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(video: The Untold City)
I recognize that practice space! (I regret not getting some more shots of the deer on the wall when I was there in October. I was fascinated by it.)
The video is great. The Darcys address the line-up change and upcoming tour, the latter of which is going to be epic. EPIC. My faith in these guys is unshakable.
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Drive-By Truckers, “Birthday Boy” (3:36)
from The Big To-Do (2010); available for download at iTunes.
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Vancouver. January 2010.
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Toronto. October 2009.
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notesApparently:
- The Loonie is hot.
- Imagine a sailboat… now, imagine that sailboat is packed with 1,000kg of cocaine…
- In a surprising discovery about where higher life can thrive, scientists for the first time found a shrimp-like creature and a jellyfish frolicking beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet.
- Academics have asked themselves, “What makes a bad book bad?”
- Shakespeare’s (maybe) “lost” play has been published.
- This is a story about an empty bottle of Jack Daniels in the toilet and the greatest student email ever written.
- Twitter still doesn’t know how it will make money @Anywhere.
- Publishers have questioned Apple’s rejection of nudity; iPad orders dropped sharply over the weekend; more than 150,000 units sold so far; 10% of Microsoft employees use, hide their iPhones.
- The U.S. and the U.K. have moved “substantially” closer to losing their AAA credit ratings.
- Off-the-books “Jason Bournes” may be operating in Afghanistan.
- All-text video games are making a comeback.
- A Swiss watchmaker is hoping to raise a stink with his latest creation.
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notes"Toronto’s Darcys have weathered some spirit-testing turmoil recently, culminating in a major membership meltdown a couple of weeks ago that saw them lose a singer. They bounced back at the El Mo[cambo] harder, heavier and more assured than ever, though. The present-day Darcys are a dramatic, tumultuous guitar-rock outfit, gunning doggedly for the epic and, by the sounds of it, working out their frustrations in roiling arrangements that now rarely pause for breath."Toronto Star’s Ben Rayner, profiling the exciting acts he saw at Canadian Music Week.
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notes"Built over the past four decades, the collection holds between 16,000 and 24,000 Polaroids, shot by an impressive line-up of the world’s greatest artists and photographers, including Ansel Adams, Andy Warhol, Chuck Close and Robert Frank. On 21 June[, 2010], 1200 of these Polaroids will go under the hammer at a one-of-a-kind auction in New York – much to the dismay of some of the artists who shot them."British Journal of Photography, on the tricky issue of copyright when it comes to Polaroids.
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Toronto. October 2009.
The Darcys just completed their showcase at Canadian Music Week in T.O. (350 bands in 35 clubs over three nights) and now there are tour dates(!) on the horizon.
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- Apple’s spat with Google is getting personal; meanwhile, a prominent product manager at Google has defected to Apple.
- “Impossible” film for Polaroid cameras to be announced March 22nd; completely new integral film formula; 1 million units being readied for launch.
- These are the 10 best books about war.
- Japan’s oarfish are never to be doubted; remember this, from March 4th?
- Don’t mention the war, girls.
- The Economist has taken a look back at Irving Penn’s body of work.
- Germaine Greer has braved earthquakes and bullets in her pursuit of “fabulous fabrics.”
- There are only 6,000 people in the world wealthy enough to own and run this car.
- Mission Impossible star Peter Graves is gone.
- The Guitar Hanger lets you store guitars in (you guessed it) your closet.
- A dope-fiend monkey is on the lam in Tampa Bay.
- Seven cat species have been found in a single forest.
- Let’s say - for whatever reason - you’re the first human ever to make alien contact…
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"I have the greatest respect for Edward [Norton]. He could be the President of the United States. I could be his drug czar - ha, ha."
Courtney Love, to the NY Daily News (Mar. 14, 2010).
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notes"If you find an egg in your refrigerator, you’re not surprised. You don’t say, ‘Wow, that’s a low-entropy configuration. That’s unusual,’ because you know that the egg is not alone in the universe. It came out of a chicken, which is part of a farm, which is part of the biosphere, etc., etc. But with the universe, we don’t have that appeal to make. We can’t say that the universe is part of something else. But that’s exactly what I’m saying. I’m fitting in with a line of thought in modern cosmology that says that the observable universe is not all there is. It’s part of a bigger multiverse. The Big Bang was not the beginning."Physicist Sean Carroll, on the problem of time.
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notes[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]8 playsPrince, “Little Red Corvette” (Extended Dance Remix) (8:27)
from the promo vinyl 12”; original version appears on 1999 (1983).
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"Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows."
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- It was a Texas textbook massacre.
- The ingredients for life as we know it have all been found in the Orion Nebula.
- Bloomberg has the scoop on how Annie Leibovitz was able to find a new partner for her $24 million debt, archive; Leibovitz gets to retain the rights to her work.
- You won’t need to replace an iPad battery; Apple will just replace the whole iPad for $99; no word yet if the same arrangement will be made for Canadians.
- It’s amazing what people will tell “Little Billy”; author cons responses out of Son of Sam, Unabomber, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, others.
- Avatar may be re-released with 10-12 minutes of new footage.
- The “I’m With CoCo” artist is rolling in dough.
- These are the greatest film scenes ever shot.
- It was “the night of broken internet glass.”
- Here are indie rock’s five favourite classical composers.
- Here’s a look back on the various ways that well-groomed Americans from different eras manscaped themselves from the neck up.
- 1 in 6 Americans between ages 14 and 49 is infected with herpes.
- Great… just great.
