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Hey, how’s it going? Yeah, up here. Pretty sweet digs on page 3, eh? Oh yeah, I rearranged things a bit — just trying to get it tidied up, ya know? Hope you like it. I think it fits a little tighter and, hey, with times being as tight as they are, space is really of the essence right now. (By the way, if you’re not reading this in a thick Wisconsin accent, you really ought to be.) So, yeah, we 're squeezing into a slimmer size — that’s a summer tradition, hey? — but like any good leader trimming the fat, change has got to start at the top. So from now on, no more babbling on in the Letter from the Editor for 550 words — there’s no space. It’s just called “Leditor” now, and I’m only going to prattle on for 300 words (oh, shoot, I’m already halfway there!). The rest of the paper, you’ll see, is just like this: so fresh and so clean (clean). We juggled the lineup like Ken Macha, bringing the ballers up from the rear of the paper and squeezing the sections that were holding space. And together, you know, I think we got a pretty tout little product here. Flip through it some time, and let me know what you think.You can write me at editor@secondsupper.com, and, uh, ya know, if you were thinking about taking out a couple advertisements to add a few more pages to this beast you could probably reach me at the same place. Oh jeez, it looks like I don’t have a whole lot of space left to finish this thing. I think I better work on my word discipline. What’s left? Oh, yeah, I need to talk about the cover story. There’s some people out there throwing real cool concerts in this town, the kind that don’t make the official entertainment directories. They’re real fun, ya. Read Brett Emerson's story about them. We'd invite you to one but they already threw their last house party.

— Adam Bissen

Table of Contents This Page ................................................3 Celestial Bird ........................................4 Moonlight Ale .......................................5 Mommy Madness .................................6 House Party 5 ......................................7 Bella Madre ...........................................8 Advertisements ....................................9 Heatbox .................................................10 Crossword ............................................11 Community Service ............................12,13 Rock Out! .............................................14

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Fantasy punk bands 1. Barbara Bush's Afterbirth 2. Zima 3. Pete Wentz and the Hypocritical Corporate Shills 4. Taint Polyp 5. Gimme Swine Flu 6. The Daffodils 7. Hot Chick Bass Players Things that cost more than a share of General Motors stock 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

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Things Brandon is doing instead of helping us write these Top 7s 1. Basking in the stardom of his Softball Dreams cover shoot 2. Not answering his cell phone 3. Cultivating a Caucasion Afro 4. Bumming a cigarette 5. Wearing a blue T-shirt 6. Holding a tenuous position in the Second Supper masthead 7. Sleeping, probably

WHAT: WIAA State Track and Field Meet WHERE:Veterans Memorial Field Sports Complex at the UW-La Crosse campus WHEN: This Friday and Saturday Well, this is the moment everyone in La Crosse has been waiting for: the unveiling of the newly constructed Memorial Stadium, which will be used for the first time for the annual Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) State Track and Field Meet. After months of construction, the new stadium will be open to the public, starting with opening ceremonies at 9:30 a.m. on Friday and 10:30 a.m. on Saturday. The WIAA, which is the first interscholastic association between high schools ever formed in the United States, held its first state meet back in May of 1895 at the Universty of Madison. Now, 114 years later, the meet will once again bring about the best track and field athletes in all three divisions of the high school level that Wisconsin has to offer. This year also marks the 20th anniversary in which the UW-L campus has hosted the annual meet, bringing in athletes and spectators alike to enjoy the sport. There is no charge, and the entertainment of watching some of the best athletes of the state compete head to head is bound to be an enjoyable experience for people of all ages.

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In 1857, German immigrant Gottlieb Gluek established a brewery along the northern reaches of the Mississippi River, a business that preceded the establishment of the state of Minnesota and the city of Minneapolis. The next year, he produced 3,996 barrels of beer. This mass-production-for-Minnesotans model would serve the company to the modern day, but La Crosse’s G. Heileman Brewing Company bought out the Gluek Brewing Company in1964, razed the original brewery, and sold the label to Cold Spring Brewing Company in exchange for the rights to Cold Spring mineral water (or so writes the Minneapolis Star-Tribune). The Cold Spring Brewery, established in 1894, has a storied history of its own. Among other brands, it once manufactured Billy Beer — named for the brother of President Jimmy Carter, which I hope some readers recall fondly — and had a maximum output of 180,000 barrels, but it fell on hard times in the late 1990s and re-branded itself as the nostalgic Gluek. This name stuck for about a decade, but when the company launched a new line of craft beers in late 2008, it took back the name Cold Spring Brewery, as homage to the St. Cloudarea community where it is made. Sorry for the history lesson, but I just found this beer at the Holmen Meat Locker and I like to know what

