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November 4, 2015

Stop What You're Doing: How Lorelei Transcended Its Influences And Produced The Undersung, Prescient Post-Rock Classic Everyone Must Touch The Stove

Stop What You're Doing: How Lorelei Saw Beyond Itself and Produced The Undersung, Prescient Post-Rock Classic Everyone Must Touch The Stove

[By Edward Charlton / UPDATED] Time, place and personnel. These three elements proved to be everything for Lorelei, a misfit trio of adventurous indie musicians whose debut long-playing album, Everyone Must Touch The Stove, turned 20 years old in September.

The time was the early 1990s, when the so-called alternative ethos loomed over both the musical underground and overground, experiencing its first identity crisis when grunge penetrated the purview of high school dances and topped the pop charts. The place was Washington, D.C., where the narrowly realized punk idealism of the '80s had ebbed, giving way to a fertile and diverse scene whose possibilities seemed limitless in the minds of many of its players. And so it was with the band; Lorelei was a challenged and ever-changing project, which -- through a series of fortunate and formative experiences -- chanced upon the ideal combination of the three aforementioned factors to create an expansive, experimental and startlingly prescient indie rock album. Indeed, the long-player Everyone Must Touch The Stove foretold much of the coming post-rock movement, whose influence helped shape the next two decades of sub-popular independent music. Lorelei continues to perform live occasionally, and is poised to announce at least one special performance for the end of 2015. More about that below.

Following a series of terrific compilation tracks, singles and the beautiful Asleep EP -- recordings whose sounds closely tracked to the group's rapid development and lineup changes -- Lorelei committed 10 of its most refined and experimental pieces to tape at home and Geoff Turner's WGNS studios in Arlington, Virginia in 1994. Released a year later by the esteemed Slumberland Records, Stove was Lorelei's final statement until a 2006 reunion precipitated the 2012 comeback LP Enterprising Sidewalks. Slumberland calls Stove "a brave album, blending together a vast array of sounds into a bold statement of the possibilities of pop and rock, heading off in a hundred different directions at the same time, but still remaining a cohesive whole." Mr. Turner below positively assesses the record as "unyielding." Clicky Clicky does not disagree on either count.

Everyone Must Touch The Stove contact sheet.Opener "Today's Shrug" sets the tone with shifting melodies, guitar feedback and the act's endlessly creative and sturdy rhythm section, all of which underpin evocative lyrics and uniquely emotive vocals. Throughout the album, highly technical, stereo guitar effects workouts ("Thigh For A Leg," "Throwaway," and the otherworldly centerpiece "Inside The Crimelab") mingle with power-pop rockers ("Newsprint," "Stop What You’re Doing") and polyrhythmic acoustic instrumentals and interludes ("Day," "Windmill") for a curiously wandering and dreamy listen that seems to exist both within and without the era in which it was created. Even now, Stove's terrific songwriting and artful textures intrigue new fans discovering the record for the first time. While it is Clicky Clicky's experience that we rarely encounter a musician that says they were directly influenced by the band (even paradoxically has nothing to say about the record), it is pretty much the rule that every musician to whom we have introduced Everyone Must Touch The Stove finds it inspiring. To loosely paraphrase one of them, the time is right to reintroduce this exceptional record to people and give it the critical appraisal it deserves.

We had the honor of speaking this fall with Lorelei drummer Davis White, guitarist/singer Matthew Dingee and bassist Stephen Gardner, as well as revered engineer and producer Geoff Turner, about the creation of Stove, their thoughts on the Mid-Atlantic indie-pop scene of the '90s, and the legacy of the record today. Each of them gave highly considerate and detailed answers to our questions, for which we are very grateful. Our exchanges below transport us back to that hopeful, youthful and, above all else, inventive time two decades gone. Press play on the record and join us on our deep dive into Lorelei's 1995 classic, Everyone Must Touch The Stove.
Clicky Clicky: Tell us about how the band first began.

Davis White (drummer): Stephen and I met at an American University dorm party, in September of 1990. Our bands had played a show together earlier that summer and he recognized me. We hatched a plan to start a band faintly resembling Charlatans UK after Christmas break. Stephen was 14 and I was 29. Neither of us really belonged at such a party, so [it was] quite an unlikely meeting. For brevity and to avoid distraction, we will mostly ignore the myriad early line-ups [of Lorelei] from January to September of 1991 involving (original guitarist) Dave Cerf, Stephen and I. That is a story for another time, and I don't want to short-change all the other fine folks we played with. This period produced our first single "The Bitter Air," so it wasn't a total washout. But I would say Lorelei, as we know it today, began with this post-note from Stephen's mom, "Matt from the Lilys called." It has been folded away in my Boss tuner since that day in August 1991.

The post-it note that started it all.Matthew Dingee (guitarist/vocalist): I guess I shouldn't be shocked that Davis has this note. He and Stephen are excellent documentarians. I will say I was definitely formerly of Lilys by that point. [Lilys mastermind] Kurt [Heasley] had been squatting at my apartment while I was in Lilys, which was an awesome arrangement as far as I was concerned (my parents were less enthused). I learned a ton from him and enjoyed it. But that arrangement came to an end, and shortly after I was told by Archie [Moore, of Velocity Girl] that he was my replacement in Lilys. I only mention this because I cannot recall if it was Archie, Kurt, or Mike Schulman who suggested I call Stephen. Regardless, thanks to whomever pushed me in that direction.

DW: Stephen and I had seen Matt a couple of times in Lilys and enjoyed his playing style, recognizing a major The Cure influence. We were ecstatic when he expressed interest in joining us. Dave had moved away to attend his first year at CalArts. So Matt was thrust into playing our legacy material as the replacement guitarist. We played like this for a couple of months, but the old set wasn't sounding very good. By November we had whittled down to a more productive and satisfying trio. We quickly worked up a new set based around songs Matt had written prior to meeting us. The trio first played a fall concert prom at Stephen's high school. To illustrate the timeline, Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was riding high on the top of the charts. Two or three of the high school bands covered the song that night. Matt observed that it was going to be "a hard fight for us to compete with all this grunge."

Stephen Gardner (bassist): I got an early start with music through my older sisters and the typical mid-'80s entry point of The Smiths, The Cure, New Order, etc., choosing to learn bass because one of them said it was "cooler than guitar." I followed them straight to the Dischord scene. People always ask us about being from D.C., and while the music [there] had a huge impact on me, it was the fact that there was this totally youth-organized, completely accessible, all-ages environment of kids doing their own thing that was the biggest influence and created a sense of perpetual possibility. Anyway, by 1990 I had played in a few short-lived hardcore bands and had a show with one of Davis's many other bands, Repercussion, who I had seen several times by then. He, sounding like Joe Jackson and playing a mandolin in a band that was somewhere between thrash and early [Elvis] Costello, was hard to forget. A friend and well-known D.C. photographer, Colby Caldwell, whose photos are on most of the Lorelei records, had gotten me into 4AD stuff and my discovery of a succession of EPs from Lush, Pale Saints, Ride, The Boo Radleys, Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine shifted my whole perception about what was possible -- that there was maybe a way to combine the vitality of Rites Of Spring with the harmonic complexity of The Smiths, all wrapped up in this new depth, texture and space I was hearing on these records. [I was] [c]onvinced I needed to start a new band to make that happen...

CC: What was your experience with the people and places of the Mid-Atlantic and D.C. indie-pop/rock scene from 1990-1996? How do you view that era now? In the context of the label's roster and also in hindsight, Lorelei "makes sense," but at the time did you feel like what you were setting out to do fit well within the regional scene, or did you feel like Lorelei was doing something new and alien?

MD: To us the regional scene boiled down to Dischord and then the labels behind Pop Losers: Slumberland, Teen Beat, and Simple Machines. Within that scene, I was staunchly pro-Slumberland and fairly anti- everything else. Slumberland grew into a tight knit family of friends. Mike and I listened to a ton of records together around this time. It was quite an education. It's hard for me to put into words just how important the relationships built at that time are to me. Slumberland is my tribe and I'm still happy they haven't kicked me to the curb.

Lorelei, practice, 1990s.Lorelei as a three-piece didn't start off too far afield from Lilys, though much less refined. We played with bands on other local labels and enjoyed that. But fitting in was the last thing I wanted to do. To Mike's credit, he didn't seem to worry too much about whether the roster fit together. He put out records by the bands he liked. He just happens to have inscrutable taste and so it all fits together in the end. For example, despite the fact that we sound nothing like Small Factory, I'd go completely mental when they played. They were so good and played with such enthusiasm. I wanted to do that.

SG: For all the freedom and self-expression that was happening in the punk scene in 1990, it was pretty clear that, sonically, there tended to be a pretty narrow universe of acceptable sounds and interests, particularly from fans of that stuff. I was always a bit confused about that contradiction, but it was clear to me from the beginning that Lorelei was not going to fit in there or find much following in those circles. But, through Vinyl Ink, the 9:30, and DC Space, the wider world was right there, and I think probably everyone involved in these "other" D.C. scenes has the same basic story of being turned on by D.C. punk and applying that energy and method to whatever else they were into.

