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NAmE AND AGE: Justin Schubert, 27

WHERE WERE yOu BORN?: La Crosse

cuRRENT JOB: Music geek

DREAm JOB: Songwriter

LAsT THING yOu GOOGLED:Phish

IF yOu cOuLD LIvE ANyWHERE IN THE WORLD, WHERE WOuLD IT BE?In the clouds

WHAT Is sOmETHING yOu WANT TO DO BEFORE yOu DIE?:Leave La Crosse

WHAT Is yOuR BEvERAGE OF cHOIcE? Root beer

cELEBRITy cRusH: Scarlett Johansson

WHAT BOOk ARE yOu cuRRENTLy READING?: Just started "The Great Gatsby"

TELL us yOuR GuILTIEsT PLEAsuRE:Guitar pedals

TELL us A JOkE: Why does Snoop Dogg carry an umbrella? Fo drizzle. (I hope that hasn't been used yet.)

IF A GENIE GRANTED yOu ONE WIsH, WHAT WOuLD yOu Ask FOR?To leave La Crosse

FIRsT cONcERT yOu WENT TO: Alice Cooper, Warrant, Slaughter and Dokken at the La Crosse Center. Oh yeah!

WHAT's THE LAsT THING yOu BOuGHT?Guitar pedals

WHAT's IN yOuR POckET RIGHT NOW?:iPod Touch, keys, bubble gum, guitar pick

WHAT Is yOuR FAvORITE PART OF sEcOND suPPER?Gettin' Shuggy With It

HOW DO yOu kNOW JAmIE (LAsT WEEk's INTERvIEW)?:She's dating a very good friend of mine.

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Coming next week in Second Supper • Welcome to Oktoberfest

• Decorating Small Spaces — The Living Room

WHAT: Applefest!WHERE: La Crescent, Minn. (most events at Abnet Field)WHEN: Sept. 17-20

The leaves are beginning to change colors, the mornings are getting brisker and the days shorter. For those of us living here in the Coulee Region, this time of year means only one thing ... time for some fresh, home-grown apples! This weekend, La Crescent will hold its annual Applefest celebration, in which the whole city takes part in honoring their cash crop. Events for this year include a carnival opening on the 18th, with a performance from 3 Beers 'till Dubuque ending the night. Saturday will offer a flea market and arts & craft show (10 a.m. at La Crescent Elementary School), a classic car show (10 a.m. on Fourth Street between Oak and Elm), a variety of fun activities for the kids (the kid power tractor pull and the kiddie parade), as well as some good ole' fashion clog dancing (4 p.m. at the King Apple Tent) and apple orchard tours. The night ends with a musical performance from the band Simon Sezz at the King Apple Tent, with the show starting at 8 p.m.. For more in-formation on events for this weekend, visit www.applefestusa.com. And remember, an apple a day keeps the doctor away!

— Ben Clark

Poor Kanye West. I know it’s been pretty trendy to bash the guy for his upstaging of Taylor Swift at the Video Music Awards last weekend, but when the media inquisi-tion starts introducing the man’s recently deceased mother, I think it’s about time we re-evaluate our priorities. Don’t get me wrong; it was a pretty douchy thing that Kanye did to Swift. He deserves to catch flack on blogs and on bar stools, but his gaffe has played out ad nauseum on some of the nation’s most (*ahem) respected news sources. Don’t we have more important stuff to talk about? Just this week, for example, the city of Philadelphia announced plans to close all public libraries beginning Oct. 2, the president of Afghanistan was proved to be a crook engaged in massive voter fraud, and the New York Times revealed that U.S. corporations have violated the Clean Water Act more than 500,000 times in the past five years. Oh, and a celebrity got tipsy and actually made an award show entertaining. I don’t have nearly enough space to discuss the racial acrimony simmer-ing beneath this whole brouhaha, but it’s important to remember that MCA (a white rapper from the Beastie Boys) pulled an even more outlandish stunt at the 1994 VMAs that people merely found amus-ing. Kanye just said that Beyonce’s “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” was one of the greatest music videos of all time. And lest we forget, he was right.

— Adam Bissen

Elvis Presley songs

1. "Heartbreak Hotel"2. "Jailhouse Rock"3. "Suspicious Minds"4. "Don't Be Cruel"5. "Can't Help Falling in Love"6. "That's All Right"7. "Blue Christmas"

Best music videos of all time

1. Michael Jackson — "Thriller"2. Peter Gabriel — "Sledgehammer"3. Beastie Boys — "Sabotage"4. Beyonce — "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"5. Fat Boy Slim — "Weapon of Choice"6. Guns n' Roses — "November Rain"7. Weezer — "Buddy Holly"

