"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1211252"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-08-27"@en . "1997-08-05"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/Ubysseynews/items/1.0126928/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " Radical\nWhy volunteers would\nrun a Commercial Drive\ncoffeehouse?\nSpace\nFirst Brit pop\nband on the moon\u00E2\u0080\u0094find\nout how.\nphallus\nActivists disrupt ceremony\nto give Strangway\n'corporate dick' award.\nordering scotch since 1981\nThe sun\ncomes out!\nPhotos by Cecelia Parsons\nBeneath a beautiful blue sky, Vancouver's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community, and their friends\nand families gathered to enjoy the city's\nmost colourful parade.\nJoining the Pride Parade were about 16\nPride UBC members on hand to celebrate\nseveral parade firsts.\nFor the first time ever, the Gay and\nLesbian Law Enforcement Officers, in full\nuniform, marched proudly down the\nDenman Street parade route. The Officers\nwere favorites for spectators who saw it as\na photo opportunity and a chance to be\nhandcuffed.\nThis year's event also marked the\ntime participation of Vancouver Police\nChief, Bruce Chambers, and Mayor Philip\nOwen who started the parade off with a\nbang.\nOne Pride UBC member said he was\npleased that Owen and Chambers\nmarched in solidarity, calling it an important \"symbolic\" gesture.\nOver 100 groups, organisations and\nbusinesses marched in this years parade,\nand it is estimated that the crowds\nreached an all-time high thanks to the sun\nfinally coming out\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Ubyssey staff\nNative youth seek voice in AFN\n by Stanley Tromp\nCanada's native youth have hope they'll gain a\nvoice in the Assembly of First Nations (AFN)\nunder Phil Fontaine, who was elected Grand\nChief last week.\nMany young people at the AFN annual convention July 29-31 said they were frustrated\nthat the AFN often ignores youth.\nTwo teenage girls from the alternative\ngroup United Native Nations (UNN) had hoped\ncandidates in the leadership race would\nanswer a UNN questionnaire about youth and\nnon-status Indians. But they said the candidates ignored their questionnaire. \"We're disposable,\" one laughed.\nMuch of Fontaine's support came from\nminority groups in the AFN: non-status, off-\nreserve and young natives.\nIn an unscheduled speech to the delegates\nand guests. David Dennis, a young native\nactivist tore into the AFN for neglecting youth\nissues.\nAfter the vote, the new federal Indian Affairs\nminister Jane Stewart spoke to the AFN about\nher plans for a \"new partnership.\"\nStewart recited grim social statistics about\nlife on reserves and added she no longer cared\nto issue \"prescriptions\" to natives on how to\nmanage their affairs. She said that answers to\nissues like a high suicide rate, unemployment,\na housing shortage and poor nutrition and\nhealth have to come from native people.\n\"Control from Ottawa has not brought us along\nas far as we want to be,\" said Stewart, prompting cheers from delegates.\nIn a letter to former Grand Chief Ovide\nMercredi, Canadian Federation of Students\n(CFS) chair Brad Lavigne thanked him for supporting the Aboriginal Students' Hunger Strike\nand the On to Ottawa Trek. Lavigne urged the\nCFS-AFN coalition-building to continue.\nThe AFN represents 633 Canadian native\nbands. 5, 1997\ni\u00E2\u0084\u00A2ffflfi Sun rises over Powell Street Festival\nCLEAN BASEMENT ROOM.\n$250.00. Quiet student, nonsmoking non-drinking, share,\nwash room, fridge. 435-5218\nHOUSE FOR SALE: 2-bedroom\nrancher, North Vancouver. On\nUBC Bus Route (Sep-Apr).\n$299,900.00. Perfect for pets,\ngardeners and you. 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Reach the biggest\nconcentration of 18-22 year\nolds in the lower mainland.\nPhone 822-1654 or 822-6681.\nJapanese Canadians celebrate\ntheir culture, and throw\nin a few surprises\n by Charlie Cho\nAmatersasu [the Sun Goddess] made her presence felt Sunday afternoon at the 21st annual\nPowell Street Festival, celebrating Japanese-\nCanadian art, history and culture. With temperatures in the thirties, most of the seniors were\nforced to seek shelter from the scorching noon\nheat. This year's theme, My Voice to Yours: From\nGeneration to Generation, was illustrated by the\nactive participation of both youth and seniors all\nweekend. Throughout Oppenheimer Park, there\nwas a pervading sense of good\nhumour and lighthearted family fun.