We found our way to Slumberland right away through my job at Smash Records and trips to Vinyl Ink in Maryland. I had met Mike Schulman, who worked at Vinyl Ink, and learned he had a label and of his legendary knowledge of just about every genre and phase of modern music. I think the Jane Pow single was the first Slumberland release I heard and I remember being blown away by "Warm Room." On that alone, Dave, our first guitarist, and I walked to Vinyl Ink one day in the spring of '91 with a demo and handed it to Mike. He was the first person we gave it to and, luckily, he quickly helped us get our first show -- with the Lilys -- and the 7" followed thereafter.

From there on, the label and the people interested in it and the bands on it became our home base, both because of and in spite of the diversity on the label. Davis and I still stayed connected to our punk roots all the same, and living in Arlington, Dischord, Teenbeat, and Simple Machines stuff was always around. But, the other Slumberland stuff was surely the least popular of any of the scenes in DC. It's hard to know if we were facing explicit hostility or just indifference, but our entire career was mostly spent playing to 30 people in D.C. However, it's important to remember that despite all these labels and bands coming out of D.C. at the time, it was really a pretty small group of people locally that were coming out to see shows of this punk and indie stuff anyway, so the pot of people who might care was always small to begin with, so we are probably wrong to feel too slighted. Each label tended to have its own core of folks and we'd occasionally politely play together, but the only time I feel like this whole punk/indie community really shared a common scene was when everyone would converge at Fugazi shows.

We were too British for America and not American enough for the UK.CC: How would you describe the progression that the group saw between the "Bitter Air" 7", "Mimesis" from the ...One Last Kiss comp, the Asleep EP and then the full-length?

MD: You can hear the transition on Asleep. Seeing and meeting Moonshake and Stereolab really connected some previously unconnected dots. Specifically, the Krautrock motorik sound connected with "On the Corner," World Domination Enterprises, and Adrian Sherwood. Plus a heavy dose of Beach Boys and The Wedding Present. I was already listening to more aggressive stuff (The Birthday Party, Skullflower, No Wave) and playing with Mike Schulman and Dan Searing in a post-Whorl noise project. By the time we were working on the Asleep tracks, we were trying to accommodate all these disparate sounds and not rule anything out. Despite having the shoegaze label thrown at us, we were hardly staring at our shoes at this point. There was a fair amount of equipment destruction, blood, sweat, and tears. We practiced at least twice a week for several years and played out a fair amount. With the confidence that comes from playing all the time, we had grown more and more adventurous by the time Stove rolled around.

SG: This is when Lorelei starts to sound like ourselves, I think -- plenty of clear influences, but some weird strands of DNA mutating them into something else. All that was influencing our writing in 1993 and when we went to the UK that fall to promote the EP, we had started working on a few Stove tracks, like "A Thigh For A Leg" [and] "Newsprint."

Although the tour was a disaster in many ways -- proving again that I, all of 17, should not have been left to manage most of the booking and business affairs of the band -- it was crucial to the album in two respects. First, we got to meet and see some of our favorite bands on their home turf, which raised our own expectations of what our next release could and should be. Secondly, having met our makers, so to speak, we confronted the reality that we really didn't fit there, either -- we were too British for America and not American enough for the UK. This had the effect of pushing us away a bit from the Asleep songs and our past influences and making us more determined to follow our impulses and play to our strength -- our diversity of interests -- with more confidence.

CC: What was it like in the time and preparation leading up to recording Stove?

MD: It took what felt like forever for anything to come out. Both in terms of how long it took us to create new songs, as well as the length of time it took a release to reach listeners. Thus I didn't want to include anything from a prior release on the album. Lorelei is all about not repeating. We only started repeating set lists recently (because we have less time now to practice now than we did then). In fact, we had lots of songwriting... guidelines let's say... one of which was that Stephen and I very rarely, if ever, intentionally played the same chord or note at the same time. Repeating a track would have been heresy. That said, Stove, like the rest of our output, is hardly lacking in epics. There is a reason there is a track missing from the vinyl: It would not physically fit!

SG: Our first session for Stove was in February 1994, and we had spent the previous fall and early winter, after returning from our UK tour, writing the first batch of songs. Since we wrote collaboratively during practice sessions, the writing process usually took a long time, and I think we felt pressure to get into the studio, both to capitalize on whatever momentum we had gotten from Asleep, and because the clock was ticking on the band. I had deferred college a year in the fall of '93 to keep things moving with Lorelei and work some before hitting the books again. I think we all knew that the band's future was somewhat in question once I left for school, and that this was our chance to make a great LP. Our own expectations were set high, and having developed a better understanding of the recording process and done Asleep with Geoff Turner, we were anxious to try new things out.

Geoff Turner (engineer, producer): In that time period my studio WGNS was recording records for local independent labels like Teenbeat, Simple Machines, Dischord, Jade Tree, et al. Lorelei was a good fit for our place. They were all recording enthusiasts and had their own studio. They were also hopeless record-dissecting geeks. Listening back to the album 20 years later, I'm pleasantly surprised by how unyielding the record is, with odd song structures, abrupt time signature changes, and sonic bombast. It's really epic, but not an album with tons of what you'd call (in early '90s speak) "cross-over potential."

Conflict is how Lorelei works.CC: What was it like recording with Geoff?

DW: I had known Geoff in passing from the '80s hardcore scene. A friend of mine had joined a Dag Nasty offshoot band and they were recording at WGNS. I tagged along. Sitting in the control room, the convenient Arlington location and equipment impressed me. "How do I get Lorelei in here?" I wondered. We had been using a studio in Maryland for "Bitter Air" and "Mimesis." Due to year-long bridge construction it required a very inconvenient drive to get there. The band were reluctant (to varying degrees) when I suggested using Geoff's studio for the upcoming Asleep EP — worried we would end up with an "American-" or "punk rock"- sounding record and wanting to remain loyal to our previous producer. Matt and Stephen were students; being the only full-time worker, I probably strong-armed them into accepting WGNS by refusing to pay for anyplace else. Conflict is how Lorelei works, something the other mates celebrate more than I do. More examples to come, dear interview reader! Geoff quickly won over the guys via a studio tour, and the recording and mixing sessions went well for these four songs.

SG: I was a big fan of Geoff's earlier bands Gray Matter and Three, particularly of Gray Matter's Take It Back EP. It's probably true that I was longing for a Guy Fixsen production -- which we'd eventually get to do on Enterprising Sidewalks -- and depressed that such a thing was obviously impossible when Davis brought up WGNS and Geoff. But from my recollection, I was excited about working with Geoff and secretly hopeful that he'd turn out to be someone from my early cast of heroes that was actually into what we were trying to do. He turned out to be just that, plus exceedingly patient with our strange band dynamic, relentlessly positive, open to trying just about anything, and full of good ideas. He really was a good fit for us...

Stop What You're Doing tape.DW: After [our] sobering tour of England for Asleep -- documented in Robert Salsbury's [tour film] "If You Don’t Try, Nothing Ever Happens" -- we agreed the next step would be an album. There was a feeling that if the band broke up without being able to produce even one album, it would render Lorelei a failure. My slacker job doing graphics at a print shop did not pay enough to record at WGNS again. We borrowed ADATs and microphones from my previous band and did most of the tracking ourselves. We recorded at Stephen's house in the woods of North Arlington. Committed to continue working with Geoff, we were able to do select overdubs and mix the album with him. The first session produced "Thigh For A Leg," "Newsprint," "Windmill" and "Stop What You're Doing." Geoff seemed to enjoy the freedom that came with not making a spartan punk rock record. His own projects Senator Flux and New Wet Kojak were very innovative and somewhat before their time. Geoff saw that we were game for complicated sound-effects and unnatural timbres. Nothing was automated, so the effects were done live during the mix, often requiring three sets of hands and 20 minutes of set-up. There was a look of joy on his face when he heard the finished effect. Trying to keep Geoff happy and hiding any major band dysfunction from him was my goal for a time.

MD: We mixed some of the tracks in Avalon Studio in Bethesda, MD, which was well-equipped. I very distinctly recall that Geoff used every single piece of equipment in the place for the climax of "Crimelab." He genuinely seemed to enjoy that we wanted to push what could be accomplished in a studio at that time. He was a willing and enthusiastic collaborator. Geoff also put up with a significant amount of in-band bickering, which I didn't appreciate nearly enough at the time. Thanks, Geoff! I'm not sure why he tolerated us, honestly. I'm not sure I would have had the patience if I were in his shoes.

WGNS was a comfortable place to record, which is crucial. We didn't have to explain ourselves to Geoff. He got what we were about. So in that way it was huge relief to not have to go into a hostile environment and record. It sounds stupid now, but at the time we really were concerned that if we went to Inner Ear, for example, that our record would come out sounding... not like us. Just getting someone to try what you wanted to try in a studio was not a given. There were plenty of places that would have happily taken our money and not helped us much at all. I can't recall a single instance of Geoff discouraging us from trying something. As Stephen mentioned, Geoff was infinitely patient with us and I'm eternally grateful.

DW: Yes, the second set of songs were mixed four months later at Avalon. Geoff had worked out a deal with owner Steve Murphy to use the studio during down time at a discount rate. Matt had borrowed Stephen's 4-track and composed most of the remaining songs in a couple of weeks. The arrangements were done quickly and recorded at Stephen's house while the songs were still fresh. I was barely able to make it through many of them during tracking, as the drum parts were trickier. "Throwaway" has a particularly bizarre, looping beat, but it wasn't jungle-inspired. The band had rejected my initial, simple 2-4 snare. On the spot I came up with the stupidest rhythm I could think of to appease them. The joke was on me, as it sounded perfect. Matt adjusted his part to fit the new syncopations and off it went.

