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January is Human Trafficking Awareness month. It might seem far-fetched, but human trafficking is an issue in Indiana. This week we’ll look at the scope of the issue as it relates to the Hoosier state. In Voices, Elle Roberts makes a case for consent education and Morton Marcus looks at how people are leaving Indiana.
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Elle Roberts on consent....................................... P.04 Morton Marcus on the Hoosier drain.................. P.05 Savage Love........................................................ P.43
There are MANY ways to make it in the music biz — including writing songs that appear in hit cable TV shows. Indy’s Kelly Pardekooper has done just that.
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MANNERS, PLEASE: A CASE FOR CONSENT EDUCATION
work part-time at a community center in my neighborhood. One of my elementary students loves braiding, and for a child growing into dexterity, he’s a pretty talented hair stylist. When all the kids are in the gym playing a mash-up version of dodgeball and field hockey, he’s seated behind me in the bleachers, weaving my locks into a fishtail down my left shoulder. The first time I let him braid my hair, his fingers were tangled up in my tresses before he thought to ask me — a teachable moment too perfect not to seize. “I’m not upset with you, but if you want to touch my hair, you must have my permission first.” He offered a sincere apology, and with my consent he proceeded to manipulate my hair into a cute up-do I wore for the rest of the afternoon. After that day, whenever I saw him playing in another kid’s hair, I asked both if consent was requested and given, and nearly every time the answer was yes or rectified right away. I don’t think opportunities to teach children in real time are as effortless as the moments with my hair-braiding student, but bringing more formal education to schools on setting and respecting boundaries, asking and giving consent is a worthy investment. Recent research conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control show
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consent relevant and applicable to their lived experiences. Indiana’s sex education curriculum is not nearly as robust as California’s. CurEDITORS@NUVO.NET rent Indiana law does not require school Singer/Songwriter Elle Roberts districts to offer sex education, but if is a co-founder of SheHive, districts choose to, sex education must a safe place to confront, be included in general health classes address and deconstruct and stress abstinence and monogamous gender inequality marriage as the best ways to avoid teen pregnancy, STDs, and STIs. Thankfully, the Hoosier approach to sex education 17.3 percent of Indiana high school girls is a step above strict abstinence-only reported experiencing rape or sexual programs that have been proven inefassault in 2014, a percentage significantly fective and even counterproductive. In higher than the national average of 10.5 a time when just a quarter of parents percent. Since the report’s release, Rep. report regularly and openly talking with Christina Hale (D-Indianapolis) has fotheir children about sex, sexuality, and dating beyond disciplinary rules, a network of parents trusted adults can help Bringing more formal education to and children navigate rising hormones and budding bodies. schools on setting and respecting As demonstrated by my boundaries, asking and giving hair-braiding student, teaching children the value of consent is a worthy investment. ownership over their bodies is a lesson in consent that can be applied to situations cused her legislative efforts on decreasing where setting and respecting emotional, the rate of teen sexual assault in Indiana. physical, and sexual boundaries is an Her latest goal is to introduce a bill this invaluable social skill. Along with addresssession making consent a required part of ing teen rape and sexual assault, consent the state’s sex education curriculum. education may help reduce unplanned The inspiration for the bill may be pregnancy and dating violence among modeled after California law. All schools Hoosier teenagers, two other rates of ocserving students grades 7 through 12 currence in Indiana hovering well above must offer comprehensive sex education the national average. courses and mandatory consent lessons. The National Campaign to Prevent The hope is to remove the stigma for Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy reports young people to talk comfortably with the national rate of teen pregnancy trusted adults and each other about their between 1991 and 2012 is down a historic changing bodies and sexuality, equip 57 percent. In Indiana, the rate has only students with safe and practical ways dropped 45 percent. Just over 6,200 to sexually engage with or abstain from Indiana teenagers birthed a child in others, and provide space to learn about 2014. There is no current research on the
Indiana teen birth rate determining how many pregnancies are a result of consensual sex or rape. Considering the state’s teen rape rate is among the highest in the country, informed assumption includes the reality that a number of teen pregnancies are due to sexual violation. When Heather Norris was brutally murdered by her estranged high school boyfriend in 2007, her mother Debbie worked tirelessly to pass Heather’s Law, signed by former Governor Mitch Daniels in 2010. The law requires the Department of Education and domestic violence organizations to provide age-appropriate abuse and dating violence education programs for students grades 6 through 12. According to Ball State University, 11.3 percent of Indiana high school students report experiencing physical abuse from a dating partner in 2011. A basic tenet of physical abuse, as well as emotional and sexual, is false entitlement over someone else’s body as a means of gaining and maintaining power and control. Consent education, one way to complement inconsistent sex education offerings in Indiana, has significant potential to mitigate sexual abuse and teen pregnancy, physical abuse and teen dating violence without overriding current Indiana law or trumping parental guidance. Consent education can bolster social and sexual safety for Hoosier teenagers into adulthood. I often wonder if my hair-braiding student remembers to ask for others’ permission before touching their hair when he is not in my care. I hope our momentary lessons on consent serve as a reminder no matter where life leads him. Hale has the opportunity to promote consent education for young people statewide, and her impending bill deserves committee consideration and votes this legislative session. n
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MORTON MARCUS EDITORS@NUVO.NET Morton Marcus is an economist, writer, and speaker who may be reached at mortonjmarcus@yahoo.com.
tract with bike paths, trolley cars, quaint, if decayed, Victorian homes, and other amenities of a century ago. Hence, these data could be a vast understatement of the net outbound migration. Atlas’ data tell us that Indiana ranked sixth in the nation with nearly 60 percent of its traffic flowing out of our state versus 40 percent inbound. People are choosing better opportunities elsewhere or moving to those greener pastures where their children have already gone. Die-hards will counter: “Let ’em go. We don’t need ’em, we don’t want ’em. They only make the streets more crowded if they stay.” However, those who leave take with them their earning power, savings, pensions, People are choosing better purchasing power, and opportunities elsewhere or moving children. This weakens our state’s economy and makes to those greener pastures where us poorer in the long run. The ugly fact is: 39 of their children have already gone. Indiana’s counties in 2010 were below their peak populations of the last century. Lake County’s population was Of course, if you follow the reports 50,248 (nine percent) lower than its of the U.S. Census Bureau, you know something like this has been going on for 1970 peak. Other major deficits, rangsome time. Yet, what loyal Hoosier would ing from 10,000 to 14,000 persons, were in Grant, Delaware, Vermillion, Sullivan believe anything coming from Washingand Wayne counties. The sum of all 39 ton, the center of malevolent statistical deficits was 205,400 persons. manipulation? With populations short of their hisRelax. These data come from a toric peaks, the costs of infrastructure respected private sector source: Atlas maintenance and repair are spread over Van Lines, the folks who transported fewer people and businesses. Often there furniture, appliances and stuff for 77,700 are no advantages of smaller populahouseholds across state lines in 2015. tions for schools, shops, hospitals, and Note: these were households, not other vital services. persons as stated by an internet source Population decline, where over(rag?) called Business Insider. The numcrowding never existed, is not a graceful ber of persons involved is unknown. process; it stirs no pride, gives little joy My imagination tells me that people and certainly erodes hope. Perhaps we who use professional movers like Atlas could help the many refugees waiting are older and wealthier than the footwith hope for a new start in life. n loose Millennials our cities want to at-
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was wowed by Governor Pence’s State of the State talk; I had no idea everything was so wonderful in the Hoosier Holyland. Then, imagine my surprise when the news hit: Indiana suffers from more people moving out than moving in. Out-migration is like hair loss. People don’t like to talk about it. Certainly governors wouldn’t recognize that, when people are free to move from state to state, certain states are less attractive to movers than other states. Hoosiers seem to live in one of those less attractive states. But don’t tell anyone lest you be invited to leave yourself.
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WHAT HAPPENED? Bill designed to protect intersex children Rep. Edward Clere, R-New Albany, hopes his bill about consent for intersex children in state custody will open up a broader discussion on gender issues. House Bill 1242 would prevent intersex children in the custody of the state from receiving gender differentiation procedures, unless medically necessary. Juvenile courts would allow those children to provide their own consent if certain conditions are met. The conditions include an evaluation by a psychologist or physician, the provision of full knowledge of risks and benefits of the procedure, and the maturity to provide informed consent. The bill defines an intersex child as a person under the age of 18 who has the reproductive organs or external sexual characteristics of both a male and a female. The various gender differentiation procedures covered in the bill include any gender assignment surgery, genital surgery or hormonal treatment. HB 1242 only applies to intersex children in custody of the state of Indiana. HB 1242 has been assigned to the Family, Children and Human Affairs Committee.
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— THE STATEHOUSE FILE Some Hoosiers far from self-sufficient The amount of money it takes to survive keeps going up in Indiana, but wages aren’t. The 2016 Self Sufficiency report is out and its author, Dr. Diana Pearce, director of the Center for Women’s Welfare at the University of Washington, says the difference between what someone needs to make and actually brings home in their paycheck keeps growing. Pearce’s report found the amount needed to meet the costs of basic needs increased between 2005 and 2016 in all Indiana counties. A report by the Business Research Center at Indiana University puts the Hoosier State 39th for per-capita income. It also has one of the lowest minimum wages, at $7.25 cents an hour. Next door, Illinois’ minimum wage is $10 an hour, and it’s ranked 18th in per capita income. Pearce says the kind of money Hoosiers make means it’s very hard for a family to survive without government help.
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— INDIANA NEWS SERVICE Hoosier Red Cross volunteers respond to Flint As the American Red Cross helps respond to the water emergency in Flint, Michigan, Hoosiers are stepping up to offer their assistance. AC Disaster Services is coordinating the distribution of bottled water, water filters, water testing kits and other educational materials for the residents in Flint, Michigan. Officials determined Flint’s water supply was contaminated after it was rerouted from Lake Huron to the Flint River. However Flint residents had been consuming it for over a year before the issue was made public. The governor of Michigan declared a state of emergency in Flint on January 5 at the request of city and county officials. Ten Indiana volunteers are now in Michigan helping provide disaster assessment support and driving emergency response vehicles for supplies distribution. — AMBER STEARNS 6 NEWS // 01.20.16 - 01.27.16 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month.
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f prostitution is the world’s oldest profession, then human trafficking is the world’s oldest commodities trade. After all, the trading of human beings for commercial gain has occurred since the dawn of man. Surprisingly, it still exists today. But what was once a common everyday occurrence in a marketplace or village square happens underground and in the shadows. But it also still occurs right next door, in our neighborhoods and right under our noses. According to the U.S. State Department, between 14,000 and 17,500 people are trafficked in the United States each year. While sex trafficking occurs at a
much higher rate in the U.S. than labor trafficking, both are still an issue in this country. Here in Indiana, the actual numbers are a lot harder to pinpoint because of little to no recordkeeping of the numbers until recently. “Indiana hasn’t done a good job of capturing really hard numbers,” says Jessica Evans, executive director of Purchased — an Indianapolis-based nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness about human trafficking both locally and around the world. “But we do know that each year we see more and more victims identified and identified properly, [which] is another key thing.” Typically a young girl found in forced servitude of any sort is labeled — a runaway, prostitute, petty thief, or whatever
label that fits the circumstance of her crossing paths with law enforcement. But a closer look in recent years has found that illegal activity is more likely than not associated with trafficking of some kind. While a woman may be collecting money for sex — the rudimentary definition of prostitution — the commercial gain is not her own but rather belongs to someone else. The Indiana Protection for Abused and Trafficked Humans (I-PATH) task force is working to improve awareness in the state as well as collect data to gain a better picture of human trafficking in the Hoosier state. While it may be hard for some to believe that human trafficking is an issue in Indiana, it does exist and is a growing problem. The number of women and
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girls being forced or coerced into sexual servitude grows each year across the country. The average age of a girl first being forced into that servitude is 13. The average age at death for a woman in that life is 34 and the most common cause of death is homicide. Yet, even with those
averaging statistics, there is no “typical” victim. “We see victims of human trafficking who are both genders, who are affluent, and who are from poverty situations,” says Evans. Purchased works primarily with women and girls who have been humantrafficking victims. The organization offers survivor support, which includes financial support for a bus ticket back home or drug rehabilitation and a mentorship program for girls to connect with positive role models in the community. Often it’s that mentorship is the key to helping a young woman or girl rise above the situation she has found herself in and fills the need that existed at the onset of her servitude. “Most of the time it was over some kind of a relationship so a boyfriend, an older guy who was like a “daddy” and just girls who were looking for love, looking for attention, looking for someone to be a family with. And as sick as it sounds, that’s what they do,” says Evans about the traffickers who lure women and girls into servitude. “They prey on these girls who are vulnerable and want love and attention and other things and provide those for them initially, gaining their trust and then end up taking advantage of them.” According to federal law, any minor engaged in a commercial sexual act is a victim of human trafficking. For adults over the age of 18, the use of force, fraud and/or coercion must be present in order to qualify for the distinction of human trafficking whether it is sex
HUMAN TRAFFICKING LEGISLATION Indiana legislators are becoming more aware of the issue of human trafficking. In the current legislative session, two bills have been submitted to address the issue: HB 1028 (Truitt) - Makes it visiting a common nuisance, a Class A misdemeanor, for a person to knowingly or
intentionally visit a building, structure, vehicle, or other place with the intent to violate certain laws concerning human and sexual trafficking. Makes it maintaining a common nuisance, a Level 6 felony, for a person to knowingly or intentionally maintain a building, structure, vehicle, or other place that is used one or more
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trafficking or labor trafficking. Force, fraud or coercion are the metrics used to determine if the victim has consented to the act of their own free will. No free will equals human trafficking victim. However, the most disturbing and eye–opening revelation to come out of the research about human trafficking is its occurrence in plain sight. Hollywood plot lines from TV shows and movies would lead one to believe that all human trafficking involves a windowless box truck carrying shipments of people from place to place in the dead of night. However, according to Evans and The National Human Trafficking Resource Center, human trafficking victims — especially sex trafficking victims — could be your friends, family and neighbors. “I definitely know of young girls who were being trafficked and were going to school at the same time or were still living in their home or were still around their neighborhood or were still going to get their hair and nails done and were going to the grocery store, says Evans. “So they are out in public but just not the normal typical [person].” The signs of a human trafficking victim living among us are somewhat similar to those of a domestic violence victim with a few exceptions. Evidence of physical or sexual abuse, isolation from peers and co-workers, and lack of control of his or her own person or finances are indicators of both human trafficking and domestic violence. However vigilant attention to one’s appearance, hanging out with older men who appear in constant and strict control, inconsistent
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personal stories, lack of identification and restricted or scripted communication are more indicators of possible human trafficking. “There’s not a typical case, because sometimes they are secluded and isolated and no one would know except the hotel manager in the hotel that they’re in but sometimes they do kind of somewhat live a normal life and so it just depends of the situation,” says Evans. Still if your eye keeps paying attention to one individual and/or your gut is telling you there just is something not right — especially with a young woman or child — then contacting authorities is the advised course of action. “We talk with law enforcement and they say the only time they know to follow through on a tip sometimes is when community members or hotel managers or someone sees something suspicious,” says Evans. “It’s definitely important to call law enforcement but to not get personally involved.” Human trafficking isn’t a new issue locally or globally. But it took Indianapolis hosting the Super Bowl in 2012 for local officials to really get serious about it. Evans says although it is frustrating that it takes something big like that to get attention to the issue, it can — in Indiana’s case did — serve as a catalyst for attention and change. “It definitely does happen there and it’s actually helpful to raise [awareness],” says Evans. “It does what we want it to do — it raises awareness which raises people’s attention to it, so we try to capitalize on that when we can.” n
ABOUT PURCHASED AND JESSICA EVANS times to violate certain laws concerning human and sexual trafficking. HB 1199 (McNamara) Adds the crime of promotion of human trafficking of a minor to the definitions of “sex offender” and “sex or violent offender”.
