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Jun 24, 2020
Shut Up and Listen
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Labels: American Aquarium, Drive-by Truckers, Jason Isbell, Margo Price, memes, Satire, Will Hoge
Jun 15, 2020
New Video / Margo Price / "Letting Me Down"
From her forthcoming album That's How Rumors Get Started.
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More Monday Memes: Luke Bryan, Trace Adkins, Margo Price
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Feb 14, 2020
Jan 17, 2020
Margo Price Performs New Song "Stone Me"
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Labels: Full Frontal, Live performances, Margo Price
Dec 31, 2019
Last TwitterWINs of 2019
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Oct 8, 2019
Country Music Anagrams: Morgan Wallen, Margo Price, Tyler Childers, etc.
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Aug 15, 2019
Margo Price Covers "Mary Jane's Last Dance"
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Labels: Live performances, Margo Price, Tom Petty
Mar 13, 2019
Country Walk-Up Songs 2019
College baseball has started and MLB is on the way. Go Cubs!
As we did in 2013 & 2017, FTM ponders what songs country singers
should use as their perfect "walk up" music if they were baseball players.
Dustin Lynch
Mitchell Tenpenny
David Allan Coe
Sturgill Simpson
Kane Brown
Margo Price
Jordan Davis
Russell Dickerson
Rich O'Toole
Jason Aldean
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Dec 10, 2018
New Blood: Nichole Wagner
A few nights ago, I stumbled into a Tom Waits night at one of our local haunts, The Volstead, down here in lovely Austin, Texas. The night as a whole was entertaining; the Volstead has a creepy lounge vibe, so the context was perfect. And for a free show, the artists who played a few songs impressed me. They all worked the Waits-ian thing of being a little oddball with their delivery, working the room for the jokes and banter lost somewhere in the shadows or cobwebs.
If any cities can pull off a Tom Waits night, Austin is definitely on the short list.
One of those singers that I immediately enjoyed was Nichole Wagner. After belting out two Tom Waits tunes with a country twang, I wanted to hear what her original music sounded like.
On Wagner's latest record And The Sky Caught Fire, the excitement for her music is validated. The country twang is in full effect, offering a little slice of Kacey Musgraves older songs, mixed with a little bit of The Civil Wars concerning vocal approach.
And The Sky Caught Fire feels very "Austin" with its production sensibilities, but also has a slight poppy feel to it, as well. While I sincerely enjoy Wagner's vocals and songwriting ability, I was a little underwhelmed with the backing band. Something about "The Rules of Baseball" and "Let Me Know" has a darkness that's not on front street, but permeates the air. Because of that internal expectation, I'd like to hear what Wagner could do with a band who was sonically closer to Jason Isbell's 400 Unit or whoever is backing Margo Price.
Music nerd gripes aside, And The Sky Caught Fire is a solid country/Americana record. The production is bright, and the craftsmanship is there. If you're looking for something that you could throw on while cooking dinner, this has that sensibility, which having a few good dinner records is never a bad thing. For a first record, this is a fine place to start kicking. At a slim 35 minutes, Wagner packs in a lot of punch in just a short amount of time.
If you're down here in Texas, I'd suggest giving Nichole Wagner a shot out in the clubs. She handled those Tom Waits songs with velvet gloves and made them her own, which was transfixing. I'm definitely going to catch her live because I have a suspicion she's capable of throwing fire when it's her songs we're listening to.
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Nov 21, 2018
New Video / Margo Price / "All American Made"
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Oct 9, 2018
New Video / Margo Price / "Leftovers"
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Aug 28, 2018
Margo Price and Brandi Carlile Cover "9 to 5"
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Labels: Brandi Carlile, Dolly Parton, Live performances, Margo Price
Jul 27, 2018
Chasing the Sky: A Conversation With Kasey Anderson
By Kevin Broughton
Almost two years ago, Kasey Anderson opened up in depth here about his spiraling descent from artist-on-the-cusp to grifting, locked-up addict. He was then not quite a year post-prison. And while there was still a hint of an artist's confidence about him, it was tempered by the gun-shyness you'd expect of a guy fresh from the halfway house and with a long list of pissed-off victims, many of them former friends.
Little did he know that within a couple of months he'd begin the long, cathartic and ad hoc process of recording a comeback album. In fact, he really had no clue what would come of the sessions, done virtually pro bono by a collection of generous friends and musical colleagues from the Portland indie scene.
Anderson's voice on the telephone is stronger today. He sounds healthier, no doubt buoyed by the album-making process that was critical to his ongoing restoration as a man. The humility is still there, no doubt, but the knowledge that he's made a really solid rock 'n' roll record has put a spring in his step. From A White Hotel, released today on emerging label Julian Records, is poignant, introspective and sprinkled with Anderson's trademark irony, starting with the title, a reference to his drab lodgings for more than two years. Oh, and his name isn't on it.
We caught up with Anderson with just a few days to go before his nuptials, and talked redemption, recovery, the virtues of not being preachy, and the inevitable Steve Earle comparisons. And the whole, stupid "outlaw country" thing.
I'm curious about the way your band is billed. I was partial to the name "Kasey Anderson and The Honkies." "Hawks and Doves" is the name of an underrated Neil Young album & song; why the switch? Were you worried about the local Portland anarchist community torching your pad to protest your white privilege? Sorry, I know it's low-hanging fruit…
Ha! No. First, I decided to do it under a band name because of the way the record came together. I had written all the lyrics and had the structure of the songs, but the instrumentation came together in such a collaborative way that it felt disingenuous just to put my name on it. And The Honkies, I didn't want to go back to that because all those guys were such strong personalities in their own right, and I just kinda wanted to leave it there with those guys because I have such fond memories of that band.
And I love that Neil Young record. The phrase "hawks and doves" is a political and military term. It seemed pretty appropriate for what's going on now. Plus, it just sounds cool.
The first time I heard that song was on Scott Miller & The Commonwealth's live album…
Yeah, yeah! From The V Roys!
And since it's not "Kasey and the Hawks and Doves," just the band name, any concern that nobody will know it's you?
I don't think it's a horrible thing for me to make a clean break with the work that I did and the life that I led as a solo artist. It wasn't a calculated move to do that; maybe it's an added benefit? And I think that the way it's being marketed through the press, it's pretty clear that it's a band I'm involved in.
This is a collection of a dozen pretty dang good songs. How long have they been percolating? Did some of these words get put to paper while you were locked up?
Yeah, about half of them were written while I was locked up, during my second year in prison. "Every Once in a While," for instance, is about my first cellmate. That's his story much more than mine. The other five or six songs happened around after the election, in late 2016. It took us a long time to make the record because of the way we went about it.
Tell me about this band, and how you got the record made; I imagine raising funds to get an album done might have been challenging for someone in your position.
The band is Jordan Richter (guitars,) Ben Landsverk (bass, keys, viola, background vocals) and Jesse Moffat (drums, percussion). Other folks who played are Eric "Roscoe" Ambel, Kurt Bloch, Ralph Carney, Kay Hanley and Dave Jorgensen.