People who need a timeout

1. Serena Williams2. Joe Wilson3. Kanye West4. Glenn Beck5. Bernie Madoff6. Lagarrette Blount7. Hamid Karzai

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When the Elvis Explosion hits the La Crosse Center again Friday for its three-night run, the city will host thousands of fans who know everything there is to know about the King. Or so they thought. Dave "Rudy" Rudrud, who next month celebrates his 20th anniversary as owner of Shooter's bar on 3rd Street, has shared with Second Supper several previously un-published photos of Elvis Presley's visit to La Crosse in 1956. Rudrud got the photographs of the May 14 concerts (two shows) from his late uncle, Ray Plamadore, former general manager of the Mary E. Sawyer Auditori-um, where Elvis performed. (For newcom-ers, the auditorium was formerly on the site of the county building on 6th and Vine streets.) The collection includes photos (pho-tographer unknown) of Presley's concert - his first in Wisconsin, his three-man band, local fans and a backstage interview of the 21-year-old Presley by Lindy Shannon, a well-known local radio show host and mu-sic promoter. The photos, moreover, led Rudrud to another insight of interest to Elvis fans: a You Tube slide show with audio from the Shannon interview. "I was trying to do research on the pho-

tos and found it through that," Rudrud said. The slide show provided no back-ground as to who was doing the interview, though one person identified Shannon in the comments section. "I recognized the voice right away," Rudrud said. "He (Shan-non) had a radio program, when I was a kid, about music." Shannon worked many years for WKBH radio, in the record department of Leithold Music and with Lin-Beck En-terprises, which was his music promotion business. He died in 1995. "Everybody knew Lindy," said Rudrud, who described Shannon as a "mover and shaker" in the rock and roll industry in this town. The interview includes discussion of Presley's two-year music career, hints of a movie career yet to come, his first Vegas visit and more. You can hear the interview posted by "jackiej61" in January at www.you-tube.com/watch?v=sr5q0sYAmgl. If it does not load, search You Tube for "Elvis Presley Interview 1956 La Crosse WI."

Editor's Note: Elvis fans interested in see-ing Rudrud's photos can visit him at Shooters, 120 3rd St. S. The bar's regular hours during the Elvis Explosion are 8 p.m. to close Sept. 18-20. And even if the bar is closed, he will still be happy to chat if he's there, so just knock.

Old pictures tell the storyof the day Elvis came to town

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Last Saturday night, I had the oppor-tunity to attend one of our country’s fi nest and most cherished traditions: a demolition derby. When I heard about the Eve of De-struction demolition derby going on at the La Crosse Speedway, I knew I had to go. You see, I’ve never been to a demolition derby before, and the idea of watching massive tons of steel crash into a variety of objects and each other appealed to me. Hell, what’s more American than watching destruction and mayhem from the comfort of your seat with a beer in your hand? I knew I had to go and witness the carnage fi rst hand, if only for myself. The fi rst thing that amazed was the number of people in attendance. Thou-sands of fans poured out to show their support. I walked in, eying the throngs of people in the fi lled stands. Looks like I’ll be standing for this show. As I stationed myself by the stairs, I began to look over the crowd. NASCAR and Harley-Davidson shirts as far as the eye could see. Carhartt jackets and Ford racing hats were the norm. I felt slight-ly out of place, with my plain sweatshirt and my long hair, but nobody cared. We were all there for one reason, to watch stuff get mad wrecked. The fi rst event was the Steel Wall Chal-lenge, in which a car would drive straight into an inverted car hanging directly in front of it. I watched the fi rst contender drive around the track and pause, the crowd silent; waiting with bated breath for the moment of impact. Suddenly, with a screech of tires, the car burst forth, rush-ing toward its target. BLAM! The wooden support beams went fl ying while the impact caused the car to do a somersault in the air. The crowd went nuts, cheering as the dam-aged car drove triumphantly around the track, minus a headlight and dragging its front bumper along the way. Next some motorcycle stunt riders pleased the crowd with a vast array of wheel-ies, burn outs, 360s and other tricks. Featur-ing riders Joe Beavers and Ryan Suchanak, members of the motorcycle stunt team Vertical Mischief set out to do what they do best: extreme motorcycle stunts. They revved up the crowd, especially when they would stop the bike completely, balanc-ing only on one tire. They had two events throughout the night, with their last stunt ride being a competition to be crowned the crowd favorite. This is as a good time as any to mention that demolition derbies appear to be main-ly a family event. From what I could see, the