We had finally achieved a unique band voice.Overdubs were done over the next two weeks. The heavily-layered guitars were tri-amped through a Danelectro 3x10 combo, Acoustic 4x12, and Fender Bassman, live-mixed to one track. Looking at the tracking sheet, we had 4-7 tracks reserved for guitar out of the 16 available tracks on the ADATs. The unusual instruments [borrowed] from the Woodlawn [school] instrument room for this session included a double bass, some tuned woodblocks, conga drum and the Gardner family piano. Through a fortunate error, a cheesy orchestral percussion track on "Crimelab" did not get transferred to the 24-track mixing tape at Avalon.

"Crimelab," "Today's Shrug," and "Quiet Staid Debt," were mixed on a Friday night and Saturday at Avalon. My insistence that we dial-down the excesses on "Debt" -- as I wanted prominent, uncompressed, crystal clear, jazz-drums -- well, it sure put me on the bad side of Geoff and the group. I left the session mid-day, after that track was mixed, having worn out my welcome. "Day," "Throwaway," and "Pillar" were mixed without me. This explains why (among other "innovations") the snare drum is panned 100% left on the last track. Snickering aside, when I first heard these mixes I was struck that the final product "didn’t sound like anything else." We had finally achieved a unique band voice. If it was unmarketable, so be it.

CC: How was the experience of recording the album? Fond memories and stand-out experiences?

DW: After transferring the ADAT to Geoff's 1-inch 16-track machine, we did a couple of overdub sessions for the first group of songs. I remember walking into his studio and Matt was flat on his back singing "Windmill" into the bottom of a piano. I knew it was going to be a weird afternoon. Stephen directed me to "help unload the car." We doubled-up on marimba, Matt played a dissected Hammond organ that Geoff was fixing, some group percussion was added, [it was all] totally spontaneous and enjoyable.

SG: I remember very little of the first session, but recall that we took over my house for the tracking, with different instruments set up in different rooms so we could experiment with additions once we got basics down. I remember playing the xylophone parts on "Quiet Staid Debt" on my bathroom floor. In those pre-Pro-Tools days, we spent a lot of time getting takes right or overlooking imperfections for the sake of overall sound or feel. Davis did all the engineering, which was a godsend, and I think Matt and I did overdubs separately with him. We had very little money for the band and almost always lost more than we made per show, so the fact that Davis was a good engineer with lots of his own and borrowed gear was a big advantage. If we had had to pay someone to engineer during the tracking phase, we would not have been able to spend nearly as much time as we did on those songs.

MD: I recall that we did the basic tracks fairly quickly because, again, we were playing often at this time, and so the songs were well-rehearsed. Then we spent forever and a day on overdubs because we were definitely in a "more is more" frame of mind. I can only imagine what we would have created if we had access to a tool like Ableton Live back then. We would have gone ballistic.

Then, vocals were also done fairly quickly. I was being petulant and wanted the vocal delivery to feel "live," or at least sound like one cohesive performance. So I think some of the tracks might even be one take. There was a fair amount of punk attitude in me at this time, and I suppose that's where it shows the most. It was like "Fuck it. Doing it in one take. Not worth the time. Let's mix again!" We did not scrutinize every line like we do now. If there is anything I would change about the record, it would be most of the vocals ("Crimelab" and "Windmill" are okay, but the rest could use some assistance).

GT: My memories of recording this album are almost completely fragmented. Obviously this album was mixed in a pre-ProTools, analog console world, so all of the dynamic and tonal changes, shifting effects, and fader moves were mixed down live by hand to the master tape. When I think back to the sessions, I just remember all of us sitting in close proximity over the board debating mix moves. I joined in these debates willingly. There were a lot of manifestos delivered during the sessions, but I don't recall much stress or hassle. They indulged in constant but good natured goading and ridicule amongst themselves, but that was all really funny and OK. I don't remember eating good food or going out much, [so] we must have been working really hard.

"Inside The Crimelab" still stands as one of my favorite mixing sessions and I’ve had déjà vu back to that day while working with other bands. We built this mix that was so geometrically crisscrossed with delay paths and wobbly instrument treatments that it was completely disorienting even to us during the mix. That song still has that temporal rift effect for me listening back 20 years on, the beat and stereo space just seems so bent by the mixing.

Stove test pressing.Matt would go out into the studio, actually I believe we sent him into the tiny studio restroom, to record these crazy emo-fueled shrieking freakouts, like cathartic vocal outbursts. These were overdubs and were mixed in low during the parts of the songs when the guitars detonated your speakers. I can't remember which songs had these screaming tracks, but on re-listening I'm imagining that I'm hearing them on every song all over the album, which is cool.

The band really acted as their own "producer" and by the recording of Stove they had devised an arrangement wherein each band member assumed the role of executive producer for certain songs. So Davis's opinion (for example) was given the most weight for the recording and mixing direction on that particular song and became like his mini-fiefdom. This worked out really well, brought variety to the album and cut the endless discussions and bullying to a minimum.

CC: There seems to be a lot of less-conventional recording techniques and details within the songs, including very uniquely panned tremolos, delay sounds and distortion effects. What’s going on there? What inspired that? How much of it was a reaction to other things happening at the time?

SG: Partly, this comes from just getting deeper into the recording process and listening much more for production. Davis entered the band already knowing what he was doing in the studio, but Matt and I both came to really understand production through recording in Lorelei, which in turn, changed the way we both listened to records and what we wanted from our own. As cliché as it may be, we had come to see the studio as another member of the band and wanted to put that new member to work. The other factor is that we had way more gear at our disposal than normal in the mixing process, so part of this is just the desire to use all the toys we had.

Lorelei, Black Cat, May 1996.DW: Geoff and the band would ponder each of the 16 instrument tracks with a "what can we do to this" attitude. Sometimes, one simple change, such as "Crimelab's" distorted conga drum that Geoff came up with, would redefine the song. This would influence the next effect, and the one after that, until we ran out of patches. The bass guitar was spared any tinkering and had a simple chain throughout. It was recorded direct, then run through a Peavey tube preamp during the mix. Stephen didn't yet have his amazing Acoustic 360 bass "refrigerator" for much of the recording of the album, unfortunately.

MD: I believe Lydia Lunch said something along the lines of "Do anything but start a guitar/bass/drums 3-piece" in regards to the birth of No Wave. I became enamored with the idea that our setup was just done, cooked, over. That resulted in my trying to torture and mutate the guitar sound into something else. Mainly because I could not adequately play anything else, but also because we recognized that mutation in the bands we enjoyed. Look at Slowdive and Seefeel: guitars are certainly there, but they hardly sound like a guitar plugged into a RAT distortion pedal and then into an amp. [T]hat is essentially what most bands around us were doing and I just found that... underwhelming.

But the other thing to mention here is that Lorelei as a three-piece has always had alternately tuned guitars (inspired by Sonic Youth and Bailter Space). "Stale Houses" [from Asleep] is the last song I played a traditional tuning on. I use an open tuning (EAEABE), and that combined with distortion and EQ helps me generate this giant, full sound that lends itself to the effects and manipulation you hear on the record. That sense of experimentation, wanting to have a unique guitar sound, being inspired by noise, controlling and warping of sound is there from the very start and continues through all of our material.

CC: How was the public and critical reception to the album at the time of its release in your view? Was there a tour in support?

SG: We finished mixing the LP in June or July of '94 and it would take over a year for it to come out. Like all of our releases, the time it took to get the record out was a complete killer. These delays were always due to some combo of our incompetence, Slumberland's challenges with money, distribution, etc., and just the way things worked then. My recollection is that the release was essentially ignored. Part of that was our fault. I was already starting my second year of college, so we had really reduced the amount of shows we were playing, plus we had all started other projects to fill in for Lorelei while we couldn't play together. Of course, we didn't have a press or booking agent, and didn't tour for the record because, by then, time was limited and we could never seem to make touring cover our costs. So, it was pretty much destined to fail, but in addition to these self-inflicted factors, I'm sure we faced the normal hostility or disregard we had experienced from most of the US music press. I think The Ropers' All The Time, which was released together with Stove by Slumberland that same week, faced a similar response. While there was some solace in the fact that other great records [of that time] like Bark Psychosis' Hex and Disco Inferno's DI Go Pop... which seemed to be springing from the same well as us, were getting ignored, too, we struggled to understand what to do about it.

CC: So what happened next?

Stove release show with The Wedding Present.SG: We played several shows that summer and fall of 1995 and into the winter with the release of the LP, for which we had a single record-release show in D.C., being pretty sick of the songs by then since they were all more than a year old. We had written a new batch of songs during the summer of '95, most of which we recorded then but didn't mix until 2001, long after we had disbanded. Our last show was in early 1996 in Baltimore at a strip club that had occasional shows. One of my best Lorelei memories was of Matt taking a running leap, guitar-first, into the stripper'’s pole, with the pole working like a giant slide against the fret board. With me back in school in Massachusetts, everyone with new projects, and us with an LP we felt proud of but that failed to register with nearly anyone, it seemed pretty obvious that the time had come to pack it up. Luckily, the end was not acrimonious and, despite lots of challenges between us, I think we all left the band as friends, feeling like we had accomplished something important and with our respect and admiration for each other intact. This was obviously essential to our later work together.