Jordan engineered it and owns a recording studio in town. And I think right after you and talked last time, some folks reached out and asked if I'd like to contribute a track for a benefit record they were involved in. I told Jordan, "Hey, I'd really like to do this, but I don't have money to pay for studio time or to pay session players." And he said, "Are you sure you want to do a benefit record?" (Laughs)
…I wasn't gonna say anything. It was a real thing, though, right?
(Laughs) Yeah, it was a real thing. It was to help this woman named Jennifer Holmes – who has since passed away – with her cancer treatments. So once I proved to him that it was a real thing, he said he'd get some people together. We covered this song called "Wise Blood" by the band Tender Mercies. At the end of the session Jordan said, "Man, if you ever want to just come in the studio and roll tape, everybody gets your situation and knows that you don't have a bunch of money to throw into making a record. There are people willing to play your songs for fun and just see where it goes."
And that's what we did. Jordan would text a group of us that said, "I have this day where the studio's not in use, and you don't have to pay me for the time." So it took us more than a year, because we'd do a day here and there, and everybody would go back to their lives. So that's how the record got made, and it was really generous of him to do that.
And then I sent [the album] to several of my friends and said, "I really don't know what to do with this; I can't put it out." I have a friend named Nathan Earle here in Portland who's in a band called The Get Ahead, and he told me about this new label, Julian Records. "They seem to be looking for bands," he said. "Why don't you send it to them?" I had planned to just try and put it out digitally, but the Julian Records folks were into it, and took it from there.
That's certainly fortuitous.
It's very fortuitous, and the only way it was going to come out physically. I mean it's not really cost-prohibitive to get an album out digitally. But this was very generous. Everybody seemed to think the songs were cool, and were like, "Don't worry about it right now, let's just see what happens."
When last we spoke, we touched on your being medicated for bipolar disorder, and how that can sometimes stifle creativity in artists of all stripes. There's a line in "Lithium Blues" that says, "You took the words right out of my mouth." Is there a balance you find yourself having to strike between mental health and creativity?
Yeah, for sure. "Lithium Blues" might have been the first thing I wrote in prison that I was really happy with. I had to go back and figure out, okay, there's an element of magic to creativity, but there's a much bigger element of math to it. And I know how to make a song so that the pieces fit together. If I can trust myself enough to do that, the rest will come along in time. That's kind of what that song is about. We talked about this a little bit before, but I had almost resigned myself that [playing music professionally] was behind me, that maybe I could do some shows for fun from time to time. But over the course of making this record it became clear to me that I still know how to make a song work. Whether this is a thing I get to do on a larger scale remains to be seen, but I was able to prove to myself that I can still put a good song together, even when I'm not up for five straight days.
An article in Glide mentioned that you're training to be an addiction counselor. Is there some sense of duty there? Have you become more zealous about "the program" and living clean? Maybe a little of both?
It's a little of both. I have certainly become more zealous about making sure that people who deal with mental health and/or addiction issues – especially younger people – have someone they can talk to without feeling judged or dictated to.
The name of your band, as you mentioned, has political overtones, and there are some references to current events on the album. But you didn't lose your mind and start bashing people over the head with your opinions, like so many artists have done since 2016. Why do so many folks make everything about politics?
When I wrote these songs, one of the things I tried really hard to do was invite people into a conversation rather than dictate to them how they should feel about any given thing.
Thank you.
I really feel that's a far more effective way to engage an audience, if you want to have that conversation. I have never responded to anybody – even when I agree wholeheartedly with what they have to say – addressing whatever they imagine their audience to be, by dictating what their thoughts or beliefs should be. That just doesn't work for me, and when I wrote these songs I tried really hard to stay away from that. I wanted to ground it in narrative and open-ended conversation.
Yeah. It's there, but it's not preachy, and it's open to interpretation. And believe you me it's refreshing. Because I didn't vote for the sumbitch, but I've had about a bellyful of being preached to by guys whose music I otherwise love.
Switching gears, redemption is certainly a theme running through From a White Hotel. How cathartic was this whole process, and where are you on the whole making-amends thing that started when you got out of the joint?
Well, in terms of the process being restorative, the making of the record – playing music with other people, being able to work on songs – was really, really healthy. And it was good to do it in a way that I didn't have to feel like my life depended on whether people liked these songs. Obviously I wouldn't have put the record out if I didn't want people to hear the songs, but it's not going to ruin my life if there's a deafening thud when it's released. I'm still gonna be married to this wonderful woman, I'm still gonna be helping people who struggle with mental health and addiction issues. At the end of the day, the act of making a record was rewarding in and of itself.
The amends thing? Well…the second you say you're humble, you're not.
Ha! I guess that's true.
(Laughs) Yeah. I'll just say I'm really proud of the work that I've done. I think I'm living out amends to people to whom I can't make direct amends. I've worked really hard at doing a good job of that.
By the time this article runs you'll have been married for about a week. Was Caitlin a part of your life before you went away? How big a part of your road back to normalcy has she been?
She was a part of my life. She wasn't my girlfriend at that time, but she was part of a close group of friends. My girlfriend at the time was named Tracey, and she called Caitlin that night and said, "You're not gonna believe this, but he's gone. He's going to prison, so can you come get his stuff out of my apartment?" So Caitlin went and got all of my stuff and took it to Goodwill in East Los Angeles. A lot of us had drastic changes in our lives around that time but we all stayed in touch for the most part. And Cait and I stayed in touch while I was locked up, and she's been so supportive. She was never judgmental. It's been one of the most positive things in my life – if not the most positive – to have that person with me every step of the way.
On the title cut you say, "I ain't no kind of outlaw, and I never claimed to be." The wit and irony are strong in you, Kasey Anderson.
(Laughs) Well, you know, that's true. I never tried to market any of the records we ever made as any sort of "outlaw country" thing…
Oh, wait! Gosh, see, there's so much irony I missed the irony. I was thinking in the literal sense, in that you've done time and technically are an outlaw.
(Laughs) I technically am an outlaw, and that's kind of the point I wanted to make. It's not all those artists' fault that they're being marketed and trumpeted that way. But a lot of times I'll read an article about some "outlaw country" artist and think, "Man, I've actually been an outlaw and it sucks!"
You know, smoking weed doesn't make someone an outlaw. My mom's 65 and she'll smoke weed and watch Netflix. That doesn't make someone a badass. Figure out what you mean by "outlaw."
Speaking of outlaws: Everybody's favorite badass, Steve Earle, gets a nod on "Clothes Off My Back," right down to the title of his 1996 post-prison album. I can understand why you could maybe not resist a tip of the ol' driver's cap; it's just too perfect. But aren't you afraid he might get a big head over it?
Um…no, I'm not. Because I think Steve knows how good he is. He's far enough along in his career that he knows he's revered by people who write songs.
Very diplomatic, by the way.
