4B • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, SEPT. 13, 2001
ENTERTAINMENT
Civic and Servant Leadership
Spend an evening exploring the main reason many of us are involved in leadership roles-helping others and giving back to our communities. This student-driven program highlights some of the key opportunities that exist on our campus that provide service to others while enhancing your education.
Presenters:
Center for Community Outreach; Alternative Breaks; Rock Chalk Revue Community Service
Bitch and Animal let it all hang out
By Erin Adamson Kansan opinion editor
Bitch and Animal's bitchin' hair on the album cover may make you think that a tirade of angsty songs will fill their album.
Instead, the album is more similar to the day you have to let out all the pent up emotions of a bad week, month and life, and you dance around your house, scream, rat your hair, stare at yourself in the mirror, beat on some kitchen pans, bang on your guitar, and finally just start laughing.
It's all over the place.
Bitch and Animal kick off their album, eternally hard, by singing praises to the sexual advantage of boy-girlness and dildos, but most songs on the album are anything but hard.
They are playful and creative in their use of unconventional sound combinations.
Bitch sings and Animal sings, moans and groans backup. They both successfully bang on instruments and create a cacophony of noise. The delight of their music, lots of it in spoken word form, is the constantly surprising sound. All of a sudden, a dog is barking. Animal's panting and mean marimba is knocking out Caribbean rhythms in the middle of sung "blah do blabs."
The two approach their songs like kids let loose to play in their grandma's kitchen.
Forget the usual guitar, bass and drums equation. Bitch and Animal have conquered no less than the djembe (an African drum), bass, fiddle, violin, mini steel drum, nails (yes, as in for building), ukelee, marimba, ocean drum, gong (homemade), keyboard and even a didjerwedo.
Wheeeeeeee!
The music is playful, but Bitch and Animal are sinegng about social change.
In "Pissed," they decay overpopulation, racism and urban sprawl. Bitch cries. "Don't sell my junkyard/don't package my death/I need the earth for my feet/and the wind for my breath." In the background, Animal's distorted voice screams, scats, calls like an animal and finally fades away crying like a hysterical monkey.
Bitch and Animal offer up a smoky carol with "ganja," in which they have set their own version of the immaculate conception to the tune of the Christmas carol "Gloria."
Prepare to giggle through the song.
"Angels we have heard are high" smoking joints up in the sky."
The album builds to a climax with the "prayer to sparkly queen areola." You won't be able to find a category for this song. But it's a great premise for a risqué Halloween costume.
Ani Difranco produced the album on Righteous Babe Records and even sings backup on a
song. But this isn't Ani — it's purely Bitch and Animal.
Contact Adamson at 864-4810
Reggae, cowboy-mix band performs tonight at Jazzhaus
by Donovan Atkinson Jayplay writer
Blending the themes of the Wild West with the sound of reggae, the Reggae Cowbys have created a unique, interesting sound that, while unconventional, is easy to find enjoyable. Enjoyable enough for the group to release a second album. Rock Steady Rodeo.
The Reggae Cowboys are playing in Lawrence at 10 tonight at the Jazzhaus, 926 1/2 Massachusetts St.
The Reggae Cowboys were formed in 1993 in Toronto, by Dominicanborn Bird Bellony and Algernon Rabess. The two newest members of the band are Derrick Lindo, of England, on drums and Keith Evanson, of Trinidad, on bass and background vocals.
Both Bellony and Rabess provide lead vocals, with Bellony on lead guitar and
Rabess on rhythm guitar.
The source of the Cowboys' unique musical sound is the fact that they sound like cowboys, and that they lead with the guitar.
At the center of the band's music is the slide guitar, where as in traditional reggae the focus is on the bass.
Rock Steady Rodeo, the follow up to the Reggae Cowboys' 1995 Tell the Truth, provides 11 tracks of cowboy-inspired reggae songs written by Bellony and Rabesc. The other two tracks are a cover of Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling
Stone" and an instrumental version of Bob Marley's "Redemption Song."
