“Even when we started out playing little art galleries in Montreal, we’d pick up on a certain level of cool stand-offishness in the crowd and just try and break though it,” says Butler. “We wanted to connect with the audience in a way that other groups we played with didn’t seem to really care about. I guess, in one way, every band ends up doing what they feel other bands should do for them as fans.”
—Win Butler in the Guardian, in a great profile of the Arcade Fire.
November 2010
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“Mr. President, if you’d told people, “Hello, there’s only 1 chance in 3 you’ll be molested at the airport today” most people wouldn’t think, “Oh good, I like those odds.”
—The WSJ
The Gregory Brothers, Will Oldham, On Sufjan Stevens Tribute Album
I’m thrilled to see that Will Oldham, aka Bonnie “Prince” Billy, has covered the opening track, “All The Trees of the Field Will Clap Their Hands,” for a new tribute to Sufjan Stevens’ 2004 album Seven Swans, dubbed Seven Swans Reimagined, but one name on the 15-song record jumped out as a particularly pleasant surprise: The Gregory Brothers.
Let’s see, Derek Webb, The Gregory Brothers, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billie and more covering Sufjan? Yes and yes and yes.
Kilian Martin: A Skate Regeneration
Watching this guy skate is pure visual poetry. Via the newly launched LAAAME, a Devour-esque site devoted to action sports.
Kilian Martin: A Skate Regeneration on Vimeo.
Even if you don’t skate, this is a beautiful video.
NO BLASTERS!: You Don't Need to See His Identification →
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On November 21, 2010, I was allowed to enter the U.S. through an airport security checkpoint without being x-rayed or touched by a TSA officer. This post explains how.
A little patience, a lot of polite firmness, and an un-hidden recording device apparently are enough to make our “lost” rights magically come back.
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“In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.”
—Vincent van Gogh, in a letter to his brother Theo.
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