(Laughs) But the point of that song…Steve's been sober for a long time now, and he's done a really good job of living his life according to that. And so it's an acknowledgement that I'm not anywhere near where this guy is as a songwriter, and certainly not in my recovery. But I'm certainly a lot better than I was five years ago.
Yeah. I was really hoping you'd rise to the bait there.
(Laughs) I can't.
I know.
Also, just to clarify one comment: my issue with "Outlaw Country" isn't with any of the artists, it's with the folks who use it as an easy/"cool" way to market and categorize artists. I don't know too many artists who are actively seeking that label. I know Sturgill and Aaron Lee Tasjan for sure have poked fun at it in the past. That kind of marketing and categorization, to me, draw attention away from how great artists like Sturgill and Margo Price and Elizabeth Cook and those folks are individually, and makes it into this one homogenous category. It's counterproductive. Their work is great, so let it stand on its own.
Newlywed Kasey Anderson is on tour. Check dates here.
From a White Hotel is available everywhere today, including Kasey's site.
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Jun 12, 2018
Anthony Bourdain Was My Hero and Now He's Gone
by Robert Dean
I always thought I'd meet Anthony Bourdain. I was convinced that as my career evolved, we'd cross paths. I'd get to be one of those writers he loved, we 'd sit there, sucking down Lone Star longnecks in a roadside diner somewhere in west Texas or we'd be on an adventure down in Melbourne talking about why we loved the Ramones and The Stooges, too. About why books matter, why writing is a hard life, not dissimilar to the pirate mentality of a line cook.
Being a writer and someone obsessed with the kitchen, I assumed this relationship was a natural fit - game recognizing game. He was my idol. A beacon of hope that a punk rock loser could get a win. I don't have many heroes, but Bourdain was a guy who'd battled his demons. As someone who fights depression, I thought I knew him.
We'd opine about Pam Grier flicks like Coffy or just how badass Michael Caine was in Get Carter. We'd order a round of Jameson's and extol our love of Jim Harrison's Legends of The Fall. We clink our shot glasses and then go on a bender of epic proportions. He'd dub me an heir to his throne, and we'd exchange texts and samples of whatever we were writing.
I'd see him one day in my travels and we'd bond about Tikka masala or Old Towne Inn in Chicago. He'd ask a few questions about The Rolling Stones best record and I reply, "fuckin' Exile on Mainstreet, of course." And we'd be off to the races.
It was a good fantasy, and now, it'll forever remain only that – make-believe.
I know things because of him. I envied him because he'd shared meals with some of humanity's most exceptional people when in reality, he was one of the finest too. Anthony Bourdain wasn't just a host. He was the guy who snuck in the back door, leaving a crack open for the rest of us.
When people die, it rakes us over the emotional coals, challenging our sense of being, and purpose. Death dares us to ask: what does it mean to live genuinely? Can we carry on someone's legacy, or did the memory of that person affect us as profoundly as we like to say on Facebook?
Losing Anthony Bourdain is a knife in the gut. This one hurts. Bad. How could someone who'd realized the dream, who seemingly had the (now)-perfect experience, burn it like a slip of paper into the ether? We'll never know went on inside of his head. That was Tony's choice, as he stared into oblivion, locked away inside his five-star French hotel room.
Folks from all over the world will muse about his greatness, his likability, his genuine nature, that he was an A+ original. They won't be wrong. Every note and letter spent adoring his name will be a statement in truth: our species is better off for getting to know him over these last two decades.
Every walk of life watched A Cook's Journey, No Reservations, and Parts Unknown. We voyeuristically imagined ourselves drinking a cold beer in the jungles of Brazil or wandering on the streets of Tokyo through his adventures. We learned new things about people on the other side of planet, just as they learned about us, over here in TrumpLand.
Anthony Bourdain taught us why food is important, why it binds across the lines of reality and what we're willing to fight for. All cultures, all people center life around food, and whether seated on the floor or at a table, its an experience we all share as a people. If there's a universal truth we all know, it's that food makes us less assholes.
Even if you hate one another's opinions, points of view, and guts, there is always the commonality of the meal. We're drawn to the scent of flesh cooked over fire. Blame it on our hard-coded hunter/gatherer DNA, but it moves us, and Anthony Bourdain tapped into that.
We tend to be a lot less mean when a medium rare steak served with glistening plate of waffle fries is dropped in our laps. Anthony Bourdain dared us to sit at life's table, no matter how awkward the conversation, to find a solution, in spite of the gravity of the world.
Before Kitchen Confidential, chefs were seen as these guys with folded arms in starched white jackets and big funny hats. We were let in on the secrets of the service industry, that everything wasn't gleaming and pristine. Bourdain pulled the curtain back. He showed us the teeth of the pig, the hair plucked from the hide of the animal, and did so with a bloody, drug-induced irreverence.
That book changed our relationship to the food we eat. Everything was less about how a plate comes out to the table, but how we see the mechanisms of the environment, which it was centered.
Before him, the Food Network was just knives hitting the cutting board, not a real peek into the industry of service. The Food Network didn't know what to do with Anthony Bourdain. Instead of embracing the weird, they laid their chips on safe programming. It wouldn't be too far of a stretch to see how bad they wanted to make up for their error in later years. After just one season, A Cook's Journey was pulled. To the Travel Channel went Bourdain and the beginnings of an empire were created.
Despite food being the pulse of No Reservations and Parts Unknown, the people are what made the body of work shine. Viewers into the world of Bourdain learned how to appreciate the far corners of the world, how the people in the streets, the dinner table or against the brass at the local pub, all wanted the same thing: an enjoyable life.
Parts Unknown stood as the last real bastion of counterculture America in the mainstream. Bourdain created cinema-inspired television on a network, a feat that changed the face of CNN from talking head machine into a place of experience and stories. Anthony Bourdain let the squares inside his orgy of life.
While Bourdain hit the nicest of the nice, he also slummed – it wasn't about the luxury of the room or the number of Michelin stars dangling from the name, it was about the experience. He had drinks made from spit and cow's blood, he devoured fresh caught snapper on the beach, pulled from a man's cooler who couldn't speak a lick of English. The narrative never changed: love the people, and learn their secrets.
Bourdain and his Zero Point Zero crew made television that wasn't a bunch of fat white guys guffawing over a local beer and burger joint. That pedestrian shit was for the birds. Instead, they saw their chance to make high art, to challenge viewers and take them on the journey.
The Heart of Darkness, the movies of Federico Fellini, the car chases of Steve McQueen, a penchant for crime and darkness, books, and music all permeated the landscape of the show. While competing travel shows opt for canned guitar riff music you could find in an elevator, bands like Queens of The Stone Age, and The Black Keys wanted their songs featured. Margo Price, Ume, The Sword, the godfather of punk, Iggy Pop all got to experience the world of Bourdain, and the result remained centered around the love of art, no matter the medium.
