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Sleaze writer, clean film

NO ORDINARY LIFE: A still from the film set in Manali that follows Mastram, an introverted bank employee.

Mastram, the porn writer, is a familiar name in small town north India. Now a film by the same name tries to tell his story.

An easy way to get noticed in Bollywood is to make a film on a controversial subject. But what if one picks a controversial theme and then opts to make a subtle movie around it? That is precisely what Akhilesh Jaiswal, one of the co-writers of Gangs of Wasseypur, is attempting to do.

Jaiswal's directorial debut, Mastram, has been getting a lot of press lately because of its unusual theme. It is the story of a Hindi pornographic writer by the same name and the 99-minute film is due for an October-November release. But instead of making it a sex-and-sleaze show, a trap most filmmakers would perhaps have fallen into, Jaiswal has chosen to explore the life of his protagonist and portray his inner struggles. "The film is not sleazy, " says Jaiswal, 27. "It's a slice-of-life film. "

This is possibly why it hasn't been easy to find distributors for Mastram. The fact that it is made by a debutant director and has no big star has added to its woes. "We are meeting different distributors, screening the film. If you have a firsttime filmmaker and relatively unknown faces, it can lead to problems, " says Jaiswal.

The idea of a film on the life of a pornographic writer is inspired by true events. Back in the days when porn wasn't available at the click of a mouse or the touch of a cellphone button, Hindi books written by Mastram were fairly common in many parts of north India.

"In the days when I was growing up, there was no internet and only DD and DD Metro when it came to TV. As young boys, we were curious about sex and all there was were adult magazines. But in small towns, even those were rarely available. So we discovered sex through Mastram, " says Jaiswal, who was born and brought up in Bhopal.

The idea of a movie on the writer came to Jaiswal while researching for Gangs of Wasseypur. He wrote the script for Mastram when Gangs of Wasseypur was in the post-production stage. He tried to trace the writer for four months from October 2011 to February 2012 and their search for Mastram took them to Delhi, Bhopal and Allahabad, but it turned out to be futile.

"We realised Mastram was not one person but many people. What seems to have happened is that one person wrote a book, and others followed, using the same pen name. We tried to trace those who had written as Mastram by talking to pulp writers from that era, but we had no success. The books even had fake addresses of the publishers, " says Jaiswal.

Since it was not possible to trace the real Mastram, the character was shaped entirely by the imagination of Jaiswal and his co-writer, Gunjan Saxena. The film is set in Manali where Mastram is an introverted bank employee leading an ordinary middle-class life. He is married and has a loving wife, but his heart lies elsewhere - in becoming an acclaimed Hindi writer. Of course, he ends up penning a different kind of literature, and the film dwells on the inner conflict that this causes.

Rahul Bagga, who plays the lead role, admits he was a little worried when he was first approached for the film. "There is a tendency in Bollywood to compartmentalise actors, so you need to be sure what you are getting into, " he says. The 32-year-old actor has had a substantial role in the Kunal Kapoor starrer Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana (2012) and has acted in a TV series, Powder, on Sony TV. He says he changed his view after reading the script. "I realised there was no sleaze and vulgarity in the film. "

Jaiswal is not worried about the censors. "I We are clear that we will ask for an A certificate, " he says. "Sex is shown very aesthetically in the film, " he adds. "It is mainly conveyed through the narration. "

"The movie is not vulgar, " Bagga agrees. "In fact, you can watch with women and even children. Though it is based on an adult theme, the movie is full of beautiful moments. "

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68cd Get Off The Couch: Zac Brown Band at UTC | Life - Entertainment | Times Free Press

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Get Off The Couch: Zac Brown Band at UTC

January 27th, 2014 by Barry Courter and Lisa Denton in Life Entertainment

LISA DENTON: Barry, I'm thinking it might be time to head to Crossville, Tenn. Our buddy Jason Ross is in the next production opening at the Cumberland County Playhouse on Friday. "Grease" should be a fun show.

Even when I'm just singing to myself, I like to do all the choreography for "Born To Hand Jive" and "Greased Lightning." Granted, it has surprised you a few times to see me doing such strange maneuvers over here in my cubicle, but that's how I roll. Actually, I guess that's how I rock 'n' roll.

BARRY COURTER: It does lose something without being able to hear the actual music. Especially "Hand Jive."

LISA: Yeah, you thought I was having some sort of spasm that one time.

BARRY: Jason is one of our favorites, and he is very talented. I wonder if he is playing the John Travolta/Danny Zuko part or the Jeff Conaway/Kenickie part.

LISA: Actually, he's playing Vince Fontaine, the TV show host for the dance-off. I wish he was playing Kenickie because one of the best lines in the movie is said about him: "A hickey from Kenickie is like a Hallmark card: When you care enough to send the very best."

BARRY: This is a busy week with lots of good stuff, with several opportunities for me to wear one of my tie-dyed doo rags. Unfortunately, two of them take place on the same night. The Zac Brown Band will be at McKenzie Arena on Wednesday and Umphrey's McGee is at Track 29 the same night.

LISA: Did you catch the Zac Brown Band on "Nashville" last week? They did "Free/Into the Mystic" with the actress who plays Scarlett (Clare Bowen). And it's worth mentioning that Gator from US101 made an appearance when Scarlett was making the rounds of radio stations. They used made-up call letters, not WUSY-FM, but that's still way cool. Plus, Jay DeMarcus of Rascal Flatts was featured. He attended Lee University before making it big in Nashville.

BARRY: "Nashville" is one of my stories I follow, so it was really cool to see all of the local connections. And anytime a Van Morrison song is involved, it's even better. I always look for one of Ben Jumper's Soundcheck trucks on the show as well.

And I will have another chance to wear a favorite bandana on Friday at the Black Jacket Symphony show at the Tivoli. You'll remember they do full-scale, note-for-note live versions of classic rock albums, and this time around they will be doing Led Zeppelin's "Houses of the Holy." It's one of their trippier albums with classics like "Over the Hills and Far Away," "The Ocean" and "The Song Remains the Same" which, of course, makes me immediately think about midnight movies at the old Eastgate theater. Now, those were a trip.

LISA: Wow, I haven't thought about those in a while. To think, I used to be able to stay up past midnight. I did well to see the end of "Nashville" the other night.

And don't forget we're coming up on a little game called the Super Bowl on Sunday. You reckon anybody around here will be rooting for the Seahawks?

BARRY: Well, Golden Tate, who prepped at Pope John Paul II High School in Nashville, does play for them, but I'd say most folks around here are rooting for Peyton, I mean Denver.

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Obama wants to set Israel border!

Obama wants to set Israel border!

May 21st, 2011 in Opinion Free Press

The modern nation of Israel was established after World War II, in 1948, within U.N.-set borders, as a refuge for the Jewish people who had survived Adolf Hitler's extermination of 6 million Jews.

But Israelis have had to fight defensively and repeatedly to survive since then.

There were wars in 1948, 1967 and 1973. After some defeats and narrow victories, Israel fortunately was able to win them all. Obviously, it cannot afford to lose once!

Miraculously surviving, and defensively holding some territory lost by its attackers, Israel now is 263 miles long from north to south, 71 miles wide at its broadest east-to-west point - and only nine miles wide at its narrowest point!

But now President Barack Obama is meddling: He has endorsed the hostile Palestinian position that Israel should withdraw from some Israeli-held territory, to Israel's borders in 1967.

Israel understandably objects. It is surrounded by hostile neighbors, and ceding part of its territory would only make it more vulnerable to military or terrorist attack.

Surely Obama has more appropriate, more pressing and more potentially productive duties as president of the United States than to urge Israel to surrender its vital defensive positions to people who do not even recognize its right to exist.

Israel obviously has no higher priority than to survive among its threatening enemies.

It is unfortunate that there is little prospect for real peace in the Middle East - peace that would benefit not only Israel, but also Israel's would-be exterminators. But undue pressure from the United States on Israel is not going to bring peace to that region.


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Lawmakers point fingers on budget impasse

May 19th, 2010 by Andy Sher in Politics State

NASHVILLE -- Senate Democratic Leader Jim Kyle on Tuesday pitched a budget plan generated in part through some bipartisan House discussions, but Senate Republicans balked while also declining to push forward with their own proposal.

"We're being rope-a-doped here," Sen. Kyle, of Memphis, later complained to reporters, charging Republicans "won't put anything up to vote. It's very frustrating for the members and for the public at large."

Asked why Senate Republicans, who have a 19-14 majority, don't move, Budget Subcommittee Chairman Tim Burchett, R-Knoxville, accused Democrats of playing their own budget games.

"We've done that (gone first) in the past, and it just leaves us open for attacks, and I don't think they (his GOP colleagues) are willing to do that this time," Sen. Burchett said.