majority of patrons were parents bringing their children to witness the mayhem. The ages of the kids ranged from newborns (I actually saw two parents change their ba-by’s diaper on the main walk between the stands) to high school. And believe me, if there was one event that got these kids fi red up, it was the monster trucks! This being my fi rst demolition derby, I’d never seen a monster truck outside of a YouTube video, and watching them rev up in the pit was almost a religious experience. So big … so much power! Simply imagining these beasts treading over beat-up junkers brought a smile to my face. The monster trucks for the evening featured The Felon, a well-decorated truck that had narrowed eyes on the side, peering out toward the audience. During its runs, it became completely airborne after smashing the hell out of three junkers lined up in a row. Following The Felon was Mechanical Mischief, which delighted the crowd with more of the same events;: completely de-stroying the cars that lay before it, getting some serious air and, of course, dong mon-ster truck wheelies down the front straight-away. Following these guys, derby driver Ben Allen attempted to jump a camper over a bus. Needless to say, the camper was de-stroyed, and the bus survived with only its front completely smashed in. Following the monster trucks was the Green Mamba Jet Car, which basically con-sisted of your typical race car with a JATO rocket attached to the back. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term JATO, it stands for Jet Assisted Take Off, and is mostly known for its inclusion in the Darwin Awards, in which a car with a JATO attached to its back sped down the desert

fl oor until the driver’s (and the car’s) de-struction into the side of a canyon. Back to the subject at hand, the Green Mamba Jet Car took its position along the front straight-away and let loose, brightening the whole track with a giant fi reball behind it. The crowd stood and cheered as the rocket car raced down the track. Feeling the heat from the rocket's blast (and I’m standing in the back, mind you) I shouted excitedly with the crowd. What on earth could pos-sibly top that, I thought to myself. Little did I know that the main event was the very defi nition of a demolition derby. Complete destruction of everything. The main event was the Trailer Race of De-struction, in which more than 10 vehicles pulling trailers raced around the track. The trailers ranged from campers to boats, from trailers holding lawnmowers to mini-fl oats. The idea is that the drivers go as long as they can, regardless of the debris fi lling up the track. Within three laps, the red fl ag came up and two trailers and a now defunct pick-up truck had to be cleaned up and es-corted from the track. The race fi nished, with the decided crowd favorite being driv-er John Ratz, who drove with a full camper and a trailer behind his vehicle. Unbeliev-able. I left the derby as I had when I walked in: with a big smile on my face. Sure, I wouldn’t actively head to demolition der-bies out of nowhere, but this was a great time enjoyed by thousands of people of all shapes and sizes. If you’ve never been to a demolition derby, I suggest going to at least one, just to see what it’s like. For me, I know that I defi nitely didn’t leave empty handed. Drive on, La Crosse area drivers. Drive on!

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The “starter home” is more attainable that it has been in years. Padded by a glut of un-sold houses and a one-time federal tax cred-it, young people in the Coulee Region have rushed into the real estate market in huge numbers, but their window for government-stimulated savings is nearing a close. In order to qualify for an $8,000 tax credit, fi rst-time home buyers must have the property transferred to their names before Dec. 1, which could have late-to–the-market shoppers scrambling to secure the closing details on what should be one of the biggest purchases of their lives. After four months of looking at houses in the La Crosse area, Nick Koegl and his girlfriend Natalie Marx this summer pur-chased their fi rst home: a two-story, three-bedroom bungalow on Madison Street. “It just seemed like the logical time,” said Koegl, 26, a management coordinator at Logistics Health Inc. “A lot of the (home) prices are lower right now. It’s certainly a buyers’ market, and I’m not going to com-plain about $8,000 in free money.” Koegl is not alone. Local Realtors and lenders are reporting an unprecedented surge in activity for fi rst-time home buyers (see related story), and the National Asso-ciation of Realtors estimates that close to 2 million Americans will take advantage of an $8,000 tax credit, stimulating an additional 350,000 home sales. Of course, the active soliciting of fi rst-time home buyers follows the nationwide burst in the real estate bubble. A culture of speculation had developers over-saturating the housing market, so homes either sat

unsold or prompted owners to drop their asking prices, and other houses were fore-closed on by banks or unleashed by owners trying to stave off fi nancial ruin.

Hunt can take time Buying a home is a time-consuming process that often involves getting pre-ap-proved for a loan, fi guring a budget, scour-ing the market, touring houses, making an offer, fi nalizing a loan, hiring a home inspector, preparing a deed, purchasing insurance and paying closing costs. The process can take weeks or months, and al-though many advisers comment on the glut of homes sitting on the market, fi nding the perfect house can be diffi cult — especially on a young professional’s salary. Brian Norsten, a 26-year-old who also works at LHI, experienced the fi nancial hang-ups of that second side of the “buyers’ market.” Norsten said he and his wife, Kelly, checked out hundreds of houses online and toured more than 70 in person before set-tling on a three-bedroom split-level house in La Crescent. They made an offer in February that the owner accepted, fi nalized a home loan and transferred utilities into their names, but a week before the planned closing date, the Norstens learned that the seller owed more money on the property than the cou-ple had offered to pay for it. The seller’s bank nixed the deal, which had the Nor-stens scrambling to lock in an interest rate with their lender and convince Fannie Mae and the seller’s bank to allow the sale. “We were always told ‘speed up the

process so you can put in a full offer,’ but it’s usually in the seller’s bank’s hands,” said Norsten, who ultimately closed on the La Crescent home last month. “I was a little ignorant on this whole process as well. At work there’s like fi ve of us buying houses at the same time. I believe I was the fi rst one to start looking, and I was the last one to close.” Mitch Luehring, a 27-year-old architectural tech-nician, has been shopping for a home since early this sum-mer. He said he wants a yard for his dog and is “tired of

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rent, but even after touring fi ve homes, he has yet to fi nd one at the right price. “Obviously I want to close by the end of November, and if I don’t I’m going to be much less likely to dive in right now,” said Luehring, referencing the deadline for the tax credit. “It’s almost like an incentive to rush into it, but I’m not necessarily taking that approach. If I don’t fi nd anything that I’m not completely satisfi ed with, I won’t be purchasing it.”