STATISTICS In 2015, the national hotline took 175 calls from Indiana with 40 human trafficking cases reported. Since 2007, 1,027 calls have been placed from Indiana with 253 total cases reported.
Purchased is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity whose mission is to empower communities to end modern day slavery. It is based in Indianapolis, IN. Purchased facilitates events to raise awareness and educate people about modern day slavery and inspire them to join in the abolition movement. Purchased
invests in youth through educational opportunities, empowering them rise to the challenge to be allies against sexual exploitation. Purchased also collaborates with organizations to provide survivor support. Founder and executive director Jessica Evans came up with the idea for Purchased after an interac-
tion with sex trafficking survivors in Nepal in 2007. Purchased began organizing as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in 2011 and shifted its attention to local human trafficking following the 2012 Super Bowl held in Indianapolis. More information about Purchased is available online at purchased.org.
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SONGS ON SCREEN Local musician Kelly Pardekooper is already inside your head
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elly Pardekooper always had a day job. It’s one of those harsh realities of the music biz: To “make it” you’ve got to spend a lot of time working hard not only on your artistic output, but on … something that actually puts dollars in your pocket. The Iowa-born Pardekooper toured on and off for the better part of 20 years, releasing seven studio LPs and two live albums, soliciting roots rock greats like Bo Ramsey and Teddy Morgan to serve as producers on various projects, all the while grinding away at various side gigs, including house-painting, prop shopminding, doorman-ing and sales dudeing at three different alt-weeklies. That is, he’s been grinding away at the day job thing until now. See, Kelly – who now makes his home in Downtown Indy – found something of a loophole in the music biz money quandary: His vast catalogue and appealing, accessible Heartland roots music landed the attention of a music publisher in Los Angeles. That publisher (Bob Mair, founder of Black Toast Music) placed dozens of Kelly’s songs on the soundtracks to a wide variety of TV shows, from cable dramas (Sons of Anarchy, True Blood, Justified) to basic cable (Chicago Fire, Blue Bloods) to reality TV (Jerseylicious, Wife Swap UK). Film is next: the Katie Holmes/ Luke Wilson flick All We Had picked up one of Kelly’s tracks. As placement picks up, Kelly thinks the time has come to turn to recording and writing in more of a full-time capacity, and thus, the day job has to go. The way I see it, this is Kelly’s third act. Act one: touring and recording heavily, from his Iowa City home base with backing bands The Devil’s House Band and The
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Horse Buyers. Act two: bouncing around the US following his badass spinal-surgeon-wife’s medical training, residencies and eventual full-time position at IU Health Methodist Hospital in Indy, while recording intermittently – plus jetting off to Alaska and back to Iowa for some weekend gigs. These days, his music publisher is hoping he’ll record more, both in Indianapolis, where’s he’s assembled a three-piece band of veteran locals that will play out for the first time together at the Melody Inn next Friday, and in Los Angeles, where he’ll fly out a few times a year to cut new tracks as a vocalist with session players. He’ll return to Europe for a short tour later this year, too. … And, oh yeah, for the last three years that day job involved sitting at a desk not 10 yards from my own. That’s right: Pardekooper was a sales dude for this very magazine you hold in your hands. I always knew that Kelly had songs that managed to work their way onto my favorite TV shows, but I didn’t get a chance to dig into the ins and outs of the publishing gig until his time with us was up. I sat down with Kelly on his very last day at NUVO. This is our conversation, annotated with bits and pieces from various musicians, publishers, journalists and music supervisors that have worked with Kelly through the years, plus a little bit of German Wikipedia for good measure. (You’ll see.) >>>
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NO DEPRESSION Kelly both wrote and was written about in roots authority mag No Depression. Longtime writer Easy Ed [Maxin] wrote of him often, including in an email to me. Ed said: “Kelly has the singer-songwriter lyrical attributes coupled with the bar band experience, and that makes his songs particularly appealing and welcoming to a much wider audience. If you’d like to know what really sets him far apart from the herd though, it’s the business acumen that allowed him to figure out he could reach a much larger audience by placing his songs in film and television rather than spending 300 days a year living in a minivan and playing in front of a couple dozen people each night for table scraps.” TURNER Stephanie Turner is a nationally touring gospel singer based in Indy. PROP The prop house is called Bischoff’s. It’s 94-yearsold and specializes in exotic taxidermy. The Hangover tiger stand-in? Bischoff’s. The location for Rilo Kiley’s 2004 music video for More Adventurous’ “Portions for Foxes”? Bischoff’s. COUNTRY For a time, Kelly lived in Nashville and considered writing songs with the goal of writing for other country singers. Easy Ed interviewed Kelly for No Depression in 2005 and asked, if Tim McGraw should decide to cut one of his songs? “I don’t have any philosophical issue with that,” Kelly answered. “If somebody wants to record my songs it could give me a break from house painting so I could write some more.” More on this later. ALBUMS Kelly’s discography includes: • 30 Weight (1998, Leisure Time Records, his own label) • Johnson County Snow (Trailer Records) • Live at Gabe’s
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NUVO: You wrote in No Depression in 2009, “Since I was 14 years old, I have always had some type of job or work that was not at all music related. And have always felt this was a big part of my songwriting … just the regular day to day living, breathing and bumping up against other people.” How has this job impacted your songwriting? Where can you find that in songs you put out in Milk in Sunshine [released in 2014, during Kelly’s tenure at NUVO]? NO DEPRESSION KELLY PARDEKOOPER: I’m still living that life. I would say that, as a songwriter, I’ve always been more needing to bump into regular people and regular life. It informs my songs. It probably lends to any authenticity that people hear in it. NUVO: Which is often remarked upon. KP: It is. It also keeps me sane. For me, I’ve never been comfortable being in a bubble. I needed to live a regular life. Sometimes that was house-painting. Often, that was alt-weekly newspapers, because that was my education. And NUVO is my third stint at an alt-weekly. After three years, I can definitely say that from the album Milk In Sunshine, the title track is completely informed by my outsider perspective indie-vibe mixed with Stephanie Turner TURNER to sing that very gospel-y call-and-response style. I’ve never been anything like that in my music. Indy’s the first city that I lived in that felt like it had that kind of soul a little bit. I’m from Iowa. There is quite a difference. NUVO: Do you think that comes out of the legacy of jazz here? KP: I think so. And even the amount of churches. I don’t know how prevalent Baptist churches are [other places I’ve lived]. And LA was quite segregated – really segregated. The churches where the black folks were going were in Compton, Watts, Inglewood, South LA. And as diverse as LA is, it’s a very
segregated city. I live in Downtown Indianapolis. This is the [first]city that I felt is more diverse in a real way. People have been trying to live together for generations, in ways that certainly my Iowa upbringing didn’t have, and also LA didn’t have. There’s a better mix of cultures here in some ways. And maybe that’s what I was feeling, living downtown and driving to NUVO from downtown every day. NUVO: I think I read in that piece that at the time you were working in a prop shop. PROP PARDEKOOPER: I was. In Los Angeles, I was working at a prop shop, so every day, people were renting different props for different TV shows and films. Just kind of one of those Burbank businesses that can only exist in Hollywood because the business is all out there. And I loved that, because I met different people from all different parts of the country and the world every day in short little fun interactions. Well, not always fun. I got to actually be living with folks. [My] Yonder album would be more LA-informed. There are more songs about shady strip clubs and these seedy Sunset Blvd. settings that I’m sure that I was seeing and imagining. I need that. Honestly, I’m not a spec writer. COUNTRY For as much success as I’ve actually had in getting songs on television shows, it’s not been on call or on demand or spec work. It’s just been that the music supervisors of these shows have liked the songs that I’ve written for albums, just out of my own sort-of imagination. I’ve been lucky that way, that they’ve liked it. It’s also a shortcoming. I know there are people in Hollywood and other places that that’s what they do. They crank it out. I was never built that way. I had a chance to try it, and I tried it for a few months, and I told my music publisher, “This is not for me.” I can’t write for this never TV pilot that needs “A, B, C for lyrics and in this kind of genre.” That’s just sort of a little soulless and just not kind
of the way I’m ever going to create. NUVO: Tell me I have this correct: Your path is Iowa City, Nashville, Madison, LA, Indy. KP: That’s perfect. That’s my last 10 years. NUVO: Seven albums: three in Iowa City, one in Nashville, one in every city that you’ve lived in? ALBUMS KP: Yeah, that’s about fair. The last one, Milk in Sunshine, is a combination of a lot of those places. But yeah, that’s the decade. And I started late. And I started at 30. I didn’t start with big illusions, starting at 30 with a funny last name. I knew that I was going to sort of be doing this out of love. JOKES NUVO: What was the moment that you thought, “I’m going to do this.”? KP: I don’t know if there was a moment in Iowa City. MATT It was a slow burn, and I was a slow burn anyway. I kind of got through college, worked at the weekly paper, got married. I went to University of Iowa in Iowa City and studied communications. Bloomington would be a very good match, I would say that, for a great kind of liberal, progressive, Big 10 university town. But it’s also my hometown. I grew up with about as a diverse background as you can find [for Iowa]. I mean, I married one of the few Korean American women that are from Iowa [wife Karen Myung], probably, at least from my generation. [laughs] So, I’m happy to have been in a university town, where there were lots of [outlets]. The Iowa Writers’ Workshop is there. Iowa City loves Kurt Vonnegut almost as much as Indy in some ways because of his connection to the Writers’ Workshop. And Tennessee Williams, and a whole slew of others. But Vonnegut’s a big one, and it made me very comfortable when I moved downtown and I saw the huge painting on that brick wall downtown and was like, “Oh, this is
<<< • House of Mud (Trailer Records, Trocadero Records) • Live in Europe (Leisure Time Records) • Haymaker Heart (Trailer Records, Trocadero Records) • Brand New Bag (Sonic Rendezvous Records) • Yonder (Leisure Time Records) • Milk in Sunshine (Leisure Time Records)
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“Pardekooper” means “horse buyer” in Dutch. Kelly named his second Iowa backing band The Horse Buyers in a little joke that only those versed in Dutch etymology could get.
MATT Kelly’s Horse Buyers and Devil’s House Band drummer Matt Winegardner played with him beginning in 1999. He remembers the early days as thus: “We had such a range of gigs going from opening for national touring artists such as Dale Watson, Big Sandy, Chuck Prophet and Jack Ingram, to playing parties to playing small town dive bars across the state of Iowa. I still remember the Brrrr Ride After-Party (a winter time bike ride event) in Nevada, Iowa being a real trial-by-fire event. One of our very first gigs and the audience was pretty fired up and out of control, a real sink or swim experience. I felt like we learned to at least doggie paddle as a band.”
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Pardekooper’s albums, in order: 30-Weight, Johnson County Snow, House of Mud; (Left) Madison, Wisconsin in 2007.
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IOWA Kelly’s two main bands in Iowa were The Devil’s House Band and The Horse Buyers. Bassist and recording engineer John Svec worked on Johnson County Snow, Haymaker Heart, Yonder and Milk in Sunshine. Svec said attributes Kelly’s success in publishing to the fact that, “His tunes are always a vision of a place, a person, an experience that tend to be phrased in a straightforward and memorable way. The tunes are neither easy or difficult to play which generally means, there’s a tasteful amount of music to support the lyrics and with an easy melody to grasp,” TOURING Kelly wrote for the Isthmus in 2007, of Amsterdam: “Artists are treated very well here, just like any other person with a skill/ trade to offer. In America, I have often felt like a fringe/gypsy group when trying to make a living via music. The beer is also better — and Wisconsin beer is the best I’ve had in the U.S. — but it’s amazing here.” WIKI A sample of that German Wikipedia page, run through the Google translation machine: “Kelly Pardekooper was lucky, and he was originally enough for the business. His rough, Roots rock-heavy sound and his fluctuating between melancholy and sarcasm texts were also registered nationally.” and “Generally Kelly Pardekooper less than Genre virtuoso than as a credible country songwriter with the heart in the right place.” BO (1) Record producer and guitar maestro Bo Ramsey is married to musician Pieta Brown and a frequent collaborator with her father Greg Brown. He said of recording with Kelly: “When he asked me to produce a record, I was kind of surprised by that, but at the same time I was very honored to do it. I enjoyed working with Kelly, and one of the things that sits in my memory of that session was just his disposition. He’s got an almost kind of zen-like approach the music, anyway. So it was enjoyable for me to work with him. That set a tone for the session, and for everyone involved.