DW: Band activity was next to zero after a brief flurry of shows to promote the album. Tired of dealing with the acrimony, I had adopted a "teamster" persona by this time, contributing only minimally to anything new. We limped along during Stephen's college breaks until Matt decided to move to San Francisco. I was sad to see him go, but relieved the band was over. When I heard the news, I gave out a dramatic 20-second exhale.

MD: We moved apart. I released a Lorelei EP on my label Textilesounds. Then I moved back to the area in 2006 and we made Enterprising Sidewalks, which we hope folks will also find and enjoy over time.

We were there.CC: One of my favorite music articles is Nitsuh Abebe's Pitchfork piece "The Lost Generation," which includes Stove as a defining work of the hard-to-categorize post-rock movement. What are your thoughts regarding that? Do you feel that there was "something in the air" during that time that led to the kind of innovations that he mentions?

MD: It’s nice to be included in the same breath as Disco Inferno, Laika, Pram, Main, etc. I'm not sure I would put Stove at the same level as Laika or Main. They are operating at a different level.

I do rankle a little bit at being put into the "Followers and Fellow Travelers." I don't know which one applies to us, but it feels a bit like the "also rans." I mean, we are American despite not being from Chicago. And if you look at when our record was recorded... there is no way we are a follower of any other American band that you would describe as post-rock. We were recording at the same time as those "Lost Generation" bands. So, for what it is worth, we were there. We were there in that same head space at that same time. You would have had to come to D.C. to see it, but it was here to see.

But in the end we're all quite pleased that the record has found an audience over time. None of the divisions in sound, place, time, [or] label matter as much any longer. At times it was frustrating, but for the most part it was an exciting time to be making music.
It makes sense that a band as forward-thinking as Lorelei would not take much time to pause and consider the nostalgia and historical context of the first chapter of its career. One could argue that this was exemplified quite effectively by its comeback record Enterprising Sidewalks, which further expanded the trio's sounds and philosophies within a contemporary context. This author was also, admittedly, unsure how to cap this interview following their sense that Stove saw little fanfare upon release. It's a shame, to be sure. But, in the weeks following our conversations with the band, a silver lining materialized. Lorelei has just disclosed that -- partially inspired by this interview -- it will play Everyone Must Touch The Stove in its entirety at The Black Cat in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 28. While more details about that special event are forthcoming (and we will be sure to alert you within these electronic pages), it is yet another important step toward ensuring that this special piece of art not only establishes its proper place in the pantheon of innovative rock music, but also bends the ears of a new generation of women and men who -- like the members of Lorelei 20 years ago -- enjoy the thrill of pure discovery. For fans in the market for a copy, Slumberland currently has the CD on sale for a ridiculously reasonable price. If you're not already listening to the record as you read these words, stream the entire set via the YouTube embed below.

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Monthly Archives: February 2013

JBrowse 1.8.1 bugfix release

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Author Archives: Ian Holmes

State of the Browser, 2016

It’s been a while since we posted on here*, and while the JBrowse-o-sphere has not been silent (there’s been plenty of chatter on the gmod-ajax mailing list and the GitHub issues tracker, for example) we think it’s high time for … Continue reading

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Friday, July 15, 2005

Action Alert:CAFTA & Codex

Action Alert:CAFTA & Codex

July 13, 2005

Will the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) finally force you
to get a doctor's prescription just to buy vitamin C, or E, or other dietary
supplements you currently pick up "over the counter" in America? Powerful special
interests are banking on it.

Since 1995, Big Medicine has spent billions of dollars trying to get
Washington to
regulate your dietary supplements just as European governments do. So
far, that
effort has failed in America. But you may lose the battle for health
freedom if CAFTA
entangles the U.S. in Europe's infamous Codex Alimentarius (Codex).

And if you think CAFTA -- the bogus "free trade" agreement -- really has

nothing to
do with limiting the manufacture and distribution of dietary
supplements, then why
does it specifically mention Codex?

CAFTA, chapter 6, article 6.3.6(d) states: "The Committee [Committee on

and Phytosanitary Matters] shall provide a forum for consulting on
issues, positions,
and agendas for meetings of the WTO SPS Committee, the various Codex
committees (including the Codex Alimentarius Commission), the
International Plant
Protection Convention, the International Office of Epizootics, and other

and regional fora and food safety and human, animal, and plant health."

On top of this, CAFTA is being shoved down Congress' throat under
"fast track" trade-negotiation authority. That way, Congress isn't
allowed to change
even one word it. That means Congress must either accept the Codex
language, or
reject all of CAFTA. The special interests love it -- they are betting
Congress doesn't
have the courage to dump CAFTA.

You see, CAFTA, like NAFTA, isn't really about free trade. It's about
managed trade
where government gets to pick the winners and losers. In this case,
pharmaceuticals win, and you, the consumer, lose. The pharmaceutical
want government to "manage" the dietary supplement industry under Codex
in order
to drive out competitors so only they can manufacture and distribute
vitamin C and
other dietary supplements. If that happens, as it already has in
Europe, the
supplements you now take will be available only by prescription and at a

much higher
cost -- if they are available at all.

We will fight CAFTA, NAFTA, WTO and the like because they subjugate our
sovereignty to the "rulings" of global institutions and the whims of the

bureaucrats-for-life who run them. As this web of global governance
grows, our
freedom to choose shrinks -- and health freedom is just one example.

You can't afford to stay out of this fight.

Read "Your dietary supplements: Under attack again" by Henry Lamb, and
"Controversial EU vitamin ban to go ahead" by Sam Knight.

View the powerful documentary "We Become Silent" narrated by British
Dame Judi Dench. This film features Congressman Ron Paul.

Then, call your U.S. representative. Urge him or her to vote against --

to dump --
CAFTA. The U.S. House will likely vote on CAFTA next week.

This vote will be very close. They are keeping score on Capitol Hill
and your effort

"Your dietary supplements: Under attack again"

"Controversial EU vitamin ban to go ahead",,13509-1690686,00.html

"We Become Silent"

Congressional Directory

The U.S. House is likely to vote on CAFTA next week. Please, take
action today --
and spread the word.

Kent Snyder
The Liberty Committee

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Thursday, March 5, 2009

Aspen Skiing

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Just returned from 4 fabulous days of skiing in Aspen with my Brother and his family. John, kids and I arrived late Friday and hit the slopes in Snowmass on Saturday by 9:15. Fantastic day of skiing and snowboarding. Sunny and chilly and snow that was fantastic. Riley took a lesson as she is still a beginner and JD and I were together most of the day. Skiing off Big Burn and Sheer Bliss we could ride up together and I could find the black bumpy runs and JD the groomed blacks or blues and meet a the lift. WE put in a full day. Got a call from Riley around 1:30, in tears, she had fallen hard just too many times so John went and picked her up. We hook up with Scott and Nancy around 2pm, slope side at their Condo. JD and I went for a few more runs and ended up at the wrong bottom of the Mtn and lifts were closed. No problem,….jumped on a shuttle to the town center and called a cab. $1 per person and we were back at the Condo by 4:30.

Spectacular Condo! Ski in/out and with 3 stories, 2 master suites and 2 rooms with bunk beds and single beds to max out accommodations. So fun to see Taz (3) and Jax (almost 2) they warmed to Riley within minutes and we all settled in nicely. Big pasta dinner, few games of Scattergories and off to bed and ready for another big day.

5:30am and Riley comes to tell me JD is puking…poor kid, spent the day throwing up and more…all day in bed and miserable. Riley and I head out and she was very tentative going up the Gondola but we had a few good runs and she took a break with Kristen, Taz and Jax. Scott and I found some great challenging skiing off Alpine Springs and High Alpine and then headed back to check on JD. Great to ski with S! Poor JD, he was still hating life! Bummer for him. Found some great skiing after lunch and finished the day with Riley, she was tired but a trooper and determined to get better on her board. Squeezed in a few more runs….just to be good and tired.

Monday JD was about 75% better and hit the slopes with Scott and John. They had an awesome morning while I rode with Riley…by 10am she was off the greens and handling the blues well. She has also committed to taking lessons in the future as she does not want to be left behind any more. Scott and Nancy spend the afternoon with Riley, made her day! Braman and kids in a cab at 3:15 and off to the airport. Great to hang with S/N and the kids. So glad they invited us to come.

Tuesday was the day for Scott and I to head to Aspen Highlands and do some hiking off the top to the peak, Highland Bowls. As we are getting to the lift, I realize I am going to be sick, quick stop, I lose my breakfast and we are on our way. I am feeling about 75% now….let’s hope for the best. 2 lifts and we are at the top, we then jump on a snowcat and ride a bit and then strap on our ski’s and start hiking. 45 minutes, 1200 feet on a narrow path with sheer drop offs bordering us. We make it- blowing hard, snowing and not exactly ideal. But the snow was pure bliss! Power, very few tracks and 45 degree pitch, it was steep and not too deep. I think the most challenging ever for me but was thrilling. Meanwhile I am feeling worse but the minute….I have to stop frequently and when we are ½ way down I realize I am not well. We get down, do another steep run and I surrender, need to get home. We stop for a break in a Chalet, we walk in side, are engulfed by the smell of cheese fondue and I nearly lose it. Miserable skiing down and finally we are heading back….but we have to take a bus. I literally fall asleep at the bus stop. Too much, after transferring busses, returning my skis I fall into a taxi and spend the rest of the day and night in bed. So much for my last night……Ah well- am glad I did not miss the day.