Buyers still have leverage Although the $8,000 home buyers credit, which is applied to the following year’s tax returns, will end after Novem-ber, the housing market is still a long way from the boom cycle of the 1990s and early 2000s. Many purchases from that era are still considered overvalued, which can give buyers leverage to negotiate, especially if a home has been sitting on the market. Jen Whitedog, 29, an administrative assistant at the Company Store, purchased her fi rst home in May 2008 — in the heart of the housing collapse but before Congress passed the tax credit. She found a house on La Crosse’s south side with a large backyard abutting the bluffs and offered the seller $25,000 less than his asking price, which he quickly accepted. After a home inspec-tor discovered problems with the home’s heating system, the owner also purchased a new furnace and fi xed a fi replace before the sale. Whitedog said she shopped around for a good interest rate but was hurried into buying due to increased regulations in the mortgage industry, which would have made her credit score less than favorable by the new standards. “I feel that maybe I was pushed a little fast to get into my house — not that I’m not happy with it, but don’t buy a house just to try to help somebody else, because it doesn’t always work out,” said Whitedog, “but I’m super happy with this place!”

Editor's Note: In the spirit of full disclosure, we note that Nick Koegl is a former sales representative of Second Supper.

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It is too soon to judge the economic impact of the first-time home buyers’ tax credit, but it sure has stimulated the office hours of the local real estate industry. “Oh my gosh, I am going nuts right now because of it,” said Dawn Garmes, a mortgage loan officer at Altra Federal Cred-it Union. Although final figures have not been calculated for the ongoing rebate program, which began in February and ends in No-vember, Garmes estimated that 80 percent of the loans she calculates are for first-time home buyers, an increase of about 300 per-cent. To receive the tax credit, a “first-time home buyer” — defined as someone who has not owned a home for three years prior to purchase — must have an adjusted gross income of less than $75,000, or $150,000 for married taxpayers filing jointly. Eligible buyers can claim a rebate of up to $8,000 — or 10 percent of the purchase price, which-ever is less — on their 2009 or amended 2008 tax returns. The income and age limits have helped move homes on the cheaper end of the local real estate market. Bill Favre, a Realtor with Cindy Gerke

and Associates, said most first-time home buyers generally look at properties that are $125,000 or less. “Things have just dramati-cally increased since that (tax) incentive has been out there, as opposed to the past where those houses generally sat on the market for a while,” he said. Although anecdotal evidence seems to indicate an increased demand among home buyers, lenders aren’t as freewheel-ing as they had been in the past. Garmes said most home loans will require a minimum down payment of 2.5 percent of the purchase price. Additionally, lenders will scour a buyer’s credit history to ensure to ensure that a new mortgage won’t push a buyer’s debt ratio past 40 percent of his take-home income. “The ‘no money down’ programs are pretty much gone,” Garmes said. “Every-thing is going crazy in this industry. It’s a lot stricter than it used to be.” In addition to the federal tax credits, Couleecap, a local nonprofit agency, offers a number of resources to aid low-income home buyers, including classes and grants. Kahya Fox, the housing assistant di-rector, said the people she assists are more informed than they had been in the past.

In part she attributes this to the downturn in the local housing market and a dramatic increase in foreclosures. “The big thing with this housing mar-ket kind of bottoming out the way that it has, I think it made people more savvy for when they decide to be home buyers,” Fox said.

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entertainment directory // September 17 to 23

THURSdAY,

DEL's BAR // 229 3rd st.Nick Shattuck • 10 p.m.

THE sTARLITE LOuNGE // 222 Pearl st.Kies & Kompanie • 5 p.m.

THE cELLAR (uW-L) // 1741 state st.Derek James • 7 p.m.

POPcORN TAvERN // 308 4th st sRoster McCabe • 10 p.m.

THE ROOT NOTE // 115 4th st. s.Nathaniel Seer • 12 p.m.

THE ARTERIAL // 1003 s. 16th st.Bill the Singing Cowboy • 5:30 p.m.

JB's sPEAkEAsy // 717 Rose st.Ministry of Love • 10 p.m.

September 17

FRIdAY,

POPcORN TAvERN // 308 4th st sUp and Coming • 10 p.m.

