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DAILY TITANSeptember 23, 2004

‘Sky Captain’ soars onto the big screen

*Flogging Molly*Megadeth**Inland Invasion*Live*Midnight Movies*

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Contents3) MUSIC - Flogging Molly and

Megadeth

4) FILM - Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, First

Daughter and Silver City

5) CONCERTS - Inland Invasion and Live

6) INTERVIEW - Midnight Movies

7) PITSTOP - Comics, trivia and more

ON THE COVER: Sky Captain (Jude Law) protects local journalist Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow) from an onslaught of invading robots.(Paramount Pictures)

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Two years ago, Megadeth founder and lead singer Dave Mustaine said that the band had broken up.

Now Megadeth has returned with a vengeance with its latest al-bum The System Has Failed.

System brings back the sounds and aggression that a lot of Mega-deth fans have missed hearing

By FRANCIS SZYSKOWSKIDaily Titan Asst. Photo Editor

over the last couple of albums. The tracks “Blackmail the Universe,” “Kick the Chair,” and “Back in the Day” are the best examples of the band’s return to form, while tracks like “The Scorpion” and “My Kingdom” will satisfy those fans who enjoyed later albums.

Even the album cover, bearing the recognizable symbol/mas-cot Vic, is a sign to fans that the Megadeth they had come to know is back and not going anywhere.

With a lot of music, fans think-ing that any band that plays loud, screams and/or wears black is a metal band.

The System Has Failed, and more importantly Megadeth, shows music fans what true metal is. The lyrics are socially con-scious and the music is dark and aggressive.

The album is a far cry from Dave Mustaine’s former band’s last effort, Metallica’s St. Anger, which left many metal fans with a bad taste in their mouths.

Unfortunately, with music out-lets such as MTV playing only dumb-downed pop music and run-ning shows about people looking through each other’s bedrooms, this album will not be heard by those who should hear it.

Fused with melancholy, roman-ticism and a mix of beer-soaked anthems, Flogging Molly’s highly anticipated third album Within a Mile From Home seamlessly blends traditional Irish music with folk-rock on 14 blistering tracks.

This follow-up to 2002’s Drunken Lullabies takes listeners back to singer Dave King’s Dub-lin childhood through soft, poetic and fast, energy-charged ballads.

From the album’s fi rst to last track, the eclectic combination of instruments gives off a feeling of ethnicity that similar bands, such as the Dropkick Murphys, don’t have.

With a violin, tin whistle, gui-

tar, accordion, mandolin, banjo, bass, drums and the lead singer’s strong accent, this album focuses more on the band’s Irish roots than its rock, adding a new depth to their music.

In comparison to Flogging Molly’s prior two albums, Swag-ger and ger and ger Drunken Lullabies, Within a Mile From Home suggests that the band has musically matured.

Its vocals are stronger, the mel-odies are well written and the in-struments compliment rather than interrupt each other.

The band takes an unexpected political turn in the opening song “Screaming at the Wailing Wall” and inserts its common religious overtones in “The Seven Deadly Sins” and “To Youth.”

The versatile tone of the music

takes listeners on an emotional roller coaster from song to song. But despite the overall sadness in the band’s lyrics that fans have become accustomed to, the music alone is uplifting with its power-ful, upbeat qualities as heard in “Queen Anne’s Revenge” and the title track.

Flogging Molly’s slower songs do draw attention, however, es-

pecially the more folk-like track “Factory Girls,” which features vocals by country singer Lucinda Williams.

Undoubtedly, Flogging Molly has a knack for composing songs that are simple enough to sing along with while being noticeably musically complex.

The quality of this album is practically impeccable, and evi-dently well worth its two-year wait.

Having been on this year’s Vans Warped Tour, what is nota-ble about Flogging Molly is how its music is able to appeal to those from all ends of the spectrum.

From those with rich Irish blood to diehard punk fans, it is this quality about Flogging Molly that truly makes the band unique.

By KYM PARSONSDaily Titan Staff

Megadeth, Mustaineget aggressive again

Irish eyes are rocking on new albumOther new releases:

*Badfi nger: Airwaves

*C-Loc:Camp II: The

Holocaust

*Green Day: American Idiot

*Keith Urban:Be There

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film

First-time fi lm director Kerry Conran gives a new look to sci-fi movies with his debut, “Sky Cap-tain and the World of Tomorrow.” With dream-like backdrops and fuzzy vintage-style fi lming, “Sky Captain” plays like a 1930s clas-sic sci-fi movie.