I’m drinking. There are five brews in the Cold Spring craft brew line, but I opted for the Moonlight Ale, which the company Web site describes as a ½ porter, ½ bock. Befitting the name, the Moonlight Ale pours a nearly opaque mahog- Appearance: 7 any color with a light brown head that sticks Aroma: 7 around for the duration. The aroma does Taste: 6 come on bock-like, with heaps of sour malts, but Mouthfeel: 6 the porter influence turns it into something Drinkability: 7 like chocolate-covered cherries. Raising a glass, the ale hits the tongue Total: 33 smoothly on that porter earthiness. The flavor is based on coco beans, but it turns surprisingly tart in the middle and finishes on floral hops over a lingering sweetness, which is probably the most interesting part of this experimental brew. Sure, it could be thicker, but it’s easily drinkable — just one more surprise from (surprise!) Minnesota’s third largest brewery. — Adam Bissen

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seem. Each bean is different and responds to the roasting process uniquely. There are cues that the skilled roaster must understand that help to determine what is happening chemically and physically to the bean during the roasting process. A good roaster uses most of the senses, as well as memory and experience, to guide the adventure. The most reliable cue is sound: a “first crack” is exactly what it sounds like — the beans start to crackle. This is the roaster’s cue to dump the beans and quickly cool them if a light roast is desired. If the beans are to be roasted darker, a “second crack” is another cue, and some roasts continue on even past the second crack. The perfect roast depends on the potential of the particular bean in question, as well as the desired characteristics of the final brew. The roast level has nothing to do with the strength of the coffee; they are two separate issues. These factors can interact to create the most desirable cup, and it can be worthwhile to try out a variety of roasts at different strengths until you unlock the secret to your perfect coffee.

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gus. But that’s what I mean — priorities shift and acceptance comes in small doses. You find a job where tai chi breaks are acceptable, and you talk to yourself a lot. I remind myself daily that I don’t want my son to think I’m a stressed-out, harried lunatic, and that reminder generally settles me down.That’s not to say I’ve given up; I still strive to make it on time, and once in a great while, I do and celebration occurs. Shortcuts and multitasking are a parent’s best friend. Being extremely low maintenance is definitely working pretty well for me these days, and luckily that’s just my lifestyle and not a consequence of the whole parent thing. I can’t begin to imagine how people who shower and use one of those hot air blower things to dry the hair and put on the face paint stuff manage… IIn order to maintain sanity, you just have to learn to drink coffee while reading the kid a book and tricking him into getting dressed all at the same time. You have to learn that it’s better to be late than to be shrill, and you have to get really good at still accomplishing tasks when you’re completely unfocused and distracted. If the laundry sits in the dryer for a week, so be it. If the time was well spent, say examining bugs with the little one outside, then the wrinkly clothes have special wrinkles. See? Priorities. Stressing out over little stupid things is a waste of time and only makes things worse. For example, one time-crunched morning, I was entertaining the little boy while preparing breakfast and I got a little overzealous with the shaking of the milk. Crash! went the completely full gallon of milk in the glass jar. Whoosh! went the milk as it quickly pooled under not just one, but two large, heavy, hard-to-moveand-clean-under appliances, and Hahaha! went Mommy and Baby because what else are you going to do? It actually was pretty funny, looking back on it, and it was a couple of hours ago now…the other parent’s best friend is a very diverse sense of humor. Trust me; it’s just better to laugh when the kid poops in the freshly changed diaper just as you’re wrestling him into the car seat. Your head would explode otherwise, and then you’d have another mess to clean up. So what was even the focus of this article? I don’t know; I was multi-tasking…

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Notes from the Underground While the majority of the La Crosse music scene blares out in bars, one basement on 7th Street rocked free By Brett Emerson