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PARDEKOOPER, FROM PAGE 09 like the Kurt Vonnegut May Day parties that I used to go to, and that still go on at the Writers’ Workshop,” and that’s very cool. IOWA But you’ve got my decade down pretty good. And it’s worth noting that a lot of that was, still, working different kinds of jobs, following Karen. When I left Nashville, really from that point on, I’ve been following Karen’s medical career. I would say from 2007 since, I’ve really dialed the touring down. That was the last time I toured in Europe, which I think I toured four times. NUVO: At the height of your touring, how much were you gone? How much were you out during the year? KP: A lot. I would say for me doing a lot of touring was doing about 125 shows a year. Europe would take easily one to two months of that of a year, just because I’ve got a funny Dutch name and got an Amsterdam booking agent pretty early on. TOURING NUVO: And a Dutch grandfather? KP: Great-grandfather is from Holland, yeah! NUVO: I translated your German Wikipedia page, which is quite extensive! And a little bit hard to parse. KP: It’s got a total German vibe. My Wikipedia page is in E Minor, basically, if I had to assign a chord to it. It’s an E Minor. And, all kidding aside, Germany kicked ass for me. A lot of the independent labels that helped me were actually based in Germany. WIKI NUVO: You’ve released on many labels. KP: I’ve been on a lot of small labels. Things that were not self-released would kind of start with Iowa’s Trailer Records, which is legitimate in that Greg Brown, Grammy dude, is still a friend. Bo Ramsey is a guitar ringer who produces a lot of Greg Brown’s stuff and has done his own albums. He’s very much the mentor figure for me, if I was to name one. One of the reasons the Yonder record is one of my favorites is because I was able to go into the studios and give control over, and that’s the only time I’ve ever done it, because Bo is so good. BO (1) He produced Lucinda’s big album Car Wheels On A Gravel Road, he was one of a couple producers. [He produced a six-song session with] Joan Baez, etc. He’s one of those Iowa guys that’s been around Iowa forever. He and Greg Brown are my dad’s age so [they showed me] you can be from Iowa, and come out of a small state that, like Indiana, is a flyover state for a lot of people, but still have a
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Kelly in 1998, around the release of 30-Weight.
career. It may be a lot more blue collar and less fancy, but if you start with the small college town and build your own following, you can do it. And they still do it. They’re looking at retiring like my parents, soon. BO (2) [Releases were] certainly higher-profile in Europe. I got to go on their equivalent of the World Cafe. The public radio that played me in Holland and Germany and Austria and those Benelux countries, I got it. When we started touring over there, we were embraced. We got paid in Euros! — which was 25 percent more. It was all good. NUVO: When I was writing a piece on the Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, I talked to someone in Norway and he told me something to the effect of,” We just love the blues here.” The allegiance to Americana is astonishing. EUROPE AND TEDDY KP: And that they know that there’s a lot of stuff like the Rev, and a lot of stuff that Americans won’t see on MTV or hear on the radio dial, but they are so educated and they KNOW [about it]. In fact, they covet and look for the ones that are much more underground. They love the history part, and they like folks that are a little more off the grid. I always appreciate that when you go to those shows, they’re quiet. They pay their 10, 15, sometimes 20 Euros and they really want to listen. NUVO: Were you mostly doing clubs there? KP: I did two theater-sized shows. With me, it was usually a festival that would anchor the whole thing. One of the big ones was the Take Root Festival, which is still going on. I got to play that. There was always at least one [festival]. I think there’s another one that’s called Orange Blossom Special Festival – these are mostly American roots acts like Ryan Adams will headline something like this. I got to know the Cracker guys pretty well because we were on this festival and did shows together. That is kind of what would pay for getting the band over, a
big gig that paid more, like a festival. Then we would do – at least at my level in Europe – two to three hundred room clubs, sometimes interspersed with opening for a bigger act at a theater. For me, that was bigger than what I was doing in America, even in the Midwest when I was touring the most. I was still pretty much playing places that were more like [Radio Radio-size], but in different markets. And I was slowly building places like in Minneapolis. I will forever think of cities as, Minneapolis is Lee’s Liquor Lounge; Omaha has a place called Mix. Outside of Chicago, there’s a place called FitzGerald’s. It’s a little more suburban. There’s a guy who has a great Fourth of July festival every year and loves American roots acts and pays them really well. So Chicago was always FitzGerald’s, and Schuba’s. That would be more the city show, although they never wanted us to play them back-toback. Those would have been the ones. NUVO: What did you think of Indianapolis as a city before you moved here to work? KP: I had played it, and honestly the place that I had played, mid-week, because they paid so well and treated us so well, was the Slippery Noodle. Back to your blues. I was close enough to blues – even if it was country blues, swamp blues – that they could [book me]. Hal and Carol especially really, really liked me, and Teddy Morgan, who is a guy that I toured with for a little bit. He’s the one that turned me on to Slippery Noodle. TEDDY NUVO: It’s a big room. KP: It is! And there’s always people there. If you can ever, middle of the week, get paid $400, have a place to stay – and they still have a band house – and get fed, it’s like gold on the road. If you’re on a van tour? That has to make up for the Melody Inn-type places where you show up for the first time ever with three other bands, and you’re trying to expand your audience a little bit, and you’ve got to put your dues in and win them over every night. I still have an email list that to me is gold, because I earned it. The folks that liked me 10 years ago still like me now, and have been loyal enough to continue to buy what I put out. It’s grown a bit, and I’ve definitely made a lot more fans from the TV stuff. NUVO: Let’s talk about the TV stuff. Now I kind of lost the thread with True Blood, never finished Justified. But I watched every episode of Sons of Anarchy. KP: Well then you know that scene S E E , P A RDEKOOPER, O N PA GE 1 2
<<< As a producer, I appreciated that. I’ve worked in a lot of different kinds of environments. I just have a really fond memory of that session. Because of that temperament, he was very solid. Like, if you needed to do more than one take, or if you needed to do numerous takes, it was not a problem. It was just kind of that calm steadiness that I really enjoyed and appreciated.” BO (2)
Bo Ramsey says, of the Eastern Iowa sound, “I think one of the main things with Iowa is that it sits next to the Mississippi River. The Mississippi borders the eastern part of Iowa. I think the river is a means of transpiration for all kinds of things, from goods to music. I feel it, music from the South has come up and affected me. I know that.”
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Nashville-based musician and producer Teddy Morgan toured Europe with Kelly in the early aughts. When reached by phone and asked about this European blues allegiance, he said: “I’m not a musical historian, but it even dates back to jazz musicians in France in the ‘50s. How come they found a life there? How come in England and in Europe these amazing blues artists in the ‘60s were discovered by people like the Rolling Stones? It’s pretty amazing that they launched second careers for them. As far as the American roots thing, I don’t know if it’s something special because it’s foreign and imported, but there really is something there.”
TEDDY
Teddy Morgan served as producer for 2007’s Brand New Bag. He says, of recording with Kelly, “I had a house in East Nashville, and converted the garage into a studio, had a tape machine, and was making records there. We recorded it mostly live, honestly. Most of his locals were live. He’s a very consistent, really good singer. … His voice is … how would you describe it, you know? There’s just a really cool quality to his voice. It would make sense to me why it’s been used so much. You feel the emotion of it, but it’s not going to overpower you or the song. Cont. P.12 >>>
“ Indy’s the first city that I lived in that felt like it had that kind of soul a little bit. I’m from Iowa. There is quite a difference.” — KELLY PARDEKOOPER Outside the Melody Inn, where Pardekooper will play next Friday.
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“ Indy’s the first city that I lived in that felt like it had that kind of soul a little bit. I’m from Iowa. There is quite a difference.” — KELLY PARDEKOOPER
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Pardekooper’s albums, in order: Haymaker Heart, Brand New Bag, Yonder, Milk in Sunshine; (Left) Haymaker Heart album cover photo, 2004 by Sandy Dyas It’s going to tell a story. A song, whether it has lyrics in it or not in a film, needs to help on an emotional level to tell the story.” SONS Kelly’s song “Tell Me You’re The One” from Sons of Anarchy episode “Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em” soundtracks a pivotal moment when biker mom Gemma, outrunning murder charges, starts talking to someone who is definitely … dead. JOKES (2) I’m joking here, but also not. There’s a lot of murder! BOB (1) I asked Kelly’s music publisher Bob Mair, the owner of Black Toast Music, why Kelly’s songs work so well in scenes like these. He said: “The reason Kelly’s music appeals to me is a visceral one. You can actually feel the pain and struggle as well as the self reflection in his music. Not unlike a great painting, Kelly’s music is something that grabs you by the chest and says “LISTEN TO ME.” It’s honest, earthy, rootsy, sometimes raw, but it’s never trying to be something that it’s not. It’s good, honest, and from the heart. Kelly’s music grabbed me the minute I heard it! I was honored that he wanted to sign with me as a publisher. And, truthfully, I think the reason his music works so well for film, TV etc., other than the fact that I really haven’t heard anybody stylistically do what he does as well as he does it, is the fact that the supervisors, producers, and the like, all hear exactly what I’m sayin’. It’s honest heartfelt, well written, GREAT music! Of course the fact that Kelly is an amazing lyricist
PARDEKOOPER, FROM PAGE 11 where she’s smoking that cigarette. That may be my favorite usage, just because, I like that woman [Katey Segal] anyway, and I liked her comedy show [Married with Children]. And she’s a singer, too! She’s a musician. SONS NUVO: These are dark shows, Kelly! KP: Well, back to my German Wikipedia. [laughs] It is. It’s kind of a ballad that’s one of my more popular songs, certainly from feedback that I’ve gotten. The one they use in particular at the diner is a very melancholy love song that is perfect. She’s smoking, and there’s cigarettes, it’s in a diner, and I’m clearly the guy on the jukebox. True Blood used my songs like that a lot. A lot, I’m that guy. Cold Case had probably the most lyricconnected use. NUVO: How often are your songs played in association with murders? JOKES (2) KP: That’s a really good question. Because Justified, same deal. I’m the guy on the bar jukebox, and that’s a pretty violent show, too. NUVO: What do you think that says about the kind of music that you make? It’s very scene-setting, and very atmospheric. I think that’s something that’s very typical of Midwestern roots music traditions. You can feel the smoky bar. BOB (1) KP: I would agree, and I’ve heard that about my voice a lot. I was never a big smoker, but I spent plenty of time in smoky bars, and I hear this smoky voice reference all the time. It does fit it. I think that there’s something to be said for creating with a sense of place. Certainly, my early years that would have been Iowa, because I spent most of my time there. I agree that there’s plenty of Midwest roots music that you can just tell. You can just feel it. It’s a little spacious.
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I get so little contact with these music supervisors. It’s always through my music publisher who will say, “So and so, he loves your voice. He wishes they would write a scene for this ‘Grandma’s Rosary’ song.” There are certain music supervisors in California that I know have songs stuck in their head, and they’re waiting. They’re waiting for the right way to use them. And like a lot of people, they jump around town. This has been six years now, since True Blood, second season, [“Never Let Me Go”] I think is what the episode was called. And I came on the jukebox in Louisiana, somewhere where those hip vampires were. It was a bass, swamp blues music kind-of track. GARY (1) But the one that’s made me the most money is the one that they used when they were releasing the first seasons. They would put these DVDs out, and they would release them and they would make a big deal about it. And if you remember that era, there was always this music in between scenes. One of my songs is used in between scenes. It’s a lot lower-key. You’ve heard my music enough to know that I have really three different vocal styles. Kind of a low, speaking type; then a more high, lush type that gets more into the Elliott Smith part of my range. And then just more of a straight rock, driving rock and roll type. And I like all three, but that is the one, the song “Can’t Go There,” that is used on the DVD that I ended up making a lot more because it’s used between every episode, and they released it in Europe. At the time, at least in 2009 and 2010, those DVD releases, they were pressing a million of those. And I get paid a little bit every time that they sell them. And they were actually selling them. It’s changed now because now you’re watching them on Netflix, and I honestly don’t know if they have in-between music any more. TV SONGS (P.14)
But True Blood was the show that absolutely opened my eyes to the fact that, “Wow, there is a music supervisor
[that digs me].” And that person? He’s still in Los Angeles. He used three of my songs over seven years, seven seasons he used three of my songs. It’s the thing that I didn’t realize when I started. I thought, “Oh, this will be something here and there.” But it’s grown to the point now that every quarter, Kat, royalties creep up a little. It’s a cumulative business. Because a lot of the shows that we’re talking about are going to be in syndication a long time. They’re playing them somewhere. NUVO: Did you celebrate when they hit 100 episode mark, qualifying for syndication? KP: Yeah! But then I also know that I will get songs on Chicago Fire, which is an NBC show that may or may not be on any more. CHICAGO (P.14) For those, you get paid a licensing fee, so there’s an immediate paycheck you get just for the usage [a sync fee]. But the real way you make a living is that you’ve gotta have a lot of songs, and over time, and those mechanical royalties, they add up. S E E , P A RDEKOOPER, O N PA GE 1 4
(who can paint an amazing picture with words) as well as an amazing singer, doesn’t hurt.
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Grammy Award-nominated music supervisor and badass KCRW DJ Gary Calamar was named Music Supervisor of the Year (Television) by the Guild of Music Supervisors in 2011. That’s probably due in no small part to his masterful work on True Blood, which used three of Kelly’s songs, along with Six Feet Under, House, Weeds and Dexter. When reached by email, Calamar says that, “Generally the songs within the show were used more for atmosphere and texture as opposed to lyrical content that might be too obvious or too ‘on the nose.’ I was able to have a little more fun with a lyrical and thematic connect with the songs used that played over the end credits. … Kelly’s badass, roots music was a perfect fit for True Blood.”
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TV SONGS (FROM P.12) Some of the TV shows that cut checks for Kelly this year included: • Blue Bloods, which sampled “Drown in Alcohol” • Cold Case, “Crazy Girl” • True Blood, “Fly on the Wall,” “Wild Love,” “Can’t Go There” • Sons of Anarchy, “Tell Me (You’re the One)” • Justified, “Crazy Girl,” “Not in Iowa” • Chicago Fire, “Yonder” • #BikerLive, “Yonder,” “Not in Iowa,” “Waterloo” • Make It Or Break It, “Too Late” • The Young & the Restless, “Tell Me (You’re the One),” “Too Late” • Wife Swap UK, “I Suppose” • Pretty Wild, “I Adore,” “Hayseed Girl,” “Too Late” • Life’s Funniest Moments, “Crazy Girl” • Jerseylicious, “Too Late.” Films include the to-bereleased Katie Holmesdirected film All We Had, which used “Just Shoot Me”; April Moon, “Quiet Tonight”; and Sex and the USA, “Brand New Bag.” CHICAGO (P.12) It is. BOB (2) Music publisher Bob Mair on the appeal of roots music: “There are times when it seems that there are a handful of productions that are created with that very rootsy, earthy, Americana vibe, sometimes set in the South or in Middle America and they need a very organic music to help set the tone. Those are the times that Kelly’s material does really well. Shows like True Blood, Justified, Longmire, etc. have all benefitted from Kelly’s songs. Due to the heartfelt honesty in Kelly’s music, Kelly’s ballads are also fantastic for a number of montage scenes.” FAMILY The opening theme to True Detective Season One was “Far From Any Road” by The Handsome Family.