It was a quick trip but terrific. Great skiing and great fun. Back at home and low on energy. I was hoping for a great few days of training but need to get well, my energy is zapped and the flu is hovering over me. My Achilles responded well to skiing- no more swelling and minor pain. The rest of me is worked over… back is so sore (all the bumps), knees are tender (bumps as well), quads and hammies are stiff. Never ceases to amaze me….I can ride 112 miles and run a marathon but can get totally worked skiing downhill! Good cross training I hope.

Am beginning to worry about Oceanside 70.3. With my Achilles I have not ridden in over a week and will have to take another few days to recover and am not sure how it will react to the bike. Since IM CdA is my A race, I may need to sacrifice Oceanside, take it as a training day, and ensure I am healed. I have 10 weeks after Oceanside before IM and need to be 100% to maximize training efforts. Will take it as it comes….


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Thursday, May 4, 2017

Sew Small, 19 Little Bags

                   Sew Small_19 Little Bags: Stash Your Coins, Keys, Earbuds, Jewelry & More

It's available now! I am so excited to share my latest book with you. Sew Small, 19 Little Bags.  Bags for organizing are one of my favorite things to sew. I don't know about you but I am always in search of the perfect bag to hold my keys, my jewelry, or my art supplies. I don't want to count how many bags I have probably made in my lifetime, especially if you include all of the bags as gifts. And yes, there are lots of bags that would make great gifts in this book.

Here are a few photos, you'll have to get the book to see the rest.

I am currently using the flower pouch to hold my essentials oils, it's a nice standing pouch with a snap, that could hold many different items.

This little wallet has a removable wrist strap. It has a zipper pouch inside for coins as well as pockets for cash and cards.

The ladybug pouch is great for clipping to a bag to hold earbuds or a charger. Super cute!

Here's a video I made showing some of the bags in the book as well as a complete how to for installing a zipper. Zippers are sometimes intimidating. I hope after watching the video you see that you can definitely tackle a zipper.

You want to get a copy? Check you local quilt shop first. If you can't find it there, you can order it from Amazon or C&T publishing.

Have a good day,

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Saturday, May 31, 2008

The wait is over!!!

Last night Spring Break Nicki and I joined the rest of the women around the world to view the premiere of the Sex and The City movie. I felt like I had waited my whole entire life for this!!!!!!! I'm not much of a movie girl to start, my idea of a good movie is laying in bed on a sunday and watching lifetime specials all day. But for Carrie Bradshaw and the rest of the ladies of Sex and The City I braved the crazy lines, fandangoed my tickets and crossed a bridge just to be a part of the craze!!! It was all worth every penny. I'm not going to give away any juicy details for those of you who have not been out to see it yet but I will leave you with this classic quote from the movie.... "Love is one label that never goes out of style" - Carrie Bradshaw

Friday, May 30, 2008

Cons made it to TRL!!!!!

It was a good week for Mr.Consequence!!! This past tuesday he completed the video for "Disperse" spent his entire week with me and made his way to TRL!!!!! The Good,The Bad, The Ugly debuted yesterday May 29th and I couldn't be happier for him! Hard work truly does pay off!!!!!

Thursday, May 29, 2008

What Not To Do on Vacation

I think the title is self explanatory.... but when you see couples like this just know this....someone here is definitly taking cock and balls at the same time.

White Girl Tip of the Week

Never leave your appliances around chicks who don't like you, or you may end up like the bitch who got her blowdryer dumped in the toliet bowl.

xoxo Jen the Pen

The lovely ladies of Sex and The City

Is Tyra the new queen of daytime television?

Supermodel-turned-talk-show-host Tyra Banks takes the cover of the latest issue of The New York Times Magazine.

The cover story profiles Tyra’s “275 smiles from ‘angry but still smiling’ to ‘flirting with boyfriend.’”

There’s Martha. There’s Oprah. And now there’s Tyra.

Is Ms. Banks the next big female branded self?

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

My weekend with the Gunit Fam!

Somethings I learned on My G-Unit Weekend:

-50 got rid of ALLLLLL his tatoos, including the mural on his back. Crazy right? Well when I asked him why he said, that 1 he is not going to be taking off his shirt anymore, and since he is going to be focusing on movies that the cover up process is too extensive. He said it took 6 months and 3 laser sessions. Some of his skin just looked a little burned, but for the most part was clear.

-50 was wearing a wedding band, which when I asked him what he was for he said a "movie role" but I am a little skeptical about that?

-Rocsi (106 & Park) is a industry jumpoff, lol.....well after her slandering comments dissing 50 and the G-Unit click, her bedroom behaviors have came to the surface which do include some G-Unit folk :-)

-Tony Yayo got harrassed at the Car Wash on his way to radio on Saturday, scroll to yesterday to see the video where he explains the story

-Lloyd Banks just bought another lamborghini....just thought i would add that since everyone apparently thinks they are sinking

The 50 cent bloggermercial

My memorial day weekend jumped off with the boys of Gunit gracing us with their presence up at Shade 45 check back tomorrow for all the pics and another special bloggermercial!

WTF Moment!!!

Today Mariah Carey threw the first pitch at the start of a Japanese professional baseball game between the Yomiuri Giants and the Rakuten Eagles at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan. But my question is this... Who the fuck had the bright idea to let this chick come out on the field with stilletos and a belly shirt on to throw a ball????????????

White Girl Song of the Week

It's official the summer is definitly upon us, so what better way to bring it in then with this classic Jersey Shore jam! We white people flock to places like Belmar, N.J. and Point Pleasant for some fun in the sun and non stop beer guzzling all while listening to music like this! Welcome to my world every summer!

Love Is Gone - David Guetta

Saturday May 31, 2008 7:40pm

Is the date I will be seeing "Sex And The City" the movie. Some friends of mine attended the premiere of the movie last night at Radio City, I couldn't make it cause I was living my double life as a "Personal Assistant/"fashion stylist" to Consequence for the "Disperse"video. So I will be rallying with the common folk to the theater this weekend to check my girls Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, & Miranda deliver the long awaiting movie version of their hit show. My suggestion to you all is to buy your tickets NOW, go to FANDANGO.COM for local listings and to purchase them.

This should be magical :-)

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Drama At The Car Wash

I taped this video at the show on Saturday, the guys from G-Unit all came up to the show to dicuss the new album and all other sorts of topics...including this one where Tayo talks about on his way to show how to got harrassed by the police at the Car Wash, check it out.

More to come from my G-Unit Memorial Day Weekend!

Lesbian Love

So even though after numerous denials of the story. It looks like Michael Lohan, Lindsay's dad is confirming she is in fact in a lesbian relationship with DJ Samantha Ronson. Days after photos of them nuzzling necks in Cannes, France, surfaced, he tells in an e-mail their relationship "is evident to anyone with half a brain."

Still, he adds, "Just like the [topless] Marilyn Monroe spread, Linds is my daughter and there are just some things a father doesn't want to see or hear, regardless of whether they are true or false."

His daughter, 21, "is a big girl, and she can make her own life choices. Then it is between her and God."

Michael — who volunteers for a Christian-based rehab organization — couldn't help but take a swipe at his ex Dina (who just debuted her new E! reality show).

"Maybe her mother's life revolves around the tabloids and reports, but mine doesn't," Michael says. "I am into setting a good example and doing good things that don't deceive or exploit my kids.

"But I will say this: While we were a family, you never even saw or heard a negative thing about any of us.

"But since the separation, look at everything that has happened!"

U Nasty Girl U Nasty!

So a sex tape has "leaked" from Shay "Buckey" Johnson who you might remember from Flavor of Love 2 and Charm School. I had my doubts it was her until her monotone voice at the end gave it away. Anyways if you care to see the yuckness that is Buckey
Click Here!

Saturday, May 24, 2008

My new bundle of joy!!!

I've added a new addition to my family and here she is my new baby Talula Belle.

Friday, May 23, 2008

Imitation is the best form of flattery

Back in January I launched my first "Bloggermercial" right here on jenthepenbitches. Consequence and I put our great minds together and before you know it we created what has now apparently become a fad in the blogging world. Shout out to the girl herfection for reminding me how truly hot I am!
Remember where you saw it first kiddies!!!

It happened here first check out the very first Bloggermercial made by The King of Queens just for his Jen the Pen!! Look out for more bloggermercials straight from The Glow in the Dark tour! Also be sure to visit my youtube page for  the bloggermercials you may have missed!!!

Do we love it?