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The music scene in La Crosse often takes a backseat to hugging the municipal bar. To put my oft-fulfilled prejudice simply, this town usually can’t be bothered to ditch its drinks and pay attention to musical acts. Still, it’s nice to have one’s pessimism proven wrong once in a while, and an icy night in March wobbled my dismal view of our aural landscape from its usual orbit. The building is a jagged green tooth in a mouth of concrete, a surrealist mansion which looms over the King Street Kitchen, which cowers behind a parking lot to the south. The front door is a lightless, haunted house portal, buried by trees. The leftward hallway beyond is claustrophobic even before considering the well-mannered but enthusiastic Rottweiler that roamed its planks. After descending a narrow square stairway, I entered a dank, green basement, split in two by an out of place wall. In the first area, a strand of kids drifted around a keg, sipping beers from plastic cups. Yet the faraway segment of the basement was where the real gathering was happening. Within this room, Ben Clark’s Skat’tsmen clambered over each other, their equipment, and an abandoned hot tub as they played to a full and shrieking room.

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The sweat and stink and hot breath gripped each one of us, pressing us together, pushing us against the walls, and pulling us upward, into low-hanging pipes. This was a show. As I’d discover, that night wasn’t an isolated incident. Through the next few months, the house’s inhabitants would play host to a number of events: hometown jerks playing for the hell of it, robot vs. ape farewell parties, and a nigh-impromptu show by Seneca that descended into madness, adventure, and cartwheel kicks. Each night, the basement was full, and it shook with the vapors. Andrew Wild and Brandon Bernhard are among the group of Iowa transplants who brought this upstart phenomenon to La Crosse. Among their many projects, Wild plays rather unpunkish basslines in the punk band Here’s Johnnie, whereas Bernhard croons doomsday folk in Mama Crow and the End of Times Sunshine Band. Having grown up together, surrounded by music, Wild and Bernhard became ground floor participants in a growing sonic tribe. “Back in Harper’s Ferry [Iowa], roughly three years ago, we had a place called the Cinderblock.” Bernhard explained. “Eli Warren of Steal the Action and Justin Taylor of Here’s Johnnie enabled that to happen. We just wondered: Why don’t we just invite people over? As soon as we started playing shows, people started coming out, and eventually we started having bands from out of town play.” “I did the booking there,” Wild added. “When we started having shows that involved more than inviting people to party with us, the only way we could get real bands to play was to offer to buy all the beer. For two shows, we had to buy hundreds of cans of beer, but after that it booked itself. We started getting bands from all over the place: Kansas City, Alabama, one from New Jersey whose van broke down and didn’t end up coming — but they found us.” The Iowans moved to the big green house on 7th Street last year, and came in phases. Wild moved in six months ago, and Bernhard has been in residence for the last three. In that short era, the house has been host to, by Wild’s

estimate, 20 of these gatherings. Part of the lure of running basement shows might come from necessity, especially in places where there aren’t many music venues, but the feel of this house’s scene is not one of desperate squalor. The bands that have played in this basement aren’t there because they have no other option, and the hosts aren’t willing to clean up all the imported grime and deal with the possibility of meatheads and theft just to have something to do. The motivations behind this house are fully ideological; these people have placed their faith in the power of the dusky underground. “Basement shows are just as legit as any bar you can go to, if not more so,” Bernhard said. “Between the booking and the bands that play, there’s a legitimate relationship rather than a business relationship. Bands want to play there, and the people booking the show want them to come, whether they bring people or not. That is what people should play for, to play good music that they like, instead of trying to sell it. This lifestyle caters more to genuine music.” Wild moved beyond the usual DIY punk stereotype and into historical precedent. “Folk music wasn’t about getting paid, or getting free drinks at the bar. It was about having something to say to whoever would listen. That’s what a basement show is.” Another subject which Bernhard brought up was the greater possibility of immersion. “We’re taking away the stage, and it makes the crowd just as legit as any band. We are not any better than anyone else watching us.” “Or any more involved!” Wild added. “When you play in a basement, you develop Deadhead fans. There are people who come to the 7th Street shows who were at the first Cinderblock show.They feel like they’re part of the band because, when you’re in a basement, you basically are.” Bernhard pointed out that the lure of booze pales before a basement's music. “People might want to come here to party, but you don’t go into a basement that’s hot, sweaty, crowded, and loud to just drink. I’ve never seen a place like La Crosse where any night,