THE RULES Kelly’s four rules of music publishing, blogged this month at kellypardekooper.com. It’s a numbers game: I have a lot of songs in my seven-album catalog, so my overall chances for TV/ film use are greater. Music publishers are going to be more interested in larger catalogs of songs. It’s a big old world: As my songs are being used in America, they will eventually be used (paid) internationally too. Syndication is king: Songs in popular shows that are syndicated will play forever. And probably pay forever. (True Blood, Sons of Anarchy etc.) Keep writing/recording: Seems obvious, but keeping your head down and working your craft can never really stop. Always new things to learn/try.
“ I didn’t start with big illusions, starting at 30 with a funny last name.” — KELLY PARDEKOOPER
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Inside the Melody Inn, where Pardekooper will play next Friday.
PARDEKOOPER, FROM PAGE 12 NUVO: It seems like TV placement, which has been a second act for your career, hit a sweet spot in the mid2000s, where a lot of shows were focused more on soundtracking. Especially a lot of teen shows and soapy shows with pop music, then roots music in these darker shows, the one-hour prestige dramas especially. BOB (2) Then we’ve seen T Bone Burnett, who supervises the music of True Detective and create this super conscientious soundtracking. KP: I got to play shows with those folks, The Handsome Family. FAMILY It totally changed their career. We had the same booking agent in Europe. It totally changed their career. NUVO: The music industry, crucially, needs to deal with the money question. How can musicians actually make money? Is this something that will continue to grow? Is it all up in the air? As a participant in the cycle, what do you foresee as the future of this for musicians? And how can people get into it if they’re interested? KP: First part: I’m hopeful based on my most recent changes that I’m making, that there is still going to be demand for original music that can be placed and actually made profitable to songwriters. Even in 2009 when I started, it was competitive and is even more competitive now. It was one of those last little bastions where a songwriter or an inde-
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pendent musician that owned the publishing rights could get into a deal where they actually could get paid for their songs. THE RULES I know that it’s getting even more competitive and these music supervisors for television shows and film have restraints on them, have their own budgets, and they’re always trying to get better deals for music. Technology went after the music industry first. It was the first industry that kind of got devalued. The song and the music got devalued pretty quick. I do worry that the trend of devaluing original music and song could continue. I hate to be a pessimist about it, because I do worry about young songwriters. I worry about the young bands that now can really only get in the van and go try and sell it night to night and tour. I think all bands have to start out that way, too. But to have a lasting career, you know, you’ll see the fights in the media sometimes even with established musicians who are shocked at how little they get paid now relative to what they used to get paid. I get both sides. I’m always going to be curious about how people will consume music. [Some people] have no bones about going onto Youtube, running it through a computer program that strips the audio, dropping it into an iPad, and nobody gets paid. They get the music, YouTube gets the ad click. Everyone gets a good deal on that except the people who created the content. BOB (3) I try really hard not to get cynical and be like, “Well, why should I even create? Why should I do this?” I still love to do it, so I’m
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going to do it. I still get paid a bit. I’ve had to say this in a lot of interviews, which I hate to say, because I’m a Midwesterner, and I love Iowa, I love the Midwest, I love Indiana. But there is no doubt that had I not moved to Los Angeles and gone to an ASCAP songwriting workshop where I was playing, had I not met the publisher out there, this never would have happened. And there’s still something to be said for the music cities in America, because I think they still select and weed out who is hungry enough to go out and do that. Had I not followed Karen’s medical career out there, this wouldn’t have happened, because it wasn’t at the top of my radar. It’s been a really blessed second wind for me, because folks that love True Blood, they found me. They bought Milk in Sunshine. And they were people that never would have found me had they not crazily tracked down the soundtracks to these things. GARY (2) If you look at my iTunes and at my popular songs, they’re not tracks that I ever would have picked as singles off albums. They’re absolutely 1-10 the songs from TV. That’s attributed really to the work of my publisher and the TV industry, because I didn’t do anything — NUVO: Well, you made the song. KP: Well some of it was 10 years ago! It almost feels like I’m finally getting paid for all the small town Iowa stuff. It’s come full circle. But I know that doesn’t happen for a lot of folks. They spend a lot of their life toiling at it, and slamming up against it. I learned a lot in my year in Nashville, too, in publishing. … >>>
When I ask Bob Mair what changes in the music publishing world he’s looking forward to, it’s all about the money question for him, too. “What I’m really looking forward to, in the music business, is a more equitable royalty rate paid to music publishers and that publishers aren’t tied to royalty rates that were set by our Federal government more than 60 years ago. The record companies aren’t tied to those mandates and because of that they’re making exponentially better royalty rates in terms of the streaming music services than the publishers. ASCAP and BMI (the performing rights societies) are both spending a fortune, fighting on behalf of the writers and the publishers.”
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Music supervisor Gary Calamar comments, “It’s great that fans can easily find out information on music and track down artists that they see on their favorite TV shows.”
GILLIAN Sample lyrics: “I can get a tip jar / Gas up the car / Try to make a little change / Down at the bar” “Or I can get a straight job / I’ve done it before / Never minded working hard / It’s who I’m working for” LIVE TO TAPE Drummer Winegardner says: “Kelly has such a great approach to recording. Not sure if Kelly sees it this way or not but I always feel there is the first time a band plays a song the “right” way that has a special one-time energy of discovery. After that time, you are basically trying to recreate that original moment. Too many bands rehearse endless hours trying to recapture the original version on tape. Kelly seems to strive to catch that original moment on tape. It has a certain energy that can’t be recreated. If the moment isn’t right and we’re not capturing a good take of the song, Kelly
I knew in Nashville in six months that I wasn’t going to be able to write Top 40 country music. I’m a songwriter, but this isn’t going to happen. I had one song held, which in that jargon down there means that they hold your publishing rights to see if they want it. And it was Tim McGraw’s agency, actually, and they ended up passing on it. Those are still the moments that I don’t regret taking those chances. This has been a better fit for me. Had a major country star taken one of my songs and put it on an album, that would have put me on a different track. Down there, it’s all about co-songwriters, and you work your way up as a songwriter, but you can make a living doing it if you have big artists that cut your stuff. I wasn’t really good working in that format. I do worry about the young songwriters, though. I get that people are going to want to do this always. Gillian Welch has that great song “Everything Is Free” that I keep coming back to sometimes. GILLIAN I know it. The industry knows it. Everybody knows it. The younger generation knows it. If there’s content that you’ve ever heard, you can go and get it for free, though. NUVO: Let’s talk about your third act. KP: I will continue to record more music. My publisher would like to use my voice a little more on other work, which is
part of the plan, too. And I’m going to hire some Indy studios and some Indy musicians to try and create some new original music here. Not necessarily for TV or any specific goal, other than I’m definitely going to pay for it, so my music publisher is going to be able to listen to it and see if it’s something he’d like to use. But it’s a great freedom to do whatever I’d like to do in Indy.
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elly and I met again two months later to catch up on the full-time songwriting gig. Here’s how it’s going: “It’s a new scene for me, and I only play about every quarter, maybe a handful of shows here in Indianapolis. Like a lot of things, Dave Brown at the Melody Inn had been key to [finding this lineup]. … Mark [Cutsinger, Kelly’s new drummer] clearly is more than just a punk rock drummer. Like Thom [Woodard, new guitarist] you can see that he’s a really flexible player. It’s fun. It seems like the place-in-life guys are where I’m at in some ways. We’ve played enough that we can take a few rehearsals and have a set pretty ready to go within killing all the fun, live, little nervous spontaneity that you want to be able to have happen. LIVE TO TAPE “Now, it’s easy for me to carve out time to work on songs. I do that every day
now. It’s even, I found most recently in Los Angeles, it’s much easier for me to go just be a vocalist, too. … [In Los Angeles] what we’re trying to set up right now is the right group that we can [record with]. The scenario with the music publisher is that we’re trying to figure out how to make the cost make sense. “I’m trying to keep my songs that I’m writing here in Indiana. In other words, with a little more rehearsal, this local group, these guys that are pretty experienced, in my ideal world, I’m going to take the songs that I’m working on, my songs, I would have them help me record it in an Indiana studio. … What I do in Los Angeles isn’t something that I think would ever end up being on a Kelly Pardekooper album, or on something that I would release. … My publisher would like to hand-pick certain instrumentalists that he can bring out to record and my strength in that scenario is as a pure singer. “This next thing will be 100 percent Indiana. It will be Indiana guys, an Indiana studio. INDIANA GUYS I have none of the same touchstones that I’ve had up to this point, and it’s good. The roots I’m putting down now are here. … This new incarnation of guys is pretty experienced, which is helpful. I don’t writer super-complex prog rock, so my music is usually picked up pretty easy. But it will be very Indiana.” n
is comfortable to move along to something that is working. He doesn’t try to force a song to happen.”
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Bassist Steve Pruden is the third member of Kelly’s new band (and also played with him in a previous Indiana incarnation Distal Down). He says, “Kelly’s songs are constructed well so listeners can relate and by the second chorus they’ve got the song down. The songs also provide room for the instrumentalists to add color here and there — I’m excited to see how this new band interprets his existing catalog and what we can bring together on new material to future recording sessions or gigs with Kelly.”
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ARTS NEWS Public Art in Indy: Roland Hobart and a New Era in the City at the University of Indianapolis Jan 19-Feb 12 Back in 2013, a four-storyhigh, 40-year-old mural on 32 N. Delaware St. caught the eye of Richard McCoy, art consultant and director of Landmark Columbus. The geometric designs of this once bright mural were wearing thin and faded. McCoy, nonetheless, soon understood that there was a rich history behind it connecting to the story of public art in Indianapolis. The “Untitled” mural was painted by Austrian artist Roland Hobart in 1973. Hobart currently lives in Bloomington, Ind. in an assisted living facility. The story of how Hobart came to paint that wall is also a chapter in the revitalization of Indy’s downtown under then-mayor Richard Lugar. The upcoming exhibition at UIndy: Public Art in Indy: Roland Hobart and a New Era in the City, curated by McCoy, explores the work of Hobart and other artists involved in this history, opening at UIndy Jan. 19. “I had an intern at Butler work with me and we researched it,” says McCoy. “We found Roland in Bloomington and got to know him and then he donated his collection to the University of Indianapolis which also has the mayoral archives.” Hobart won the opportunity to paint the mural through a competition entitled Urban Walls. The contest was inspired by an exhibition by the same name held at the Herron School of Art and Design, an exhibition that Richard Lugar’s staff happened to see. Other works by Hobart will be available to view, such as his five sesquicentennial prints. And there are works by other artists invoked, and commented on, in this exhibition. Milton Glaser’s 1975 mural “Color Fuses” at the Minton-Capehart Federal Building, a work that was refurbished in 2012, is highlighted. Also featured is James McQuiston’s 1976 mural “The Runners” on 11 S. Meridian St. Such works are milestones in the history of public art pre-2012 Super Bowl, when almost overnight, 46 murals sprung up in Indianapolis (as part of the 46 for XLVI Murals project sponsored by the Arts Council of Indianapolis). The exhibit opens Jan. 19. A related symposium on Feb. 5 entitled Building Vibrant Cities through Art will also take place at UIndy which Hobart himself plans on attending. “It’s a rare opportunity to think about public art in a way that we haven’t done before,” McCoy says of both events. — DAN GROSSMAN Roland Hobart and a New Era in the City. Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center Gallery at UIndy, 1400 E. Hanna Ave., FREE
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he reVISION exhibition is an art gallery with a twist: The visitors not touching the artwork are doing it wrong. Created for people with visual impairment, reVISION is billed as “a tactile, auditory, and spatial experience” in lieu of a traditional space where patrons keep a safe distance. The gallery was the brainchild of Meredith Howell, who wanted to make the art world more accessible for her daughter Lola, a 5-yearold with significant vision loss. reVISION is coordinated by The Visually Impaired Preschool Services (VIPS), which extended an invitation for artists to submit their work, is located in the Indiana Interchurch Center (IIC). Howell was inspired while looking over the traditional 2D pieces in the IIC gallery. She wondered, “How could Lola experience the art ... without being able to touch it?”