NIGHTHAWks TAP // 401 s. Third st.Defcon 5 • 10 p.m.

THE JAy sTREET JOINT //324 Jay st.T.U.G.G. • 10 p.m.

PEARL sTREET BREWERy // 1401 st. Andrew st.Cheech and Chubba • 4 p.m.

cAvALIER LOuNGE // 114 5th Ave NBad Axe River Band • 10 p.m.

JB's sPEAkEAsy // 717 Rose st.SOMA • 10 p.m.

PIGGy's BLuEs LOuNGE // 501 Front st s.Ross William Perry Band • 8 p.m.

THE ROOT NOTE // 115 4th st. s.The Ericksons w/ Bluff Country • 8:30 p.m.

GEORGE sTREET PuB // 1728 George st.Jesse Gomez • 9 p.m.

September 18SUNdAY,

POPcORN TAvERN // 308 4th st sSom'n Jazz • 10 p.m.

THE ROOT NOTE // 115 4th st. s.Four Potatoes & Hypnopotamus• 8:30 p.m.

GEORGE sTREET PuB // 1728 George st.Jesse Gomez • 9 p.m.

AmERIcAN LEGION // 711 6th st. sMidwest Banjo Jamboree • 9 p.m.

September 20

WEdNESdAY,

POPcORN TAvERN // 308 4th st sMitch's Open Jam • 10 p.m.

NIGHTHAWks TAP // 401 s. Third st.Open Accoustic Jam • 10 p.m.

DEL's BAR // 229 3rd st.Rich Wooten • 10 p.m.

September 23MONdAY,

POPcORN TAvERN // 308 4th st. s.Shawn's "Prom Night" Open Jam • 10 p.m.

HOuGHTON's //1002 Jackson st.John and Mike Caucutt • 8 p.m.

September 21

TUESdAY,

POPcORN TAvERN // 308 4th st sPaulie • 10 p.m.

THE JAy sTREET JOINT //324 Jay st.Open Jam • 8 p.m.

THE ROOT NOTE // 115 4th st. s.Jazz Jam • 8:30 p.m.

NORTHsIDE OAsIs //620 Gillette st.Open mic with Abbey Lane• 8 p.m.

September 22

MUSIC

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SATURdAY,

my sEcOND HOmE //2104 George st.Paxico • 8 p.m.

WATERFRONT TAvERN // 328 Front st s.Chris Bucheit and Steve Meger • 8 p.m.

cAvALIER LOuNGE // 114 5th Ave NBumpity Boom Boom • 10 p.m.

PIGGy's BLuEs LOuNGE // 501 Front st s.Ross William Perry Band • 8 p.m.

POPcORN TAvERN // 308 4th st sMr. Blink • 10 p.m.

NORTHsIDE OAsIs //620 Gillette st.King Everything • 9:30 p.m.

mIssIssIPPI ExPLORER // Riverside ParkFayme Rochelle and friends •5:30 p.m.

NIGHTHAWks TAP // 401 s. Third st.The Lost Marbles • 10 p.m.

September 19

Roster McCabe, a reggae/funk/rock group out of Minneapolis, has been building buzz in area on the strength of their soulful live shows and excellent hair. They will perform Thursday night at the Popcorn Tavern.

sON vOLTT // sept. 27First Avenue • $19

kINGs OF LEON // sept. 28Target Center • $44

GRIzzLy BEAR // sept.30First Avenue •$19

mOBy // Oct. 1Myth Nightclub• $27

TELEFON TEL AvIv // Oct. 27th Street Entry• $7.50

WILcO // Oct. 2Roy Wilkins Auditorium• $34

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When we last caught up with the Erick-sons, a neo-folk duo comprised of two La Crosse-born sisters, they were riding a wave of Brooklyn buzz between tours of the East and West coasts. They had just released an album, the haunting Middle of the Night, and a sold-out crowd at the Root Note mar-veled at the musical development these Midwesterners had found in New York City. Their harmonies weren’t just impressive — they were practically perfect. The Ericksons will be back in town Friday night for another show at the Root Note, and if geography is any indication, we may be able to count on more regular per-formances. In February, the duo left Brook-lyn and moved to Minneapolis, hoping that the new scene will help them connect to a deeper audience. “A lot of the people that we knew, es-pecially the people that we knew musically, were like ‘How can you leave New York?’” Bethany Erickson recalled in August when the group was in town for the Great River Folk Festival. “Because there’s a weird thing about New York where people think you’re cool or something just because you live there. "But for us we just knew better. ... There was a new step to be taken and a ceil-ing had been reached there.” While the sisters are happy to be back in the Midwest, they credit New York for the development of their career. Younger sister Jenny Kochsiek (Bethany’s surname offers a more pronounceable band name) moved