When Republicans put out a plan, he said, "they start picking it apart. We're against taxes and all of a sudden it gets turned around and the spin happens."

The plan presented by Sen. Kyle in one respect acquiesces to the Senate Republican plan and rejects most of the tax increases proposed by Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen. But it also takes $142.7 million more from state reserves than Gov. Bredesen has outlined, leaving about $359.7 million by June 30, 2011, instead of the $502.4 million proposed by the governor.

Senate Republicans have opposed taking more money out of reserves.

The plan presented by Sen. Kyle trims Gov. Bredesen's proposed 3 percent one-time "bonus" for state workers, teachers and higher education employees from $113 million to about $75 million or 2 percent, resulting in a one-time payment of $800 for workers.

Senate Republicans and many House Republicans believe the bonus should be eliminated entirely because of revenue problems.

The Kyle-presented plan also maintains recurring funding for the Career Ladder supplemental pay program that benefits many teachers, Deputy Gov. John Morgan told the Senate Budget Subcommittee earlier Tuesday. Mr. Morgan emphasized it is not the administration's plan but indicated the governor could be open to it.

No second on the plan was made in the Budget Subcommittee. The panel adjourned until Monday, setting up the likelihood that lawmakers won't finish the budget next week, either.

Earlier Tuesday, House Speaker Kent Williams charged that election-year politics and Senate Republicans' belief the party will win Tennessee's governorship are behind GOP members' refusal to avoid making additional budget cuts by dipping further into the state's reserves.

"They're just trying to protect the next Republican governor," Rep. Williams, an Elizabethton independent, told reporters.

Senate Republicans are led by Republican Speaker Ron Ramsey, who is running for governor in a three-man contest.

Rep. Williams said there are enough votes in the House to pass the plan presented by Sen. Kyle. There are 50 Republicans, Rep. Williams and 48 Democrats.

"It's not that hard of a process if we keep the politics out of it," Rep. Williams said. "It's pretty simple. If you're running it like a business you can get it done in a couple of hours."

Sen. Randy McNally, R-Oak Ridge, chairman of the full Senate Finance Committee, dismissed Rep. Williams' assertion about Republicans seeking to help a Republican to succeed Gov. Bredesen, a Democrat who is term limited from running again.

"It is an effort to help state government down the line," he said.

Lawmakers don't know how strong the economic recovery will be, and there are fears there could be a "double-dip" recession, Sen. McNally said.

Noting state revenues continued to plunge for 22 months until last month, Sen. McNally said, "if I had a ball team that had lost 22 games and won one, I wouldn't say we turned it around."

Sen. Burchett, meanwhile, said he thinks the problem has "more to do with personalities than ... with anything else." He then lashed out at provisions in the proposals presented by Sen. Kyle and the governor that contain a $16.1 million provision to build a fish hatchery in Rep. Williams' district. It would be funded by federal stimulus money if Congress approves an extension of enhanced Medicaid matching funds.

Rep. Williams countered the hatchery, which would provide 22 jobs, also would generate large amounts of tourism for his county.


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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian opposition website said authorities in Tehran have detained the daughters of reformist leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, who has been under house arrest for nearly two years.

The detentions could signal stepped-up crackdowns on opposition figures ahead of June’s presidential election to pick a successor to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Monday’s report by Kaleme said Zahra and Narges Mousavi were taken into custody after police searched their homes. Iranian officials did not immediately comment, but the two women have campaigned to free their parents.

Mir Hossein Mousavi was the leader of the Green Movement in the 2009 race against Ahmadinejad and spearheaded massive protests over alleged vote rigging after the outcome.

Mousavi, his wife Zahra Rahnavard, and another Ahmadinejad challenger, Mahdi Karroubi, have been under house arrest since early 2011.

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Stocks closed lower on Wall Street as investors worried that a controversial proposal to seize money from depositors in Cyprus could set off another bout of anxiety over Europe's shared currency.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 62.05 points, or 0.4 percent, to 14,452.06 Monday. It had plunged as much as 110 points in the early going, briefly turned positive in the afternoon and then fell back again in the last hour of trading.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 8.60 points, or 0.6 percent, to 1,552.10 The Nasdaq composite dropped 11.48 points, or 0.4 percent, to 3,237.59.

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European markets recovered most of an early slide and closed with modest losses. Yields on government bonds issued by Spain and Italy edged higher and the euro fell to a three-month low against the dollar.

The market rally that has pushed the Dow to record levels this year has been punctuated by concerns about the euro-region's lingering debt crisis. The Dow fell 1.6 percent Feb. 25, its biggest wobble this year, after elections in Italy threw the country into political paralysis, endangering crucial economic reforms.

"Europe has got problems," said Uri Landesman, president of Platinum Partners, a hedge fund. "You could get more stuff like this and the market isn't priced to handle that."

A weekend agreement between Cyprus and its European partners called for the government to raid bank accounts as part of a $20.4 billion financial bailout, the first time in the euro zone crisis that the prospect of seizing individuals' savings has been raised. The measures are stoking fears of bank runs in the other 16 nations that use the euro.

Cypriot authorities, facing an uproar, delayed a parliamentary vote on the seizure and ordered the country's banks to remain closed until Thursday while they try to modify the deal to lessen the impact on small depositors.

Markets in Europe and Asia also fell during early trading, before retracing some of their losses later in the day. Germany's DAX index dropped 0.4 percent and Spain's main stock index shed 1.3 percent.

The euro fell almost a penny against the dollar to $1.2954, touching its lowest level in three months. Gold climbed $12 to $1,604.60 an ounce.

The U.S. stock market's reaction to euro zone developments has become more muted over time. The Dow slumped more than 8 percent last year between May 1 and June 1 on concerns that Spain and Italy would be dragged into Europe's debt crisis. While the Dow initially dropped last month in reaction to the Italian election results, it has since gained 4.6 percent. Likewise, the market recovered much of the early loss Monday prompted by Cyprus's bailout deal.


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This has been not only a long, cold winter, but also an expensive one. Replacing lost mittens, buying a snow shovel, having a car towed, paying higher heating bills may not seem like significant expenses, but the costs — some of them unexpected — have kept piling up, as relentless as the snowstorms.

Dart Westphal, for example, paid $100 more for heat this February than last even though he turned down the thermostat at his house in the Bronx, and he paid $20 more for electricity because his family stayed in and ran the TV and computers more often. Most costly of all, Westphal, 60, a management consultant who earns more than $100 an hour, spent at least 25 hours shoveling snow from the sidewalk in front of his home instead of meeting with clients.

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"Here I am trying to make a living, and I have to be out there shoveling snow," Westphal said. "I normally love the winter, but this year, it's enough. Please, let it melt."

The copious snow and ice that befell much of New York and the region this winter exacted a financial price that is just now becoming clear. As the forecast promises warmer temperatures, people are beginning to take stock. Homeowners paid more to stay warm, drivers racked up one repair bill after another, and town and city coffers were drained by the higher costs for snow and ice removal and lower revenue.

Amanda Urban, a Manhattan literary agent, paid more than $2,000 in medical bills after stepping into a pothole last week and fracturing her left foot. She hobbled to her office, only to receive a call from a friend who had the same fracture — a Jones fracture — on her right foot from a different pothole.

"It's quite famous in New York now because there are many people walking around with Jones fractures," said Urban, adding that she has heard from more than a dozen friends who have also fallen on ice or in potholes.

Some, of course, have profited from all this snow-related spending.

Northern Valley Auto Body, in Bergen County, N.J., fixed so many cracked and dented bumpers on cars that crashed into snow, they said, that it became a daily chore for workers.

"I don't think I've ever painted so many bumpers," said Joseph Carpanzano, 44, a mechanic at the shop, which charges between $300 and $800 for the work.

Aksel Gezdir, a tow-truck driver, is still trying to live down his first tow this winter: his own car. He said he had to call his brother to pull his car out of a snow drift at his home in Old Tappan, N.J., so he could get to his tow truck at work.


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Deadstring Brothers: Interview
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Music and Detroit have, historically, rarely been synonymous. Instead the city
is famous for Motown, Garage Rock, Techno and films about peroxide rappers
struggling to make it on the underground hip-hop scene. Enter the Deadstring
Brothers, a Detroit 6 piece who play harmony laden country rock songs with a
subtly modern bent.

Tiny Mix Tapes caught up with the band at the tail end of their recent UK tour in London to
discuss their dislike of the term Americana, why Radiohead will have an effect
on you if you listen to them 1000 times
, and the US
release of Starving Winter Report, their upcoming Bloodshot records

So let's start from the very beginning. When exactly did the band start?

Kurt Marshke: About 2002

That was in Detroit?

K: Yeah, I was just playing a lot of solo gigs. We started playing gigs in late
2002 as a band.

