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At the Movies: 'Resident Evil: Apocalypse'
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Special to The Appalachian |
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'Evil' doings lack plot, please fans
by Nick Coulapides
Staff Writer
Listen and see if this story doesn't cover most zombie-thrillers:
citywide panic, countless lives at risk, few chosen heroes/heroines
and countless amounts of ammunition. Wherever you seem to go, few
heroes die and a couple survives to live happily ever after--that
is until the "shocking" twist pops up with a lone zombie survivor
that screams into the camera as the credits close, leaving room for
a sequel.
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Should be fun for fans, but who
else?
by Ryan Finn
Staff Writer
I didn't like the first "Resident Evil" much at all.
"Resident Evil: Apocalypse" is a little better, although in the grand
scheme of things that's not really saying a lot.
Now, I know that I should approach this movie with
a certain forgiving attitude.
However, there are ancestral spirits
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Storyteller Hicks releases new album
by Elizabeth Ashford
Staff Writer
Anyone that loves a good story will be pleased to
hear that mountain storyteller Orville G. Hicks is putting out a new
version of his CD, “Orville
Hicks: Mule Egg Seller & Appalachian Storyteller.”
Hicks has been telling stories for over 20 years. He started by going
to story tellings with his cousin Ray Hicks.
“Ray Hicks, my cousin, told tales and I used to go up to his house
and sit there and tell him tales and he said, ‘Gosh, you’re
good, you ought to start going.’ So I went with him [to a story telling]
one night, and ever since then I’ve been running my mouth,” Hicks
said.
“Orville tells a lot of different kinds of stories and one kind is the ‘Jack
Tales’ which are these long fictional stories about this character called
Jack and he heard some of them from his Mom,” Appalachian State Department
of English professor Dr. Thomas A. McGowan said.
“We’d sit on the porch in the evening time and we’d break beans
or shell peas and Momma would tell us tales for entertainment,” Hicks
said.
Hicks said there is a little bit of truth in the stories he tells.
“I’d say there’s a little truth in some of them, but most of
them are just big tales,” Hicks said.
Hicks said the importance of the oral tradition is letting younger generations
know how the world used to be.
“The importance of them is the younger generation coming up in a world
with computers and stuff; they don’t really know how some of their ancestors
lived and how we grew up and how the world’s changed since the ‘50s
and ‘60s,” Hicks said.
“Hicks’ first CD came out in 1998, which was supported by a grant
from the North Carolina Arts Council,” McGowan said.
Hicks sold out of the old CD, so they decided to put out a new version, McGowan
said.
“We decided that we had a little bit of room on the CD to add some stuff,” McGowan
said.
“The new CD did not come with grant funding,” McGowan
said.
“We were able to do it because of Dave Haney, who’s the chairperson
of the English Department. He has a little recording studio in his basement and
we used his recording equipment and Dave’s expertise ... So Dave did the
recording for us and he did the inserting of the new stuff into the CD so that
we now can go ahead and start making more CDs,” McGowan said.
“This is kind of the ‘cottage industry’ version, in that if
I’m at my computer at home, I’ll multi-task my computer and I’ll
do one at a time; I’m burning copies of the new CD. If we can get some
grant money, we’ll do a nicer version of it,” McGowan said.
Hicks said the new versions have added material that have
him talking about his cousin Ray, who died last year, and a song he wrote
about Ray.
“Other materials found on the CD that are not new
are Jack Tales, Hunting Stories, Preacher Tales, stories about growing
up and others,” McGowan
said.
“Anyone who likes storytelling would really enjoy
this CD. It’s really
good and kids and adults seem to like it regardless of their age. It’s
good source for entertainment with a lot of laughs,” Orville
Hicks’ wife
Sylvia O. Hicks said.
For those interested in buying a CD for $20, call Hicks’ home
at 262-1551.
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