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LKJU UU JU Ban franc tero ifxaminr Oct. 8, 1983 section II II I II i a W- Let's fight: Put on your red shoes and fight with me. A Battle of the Bands featuring local new wave group, White Stag, Frank and Difference, and Koalawoala will be staged at 8 p.m.. Oct. 15 at the Fairfax Pavilion.

The bands will be competing for four hours of recording studio time. And the show is a benefit for Nine Groves Lane, a crisis center for teen-agers. Tickets are $5.25 in advance through BASS and $5 at the door. The Pavilion is located behind the Bolinas Road Park in Fairfax. On your marks, get set, go to a free discussionlecture entitled, "Running and Your Body" which will be held at 7 p.m., Oct.

20 at REI, a camping store in Berkeley. See slow motion videos showing the bio-mechanics of running. Also included in the show will be a demonstration and slide show on how running shoes are constructed. Speakers will be Dr. Linda Staiger, an orthopedic surgeon, and Dr.

Gary Moran. fierce music, or a fierce hairdo. Something that's great is called live, like a live concert, a live album. A guy who is really fine is tender. Somebody with a great body is buffed, or real butty.

If you're out cruising around in a car, which is called a hoopty, you are said to be kiekin' big rhythm, but if the car is a dog it's called scandalous. (So are terrible clothes.) If you happen to consume maybe a few too many brews somebody might tell you that you are lit, blitzed, wasted, ripped, or z'edr If you tell on somebody who did something wrong you narcked on him, and it's a big bummer. If a party, or anything, was great, it was bitchen, and if somebody's outfit was terrific you call it killing. Somebody who's haircut is great is said to have a live do, even if it happens to be a buzzcut. If you're hungry, really starved, what you do is mow, or go for the rad mow, or mow doggie.

If you're really hung up on somebody, you've got a bad Jones for them, and if you're thoughts are getting lusty, you've got a case of the horn bug. If she, or he, is really something extra special, then he, or she, heila-cool, or even hella-hot. She can also be tough, or even hella-tough. Something dull, of course is boo coring, and the, way you say of course is to say really, though. If you happen to get messed up in an accident or something like that, you get thrashed, dusted, tweaked, or tacoed.

Dont do that though. It's not cool, hip, awesome or bad. In fact, it's phrases used almost universally by most kids, you can still go to different neighborhoods in The City and near talk you'd never hear in, say, a suburb in the East Bay. Berkeley talk is not the same as South City talk, and Santa Rosa talk is certainly different from Burlingame. Also, kids at different high schools have their 6wn special way of speaking that you wont hear anywhere else.

Even smaller groups within schools talk differently than others. Despite the differences we found a definite teen lingo. Here's a sampling of current teen slang: OK; most places a guy is a dude, and a girl is a babe or a fox and if she's extra cute she's hot or live. A good guy, a hotshot, is a rad dude while the opposite is a hoser, a loser, a nerd, wimp, guppy, mega-dork, geek, gimp or feeb. Or even a pdexter as in poindexter.

Bad of course means good, or even extra-good, and awesome, even though it's Valley Girl talk, Is even better than that. Clothes are rags, and if you are really over, it. means you are dressed to a T. Shoes are go-aheads. Money is bucks, or duckets, and rich kids who have a lot of it are mama's milk.

Parents are the rents; the units, or the June and Wards. Things that are terrible are either grody, scrody, grungy, scimey, or rasty, but things that are great are fierce, as in some was not conversant with the form, it sounded like recording tape run backwards. That was just the point. And it gave them a way to talk and maybe trade secrets without fear of anybody's being wise to what was going on which is what it's all about, right? After World War II, when Jazz was really getting big in America, bop talk became big slang. Words and phrases' like cool, hip, groovy, and far out eventually filtered into teen talk, and by the time the '60s and the hippies came along, a whole new language had evolved.

The hippies saw themselves as almost a totally separate nation, and they made a language that set them off from everybody Hippies were mellow, they felt the vibes, and for them everything was cosmic. In the 70s, teen talk was mostly leftovers from the hippies, but "80s kids seem more innovative. They want to make their own language instead of relying on earlier generations, although some old slang still hangs on. This makes current teen talk really interesting, especially around the Bay Area where there are so many different cultures contributing to it Even though there are lots of stands to reason that they would have a language of their own, a coded slang-talk that only teens can understand. People, i.e., parents and teachers, put slang down, but very often slang communicates things a lot more colorfully and precisely than formal language does.

Since teens have always been interested in sounds, much of teen slang has always come from the music world. For instance, In the '50s kids used to say See you later, alligator, because that was a line from a great rock roll song. What few people knew was that alligator was what musicians in the 20s called people in the audience who stood there gaping up at the stage like alligators. So, Greetings gates, which was big 20s slang, eventually evolved into new forms in the '50s. This is how slang works.

When my mother was a teen-ager in the '30s, she and her friends spoke a whole private language called "Arpy-Shlarpy," which was formed in some obscure way by dividing syllables of words and putting nonsense sounds in between. To anybody who 1 'ill i i helped his "My Aim Is True" LP make such an impression on American rock critics and fans. That was back in 1977. Sure enough, Elvis wore his shiniest red shoes for this occasion. Mavte he wore them lust in case By Burr Snider Examiner staff writer Hey, don't be a hella-geek.

Check out this rad thing called slang, dudes and babes. There's some fierce Jive going down around the Bay Area. And if you don 't get on it, you 're just not live. It you can talk this killing talk, nobody's gonna call you no pom-dexter, because hey, man, to communicate, that's, the ultimate, totally bitchen. You don't want to be a scime, do you? AN YOU DIG it? Slang: it's just a short-cut for saying things differently than other people do, and for saying them in ways that are more meaningful to a special group.