\nFor me the day started with a couple of professional Rikishi [sumo\nwrestlers] fromjapan who treated the\ncrowd to a show when they gamely\ntook on half a dozen pre-teen boys.\nMeanwhile fifty festival goers, young\nand old, men and women, big and\nsmall, volunteered for the popular\nsumo wrestling tournament. And for\nthe first time, women were allowed to\ntake part in this event. The typical\nbout was over in seconds, but there\nwere a few dramatic duels. The slim,\nrainbow-mohawked Matt X easily\ndefeated the large, crowd-mugging\nLucky (or unlucky as the case may be),\nby diving aside at the last moment. In\nthe end, Gomyo won the tournament\nby defeating Kimi in an almost Greco-\nRoman wrestling fashion.\nTo escape the heat, I went to the Firehall Arts\nCentre to attend a workshop about children of\ninterracial marriages. The Japanese Canadian\nCitizens Association (JCCA) Human Rights\nCommittee presented two short films, Domino\nand Mixed Messages.\nIn the panel discussions that followed, personal stories from those who attended cut to the\nheart of the perceptual dissonance between how\nmultiracial people identify themselves and how\nothers perceive them. Kirniko Hotta in Mixed\nMessages, a daughter of a Japanese father and a\nCaucasian mother, expressed the common\ndilemma of feeling Caucasian in Japan, yet\nJapanese in Canada. Kirniko felt closer to her\nJapanese heritage, and legally changed her name\nfrom Kimberly Denise.\nCamille, a bi racial child in a The festival had a different feel from\nmultiracial relationship, what I'd expected. A thirty-some-\nreminded interracial couples thing wjth purp|e mppy gasses ^\nbeside me and opened a Japanese\nto tiiink about the effects of\ntheir decision to have a child\ntogether. \"You can't expect\nSUMO KING thrown from the ring by kids, richelle rae photo\nyour child to save the world from racism just\nbecause you're mating,\" she said. On the same\nsubject, she added that interracial children must\nforever bear the burden of \"where are you\nfrom?\" and \"were you adopted?\" no matter\nwhere they live and no matter how many generations their family has lived there. Panelists\nPeter Y. Nishimura and Tomiye Ishida, suggested support through organisations and activism\nmight help these children. They discussed the\npossibility of forming a bi-racial support group\nthrough the JCCA.\nOnce back at the festival I decided to check\nout the arts and crafts booths. With its colourful\nbanners, trinkets and T-shirts, the festival had a\ndifferent feel from what I'd expected. I spotted a\nyoungjapanese man with a Shonen Knife T-shirt.\nBefore long, a thir-\nty-something\nCaucasian in a\nbusiness suit with\npurple hippy\nglasses sat beside\npaper umbrella me and opened a\nJapanese paper\numbrella.\nA mass of people forming\nbehind me interrupted my musings and I noticed that the Koroku\nDance had begun. Six shadow}'\nghosts were writhing on the grass\nbefore me. Painted in white and\nclad in white flowing robes the\ndancers would drift and fall, alternating between exquisite pain and\npeace. Unnervingly silent, the\ndance ended.\nA few feet away, nine women\nprepared the diamond stage for\nKatari Taiko, known as the talking\ndrums. As the program said, \"Big\ndrums and Asian women raising\nhell.\" Shouts like frenetic pistons,\nmarked the building tempo and the\nloud synchronous beats. The\nrhythms sped up to a hum, then bass hit my\neardrums like waves against the rocks.\nThe festival ended with a crowd-pleaser\nplayed by the Katari Taiko, appropriately called\n\"Festival.\"\nA fitting end to Vancouver's longest-running\ncommunity celebration of issei and nisei [the\nfirst and second generation immigrants] in the\nJapanese-Canadian community.\nAMS*Update\nA?.-\nALMA MATER SOCIETY\nSTUDENT SOCIETY OF UBC\nWe Are... 