The story follows Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow), a reporter for the New York Chronicle who dis-covers that famous scientists have gone missing as old fl ame Sky Captain (Jude Law) fl ies through the sky fi ghting off mysterious gi-ant robots invading the city.

The two pair-up to fi nd the elu-sive Dr. Totenkopf (archived im-ages of Laurence Olivier) who has taken the scientists to complete a

project started 20 years prior. Franky Cook (Angelina Jolie)

and Dex (Giovanni Ribisi) help Polly and Sky Captain fi nd Dr. Totenkopf and the missing scien-tists using the latest hi-tech gad-gets such as ray guns and planes that nose dive into the ocean and become underwater vessels.

Polly and Sky Captain travel to far-off lands such as the Himala-yas, the mythical Shangri-La and Dr. Totenkopf’s hidden island inhabited by various strange ani-mals.

The giant robots and gadgets made me remember the feeling of fantasy euphoria that I expe-rienced the fi rst time I saw “The Empire Strikes Back” on the big screen. Like “Empire,” there is no sex or foul language and minimal violence, making this the ultimate

family movie.The romantic tension between

Polly and Sky Captain is much like that of Princess Leia and Han Solo – just enough to warm your heart but won’t make you regret bringing your 7-year-old.

At 29 years old, Conran was granted $60 million and an all-star line-up for his fi lm, which was originally just a script and a com-puter program with actors’ im-ages transposed onto the screen. Reminiscent of the classics, the cinematography and scenery are decadent.

The fi lm is complete with action and more action, and the special effects are visually pleasing.

The dialogue is nothing to write home about, but if you like sci-fi movies, “Sky Captain” is a must see.

By LAURA BEYERDaily Titan Staff

Paramount Pictures

Remaining steadfast in the face of a worldwide robot invasion, Franky Cook (Angelina Jolie) defends planet Earth alongside Sky Captain (Jude Law) and his men.

‘Sky Captain’ harkens back to classic cinema

Dickie Pilager wants your vote and this fall at the box offi ce, you should give it to him.

“Silver City” is a movie with two intertwined storylines work-ing to get writer/director John Sayles’ political opinion across to the audience.

In the fi rst story, Dickie Pilager (Chris Cooper) is racing to be-come the governor of Colorado, but because Pilager is not on the bright side, he becomes the face behind a criminal real estate deal called Silver City.

In the second story, Danny O’ Brien (Danny Huston), a pri-vate investigator hired to fi nd the identity of a washed-to-shore fi eldworker, tries to piece to-gether a murder that he believes is somehow connected to Silver City and Pilager.

As the movie develops, the focus is mainly on O’Brien’s dis-covery that Silver City is being used as a toxic waste dump that drains into a huge lake.

Through this discovery, O’Brien is able to link together

the missing pieces into what be-comes a futile fi ght against cor-ruption in the government.

“Silver City” ends in an anti-climatic fashion, which ultimate-ly is the most effective way for Sayles’ criticisms of politics to be heard.

In spite of its independent sta-tus and limited release, “Silver City” showcases a cast of well-known actors including Thora Birch, Richard Dreyfuss, Daryl Hannah, Kris Kristofferson, Tim Roth and Billy Zane. But the highlight of the fi lm is Cooper’s portrayal of Dickie Pilager.

Whether intentional or not, Cooper’s performance is compa-rable to the real life George W. Bush. Cooper uses ambiguous speeches to confuse his adoring public in the same fashion that President Bush is often accused of.

The fi lm never evolves into a suspense, drama, comedy or crime story but the genre-escap-ing story mixes all of these ele-ments together to create a serious fi lm with hilarious and intelligent jokes that any fan of political sat-ire would enjoy.

Politics panned inSayles’ new satire

By NIYAZ PIRANIDaily Titan Staff

Actress Katie Holmes has wholeheartedly sought fi lm roles that are a far cry from the sensi-tive and caring Joey of “Dawson’s Creek.” She played a bohemian city girl in “Pieces of April,” an emotionally distraught college student in “Abandon” and the oth-er woman in “Phone Booth.”

Having demonstrated her range, Holmes is comfortable enough to play the nice girl again in the ro-mantic comedy “First Daughter.”

Its pre-election release may boost the fi lm’s prospects at the box offi ce, thanks to the emer-gence of fi rst daughters Jenna and Barbara Bush, who have adopted more visible public roles lately in support of their father’s re-elec-tion campaign.