You were originally a two piece?

K: Yeah, and I was just doing gigs by myself, and then the two piece and then
the whole band just started falling together.

Masha Marjieh: We're working up to a 30 piece band.

You plan on bringing an orchestra on tour?

K: We're not doing that. We're a six piece band.

How has touring the UK been?

K: Its been great.

Do you find British audiences respond differently then American audiences?

K: It's about the same. We have toured here more.

Do you find it easier to connect with UK crowds? A number of American bands have
historically come to the UK before attempting to crack the states. The British
seem to be more readily acceptive of different musical styles. Do you find that
has helped in creating an audience here?

K: No, not really. It's just that we have worked here more and so we have more
relationships. We have been through a lot of these towns more then once. Where
as in the states we haven't really worked that much. The first record didn't
have distribution in the United States. Now with Bloodshot over there, we will
have distribution. So we will tour a lot more. I would expect it to go kind of
similar to over here. It's just that the land mass is so much bigger. Takes a
lot longer to get around.

Do you find performing an essentially American sound has made it easier to stand
out in the UK?

K: I don't know yet, because we haven't had much exposure in the US. But there
seems to be a market for what we are doing here. I guess in any market you are
either going to stand out or your not.

How did you get involved with Bloodshot?

K: Rob Miller saw us at a couple of shows, and he liked the band, and asked us
to be on their ten year anniversary comp. From there it led to us working on a
record with them.

How does it
feel to be involved with a label that is renown for being famously connected to
alt country and country? Is that an exciting new step for the band?

K: Until the record comes out, it hasn't felt much different. It's good to have
a base in Chicago. I think that will be our place to work out of. They seem
really established there. It will be kind of like our American headquarters.

Bloodshot is frequently associated with “alt-country”. Are you guys comfortable
with the possibility of being labelled with that term?

K: We just call it country rock

Listening to the album, it doesn't have an alternative “thing” to it.

K: Year more of a rock and roll, country rock thing. And even Bloodshot acts, a
lot of them aren't really alternative either.

When did you record the new album?

K: The new album was recorded in the winter months of this year.

Did you do it in Detroit?

K: Yeah.

Was it a long process?

K: We did it over a period of time. We didn't do it all in one session. We did
it at this place called the White Room studios which is in down town Detroit and
then we over dubbed at a little studio I have at my house.

Do you write the songs in the studio or do you write them on the road while

K: Oh yeah, most of them are done in rehearsals. Gigs too, we played a lot of
these songs on the road last year; to debug them.

Being originally a solo act and then a two piece, how did the current band form?

K: It was kind of happenstance, everyone was local musicians in Detroit, and it
just sort of came together, we all kind of knew each other.

Are you all old friends?

K: Yeah, kind of, we all associated via the music scene in Detroit. Some people
in Detroit like country music and want to be a part of a country band and some

they mixed rock and roll and country it just seemed, I don't know, it just
seemed to be magical or something.

Detroit has over the past couple years been
associated with garage rock. You've been asked about it here in the UK. Do you
ever get frustrated being asked about that scene when you don't perform that
signature sound? Do you even feel a part of that scene?

K: We are definitely not a part of the scene. We have played a lot of those same
places as those bands but we aren't part of that scene.

Do you ever get any cross over from those bands?

K: A little bit. Phil, our bass player, is in a band called the Witches. Which
they call a garage rock band, which is just another rock band. A great band, but
they are associated heavily with that scene. There is kind of that little weird
residual window of stuff where a lot of our friends are in those bands and kind
of have a lot of similar stuff going around.

Let's talk about the new album. Specifically the last track “Lonely Days,” I am
not normally a country fan, but that song drew me in with its rich harmonies. It
has a strong storyteller vein with a soul edge to it as well. Is that
intentional and is that important to you?

K: I think that last track is kind of Motown, R&B and Soul inspired. But not on
a conscious level. We didn't say lets do something with a Motown feel.

You didn't want to sound like Marvin Gaye?

K: Yeah, but it's a song that you, know, on a story level, isn't unlike the
other songs. It's just that it ended up coming out that [Motown] way via
rehearsals. We kind of figured it was the best way. Even though we have limited
times, we don't have unlimited time to work on these songs and these records.
There are a lot of time restrictions. So you kind of do what you can with the
time you have. I would like to be able to approach these songs from every
different angle. Unfortunately we don't have the time. Fortunately for us, the
players are sensitive to what we are doing and I think that helps a lot with not
having the amount of time that we would like to spend on a record. So yeah, if
we had more time it would be cool to be able to experiment more with different
ways of approaching stuff. It was just by chance that song came off that way.

The lyrics seem very optimistic, but the kind of defiant optimism that has dealt
and coped with troubles in the past.

K: You are listening to it too much, you are gonna ask these questions that I
would hate to answer, (laughs). I am glad that you listened to them like that.
It's just that it gets a little personal. But you are probably really on the
mark with that. I think at the end of the day it's all optimistic. Obviously
life throws you a lot of weird stuff.

Is that important to you when you write? It all seems very personal but
accessible. You seem to instil your own experience into the song. Is that
important to what you do?

K: I think it might happen that way, and if it does that would be great. And if
people interpret it that way then that is great. I take it as a compliment. If
it transcends, I think that would be the whole trick to what we are trying to

Let's talk about the vocals. Masha, you joined the band recently?

M: Maybe about a year ago, officially.

K: Masha sang on the first record, and did all the touring for the first record.
When we did the artwork for the first record, she wasn't a part of the band, and
we didn't know that she would be touring with us, and we had no idea it would
work out the way it did. Otherwise she would have been listed as a proper
member. Right when the record came out we started touring, and she was able to
come along and that developed into how the second record sounds, which is a lot
more a part of it.

The rich harmonies between the two of you really stand out on the album. Is that
where you want your sound to develop?

K: We started developing that on the first record. You can see the origin of
that on there. It's really thick on the first record too. I was trying to just
make a great record. I didn't think, “Oh how could we do this live” and then we
were just fortunate enough that she was able to tour with us.

M: And I was fortunate enough that they asked me.

K: So it worked out really well, and hence, you don't have to be afraid of
adding it to the second record. Because you know that she is with us, that she
will be touring with us.

hard for Radiohead not to have an effect on you if you listen to OK Computer
1000 times. You know what I mean? How can that not have an effect on your psyche

On a slightly more childish vein, why play this
style of music?

K: Certainly not the money (laughs). This is the music that makes sense for the
band and the people who are in it. I mean, if you look at all the members,
everyone has done different things. This music makes so much sense to us. When
we started it Phil and I would talk when we were recording the first record. He
would be sitting there working on stuff, Phil would say, “No one cares about
this stuff anymore right?” We had no idea that we would even be able to tour
period, making this kind of music. We just figured, “well this is a project and
we are going to see it through.” We have been fortunate enough to tour and start
to build a fan base. Which we had no expectation of doing. We just thought we
can make these records cause we can, since I had my own little studio. It was
more for the sake of doing it as opposed to… This is the music that if I could
make as the ultimate music, it's the music I would make. And if we were able to
tour on it, and make it a living on it…this is just the stuff that I think of as
the ultimate project.

A passion…

K: And for fun's sake, too. The whole country thing and the ‘60s rock country
cross over thing I always felt really strong about…

K: I don't know. It was an interesting dynamic that took place. When country met
rock and roll. Really really interesting stuff. Because you know, everything was
kind of merging at that point and all rock was kind of new, and when they mixed
rock and roll and country it just seemed, I don't know, it just seemed to be
magical or something.

Like it made sense?

K: Really really cool stuff, how they collided and a lot of great stuff came out
of it musically. But then it went away pretty quick in the ‘70s cause the ‘70s
switched so much. But I thought they didn't really explore that. They didn't
have that many years of really working on it. So maybe we are trying to just
figure out if they have missed anything that we can pick up. I am just picking
up little pieces of stuff trying to build something out of it. The country rock
thing, I don't know, Graham Parsons got into the steel guitar. But not many of
those other guys did. They didn't put a steel guitar with rock and roll a whole

On that same point, you get compared a lot to Graham Parsons and Exile on
Main Street
era Stones. Do you find those comparisons daunting?

K: I don't think it's daunting. If people came and saw us, and thought oh,
that's just a terrible rip off and a parody, I hope that they wouldn't. Because
it's not exactly what we are doing. But I like the fact that people are writing
that, because it strongly influenced what we do but there is a lot of other
stuff they don't write about which influences what we do to.

What else influences you?