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(Zolacvt &ofu&i\nCopyRight is\nConveniently located\non the Lower Level of SUB\nOwned 100% by the Students of UBC by Jamie Woods\nMatt mcGrath doesn't look crazy, but disspelung doubts\nabout a guy who volunteers thirty hours a week in a coffeehouse is not easy.\nMcGrath works at the La Quena Coffeehouse on\nCommercial Drive, and at the end of most weeks he winds up\nnursing scalds and blisters from the espresso machine, or\nbruises from slipping on coffee grounds spilt on the floor.\n\"You get your good weeks and your bad weeks,\" says\nMcGrath.\nFor similar high stress work, Starbucks workers\napproached the Canadian Auto Workers Union seeking a higher wage and three weeks ago signed a collective agreement\nwith the Seattle based corporation for a $0.75 per hour pay\nMy whole contact with the community evolved out of La\nQuena. I think it's like that for a lot of people.\"\nFIFTEEN YEARS AFTER LA QUENA WAS OPENED, A GLIMPSE OVER\nITS events calendar reveals a shift hi the mission behind the\ncoffeehouse. In the early eighties, staff raised enough money\nto feed an entire battalion ofthe FMLN. Today, fundraisers are\ndirected more towards locally based initiatives such as the\nMusicians Association for Coop Housing.\nOver the years, the politics haven't changed a great deal at\nLa Quena. Posters of revolutionary heroes Che Guevara and\nEmiliano Zapata still line the walls, and books such as\nInternational Socialism Volume Seventeen and The Program\nofthe Communist Party ofthe Soviet Union continue to gather\ndust on the shelves.\nWhat has changed\nare tie causes that the\nCaw revolution\nFor most people, coffee\nand politics don't mix\nthat well. But at La\nQuena, it's just the\nopposite.\nincrease.\nBut asking even for minimum wage would be unfliink-\nable for La Quena staff like\nMcGrath. \"Sometimes you\nwonder why you put yourself\nthrough it But most of the\ntime you can see that what\nyou're doing has a positive\nimpact,\" he says.\nInside La Quena, there is no shimmering new espresso bar or expensive art deco furniture to attract customers; the tables are old and worn, the utensils don't\nmatch, and the coffee maker is often broken down.\nSituated on the north end of \"The Drive,\" La Quena\ncouldn't be stuck in a more competitive cafe district.\nAcross the street is Joe's Cafe, two blocks down sits the\nCafe Deux Soleil, and the Havana lies less than a block\naway, regularly filled to capacity. With the exception of La\nQuena, all the cafes in the area can afford to pay their\nstaff.\nBut while management in the other cafes make high\nturnover a priority, La Quena staff work on keeping people in their seats for the whole evening.\nMost nights, La Quena draws a crowd for a performer\nor speaker. Some nights for poetry and song, other\nnights for politics. Tonight, it's volunteer overseas night,\nand universily students have taken over the coffeehouse.\nThe mostly young and clean cut students are looking for\na satisfying way to spend their summer, and have come\nto La Quena for a slide show on community work in\nCentral America. The tour leader giving the presentation\ntells how pleasant it was to have Costa Rican children\nwaking her up in the morning. \"It was really uplifting,\"\nshe says.\nLaviticus Jackson, a La Quena staff member, is\nannoyed by the remark and the tone of the evening. As\nhe puts the chairs back in their places at the tables, Jackson\nsets the record straight. \"Sending privileged middle class students to foreign countries is not what we're all about.\"\nFUELED BY A CONVICTION THAT REVOLUTION WAS THE SOLUTION\nFOR Latin America, a group of Chilean expats formed La Quena\nin 1983. The founders used the coffeehouse to build support\nnetworks for movements such as the Sandinistas in Nicaragua\nand the FMLN (Frente Marti Liberacion National) insurgent\narmy in El Salvador.\nThe coffeehouse was directed along more\ntraditional lines, however. \"La Quena was\nvery different when I joined,\" says Martha\nRoberts, a staff member since 1994. \"It was\nrun by a board of directors. The kitchen staff\nwere paid and the counter staff were volunteers.\"\nRoberts hadn't been there for long\nwhen lhings began to change. \"That June,\nthe board resigned because of financial difficulties. The entire staff was laid off, and La\nQuena was doomed to close.