Holmes plays Samantha Mack-enzie, the dutiful daughter of ca-reer politician John Mackenzie (Michael Keaton). Eager for inde-pendence, she enrolls at a Califor-nia college. But distancing herself from Washington doesn’t mean she can escape the shadow of her father, or the Secret Service agents assigned to protect her.

Trying to fi t in with the other freshmen proves tougher than a

receiving line at a White House reception. Yet Samantha manages to strike up a sweet romance with a helpful residential adviser who may be something other than what he says he is.

Holmes watched hours of vid-eotape and read articles about the Bush twins and previous presi-dential offspring to help portray her character.

“You sort of start to appreci-ate the level of their fame and how much pressure they really are under and how their lives for a certain amount of time are not their own,” she observes. “They

have to uphold this certain image, and that can be very hard for their souls and a bit oppressive.”

Holmes actually met President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush when she hosted a 2002 concert special on TNT called “Christmas in Washington.”

“I got to introduce them,” she recalls. “They were very nice. It was amazing to meet them, regard-less of your feelings about where the candidates stand. There’s such an amazing energy when you meet the president of the United States. It kind of takes your breath away.”

By ANGELA DAWSONEntertainment News Wire

‘Dawson’s’ darling becomes a ‘fi rst daughter’ in her latest venture

Entertainment News Wire

Katie Holmes, of “Dawson’s Creek” fame, stars in “First Daughter.”

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concerts

Tucked away in the foothills of San Bernardino, sun-soaked fans at the KROQ Miller Light Inland Invasion 4 hid themselves from the heat last Saturday as they watched dozens of ’80s and new wave bands play their hearts out.

Well over 20,000 fans attended the event held at the Hyundai Pa-vilion in Devore and were both cursed and blessed with expensive food and drink but free parking for many. As the sun reached its peak, many ran for the mist tents or purchased $15 parasols.

The gates opened early and the Walkmen took to the side stage fi rst. As fans trickled in, they barely got to see the end of the Missing Persons set.

The crowd fi nally got past the security checkpoints as the Se-attle natives Death Cab For Cutie took the stage for an amazing set of crowd pleasers. But by far the best side stage act of the day was A Flock of Seagulls.

The main stage acts began in the early afternoon with Muse and X as hundreds of mismatched, neon-clothed fans shifted to-ward the stage. Hats and glasses adorned the fans seated on the lawn with their $5 beers and $13 margaritas.

They shouted for KROQ hits like “Johny Hit and Run Pauline” which X played at the end of its set.

The Killers played next on the main stage but should have been

on the side stage because the band’s performance wasn’t all it was hyped up to be. They looked amateur playing in a spot after such greats like Muse and X.

A cool breeze set in as English chap Ian Brown of the Stone Ros-es opened his set with “I Wanna Be Adored.” Toward the end of his set, Brown said Morrissey was not playing as originally sched-uled so, “We’re gonna help you get over it.”

This statement seemed like a joke at fi rst but then his set was cut short so a KROQ representa-tive could announce the truth.

A press release reported that Morrissey was earlier diagnosed with “sinusitis, acute laryngitis and a high fever and advised that he not attempt to speak for the next 48 hours at a minimum.”

Morrissey said he felt disap-pointed for not playing and has plans to schedule another show for the fans who saved their ticket stubs.

As Tears for Fears started its set, high winds kicked up dirt and sand.

There was a technical diffi -culty in the beginning as the band played half of its fi rst song with-out audible vocals.

After the fi x, the band encour-aged simultaneous hand clapping with an old hit “Sowing the Seeds of Love.” As fans sang every word, Tears for Fears kept the jams com-ing with crowd pleasers like “Mad World” and “Shout.” They also played Pink Floyd-esque tunes from the new album Everybody

Loves a Happy Ending.Next up, KROQ DJ Jed the Fish

introduced a band that merged electronic music and punk to be-come Devo. As the sun set behind the stage, Devo came out with signature goofy red cone hats and matching yellow prison-style jumpsuits.

Singer Mark Mothersbaugh came out shouting, “So much for homeland security if we can have an inland invasion this big.”

From the fi rst notes of the key-boards on “Girl U Want” the fans knew what song it was. Devo also played fan favorites “Whip It,” “Gut Feeling” and “Uncontrol-lable Urge.”

Halfway through the set, they stripped off the jumpsuits to re-veal black shirts and shorts with matching knee-high socks and white kneepads. They may be an-cient rockers from the past, but they could still provide the energy to excite a large crowd.

