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Alex Graff '00 would have looked normal in his blue hat, blue shirt and jeans had he not been splattered in fake blood. The sophomore also had a puppet poking out of his shirt which looked suspiciously like the worm-like parasitic aliens in Weaver's "Alien" series...
WASHINGTON: Remember ALH84001? Of course you do. It's the chunk of 16-million-year-old Martian rock found in the Antarctic wastes last year over which everyone from NASA to the White House went ga-ga. Until now, prevailing scientific opinion said the worm-like forms on the potato-sized meteor meant there may have once been life on Mars ? little green bacteria, if not little green...
...Mutilated Lips" is a bit more successful; the ocean imagery is notably entertaining if not more enigmatic ("Mutilated lips give a kiss on the wrist/Of the worm like tips of tentacles expanding/In my mind, I'm fine, accepting only fresh brine"), as distorted vocals play off a mysterious, entrancing groove. The drugged-up atmosphere adds to the impression that Ween spends too much time detached from reality. On the path to songs with music and lyrics that actually coexist peacefully and beautifully, "Ocean Man" is about halfway to triumph. Sedate country-flavored guitar licks and thick, echoing vocals...
...listen closely, you can hear the spinning of the dharma in the multiplexes. In two of the most anticipated Hollywood movies of the season, the talk is of worms and nothingness. About halfway through Seven Years in Tibet, which will open Wednesday to considerable hoopla, Brad Pitt is trying to construct a building. But there is a problem. His workers will not dig a foundation, because they don't want to kill any worms. Why? As Pitt's character is informed: "In a past life, this humble worm could have been your mother." Meanwhile, in Martin Scorsese's Kundun, scheduled...
Hold on just a little longer, Far Side fans. Relief is at hand. Gary Larson, who retired the quirky cartoons in 1995, has written an illustrated book. There's a Hair in My Dirt is a fable about a frumpy woman told from a worm's-eye view, and is due out, appropriately enough, on Earth Day next year, April 22. Too long a wait? Larson's second animated film...