Ashley and new hubby Pete Wentz just arrived back from their honeymoon, Congrats to the happy couple! But what I wanna know is do we love this Louie bag?!!! It's a toss up for me

Obsessions On The Rise

On Monday night on E! two new reality shows will be launching. The first one being Denise Richards "It's Complicated" will premiere at 10pm. This show is suppossed to set the record straight on how she is not a husband stealer, she is a "good" mother, and how her life is just like anyone else's. She hit the promo brigade this week appearing on The View, Letterman etc. explaining how she only did the show so she can support her children, aside from the fact that she recieved 60,000.00 a month in child support from her baby daddy Charlie Sheen. All jokes aside, she looks amazing for approaching 40.

Followed by that will be "Living Lohan" a show that will feature famous Lindsay Lohan's mother and little sister Ali (who is nowhere as pretty as or even cute as Linds) following her dreams to be like her big sis, making music and movies. This show was also made to "set the record straight" on how their a normal family just like the rest of us. One that has an abusive husband who has been in and out of jail in the past few years. And a daughter who has been in and out of rehab in the past few years and served jail time. But hey what is normal these days?

Either way I will be tuning into these trainwrecks, and see if the records get served!

This Should Be Interesting...

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Line of the day by Spring Break Nicki

The following is a classic line from SBN in response to someone telling someone else what they can and can not do.

" What the fuck???!! What are you on Quaaludes???!!!"

Next time someone says something outlandish to you just ask them if they popped a Quaalude for the day.

Amerie is that you???

(Amerie before the transvestite took her over)

Above is a new photo of Miss. Amerie from Maxim's Hot 100 party last night in LA (thats her in the yellow), what I wanna know is where did the cute Amerie go and who is this ugly transvestite who has replaced her??

Bow Wow the Media Whore

My phone rang last night about 9ish with a 310 number, I quickly picked up and found it to be this lovely lady right here wanting to give me Jen the Pen all the inside dirt on a little rapper we like to call Bow Weezy. While we all faithfully read sites like mediatakeout, theybf and concretloop everyday, be aware that these sites are filled with big fat RUMORS. Miss Dollicia broke down the story to me and it seems that the young rapper Bow Wow is looking for all the press he can get, as corny as this sounds the boy is OBSESSED with homegirl, does internet searches daily on Dollicia to digitally place himself in photos with her, and even sends the photos directly to the sites himself with fake stories attached.
When record sales are low theres no better way to whore yourself out to the media I guess!

Stay tuned as the story continues.... I'm expecting a call today with more juicy details.

I do it for you guys!

With more and more traffic coming to my blog, I figured it was time to jump into Jenthepenadvice and see what you guys are talking about, it seems to be your're all drama free but actually took the time out to share your love for the blog and despite the huge let down in my life right now, your words have found a way to bring a smile back to my face. So once again I thank you guys for all the support!!!!   xoxo jen the pen

May 15,2008
Jen, No questions for you boo. Just want to comment on your blog. It is very entertaining and it always has stuff that i'll take time out to read. Just wanna say good work and you are funny sometimes, the stuff you say. One question tho,have you ever been cussed out with that fancy mouth of yours??Lol, it's all good. Hold it down boo. Every time I turn around your blowin up more and more. Well thanks for giving me something to do babe. Keep them hot topics comin and go to my myspace and promote your blog there. I got the whole Va in a headlock so everybody checks my page. I got hella response to one comment you left me a couple weeks ago. Now all my friends put you on their friends list. I added prolly another 100 so let them kno whats up too. Love you Jen. The King of Va

Duke Dictionary 101

Next time someone tells you that they will be "Curving" you simply know that this here my friend means they're basically dodging you. Be safe out in these streets and stay sucker free! Until next weeks installment of Duke's Dictionary!!

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

I read a quote once that went something like this "Life happens when you're busy making other plans." Life sure does happen at the most random times, a single photo, phone call or rumor can turn your world upside down in the matter of a moment. We find ourselves everyday making plans for our futures, our careers, our love lives and dare I say it even the plans for our unknown spouses and children. We're taught from childhood to "Plan" but never really taught what to do when our plans don't go as "planned". So we steer ourselves through this crazy so called life hoping not to mess up our "plans". But then life finds a way to sneak back up on us and disrupt these plans. So you ask yourself "What Now?" Do I walk away when the tough gets going, and leave my plan behind to then wonder what coulda, shoulda, woulda? Or do I stay and fight for what I know in my heart was a good plan?
I'm not the most religious person but whenever my boss comes to a fork in the road, or some sort of hardship in life he asks himself first if the devil is playing a trick on him, in Christianity your taught that when bad things happen to mess up your plans to always remember the devil will try at all costs to test your character, your will power and even test your love for others.
Life happens, seasons change, the people you thought were in it for the long haul leave and you're left to pick up the pieces to your plan, but never give up on your plan, your plans have helped to mold you into the person that stands before you. Cherish those around you that you hold dear to your heart, love hard, find it in your heart of all hearts to forgive and one thing my mommy always taught me was to listen to your heart for it will never steer you in the wrong direction.
I unfortunately had to love, learn and lose all in one night. My plan has shifted for a moment but I keep my vision board close in perfect sight so I can't and won't let my plan get away.

Heard Em Say (Feat. Adam Levine of Maroon 5) - Kanye West

He's got cool friends!

I'm feeling quite sentimental about the independent scene the past few days and a certain entry got me a bit choked up lol, click the link below to check it out :0)
The Games Needs James

White Girl Tip of the Week

I swore to myself that I was waking up early today to get my ass back to the gym, but after a late night phone discussion with Consequence regarding video hoes I ended up sleeping until 12:00 while my phone started going off at 9:30am. When I finally decided to roll over and view my missed calls, suprisingly the homie Mickey Factz hit me up to inform me that the early bird indeed gets the worm so if I continue to sleep until 12 he would be forced to call me Jennifer the Pencil. And we def can't have that! So my tip of the week is this: Millionaires aren't millionaires because they were sleeping in!

xoxo Jen The Pen

Stars they're just like us

Even Kim K wraps her hair up in a towel after showering

Duke Da God and Jen The Pen launch June 5th

April fools??

Hmmmm....was someone trying to play a practical joke on Envy? Because if they were well Envy get the memo here first: That KidRobot shirt it's for females, I actually own one.

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Blonde Of The Week 5 "Madonna"

What's shaking!!! It's Cons and I'm back with a brand NEW Blonde Of The Week. This week we honor the woman who just recently had the Number 1 Album in the country!!! That's right Mrs. Guy Ritchie aka The Material Girl who can Justify My Love and then tell her Papa Don't Preach. You guessed it, Madonna. This woman who has crossed generationally lines with grace & ease. The LL of Female Pop Stars continues to destroy the charts each time she chooses to release an LP. If you ain't up on Madonna do your research. She was the artist who pushed MTV to the limit in the 80's. I LOVE Madonna. Check out one of my favorites and a Madonna classic "Material Girl"

Real Men DON'T Cry!!!
NEW entry"Valleys & Peaks"
"Hit The Road Jack" featuring Chrisette Michele Today!!!

Cons TV via Kyte
This week features P.Diddy,Beyonce ,DJ Semtex,Jay-Z,John Legend & Jen The Pen

It's The Cons Fool

Cons & his Kyte

Puff is the fuckinggggggg best "They're gonna have to start calling me Puff Daddy out here again cuz I'm about to start talking crazy again" LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Get to know J.A.M.E.S. Watts

“People who talk all that 24/7 in the studio grinding nonsense are crazy - you can’t make good music unless you’re living a real life. Life inspires art.” - J.A.M.E.S. WATTS.

I spoke to J.A.M.E.S. quickly over instant messenger last night, he hit me to let me know how truly happy he is for me and how far I've come this past year.
James and I met last year at a Open Radio event I was a part of when I was still doing the independent radio thing. I told him he had to be a guest on Kitty Radio, being that I was such a supporter of his movement.
Over the past 10 months I've made a huge transition in my life and to be honest I've been so caught up that I have forgotten how important people like James Watts, Remo Da Rapstar, Esso and Nina B had been in my life as far as how much I loved and supported the independent scene. Reading this interview that J.A.M.E.S did for brought me right back to that place and I thank him for that. So, to James Watts and all the other independent artists I tip my hat to you and please know you always have my support.

Inside Gunit Radio Saturdays!!!

It's meeeee bitchessssssss!!!!!
This footage of me and Whoo Kid @ Gunit Radio was taken two weeks ago by one of my favorites Miss. Lola Luv ( shoutout to her!!!) This is the madness that goes on!!! We're a bit cookey, blame our minds not our hearts!

When Drag Queens attack

A drag queen robbed a Burger King in New Orleans last week.
The "man" climbed in through the takeout window. He was wearing a dress with matching necklace, a wig with a hair barrette and was shoeless.
The drag queen held the employees at gunpoint while demanding money.He later exited through the same takeout window.
The suspect is said to be about 6 feet and weighed around 180 lbs.Authorities believe the thief is most likely a genuine cross-dresser since he had so much attention to detail. The nails appeared to be painted and well-manicured. The necklace matched the outfit. The wig was well made. This tranny had her shit together! Oddly enough, the suspect did not cover his face when robbing the Burger King. Thankfully no one was killed.
If you live in New Orleans, be on the lookout for the thieving drag queen.She's coming to a KFC or Taco Bell near you!