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Howell looked over several case studies of visually impaired museum patrons who all said they didn’t feel included. With help from a team of curators and the AccessIndy program, Howell put out a call for art submissions, with the added stipulation that the works on display will be touched. Several organizations working in accessibility in the arts picked up the call for submissions, and the work of 17 regional artists were chosen for display. Several of the artists are visually impaired.The show will also feature submissions from the students at the Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
One of the artists on display is Jennifer Qian, who was born deaf, receiving cochlear implants at the age of four. She was mentored by her grandfather, a painter who travelled China and Mongolia to pursue his interests, and credits him as well as her unique perspective for inspiring her. “I am confident that I would not been as insightful or passionate about life and art if I was born with my hearing,” says Qian. Her work covers a wide range, from 2D mixed media pieces to her master’s thesis show, a series of interactive clay sculptures meant to re-contextualize the concept of sound. “Sighted visitors will have an opportunity to experience the art in a way they are not accustomed to,” says Qian. Howell explained that visitors will encounter a wide range of materials: plaster, wood, ceramic, fleece, yarn, ribbon, woven textiles, clay, tactile paint and more. At the entrance, guests have the >>>
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roof and even the spokes of a tire are rendered alien and new in context. I had more than a few moments of pause, brought on by the temporary removal of a single sense. The goal of the exhibit, according to Howell, is to let “visitors who are blind or visually impaired know there is a strong push to include them.” She wants to begin a movement where blind patrons aren’t inhibited “How could Lola experience by their sensory loss, ultimately the art ... without being able making “inclusion the norm” and provoking visitors to have real conto touch it?” versations and interactions. On the way out, I overheard a — MEREDITH HOWELL woman offering to read Braille to a patron wearing a sleep mask as she ran her fingers across an informaapplying my sleep mask, I was caught off tion display. I would say that the gallery is well on its way to achieving its goal. guard by actually touching the elements Howell has already been asked to I had previously taken for granted. The bring the reVISION exhibit back to the sudden slickness of a cowboy boot on IIC in 2017. n a rough leg, the scratchy outline of a
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Imagine if comedian Mel Brooks and Twilight author Stephenie Meyer collaborated on a play set in eerie Hampstead Heath, England, in the early 1900s. This only begins to describe the ridiculous hilarity of The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful. Actually, the show was conceived by the American actor-director-playwright Charles Ludlam, who founded the aptly named Ridiculous Theatrical Company in 1967. Ludlam was a pioneer in the avant-garde genre “theater of the ridiculous,” which rejected realism onstage and embraced the art of camp. Ludlam’s most successful play, The Mystery of Irma Vep, sends up decades-spanning pop culture and (then) long-held ideals about what a play should be. The storytellers at the Indiana Repertory Theatre embrace Irma Vep’s nonsensical elements, producing one of the IRT’s most uproarious and unexpectedly deviant shows. PlaySUBMITTED PHOTO wright-in-residence James Still directs longtime acclaimed theater-staple Rob Johansen and core company member at American Players Theatre in Wisconsin Marcus Truschinski (seen at the IRT in last season’s The Hound of the Baskervilles). The two play off each other flawlessly. At one point on opening night, an improvisation by Truschinski had Johansen fighting not to laugh. The duo makes melodramatic farce a new artform. The plot (I use the term loosely) revolves around newlyweds Lord Edgar and Lady Enid Hillcrest, their servants, and the former lady of the house, Irma Vep. Lady Enid lives under the shadow (quite literally) of Irma, while the moors are the hunting grounds of what could be a werewolf. Both Lord and Lady are looking for a way to escape the dead Irma (to exorcise her and to revive her, respectively), a search that leads them to Egypt. Truschinski and Johansen play all seven characters, which not only requires the intense ability of an actor to switch personalities within seconds but also includes a score of rapid costume changes, many in drag (as dictated by Ludlam in the script). (Hat off to Guy Clark, who designed costumes that made the switches possible.) Truschinski and Johansen never falter in their on- (and off-) stage bedlam. Everyone involved with this production did nothing short of spectacular work. Do not miss this show: It is worth every penny and then some of its ticket price. — LISA GAUTHIER MITCHISON Jan. 12-Feb. 14, Indiana Repertory Theatre, 140 W. Washington St., irtlive.com, $15-25
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intellectual capabilities contemplate. These questions grip us at our core, and they make us different from any other species on earth.” Wolf, a medical doctor and electrical engineer who has been to space four times, will be presenting his unique experience with space and the planets in a special pre-concert talk. He is (obviously) enthusiastic about space from an astronomical standpoint and from a musical standpoint. “I’ve listened to symphonies in space — I’ve listened to Holst’s The Planets in space, actually,” says Wolf. “I love classical music and always have. Every evening, growing up, before I went to bed, I was listening to classical music. I know what a sensory experience it is listening to music. I also know what the sensory experience of space is like. There’s nothing like space. There’s nothing like “I’ve listened to symphonies in spaceflight. It’s a whole new space — I’ve listened to Holst’s array of sensory inputs! I plan to augment that whole sensory The Planets in space, actually,” experience of music with the wonderful Indianapolis Sym— DR. DAVID WOLF phony Orchestra by communicating visually and through words, the sensory experience of space. I’m really looking forward to it; which Holst wrote between 1914 and I love this work of Holst”. 1916. That hasn’t stopped anyone from Dr. Wolf isn’t the only person who thinking about the planets as bodies in enjoys The Planets. Since its premiere the sky, rather than zodiac signs. in late 1920, it has enjoyed widespread “It’s inherent, really,” says Indianapolis success, which Holst was surprised by, native and astronaut Dr. David Wolf, who and slightly upset about. He penned in a is the Children’s Museum of Indianapoletter to his friend, “I realize the truth of lis’ Scientist-in-Residence and will be ‘Woe to you when all men speak well of speaking before The Planets concert. you.’” He didn’t expect his composition “Throughout millennia, humans have to gain such traction. contemplated what’s beyond our home The seven movement work begins planet. What’s is it like to leave Earth? with “Mars, the Bringer of War,” which Can we live on another planet? What’s starts quietly, yet firm with the strings out there? These are the deepest quesplaying col legno (with the wood of their tions that humans, in their advanced bows), a march-like rhythm, despite the
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work being in the un-march like time signature of 5/4. The brass then enters ominously, slowly but surely, and the work erupts sounding like an epic call to battle with all sections of the orchestra going full force. It comes to an end after chords come clashing together like enemies on a battlefield. The following movement is as peaceful as the previous is fierce. “Venus, the Bringer of Peace,” begins with an ascending solo horn line, and the movement has a supernal quality aided by the harp and glockenspiel. (Editor’s note: Chantal has played almost every single piece in the series as a orchestral musician.) “Mercury, the Winged Messenger” follows, and is the shortest of all the
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movements with differing rhythms piling upon each other. “Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity” follows, an ebullient movement if there ever was one. “Saturn, Bringer of Old Age” comes next and almost sounds slightly gaunt in the entrance, and the movement has a solemn heaviness about it. “Uranus, the Magician” dashes away that weight with an loud, intense brass entrance, and then the sounds of spells and tricks cast are thrown throughout the movement. The celestial suite concludes with “Neptune, the Mystic,” with its distinct incorporeal themes and chords, and the piece ends fading away in to… well, space. Where’s Pluto, the planet that became an un-planet? Holst wrote the work about 15 years before it was discovered. Along with this iconic work, the program will include Paul Hindemith’s Die Harmonie der Welt Symphony, which stems from his opera of the same name. The opera is about the life of Johannes Kepler, a German mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer. Also on the program is “O du holder Abendstein” (Song to the Evening Star) from Richard Wagner’s opera Tannhauser, with Wolfgang Brendel as soloist. Dare I say it? The program will be … out of this world.
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Music Festival combines two of your biggest loves — music and science. When did your fascination with space begin? KRZYSZTOF URBANSKI: At the age of 14 or 15 when I started to ask myself questions, think consciously, my attention was attracted by philosophy and cosmology. I was so fascinated about the universe and laws which control it. Every piece of information about the space was like a discovery. I believe that my love for science shaped my world outlook. I understood that only knowledge can give us the answers to the most important questions. Jun Märkl will conduct Holst’s largest orchestra work, The Planets.
Urbanski on the Cosmos Music Festival When thinking about an orchesta’s concert season, music directors often include various festivals of sorts. A run of Beethoven’s symphonies, a celebration of all American music, and so on. When thinking of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s 2015-16 season though, Music Director Krzysztof Urbañski had a different idea. Instead of honing in on an era, or a particular composer, his
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focus was celestial, and thus the Cosmos Music Festival was created. From January 22 through Feb. 6, the ISO will present music and activities all revolving around space. I caught up with Urbañski shortly after he got back from his highly successful debut with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra to talk about the upcoming festival. NUVO: In the season announcement a few months back, you said the Cosmos
NUVO: There are many TV shows, movies, and compositions about space and the universe. The subject of what is out there has been on our minds for a very long time. Why do you think we are so drawn to that subject? URBANSKI: I think what fascinates us the most is that our desire to possess all the knowledge about the universe cannot be fulfilled. We still cannot explore the space as we wish. We cannot receive S E E , PL A NETS, O N PA GE 2 0
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Krzysztof Urbanski’s love for science and the celestial began with a fascination with philosophy and cosmology when he was 14. (above), ISO musicians will perform Holst, Beethoven and the score from Stanley Kubrick’s award-winning film, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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proofs for many theories. There is still a mystery. It is fascinating but also frustrating. NUVO: Do you see similarities between astronomy and music?
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URBANSKI: Actually I see a lot of similarities. Music is an abstract form of art, one could say it does not exist. Physically these are just dots on paper. For me as a conductor the most important task is to discover all relations and energy between the dots. In my opinion there is a special kind of gravity among them. Any piece of music is like a small universe and depending who creates it, it has less or more meaning.
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NUVO: The first concert this coming weekend is comprised of music on the Golden Record, which was on the Voyager spacecrafts in 1977. One of the works, Beethoven Symphony No. 5, is well known by nearly everyone whether they like classical music or not. Does all of that factor into your study and interpretation of it? Do you think about how to keep it “fresh” to listeners?
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URBANSKI: When creating my interpretation it is not my goal to make a piece “fresh.” Whenever I prepare myself for the concert I think of it as a premiere. I forget what I heard before and try to find my own key to the music. It is the only way to be honest with myself and with the audience.
NUVO: And lastly, the other work on that program is Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.” It caused quite a stir at its premiere, and is now, safe to say, a very popular work. In your opinion, what is it about that piece that gets people so excited for it? URBANSKI: Forgive me but I will not explain that. Let me just invite you for the concert. You will definitely find it out yourself! n
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SHOP Goodwill is the perfect place to find not only cheap tacky knick-knacks, but also unique trinkets to doll up the entire day. I found a white clay pitcher that I tossed a simple arrangement of flowers in. The pitcher was only four bucks. Thank you, Goodwill gods. Used goods also have Mason jars galore. If you know anything, then you must know that Mason jars are a “thing” now. People are decorating with them and you can, too. But please don’t buy your Mason jars at crafting stores because they’re $2.99 a pop, and let’s face it, none of us are Rockefeller or going to win the next insane Powerball. Buy them used or
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USED You could also take your Mason jars up a notch by painting them a seasonal hue. While Martha Stewart may be a crazy lady, she knows crafts and her crafting line is the go-to for all crafting needs. I tried her translucent glass paints on vases and jars and loved the way they turned out. Start by washing the jar with soap and warm water. Then use rubbing alcohol to get off any residual oils. Use a flat tip paint brush and paint in one direction. Let it dry for 15 minutes before painting in the opposite direction. Repeat that process until you’re happy with the translucent effect. Also, metallics are taking over the Pinterest boards right now. Try spray painting a variety of bottles in either silver or gold metallic paints. Don’t use all the same shapes and sizes of jars, otherwise you won’t achieve that whole “wow, I just casually threw this whole wedding together yesterday” vibe. Matching was so 2015, people.
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check with your extended family, too.
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“I don’t really ask people to read, usually people ask lessandra Lynch walked in front of me,” says Spacek. her first class of freshmen on day “Or I will meet one of teaching, tense and question- someone when I ing if this was the right decision. am on tour reading “I was nervous as all get-out,” says and ask them to read Lynch, thinking back on her time as a later.” teacher’s assistant in the MFA program The series has become a showcase of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. “It was for local writers from Chicago, a baptism by fire … But then I realized Bloomington and other spots around no one was throwing tomatoes at me the Midwest. Each one that’s put on is or defying me. They were all just sitting purely a passion project and act of love in their chairs waiting for me to speak. from the readers. Once I started talking about poems, I “It’s not profitable,” laughs Spacek. realized how much I liked talking about “There is no money involved [aside from poems and sharing ideas.” some donated gas money].” Today Lynch, a Butler English profesAfter Lynch attended her first Soft sor, compares the first-time experience of River reading she quickly saw the way teaching to the same kind of rush of nerthat even non-poets felt about the series vousness that comes with a poetry read— that the cultural connection was a the ing — something that she and another thread of the series. teacher and Indy poet, Callista Buchen, “Some people who were there wrote will be doing under the Soft River Readpoetry, others were there who just appreciated poetry,” says Lynch. “And I that. Often you “You can hear it somewhat on the page, love find in other places that [at the formal but to hear the poet actually sing it to poetry readings] lots of poets go to you can be a great experience.” the poetry readings. — ALESSANDRA LYNCH But poets like other people listening to their poems. That’s one of the things — ing Series umbrella. The next reading in that kind of connection to the commuthe series is slated for Thursday. nity through poetry is pretty spectacular. “[Doing a reading] was similar to my “There is a saying in poetry that you first experience teaching,” says Lynch. can hear it somewhat on the page, but to “I walked in through the door and some hear the poet actually sing it to you can part of me was shaking — could have be a great experience. I enjoy doing it.” been my knees or my elbows — and once Lynch’s own work often focuses on I started to read I was fine because I was the celebration of imagination, loss and inside the poem.” the natural world — all things that come Soft River Readings began as orthrough very lyrically in her pieces. ganically as the name might suggest. “Too often we don’t allow our minds Local poet Wendy Lee Spacek debuted to open up and soar, and skip around, the series shortly after she moved to and play, and invent and discover,” says Indianapolis in 2011. She wanted a way Lynch. “I guess when I say imagination to maintain her writing practice. Chris I’m including things like fresh discovery Newgent with Vouched Books, a pop-up and playfulness and acceptance of what reading series centered on small press is wild and strange and unbidden.” books, asked Spacek to host a reading. Her work often comes from the same
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Re-inventing Radio: An Evening with Ira Glass Jan. 23, 8 p.m. The voice behind NPR’s “This American Life” and the godfather of radio journalism is gracing our fair city. He was also the challenging voice that moved the most popular podcast in history, Serial, into reality. The New York Times once said, “Mr. Glass is a journalist but also a storyteller who filters his interviews and impressions through a distinctive literary imagination, an eccentric intelligence, and a sympathetic heart.” Most of the seats are close to sold out so hop on this one sooner than later. EVENT
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kind of vulnerable connection to the world around her that she says is often at the readings. “When I am feeling connected to everything: the world, nature, the air, myself, I am very open to whatever might pour in or drip into my mind,” says Lynch. “If I have the space for it or the time, everything is in sync … More recently I have been meditating on violence … even the last Soft River Reading I went to there were many poems about that. It seems to be in the air.” Buchen, who has read at Indy Reads Books, has seen the impact that new perspectives have on young writers. (Her own writing began when she was writing a family newspaper with her mother’s typewriter as a kid. Just last October she published a book called The Bloody Planet.) “I teach creative writing and my students are afraid of poetry; they think it’s dead and no one is doing it, and it doesn’t make any sense,” says Buchen. “They come to class with this sort of notion that it’s too hard to be useful. What I love about the readings is the literature is so alive. The room gets a feeling and you can sort of feel the excitement and they are really on, right, and every one is wrapped and paying attention. I love the way literature is alive during readings.” n
The Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, 355 City Center Dr. (Carmel), 843-3800, price varies, thecenterfortheperformingarts.org An Uneasy Relationship: John Bartlow Martin and Indiana Mon., Jan. 25, 6 p.m. Local author Ray Boomhower will be giving a talk on John Bartlow Martin, a top freelance and speechwriter for nearly every Democratic presidential campaign. Boomhower will also discuss Martin’s Indianapolis roots (specifically working for the Indianapolis Times). According to the Indianapolis Public Library “Boomhower also will address Martin’s examination of the “myth” of Indiana in Martin’s book, “Indiana: An Interpretation,” and how the book was utilized by Robert F. Kennedy’s campaign during Indiana’s presidential primary.” Central Library, 40 E. St. Clair St., Nina Mason Pulliam Indianapolis Special Collections Room, FREE Meet the Artists 2016 Jan. 26 - March 26, library hours. Prominent local African-American artists will have their work showcased for the 28th annual exhibit. The show is put on by the Library’s African-American History Committee. The free public Gala Reception will be held on Feb. 13 from 5:45-10 p.m. at Central Library. Live demonstrations will be shown during the March First Friday from 6-9 p.m. Central Library, One Library Square, 40 E. St. Clair St., 275-4100
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FILM EVENTS Hitchcock/Truffaut Jan. 21 and 23, 7 p.m.; Jan 22, 9:30 p.m. In 1962, legendary filmmakers Alfred Hitchcock and Francois Truffaut spent a week locked away in an office at Universal Studios, talking about cinema. This documentary features the original recordings of their conversations as well as interviews with today’s leading filmmakers, including Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Wes Anderson and more.