everybody can drink themselves to death. They can do that anywhere they want, but people choose to do it at our basement, and they stay in the basement to listen to those bands.” Promoting these shows is by and large a word of mouth affair, which in this case draws beyond the core group of regulars. Both men quickly credit Bernhard’s brother Brent in bringing in the crowd, and finding the house in the first place. Bernhard explained the gravity of their PR guy: “He knows everyone. Crackheads ride by the house, see us, and shout, 'Brent? Is that you?' Even growing up, people just wanted to be around, because they knew that we were always doing awesome things. It’s funny how it came from childhood into adulthood; people know that we are doing awesome things with that house, and they want to be a part of that.” Both admit that, while they believe in the underground, their created scenes tend to be unique creatures. Bernhard assessed the phenomenon thus: “The places we’ve been, it lives and dies with us.” uuu The end of last month marked one more death. One week before the lease ran out and everyone moved to separate sanctuaries, a final celebration went down on 7th Street. The basement packed in five bands, mixing the usual suspects with Wildcat Revival, a band from Alabama which made the trip to the wake. That night, the room was as packed as I had ever seen, with scarce inches of elbow room to grant passage.The bands were invisible beneath the silhouettes of arms and heads, burying their sounds, claiming them for their own. This isn’t over. The tribe is searching for a new basement, and a few possible locations are being tested for sound levels and supportive neighbors. But even if the new housing offers no musical avenues, the crowd isn’t worried. “We’ll take over a bar if we have to,” Bernhard laughed. “You can have a basement show in a bar. It’s a spirit.”

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adam.bissen@secondsupper.com Generally speaking, the performers at Bella Madre — the Memorial Day weekend music festival in Geneva, Minn. — could be distilled into two camps: San Francisco pros and Minnesota party bands. Perhaps that dichotomy should be expected at a Midwest jamband festival, but still, the moods at those two shows were telling. What follows is a geography-centered crib sheet of the festival headliners. Of course the Minnesota bands had strength in numbers, but would the Bay Area bunch steal the show? San Fran bands n Tea Leaf Green — Really impressed me. These road warriors have been building a steady following in the Midwest, but with two headlining slots at the upcoming 10,000 Lakes festival, they seemed to be playing with extra fire at Bella. Their fine harmonies, ‘70s-style songcraft, and modern lyricism sets them apart from others in the languid jam scene. n Bill Kreutzmann with Papa Mali — By now these post-Grateful Dead Grateful Dead projects are becoming rather rote. What could the band’s less charismatic drummer offer that Ratdog, Phil Lesh & Friends, and Micky Hart’s many projects haven’t? Umm, some hillbilly guitarist from Louisiana, I guess. n Bassnectar — It’s nice to see some electronica spreading into jam festivals — too bad they brought in the crunchiest kind. Bassnectar, who goes by Lorin Ashton when he’s not rattling rib cages with the low end, is big among hippies and Burning Man enthusiasts (not always the same people). He doesn’t blow minds that weren’t blown to begin with, but it still sucks that the noise police shut down his set 40 minutes early. n Del tha Funky Homosapien — For almost 20 years, Del has been a singular voice in hip-hop: uncompromising and underground. That kind of life could rattle anyone’s brain, but he was a consummate performer on the main stage, running through hits from his debut album, Deltron 3030, and his latest CD. His cameo line from the Gorillaz “Clint Eastwood” earned the most excitement from the listless crowd, but half the time Del didn’t seem to know where he was either. n New Monsoon — When I fist saw this band six years ago, there was an interesting Indian thing going on: sitars and tablas and all that. It appears like a third of the band has left since then, leaving a quintet that’s the definition of