K: Even more modern stuff. You just can't just say I stop listening to records

K: Yeah, “I don't listen to any records after that”, I mean, we grew up
listening to lots of different music. All through our childhood and stuff. I
listened to lots of that [country] stuff as a kid too. But you grow up with lots
of other bands who were famous. It's hard for Radiohead not to have an effect on
you if you listen to OK Computer 1000 times. You know what I mean? How
can that not have an effect on your psyche somehow? I felt that was a passionate
record and I spent a lot of time listening to that and even the

You know, a ton of different artists, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, all those
records, how could they not have an effect on you? So I would be crazy if I said
that those [country rock bands] were our only influences. You listen to all
those records so much, that they had to figure in there somewhere.

Do you feel an affinity with more modern alt-country bands and artists like Neko
Case and Ryan Adams?

K: I like both those artists a lot, and what they do. I think if people thought
we were in the same genre as them that would be great. I don't know if we are.
That's all American country and Americana influenced but we're not...yeah I
mean...gosh, I am trying to think…I guess that it's the same genre right?

Yeah, I guess it has that same alt tag.

K: Which will change in a few years… we will all still be making records but it
will be called something else. With the same artists doing the same stuff

Have you
played in the South?

K: We have played South by Southwest a few times. Our touring hasn't really
brought us to the South yet. The Bloodshot thing should change that.

Do you find the idea of playing your style of music in the South daunting?

K: No not at all. We could take this line-up anywhere in the South and we would
feel really comfortable doing what we are doing. I think a lot of people there
would be happy to hear what we are doing. There is no place in America where I
wouldn't want to play. I'd like to take this band all over that country.

Are you comfortable with the term Americana?

K: No

K: It seems like in England, Americana is not rock and roll at all. We are way
more of a rock and roll band. So with Americana you get that label…Americana in
England at least, as far as we can tell, is singer songwriter based, and quiet
and more intimate. I mean we are a bar band. A loud bar band. The term Americana
does not work at all for us.

M: It's a restriction on the kind of people who come to the shows.

It boxes you in? They like to do that here in the UK.

K: I understand that but even alt-country, if you have to use a term, would fit
better. We've toured the Americana circuit here and it's mostly singer
songwriter, and we have played them and it doesn't work for us, it doesn't seem
like our crowd, although they have been great, and we love that people come out
and they seem reasonably entertained but I don't know if they are expecting
quieter. It's mostly singer songwriters, a lot quieter and in seated venues.

Finally, is there one question you wish the press would actually ask you?

K: I guess if they asked me…

M: A ton of money. “I have a million dollars in my pocket. Would you like it?”
Yes. (laughs) Not going to ask that question are you? (laughs)

M: This interview is over! (laughs)

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[Sub Pop; 2014]

Rating: 1.5/5 1.5 / 5 (0)

Styles: still floating on the placid sea of ennui-drenched pop
Others: Jesus and Mary Chain, Black Tambourine, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

There’s a moment in author John D’Agata’s About a Mountain when he briefly chronicles the history of Edvard Munch’s The Scream, detailing Munch’s relationship with death, the act of screaming, and the pain projected into his famous painting. D’Agata ends the moment outlining the use of Munch’s visual metaphor in the world of advertising, how it’s been used in ads to sell cars, for a caricature blow-up doll, for M&M’s. “Dark just got fun,” D’Agata quotes and, in the space of a few pages, chronicles the death and depletion of a metaphor, language’s seeming inability to last through time.

I keep coming back to this passage while listening to Dum Dum Girls’ Too True, if not specifically for the song “Rimbaud Eyes,” then also for the general sound and “emotional” themes the album projects.

Arthur Rimbaud, a 19th-century French writer, plays a large role in Kristin “Dee Dee” Gundred’s songwriting (well-documented here in Adrian Agacer’s review of Dum Dum Girls’ End of Daze), whether straight up invoking him on this album’s “Rimbaud Eyes” or on Daze’s “Season in Hell.” But it’s uncertain if any of this is actually processed. Rimbaud’s mysticism has generated more than a field of research into what exactly his mythos pertains to his influence. Summarizing from Carrie Jaurès Noland (writing about Patti Smith’s use of Rimbaud), Rimbaud’s essence (“don’t fall prey to sudden salvation”) carries “implicitly — and in some cases explicitly;” his decontexualization informed either likeness or kin in modern disconnection, the same sort of disconnection that Dum Dum Girls evoke through obvious influences other than Rimbaud: 1960s girl group pop, The Jesus and Mary Chain, or basically the same stuff that Black Tambourine is made of. In essence, it’s hard not to see where Rimbaud’s myth has been previously conjured. His short career in writing, his myth as a deviant — Rimbaud is probably the greatest poster child for the detached youth in rebellion.

So with that, what the fuck does “Rimbaud Eyes” mean?

This is where I feel D’Agata’s presence of dying symbolism take place, with Rimbaud’s name, myth, etc. directly invoked like a Poké Ball (sorry, I can’t do this without my own similes or metaphors) being called in to do someone else’s fighting. Rimbaud radically separated language from its meaning (the “improper” grammar and nearly untranslatable je est un autre). Without the decontextualization, it’s difficult to tell if I’m seeing Rimbaud, the band’s influences, or both run themselves to their linguistic end points. Is this tautology of the sunken-eye look and feel? Is this anything more than just easy invocation?

I love everything that Dum Dum Girls invoke, and yet nothing of what they do seems to mean anything to me the way their influences do. If “growth” and “maturity” of songwriting means stepping into more “electronic” territory (more processed drums than acoustic, basically all the same hallmarks of 80s-style production), I can’t see what any of these notions actually mean. With all apologies for using the word again, it’s that act of decontextualized language — including mythos, personality, and elements of sound that rely on the past — that provides new meaning for the corpse of anything, or here specifically Rimbaud’s. Patti Smith praised him as a poet, even though Rimbaud himself disavowed his poetic past, and it was her urge to take his mythos to challenge herself, society, and Rimbaud himself. Here? It’s “Lost Boys and Girls Club,” “Cult of Love,” and “Trouble Is My Name” (“Trouble is my name/ Is it your name too?”), endless clichés in songwriting, narrative, subject, and sound; while a cliché can provide an economy of language, it can also provide the road to metaphorical obsolescence. It’s unfair of me to call this an M&M’s commercial directly, but I don’t think it would be too far removed to at least claim that it’s on its way.

This is something I don’t take much joy in doing, ragging on a musician for employing easy metaphors, trashing the essence of whatever it is they were working for. I’ve done it much in the past, and I don’t intend on doing it much more. But while I could supply the obnoxious, useless paradox of “I don’t mean to be mean, but…,” I’d rather be honest: I do intend to be mean. I intend a form of criticism as cruelty against what I see as bland, easy, and unchallenging, if not for myself, then for Rimbaud’s own hatred of the sort. Or maybe what I should have learned from him: to seek the space where one induces piss and fecal matter into prayer, where unfeeling is the way of ultimate synesthesia, the willing entering and exiting of hell and blood, center by self-dissemination. If inspiration comes from someone who wrote “Why should the semblance of an opening/ Pale under the corner of a vault,” then it’d be most appropriate not to mimic any gestures, but to slice their throat.

To be in hell, to be lost, or to be exceedingly filled with truth? Somewhere else. But for Too True?

“Dark just got fun!”

01. Cult of Love
02. Evil Blooms
03. Rimbaud Eyes
04. Are You Okay?
05. Too True To Be Good
06. In the Wake Of You
07. Lost Boys & Girls Club
08. Little Minx
09. Under These Hands
10. Trouble Is My Name

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[Lit City Trax; 2013]

Rating: 4.5/5 4.5 / 5 (0)

Styles: grime, eski, UK garage, ambient
Others: Fatima Al Qadiri, Wiley, Wen, DJ Rashad

I’m Fine opens with a circle of notes resembling a crystal structure made of smokey emerald that outlines the inward-poised scaffolding of an off-key merry-go-round, throbs of bass lurching out from the cogs hidden inside the machinery that resonate deep inside the chest. The most ethereal particles of grime, stripped down to a pure sonic consistency and set forth in an unsettling diagrammatic cycle, with ornamental textures and emotive blurts blossoming through rearrangement, reverberation, and repetition into the foundations of an untapped language of pain.

The following six compositions are interlocking meditations on duress, wound tightly as in a lattice of diamond, barren soundscapes carved painstakingly from a vast, culturally-literate reservoir of suffering. This language is made up not only of words (though familiar syllables, words, and phrases even do surface occasionally), but also of spectral, pentatonic tones and a sparse few key rhythmic gestures. Uncanny, breathy vocal samples bearing the ghostly imprint of digital processing articulate over elastic, bouncing eski phrases; subterranean throbs of bass underpin an increasingly labyrinthine top end.