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IU Cinema, 1213 E. 7th St. (Bloomington), $6 public, $3 students, cinema.indiana.edu The Iris Film Festival Jan. 22, 6:30 p.m. Showcasing work from members of the Bloomington and IU communities, this festival features “innovative, inspired and engaging films and music videos in the short format.” This year is the 10th annual Iris Film Festival, presented by the Cinema and Media Studies department in the Media School. It will include awards for best narrative, documentary and experimental film.
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Writer Charlie Kaufman transforms an old radio show with his twisted style
IU Cinema, 1213 E. 7th St. (Bloomington), FREE but ticketed, cinema.indiana.edu Miracle Jan. 22, 7 p.m. A perfect film for IMA’s Winter Nights series. Miracle tells the inspiring true story of the 1980 Men’s Olympic Championship Team. Inspired by the success of last winter’s outdoor screening of Fargo, this screening is taking place in the IMA’s outdoor amphitheater. Be sure to come out before the screening for hockey-related games, prizes and motivational speeches. And wear your favorite team sweater for a chance to score a spot in the IMA’s “special penalty box seating” in the outdoor amphitheater. Indianapolis Museum of Art, 4000 Michigan Rd., $12 public, $6 members, imamuseum.org
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Ride Along 2 (PG-13) u Noisy sequel to the hit 2014 action comedy puts Detective Ice Cube with his brother-in-law to-be rookie Officer Kevin Hart for more laughs and fights. Most of the film takes place in Miami, where the guys deal with a smooth villain (Benjamin Bratt). Hart does his motormouth thang, while Ice Cube rolls his eyes and grumbles. My son loved it. I thought it was abrasive, but harmless. Olivia Nunn, Ken Jeong and Tika Sumpter costar.
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ccording to Wikipedia, the Fregoli delusion is a rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that different people are in fact the same person who changes appearance or is in disguise. There are three actors in Anomalisa: David Thewlis plays Michael Stone, a weary author of a well-received book on customer service called “How May I Help You Help Them?”, Jennifer Jason Leigh plays Lisa, an insecure woman used to being in the background of life, and Tom Noonan plays every other role in the movie. Charlie Kaufman wrote Anomalisa. He’s the guy that wrote Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Human Nature, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and his directorial debut, Synecdoche, New York. Kaufman co-directs Anomalisa with Duke Johnson, who has directed stop-motion animated episodes of the TV series Morel Orel and Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole. Anomalisa was originally a radio play that Kaufman wrote under the pseudonym Franco Fregoli. If you’re familiar with the works of Charlie Kaufman, you probably read the above information and either placed the movie on your must see list, or made a mental note to avoid it at all costs. Kaufman is a highly imaginative fellow who likes to play kickball inside viewers’ heads. He is capable of taking you to amazing places and presenting dizzying ideas. Sometimes his ideas aren’t as striking as he thinks they are and his
arguments, you’ll hear angry puppets screaming “Fuck!” over and over. The first part of the film follows Michael as he arrives in town and suffers SHOWING: OPENS FRIDAY, KEYSTONE ART from all the people being nice to him. I RATED: R e understood that he was tired of traveling and chatting with strangers, I got that he was worn out and depressed and lonely. trippy story constructs are fatiguing. To enjoy this film’s rewards you’ll need to be Didn’t matter – he got on my nerves and I grew impatient with his attitude. patient. Then he meets Lisa and the movie Anomalisa is peopled by puppets. becomes something more. Married Don’t know why, exactly. As I noted, Michael, having already attempted to Kaufman wrote the story as a radio play hook up with an old acquaintance, into be presented onstage by a tiny cast. A vites her back to his room. Lisa, in town few years later he was approached about with a friend just to hear him speak, making it into a movie. Somewhere can’t believe he is interested in her. She along the line the puppet thing came up. is wary. He is horny, and watching him A Kickstarter campaign got the project carefully navigating his way past her rolling (over 1,000 people are thanked in insecurities and into her pants while she tries to adjust to her improbable situation is terribly Think about that; the puppet sex human. Think about that; the puppet sex scene is the most scene is the most human part of human part of the film. Nice going, Charlie. the film. Nice going, Charlie. Other things happen, most notably a dream sequence that represents the dimensions and patterns of a dream better than most the closing credits) and the play found a attempts I’ve seen. As for the Fregoli new life. delusion, I read it in this context as a way The puppets are fascinating creations, to emphasize the self-absorbed state of highly detailed. The faces are divided into sections, making it easier for anima- the depressed, aging Mr. Stone. I also noted that when we eventually tors to swipe pieces in and out. Kaufman hear a bit of Michael’s speech, his celeand Johnson opt not to cover up the brated advice was painfully obvious stuff. lines between the sections. In other words, when it comes to the If you associate puppets with chilbehavior of the Fregoli, the calming tones dren’s entertainment, think again. These and friendly overtures of service workers are grown-up puppets. When Michael that Michael finds so bothersome, it turns Stone steps out of the shower in his out he wrote the book on ’em. n tasteful Cincinnati hotel room, you’ll see his penis bobbing about. When there are REVIEW
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13 Hours should leave you on edge from the action … it doesn’t
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iHours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi is like a contemporary video game. Rather than diving right into first-person shooter action, it takes time to develop its characters and atmosphere. Like Call of Duty, it subverts expectations early on with its dedication to storytelling and building a world before blowing it to bits. But like many video games, its story eventually gets lost in a hail of gunfire. That would be okay if the action were more harrow-
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Benghazi, which erupted on the evening of the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The story focuses on the small team of CIA security contractors that defended the American diplomatic outpost and nearby CIA compound. As he always does, Bay hovers over the hellfire, taking a God’s-eye view of destruction. He even recreBut it’s a Michael Bay movie, which ates his signature shot from Pearl means it doesn’t spend too much time Harbor, followlingering in the calm before the storm. ing a warhead as it descends to the earth. For the most part, the action scenes are more ing. However, like most Michael Bay vivid than most of the explosive setmovies, it grows a bit hazy and shallow. pieces in Bay’s films. Unlike many of his Having said that, this is one of his betchaotic messes, this one carries some ter films — mostly because the story is substantial emotional weight. grounded in reality. John Krasinski delivers a tender perThe film revolves around the Islamic formance as Jack Da Silva, the newbie militant attack on the U.S. consulate in
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on the CIA security team. He embodies the vulnerability of post-9/11 America, barely hiding fear behind bravado. Krasinski is the beating heart of the film. His scenes with fellow soldier Tyrone Woods (James Badge Dale) are quietly devastating. A particularly poignant moment finds Jack venting to Tyrone and questioning his fate — “What are my girls going to say about me? That I died in a place I didn’t need to be?” he wonders. The film is most effective in these quiet, intimate moments. But it’s a Michael Bay movie, which means it doesn’t spend too much time lingering in the calm before the storm. While the central attack is often clearer and more chilling than most of Bay’s work, it grows quite tiresome. Of course, it feels insensitive to say that about action scenes rooted in reality, but this is the kind of film that should leave viewers on edge. 13 Hours is a dizzying spectacle of destruction that’s often more tiring than troubling. This is a powerful war drama wrapped in popcorn fare. It often rises above expectations, but it ultimately floats back down into Bay’s shallow, repetitive territory. 13 Hours will shake you up, but it won’t haunt you like a great war film should. n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 01.20.16 - 01.27.16 // SCREENS 31
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TINY CHAT INDY JARS DeAndrea Rayner pulled up to R&R Chicken, carefully stacking cases of glass Ball jars into her arms before walking inside. This was her first delivery of the day. The 24 containers were filled with layers of cakes and desserts. We chatted with the new small business owner about her simple but unique idea.
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NUVO: How did this start? RAYNER: I went to culinary school [Chef’s Academy] and everyone does desserts, so I was thinking what can I do that’s different that I haven’t seen. I always decorate, and I always use Mason jars for table settings. So I wanted to try different desserts in jars and people took to it. NUVO: When was that? RAYNER: Six months ago. I didn’t want to just go banana pudding jars. I wanted to do something different like strawberry brownies, or strawberry brownie cheesecake, luck charms cheesecake.
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NUVO: What does your day usually look like? RAYNER: I usually come here for deliveries then go to the grocery store then bake all day. And then sometimes I will pass out fliers and business cards, I will try and hit places up. But eventually I have to just start baking.
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NUVO: Is this your full-time gig now? RAYNER: Yeah. I quit my job at Amazon [around October]. NUVO: What was it like while working both? RAYNER: I would go into Amazon at 6 p.m. and get off at 5 in the morning and bake all the way until I had to go back to Amazon. I couldn’t keep doing it. NUVO: What was the push that made you take the leap of faith? RAYNER: I always wanted to just be making desserts. I was so nervous to start my own business. What if I fail. I guess that’s the ultimate concept of taking a leap of faith. NUVO: It seems to be doing really well though. RAYNER: It is. I want to eventually own my store front, but I will need to hire on someone to help me. Right now I am content with the stores that I have — me by myself can do that.
Indy Jars are available at Butlers Pizza, Lafayette Square Mall, Big City Grill and Lemonade and R&R lemonade. — EMILY TAYLOR
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I started this project,” says Kuramoto. While there are literally thousands of types of ramen in Japan, Kuramoto will focus on Tonkotsu, a pork femur bone base. A few of the other popular styles are shio (salt), shoyu (soy sauce) and miso. His hope is to keep the menu simple and fresh with only a few ramen options and possible a rice dish or two. “Some ramen has only the most simple toppings: the cashews, meat, soft boil egg and a little bit of scallions,” says Kuramoto. A few of his will also have stir fried vegetables.
carrots … it takes about seven hours to finish one [stock] pot. “The umami comes from the broth. And umami can have a spicy taste, a sweet taste, a bitter taste, and we just take a combination and cook the soup.” Kuramoto added that just over a year and half ago he decided that he not only wanted to bring the traditional bowl to Indy with force, he wanted to make sure he was doing it “I wanted to bring a very exactly right. He packed his bags and went to train in Japan. authentic recipe from Japan” Kuramoto insists on changing the expectations that people — JUN KURAMOTO have of Ramen — the stale 99 cent version that kept you from death during college. Instead he is importing fresh noodles from the island The new venture taps into something of Hokkaido. The Japanese island is the that Kuramoto has always enjoyed. point of origin for Sapporo-style ramen. “I didn’t have enough time to [cook] It was only after mastering the intricate before but I like it,” says Kuramoto. “My broth process and how to prepare the wife and I also like eating. Whenever we toppings and properly cook the noodles go out we try new restaurants.” that he came home feeling ready. We are looking forward to trying “I know many people who are waiting, yours, Kuramotos. n not only Japanese, for the last year since
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While there are no other ramen bars in Indy, there are a handful of Japanese restaurants that deserve a hat tip. From soba to sushi, we have some of our favorites listed below. WILD GINGER ON 116TH Wild Ginger owners take advantage of their ability to bring in fresh fish for nigiri and maki rolls. The box lunches are some of the highest quality you can get for a lunch special. It’s family-owned and is said to have rolls that rival those of Boston’s acclaimed Oishii. 8235 E. 116th St.
SAKURA JAPANESE RESTAURANT If there is a neighborly Japanese restaurant in Indianapolis — a place that feels as comfortable and familiar as a corner pub, yet without in any way compromising the authenticity of its origins — this is it. The simplicity of the dining room reflects Sakura’s menu and the presentation of its many dishes. Traditional Japanese cuisine abounds: items like vegetable rolls, a variety of sushi and noodle bowls populate the menu. The nabeyaki uses thick udon noodles, egg, shrimp tempura, chicken and vegetables in a broth. Sakura offers a basic selection of beers and sake. Its parking lot is often overflowing, but the wait is worth the while. 7201 N. Keystone Ave.
ICHIBAN NOODLES Fans of really tasty, mouthwatering, home-style, Japanese cooking are already doubtless well aware of Ichiban Noodles. Granted, it’s not exactly located at the epicenter of hip inner-city nightlife, and the restaurant probably won’t be featured in Architectural Digest anytime soon, but you come here for the food, not for the zip code or the styling. The sushi is fresh, expertly prepared and reasonably priced: The sushi rice is some of the best in town. The stars here are the noodle and rice dishes, fresh, vibrant, perfectly executed and, above all, extremely reasonably priced, savory and somewhat addictive. 8355 Bash St.
OISHI SUSHI Oishi Sushi shows its excitement with rolls like the tasty Afghanistan, which the menu describes as eel and avocado pieces “erupting” with spicy shrimp tempura and masago. There’s plenty of selections to try on the menu, like Mongolian-style fried rice or the Bento box combo of teriyaki-style hot food and sushi rolls. Tatami rooms are available for couples and families, complete with soothing music. 6929 E. 10th Street
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The Broad Ripple staple offers a mashup of Japanese, Chinese and Korean cuisines. The Spicy Sashimi Mix ($9.99) is listed as an appetizer, but makes a great meal with a combination of tuna, salmon and other fish diced up and served in a martini glass. The Bento Box meals, offering multiple courses and featuring veggie, meat and fish entrees (around $15), are a great value. There’s also one of Indy’s better sake selections and a full bar. 6255 N. College Ave.