After Devo dedicated the last song to fallen punk rocker Johnny Ramone, the stage spun around to reveal Franz Ferdinand. The high-energy set consisted of many ra-dio hits.

The biggest response of the night came when Billy Idol strut-ted on stage. Because Morrissey cancelled his set, Idol was given an extra-long time slot to fi ll,

By CRYSTAL LAFATADaily Titan Staff

which thrilled the crowd.The night came to an end with

the ever-so-beautiful and talented Siouxsie Sioux playing to an ex-hausted crowd. She was received with mild amusement during her slightly boring but magnifi cent sounding set.

The day was very hot and ex-pensive, which is common for a festival-type show. It took me back to an era that I’m embarrassed to enjoy and be a part of.

The dance, the dress and even the music was scary to say the least. Now it’s back to haunt us and slap us in the face, and all we can do is go with the fl ow and en-joy it again.

www.deathcabforcutie.com

Indie pop rockers Death Cab For Cutie graced the side stage at the fourth annual KROQ Inland Invasion. Also on the bill were up-and-comers Franz Ferdinand and ’80s legends Billy Idol, Devo and Tears for Fears.

New wave royalty invades the Inland Empire

Recently, I have noticed that this world is a very depressing place, chock full of homework and tediously long lectures.

So what saved me from falling into a comatose state due to bore-dom? The L.A. County Fair did. More specifi cally, the band Live did as part of the End of Summer Concert series which concludes on Sept. 26.

Live fi rst exploded onto the music scene in the early ’90s. Since then, vocalist Ed Kowalc-

zyk, guitarist Chad Taylor, bassist Patrick Dahlheimer and drummer Chad Gracey have released six successful albums and have sold nearly 20 million copies world-wide.

Friday night was great. The atmosphere was amazing and the audience was surprisingly pleas-ant. The show wasn’t publicized as much as other performances, but the number of people who fat-tened the grandstands behind our kick-butt, dead center seats really said something.

It was during Live’s second song “Sanctity of Dreams” off

Birds of Prey when the crowd be-gan to respond. Once the familiar sounds were brimming over the fans, the venue came to life.

The band was awesomely powerful and the people were simply ecstatic, especially when Kowalczyk let the audience sing a good portion of the one of their best-known songs “Lightning Crashes.” At this point, the crowd sounded more like the Austrian Boys Choir than the beer-drink-ing, middle-aged hipsters that they were. This defi nitely was the highlight of the night.

“All Over You” from the break-

through album Throwing Copper, once again got the crowd going. In exchange, Taylor went abso-lutely crazy, literally jumping and stomping all over the stage. The audience seemed to really enjoy this, so half of them also went nuts.

The concert fi nally ended with 12 songs and a four-song encore which included my favorite song “White Discussion.”

Live is one of those great bands that the music industry, as well as the rest of the world, needs but doesn’t know it yet. If you’re just as fed up as me with depressing

emotional bands, suicidal metal and gangster rap, then pick up Live’s greatest hits album, set for release on Nov. 22. Live is such a relief from all the “bling-bling” and the sad sing-sing.

Also at the L.A. County Fair:*Hoobastank

Sept. 24*Jackson Browne

Sept. 25*Willie Nelson

Sept. 26

By CESAR CRUZFor the Daily Titan

Live illuminates the Los Angeles County Fair

Interview

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Each element serves as a layer in the collaborative known as Mid-night Movies. The elements are as follows: Gena Olivier on vocals and drums, Jason Hammons on keyboards, PowerBook and guitar and Larry Schemel on guitar.

Hauntingly beautiful, the re-cently released self-titled album is already being heralded as an intricately woven and brilliantly executed debut.

On stage on Sept. 16 in the dimly lit TSU Pub, Olivier’s voice reached out like an angel’s requi-em.

An ethereal journey into the unconscious, listeners fi nd them-selves transported into a spacey frontier of beats, riffs and melo-dies.

Culling inspiration from Leon-ard Cohen, the Velvet Under-ground and the Trees, Midnight Movies defi nitely carves out a unique place for themselves in the

current music scene.LM: How did you come up with

the name Midnight Movies?Larry Schemel: The one thing

that triggered it was I have a book called “Midnight Movies.” It’s like the history of Midnight Movies and... the whole phenomenon in the ’60s and ’70s, mostly “Rocky Horror Picture Show,” “Night of the Living Dead” and movies like that in [the] ’70s where people were fans of these movies and the theaters started showing them at midnight, and there were these cult followings and people started making it a ritual.