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polished generic jamband. n That One Guy — An unexpected fan favorite from last year’s festival, T1G performed two different sets on Bella Madre’s main stages — and I have no idea why. The guy is all gimmick and belongs on vaudeville, or perhaps a subway stop with an upturned hat. Please, Bella Madre, no mas. Minnesota bands n Pert Near Sandstone — I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Pert Near Sandstone is the best band in Minnesota (excluding Prince, of course, and maybe the Hold Steady). Their commitment to old-timey music and performance is admirable, especially in the anythinggoes New Grass era. It will be interesting to see how popular they become nationwide, but I hope they never outgrow impromptu shows ‘round the campfire. n Heiruspecs — Mixing the best elements of Rhymesayers hip-hop and jamband live performance, Heiruspecs was a great addition to the festival. I’ve seen them throw some amazing concerts in the past, but I don’t think Bella Madre’s sun-drenched crowd of wine bag slappers made for their best audience. n The Big Wu — I’m not exactly sure what happened to the Big Wu, undisputed godfathers of the Minnesota jam scene, but this was clearly not a Family Reunion. Perhaps the Wu requested evenings off to quaff Old Style with old friends, but I thought their early afternoon timeslot was a slap in the face. Be good Family, Bella. n White Iron Band — They’re like the drunk neighbor that keeps coming over and breaking your stuff but is so damn funny that you don’t mind him hanging out. This is also what I imagine Jimmy Buffet’s band would sound like if he preferred whisky to margaritas, and hired Pat McCurdy as a songwriter. n New Rebolution — It was a strange sight, very Caucasian kids performing very authenticsounding dub reggae, but their performance was endearing and their sound was pretty good. Ras Trent, you have a friend in thee. n Mark Joseph Project — The Down Lo front man was all over this festival: booking the bands, running the soundboard, setting water bottles on stage — I even saw him passing out garbage bags on the last day. I’ll give him a pass, then, for this quasi-all star collective and its unfortunate experiments in freestyling. So who wins? Minnesota, duh. It has Harmony Park, the enchanted grove of oaks and lakes and good vibes and odd people, the main reason to go to Bella Madre in the first place.

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Oh hi, right now I’m sitting here wondering what has gotten into Sweden lately. That nation in the past had their only claims to fame being things like meatballs, massage, buxom bikini teams, and ABBA. Something has happened to turn that place into a hotbed of music the past handful of years. It seems like every time I turn around there is the next big thing coming out of that country. Pre-2000s, aside from ABBA and probably some obscure ‘70s prog rock bands that some nerd in an I’m-cooler-thanyou pissing match will namedrop, off the top of my head I can only think of Roxette, Ace of Base, and that hair metal band Europe who had that hesh jam "The Final Countdown" coming out of Sweden and making a dent on this side of the pond. Not exactly much to tell the grandkids about. But whoa, shit went and got crazy over there. Garage rockers The Hives, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Sahara Hotnights, Mondo Diao, Shout Out Louds and The Hellacopters reved up the guitars earlier this decade along with American bands like the Strokes and White Stripes to make garage rock revival a brief trend. Peter Bjorn and John, The Concretes, I’m From Barcelona, and The Tough Alliance are following in the indie pop footsteps blazed by fellow Swedes The Cardigans and Komeda in the later part of the ‘90s. Some of the most beautiful bedroom folk albums have been put out by musicians like Jose Gonzalez, Hello Saferide, and Jens Lekman for those times you feel like quiet introspective musical moments. On the electro pop front, The Knife, The Sounds, Robyn, Lykke Li, Studio and Sally Shapiro have updated the classic Italo

disco and synth pop sounds that ruled the Euro pop charts in the ‘80s. Dungen seems to have stepped out of a time machine from 1971 with the most authentic retro acid rock sound put on record in years. Basshunter and Eric Prydz have made names for themselves in the club scene for party people to dance the night away. And that’s not even getting into the Swedish black metal world, with Sweden’s Bathroy creating Viking metal in the mid ‘80s, through a whole bunch of bands such as Opeth, Carnage, Nilhist, Entombed, Dismember, Unleashed, At the Gates, Hypocrisy, In Flames, Dark Tranquility, Nightrage, Arch Enemy, Soilwork, Amon Amarth, The Haunted, Marduk, Dissection, Lord Belial, Dark Funeral, Arckanum, Nifelheim and Abruptum who were inspired by the Norwegian black metal scene in the mid ‘90s as part of the second wave of black metal. While I personally don’t listen to this music, the back stories of the feuds between Norwegian black metal scenes and Swedish death metal scenes are awesome. There are murders, suicides, death threats, and some harmless drinking of blood, though most of this carnage is contained in Norway. Also, some of the outfits these metal bands wear, nothing short of amazing. And that laundry list of bands mentioned above is just scratching the surface of what is going on in the land that gave us Ingmar Bergman films, the borgy borgy chef from the Muppets, and clichéd talking points of political utopia that have been made by just about every far left liberal I’ve ever conversed with.

