September 2008 (PDF) - Antigravity Magazine

EVENTS/CONTINUED...
Live New Orleans: Songe goes to Lollapalooza,
Continued from page 6...
“Mister anchor assure me / That Baghdad
is burning / Your voice it is so soothing
/ That cunning mantra of killing / I
need you my witness / To dress this
up so bloodless / Mass graves for the
pump and the price is set.”—”Testify”
Walking back from the show, people who
saw Rage were letting out a mass rebellious/
celebratory shout that traveled up and down
the streets like a wave. It was pretty powerful
and very cool. I could hear it coming up
behind me and then all of a sudden everyone
around me is shouting and I’m shouting too.
After the last song, the four band members
bowed together and then had a group hug.
I couldn’t believe it. After all the acrimony,
here they were hugging each other and
sporting huge grins like they had just won
a gold medal. I think Rage is back, but if
they never tour again and never record
another album I think this night in Chicago
must be the closest they would have come
to being inspired to make more music.
SETLIST:
“Testify”
“Bulls On Parade”
“People of the Sun”
“Bombtrack”
“Know Your Enemy”
“Bullet In The Head”
“Born Of A Broken Man”
“Guerilla Radio”
“Ashes In The Fall”
“Calm Like A Bomb”
“Sleep Now In The Fire”
“Wake Up”
Encores:
“Freedom”
“Killing In The Name”
Guidance Counseling by Tiffiny Wallace, Continued
from page 9...
and fantasies to yourself, enjoy, and all will be
good. However, if you choose the other route I
can bet you will learn some of your life’s greatest
lessons. Write us back and let us know.
Dear AG,
Hey, where can a guy get laid around here?
There is a little secret I need to let you guys
in on. For girls, vacation sex doesn’t count
(as much). And aren’t you lucky to live in a
vacation town that doles out beer glasses and
love potion #9 by the hurricane glass? So if you
just want to get laid and standards really aren’t
on the agenda, then I suggest the otherwise
unspeakable Bourbon Street. Three-for-one
cocktails run till about 8pm. If you can’t catch
a drunk tourist by 8:45 than there is only one
other hope for you. It is a quaint little spot near
the corner of Iberville and Chartres. Ask for
Me-ling and the Happy Ending Special.
Sweet Dreams! Love, your candy lady.
Venom: Dark Origins #1, Continued from page 29...
There are no side trips and it all reads a bit false
as a result. However, I can’t deny that Wells,
artist Angel Medina and company paint a pretty
thorough portrait of Brock as a powerless weasel
who will take advantage of the work of others
for his own gain, which fits his role from when
he originally became Venom. I’m not sure this
powerless version of the character will find
favor with the fans who mostly want Venom to
eat people’s brains, and I’m more than a little
weirded out by Medina’s exaggerated artwork,
especially the full-page shots of a grinning Eddie,
which are disturbing and off-putting in a visceral
way. To their credit, Wells and company don’t
take the easy road of a Venom miniseries, but I’m
also not convinced there’s much of an audience
for the psychological underpinnings of an yet-tobe
superpowered Eddie Brock. —Randy Lander
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