\"\nAt that point, most places would have\ndone just that. But staff decided that La\nQuena was too valuable. \"Volunteers made\nthe decision to keep it running. Instead of\nassuming board positions we decided to run\nit collectively.\"\nEver since, decisions on ruruiing the coffeehouse are made by consensus in weekly staff meetings. Up\nto thirty volunteers attend the meetings, which can sometimes\nlast for hours. But the long meetings don't discourage the staff,\nmany of whom have worked at La Quena for several years.\nRoberts has no doubts about why people stay involved: \"It's\nthe connection to the community that's kept La Quena going.\nLA QUENA, coffee, poetry, activism, enchiladas,\nand Che, all in one place, richard lam photos\ncoffeehouse stands behind. Since 1994, when\nthe Zapatistas, a rebel group in southern Mexico, took over four towns in\nprotest ofthe Mexican government's\nprivatisation policies, La Quena lias\nbeen the organising centre of the\nEyes on Mexico activist group and\nhas hosted forums attended by\nZapatistas. Apart from these links,\nhowever, and the occasional\n'The type of fragmentation that exists in\nsociety is deadly,\" says Laviticus\nJackson, a La Quena staffer,\nseated in front of a mural of\nFelix the Cat holding a hammer and sickle. \"Social\nDarwinism is the logic\nof many people I\nspeak to.\"\nfundraiser for the Canada-Cuba\n\| Friendshipment, La Quena has turned\naway from Latin America and is reacting more to\nevents unfolding in BC.\nBoth staff and customers take interest in the work of locally-based environrnental or aboriginal rights groups. Last\nmonth, the Forest Action Network addressed the protests on\nKing Island, the Gustafsen Lake defenders built support for\nthose on trial for the 1995 standoff, and Peoples Action for\nThreatened Habitat raised awareness about logging in the\nStoltmann wilderness area. Each night, the coffeehouse was\nfilled to capacity.\nBut the campaign with the most support at La Quena has\nbeen the one centred around an event to be held at UBC. The\nAsia Pacific Economic Co-operation [APEC] has been widely\ncriticised for its neglect of labour codes and environmental\nconcerns, as well as for its closed-door decision making.\nFormed out of meetings held at La Quena, the No to i^PEC!\ncoalition has grown from a group of five to a support network,\nof hundreds, and is organising mass protests for the upcoming summit. Many of La Quena's staff are active with the coalition.\nLa Quena's switch of direction has coincided with the\nchanging concerns of its clientele. In 1982, with guerilla forces\nin Central America capturing headlines, Canadian activists\nwere quick to answer the call for solidarity with\naid convoys and campaigns against American\nintervention in the region.\nToday, however, many of those activists are\neither unemployed or cannot find work that\npays more than minimum wage. Their struggle\nhas changed from warding off the imperialist\nenemy to simply paying the rent.\n\"The type of fragmentation that exists in\nsociety is deadly,\" says Jackson, seated in front\nof a mural of Felix the Cat holding a hammer\nand sickle. \"Social Darwinism is the logic, of\nmany people I speak to.\"\nFor Jackson, who is originally from LA, icons\nlike Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi\npromote a pacifism that isn't of much use in the\nreal world. \"I don't believe we live in a society\nthat promotes non-violence. Our society is\nbased on violence. Just look at what's going on\nin the Downtown Eastside. The process of gentrification is a very violent thing.\"\nLike many others at La Quena, Jackson isn't\ninterested in turning the other cheek. \"We don't\nbelieve in the concept of service here. We\nbelieve in the concept of cooperation. We're trying to provide a space for people to communicate ideas freely and to form the bases of political action. In this environment we seek to promote conflict.\"\nAN ACTIVIST FOR THE UNEMPLOYED IN THE\nDOWNTOWN EASTSIDE, William Kay has organised workshops and networks at La Quena for\nseveral years.