On the surface, this strain of R&B-inflected, minimalist grime that Visionist refines on I’m Fine might seem like a carbon-copy of the futurist club aesthetic championed by UK dance juggernaut Night Slugs and its stateside sister label Fade To Mind. I’m Fine is the third release to come out on digital-only imprint Lit City Trax (who last year released an utterly skippable and derivative juke mixtape that I definitely don’t consider to be my favorite record of all time), and label founder J-Cush makes up 1/4 of the net-savvy supergroup Future Brown, alongside Fade to Mind mainstays Nguzunguzu and Fatima Al Qadiri (who drops in on I’m Fine’s “The Call” for a characteristically drone-stricken contribution). The “sad, sexy, scary” vibe (as Nguzunguzu have described it in interviews) championed by these artists does elicit serious emotional gravitas with millennial listeners, tailor-made for both the short, sampladelic attention span and for a vast catalog of database-supported nostalgia. But like all styles that follow a formula, it threatens to render itself cliché upon repetition, as it becomes more ubiquitous and easily imitable.

As listeners in the US begin to connect the transatlantic dots between trap and grime, the decentered head-nod that serves as a heartbeat for Visionist’s music appears to be making a comeback as #relevant sonic couture in 2013. Make no mistake, though, Louis Carnell (the man behind Visionist) is about as far away from the status of trend-jacker as you can get. Even before he started making beats upon relocating to London to attend university back in 2011, Carnell cut his teeth as a grime emcee in his teenage stomping grounds of Nottingham. These days, Carnell’s label Lost Codes is one of the key players in the resurrection of instrumental grime, and his own project is carrying the genre into a loftier headspace than it’s ever pondered before.

On I’m Fine, Visionist sets himself apart from bandwagoners by carving out a sonic world unto itself, delving further with each tune into the emotive capabilities of the often heavily anthropomorphic samples he employs. “Pain” is a standout example of how Carnell’s compositional asceticism and confidence in advancing his ideas work to brilliant results: over a murky, spacious bass drone that sounds like it could’ve been churned out of a steel turbine, Carnell paints a squirming, elusive pattern of breathy synths, inverted snares, and dots of empty space, sent over the top into pure extract of suffering by a faceless, nameless diva’s improvised vocal run that drops around the halfway mark. The imprints of ethereal, instantaneous emotions become weight-carrying symbols in the context of I’m Fine’s self-referential poetry, which only elucidates more fully as the record progresses.

Some tracks on the EP, such as “Lost” and “Escape,” have a decidedly more rhythmic focus (as in, the percussion is actual rather than implied), but the record never breaks tone, fractalizing throughout the course of its terse, 17-minute run time into a mandala of eerie paeans called out into the void, with no one but the sufferer’s own mind to receive them. The compositions here all assume the subtle, self-considering, and ultimately lethal shape of deep, depressive ruminations, the record concluding its own doomed cycle on a note of resignation with “I Don’t Care.” Clocking in at just under five minutes, this track is also the EP’s longest and least urgent composition, with serpentine melodies and cavernous empty spaces between percussion hits cleansing the emotional palette and leading the listener calmly and circuitously back to the start of the record: a self-contained cryptogram is revealed, a pained message in a bottle broken over the skull to reproduce more of itself.

The all-encompassing yet ambiguous pain at the center of I’m Fine is exorcised, reconciled through the total realization of Carnell’s singular aesthetic language, but the whole exercise ultimately results in something like a spiral. Visionist’s art is itself a gesture in the larger cultural cycle in which it by force of nature must participate, a somber comment on the borrowed expressions and emulated gestures the post-digital generation has no chance but to rely on in exploring our own feelings of alienation from the past. Within, Carnell manages to elevate the forgotten signs of the sonic undergrounds and pop nostalgias that preceded him into a sensitive, spiritually-charged poetics, a semiotic economy whose elliptical timbre peers into the question mark lurking in the years of technological advance and aesthetic recursion to come. Whether or not Visionist and his peers will ever succeed in (re)producing themselves outside of the hypnagogic spiral is unsure; for the time being, there’s beauty enough in watching their meditations spill out from the inside.

01. I’m Fine
02. Lost
03. Pain
04. Escape
05. The Call [with Fatima Al Qadiri]
06. I Don’t Care

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Atom™ readies HD on Raster-Noton, and no, you won't need a Monster cable to listen to it

A rare and oddly beautiful form of schizophrenia, known among the medical community as hypotensivelectroglitchbiodisintegration, has thankfully lessened its grip on the alias-almost-too-friendly German composer/producer Uwe Schmidt. Deferring to Wikipedia, Schmidt has apparently assumed more than 60 monikers over his roughly two-decade long musical career, but lately, and much to the dismay of those who gigglingly enjoyed his limited work as Candy Ballsak, he’s focused on releasing material through two names in particular: the explicitly latin-themed Señor Coconut, and Atom™, whose 2009 album Liedgut brought some welcome romanticism to the Chemnitz-based Raster-Noton label.

The R-N release of Liedgut’s sequel, Winterreise, was released just last year, and already, Atom™ has a new LP in the works, this time with some very special (is there any other kind?) guest contributions.

HD will be released on March 18, and it features aural appearances from Raster-Noton co-founder Alva Noto a.k.a. Carsten Nicolai, Chilean singer Jorge Gonzales, and Warp-resident Jamie Lidell, who offers vocals on the track, “I Love U.” The album itself consists of entirely new tracks, and basically new tracks — the latter of which refers to re-workings of recordings that date back to 2005. I’ll leave you with Schmidt’s own words regarding the album, and below that, listen to three HD teaser clips.

The first recordings for HD were made in 2005. Back then the album still carried another title which was Hard Disc Rock… The initial selection of songs for Hard Disc Rock was of course a very different one, and while the years passed by most of those songs which did not continue to please, were one by one replaced by newer compositions (in fact the track “Stop (Imperialist Pop)”, which entered the album around 2009, does contain a fragment of an Atom track from 1998 called “Hard Disc Rock (don’t stop)”.) All of the ‘early’ tracks for the later re-entitled HD album necessarily were subject to profound changes in music and words, and I can say that by the time around 2012 Hard Disc Rock had completely transformed into something else.

HD tracklisting:

01. Pop HD
02. Strom
03. I Love U
04. The Sound of Decay
05. Empty
06. Riding the Void
07. Stop (Imperialist Pop)
08. My Generation
09. Ich bin meine Maschine

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Iron and Wine’s sexy wraith-porn-themed new album Ghost on Ghost due in April

Sam Beam’s quiet pensive dude project Iron and Wine is bringing sexy back (quietly, of course) on his upcoming album Ghost on Ghost. It’s a concept album about a sexy teen ghost who finds redemption in a surprising place: the ghost porn industry of California’s San Fernando Valley. (Just kidding. It’s not about that at all. PROBABLY.) Whatever it’s about, it’s due April 16 on Nonesuch here in the United States. For Europe, Japan, Ghost California, Australia and New Zealand, 4AD is putting this thing out on April 15.

Produced by longtime Beam collaborator Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Califone, Fruit Bats), Ghost on Ghost features the single “Lovers’ Revolution.” You can preview the track below and envision yourself drenched in sweat, sipping juleps with Sam Beam as he sings you a merry New Orleans-style song about sad things, laughing the night away as the twilight casts a haze of nostalgia and lost dreams over Bourbon Street. Who knows? Maybe that dream will even become a reality. Tourdates are in the works.

Ghost on Ghost tracklisting:

01. Caught in the Briars
02. The Desert Babbler
03. Joy
04. Low Light Buddy of Mine
05. Graces for Saints and Ramblers
06. Grass Windows
07. Singers and the Endless Song
08. Sundown (Back in the Briars)
09. Winter Prayers
10. New Mexico’s No Breeze
11. Lovers’ Revolution
12. Baby Center Stage

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Brooklyn venue Dead Herring closes its doors

Another one bites the dust. Williamsburg DIY music venue Dead Herring shut their doors on January 27 after six years of . Popular for their eclectic variety of bands and $5 covers, Dead Herring featured acts ranging from Spectre Folk to Pop. 1280 and Reggie Watts to Kurt Braunohler. Apparently $5 a show a few times a month doesn’t quite cover the bills.

See? The gentrification due to people trying to live like their favorite TV characters does have negative consequences.

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Foxy Digitalis ends publication, will merge with Decoder next month

About nine and a half years ago, when Tiny Mix Tapes was learning to walk on its two legs (and on stilts… Mr P is an interesting father), another child was born in the webzine era: Foxy Digitalis. Initially a dead tree zine from the late 90s created by Brad Rose, he resurrected the zine with his newly-wedded wife Eden Hemming after they moved to Seattle, this time using the web as the means of publication to maintain lower costs and keep things current. Primarily run by the couple, they began hiring writers by 2005, and have grown immensely since in its scope, getting a redesign in 2010. Through its focus on music outside the realm of even indie music, we at TMT always felt a certain kindred spirit with the publication, especially those of us who write for Cerberus.