to New York City in 2005 and took a job as a public school teacher. Bethany moved in soon afterward and the two worked to parlay a life of sing-ing into a viable music career. The Ericksons began working the open mic circuit, and the response in Brooklyn was immediate. They said they were offered a gig after their fi rst performance, so wowed was the crowd by their original music. “The beautiful thing is

that she is just a master of harmonies,” Er-ickson said about Kochsiek. “I think with the sisterly connection there’s a vibe going on that’s special of course, but any melody that I write, any new song, she would imme-diately key into it.” Although they didn’t have much expe-rience in the music business, they kept writ-ing songs and following the cues of others on the scene. In just a few years time, the Ericksons developed a New York fan base, began touring regionally, recorded an al-bum and released it at a sold-out concert in Brooklyn. They followed that with an East Coast tour from Vermont to Tennessee and a West Coast tour from Seattle to California. In an era of put-on musicianship, there’s something inherently genuine about the Ericksons’ music. Their harmo-nies are ethereal while seemingly effortless, their lyrics universal but not schmaltzy. Although the Ericksons built up a cer-tain buzz in New York City, they said they wanted to spread their audience beyond musicians and “cool kids.” Thus came the move to Minneapolis, a city with natural roots and an engaged arts scene. In the coming year they hope to record a second album and engage the Twin Cities before embarking on another national tour. “I feel like Minneapolis is really where we need to be, and it’s a perfect home base,” Kochsiek said. “I miss New York ev-ery day for all the madness that it is, but I wouldn’t want to go back. I feel like this is where we need to be to make our career what we want.”

Th e Ericksons plant new roots

By Adam [email protected]


OktoberfestSpaten-Franziskaner-BräuMunich, Germany

Depending on your priorities in life, September may harken the start of school, football, original network television or squirrel hunting, but it has a singular ap-peal among beer snobs: Oktoberfest lagers. Yes, careful readers, Oktoberfest occurs in September. I don’t have the column inches here to fully explain this calendrical discon-nect, but when you have a smooth lager in your hands, it doesn’t much matter anyway. Last autumn, my fi rst as Second Supper’s beer critic, I reviewed a different Oktober-fest for six straight weeks — a fun streak that I hope to keep alive in 2009. The only thing stopping me, I suppose, is the variety of brews stocked by my local retailers, but if this beat has taught me anything it’s that when it comes to beer, Wisconsin will always provide. Yet for my inaugural beer in the Great American Oktoberfest Tour, I opted for this selection from Minnesota. The Summit Oktoberfest pours a nice auburn hue with a thin beige head and rac-ing carbonation. Inhaling from a distance, the aroma seems airy with faint caramel-like malts and traces of grassy hops, but a deep whiff evokes something closer to mosquito

spray. There’s some serious alcohol in this brew! — 7.7 percent abv, more than I’ve seen in any other Okto-berfest. Even so, the fl a-vor comes on light with toffee sweetness quickly shifting to dry hops. That heavy hop pres-ence may be a staple for Summit beers, but here it nearly obliterates the malts, which are usually the backbone of Mar-zen-style Oktoberfests. Some biscuit fl avors do arise from the middle of the tongue, but this beer’s defi ning trait is a peppery fi nish. The mouthfeel is surprisingly thin-bodied for a high alcohol lager, and it’s drinkability is also way too easy. In many ways, this is a la-ger like no other — dry, hoppy, thin-bodied and high alcohol, a nice comparison for all the Oktoberfests that are to follow.

— Adam Bissen

Appearance 4

Aroma: 7

Taste: 8

Mouthfeel: 6

Drinkability: 8

Total: 33

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Director: Woody AllenCast: Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia ClarksonWriter: Woody Allen

You would think that, as a film critic, I'd be well-versed in the cinema of Woody Allen. Sadly, this is not the case. As a teenag-er, I thought of his movies as too smart, too artsy, too more-for-adults. I've heard his lat-est, "Whatever Works," described as "vintage Woody Allen," perhaps due in large part to the fact that he wrote the script in the '70s and res-urrected it now because of the writer's strike. Regardless, if this is vintage Allen, as many a Tomatometer encapsulated review claims, then I've been wasting my time not watching his movies. Hey, I'm an adult now. I'm edu-cated. And pragmatic. And highly neurotic. It's all making more sense. Allen and his pro-tagonists, in this case Boris Yellnikoff (Larry David), appear more like close friends than characters on a screen. If only people like these existed in real life. In theory, Boris Yellnikoff is my kind of guy. He's rude, pessimistic, blunt, insight-ful and, most importantly, impossibly funny. He's the bitter old codger you find scowling at any given time down at the local coffee shop, angry diatribes on politics and philoso-phy and sports and women flowing freely out his mouth. "Whatever Works" finds Boris matched with one incarnation of his antith-esis, a Southern belle named Melodie (Evan Rachel Wood), whom he takes in, instills with