The look and feel of his shows were never a hatchet job. The narration, the vibe, everything was poured over. Every shot mattered. The writing on the show was brilliant, honest and true. While Bourdain's books and essays are testaments to his writing prowess, it was the guttural rawness of his scripts that ached, that begged the viewer to travel, to eat, to experience life.
The honesty of the subjects he took on is what made people adore Anthony Bourdain. He took us to Montana, to Madagascar, to Moscow. We saw the streets of New Orleans, the intensity of South by Southwest, and we got to know the tragedies of Iran and Myanmar. When Anthony Bourdain visited West Virginia, he handled the opioid crisis with care and humanity. He showed his character, it wasn't devastation porn, but a portrait of a hidden America.
He was a brilliant writer, a storied cook, a former addict, and the guy you wanted to talk to at the party. And now he's gone.
Brian Allen Carr summed up Anthony Bourdain earlier. I'll end there because as a writer, it's genuine, respectful and stabs like a dagger. Goddamnit, Tony, we're going to miss you.
"Anthony Bourdain was Hunter Thompson, Fernand Point, and Studs Terkel wrapped up in one. He's the reason America eats at food trucks. He's the reason we take pictures of all our food. If you've Yelped, it's because of him. He was the most significant writer in recent memory."
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Don't Call Him An Outlaw, Joshua Hedley Is So Much More To Country Music
by Robert Dean
When people ask about Farce The Music, I like to think of what we do around here is spread "The Gospel of Good Shit." We've helped give a little credence to folks who are either up and coming or out there killing it, who deserve more ink than other outlets are providing them.
We talked about Sturgill before he was cool, and we blabbed on about Chris Stapleton when he was still "that big, bearded dude from The Steeldrivers." We shouted from the rooftops about Tyler Childers and Colter Wall back when no one had so much of heard of these dudes outside of Ole' W.B. Walker. We've not shut up about Margo Price since she was talking about losing the farm and wanting a bottle of wine for momma.
Lindi Ortega, Jason Isbell, Lillie Mae, Ian Noe, Kacey Musgraves, and Justin Wells - all of that amazing music, we've been waiving those flags a long time now. This isn't a pat on the back; it's a mission statement: we're dedicated to helping champion amazing artists, and hopefully getting some of these folks who are still slugging it out in bars, playing for tips, sell a few t-shirts or at least another bottle of PBR after their set.
There's a name that keeps popping up on my radar over and over again, someone who thanks to my mate Harsha down in Sydney, I got the chance to see in a tiny little room above a Spanish restaurant on the other side of the planet. That name is Joshua Hedley.
While I enjoyed my experience seeing him in a packed room full of Aussies in their best country gear, it wasn't until I heard his new record, Mr. Jukebox, when I was flabbergasted at Joshua Hedley's beauty and brilliance.
Joshua Hedley is a name that will be mentioned in places "too cool" for country, that vaunted Sturgill Simpson territory, an area that blurs the lines of just who Sturgill's "core" fanbase is, nobody knows – but there sure are a ton of them. Rolling Stone has already jumped on board, and then there's NPR, The Chicago Reader, The Tennessean, to name just a few who are falling hard for Hedley's debut Third Man Records release.
Having spent years as a featured Monday night performer at Robert's Western World down on Nashville's main drag, since his teens, Hedley knows a thing or two about playing the hits, and it shows on Mr. Jukebox. It's become lore amongst the musicians on Broadway to cite how well Hedley knows his country music, but also that he can play it at the drop of a Stetson.
What Mr. Jukebox isn't, is another record featuring a desire to be a bar room badass, a fighter in a leather hat ala Waylon with a Kool dangling off his lip, ready to clean a clock and peel out on a Harley, middle fingers up. Outlaw isn't a world uttered when describing what Hedley does, in fact, it's the exact opposite of what he does.
When Waylon and Willie were coming up and energizing the idea of what the Outlaw scene meant, it was on the merit of beer swigging hooligans who write songs for guys with hard knuckles and a constitution for cheap blow and fast women. The songs weren't complex arrangements, nor did they lean on the traditions of Nudie suits or songs about horses and other fairy tales of the scene back then.
Outlaw was decidedly not what was popular in the day's country music, which featured lush string arrangements and stories about heartbreak, and deceit by a lovelorn partner. There was a sense of beauty to those songs, a purpose driven by big choruses and a beat that anyone could two-step to, drunk or sober, happy or sad.
That's precisely the nerve Joshua Hedley taps into on Mr. Jukebox with booming traditionalism and on the nose respect to the late 50's early 60's era of country, before disco or rock n' roll changed the flavor.
The soul of Mr. Jukebox is decidedly unhip to mainstream Nashville standards, but the songs are glorious throwbacks to guys like Ernest Tubb, George Jones or Buck Owens. The reason Mr. Jukebox succeeds is his backbone of traditionalism, not only in character, but also because of Ole' Hed's dedication to the heart of real country music.
Hedley's fiddle furiously battles his smooth vocal runs with a multi-disciplined attack that's just damned good music. Joshua Hedley can strum a guitar, sing with a clean, clear harmonious range, and write lyrics that are not only witty, but also painstakingly crafted so that the words on some of the record's tracks land like guy punches.
Mr. Jukebox is the record you can slip on for MeeMaw while she's in the kitchen and you're likely to get a head turn out of her because the sound, the style, the playing is so believable, so in the moment; it's hard to reckon that Mr. Jukebox is brand new. Say what you will, but there's always something pleasing about getting a flicker of recognition from the old school, even if she's just making a gumbo in her slippers.
The record's opener, "Counting All My Tears" lets the listener know that without a doubt, Conway Twitty's stamp is there. All throughout the album, the steel guitar slides and wanes while the harmonies are large productions that harken back to the thick, wall of sound delivery, but with a slight tinge of gospel power hidden in the rafters for a sprinkle of good luck.
"Weird Thought Thinker" feels like that era of Willie Nelson before he moved back to Texas, while "I Never (Shed a Tear)" feels straight off Patsy Cline's vine and broadcast to the world via The Grand Ole Opry. This is pure classic, country music that's without any of the bullshit sparkles. We're getting closer and closer to two factions of country music coming to the forefront: Southern Pop and Country Music.
If there was any doubt of what Joshua Hedley does, brother you ain't been paying attention. Mr. Jukebox is here to stay, and the waves we'll see in his wake will only push those boats higher and higher – green Nudie suit and all.
Mr. Jukebox is available everywhere you consume fine music.
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I have a craftsman 113.298761 I am restoring and wanted to replace the arbor bearing since I had it taken apart. Didn't have much luck getting one of the bearings off and managed to warp the end of the arbor. I am worried it could cause some wobble once I get it back together, and I don't want to have to risk having to take it back apart again. Unfortunately the replacement from sears is a bit steep, so while I hawk over craigslist and ebay for the next few weeks, I figured I'd post here.
If anyone has some extra parts laying around and one of them happens to be an arbor, shoot me a message and a price please.