But times change, and responsibilities add up quickly. Eden and Brad also created the Digitalis label around the same time as Foxy Digitalis, and as time went on, the label also grew. Eden has mostly stepped back from day-to-day operations at Foxy Digitalis, leaving the work on Brad’s shoulders. Outside the realm of music, the couple is with child, expecting his/her birth sometime this year. In situations like this, it’s not hard to see people making sacrifices on what they do, even the things they love, much to the detriment of others. Still, there is a point when things can be too much, and it takes a certain amount of bravery and dignity to do the right thing and not only admit this, but also give up something you love for your own sake, and the sake of others.

That is precisely what Brad and Eden did today. Effective today, with two very poignant posts by the couple, Foxy Digitalis has ceased publication. The site now stands as an archive for the foreseeable future, much like the previous iteration. But this does not stand for the end of Foxy Digitalis as a community, as it will continue on through fellow webzine Decoder. Brad, in agreement with Decoder editor Dwight Pavlovic, will merge the two communities as part of Decoder’s site redesign, currently underway. The site will relaunch with this integration sometime in late February or early March.

We here at TMT would like to extend our sympathies to Foxy Digitalis, and wish Brad and Eden the best of luck on their future endeavors.

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Amoeba Music evolves, digitizes, and offers rare vinyl for download on its overhauled website

Needless to say, record stores are generally having a tough financial time of it these days, and it seems that owners are left with more or less two options to prolong their survival: coax the general public into the store with aromas of delicious food, such as pizza or popcorn, known for their attractive tendencies; or, traverse into the digital world, toward which the market has consistently been moving over the past decade or so.

If there’s any music shop capable of effectively making this transition without hastily receiving a metaphorical boot to the neck by the iTunes Store, it’s the California-based chain Amoeba Music, known for their mammoth physical collections on display in Hollywood, Berkeley, and San Francisco. As Variety reports, the store launched the beta version of their revamped website on October 2 of last year, and contained within it are some tremendous appeals to audiophiles and fans of rarities alike.

The new Vinyl Vaults section makes available for download thousands (okay, at the moment, there are only about 1,000) of rare and out-of-print LPs, and more are being added each day, often with brand new remasters. On the rare side, I’ve discovered the Satanic musings of televangelist Jack Van Impe on the spoken word LP Demons and Exorcism!, and more to the liking of those who don’t buy records for sampling or irony’s sake, there seems to be quite a few singles from jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. Browse for yourself, why don’t you? The price-per-track depends on the format; it’s 78¢ for individual Mp3s, 80¢ for lossless M4As, and $1.50 for WAV files.

The rebirth of, which coincided with both the new Vinyl Vaults section, as well as the store’s digitization of more well-known albums, took a full six years of work, and was handled inhouse by around 200 people, at an estimated cost of $11 million. Sales numbers for Amoeba were flat over the past two years, but co-owner Marc Weinstein elaborates on just how much green presidential blood has been spilt in the process of this undertaking: “Every bit of profit we’ve had for the past few years has gone into trying to build this thing, to get to where we’re at now.”

The goal, according to (also) co-owner Jim Henderson, is to have to a website that “helps prop the stores up.” Let’s hope, for the sake of music fans, and for the sake of the long-term mental stability of Amoeba’s owners, that they succeed.

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Soul Jazz’s magical elves cook up another Deutsche Elektronische Musik compilation

Imagine the board game Candyland. But imagine it with records. Rare, rare records, shit you ain’t never heard of and can’t afford. And imagine it with cool British accents. Such is the world of London’s Soul Jazz Records, where the peppermint elves of coolness toil away at their rock candy stoves, cooking up only the freshest, most exquisitely curated albums. And today’s offering is the second Teutonic installment in the label’s exploration of krautrock and… stuff like krautrock, aptly titled Deutsche Elektronische Musik 2.

Spanning two triumphantly spacey CDs, the album features Can, Roedelius, Popol Vuh, Amon Düül II, Faust, NEU!, and man of a million collaborations Brian Eno, together with his cohorts, Moebius & Roedelius, plus many a lesser known gem. David Stubbs of The Wire, The Guardian, Melody Maker and about seventeen other prestigious music writing/editing gigs did the liner notes for the album. Deutsche Elektronische Musik 2 comes out March 11 in the UK and will be available on both CD and vinyl.

Deutsche Elektronische Musik 2 tracklisting:

Disc 1:
01. A.R. & Machines, “Globus”
02. Can, “Halleluwah”
03. Roedelius, “Le Jardin”
04. Michael Rother, “Karussell”
05. Popol Vuh, “Der Grosse Krieger”
06. Michael Hoenig, “Sun and Moon”
07. Agitation Free, “You Play For Us Today”
08. DAF, “Co Co Pino”
09. Harald Grosskopf, “Emphasis”
10. Amon Düül II, “A Morning Excuse”
11. Conrad Schnitzler & Wolf Sequenza, “Fata Morgana”
12. Bröselmaschine, “Nossa Bova”
13. Eno, Moebius & Roedelius, “Base & Apex”
14. Gila, “In a Sacred Manner”
15. Wolfgang Riechmann, “Himmelblau”

Disc 2:
01. A.R. & Machines, “Als Hätt Ich Das Alles Schon Mal Gesehen (As If I Had Seen All This Before)”
02. Gila, “Sundance Chant”
03. NEU!, “Isi”
04. Pyrolator, “Danger Cruising”
05. Sergius Golowin, “Die Weisse Alm”
06. You, “Electric Day”
07. Niagara, “Gibli”
08. Popol Vuh, “Ja Sie Sollen Gottes Kinder Heissen Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei”
09. Rolf Trostel, “Der Prophet”
10. Electric Sandwich, “China”
11. Asmus Tietchens, “Zeebrugge”
12. Faust, “Krautrock”

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3 July 2013

Ride the Two Tunnels Greenway, Bath

A brilliant shared-use bike and walking path that takes riders from near the beautiful centre of Bath right out into the Somerset countryside, following the route of an old railway line through tunnels beneath Combe Down, a hill on the south side of the city.

The route only opened this year, in April, and is a great ride, with eerie musical installations in the tunnels and plenty of people enjoying it when your author rode it earlier in the summer as part of a pub cycle. Plus it avoids all those big hills around Bath, which can be troublesome.

For more, see http://www.twotunnels.org.uk/

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Titania, the Open Source Creative and Ethical Society

The Message of Universal EthicsTitanian octologue

TITANIA is an open source Ethical association promoting PeaceLoveCreativity and Personal Evolution in THRIVING human society.  The TITANIAN organization model is a new kind of international institution that is non-hierarchic and rigorously non-bureaucratic in both its structure and decision-making processes.   The Titanian organization is based on voluntary interaction between individuals, yet at the same time organized.   Throughout recorded history up to the early 21st century AD, Power Brokerage Cartels (BORG) have trapped humanity in hierarchic (Pyramid) control models, whose prime feature was coercive interactions between individuals.

To keep humanity asleep; being that you’re awake now, you know what we mean, The BORG used a well crafted systems of violence, mass hypnosis / indoctrination to sustain non-truths and double-speak, known as the Comforting Lies.  These Comforting lies perpetuate a an omni-present State, one that is at war with the individuals that comprise it.  Thus, in keeping humanity asleep / hypnotized, the BORG State gets away with the outright Killing of more than 200 million people in the 20th Century, the murder of 20,000 people per day through malnutrition / extreme poverty, and the outright fleecing of individual creativity in a militaristic system of regulation, legal plunder, taxation and extortion.

Titania is based on a Code of Honor that provides a set of unique principles for its mission and procedures. More than twenty years in the making, this is NOT something you have seen before.

It is the dream of TITANIA’s founders that humanity will evolve into a moral society in which most, if not all, of humanity’s problems will have been solved.  Imagine living in such a world!  Isn’t living in that world, what you always knew could exist, and wanted to exist, been YOUR dream as well? TITANIA is the choice for you! Isn’t it time we brought Sanity back to Humanity?

Let’s get started, by considering the desired outcome of the society we want to create.

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    This is primarily a story about the vagueness of federal fraud law
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    indict, try, convict, and sentence people who are conducting normal
    business practices.

    The IRP6 case is a corporate debt collection case that got
    criminalized by an over-zealous FBI agent and an over-empowered
    Assistant U.S. Attorney. When FBI Special Agent John Smith
    orchestrated the raid on IRP, he got a search warrant stating, in so
    many words, that IRP was a front company. Assistant U.S. Attorney
    Matthew Kirsch then prosecuted the case although there was evidence
    and expert witnesses that would substantiate the legitimacy of IRP
    Solutions as a business. And then Federal Judge Christine Arguello,
    who presided over the case, didn’t give the IRP6 any reasonable
    consideration or benefit of the doubt during the trial. In fact,
    transcripts are missing that would show critical rights violations
    that occurred during the trial.