\n\"It's not always easy to get spots\nto meet if you're on the left [La\nQuena staff] have made it something of a hub of activists, sort of a\nclearinghouse.\"\nWith the Vancouver Labour\nMarket Research Group, Kay works\nwith East Side residents threatened\nwith welfare cuts for not attending\njob search sessions. The VLMRG\nadvises people that their unemployment\nisn't a result of inadequate job search techniques or a poor resume.\n\"For a while at La Quena we've held welfare\nappeal workshops\njust as a movement\nto inform people of\ntheir rights and to\nencourage people\nto take a more combative approach to\nwelfare. In East\nVancouver, probably about a third of\nthe people are now on welfare. The [federal government]\nroutinely misleads- people and gives them a very narrow\nnotion of what their rights are and as such a lot of people get\ndenied welfare and benefits that they're clearly entitled to.\nBy showing people how to go about filing an appeal and trying to encourage them to have a little backbone when dealing with the bureaucrats, we've stimulated literally hundreds of people to start filing appeals and start fighting\nback.\"\nAlong with the welfare appeal workshops, Kay has used\nthe coffeehouse as a centre for organising actions against\nunemployment and welfare cuts, and credits it for bringing\ndiverse elements of the East Side together. \"If it wasn't for La\nQuena, a lot of activity would be dispersed,\" he says.\nWithout La Quena, Kay says that the East Side would lose a\nvaluable tool for self-reflection. \"For all its trials and tribulations, La Quena is a good resource. It's something that a lot of\nother cities lack. We need more of them.\"*}. THb SUMMER UBYSSEY \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1997\na& \u00C2\u00BB> t 0* )W I\nTHE SUMMER UBYSSEV* UlESDA^^(SUST 5, Wff \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nSpace, the final frontier\nby John Zaozirny\nDescribing Space's music is an unenviable task.\nThe New Yorker describes it as \"wacky, Bacharach-\ninfluenced glam pop.\" This description is certainly convoluted, but it neglects to mention the joyously grim\ngallows humour displayed in the lyrics, the wild sampling and scratching, or the lounge music allusions that\nbubble up into Space's musical dialogue.\nAnd of course, there's Mill tli.il .mini \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ~\npresent Brit-Pop label lo '\u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 *''\u00C2\u00BBBWnhiK<\ndealt with. Which all Minis\nup why its much better\nto let Space's musii\nspeak for itself. .' '-\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\",\nThat's exactly why\nSpace have descended\nupon North Americj\nwith their latest stab a\nsuccessful tour\u00E2\u0080\u0094the\ntwo were derailed b\\nThis tour seems to be linn, time hu k\\nthough, and Space are rollinu Miioolhh .il.nig\nthanks no doubt to their overwhelming charm and\nhumour, and their propensity to have a damn good\ntime\u00E2\u0080\u0094no matter what.\nSpace stands in pretty stark contrast to the\npomposity and grandeur affected by a number\nof British bands entering a continent where\ntheir latest single hasn't even been heard of.\nFranny, Space's keyboardist and in-\nhouse electronics wizard, notes, \"We\nhaven't come over here to conquer the\nplace. We're just going over here to do\na few shows and if people appreciate\nit then that's great. And at the end of\nthe day, if they don't like us, then we just go back home\nand carry on the way we were in England. It's not a big\ndeal with us. We're actually enjoying it while we can.\"\nThis ambling, good-natured attitude also reflects the\nHair raising film\nWILLIAM SHATNER LENT ME HIS HAIRPIECE\nat The New Review Theatre,\nGranville Island\nby Robin Yeatman\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00ABm\u00C2\u00BByM\u00E2\u0080\u0094^\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 i ii \t\nThis zany trekkie tale, WilMam Shatner Lent Me\nHis Hairpiece (an Untrue Story), directed by Ken\nHegan was one of many films that made its way\ninto this mostly tunny and oilen weird compua\ntion of short Canadian films. Hegan himself acts\nin the film as the balding trekkie obsessed with\nShatner's hairpiece This award-winning film\nrevolves around Hegan's possession of\nShatner's rug, and its monumental impact on\nhis life. Mainly, it got him a bunch of cute girls\nin mini skirts batting their false eyelashes in the\nsoftly lit background. Most of the laughs are\nthanks to Theatre Sports veteran Gary Jones,\nplaying the role of James T. Kirk.