NEWS photo Sprout www.eyeteaser.comSprout KIM Basinger at the Brickyard last Friday night. Basinger wows Brickyard lf New Waveoke at The Brickyard, Friday, > Aug. ll If you've never been a fan of Karaeoke, here's a whole new spin on it. Picture this if you will , an awesome band , well rehearsed and tight, groovy songs and you up front and “centre on vocals. Its the real . thing. Last Friday night after = ™ the Steve Earle show I slid by The Brickyard to catch a ltde Waveoke, (always a hoot) Blair Dobson from DSK made an appearance, Kim Basinger a local vocalist was in the spotlight, this girl can sing — direct, strong, dynamic — wow. M@ The Supersuckers at The Brickyard Saturday, Aug. 12 The Supersuckers from Seattle, live at The Brickvard last Saturday night — a guitar driven, ball bustin’ kickass set. The band has a staunch following and once you get a taste of The Supersuckers live, you will succumb. @ Steve Bari & the Dukes at The Commodore Aug. 1) "<> Steve Earle performed a three-hour set establishing that ~ this roots rocker still has it. Opening with the title track from “this year’s Transcendental Blues before sliding into slower tunes. Highlight of the evening was “Copperhead Road” — the song | that put Steve on the map. — Sprout West Coast Memories oye 2 gift ideas for yo ur in-town visitors or out-of-town visit. ' The artists wish to offer the opportunity to share their unique original art with your friends G relatives. Native Art makes a wonderful Sift or souverir.. a special snemory of the West Coast cselture. Poet ‘chatters’ with nature From Pane 13 Sakaki was about 200 kilo- metres front Nagasaki. The B- 29 on his sereen would drop a bomb that immediately killed 40,000 to 70,000 people, injured a similar number and destroyed half of the city. “One of my soldiers was looking through binoculars and he saw some funny shape of cloud. He called me up. Radar is deep underground. Then I saw mushroom cloud. Lealled up headquarters, East of Nagasaki City — big vol- cano. It’s sometimes active. I thought must be this volcano erupting, Headquarters said it’s not eruption — something FILMTIMES From Page 19 Up At The Villa (PG) — 7:05 Gladiator (18A) —- 7:30 p.m. Scary Movie (144) 9:20 pan. @ Fifth Avenue Cinemas 2220 Burrard ot Sth, Vancouver (734-8700) Saving Grace (PG) — 7:05, 7:30, 9:05, 9:25 and Sat/Sun 1:45, 2:45, 4, 5,p.m., Tue 4 and 5 p.m. The Terrorist (P?G) — 7:20, 9:35 p.m. plus Sat/Sun 2, 4:30 p.m., Tue 4:30 p.m. What Lies Beneath (14A) — 7, 9:45 p.m. plus Sat/Sun 1:30, 4:15 p.m., Tue 4:15 p.m. (No 7 p.m. show on Wed. Aug. 23) Girl on the Bridge (PG) — 7:10, 9:15 p.m. and Sat/Sun 2:30, 4:45 and Tue 4:45 p.m. @ Park Theatre 3440 Cambie at 18th, Vancouver (876-2747) Saving Grace (PG) — 7,9 p.im., Sat/Sun 2, 4 p.m. (8 Varsity Theatre 4375 West 10th at Trimble, Vancouver (222-2235) Autumn in New York (PG) — 7, 9:10 plus Sat/Sun 3:30 p.m. & Van East Cinema 2290 Commercial Drive, Vancouver (299-9000) Aug 18 to 24: The Idiots (Vancouver premiere) — 7:15 pan. and 9:30 p.m. $60.00 BUY DIRECT FROM THE ARTISTS & SAVE | GetBe cae fe 2257 oe the HIGHWAY - Saturday , August 19- Sundey, Open 7 days a week: Daily 9:30 am - 6:30 pm, Friday 9:30 am - 9:00 pm. Restaurants stay open after Market closing like Hiroshinia. We found later big damage. It's terrible.” he Say. The : anniversary of the be ambing pains his heart. After the war he slogged as a stechworker and then as a secretary at a publishing house for a while, but he eventually dropped out. “Two years later T found it’s not so happy a job. [felt T should destroy something and create some- thing. So I started drawing, painting, singing a lot. [ wrote poetry.” He became a bum, taking to street life in Tokyo and Shinjuku. He mixed it up with artists, poets, jazz musicians, sexual adventurers and young people from beyond Japan. de met poets Ginsberg, and Snyder in 1963 in Kyoto. “One young guy came to tell me that Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder is now in Kyoto. ‘That's good news, so T hitch- hike with him to Kyoto. We chatter one day all. It was a good feeling. Many years later I went to Allen Ginsberg’s place in New York.” Back in Japan in the mid- 1960s Sakaki and fellow bums coalesced to form The Tribes, an idealized communal group that rejected industrial culture. ‘They were hippies, down on matenalism, one with nature. Sakaki sees poztry as “a chattering with nature.” It is meditation. His later body of work is shot through with keen observation about the primacy of the natural world, delivered with direct language and twinkling humour. Look for Ler’s Eat Stars, and Break the Mirrer, published by Blackberry Books. Sakaki appeared last ‘Sunday at Under The Volcano in Cares Park. ese Still man white beard Peach sits on head Straight strong back Eight million gods And goddesses behind - — Michael Becker is BULT-in WEBER SUMMIT 675 SERIES GAS BARBECUE _ At last Weber's state-of-the-art cooking performance and durability is now . — available for custom built-in installation. ® 66,0CO BTU'S will quickly and evenly heat the cooking surface to 550° © 6 heavy duty stainless steel bumers © cross over ignition system ‘Come to Johnstones, - fancouver's largest barbecue sales & parts specialist. . Family owned & operated since 1975 - Why live with a diet that says no pizza, no cake, no fun? (Now there’s no reason to) @ L? Qe. 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