existential pessimism and marries. It's clear from the get-go exactly how bullheaded Da-vid's character is; you won't find him chang-ing in any way. What isn't clear is exactly how he'll sway Melodie and her far-right parents (Patricia Clarkson and Ed Begley Jr.) to see things his way (because you know Allen won't compromise the philosophical and political subtexts embedded in his script). And though Boris' world view is decidedly negative, the film is overall positive — very positive. You might expect a film like this to turn a bittersweet third act; I know I did. Lessons and experiences gained usually come in the face of loss, but in this case, Boris Yellnikoff is the lesson. He's a walking (or to be more exact, hobbling) book of real-life experience. He's the catalyst for change in the characters around him, a broken record whose words could suddenly become epiphany. He speaks with the zeal and enthusiasm of a college pro-fessor, but simultaneously entertains with the best of stand-up comedians. As a result, the people around him adopt his existential ad-age, "Whatever works." Here Larry David finds a role that suits him perfectly. He's the per-fect Boris and the perfect stand-in for Woody Allen, and if Boris and "Whatever Works" are vintage Woody Allen, then I want more.

— Nick Cabreza

Whatever Works (2009)

Oh hi, right now I am listening to a genre of music known as metalcore. I'm do-ing this because a reader made a request. This person also said Second Supper never talks about any good music. So here you go buddy, this one is for you. Metalcore com-bines hardcore punk and different genres of metal, thus its name. Influenced by early thrash bands such as Suicidal Tendancies, Cro-Mags, Agnostic Front and GWAR, as well as metal bands such as Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax, metalcore popped up in the early '90s. These early metalcore bands played loud and fast adrenaline rushes of sonic ruck-us, usually with a couple of guitars, a drum-mer with a double kick drum, and a singer who did that growl/yell combination that makes the lyrics next to impossible to under-stand. Some of these early groups included Converge, Hatebreed, Cave In, Integrity, Earth Crisis, Rorschach and Candiria. Many of these bands subscribed to straight-edge ideologies (abstinence from drugs and al-cohol) and were down with stuff like animal rights and veganism. While the bands that influenced metalcore were in heavy rotation on my stereo in my delinquent teenage skate punk days, metalcore was something I never

got into, thus am probably going to come across like the amateur that I am and leave out a ton of bands that mean something to those of you who like this stuff. Toward the end of the '90s, a new wave of metalcore bands came out with more of an emphasis on melody and — gasp! — some lyrics that a person could understand. This stuff became known as melodic metalcore and includes bands such as Killswitch Engage, Avenged Sevenfold, Trivium, As I Lay Dying, Atreyu, All That Remains and Unearth. A million other bands I'm sure could be talked about, but I'm so out of the loop I don't know which ones are relevant. I associate this music these days, perhaps ignorantly, to high school-aged scene kids with the fashion trappings of guys wearing girl jeans, giant ear plugs, tsunami hair and a thousand camwhore friends on MySpace who all look like them. I most likely couldn't tell you the difference between metalcore, screamo or brootal, and quite honestly, I'm not all that interested to take the time to figure it out. In truth, this genre of music makes me feel old and think such unhip thoughts as not understanding the music kids are into these days. Instead, I'll listen to the reissues of Beatles and Radio-head albums that came out this past month and be a washed up has-been. Yo metalcore, I'm really happy for you, I'mma let you fin-ish, but Beatles/Radiohead had some of the best albums of all time.

— Shuggypop Jackson

There’s a pretense that many of we music followers adhere to, that the addi-tion of orchestral strings or classical piano to an album is sign of its creators' evolu-tion. (There’s something inherently odd in describing a turn to centuries-old musical styles as forward-thinking.) This refined Masterpiece Theatre veneer has always been applied to Muse’s penchant for epic rock, but The Resistance kicks the band’s sonic megalomania into greater heights. While previous albums mixed the orches-tral with more conventional rock songs, within this work the contrasting styles are often separated into styles that range far be-yond the old halves. A Gary Glitter stomp opens the album with its most straightforward rock song in “Uprising.” Buzz bass pulses the song into symphonic synth choruses and swinging guitars, overlain with Matt Bellamy’s des-perate wails for revolution. The theme of revolt continues as piano-fueled electron-ics run through the title track, which, in swelling major key, states that “Love is our resistance.” The album’s third track, “Un-disclosed Desires,” is Muse’s most unusual song, in that it sets its clock by hip-hop beats, staccato strings and Bellamy singing seductively. The album begins to reveal its greater ambitions with “The United States of Eur-asia/Collateral Damage.” The track’s open-ing is a straight-out Queen style rock opera that dovetails into a Chopin piano piece devoid of edge or irony.