— Shuggypop Jackson

Up (2009)

By Brett Emerson

brett.emerson@secondsupper.com As Heatbox, Aaron Heaton is a one-man beatboxing show, building up rhythms to explode. His musical talent is impressive in its own right, but Heaton has another, equally unique skill. In an example of putting extra value into the product, Heaton designed and programmed an entire video game and placed it onto the disc of his newest album, System. Both the music and the game are fantastic, combining to form a highly marketable work of creativity and innovation. Heaton took a few minutes to describe his various forms of expression. Second Supper: Let’s get the weird one out of the way first.You versus Michael Winslow from Police Academy. Who wins? Aaron Heaton: (Laughs) If we were doing sound effects, he might beat me, but if we were doing songs, I might have him. SS: What led you to form Heatbox? AH: I come from Minneapolis, grew up beatboxing in high school with other guys, and never stopped. I joined a band and started doing the solo thing too, and that’s been working, so I’m still doing that. SS: What was the process involved in making System? AH: It’s a lot of me in the sound booth, with my two engineer guys who also help me produce. Just hanging out, trying to get the best recordings we can.

Directors: Pete Docter and Bob Peterson Cast: Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai Writer: Bob Peterson As with any Disney film, a stigma of predictability accompanies every new Pixar release; it's as if they've chiseled their individualismconquers-all adventure brand down to a formula, plugging in characters, jokes, and morals as they go along. Last year's thought-provoking WALL-E proved you could walk into a Pixar movie without having the story already 100% mapped out in your head. Up similarly dares audiences to believe Pixar has nothing left up its sleeve, combining such trademark elements as frantic comedy-action, the cuteness factor, and positive messages of encouragement with uncharacteristically deeper themes like failure and regret. With Up, Pixar appears fully prepared to produce smarter movies that please a diverse audience on more levels than one. Much of Up's praise should be directed to one sequence in particular, an early montage summarizing the life childhood friends Carl and Ellie Fredricksen spend together up until the time Carl becomes a widower. From there the film wastes little time in sending Carl off in his

Introducing Minneapolis' resident musical gamer

helium balloon-supported house on an adventure to South America. The flight is relatively short, and the journey after Carl and stowaway Russell reach their destination takes several strange turns. In spite of a plot lacking any clear, predictable direction (and largely because of it), the film remains thoroughly fun and fulfilling. Even when it becomes clear just how Up plans to evoke an emotional response from the audience, the film finds time to fully develop Carl in more ways than one. Of particular interest is Carl's affecting relationship with Russell, a pesky yet good-hearted scout-type. But making them remarkable characters wasn't enough — while Pixar livens up the genre with an authentic story, they also broaden the animated portrayal of minority groups. It's just another instance of their refusal to settle for less than the unexpected; all this while Dreamworks continues to roll products off the talking animal assembly line.

— Nick Cabreza

SS: Being that you are responsible for the entire album’s sound, are there more production tricks involved than a full band would use? AH: You never know. Some bands don’t have any editing, and some bands have a lot. I’m probably somewhere in the middle. We take the best takes; some of them are really long takes — some of the scatting I do goes really long — but some of the background harmony vocals are just repeated over and over, sort of like the loop station. SS: Some of the vocals on the album sounded a little electronic. How much alteration of the sounds takes place after their performances? AH: The only effects we use were ones that I use in the live show, through the pedals that I use. The engineers only did EQ stuff. SS: What pedals do you use? AH: I use two pedals. One’s the loop machine; it’s called RC50 Loop Station. The other one is