    The prosecution argued that IRP misrepresented their business
    position and that IRP never had a viable product. The jury didn’t
    get a chance to hear a solid defense but rather, they heard a
    prosecution narrative that was crafted to show crimes where there
    were no crimes. The prosecution used the vagueness of federal fraud
    law to achieve the wrongful conviction of IRP by convincing the jury
    that it was their intent to commit fraud and run a scam.

    For complete insights into the IRP6 story, please visit http://www.freetheirp6.org.

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  10. Humans are not the ultimate good. Humans can not make a perfect utopia if they follow your 8 man group ideal. Confessing faults in some kind of encounter group is not going to solve your problems. Men are evil from the start. Men are fallen. There will be no peace on Earth until the 1000 year rule of Jesus Christ.

    I am disappointed with your misguided faith in men and the ideal of men solving the basic problems of their nature without Christ as their center. Men are flawed and doomed to fail.

    Your bootless ideal is a humanist deception that will fail.

    Jacques De Mailly

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Research and Markets: Axillary Hyperhidrosis Global Clinical Trials Review, H1, 2014

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A.M. Best Assigns Ratings to COPIC, A Risk Retention Group
[March 12, 2014]

A.M. Best Assigns Ratings to COPIC, A Risk Retention Group

OLDWICK, N.J. --(Business Wire)--

A.M. Best has assigned a financial strength rating of A (Excellent) and an issuer credit rating of "a" to COPIC, A Risk Retention Group (COPIC RRG) (District of Columbia). The outlook assigned to both ratings is stable.

COPIC RRG's ratings reflect its excellent risk-adjusted capitalization, A.M. Best's expectation of modest favorable operating performance (being a start-up company) and strong reinsurance protection. Its initial capital was provided by its sponsor, COPIC Trust (Trust). Significant reinsurance support is provided to COPIC RRG by COPIC Insurance Company (COPIC), the lead company of COPIC Companies (a diversified service organization dedicated to anticipating and meeting the needs of Colorado's health care community), and a subsidiary of Trust.

These positive rating factors are partially offset by COPIC RRG's risk of adverse losses from being a start-up company and expanding into new states, the concentration risk of primarily writing one line of business in a somewhat limited geographic area and the amount of initial capital contributed that is somewhat low. The ratings further reflect the limited permanency of capital as COPIC RRG's entire capital is in the form of a 20-year surplus note. However, this is mitigated by the long maturity of the note and the anticipated very low underwriting leverage represented in COPIC RRG's business plan The company maintains a conservative investment portfolio with minimal returns expected. Therefore, underwriting performance will be the primary driver of surplus growth.

The outlook is based upon the organization's conservative pricing and reserving practices and strong business position in its medical professional liability insurance markets.

Positive rating actions could occur from COPIC RRG having a long-term continuation of strong underwriting results, as well as careful evaluation of enterprise risk management risks and opportunities with appropriate actions taken to enhance the value of the company for its insureds and owners.

The outlook for the ratings may be lowered if adverse underwriting results develop from a loss of underwriting discipline, market conditions put pressure on top-line growth and/or negative investment outcomes affect surplus levels. Furthermore, negative rating actions may occur should support from COPIC be diminished or interrupted.

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The methodology used in determining these ratings is Best's Credit Rating Methodology, which provides a comprehensive explanation of A.M. Best's rating process and contains the different rating criteria employed in the rating process. Best's Credit Rating Methodology can be found at www.ambest.com/ratings/methodology.

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TribeHacks: William & Mary Boots up its First 24-Hour Hackathon
[April 09, 2014]

TribeHacks: William & Mary Boots up its First 24-Hour Hackathon

(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) WILLIAMSBURG, Va., April 8 -- The College of William and Mary issued the following news story: H. Wade Minter, the chief technology officer at a company that provides web and mobile services to five million users, stood in Swem Library, looked out upon the frantic final minutes of William & Mary's first 24-hour hackathon and talked about the influence of the liberal arts on computer science.

"One of the things that make William & Mary's computer science program unique is that because it's a relatively small program, you can't just immerse yourself in technology like you can at a larger engineering school," said Minter, whose company, TeamSnap, offers mobile and web tools to manage recreational sports teams.

"Plus, William & Mary pushes you to take classes outside pure science and technology," he said. "You have to take English classes. You have to take history classes. Those give you a broader perspective on technology as not just an end, but as a means: How does this technology that you're working on fit into the broader world?" Minter is in an excellent position to know. He's a 1997 graduate of William & Mary's computer science program. He was on campus for the university's first entry into the 24-hour computer coding sprees known as hackathons. Minter had a dual role at TribeHacks, signing up as a corporate sponsor and serving as a judge for the apps upon which hackers had hammered for 24 straight hours in Swem Library. Plus, he said, the scene at TribeHacks was just plain interesting.

"One of the things that's most interesting to me, as a computer science graduate from here, is seeing how the next generation of computer science graduates of William & Mary are approaching the technological issues of today," Minter said.

Joe Soultanis '15, a computer science student at William & Mary, was the driving force behind TribeHacks, held March 29-30. He explained that the idea of a hackathon was to produce the coolest piece of software possible in 24 hours. Everyone involved in TribeHacks pronounced it a success. Well, there was one hardware glitch: the mammoth takeout order from Chipotle arrived sans forks.

"We had around 100 people," said Hareesh Nagaraj '15, one of the TribeHacks organizers. "That's pretty good for the first year. Next year will be looking really good." TribeHacks, even in its first year, gained recognition by Major League Hacking, the umbrella organization of the college hackathon phenomenon. A hackathon combines collaborative and competitive elements. The apps produced at TribeHacks were judged and the best efforts won prizes awarded at the closing expo. TribeHacks was open to all college computing students and, through corporate sponsors, the organizers were able to defray travel costs for at least some attendees.

Sponsors like Minter speak at the hackathon's opening expos about their need for apps that would add functionality to their company's own products. In the case of TeamSnap, which, offers mobile and web tools to manage recreational sports teams, Minter came to TribeHacks with a suggestion for an API--application programming interface--that would allow a baseball or softball manager to print out a batting order.

"As a sponsor, you want to see people doing something with your application, as opposed to just some random cool thing," he said. But, he noted, one never knows what's going to happen at a hackathon, which often act as timed convection ovens for the finishing of existing ideas.

Hackathon participants usually work in teams on a project. Novice hackers are welcome and even accommodated; there was a table for the "noobs" to learn coding elements. Rob Dickerson, visiting assistant professor of computer science at William & Mary, conducted workshops and rendered assistance during the event. He admitted being a noob himself; TribeHacks was his very first hackathon. Dickerson said he was gratified to see students from his Data Structures course--mostly first- and second-year students--as well as people from his Mobile Cloud Computing class, a course that focuses on smartphone apps that harness the Cloud.

"I think that hackathons really fill a gap in computer science education. What we teach in the formal courses is important; we lay the groundwork for the theory of computer science," Dickerson said. "However, hackathons allow the students to be creative and actively apply that knowledge they learned in and a fun and competitive way." TribeHacks was enriched by a bunch of cool hardware on loan, most of it from the new Makerspace in Small Hall, home of William & Mary's Department of Physics. There was a group from Christopher Newport University using a set of Oculus Rift virtual reality goggles to enhance a video game. Raspberry Pi boxes--small computers that add functionality--were in great demand.

On Wednesday, three days after TribeHacks, Soultanis was still trying to get caught up on sleep, as his first hackathon was overlapping with regular class requirements. ("I had a CS project and a take-home Quantum midterm due today.") But, despite the sleep deficit, Soultanis seemed buoyed by the outcome of TribeHacks.

"Overall I was very impressed with our participants. I think the students really enjoyed seeing a different style of computer science and were excited to learn more about app development," he said. "The apps turned out great! In the future I can only see this event getting bigger and better, and I'm glad we had such a great first experience to launch us forward." Winning apps of TribeHacks 1.UglyMouse: Sami Mirimiri and Garrett Klausner (William & Mary '14): The app allows you to control the cursor on a remote computer by using your mobile phone. Your phone can be tilted from side-to-side to move the mouse around. You can click using the touchscreen. You can also select text from the remote computer and have the text arrive on your phone. The team was able to automatically dial and call a phone number if that text contains a phone number string.

2.GifJam: Joe Acosta (William & Mary) and Aaron Roe (Rice University): Allows a user to record a short (5-second) clip with a smartphone's camera; the video is then sent to the Cloud and converted into an animated gif. This gif is registered to your account, you can share it with friends using Facebook, in emails and text messages. You can also "thumbs up" the gifs you like.