ASAKA JAPANESE RESTAURANT
One of the most authentic Japanese restaurants in the city, Asaka has a casual atmosphere topped with private traditional dining in the back. Aside from going to an international liquor or grocery store, Asaka has one of the best Asian import selections around. The Asaka ramen layers thin pork belly slices and an oozing egg onto wavy noodles. Arrive in time for happy hour and the roll prices are damn cheap. They don’t skimp on their nigiri slices either. Expect a wait on the weekend, but reservations are accepted. 6414 E 82nd St.
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REVIEWS A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT OF BOWIE Following the tragic passing of David Bowie on January 10, many throughout the world found themselves in a state of mourning, myself included. I will never forget waking up, checking my phone, and immediately being jolted with sorrow after realizing the news was true. A few days prior, I had celebrated the release of Bowie’s latest album, Blackstar. Monday, we all learned that the album was actually intended to be a send-off, as Bowie knew he was nearing his final days of life. Like me, drummer Melanie Rau and singer/guitarist Adam Gross of S.M. Wolf were in mourning, too. Instead of letting it bring them down, though, they chose to immediately begin gathering local musicians together to honor the Thin White Duke. Not surprisingly, they found a great deal of support right off the bat, too. “As musicians the only option that gave us some comfort was to bring everyone together to play his songs, to sing together and to remember the person who paved the way for so many of us,” Rau told me in a Musical Family Tree interview prior to the show. “In a quick amount of time, the event was born.” But even after assembling a rather large lineup of performers to play in merely four days, Rau and Gross most certainly could not have expected how magical Friday night’s tribute would be. Upon arriving at State Street Pub at 8:30 p.m. sharp, I was swallowed into a soon-to-be atcapacity crowd of Bowie lovers, young and old, who would sing their hearts out alongside me throughout the night. On stage, the overarching spirit was one of glittery bliss, whether it was Andrew Malott and Bryan Unruh of Scanlines doing their version of “Space Oddity” or Jared Birden (formerly of Teenage Strange) and company raging through “Suffragette City.” Appropriately, this communal celebration ended with one final group singalong of “Under Pressure,” leaving everyone smiling as they headed home. So although he may have moved on from his earthly body just days before, one thing was certainly made clear to me by the end of this night: The Starman was still alive and well in the hearts of his fans. — SETH JOHNSON Celebrate Bowie at Punk Rock night at the Melody Inn this Saturday. Goblin King will play songs from the Labryinth soundtrack in full costume.
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Dear Rev: My band has been playing locally for a long time. Our shows are packed and we have a unique sound and good songs. We pack places but we can't get good paying shows out of town. Those promoters only want to give us gas money and maybe food. How did you guys get such good gigs?
Those first trips out of town be a big loss. REV: If your shows really are packed, then you should be making money. In the music business fans buy tickets and the venue pays the bands in money made at the door vs. a guarantee deal where you make a set amount. You only make money if you have fans who will pay for tickets, and even then, everyone gets their cut, from the promoters to the booking agents to the sound personnel to the merch person. Those first trips out of town will be a big loss. Remember, anyone can play to their friends and family cheering them on at their neighborhood dive. The true test is if someone a thousand miles away and not related to you is willing to pay the price to support your music. Sometimes, it takes many shows in one town to build
a following. If you really want to make money become an investment banker or sell knives on late night infomercials. If you want to make a living doing music, then do what I did. Sell everything you own. Walk away from everything else you do. Live in a van that you also tour in. Spend many years living in a way where you don't know where your next meal will come from. Miss everyone's weddings, birthdays and holidays. Then if you are really lucky you will slowly build a fan base around the country, and maybe even the world. You'll never be rich, but maybe you'll get to play music for a living. I feel like the luckiest fella on the planet. If you are a music fan reading this, then please buy those tickets and support the artists that you love. We are only will able to survive in the modern music industry thanks to loyal music loving fans who buy tickets and merchandise and spread the word. Dear Rev: Robert Johnson or Leadbelly? REV: This is an easy question, my friend. Robert Johnson or Leadbelly? I'm surprised you even asked it. The answer is, of course, Charley Patton. Look him up. Probably the most important figure in American music history. He died two years before Robert Johnson ever recorded a note, and he influenced everyone from Robert Johnson to the Rolling Stones, John Fogerty, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Hank Williams Sr., and almost everyone else since, whether they know it or not. If you haven't already, please give his music a listen. It is raw, rhythmic, amazing, and at the root of almost everything we listen to in America today. n
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other of all that is holy are we excited for this spring’s Fountain Square Music Fest.That’s right: we said spring. The four-year-old fest is bouncing up the calendar from July 4 to March 25 and 26, and that’s far from the only big change. The fest — which won Best Festival in this year’s Best of Indy readers poll, which means you dig it a whole heck of a lot — is changing structure yet again. Instead of a day-long festival, FSMF will take over The Hi-Fi, White Rabbit Cabaret, Pioneer and Radio Radio, where showcases will take place from 7 p.m. to 10:30 both Friday and Saturday. Each night at 10:30, you’ll migrate en masse toward the Square’s center where each night’s finale will go down at the Fountain Square Theatre, featuring headlining slots by (drumroll...): Andrew W.K. and the Thurston Moore Group. That’s right, the Positive Party God and Mr. Sonic Youth will take over the Theatre stage alongside regional and local acts to close out Friday and Saturday night. (Which night they’ll claim remains to be seen. Keep your eyes on the schedule here.) Thurston’s planning an album release with his group, which includes Deb Googe, Steve Shelley and James Sedwards. Andrew WK’s been up to his usual shenanigans this year, including giving totally amazing advice at the Village Voice. Here’s my brief communique from Andrew W.K. last week about his levels of stoked-ness to play Fountain Square Music Fest in March. W.K. says: “My band and I are extraordinarily excited to be partying in the Square with the good party people of Indiana! We’ve always had an incredibly high and wild time in this part of the country, and my expectations have been raised way up, to skyscraping levels of intense celebration. We will give everything we have and then give even more. And even after all that, we will only be in the start of the first song. And from there, we will all surge and push and surrender to the joy of existence. That is what we will be celebrating together on this great day. And that is what partying is all about.” There’s more awesome news, but we’ll limit it to five bullet points. 1. Hell, yes, Famous Space Cat and Tiniest Bloomington Celebrity Lil BUB —- and collaborator of Andrew WK, natch — will make perhaps her only musical appearance to play songs
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from her album Science & Magic. To do so, she’ll shapeshift into multi-man form, perhaps taking form as Mike Bridavsky, Josh Morrow, Mike Dixon and Matt Tobey. (Probably. Perhaps she’ll play every instrument herself). Watch Lil BUB’s Star Party music video with Andrew WK here. 2. A Cultural Manifesto columnist Kyle Long and rapper Oreo Jones will assist in curating the fest. Expect to see their hands in different world music performances and hip-hop sets, respectively. Absorb, MOKB and Rivet are also lending hands to help set up the fest. 3. A careful look at the lineup reveals Joyful Noise is intimately involved this year — they’re bringing in most of their roster, plus coordinating special live recording sessions in their Murphy Center space, organizing meet and greets and putting together other various goodies. Expect JNR artists Kishi Bashi, Surfer Blood, Helado Negro, Reptar, Jad Fair, Stranger Cat, Serengeti, Sound of Ceres and Yonatan Gat to appear. Kimya Dawson, who is slated for an releases as part of the last Joyful Noise Flexi Disc Series ever, will also play. 4. Locals on the fest include: Mathaius Young,Ghost Gun Summer, SM Wolf, Sweet Poison Victim, Maxie, Flaco, Jefferson St. Parade Bandand more to be announced. (We’ve profiled almost all of these artists; click through to read.) Each venue will feature both local, regional and national acts. 5. Perhaps the most awesome thing of all: Fountain Square Music Fest is a nonprofit, which means a percentage of net profits are evenly split between Musical Family Treeand Girls Rock Indianapolis.
Now on to the nitty-gritty. Tickets can be purchased in one or two day passes; VIP wristbands get you a whole lot of special stuff. “This year’s festival is a step forward,” said Adam Pedersen, executive director of FSMF in the handy-dandy press release provided to NUVO. “Our goal is for the Fountain Square Music Festival to continue to build and support our local music scene, and help establish Indianapolis as a cultural hub for artists and musicians.” I agree with Pederson. FSMF has consistently impressed me with their growth and flexibility, plus their ability to get all sorts of Indy entities on board. All right. That’s enough facts and figures. You know what time it is. It’s time to party hard. n Tickets available at fountainsquaremusicfest.org NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 01.20.16 - 01.27.16 // MUSIC 39
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ikki Carr rose to fame in the 1960s on a wave of enormously successful easy-listening pop albums. But Carr's exceptional vocal talents and artistry were far too big to be boxed-in to any single genre. In the '70s Carr reinvented herself as a Latin American pop star, recording a series of top-selling Spanish language albums that tapped into her Mexican-American heritage. In her 50-plus year career Carr has recorded over 50 albums in a myriad of styles. Among her many accomplishments Carr has received four Grammy Awards, and a Lifetime Achievement Award. She's performed for five U.S. presidents as well as the Queen of England. Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and Ella Fitzgerald all praised Carr's work as a singer. Vikki Carr will display her vocal artistry at Carmel's Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, January 30. When asked what show she'll perform on Saturday, Carr said, 'My career has spanned everything from pop to country to Spanish to Broadway. It's very difficult for me at times. When I came back from touring Mexico I had agents asking me, 'Which show are you going to do? Your English or Spanish show?" I was trying to please everybody and I finally said "at this stage in my career I'm the one that has to be happy.' Because if I'm happy, they're happy.” I spoke with Carr via phone from her home in San Antonio.
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ing in Nevada and at that time and Florencia Bisenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona, or Florence for short, became Vikki Carr. At first I was Carlita, which my father loved because his name was Carlos. I started working in Nevada with different lounge groups. The music I used to do then was in groups, singing harmony like the Four Freshman, and The Hi-Lo's. NUVO: Did you know The Four Freshmen were founded here in Indianapolis at Butler University? CARR: Oh, Really? I loved the Four Freshmen! That great four-and fivepart harmony, aaaaaaaahhhh! NUVO: You mentioned the moment where you transformed from Florencia to Vikki. I know in the American entertainment industry it's really common for people to Anglicize their names and identity. How did you feel about that, were you resistant to the idea?
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NUVO: Around 1961 you were signed to Liberty Records. One of the first records you cut for Liberty was the Gene Pitney-penned song "He's A Rebel" which became a number-one hit for The Crystals. I read a story suggesting that producer Phil Spector overheard your recording session of "He's A Rebel" and immediately went to go cut his own version which became The Crystals' famous hit.
CARR: I'm going to tell you the real story. Phil Spector was with Liberty Records. Snuff Garrett who was my producer, was also there. Spector left the “We’re going to make you an company and he took that album artist. You’re going to be song with him. Snuff and I were recording the song. We our Tony Bennett.” took a break and in the studio next to ours we heard "He's — VIKKI CARR REMEMBERS A Rebel." Phil had gone in LIBERTY RECORD PRESIDENT and rushed to record it. It was AL BENNETT’S WORDS TO HER not even with The Crystals, he used back-up singers who emulated their voices because The Crystals were on tour. Snuff was in a dilemma. He called the CARR: No, hun, at that time that's what president of the company and said, people did. Tony Curtis changed his name from — well, I don't recall what it "Look, Phil took my song. He went across the way and recorded it. What was [Editor's note: Bernard Schwartz]. should I do?" The president said, "If Now I've been asked by activist groups, you think your version is as good, then or whatever, "If you were so proud of your heritage, then why did you change go ahead and release it." Because The Crystals already had hits, your name?" I said, "I never changed it the disc-jockeys here went with The because I was ashamed of it." It's just Crystals' version. But my version was a what people did in that era. big hit in Australia. I had what is compaIt was musicians that got me onto rable to a gold record over there. the idea. They said you can't be Carlita, you don't look like a Carlita and you're singing pop songs. They said, “We've got to find you a catchy name.” They came up with Vikki, and I came up with Carr which comes from my last name Cardona. So Vikki Carr was born. At that time that's what people did.
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CARR: I was raised by my father with the golden rule that you do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I try to think and think, "What would I do if I was in Guatemala or Honduras and the drug cartel was coming around and taking the kids? Would I leave to try to protect my family?" If the only option I had was to come in illegally, then yes I probably would do it. Everybody is so paranoid right now. All you have to do is listen to some of the presidential candidates and what they're saying. Everybody is in fear. It's very scary because we don't know what's going to happen. But they are human beings and if they go back, what's going to happen? I've worked in all those countries and it's very difficult to try to help everybody. Our country is scared right now and fear causes people to do things that aren't so good. For me I've never seen our country like this. I've traveled all over the world as a goodwill ambassador and I treated people they way I'd want to be treated, whether I spoke the language or not. NUVO: Throughout your time at Liberty Records you recorded a handful of Spanish language songs, but you released your first full LP of Spanish language music on Columbia in 1973 with the album Vikki Carr En Español. At this point, I believe you've recorded over a dozen Spanish language albums, you've collaborated with iconic Latin American musicians like Vicente Fernández and you've established yourself as a major Latin pop recording artist. During your time at Liberty Records in the '60s had you been longing to move towards recording more Spanish language material? CARR: It all came about by my audience. When I would sing "Cuando Calienta El Sol" or "Granada" my audience would ask me, and I'm talking about my Anglo audience, "Why don't you do an album all in Spanish? The music is so beautiful." I'd ask them "aren't you going to be confused if you don't know what I'm singing about?" And they said "No, when you sing we understand everything." That's when I realized that music is the universal language. I'm so proud of that album Vikki Carr En Español. It had beautiful arrangements by Bob Florence. Every single one of those songs were in a way covers of artists in Mexico and South America. But they became new hits when Vikki Carr came in and sang them in the same way a pop song would've been sung in the States. I phrased my singing like I did in English. n
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Blues Jam, Slippery Noodle, 21+
It Gets Better 8 p.m. This show by the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles was developed in collaboration with the It Gets Better organization, launched by our new (to us) columnist Dan Savage. The musical theatre production features real life stories brought to stage by eight actors showcasing issues affecting members of the LGBTQ community.