Teens, obviously, have their own lingo. Since teen-agers are something of a special group, then it Elvis Costello, above, wearing a dark long coat: still the "angry young Kajagoogoo's back with a new lead singer, blond Nick Beggs, at the far right, and a slightly funkier sound If VI i 1 I in iMi 1 in in III therevereanytavid-BewieJanshLJ By Dick Clark CCT 7 AJACONE. I what cngianu new musical Express humorously renamed the proun Kaiacooeoo re cently. That's because lead singer Li-mahl left the band a short while back to make it as a solo artist The good news is that bass player Nick Beggs has managed to slip into the vocalist spot with ease on Kajagoogoo's first single minus Limahl. Nick, by the way, is the platinum blond in the band with the beaded hairdo.

He and the group are going for a slightly funkier sound this tune out. Kajagoogoo's latest release in Britain is called "Big Apple." Meanwhile former lead singer Limahl has kept himself busy in the recording studio. After splitting from Kajagoogoo, he went straight to work I Art smarts: Wouldn't you like to be able to make those beaded belts, belt buckles, hair barrettes and key chains? Well, Coyote Regional Hills Park in Fremont is sponsoring a beading workshop from 10 am to noon, Oct. 16. The class will feature basic beading techniques and participants will sew on leather, felt and other mediums.

Beads, needles, thimbles and leather will be provided. Fee is $5. For more information call 4714967. Jamaican boogie: La Pena Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Berkeley, is having a fiesta at 9 p.m., Oct. 15, with members of the music group, Umo-Ja, who will serve up some hot reggae sounds.

This is a benefit for the Educational Alliance Channel for Help and tickets are $5 to $10 on a sliding scale. For more info, call 849-2568. A word scramble? Something only nerds and mega-dorks would want to do? Hey, there are duckets involved in this. Well, almost duckels.lbe two winners of the contest will receive a record album of their choice to be chosen from the Examiner Top Ten record albums. To win, you unscramble the words.

Mail your entry in by Tuesday. Only one entry per person and one entry per envelope. If you successfully do the scramble, you're eligible for the drawing. Last week's winner for the $100 make-over was 17-year-old Letitia Chin. I Now here are the words: weeasmo loco dnre ekge udde ard ebab dba piwm pgupy Name.

Age Address. City State 2ip School. Phone Mail by Tudy to: Hanging Out, Tn Exmlnar, P.O. Bo 7260, San Francisco, MltO ill fluiTdfji i 'nl rplh 1 v'r in i Jl on his first solo single. It's just coming out in England right about now.

It's called "Only For Love." i ALSO IN ENGLAND the week-ly music magazine Record Mirror ran this self-explanatory headline: "Clash Sack Mick Jones." No reason for the firing was given. Clash guitarist Mick Jones had been with the band since Mick (Jones) says the charges his former band-mates made are he and bass player Paul Simonon first met up with guitarist Joe Strummer in London's Portobello Road. That was back in early 1978. The Clash had a hard time finding a permanent drummer from the start As a matter of fact, I think the group was on its third drummer when they headlined the first night of this year's US Festival. Reports from London say Mick Jones just might be forming a band now with former Clash drummer Nicky Headon.

An official release from the Clash offices in London claimed that Mick Jones had "drifted apart from the original Idea of The Clash." Anyone needing information on the band or its plans can write to The Clash, PjO. Box 7, London NW1 8NF. Mick Jones, meanwhile has released a statement of his own. Mick says the charges his former band-mates made are "untrue." He adds that in the future he will be "carrying on with the same dedication as in the beginning." The Clash scored their first American hit early in 1930. That's when Train in Vain (Stand by Me)" reached No.

23 on our charts. Just last year "Rock the Casbaht by The Clash rocketed all the way to No. "EVERYDAY I WRITE THE Is the very first record in Elvis Costeilo's seven year recording career to find Its way onto the American charts. Thatt amazing considering what well-received live performances EK te and his group, the Attractions, always give. Midway through hi!) recent set at the Universal Amphitheater here in Lot Angeles, Elvis sang an old favor he from his very first album.

The Angels Want To Wear My Red Shoes" was one of the distinctive tunes that the house that night. After all, Bowie's No, 1 smash earlier this year was "Let's Dance." That's the hit that advised listeners to "put on your red shoes and dance the blues." Even if Elvis Costello wasnl paying tribute to Bowie on-stage, he certainly acknowledged the man whose name he "borrowed." Back in 1961, Elvis Presley had five Top Five hits. "(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame" was the one that Elvis Costello chose to cover in his recent concert. Mr. Costello's real name, as you may already know, is Declan McManus.

He began to use his great-grandmother's last name when he first started singing. Elvis says his real last name is inconvenient, because it has too many consonants to say easily. Elvis' first name, of course, comes from the "King of Rock 'n' Roll." Even though Elvis Costello has definitely mellowed since his very first American tours, he hasnt completely banished his "angry young man" image. As a matter of fact Elvis dedicated a tune during his show to the city of Los Angeles. It was called "Heathen Town." When it was over, Elvis looked out at the crowd and smirked.

"We Just wrote it," he said. "You live in it!" NEW WAVE, ROCKABILLY, ART ROCK AND TECHNOPOP are Just a few of the terms that have been bandied about the contemporary music scene over the past few years. You can also add electrof unk, power pop, hardcore punk and two-tone ska to that list The funny thing about these musical labels is that most bands usually need at least three of them to even begin to accurately describe their sound. A good example would be The Talking Heads once again. They started out with the Image of art rockers' hanging over their heads since they came together while studying at the Rhode Island School of Design.

They were labeled New Wave, of course, from the very beginning. Then, as The Heads added a dance-oriented rhythm section and soulful backup singers to their live show, they were tagged a funk band! 'Vr fey -) 0.