Much of what passes between this track and the album’s three-ring coda are varia-tions of Muse’s rock side. “Guiding Light” is a stately ballad, whereas “Unnatural Se-lection” rushes straightforward and “MK Ultra” melds rumbling bass lines with Icar-ian synths that lead to a string-laden freefall and triumphant resurrection. Another un-usual track prefaces the ending in “I Belong to You,” which starts as a jaunty piano track and spends its middle as a Saint-Saens piece of majesty. The weakest part of the three-track, fully orchestral finale is Bellamy’s occasion-al wailing. Were it not for these intrusions, the 12-minute work would have been flaw-less. Nonetheless, “Exogenesis” proves that the band has a future in symphony. While it may be cliché to label rock bands using classical elements as artiste savants, Muse has been running this route for long enough that these songs aren’t sud-den grabs for orchestral street cred. This is an album that fans of the band could see coming for years, and when it arrived, The Resistance neither dropped the ball nor overindulged itself into incomprehensibil-ity. What is equally notable about this work is its aim beyond the symphonic, how the unexpected styles that drop into the flow add to its gravity and make the whole more encompassing than a rock opera. Evolved? Certainly, but not necessarily parallel to ex-pectations.

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"Dude, what's going on with the Sec-ond Supper?" Not a day goes by the past few weeks where somebody hasn't asked me that question. The reason for all of the inquiries has to do with the new di-rection the paper has been going for the past month. People fear change, and in a town like La Crosse where things tend to always stay the same, the SS changes have created more of a ripple than I would have expected. Chill out people, we've got this. I think. As for what these changes are, honestly, I don't exactly know the overall vision. We have a new owner who is a vet of the newspaper game, and I trust his judgment. Already I have been excited by

some layout changes that have gone into effect. Simple things like breaking the pa-per into appropriate sections (music stuff goes here, news features go here, etc.) make the paper more intuitive and easier to digest. We have a new program to improve the quality of our photographs, as well as more pages in color and side-bars that add to the overall aesthetic. An atmosphere of professionalism permeates HQ now more so than it used to, which being an elder statesman of the bunch, I appreciate. Other areas have personally been a little harder to digest. Those of us who have been serving up issues of this rag are a collection of freaks and geeks, creative misfi ts that are drawn to things off the beaten path. We all have a passion for writing and an equal disdain for the status quo. Only one of us has a journalism background; the rest of us are creative writers who appreciate the edgy stylings of Hunter S. Thompson, Lester Bangs and Dan Savage over whatever NYT writer got the Pulitzer in journalism this year. We fi t into the age bracket that is more likely to get our current events from Jon Stewart than Brian Williams. None of us are exactly drawn to writing middle-of-the-road news coverage that you fi nd in the local daily. It's just not really a fi t for the type of writers we are. Which is where the ballyhooed gossip circulating around town comes into play.

There is a lot of talk around HQ of rebranding the SS, even possibly chang-ing the name, and appealing to a wider audience. Hey, I'm all for this. I think. But the thing is, I was originally drawn to write for the SS because it was a publication that I wanted to read. Inevitably I will go through some growing pains. In the past I was given full creative control to take any offbeat angle in stories I covered. It was all about artistic integrity, not the lousy sti-pends we get paid. I wasn't censored, the seven words you can't say on TV weren't taken off the palette. I've published some writings I'm really proud of, and I've also published some experiments that didn't quite work and resulted in total crap I'd prefer my name wasn't associated with. But that in a nutshell was the charm of the SS. We were an unpolished turd that occasionally swung for the fences and hit one out. For those of you who got us in all our rough glory, you looked forward to it. To others, they found us asinine and stuck to the Trib or Coulee Region Women. Recent articles that have been print-ed defi nitely have an AP feel to them. I am fi ne with this and, in some areas of the paper, think this could be a good thing. I think. Having articles I turn in heavily edited to fi t this style and remove a lot of my personality is a blow to the ego, but I'll get over it. We were a pretty commu-nal operation in the past with equal say in shaping what hit the streets. Now my

status seems to be more of a freelance gun for hire. "Writers Wanted" signs are in the windows, making me feel I'm now easily replaceable. But these are just personal vanities; overall I'd like to think I am on the same page as the new SS vision, am open to being a team player and following where the new direction takes us. I think. Where it takes us, I don't exactly know, but I think I have an idea. The Isthmus in Madison is a template that has been mentioned to strive for. In the age of the Internet, where daily papers fold on a weekly basis and TV news stations desperately struggle to remain relevant with their pleas to follow them on Twitter, it's diffi cult to carve a niche that people regularly return to. I might be putting the SS on a pedestal it doesn't belong on, but I considered it the only media source in town that doesn't reek of Midwestern blandness. We can be equally sophisti-cated, smarmy, low brow and quirky. In a city that lacks underground radio, an art house cinema, limited amounts of touring performances, and is far removed from being a cultural hub that's up on the lat-est trends, we take pride in being a home-grown source to attempt to provide these things, while lending a voice that subverts the dominant paradigm of mainstream conformity. We also have the balls to call out BS where we see it. I'd like to think those aspects are going to remain. I think. Just without the potty-mouthed humor.


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