the Digitech Vocal 300; it has an octave shifter on it, a wah, some reverbs, and a crunchy guitar sound — so I’m yelling and wailing into this microphone, and it makes it all crunchy guitar sound. SS: Is it a straightforward translation from the album songs to the way you play them live? AH: They’re pretty similar. All the recordings from this album are based on songs I’ve performed for a while, so I really got a feel for them. I think that made them better songs in the studio, too. SS: I saw a guy named Ari Herstad perform in town recently; he does much the same oneman looping as you. What I noticed was that the songs became a performance, where he was creating a series of loops and growing a song from them. The song became what happens at the end, but the process takes a few minutes to build. AH: Everything’s built from scratch; I’m always trying to shorten the time it takes to build the song. I just want to get into the song, too. Some people like to watch me build, and they think it’s interesting, but I just want to funk it up. On the album, it’s just the song, but it sounds pretty similar. SS: Do you draw a lot of people who are more fascinated by the process than by the end product? AH: Most people come there with an idea of what they’re going to see. Most of my new fans come from other people telling them about it. Some people don’t, and they’re taken aback at first, but they tend to stick around. I know people who have been to 10 shows, so it can’t just be the novelty. They must like the songs and the funky grooves. SS: What do you do when you’re not touring? AH: I program video games as a hobby. I’ve been working on the video game on the album for 3 ½ years. I made all the sound effects with my mouth. SS: How do you plan to spend the rest of the year? AH: Promoting the hell out of the new album, getting people to listen to the tracks and play the video game. I’m not going to shut up about it. Heatbox plays the Popcorn Tavern on June 6th.

Second Supper vol. 9, issue 166

I'm Jonesin' for a Crossword "Clean Cinema"--running through a neutral list of movies.

Answers to Issue 165's "That's B.S."

By Matt Jones Across 1 Bud 4 "Sophie's Choice" director Pakula 8 Tiara 14 "___ Hate Me" (2004 Spike Lee movie) 15 Horse hair 16 "I've got it!" 17 1991 comedy with a behind-the-scenes look at a daytime drama 19 They keep words apart 20 Little guy 21 Internet cafe offering, maybe 23 Word before due or tense 24 ___ homo (behold the man, in Latin) 27 Shake like ___ 29 With "The," 1948 Red Skelton movie about door-to-door sales 34 The cube root of ocho 35 Cookie that once had "Sandwich" in its name 36 Million-___ odds

of Kevin Federline 56 Discover rival, for short 60 Spiny lizard 62 2003 straight-tovideo Ione Skye romcom that starts at a laundromat 65 George Eliot title character Silas 66 Initial recording 67 Gas station freebie 68 ___ Palace (Nicolas Sarkozy's current home) 69 U2 bassist Clayton 70 Your, in France

37 Certain hangings 38 1976 movie that parts of the other four movie titles describe from start to finish 41 "Your $$$$$" network

42 "___: Dinosaur Hunter" (Nintendo 64 game) 44 Gull's tail? 45 "___ Haw" 46 1978 biopic about DJ Alan Freed 50 Nighttime prob-

lem 51 "Remote Control" host Ken 52 Former "Entertainment Tonight" host John 54 Rapper/singer Jackson, ex-girlfriend

Down 1 "Over here!" noise 2 "Hey, sailor!" 3 Radiator problem 4 Big name in semiconductors 5 My ___ Massacre 6 One who gets the door 7 Longtime grape soda brand 8 Early production company for "I Love Lucy" and "Star Trek"

9 "Am ___ to the task?" 10 Native Wyomingite 11 It's chocolatey, without all the kick 12 Squeaks by, with "out" 13 Navy pole 18 Orange coat 22 Out of reach 25 Start the workday 26 Actor Michael of "Year One" 28 Lover of 37-across 29 Speaker's seminar 30 It make a lot of dollars 31 "I love you when you ___ your mosque..." (Kahlil Gibran) 32 The Learning ___ 33 One of the "Real Housewives of Atlanta" 34 Numbers-crunching need 39 Hated with every inch of one's being 40 Piggish person 43 "Annie" extras 47 Lucrezia Borgia's brother 48 Sound at the den-

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tist 49 "King Kong" actress Fay 52 "Person of the Year" awarder 53 Equal, at an ecole 55 ___ Comment (blog link) 57 Doctor-to-be's test 58 Nobelist Wiesel 59 Gen-___ (1970s kids, today) 61 Word before a maiden name 63 Peruvian singer

Sumac 64 Dot follower ÂŠ2009 Jonesin' Crosswords (editor@jonesincrosswords.com) For answers to this puzzle, call: 1-900226-2800, 99 cents per minute. Must be 18+. Or to bill to your credit card, call: 1-800-655-6548. Reference puzzle #0417.