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Life on Mars? Ursinus Grad Finds Boron on Red Planet
December 14, 2016Patrick Gasda '07 has made a discovery that indicates habitable groundwater once flowed on the surface of Mars.
Gasda, a postdoctoral research fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, is leading a team that recently found boron on the arid planet. The element is left behind by evaporated water in dry regions on Earth.
"No prior mission to Mars has found boron," Gasda said in a news release distributed by the Los Alamos National Laboratory. "If the boron that we found in calcium sulfate mineral veins on Mars is similar to what we see on Earth, it would indicate that the groundwater of ancient Mars that formed these veins would have been 0 to 60 degrees Celsius [32 to 140 degrees Fahrenheit] and neutral-to-alkaline pH."
The temperature, pH and dissolved mineral content of the groundwater could make it habitable, according to the laboratory. The boron was identified by the ChemCam, which is aboard NASA's Curiosity rover exploring Mars. The laser-shooting instrument allows scientists to analyze the elemental composition of Martian rocks.
Last summer, Ursinus students Ethan Haldeman '18, a chemistry and physics major from Manheim, Pa., and Veronica Sanford '17, a physics major from York, Pa., worked as part of Gasda's research team. The students helped Gasda analyze data from the ChemCam.
"This is an example of directly seeing the influence my work has had on the field of science as a whole," Haldeman said. "It is a great feeling to know that the research I performed has contributed to the first direct detection of boron on Mars. Being a part of a discovery like this also helps reinforce that science is not just classes and tests, but performing experiments and making new discoveries."
Sanford added, "It's a very surreal feeling to know that I was part of the discovery of an element on Mars, especially boron. Boron has such important implications regarding possible life on Mars; its positive identification is so important going forward. Being able to work with a team of such talented, insightful, and enthusiastic scientists in Los Alamos was already an amazing experience, and the verification of boron makes my time there even more meaningful."
Prior to the boron discovery, ChemCam uncovered surprising facts about Mars geology, including the discovery of igneous rocks, which are solidified from lava or magma.
Whether Martian life has ever existed is still unknown, scientists at the lab say. The discovery of boron is only one of several recent findings related to the composition of Martian rocks, according to the Los Alamos lab. The Curiosity rover is climbing a layered Martian mountain and finding rock-composition evidence of how ancient lakes and wet underground environments changed, billions of years ago, in ways that affected their favorability for microbial life.
"At Ursinus, I learned the fundamentals that helped me get me interested in space science and science in general," Gasda said. –by Ed Moorhouse


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October 24th, 2014
October 24, 2014: Trout Wins Third Straight Stan Musial Award
Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout swept the balloting on his way to his third successive Stan Musial Award, as selected by members of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance (BBA). Trout, who had arguably his worst full season in the big leagues, still posted a 7.9 bWAR on his way to leading the Angels to their first playoff appearance since he became part of the team.
Trout won in a rout, capturing all 15 first place votes and beating out his closest competition, Cleveland outfielder Michael Brantley, by 90 points. Only Trout and Brantley were able to cross the 100-point plateau.
In the National League, fresh off winning the Walter Johnson Award (again), Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles Dodgers took home the Stan Musial hardware as well. Kershaw was the only player in the big leagues to outperform Trout according to bWAR, coming in with an even 8.0.
Kershaw garnered 10 of the possible 14 first place votes and beat out the runner-up, 2013 Musial winner Andrew McCutchen, by 27 points.
The complete voting results are as follows (first place votes in parenthesis):
American League:
Mike Trout, Los Angeles (15) 195
Michael Brantley, Cleveland 105
Jose Bautista, Toronto 74
Corey Kluber, Cleveland 67
Victor Martinez, Detroit 66
Josh Donaldson, Oakland 65
Jose Abreu, Chicago 51
Felix Hernandez, Seattle 47
Alex Gordon, Kansas City 45
Jose Altuve, Houston 44
Robinson Cano, Seattle 35
Adrian Beltre, Texas 29
Ian Kinsler, Detroit 12
Nelson Cruz, Baltimore 9
Miguel Cabrera, Detroit 8
Adam Jones, Baltimore 7
David Price, Tampa Bay/Detroit 4
Phil Hughes, Minnesota 3
Brian Dozier, Minnesota 2
Jon Lester, Boston/Oakland 2
National League:
Clayton Kershaw, Los Angeles (10) 164
Andrew McCutchen, Pittsburgh (4) 137
Giancarlo Stanton, Miami 114
Jonathan Lucroy, Milwaukee 89
Anthony Rendon, Washington 72
Buster Posey, San Francisco 67
Anthony Rizzo, Chicago 36
Yasiel Puig, Los Angeles 25
Johnny Cueto, Cincinnati 16
Adam Wainwright, St. Louis 15
Carlos Gomez, Milwaukee 13
Jhonny Peralta, St. Louis 13
Jason Heyward, Atlanta 11
Josh Harrison, Pittsburgh 9
Jayson Werth, Washington 9
Adrian Gonzalez, Los Angeles 8
Justin Morneau, Colorado 6
Justin Upton, Atlanta 4
Cole Hamels, Philadelphia 2
Todd Frazier, Cincinnati 1
Hunter Pence, San Francisco 1
The Baseball Bloggers Alliance was formed in the fall of 2009 to encourage cooperation and collaboration between baseball bloggers of all major league teams as well as those that follow baseball more generally. As of this writing, the organization consists of 215 blogs spanning most of the 30 major league squads as well as general baseball writing.
The BBA is organized under a similar structure as the Baseball Writers of America, where blogs that follow the same team are combined into chapters and only two votes from the chapter on an award are counted. The blog chapters that are focused on general baseball were allowed two votes as well, which they could use both on the same league or split between the two leagues.
Chapters generally followed one of two methods when casting their ballot. Either representatives of the chapter were given the ballots for voting or a "group ballot" was posted, accounting for both of their votes.
Notably, though the Alliance's awards come out well before their official counterparts, the BBA selections have matched those of the Baseball Writers of America in many instances over the past five years. This, of course, does not include the Goose Gossage Award that is exclusive to the BBA.
Ballots are posted on the respective blogs and for this award, were tabulated on a 13-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 point scale for first through tenth place. In the interest of transparency, links to the ballots are listed on the official site.
Prior Winners:
2013: Mike Trout, Los Angeles; Andrew McCutchen, Pittsburgh
2012: Mike Trout, Los Angeles; Buster Posey, San Francisco
2011: Jose Bautista, Toronto; Matt Kemp, Los Angeles
2010: Josh Hamilton, Texas; Joey Votto, Cincinnati
2009: Joe Mauer, Minnesota; Albert Pujols, St. Louis
The official website of the BBA is located here. The BBA can be found on Twitter by the handle @baseballblogs and by the hashmark #bbba. For more information, contact Daniel Shoptaw at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Ben Schumacher "The China Chalet Group"
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The China Chalet Group is Ben Schumacher's third solo exhibition with Bortolami.