\nBut Hegan's film was not the only star in the\nseries. A few other films are also worth mentioning. \"All Ihe Great Operas (in Ten Minutes)\"\ndirected by Kim Thompson. This film is animated in true Monty Python style, giving a crash\ncourse in opera by breaking the art form down to\nits two lowest denominators: sex and violence.\nOther highlights included the short comedic\ncartoons \"Black Hula\", \"Dog Brain\" and \"Lupo\nthe Butcher\" (created by Marv Newland). They\nall have the uncensored quality often seen at\nSpike & Mike's Sick and Twisted festival.\nOn the whole. Short Takes was an interesting\nglimpse at local short films. Not only, did it\nshowcase modern Vancouver talent, but it provided more than a few good laughs.*\nsecret of Space's success: an ability to blend their disparate and eclectic musical tastes together to maximum effect.\n\"The reason \" Female of the Species' [Space's breakthrough single] sounds the way it does is because all\nmembers of the band are into so many different types\nof music. I'm into techno music, Tommy [vocals] loves\nIn a musical world that's\nbecoming increasingly burdened\nby it s own sense of importance\nand gravity Space is a welcome\nbreath of extra-terrestrial air.\nsoundtracks, old B-movies, stuff like that: Andy's\n[drums] into rap and punk music. Jamie [guitar] will listen to anything,'' Franny explains.\nSome have claimed that Space's music has echoes of\nanother motley crew that made surprisingly innovative\nmusic. The facts that Space are from Liverpool, have\ntwo songwriters, a bassist for a singer, and a disarming\nsense of humour have led to the inevitable Beatle's\ncomparisons.\n\"We've been misquoted as saying we hate the\nBeatles. That's not true. We all love the Beatles. We're\nproud to be mentioned in the same sentence as them.\nThere's no point though in going back and sounding\nlike nnisii lhat was done thirty years ago. If\nlhe Re.itles were around now, they'd be\nmething like The Prodigy, 'cause\nthe Beatles were moving so for-\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ward. They wouldn't still be\nfi playing guitar music. You\nwouldn't have your Oasis and\nyour Cast and all them bands.. *\nIt takes a lot of guts to write\nnusic and try something differ-\ne's own \"new and different\"\nniusic h.is sparked a worldwide hit, \"Female of\nie Aperies thai h.is popped up in the unlikeliest of\nplaces\u00E2\u0080\u0094 from Australian soap operas to Southeast\nAsia\u00E2\u0080\u0094a fact that creeps Franny out.\n\"It's the scariest thing in the world. We sometimes\nsit down, me and Tommy, and he'll sit there and say,\n\" Hold on, we're on the other side of the world just\nbecause I picked up a guitar and wrote a song. It's\ncrazy. We arrived at Bangkok at three in the morning\nand there's fucking crowds of groupies and fans. In\nBangkok! They're giving us presents and following us around Bangkok, and staying outside our\nhotel. It's just insane.\"\nThe trouble is though, if Space keep on producing their brand of insanely catchy pop\nmusic, they can expect more of that kind of treatment.\nSpace just might want to watch A Hard Day's Night for\na refresher course.\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\n(\n'J l { ii &\nl.V*\",#lfVtJJ\u00C2\u00BB\"\nScreaming female fans pant after Keanu\nby Alison Cole\nly recent New Zealander film, Once Were Warriors, that\ndealt with similar issues in the same honest, raw fashion.\nNicholas' direction is strong, leaving the audience\non the edge of their seat throughout the film. Because of\ntheir intensity the over-the-top domestic violence scenes\nbecome almost comedic at times. Nicholas paints a disturbingly realistic picture of New Zealand, one rife with\nethnic conflict due to a violent reaction against the flood\nof immigrants from Eastern Europe and Asia in recent\nyears. This New Zealand is no melting pot or mosaic.