"Reggae Rodeo," whose refrain provides the title of the album, sets the album's mood with its light lyrics and easy sound. Stand-out songs on the disc are "Wild West Indian" and "Geronimo."
The Cowboys' cover of "Like a Rolling Stone" is an upbeat revision of the original, with the blend of engaging reggae sounds.
The other tracks on the album also contain the same spirit of "Reggae Rodeo," but they tend to blend together from similarity.
The Reggae Cowboys have produced an enjoyable album that might surprise those who would scoff at the combination of reggae and the Wild West.
Contact Atkinson at 864-4810
Tickets are $5.
LIVE MUSIC
Tonight
Jazzhaus, 926 1/2 Massachusetts St.,
Reggae Cowbys;
Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., Season
To Risk, Splucs, Dixie Witch, 8 p.m.
Tomorrow:
Jazzhaus, Lafayette, Holstein; Bottleneck, Son Venezuela, 7 p.m.; Raoul's Velvet Room, 815 New Hampshire, Simplexity, 10 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 15
The Bottleneck, Brent Barry & The Second-hands, 7 p.m.
Jazzhaus, Shaking Tree
Sunday, Sept. 16 Matchbox Twenty and Train, Sandstone Ampitheatre
Monday, Sept. 17 The Bottleneck, Open Mike night, 8 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 18
The Bottleneck, The World Famous Beat
Junkies with Visionarie, 8 p.m.
An Invitation to Graduate and Professional Students From the Graduate and Professional Association (GPA)
Join us for GPA's Annual Picnic and Info Fair September 14, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Potter's Pavilion (located behind Potter's lake and Carruth O' Leary)
Campus offices, services, and organizations will have information tables, brochures, and representatives
Complementary Food catered by Kansas Union & Drinks by the Coca-Cola/KU Foundation
Freebees include phone cards with 30 minutes free calls by Grad Resources
For more info call 864-4914 Or visit GPA's website www.ku.edu
Beginning and Intermediate Knitting Classes Starting Soon!
Beginning Knitting: Learn by making a hat, mitten, or sweater! Plus get 20% off class yarns.
Sept. 17 (Mon.) 7:00-9:00 p.m. 8 wks. $25.00
Sept. 18 (Tues.) 7:00-9:00 p.m. 8 wks. $25.00
Oct. 17 (Wed.) 7:00-9:00 p.m. 8 wks. $25.00
Oct. 18 (Thurs.) 6:30-8:30 p.m. 6 wks. $20.00
Complete schedule of classes available at the Yarn Barn on knitting, weaving, rug braiding, tatting, and spinning.
930 MASSACHUSETTS 842-4333 Open Daily YARN BARN
REGISTER NOW!
at 1103 Mass. St.
Classes held at 1414 W.6th St.
785.841.1587
www.lunaria.net
MONDAY
Yoga & Tai Chi
Sept 10 - Nov 18 2001
10 wks (unless noted*)
MONDAY
Yoga Basics 9-10am
Tai Chi I 6-7 pm
Tai Chi II 7:15-8:15pm
TUESDAY
Yoga Basics II 9-10am (*9 wks)
Yoga Flow 6-7pm
Yoga Basics 7:15 8:15pm
Yoga Basics 7:15-8:15pm
WEDNESDAY
WEDNESDAY
Prental Yoga 6-7pm ('8 wks)*
Tai Chi I 7:15-8:15pm
THURSDAY
Tai Chi II 6-7pm
Tai Chi I 7:15-8:15pm
Yoga Basics 7:15-8:15pm
FRIDAY
Yoga Basics 9-10am
SATURDAY
Yoga Basics 9:15-10:15am
Tai Chi I 10:30-11:30am
Tai Chi II 11:45-12:45pm
SUNDAY
Gentle Yoga Basics 4-5pm
Yoga Basics 5:30-6:30pm