For the exhibition, Schumacher has replicated the interior of China Chalet, a Chinese banquet hall turned after-hours club located just around the corner from the New York Stock Exchange. China Chalet became a go-to destination in the late 2000s, attracting a socially diverse clientele seeking an alternative to the stereotypical NYC club scene. It's still popular today as a venue for surprise DJ sets from pop stars, incognito celebrity sightings, and a meet-up for artists.
Schumacher's replica of China Chalet, made from memory at approximately 3/4 scale, falls somewhere between earnest tribute and satire. Booths, audio equipment and tables are constructed with little more than anodized aluminum, screws, and faux upholstery. They lack any utility as furniture or as a model, a twist on Schumacher's training and early career as an architect. But each piece of "furniture" also displays its own miniature model, embedded with small sculptures and dioramas which serve as a constellational map of Schumacher's biography and past projects. These objects range from a toy theatre made with dollhouse furniture to a plush model of a church in Montreal in which Schumacher had curated a show. An aluminum "dance floor" even doubles as replica of a typical NYC rooftop.
The faux restaurant environment includes new paintings by Schumacher which combine oil paint with printed collages of exhibition announcements and record releases. In each work, figuration fades into printed block lettering and graphic design, the typography stretched over brushstrokes underneath.
Ben Schumacher was born in 1985 in Kitchener, Canada. Recent exhibitions include The Testing Place, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, Austria, Käsesakramentsystem, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, Privilege and Melancholy, Johan Berggren, Malmö, Sweden, Selten Gehörte Musik, Kavita B Schmid, Queens, NY, Motor Earth, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA and The Fellbach Triennial, Fellbach, Germany. Forthcoming projects include the film The China Chalet Group, written by Franco Polish Black Jeans Porn Club and a group exhibition, I WAS RAISED ON THE INTERNET at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL. Schumacher received a Bachelor of Architecture from Waterloo University and a Masters of Fine Art from New York University.
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February 11, 2019
Katun Corporation has announced that it is both excited and proud that 2019 is the company's 40th anniversary in the imaging industry.
Throughout the year, Katun says it will be introducing campaigns, promotions and events to help celebrate this significant milestone and to help customers grow their businesses, reduce costs and increase their profitability.
Katun was founded in 1979 with a mission to be the world's best and most-trusted OEM-alternative source for office equipment imaging supplies and parts. Since its humble beginnings, Katun helped legitimise the office equipment aftermarket and has long been considered one of the leaders in the global imaging industry. The company's goal continues to be to provide dealers and distributors with the optimal combination of high quality, cost savings, innovation and support to enable their businesses to grow and prosper – with Katun regarded as their invaluable and most trusted business partner.
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Skin cancer, caused by exposure to the sun, makes up 80 per cent of the diagnosed cancers in the world. For example, skin cancer in the United States takes the number one spot in cancerous diagnosis than all the rest of cancers combined.
And if you think that's bad, the World Cancer Research Fund at reports that Australia has the highest incidents of melanoma, (the most serious type of skin cancer) in the world. No wonder there are literally hundreds of skin care doctors and sun doctor clinics throughout Australia, from Canberra to Darwin, down to Perth.
What Are the Types of Skin Cancer
Without being overly technical, there are two types of skin cancer, non-melanoma skin cancer and melanoma skin cancers.
Most skin cancers are of a non-melanoma type, which means their early treatment can be treated with minor surgery. Melanoma skin cancers, on the other hand, involve more surgery, can spread to other parts of the skin and are sometimes even fatal.
Another cancer group, the Melanoma Institute of Australia reports that each year, 1400 Australians die from melanoma skin cancer.
Whom is Most At-Risk of Skin Cancer
Experts, such as the Cancer Council of Australia, report the following with regarding who is most at-risk from skin cancer:
- Sunburn causes 90 per cent of skin cancers developing into melanoma
- Tanning. A tan is not a sign of health but rather that you have been exposed to serious damage to your skin caused by ultraviolet rays
- Those with a history of skin cancer in their family
- Having pale skin, particularly those with lots of moles
- Unusual spots or skin rashes appearing that last longer than a few weeks
Get Regular Skin Checks
It is very important to get regular check-ups if you see any changes on the skin and if you suffer from any such skin cancer. To get a better picture of skin cancer one should see a professional such as SunDoctors, who recommends at a minimum, adults over the age of 18 are skin checked by a skin specialist at least once every three years. And those who are at the extreme in risk should be checked much more frequently.
A typical skin check takes around 15 minutes. The doctor will examine your face, neck, arms and legs, your torso, your back, your hands, front and back, and your toes.
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The problem, of course, is that Australia is a land of sunshine and the great outdoors, so it's relatively hard to completely avoid the sun. Nevertheless, there are some important, common sense things you can do.
- Use at least a 30 SPF Sunscreen, and reapply it every 2 hours or so.
There are a few things you can do to avoid horrible eye diseases as well as treat them in a preventative way. Someone who is trying to see a change in their personal health needs to start looking at these options because each one helps you treat eye diseases, avoid them and cut down the risk of infection.
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Technology is changing the way that we learn about the brain and treat mental health problems. However, there are a lot of people who do not realize that they can use technology to make a change in their life. The four things listed below will help you change your life, and you should make sure that you ask your therapist how they could point you in the direction of the right kind of technology.
- Biorhythms
When you are looking for new technology options, and you also need to be sure that you have studied which one would work best for you. The biorhythm care that you get could help you balance your brain chemistry, and you also need to look at how your diet and exercise plays into this biorhythm plan. Biorhythms help you get in touch with yourself when you feel disconnected.
FMRI technology allows you to use dyes to show where your brain is the most active. Plus, you get much better colour readings from the places where your memories and emotions are found. This is the best thing to use when you are unable to cope with traumatic events or do not know why you cannot recover memories. One can know more about it here on various websites before getting it done.
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The most popular of these devices is a special touch device that you will use to lower your heart rate. At the same time, you will reduce your brain activity. You do not need a brain scan because your reaction to the device tells the therapist how overactive you are in that moment.
Therapy apps are very helpful because they can tell you what you need to know about yourself, help you gain insight, and get care from anyone around the world. Plus, you might actually choose to work with someone who knows about brain scanning and biorhythms. This makes it very easy for you to get advanced care that was once only available to a small segment of the population.
- Advanced CAT Scans
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You need to know for a fact that you are getting the best care, and you need real information that you could pass on to a future therapist when you move or need to find someone else to give you care. You …


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Category: Architecture & FLW | Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:56 pm
It will be impossible to post all the photos from our June 2/3 trip to Chicago. If you're interested in seeing the photos of all the Frank Lloyd Wright architecture we visited over the weekend, head on over to my FLW blog and have a look at all the June entries. There's a bunch!
This was the Balch House in Oak Park. This was my favorite private residence on the tour.
