This chick has lost her mind. Lady soccer is nasty.
//Bitches be crazy. She’s been suspended indefinately.
Talking to Vulture, Abraham listed off some of the people involved: “David Cross, members of Vampire Weekend, TV on the Radio, Broken Social Scene, the GZA, Bob Mould, No Age, and Yo La Tengo are all confirmed. I’m still waiting on confirmation from Feist, Jarvis Cocker, and M.I.A. We wanted the biggest people we could get. If we could get a Jonas Brother on this, I would get a Jonas Brother.”
A rep for Matador, the band’s label, confirms that they are indeed working on the track. No word yet on who will get the climactic Bono ”thank God tonight it’s them instead of you” part. Our vote is for anyone other than David Cross or the GZA.
According to Abraham, the single will benefit “a few different organizations, like Justice for the Missing, that are affiliated with the 500 missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada. That number is an old official statistic that the government uses, but the number is probably closer to 3,000. It’s not like cancer or AIDS. Those are worthy causes but they have big fund-raising machines. This is an undocumented, underreported crime that’s been going on for years. And while this is for Canadian organizations, the same sort of thing is going on at the U.S.-Mexico border, with Mexican women going missing, and in Australia, with aboriginal women there.”He also talked a bit about the band’s reasons for picking this song: “I liked the idea of somewhat marginalized indie rockers coming together for a marginalized cause … There’s a kind of cavalier colonialism to the original, like the West has to go in and help this poor Third World country. But the charities that we’re trying to help are exactly a product of this colonial history. People who have been subjugated and oppressed for so many years are going missing. So there’s an irony to using the song.”
It has been 20 years since the Berlin Wall fell. But deep in the forest here, a red deer called Ahornia still refuses to cross the old Iron Curtain.
Ahornia inhabits the thickly wooded mountains along what once was the fortified border between West Germany and Czechoslovakia. At the height of the Cold War, a high electric fence, barbed wire and machine-gun-carrying guards cut off Eastern Europe from the Western world. The barriers severed the herds of deer on the two sides as well.
…Herds of them roam both sides of the old NATO-Warsaw Pact border here but mysteriously turn around when they approach it. This although the deer alive today have no memory of the ominous fence.
The full story in the WSJ.
I’m glad I’m in one, because getting paid a decent wage and having some benefits and recourse if my boss is retarded (which is going to come in handy sooner or later, for sure) is a good deal…
But there’s got to be a way to have protections for competent workers and also the ability to kick people to the curb when they’re unwilling to keep up to date with the demands (“demands”) of a modern office environment. If it’s come to the point where it’s evident that you lack the skills to even be considered for the job you now hold were you to apply fresh, that should be just cause and a fucking half.
For something to be entrapment, it has to be way worse. Like, cops can set up fake drug deals and it’s not entrapment.
If police in Canada have “reasonable suspicion” that someone is involved with a certain criminal activity they can present the opportunity to commit the crime in question. And it’s based on case law, so there’s a lot of leeway.
This would probably pass on both grounds, so legally, I think it just gets filed under “massive waste of resources.”
Real Entrapment?
Real talk.
But are they real fucking hipsters, Cam?
Have you guys heard of this band Wild Beasts? They’re pretty good.
That would have made sense… had Radiohead been the ones responding to him. On the bright side, if he keeps focussed on this, he won’t have time to release another shitty solo album between now and the next Fiery Furnaces record.
…and continues to not make much sense.
I almost forgot it was Guy Fawkes Day.
Clocks strikes upon the hour
And the sun begins to fade
Still enough time to figure out
How to chase my blues away
I’ve done alright up ‘til now
It’s the light of day that shows me how
And when the night falls loneliness calls
Chorus:
Oh! Wanna dance with somebody
I wanna feel the heat with somebody
Yeah! Wanna dance with somebody
With somebody who loves me
I’ve been in love and lost my senses
Spinning through the town
Soon or later the fever ends
And I wind up feeling down
I need a man who’ll take a chance
On a love that burns hot enough to last
So when the night falls
My lonely heart calls
Nov. 5th edition:
Because you lined your able body up for the escalator coming off the Canada Line this morning when both staircases were empty.