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Clowes Memorial Hall, 4602 Sunset Ave., prices vary, 21+ ROCK Bully 9:30 p.m. The Bishop is really pulling in the badass breakouts of 2015: Mitski, Torres, and now Bully. Fake Limbs will open. The Bishop, 123 S. Walnut St. (Bloomington), $12, 18+ Bring Your Own Vinyl, Lola’s Bowl and Bistro, all-ages Carnage, Deluxe at Old National Centre, all-ages Fighting Friction, The Knollwood Boys, The Stoffs, Radio Radio, 21+
Salsa Night, The Red Room, 21+ Tim Bricklye, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Free Jazz Wednesday, Chatterbox, 21+ Open Stage, Red Lion Grog House, 21+ Open Stage, Claude and Annie’s, all-ages The Family Jam, Mousetrap, 21+ Wacky Wheel of Fortune Karaoke, Monkey’s Tale, 21+ Service Industry Night, PT’s Showclub, 21+
THURSDAY DANCE Ladycop Music Video Premiere Party 9:30 p.m. Follies, DJ Little Town and Duck Trash will accompany the main event at this total sweetheart of a local showcase. (The main event, you could probably gather from the header, is the premiere of a music vid from Ladycop’s upcoming record.) Short films by
Bethany Lumsdaine/Jessie Grubb and Sarah Dunevant will screen alongside a Bad Psychic film by Liv Mershon. The Back Door, 207 S. College Ave. (Bloomington), $3, 21+ POP Diane Coffee 8 p.m. California by way of New York by way of Bloomington musician Shaun Fleming put out a spectacular record last year with the help of Bloomie sound engineer / studio dude Tim Smiley, and Your Friendly Neighborhood NUVO Editor smiles every time she thinks of the show the band he put together to bring Diane Coffee to life played at Deluxe. Pure pop brilliance. You’ll be glad you got tix to this one. The Bluebird, 216 N. Walnut St. (Bloomington), 21+ LOCALS Follies, Twin Limb, Kate Wakefield 9:30 p.m. Louisville neo-folk trio Twin Limb became a trio after producer Kevin Ratterman (he of La La Land, Wax Fang, etc.) became indispensable to Lacey Guthrie and Maryliz Bender. They’ll play with Bloomington’s Follies and Cincy’s Kate Wakefield. The Bishop, 123 S. Walnut St. (Bloomington), $5, 21+
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Hopkins, Jen Roberts, Katie Josway, Kyra Waltz, Mina Keohane, Hannah Aldridge and Ira Wolf. Damn, that’s a whole lot of awesome double chromosomes.
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FRIDAY ROCK Protomartyr, Amanda X, Daguerreotype 8 p.m. Protomartyr’s last show in Bloomington was cancelled and rebooked for this date. Let’s recall how badass they are by excerpting a portion of Harlan Kelly’s chat with singer Joe Casey. NUVO: A lot of your lyrics read like poems to me. I really appreciated that they came in a booklet with your last record. Do you ever see yourself writing things specifically for the page? Or to read without music? CASEY: You know, not really. The reason why I include the books is ‘cause I know people wanna hear stuff and I don’t sing very clearly so sometimes things can get misheard. But it definitely helps to have. Like, I never write the lyrics ahead of time like before the song is made. Usually the song is made and then I write the lyrics to fit the music. So I haven’t set out to write stuff ahead of time recently.
going to send them an instrumental track and they’re going to put vocals over our, Protomartyr’s, thing and we’re going to put vocals over theirs. And I was just doing that today just before you called. And I didn’t have any lyrics for it but I did have the thought in my head, “This one is going to be called Corinthian Leather.” Because when I was younger there used to be car commercials where Ricardo Montalbán would tout these cars that had Corinthian leather and that stuck in my head. And I looked it up online recently and I found out that Corinthian leather wasn’t even from Corinth; it was from New Jersey. They just called it that to make it sound luxurious so I had that, “Corinthian Leather is a good name for a song” [thought in my head.] And then today is me figuring out lyrics that go along with that idea that fit the music. So I’m kind of making them up on the spot. Sometimes with the band songs I’ll put in more references or things that I’ve been thinking about. But the main thing with writing lyrics is it has to fit the music.
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Good Company 8 p.m. GRXZZ, Sweet Poison Victim and Hinx Jones will take the stage for this quarter’s Good Company showcase, with DJ Spoolz on the stacks.
NUVO: So you don’t consciously collect things beforehand — you just dig from whatever is in your brain during recording.
White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 E. Prospect St., $8, 21+
CASEY: Well I’ll give you an example. Like right now I’m actually at a friend’s house and he’s got a studio and we’re working on stuff with this band Spray Paint. They sent us just an instrumental track and we’re
DANCE Savoy 9 p.m. Not to be confused with the Norwegian superstars, this Savoy is a three-piece electronic
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SATURDAY SHOWCASE Women’s Powerhouse Show 6:30 p.m. Organizers note that this totally jam-packed show will start promptly at 6:30, and we’ll jump in here and add that if you want a cozy space in this living room, you best show up on time, friend. The lineup, from first to last: Danni al Mar, Glory Sheely, Emily Elizabeth Myren, Megan
Mousetrap, 5565 N. Keystone Ave., prices vary, 21+ SINGIN’
The Whipstitch Sallies 8 p.m. Keep your eyes on NUVO in upcoming weeks to see the Sallies make an appearance in our recurring Gear and Beer series.
The Tenors 8 p.m. Fearsome foursome The Tenors journey south from the Land of Ted Cruz – Canada. Ted Cruz is from Canada, and he should not be constitutionally qualified to be President – for a show at Clowes.
Chilly Water Brewing Co, 719 Virginia Ave. Ste. 105, FREE, 21+
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9 p.m. The closest to Phases of the Moon Music and Art Festival that you can get this Saturday night in Indy.
ALL-AGES Michael Raab 9 p.m. Little inside baseball from Your Friendly Neighborhood NUVO Editor: The entirety of this week’s cover story was written while plopped in a window seat at the eminently delightful Thirsty Scholar. The Scholar is not only a superb place for transcribing tens of thousands of words, it’s a great place to hear a little music on a relaxed Saturday evening. This week, pianist Michael Raab returns with a large songbook to play from. Thirsty Scholar, 111 E. 16th St., all-ages JAM Steady Flow, The James Jones Trio
Punk Rock Night 10 p.m. Not only will the Slappies release their new album at this Punk Rock Night jam, but Goblin King, the Bowie band who played the Mel’s 2015 Halloween show will be performing songs from the Labyrinth soundtrack in full costume. RIP Bowie. Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St., $6, 12+ Moxxie, Dell Zell, Tracksuit Lyfestyle, Cole Woodruff, The Hi-Fi, 21+ Live Music in the Yurt with Bigfood Yancey, Luke Knight, Flaming Diamonds, White Pine Wilderness Academy, all-ages Jesse Lacy, Hopwood Cellars Winery, 21+ Henry Lee Summer, The Gathering Bistro, 21+ A/V Club with Czern, Snebtor,
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SUNDAY Crunkasaurus Rex, Hoosier Dome, all-ages Ben Marcus, James Knott, Chef Joseph’s at the Connoisseur Room, 21+ The Warrior King acoustic, Slippery Noodle Inn, 21+ No Pit Cherries, Straight Up Chumps, Toro!, Melody Inn, 21+
MONDAY Jazz Jam Session, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ MoTown Mondays, The Hi-Fi, 21+
TUESDAY Keeps, The Bishop (Bloomington), 18+ Travis Feaster and Friends, Slippery Noodle Inn, 21+ Jewell of the Future, Melody Inn, 21+ Guest Artists “Four on the Floor” Duckwall Artist Series, Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall, 21+ NUVO.NET/SOUNDCHECK
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NO PLACE FOR OLD DILDOS I am no longer sexually active, but I have a significant collection of sex toys from earlier years. I’m thinking of getting rid of most of them, and it seems such a waste for them to end up in the landfill. What’s an environmentally responsible way to dispose of dildos? I wish there was a place I could donate the dildos where they could be used again. Many of them are quality silicone types, they’ve never been used on a person without a condom, and they’ve been thoroughly cleaned. I’d be happy to donate them to impoverished dildo users in need, if only I knew where to send them. — REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE
DAN SAVAGE: Your question comes up frequently, RRR, and there really isn’t a satisfactory answer.
In Seattle, where I live, a community tool bank recently opened in my neighborhood — but they don’t collect and lend the kind of tools you’re looking to donate. In Seattle, where I live, a community tool bank recently opened in my neighborhood — but they don’t collect and lend the kind of tools you’re looking to donate. I’ve heard about dildo graveyards in other cities (spots in parks where people bury their used sex toys), but burying sex toys isn’t environmentally responsible. And while high-quality dildos can be cleaned and safely reused, most people are pretty squeamish about the idea. Which is odd, considering that we routinely reuse actual cocks that have
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My best female friend is marrying her boyfriend in March and wants to go on a gay bar crawl on the night of her bachelorette party. She says it won’t be a problem because, as a bi woman, she’s part of the LGBT community too and because gay people can get married now. As a gay man, Dan, do you oppose bachelorette parties in gay bars?
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A filmmaker working on a major movie typically shoots no more than four pages of the script per day. A director for a TV show may shoot eight pages. But I suspect that the story of your life in the near future may barrel through the equivalent of 20 pages of script every 24 hours. The next chapter is especially action-packed. The plot twists and mood swings will be coming at a rapid clip. This doesn’t have to be a problem as long as you are primed for high adventure. How? Take good care of your basic physical and emotional needs so you’ll be in top shape to enjoy the boisterous ride. Gemini
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): The city of Paris offers formal tours of its vast sewer system. Commenting at an online travel site, one tourist gave the experience five stars. “It’s a great change of pace from museums full of art,” she wrote. Another visitor said, “It’s an interesting detour from the cultural overload that Paris can present.” According to a third, “There is a slight smell but it isn’t overpowering. It’s a fascinating look at how Paris handles wastewater treatment and clean water supply.” I bring this up, Cancerian, because now is a favorable time for you to take a break from bright, shiny pleasures and embark on a tour of your psyche’s subterranean maze. Regard it not as a scary challenge, but as a fact-finding exploration. What strategies do you have in place to deal with the messy, broken, secret stuff in your life? Take an inventory. Cancer
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): On a clear day, if you stand at the summit of Costa Rica’s Mount Irazú, you can see both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It’s not hard to get there. You can hop a tourist bus in the nearby city of San José, and be 11,200 feet high two hours later. This is a good model for your next assignment: Head off on a stress-free jaunt to a place that affords you a vast vista. If you can’t literally do that, at least slip away to a fun sanctuary where you’ll be inspired to think big thoughts about your long-range prospects. You need a break from everything that shrinks or numbs you. Virgo
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “When I look at a sunset, I don’t say, ‘Soften the orange a little on the right hand corner, and put a bit more purple in the cloud color.’” Pioneering psychologist Carl Rogers was describing the way he observed the world. “I don’t try to control a sunset,” he continued. “I watch it with awe.” He had a similar view about people. “One of the most satisfying experiences,” he said, “is just fully to appreciate an individual in the same way I appreciate a sunset.” Your assignment, Leo, is to try out Rogers’ approach. Your emotional well-being will thrive as you refrain from trying to “improve” people — as you see and enjoy them for who they are. Leo
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The future is headed your way in a big hurry. It may not be completely here for a few weeks, but even then it will have arrived ahead of schedule. Should you be alarmed? Should you work yourself into an agitated state and draw premature conclusions? Hell, no! Treat this sudden onrush of tomorrow as a bracing opportunity to be as creative as you dare. Cultivate a beginner’s mind. Be alert for unexpected openings that you assumed would take longer to appear. Virgo
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): More than one-third of all pregnancies are unintended. The two people involved aren’t actually trying to make a baby, but their contraceptive measure fails or isn’t used at all. According to my analysis, you heterosexual Libras are now more prone to this accidental experience than usual. And in general, Libras of every sexual preference must be careful and precise about what seeds they plant in the coming weeks. The new growth you instigate is likely to have farreaching consequences. So don’t let your choice be reckless or unconscious. Formulate clear intentions. What do you want to give your love to for a long time? Libra
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I was a rock musician for years, which meant that I rarely went to bed before dawn. I used to brag that my work schedule was from 9 to 5 — 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., that is. Even after I stopped performing regularly, I loved keeping those hours. It was exhilarating to be abuzz when everyone else was asleep. But two months ago, I began an experiment to transform my routine. Now I awake with the dawn. I spend the entire day consorting with the source of all life on earth, the sun. If you have been contemplating a comparable shift in your instinctual life, Scorpio — any fundamental alteration in your relationship to food, drink, exercise, sleep, perception, laughter, love-making — the next few weeks will be a favorable time to do it. Scorpio
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You Sagittarians are often praised but also sometimes criticized for being such connoisseurs of spontaneity. Many of us admire your flair for unplanned adventure, even though we may flinch when you unleash it. You inspire us and also make us nervous as you respond to changing circumstances with unpremeditated creativity. I expect all these issues to be hot topics in the coming weeks. You are in a phase of your cycle when your improvisational flourishes will be in the spotlight. I, for one, promise to learn all I can from the interesting detours that result from your delight in experimentation. Sagittarius
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn world-changer Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail on 29 different occasions. His crimes? Drawing inspiration from his Christian faith, he employed nonviolent civil disobedience to secure basic civil rights for African Americans. He believed so fiercely in his righteous cause that he was willing to sacrifice his personal comfort again and again. The coming months will be a favorable time to devote yourself to a comparable goal, Capricorn. And now is a good time to intensify your commitment. I dare you to take a vow. Capricorn
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The birds known as mound-builders are born more mature than other species. As soon as they peck themselves out of their eggs, they are well-coordinated, vigorous enough to hunt, and capable of flight. Right now I see a resemblance between them and many of you Aquarians. As soon as you hatch your new plans or projects — which won’t be long now — you will be ready to operate at almost full strength. I bet there won’t be false starts or rookie mistakes, nor will you need extensive rehearsal. Like the mound-builders, you’ll be primed for an early launch. Aquarius
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You are not purely and simply a Pisces, because although the sun was in that astrological sign when you were born, at least some of the other planets were in different signs. This fact is a good reminder that everything everywhere is a complex web of subtlety and nuance. It’s delusional to think that anyone or anything can be neatly definable. Of course it’s always important to keep this in mind, but it’s even more crucial than usual for you to do so in the coming weeks. You are entering a phase when the best way to thrive is to know in your gut that life is always vaster, wilder, and more mysterious than it appears to be on the surface. If you revere the riddles, the riddles will be your sweet, strong allies. Pisces
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