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Park Inn & City National Bank (Mason City, IA)
Category: Architecture & FLW | Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 3:42 am
We were fortunate enough to visit the Park Inn September 10 & 11, 2011 during it's grand opening. Originally, the bank was the vault-like east end, with the law offices between the bank and the hotel. The exterior remains true to Wright's Wasmuth Portfolio rendering, and the interior has been very well converted into a modern day hotel. We were very impressed with the interior conversion, and the the attention given to keeping as much of the original plan intact as possible. This was an impressive task, and well done, especially when accommodating modern day ADA laws and fire codes.
This is the north side of the entire complex. The hotel is on the right, originally law and bank offices were in the middle section, and the bank is on the far left.
This is the bank main doors.
This is the hotel meeting room off the main lobby.
This is the skylight stained glass windows in the hotel.
This is the lobby where you check in. The low ceiling upon entering in typical of a Frank Lloyd Wright design. It encourages you to continue on into the larger room.
More windows...
FLW design barrel chairs.
2nd story windows looking out into the city park. Another effort to bring the outdoors "in".
More can be found here. http://flwarchitecture.blogspot.com/search/label/Park%20Inn%201910
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Taliesin East - Frank Lloyd Wright
Category: Architecture & FLW | Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:45 pm
I took the Highlights Taliesin tour August 4, 2011 (Spring Green, WI). The fact the house was one big architectural experiment was quite evident in the property's constant need of rehabilitation. They were in the process of jacking up the stone pillars of the home in an effort to level the house, which was a slow, tedious process from what I gathered. The no-seam corner windows are gapping badly as they lift one side of the house at a time. The house is certainly showing it's wear, but great effort is also going into saving it. I'd like to revisit in 10 years to see the progress.
There are so many photos from our trip at Taliesin, that I could not possibly post them all here. If you would like to see them all, they can be found here.
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Allen-Lambe House, Wichita, KS
Category: Architecture & FLW | Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:00 pm
We had the pleasure to visit the Allen-Lambe House, 225 N. Roosevelt, Wichita, Kansas in October. Designed in 1915 by Frank Lloyd Wright, the home was occupied by the Allens in 1918. This house is one of Wright's last "prairie" homes. It was built while Wright was in Japan for the Imperial Hotel construction, although he did visit a few times during construction of the house. All the photos from the visit can be found here.
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Church Sanctuary Interior....con't. from previous post
Category: Architecture & FLW | Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 5:57 pm
The interior is modern, but not over-the-top. Thankfully, things were kept simple, and easy to rearrange. They did choose to go with chairs that hook together into rows. There are chairs with arms, and loveseat chairs too, enough variety to please everyone. The panoramic photo is a bit skewed, but I couldn't find a way to fix it well. The seating actually curves towards the front, not to the back. The seating can also be moved into other formations, as nothing is attached to the floor.
Click Here to see seating (large file).
This congregation combined from two separate congregations whose churches were either in a poor location, or very old and high maintenance. One was torn down, and I was able to purchase their church organ at the auction (which is now in my piano studio). The stained glass windows from the two former churches were removed an put into storage while the new church was built, then installed at each end of the main foyer to the new church.
Each large window hangs from ceiling beams.
The front of the sanctuary is very understated but very usable space, with lots of light.
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New Church Building
Category: Architecture & FLW | Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 5:04 am
The congregation we attend recently moved into a newly constructed building. Many windows light up the interior of the sanctuary and the narthex.
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Hundreds of Drones form "Ghost Plane"
An airshow in China last week featured a breathtaking display of LED drones. Drone shows like this are becoming more common after Intel's famous Lady Gaga Superbowl performance, which can be seen here.
The show in China took place at an annual Flight Convention in the city of Nanchang. In total, there were 800 drones in the display. The UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles or drones as we might call them), featured a number of common aircraft such as a helicopter, commercial airliner and a prop plane.
Drone technology has come a long way in the past few years and these type of hive displays, where the drones act in unison are becoming more and more common. This is one of the largest coordinated drone displays ever though. Enjoy!


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Below is just a brief description.
Joni Patry calls 2015 "The Year of the Great Awakening".
She talks about where there is the greatest darkness there is the greatest light.
The economy will pick up in January so it's going to look like a good year but there will be a big change in the economy in the summer months so get ready for some lows.
Around the time of the January new moon events with mental instability, addictions will surface.
Things that need to be addressed and healed throughout this coming year. A major pivotal year for the economy both highs and lows.
This is the month, pretty much this whole year things are going to come out about political control and manipulation of the economy and the people.
World leaders are going to get stronger and there is going to be major trends and events that will change the country's and the laws.
After the eclipses there will be some forward movement in laws and how the people are governed.
A new year of awakening and of karmic retribution where the truth comes out for everyone in the world.
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Supercines Boasts Ecuador's First RealLaser Cinema Projectors
Christie RGB pure laser cinema projectors and Vive Audio installed in new multiplex
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, the cinema installation and maintenance company, which supplied and installed all the Christie equipment in the stunning new complex. Supercines operates 22 multiplexes in 15 cities across Ecuador, totalling 180 screens.
The new Supercines Ambatohas features stadium-style theatres with VIP areas and love seats, where audiences and couples can watch movies in exceptional comfort. The new multiplex has capacity for 1,225 cinephiles.
Supercines is a long-standing Christie client and many of the exhibitor's screens are already equipped with Christie 's Xenon projectors; deciding to place its trust in Christie again "because of the excellent options Christie offers us, and also for the reliability and confidence guaranteed by its track record," says Marcel Morán, general manager, Supercines.
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The screens are also equipped with the Christie Vive Audio sound system, with LA1 screen channel speakers, LS4S surround speakers and S115 subwoofers in 7.1 configurations. "This is our second multiplex with Christie Vive Audio. Following the success of our first experience, we did not hesitate to opt for it again here because it offers great fidelity and clarity of sound, with the bonus that the speakers are visually appealing," Marcel Morán added.
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The story of two brothers struggling. One of the oldest stories in the world. From the womb itself. The elder came out red, and the younger holding onto to his heel. In the stomach of their mother they turned and wrestled. As our commentators say, they fought.
The midrash states, the mother herself could tell that they were opposites. When she passed by discussions of lofty subjects of Torah, one moved. When she walked by the places of idol worship, the other shook. Their struggle just another shadow of the first murder in the Torah of Abel by Cain in a fit of jealousy and rage.
Hine ma tov Uma Naim shevet achim gam Yachad.
Brothers and sisters should dwell together in unity.
They are closest kin that can be. They share the same blood…
But what should be closest is turned into the most heated and explosive of bonds. Jealousy, misunderstanding, competition for the attention of their father and mother – earthly and heavenly.
Opposites, as Abel and Cain, the shepherd, who watched over his flocks and the farmer, engaged in agriculture. Isaac and Yishamel, fathers of Jews and Muslims. In our parashah Yaakov and Esav, Jacob and Esau. Later Joseph, the dreamer, and his brothers, far more practical. Their struggles and conflict as opposites drives all of the tension in the book of Genesis.