White Girl Song of the Week

In honor of having the Best Week Ever it's only right that "I've had the time of my life" is the W.G. Song of the Week. :0)

Best Week Ever

If you ever watch VH1 they have a show called
"BEST WEEK EVER" and if VH1 was privy to Jen The Pen I totally would be on their list for who's having the best week ever. It started last Monday, May 10th when Cons returned back to NY, Tuesday I rubbed elbows with celebrities most people could only dream about meeting, got to watch Kanye from the same sound booth as Jay and Puff then partied way tooo hard to only deal with one of the worst hangovers ever but Thursday Consequence and I were back at it making all the necessary runs for the first half of "Disperse" to be shot. Friday we headed to the Glow in the Dark show in Connecticut to shoot Really Doe's scene for "Disperse". While Kanye performed we were backstage filming cameos, dressing rooms and even real live groupies. Around 2am we wrapped, with a 3 hour drive ahead of us back to the city we opted to meet everyone in Camden, N.J. on Saturday too partake in more of the Glow in the Dark festivities. All in all if seeing the concert 3 times, shooting a music video and spending unconditional time with the love of my life isn't The Best Week Ever I don't know what is.
Look out for exclusive footage from behind the scenes of "The Making of Disperse" only on Jenthepenbitches!!!!!!!

Where in the World is Yung Berg????

This morning I received a wake up call from one of my industry insiders. Come to find out Mr.YB was schedualed to debut his new single "The Business" on Ed Lovers Morning show on Power 105.1 in New York. Apparently Berg was partying hard with Red Cafe last night, and couldn't find the strength to leave his hotel room. So as we speak Berg is locked up in his room, with the door bolted shut (this so management can't get in) puking up Patron. Damnnn Berggggg that hard liquor will get you everytime!

Since Berg lost his chance at Power listen here first with Jen the Pen

Monday, May 19, 2008

MTV's Hottest MC List

MTV leaked their hottest MC list this past weekend. See who made the cut. I'm a bit disappointed that Lupe came in at # 7 but in all fairness I guarantee his next album will blow us all away and he'll be in the running for the #1 spot this time next year.

1 Kanye
2 Jay-Z
3 Lil Wayne
4 Rick Ross
5 Snoop Dog
6 50 Cent
7 lupe fiasco
8 Young Jeezy
9 Andre 3000
10 T.I

Another 1 "Lost In The Dark"

I will give you an official wrap up on my tour experience tomorrow, but just in case you haven't had a chance to experience the experience, check out Diddy on "The Glow In The Dark Tour" and how it has changed him.

Us backstage last week at the Show in NYC.

Wayne Wisdom 101

"The world is about to end in 2012… ’cause the Mayans made calendars, and they stop at 2012. I got encyclopedias on the bus. The world is about to end as we know it. You can see it already. A planet doesn't exist - there's no more Pluto. Planes are flying into buildings - and not just the Twin Towers. Mosquitos bite you and you die. And a black man and a woman are running for president."

- Lil' Wayne tells the new issue of Blender Magazine

**High larious**

More Bundles Of Joy!

One half of my entertainment parents Damon Dash (my mother being Wendy Williams) and his wife Rachel Roy welcomed a brand new baby girl Tallulah Ruth on May 13th in Manhattan. The couple already have a 8 year old daughter Ava together. So congrats to the both of them :-)

In other baby news....Tameka “Tiny” Cottle delivered her and T.I's who knows what # child early this morning. His name is Major Harris and he is 5 lbs, 15 ozs.


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Tribute to Jim Hayes

There are two times in an athlete’s career that I think are the most special. One is the look in Mom and Dad’s eyes when you offer a kid a scholarship to come play ball at UTA. That’s their dream. Kids that haven’t had the opportunity in years past to do what their able-bodied peers do – compete for an athletic scholarship. In our population, with all the medical bills and therapy and everything else that goes with injuries, there’s not a lot of money going around to send kids to college. The second one has to be watching them go across the stage at graduation. You know they’ve got a degree and their life is going to be much brighter than before they came here. The championships along the way, seeing them make First-Team. All American, seeing them selected for Team USA, stuff like that, those are just pats on the back for your hard work.

-Coach Jim Hayes, UT-Arlington Shorthorn, February, 2008.

Graduates from Paschal High School and prepares to join the army.
On his eighteenth birthday, he suffers a broken neck in a diving accident at Lake Benbrook in Fort Worth, Texas.
Enrolls in Tarrant County Junior College in Fort Worth. Despite poor grades in high school, he becomes an excellent student, involved in many campus activities. He is voted Student Body President of TCJC two years in a row.
Graduates from TCJC and transfers to UTA, choosing History as his major since it was one of the only buildings that was wheelchair accessible at the time. He is one of five wheelchair-bound students on campus.
UTA Handicapped Students Association is organized. They developed a proposal for a barrier-free campus. Funding from the Texas Rehabilitation Commission and UTA was utilized to make the campus a “model of accessibility”
Handicapped Administrators Day: Where Wendell Nedderman, Wayne Duke, and Dudley Wetzel attempted to push across campus in a Wheelchair. None of the made it. This began the vision of UTA as an accessible campus.
Department of Educational Support Services is established at UTA with grant money from the Texas Rehabilitation Commission. Jim Hayes, now a UTA graduate, is hired as program co-coordinator.
Part of the grant money from TRC is used to evolve physical education classes for the handicapped. In addition begins the Freewheelers wheelchair basketball team in the fall of 1976.
Some of the first scholarships awarded to disabled students based on academic excellence.
Student Congress, UTA students, and private donors help raise over $4,000 to send Jim Hayes, Randy Snow, and Chris Cooper to Stoke, England. In October of that year the FreeWheelers program officially becomes part of the Athletic Council at UTA.
Hayes pushes his Track chair 205 miles from Austin to Maverick stadium to build awareness, and to raise money for the Arlington Handicapped Society.
Hayes has enough players to create two teams: FreeWheelers blue, and FreeWheelers white.
Former FreeWheeler, Wheelchair Track, and US Rugby player Andy Beck is killed while crossing Cooper Street on his way to his first night of Graduate classes.
Later that year the Andrew David Beck Memorial Athletic scholarship is established by the Handicapped Students Association. This is the first full scholarship for adaptive sports. It is also heavily based on financial need. Also as a result of Beck`s accident the university devises a plan to lower Cooper Street, the state highway that bisects UTA, and install three pedestrian bridges.
The team begins a new era with a new name The Movin` Mavs. By the mid 1990s there are 6 full scholarships in place. The team wins national titles in 1991, 1992, 1993,1994, 1997, 2002, 2006.
Extra funding is approved for a wheelchair tennis program.
Jim Hayes passes away in August, leaving a legacy that has changed so many lives, and still provides so many opportunities.

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January 2015

Snake Day

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A checkered baby copperhead halts two feet from me in the ochre and sanguine frail leaves – it is worse to be bitten by a baby because they cannot control their aqueducts of venom – and stands static as a tree as I watch the interlocked tiles of her skin, dry and rough in the dehydrated air. Her triangle head concentrates on the stillness of my leather boots, and I know there will be no holding her at arms length, a limp devastated cord, as I have dangled the flaccid scooting garters who terrorize my tomato patch, or the meter long scratched silver mill snakes who stalk my father’s fish ponds. This snake, this fire brown baby, is a cylinder of warrior snake spirit, a potent packet of power pressed into an amber tube. Her pink antennae tongue splits at […]

December 2014

We Gotta Get Out of this Place

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  Winner of the 2000 Pennsylvania State University Katey Lehman Award for Poetry   When my father was skinny and nineteen he sat in open-air bars west of Saigon and rolled long bones that went everywhere with him and hi boys. The tripped on psychedelic sacks of cobra venom drifting like jellyfish through cheap brandy.

December 2014

Red Ribbon, Blue String

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At the end of spring, I am pulled like a long pink, resistant worm
from a cool, dark tunnel. Transplanted from gun-shy, tree-lined California
into the humid desert of Texas, I feel like a red headed turkey vulture
clumsily lumbering in a crowd of ornery, sugar mad grackles.


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I jogged last Friday.

But let me explain what precipitated this ridiculous event. It certainly didn’t happen on purpose.

Lulled into a false sense of security by the sunshine, I decided to go for a walk after dropping the kids off at school. I dressed warmly enough for a March morning, but not warmly enough for the sneaky, icy wind I hadn’t noticed. I swear this wind had come straight from the bowels of Canada, ripped right over Lake Michigan, then plunged into our little town as soon as I locked the van and hit the trail.

It blasted me in the face and I thought, “Sheesh. It’s going to be a long walk with this wind. Maybe (this is where things went terribly wrong, dear reader)… I could go faster.

And here’s the thing. I sort of pride myself on my non-competitive, slow forms of health. If a three mile walk takes me an hour and a half, I take that as a badge of honor. That’s ninety minutes I spent tending to my health! If I need to change my diet, I pick one tiny little thing and then master it, like “eat more fruit.” That one decision can take two years to fully implement, and then as a fruit-eating expert, I add one new small thing into my diet.

So going faster on this walk was sort of out of character. But the wind was literally stinging me in the face so I decided that since I was on the trail and no one would likely see me, I would jog.

And then I did, actually, jog.