\nAleksandra Vujcic is perfectly casted as the wild and\nimpulsive Nina, convincingly seductive and brazen.\nJulian Arahanga (from Once Were Warriors fame) delivers a notable and strong performance as the character\nEddie.\nThe film's adherence to raw desire gives Broken\nEnglish a quick pace that fuses the drama and glimpses\nof humour nicely, which will relieve an overworked\nDOGSTAR\nJuly 28 at Graceland\nWhat better way to see your favourite movie star than to watch\nhim perform at his own rock concert? Perhaps this explains the\nninety percent female audience, many, or all, of whom were there\nto witness something other than the tunes this practically unknown\nband has to offer.\nThe opening act was the even lesser known group Silverjet. This\nenergetic trio delivered a 45 minute set of music that was catchy\nenough to keep the audience's interest and enthusiasm going\nthroughout, but I'd be skeptical to guarantee that everyone would\nhave rushed to the record store the next day to buy their newly-\nreleased CD or become their newly devoted fans. Nonetheless, it\nwas a fun and entertaining set of good, loud, poppy music, led by the\nblond and shaggy-haired guitarist/vocalist Luke, who must have\nbeen grateful to be receiving this much exposure by being on the\nDogstar tour.\nBy the time the headlining band finally made its long-awaited\nappearance, the crowd was overly eager to see what they had come\nfor. Featuring the ever-so-cute bassist Keanu Reeves, and two other\nguys no one knew - guitarist/vocalist Brett Domrose and drummer\nRob Mailhouse -, the audience was wild with excitement. Dogstar set\nout to prove themselves as a credible and worthy band with some\ngood music. Their goal was undeniably achieved.\nPlaying songs from their yet-to-be-released CD Our Little\nVisionary, there were no familiar tunes to relate to, and thus not a\nmosher to be seen. However, judging by the complete lack of brightly dyed hair and pierced body parts in the room, this was an audience that had perhaps more sensible actions in mind - like maybe\nKeanu-gazing? Because the band played over-amplified instruments\nin this small venue, Domrose's gruff and rustic voice was unequal\nto the music it was meant to support. However, this wasn't necessarily a bad thing. After going home and getting a better listen to his\nvocals later on, on the CD, it was clear that Domrose's singing\n(incorporating glimpses of an open-throated Kurt Cobain and a Tom\nCochranesque genre) doesn't exactly cater to the style that their\nalternative pop-rock music conveys. This continues to prove that a\nlive performance will always be more gratifying than a recording, as\nI didn't even really notice this vocal glitch during the show.\nDomrose's between-song audience banter was minimal and\nunwitty; he seemed more interested in just getting on with the next\ntune. And, probably to everyone's chagrin, not a peep was heard out\nof Keanu the whole night, as he flawlessly maintained the role ofthe\nmute bassist, though at times indicating his awareness of his\nonlookers with cute, quirky smiles and a generic wave to the crowd.\nHe knew everyone was watching.\nKeanu's vigorous and impressive finger work on his red, 4-\nstringed bass was enough to convince everyone that he really can\nplay an instrument, and play it well. He has been playing for nearly\nten years now, but even just the continual pouring sweat from his\nface during the one hour set was enough proof of his energy and\ncommitment to the band's music. One thing is certain: the trio is\nlucky to have more than their talent and groovy tunes as a definite\nheadway to musical success.\nFor the estrogen-laden entourage that stuck around after the\nshow, a long, long wait outside was finally rewarded by the band's\nexit from the bunding. Mailhouse and Domrose went completely\nunnoticed as the devout crowd swarmed around Keanu, clutching\nphotos and posters ofthe cute one in his Bill & Ted and Point Break\ndays. With a happy-go-lucky smile pasted on his face, Keanu seemed\nto be delighted by all the attention, as he made his way through the\nmob of flailing arms and gushing screams. 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