In our parashah, Esau is the mighty hunter and man of the field, while Jacob is the contemplative man who dwelt in tents. Their tensions derive from their opposing characters. Esau is hairy at birth, comes out ruddy, and is impulsive. He takes wives among the Caananites. When he is hungry, returning from the field, he sells his birthright to his brother for a bowl of soup. But he also cares about his father's blessing and lineage. He wails and sobs wildly when he finds out that his brother has stolen it.
Jacob is smooth skinned. Mild in manners, reflective. He is clever and knows how to manipulate his stronger older brother. He is a more fitting vessel for his father's blessing according to the Torah but he is also the one who deceives his own father. Who must flee his brother's wrath.
In the eyes of the Torah, the conflict is unavoidable. There is but one prize and both seek it out. The Torah uses these founding stories to explain the strife between nations and different people. With Yishmael, the father of all Arab nations. With Esau the father of Edom, the ancient kingdom that no longer exists but that was an old rival of Israel's and that, in time, our tradition associated with Rome and later Christianity. It is a way of stating the reality that our differences are not just cosmetic. They run deep. They go back to initial stories of twins, of opposing warring brothers.
Jacob and Esau's struggle in the womb continues throughout their lives as they vie for their father's blessing and inheritance. What is by right Esau's is stolen furtively by Jacob, with the help of his mother. If people war, our tradition is telling us it is because they are almost ontologically different, opposites.
We look across the divide and the person that we see is other.
We can all imagine how Jacob saw his brother Esau. A wild big brother who was undeserving of his father's misplaced love and of the family blessing. A brute who did not care for the family traditions. Who was willing to sell them for a bowl of soup. Not many of us venture into Esau's eyes. But we can imagine what he saw too. A younger brother who did not respect him or follow in his footsteps. Who cared not for him and their father's love of game. Who retreated in the tents without taking a stand for the family and tribe. A younger brother forever plotting to take what was not his by right.
We easily side with Jacob because he is the heir of our tradition. And with the others, Isaac, Abel…
We see in Jacob the strengths of our people. Smart, favoring the life of the shepherd over the life of the hunter. Immersed in learning. Understanding of people. Deserving of God's blessing.
We see that the differences between them are vast. The commentators say they were destined to be two peoples, nations, even religions.
One blessed, one cursed.
But even at the end of our parashah, even as Jacob is fleeing, there is a verse referring to Rebekkah that calls "'her mother of Jacob and Esau." Even with all going on she still loved Esau. Even though she did favor Isaac, there was never a moment when she did not love her older son. She was still his mother. He was still her son.
In our greater moments, our tradition also sees it and the midrashic tradition teaches: The Messiah will not come until the tears of Esau have stopped.
There is a recognition that the tears of Esau might not be our own but the messiah will only come when his and his descendant's tears, and hurt at all the injustices against them will – also finally stop.
There is a recognition that the pain at the center of our universe is the pain of brothers and sisters hurt.
Though we may instinctively take a side, be part of a side, because we think differently, we look differently. We are hairy where they are smooth, or smooth where they are hairy. We stole their blessing, we believe in good faith. They believe in outright theft – we are still brothers, sisters…
The messiah will only come when the tears of Esau also stop. When the tears of the other also stop. When their injustice is understood and addressed.
Though we may not see it, we are all children of the same father and mother. Even in the most difficult moments, we are still children to them.
There is a Chassidic interpretation of the midrash about Esau. It asks the question –The messiah will only come when Esau's tears have stopped? What if the tears of Israel continue? What if they are still weeping and weeping? Then the messiah will still come? It cannot be!!
It answers that the tears of Esau are not just the tears of the other. Of the despised enemy. They are the tears of all human beings. What unites us all is that we are all crying –for the loss of the closeness of the Divine Presence, the loss of unity that we experienced in the garden that led to the first murder. To the first struggle between brothers. We all – at one level – are the hurt brother. We all feel like our blessing has been taken away from us. All of the hurt and conflict in the world stems from that wound. The struggles of the opposites who are brothers, even twins, is a symbol for the innate brokenness of the world. Whether we are on one side or the other, we are both Esau.
Our weeping is natural. It is because of the pain we are suffering –so we demand a better life for ourselves, less conflict, better materials goods, more opportunities. But if we weep for another person, for their pain, for their suffering, for what they have gone through in their lives… We come a little bit closer to restoring the Divine Presence. Restoring the bond. Repairing the world. Realizing that wholeness will only come back when the two halves are once again united. When we can finally see that their heart is our heart.
I would like to invite all of us to spend one-minute thinking in silence about a person, whether real, or a typecast, someone you argue with in your mind, whom you believe is your opposite, and try to enter their hearts and shed a tear for them.
How good and pleasant it is
That brothers dwell together in unity.
It is like fine oil on the head
Running down onto the beard,
The beard of Aaron,
That comes down over the collar of his robe;
Like the dew of Hermon
That falls upon the mountains of Zion.
There the LORD ordained blessing,
Everlasting life.
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Wright, Nause, Robidas to lead three Canadian squads at U17s
A trio of Canadian Hockey League players and prospects will serve as captains for Team Canada at the 2019 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge.
Leading Team Canada Black is Kingston Frontenacs rookie Shane Wright, who this season became just the sixth underage talent to skate in the CHL after being granted exceptional player status. The Burlington, Ont., native has had a strong start to his freshman campaign, collecting 11 points counting five goals and six assists across 14 contests. The World Under-17 Hockey Challenge marks Wright's first major appearance on the national stage.
Gatineau Olympiques defenceman Olivier Boutin and Calgary Hitmen left-wing Sean Tschigerl will serve as alternates with Team Canada Black.
Tabbed to lead Team Canada Red is Val-d'Or Foreurs prospect Evan Nause, the sixth-overall selection from the 2019 QMJHL Entry Draft. A native of Riverview, N.B., the budding blue-liner has previously played under the national spotlight as part of Team New Brunswick at the 2019 Canada Winter Games in which he tallied six points counting one goal with five assists in seven appearances.
Joining the Team Canada Red leadership group includes Soo Greyhounds defenceman Jacob Holmes and Seattle Thunderbirds centre Conner Roulette who will serve as alternate captains.
Rounding out the representation from the Great White North is Team Canada White which will be led by Foreurs centre Justin Robidas, the second-overall selection from the 2019 QMJHL Entry Draft. The product of Sherbrooke, Que., returns to the national stage after previously captaining Team Quebec to a gold-medal finish at the 2019 Canada Winter Games in which he finished second in team scoring with 10 points counting five goals and five assists in six contests. Through 15 games with the Foreurs this season, Robidas has impressed in collecting four goals and four assists for eight points.
Peterborough Petes centre Mason McTavish and Medicine Hat Tigers centre Cole Sillinger will serve as alternates with Team Canada White.
The 2019 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge begins Saturday with Team Canada Red facing off against Team Russia while the second game will see a showdown between Team Canada Black and Team Canada White.