayers said that the band's new songs were structured differently and that the members had learned not to drown each other out.
"The band has been learning to play less to create more" he said.
"It wasn't a sold-out show by any means, but it was a very enthusiastic crowd," he said.
Andrews said the crowd at The Bottleneck two years ago was energetic and responsive to Calobo.
Ari Nisman, manager of Shaking Tree, said the band started in 1997 and immediately began selling out shows in the Midwest.
Shaking Tree did two independent albums before signing with Knot Known Records in November.
Nisman also said the band had been sponsored by two alcoholic beverage companies, Jagermeister and Corona.
"Shaking Tree has been the Corona radio spot all over the nation," he said.
The band will begin selling advance copies of its new CD toomor
row at the concert at a reduced price.
"It hits the streets May 9 in select stores and will be in every store May 30." Nisman said. "They've already started spinning the CD on 93.3."
He said the band, which includes three former KU students, also had a lot of variety in its music.
"We call it an acoustic alterna-pop mixed with Latin, African and Celtic vibes," he said. "Each song combines a little of everything."
Al Jacobsen, manager of the Bottleneck, said he was looking forward to the show.
"I expect a great crowd," he said. "They're both really fun bands — a lot of dancing going on."