So it had this cool connotation of a ritualistic thing people do late at night and it brings people together and it’s kinda dark. Our music has taken on a cinematic quality and things have happened really organically.

Jason Hammons: I think peo-ple, because of the name, say the music is darker than it is.

LM: Writing the songs is a col-laborative effort, so which song

would you say for each of you is the most personal and why?

Gena Olivier: “Tide and Sun” would have to be the most person-al for me because it is.

JH: Well Gena writes all the lyrics so I’m sure all the songs are personal for her. It’s just the music for me, so the whole album be-cause every song has touched all of us. Every song has parts of it that I love.

LH: All of it, but there are cer-tain songs that I personally like to play live better than others, like the song “Mirage,” that’s a lot of fun to play and “Human Mind Trap.” On the album, the song “Tide and Sun” is one of my favorites. There is something about it.

LM: How does it feel to have music as a full-time job now?

GO: My dad always told me to fi nd something that you love to do and get good at it and you’ll never have to work a day in your life. So I always stuck that in my head and tried to apply it and, you know, we’ll see how far this goes. Who

knows? But for right now, having the two combined, work and what you love to do, is great.

LM: Who would you guys like to play with?

LH: Bowie in 1972, Radio-head… and other bands that we really like that we’ve already

played with, like Broadcast and Clinic, who we really respect. And it blows us away that Clinic invited us on tour with them.

The next chance to catch Mid-night Movies is at the Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa, Oct. 14.

By LAUREN MOONEYFor The Daily Titan

JOE HUI/For the Daily Titan

The Midnight Movies play to a daytime crowd during a free show at the TSU Pub Sept. 16. Their brand of spacey rock soothes the senses.

Midnight Movies ride the ‘tide’ to success

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Pitstop

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JOKE OF THE WEEK A man walks into a pharmacy and asks for a vial of cyanide. The pharmacist, trying to maintain a professional posture, asked what he wanted it for. He answered, “I want to kill my wife.” “I’m sorry Sir,” the pharma-cist replied, “but you will have to understand under such circumstanc-es, I can’t sell you any cyanide.” The guy reaches into his wal-let and produces a photo of his wife. The pharmacist blushes and replies, “I am sorry Sir. I didn’t realize you had a prescription.”

Part 2 of 2After years of getting advice and

watching other guy’s tactics, I came to the conclusion that there are rules to gaining a woman’s interest. Be excellent, be uninterested and be gone. These three simple rules should be applied on a fi rst date or when fi rst meeting someone you may be interested in.

“Be excellent, be uninterested and be gone!”

Two weeks ago, I dispensed my limited knowledge regarding the radical changes I noticed in relation-ships. The responses that I received were less than surprising. Most agreed that traditional roles have al-tered and as a result there has been a breakdown in male/female percep-tions. The rules of dating, taught to us by our fathers, have changed, therefore making it necessary for the male gender to change tactics.

The consensus of what I heard is simple; women no longer want to be pursued in a traditional fashion. To get a girl now requires better material, more attention and lots of courage! Only after fi ve years of in-tensive research on the subject do I think I have found the key to unlock

the mystery of successful dating. First, fi nd that one thing that you

do better than most. Whatever it is that sets you apart from the next person must be emphasized. If you are a good bowler, then make sure you take your date bowling. Re-member, a fi rst date is an interview. You must send your representative ahead of you before she meets the old T-shirt wearing, messy-room true self.

Second, no matter how interested you may be in the person you go out with, you must initially act un-interested. It’s not so much that you aren’t supposed to listen; rather you are supposed to act as though you think there might be something bet-ter you could be doing at that mo-ment. You must not let on that she is probably the best thing to ever hap-pen to a slacker like you. No matter how excited you get, the key is to be uninterested.

Finally, be gone. It is true what we have all been told; you must not call the day after getting a phone number! Do not look too excited, you must wait at least two days. Otherwise, she will wonder if there is a reason why you are panting af-ter her. If she calls you before that’s fi ne, but do not call her within 48 hours. If there is even a hint that you are already making plans for the fu-ture, then she will hit the road.

It is silly that we should have to play these games. However, these are the rules that we must now ad-here to. Of course if I had it my way, we could cut through the red tape, but I guess this is the spice of life that we have heard so much about. I am not an expert on the matter; I am merely making observations.