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Area food food & & drink drink specials specials ] COMMUNITY SERVICE [Area LA CROSSE

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Fish Fry

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$2 domestics and rails, 4-8

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Lakeview

Free Wings

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Schmidty’s 3119 State rd.

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Chef specials daily Mighty Meatball sub $6

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Train Station BBQ 601 St. Andrew st.

Top Shots 137 S 4th st.

Yesterdays 317 Pearl st.

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June 4, 2009

HAPPY HOUR 4 PM - 7 PM cheeseburger HOOP DAY!! MAKE YOUR SHOT AND YOUR ENTRÉE IS FREE!

2-4-1 Happy Hour 3 - 8 Best Damned DJ'S @ 10 p.m.

Chicken salad on rye w/ lettuce, tomato, onion $5 $6.99 FISH SANDWICH FOR LUNCH, $7.99 FISH SANDWICH FOR DINNER, $9.99 ALL YOU CAN EAT FISH FRY ALL DAY

happy hour all day long! $1.00 OFF WILD WINGS, $1.00 PHILLY STEAK AND CHEESE.

Chili Dogs

Tacos

Fish Sandwich

12 oz. T-Bone $8.99

Fish Fry $6.95

All day (everyday!) specials $3 Double Captain & Cokes $2 Double rails $1 Cans of beer

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1019 S 10th st.

Southwest chicken pita $5

2-4-1 Happy Hour 3 - 9 Best Damned DJ'S @ 10 p.m.

LUNCH BUFFET $6.95 Tacos

Shooter’s

Tailgators

double $6.50

2-4-1 Happy Hour 5 - 10 $2 Capt. mixers $1.75 domestic beer, $1.50 Rails, $1 Pabst cans @ 10 p.m.

happy hour all day

$4 domestic pitchers

Tacos $1.25

15 cent wings

HAPPY HOUR 10 AM - 12, 4 PM - 6 PM $2 Bacardi mixers

$2 Spotted Cow & DT Brown pints

Bucket Night 5 for $9

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Special varies

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$1.75 light taps and Dr. shots

$1.50 Bud/Miller Lite/ PBR taps all day $1.75 rails 10 - 1

$2 domestic bottles 7 - 12, $2.50 Skyy/ Absolute mixers 10-1 $2 Dr. drinks

$1 Point special bottles

$2.50 pints Bass & Guinness

$1.75 domestic bottles

$2.25 Pearl st. pints $1.50 PBR bottles

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Tuesday Wednesday

$2 Rolling Rocks $2 domestic beer

8 - CL $1.50 rails $1.75 Bud cans

$1 shots of Dr. $2.50 Polish

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday Wednesday

ask for great eats

Fiesta Night 7 - 12 $2 tequila shots $2.50 margaritas

family buffet 5 -8 kids under 10 pay .45 cents per year of age

$1 domestic taps $3 Jager Bombs

5 domestic bottles for $10, $2 Bacardi mixers, $1.50 rail vodka mixers 10 -1

$1 Dr. shots $3 16 oz Captain mixers 11-3 $7.95 Chicken on fire 4-9: Bones & briskets $13.95

$2 Long Islands, PBR bottles, Captain mixers

15 cent wings

$1 Dr. shots $3 16 oz Captain mixers 1/2 Chicken 3 bones $12.95

$2.75 deluxe Bloodys ‘til 7, $5 lite pitchers 7 - 12

$1.75 rails $1 PBR mugs

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Friday

$2.50 Captain $2.50 Jager Bombs & Polish

$2 u-call-it (except top shelf)

Thursday

Saturday

Friday

Saturday

any jumbo, large, or large 1 topping pizza medium pizza up to 5 $9.99 toppings: $11.99 (get 2nd large for $5)

Entertainment 6/4 - 6/10 Thursday, June 4 Del’s Bar Sterus

June 6 continued 10:00

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