3.Huddle: Caleb Severn, Daniel Park, Kevin Ko (William & Mary '16): Most students use Swem library for studying. This app allows a student to enter Swem Library and enter a course they are enrolled in. Afterwards, the locations for all the other students in the class appear on a map. You can use the app to find a study group. The app is based on Google maps, so it will work outside of Swem as well.

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T-Mobile’s Major League Baseball Relationship Finally Bears Fruit With MLB At Bat 13 Trial

T-Mobile’s announcement of a multi-year Major League Baseball partnership was first announced back at the company’s January 8th CES press event. That was the last we’d heard of any partnership, until now. T-Mobile has announced in celebration of their partnership free access to the official app of Major League Baseball, At Bat 13 who download the app from May 1st to June 30th. The app, available through Google’s Play Store and … [read full article]

T-Mobile Posts Brief Marketing Spot Highlighting Add-A-Line Promotion

T-Mobile’s add-a-line promotion has been in full swing since February 13th, but they just posted a brief 15 second marketing spot reminding you it’s going on. The promotion lasts till March 23rd and offers $0 Value and $5 Classic add-a-line offers. The promotion offers a $5 savings each month until January 2nd of next year. From our earlier post: Existing customers can take advantage of this opportunity by switching to the Classic or Value family … [read full article]

T-Mobile Launching Family Add-A-Line Promotion Beginning February 13th

Beginning Wednesday, February 13th T-Mobile will offer a promotional family plan add-a-line option with $0 Value and $5 Classic add-a-line offers. This add-a-line promotion represents a $5 savings each month until January 2nd of next year. Existing customers can take advantage of this opportunity by switching to the Classic or Value family promo rate plan, which does come with a contract extension however. The $5/$0 add-a-line offer is available on shared limited bucket … [read full article]

Seattle, Las Vegas Residents Can Put T-Mobile To The Test For 7 Days

T-Mobile’s let loose a quiet promotion for residents of Seattle and Las Vegas in the past few weeks and with it coming back onto my radar, we can only hope this deal extends to other markets in the future. T-Mobile isn’t keeping this one under any sort of wraps as my memory was refreshed after a @tmobile retweet last night by someone taking advantage of this opportunity. According to the … [read full article]

PSA: T-Mobile’s “Zero Down” Sale Begins Today, Runs Through End Of year

A public service announcement for all you last-minute shoppers out there as T-Mobile’s “Zero Down” sale kicks off today and runs though the end of the year. The deal lasts through December 31st and offers some of the T-Mobile’s most popular 4G devices for a $0.00 down payment on qualifying Unlimited Value and Unlimited Nationwide 4G data plans. This offer is good for new customers as well as customers who wish to … [read full article]

(Updated With Details) T-Mobile’s Unlimited Cheer Holiday Promotion Posted To YouTube

Updated with contest details below:  T-Mobile’s continuing their “Life Without Limits” campaign with a little Carly, a little holiday cheer and a brand new YouTube spot. This holiday season, T-Mobile is spreading Unlimited Cheer across the nation! We’re gifting a Life Without Limits to our lucky T-Mobile fans to find. Go to our Facebook page to learn more or follow us on Foursquare & … [read full article]

(Updated) T-Mobile’s “12 Days Of Value” Begins Today, Runs Through…December 12th

Update: Added the full list of handsets available with the $12 down promotion below.  T-Mobile’s newest Holiday promotion kicks off today with the “12 Days of Value” offering two great offers running through today, December 1st and ending December 12th. Select a great 4G smartphone for just $12 down (Value Plan), or get $120 cash back on a select 4G smartphone when trading in a qualifying smartphone from the list below. There’s no … [read full article]

T-Mobile’s Cyber Monday Sale Now In Full Swing, Get Em While They’re Hot

T-Mobile’s Cyber Monday special’s are now in full swing with special savings on new purchases. Savings include the Windows Phone 8X (free after $100 mail-in rebate), and the Lumia 810, Ceramic Black HTC One S, Galaxy S II (Steel Gray and White), all free with instant discounts. The Galaxy S III (both colors) will run $99 after a $100 mail-in rebate and the 32GB model offered for $149 … [read full article]

T-Mobile Posts One-Day Online Only Black Friday Deals

T-Mobile’s Black Friday sales are in full affect with a host of devices on sale including the Galaxy Note II, HTC One S, Nokia Lumia 810, Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, LG Optimus L9 and more. This online-only offer is in combination with their extended ‘Samsung Holiday Sale’ which offers a Value Plan-only opportunity to grab a host of new Samsung 4G smartphones. No word on whether the online-only Black Friday offer … [read full article]


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Nexus One Specs Galore

Looks like the Nexus One news train will continue yet again this morning, though this time it’s less imagery, more substance. Engadget has managed to score some very detailed spec sheets courtesy of a well informed tipster. The good news is that every little detail of the phone seems to be available here, so if you were wondering if the Nexus One had a “tricolor charging and notification indicator LED” then you’re in luck. Some not-so-exciting … [read full article]

Just Another Nexus One Update

There is no doubt about it, the Nexus One is the hot topic right now, and while it’s starting to pain me to update every small finding on this phone, this one is important.  Tnkgrl was allowed a moment or two with the Nexus one, and while unable to take pictures or video she did come away with some nice impressions.  She found, to my dismay, that there is no multitouch in the … [read full article]

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Number of hits for the Nexus One.

Number of Hits of the Nexus One Are you sick of the Nexus One yet?  I’m not, so here we go again.  Localytics, a mobile applications analytics service, has found that the Nexus One has been in use since November 25th, with a huge increase in use around December 11th (when they handed them to employees and started this snowball effect of leaks).  The FCC documents lead us to believe that this will work on … [read full article]

Is This The Nexus One Packaging?

It’s really saying something about how much we love phones if the picture of a retail box for the Google Phone aka Nexus One gets us all in a tizzy. I guess we can’t hide from the truth as newly founded website; TheNexusOne.com has uncovered and posted what is reported to be shots of the Nexus One packaging. That’s pretty much all we have right now but these folks claim to have a Nexus One … [read full article]

Nexus One Images Keep On Coming

Information regarding the Google Phone is coming out at a steady pace now and we can’t help but continue this run with a few more pics! Nothing astoundingly new here but at this point we’re just going to continue drooling wondering what this phone has in store for Android and more specifically, T-Mobile. A few more images of the boot screen, lock screen and the app menu might make today go by a little easier … [read full article]

T-Mobile, Are You Listening?

Hi, I’m Nicole aka @c0z, the Associate Editor of AndroidGuys. I’ve also been the Copy Editor of Tmonews for a while now, but that’s all behind the scenes stuff. I finally decided to post something, I hope you don’t hate it! :) Please note: These opinions are mine and don’t reflect the opinions of Tmone–no wait, they actually do–so here we go… Oh T-Mobile, you have so many loyal … [read full article]


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Corey Dillon Busted for Felony Spousal Abuse

5/2/2010 9:00 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF
Former NFL star Corey Dillon was arrested last night in Calabasas, CA on allegations of spousal abuse.

According L.A. County Sheriff's Department, Dillon's estranged wife, Desiree, called 911 claiming she had been assaulted. According to the report, she suffered minor injuries.

Cops say the alleged assault occurred at their home during an argument over a pending divorce and child custody issues. Desiree filed for divorce last month.

Dillon was held on $50,000 bail and later released.

Corey was also arrested back on April for DUI. He was a four-time Pro Bowl running back with the Cincinnati Bengals and a member of the Super Bowl winning New England Patriots in 2005.

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Mel Gibson's lawyer claims the actor has opened his wallet to Oksana Grigorieva since their baby was born, but now that she's allegedly breached their custody agreement Mel's gonna get a little stingier.

Mel Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva
Mel's lawyer, Stephen Kolodny, tells TMZ Mel has opened the bank vault for Oksana ... putting her up in a multi-million dollar house, buying her a car, providing health insurance and "giving Oksana tens of thousands of dollars to support her and Lucia over the past months."

Kolodny says Mel has gone far above and beyond what's required of him under a support and custody agreement the former couple reached in mediation.

But now, Kolodny claims Oksana has violated the agreement by refusing to let Mel see their daughter on Father's Day, Mel is only going to pay Oksana what they agreed to in mediation and not a penny more.

Kolodny wouldn't say how much Oksana is legally entitled to under mediation, but sources tell us it's "well over $10,000 a month."

Sources connected to Oksana tell a radically different story ... claiming Mel hasn't paid any support since they split.

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Penn State and Nebraska's football teams came together at midfield for a pre-game prayer ... led by a Nebraska assistant coach!

The coach, Ron Brown even sported PSU's navy blue -- like most of the crowd of more than 100,000 fans participating in the "Blue Out" ... to support victims of child sex abuse.

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