It wasn’t actually so terrible for the first tenth of a mile. Then I walked for another tenth of a mile to get my breath back. Then I hit an open field, and the wind started howling and I started running out of self-preservation. My eyes involuntarily teared up. I think perhaps snot was running down my face, but my face was frozen so I couldn’t be certain. My legs were completely numb, so the only evidence I had of movement was that I was actually passing things.

If any of you actually saw me in this state, I apologize for not greeting you. I believe my corneas may have been frozen for several minutes.

I jogged for two tenths of a mile that time. Breathing raggedly, like a marathoner who has accidentally run for two solid days, I turned the corner on the trail and was blasted in the face with another round of ice-oxygen.

That was it. I was done. I turned around immediately, putting the wind to my back, and started for the van. My rear was now taking the brunt of the cold but that is far less bothersome than frozen corneas, so onward I went at my usual walking speed.

And because I was walking, taking in the sights, I was able to notice the tiny green leaves just starting to push out from the smallest of the branches. Small shoots of woodland greenery were just beginning to poke tips out of the dirt. A robin shot me a dirty look, like I was somehow responsible for his discomfort.

I couldn’t have seen any of this if I was still jogging. There’s beauty and joy all around us, just waiting to be noticed, but too many of us are missing these small things. We’re chasing contentment and joy, but chasing it is the worst possible way to find it.

We’re running hard after our dreams and our desires, filling up our calendars with more obligations, our carts with more plastic doodads, and homes with more shiny screens. And we wonder why joy and contentment remain elusive.

This world has gone mad. It’s made us a million false promises, enticing us to believe that more stuff, more fun, and more money will eventually lead us to what we seek. We just have to catch it.

This is ridiculous. Joy and contentment are decisions. They’re willful states of mind, choosing to be joy-filled and satisfied right where we are. They come when we slow down enough to notice the people in our home, the new signs of spring, and the pantry with enough food to make dinner.

I’m not saying the world will ever be perfect, or if we slow down enough that perfection will present itself. I don’t think it works like that. I think we find joy and contentment when we decide it’s time to be unreasonably thankful for what we already have, even when there are other things that remain difficult and unchangeable.

Two hours later, I decided to be joyful about the warm blanket around my legs and my home that kept out the wind. Yes, my lungs were revolting from the jogging incident and I coughed for three hours. Yes, my butt stayed frozen until lunch and unwarranted tears kept slipping out of my thawing eye sockets. I’m not saying the situation was ideal.

But it was enough. I chose to slow down and notice that I already had exactly what I needed, and it was enough.


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Louise Margolin making it happen

Not far from Mill Broadway is a house where Jewish women are being electrocuted. Voluntarily I might add – and loving every minute of it because the electrical current is stimulating their muscles and shaping their bodies.  The woman with her finger on the frequency dial is Louise Margolin, an advocate of electric muscle stimulation (EMS)  since it changed her body and now an instructor who pushes her clients to the limit to get the results they want.

Some handle it better than others. “I have regulars who can do press-ups and stomach crunches on the floor at the highest  current level,” says Louise. And then there is me – now at session three – but still yelling “Oy !” and “Oy !” every time the blue bars light up on control panel.

I signed up with Louise when there were 37 days remaining until my holiday and a full-length kaftan was the only way I could dress for the beach. Fitting exercise into my hectic work/home life was a chore – I told Louise and she understood. A lot of her clients have the same problem which is why they opt for EMS which offers a 90 minute vigorous workout in the space of 20 minutes. Just think about that. A full 90 minutes of fat-burning exercise that is over in 1200 seconds, which gives you time to go shopping and get your nails done in the same morning.

The woman with her finger on the dial: Louise Margolin

The woman with her finger on the dial: Louise Margolin

So much for the time saving, what about the shaping? I hear you cry. Well, the good news is that EMS works. In just three sessions I can see a change in those hard to get at places like my inner thighs and trembling underarms. Both look and feel tighter which is excellent and unusual. Louise has also been on at me about my diet and helping me to meal plan so there is no accidental noshing. If I followed her tips more closely I would be further down the road to success, but I have never seen results so quickly.  In September I will be revealing what Louise and EMS can do for cellulite and brides, but for now with the holiday just a week away it’s all about me. Unless you’d like to see her.

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Common Mistakes When In Relationship

The dating world can be extremely exciting, however it can also be daunting and a lot of work. More than in any other realm, we would be wise to use our intuition and our observing self. If we don’t, we risk ending up one of the many couples who separate, end in divorce or even just in loveless marriages.

Many times, we choose to ignore the red flags that pop up in a relationship. We might ignore something about this person that is potentially emotionally dangerous or unhealthy, but if the red flags are ignored and the relationship continues, then most assuredly the relationship will be tumultuous or even disastrous. And, many people who end up divorced acknowledge that they noticed these red flags early on, however they chose to ignore the warning signs, and then the issues became larger.

According to Urban Dictionary, a red flag is a warning of any impending danger. Have you noticed any of the below about your partner, and perhaps chosen to ignore it?

Is/does your partner…
• Emotionally or physically unavailable?

• Have too much tension?

• Tend to get angry easily?

• Drink more than you are comfortable with?

• Treat you disrespectfully, i.e. with derision, sarcasm, silence, or with disrespect for your feelings and needs?

• Not prioritize you in the relationship?

• Have other compulsive or addictive behaviors, including gambling, excessive porn, shopping, and compulsive spending?

• Not able to own up to their part in an argument?

• Not have similar values?

• Not share similar approaches to child-rearing, money, or social engagements (for instance, if your current partner never wants to leave home, but you want to travel the world… )

We often believe that many of these issues can be worked on, or that the person will change (with our help and guidance), however if a person is already exhibiting worrying behaviors even before the wedding or union, then most likely, these behaviors will continue afterwards, also.

Sunk Costs:

One psychological trick that we play on ourselves is our continued thinking of “well, we’ve been together for five years. All of that time will be wasted if I break up with her now.” Not true! More time will be “wasted” if you get married, and then end up divorced after five additional years. And, moreover, there is no such thing as wasted time in terms of your heart. Each relationship is a learning process, and if you have learned to recognize what it is that you do want from another person, then you can take that knowledge into your next relationship.


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Friday, 16 June 2017

ECG of the Week - 19th June 2017

The following ECG's are from a 70 yr old male. He presented to the Emergency Department complaining of palpitations, fatigue, epigastric pain and dizziness. Further history revealed he had malaena for a week prior with no history of significant alcohol consumption. His only past medical history is of ischaemic cardiac disease requiring stenting >10 yrs prior. His medications included aspirin, atorvastatin and metoprolol. His ECG on presentation is below with a further ECG performed when he complained of chest pain during his assessment. His Hb on a venous blood gas is 72 g/L(115 - 155).

ECG on arrival
Pain free
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ECG during episode of chest pain
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Things to think about

  • What are the key ECG changes seen ?
  • How would you manage this patient ?


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Authors: T. Vaikhanskaya, T. Kurushko, L. Gul, A. Frolov, O. Melnikova, A. Vorobiev

The purpose is study of microvolt T-wave alternations (mTWA) with other known risk markers of fatal ventricular tachyarrhythmias: heart rate turbulence (HRT), QT dispersion in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM).

Material and methods: We studied 94 patients with DCM (73,5% male; 49,2±11 years; NYHA class 3,09±0,3; QRS 117±32ms; LVEF 25,6±3,9%, sinus rhythm). All pts by Holter ECG-monitoring and 7minutes ECG12 recording (Intecard7), including 5 min of rest and 2 min of exercise test (25Wt\m, heart rate 106±9) were examined. We analyzed ventricular ectopic activity, HRT, mTWA and QTdisp. Pts were divided on two groups: 38 pts with ventricular tachyarrhythmias (nonsustained ventricular tachycardia - 32 pts., spontaneous sustained ventricular tachycardia - 3 pts., ventricular flutter - 3 pts) and 56 without life-threatening arrhythmias or with infrequently premature ventricular ectopy (PVEct<10/hour). There was no significant difference in age, gender between two groups.

Results: Overall, positive mTWA (n=53), pathological QT dispersion (n=64) and positive HRT (nTO=46; nTS=21) were related to male gender (p= 0,01), lower LVEF (p= 0,04) and increased LV end-diastolic volume (p<0,01). Pts  with ventricular tachyarrhythmias had significantly higher values of QTdisp (99±13,9ms vs 73±11ms; p<0,001), width QRS (139±19ms vs 99±14ms, p<0,001), mTWA (77,8±9,45mcV vs 46,7±8,32mcV; p<0,001) and higher LV end-diastolic volume (323±76,4 ml vs 254±68,9 ml; p<0,001). After multivariate analysis only positive mTWA remained significant (p=0,03). Chanse identification mTWA in pts with ventricular tachyarrhythmias (VTA) was 0,936; chanse of mTWA in pts without VTA-events was 0,120. The odds ratio was significant - 7,8. Receiver Operating Characteristic curve analysis  identified mTWA  56mcV (S 0,96; 95% CI: 0,89-1,07; p=0,0001) as independent predictive marker of life-threatening ventricular tachyarrhythmias.

Conclusions: The study demonstrated value mTWA 56 mcV as an independent predictors of life-threatening VTA events.  The odds ratio of  identification pathological mTWA in pts with VTA events in comparison to those without VTA was 7,8.


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