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The BusinessDictionary.com (2010) website, defines motivation as the "Internal and external factors that stimulate desire and energy in people to be continually interested in and committed to a job, role, or subject and to exert persistent effort in attaining a goal. Motivation is the energizer of behavior and mother of all action. It results from the interactions among conscious and unconscious factors such as the (1) intensity of desire or need, (2) incentive or reward value of the goal, and (3) expectations of the individual and of his or her significant others" (Motivation, para. 1).
Two major types of motivation can affect individual's performance in the workplace, and those are intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. According to Reeve (Chap 5), "Extrinsic motivation arises from environmental incentives and consequences, such as food, money, praise, attention, stickers, gold stars, privileges, tokens, approval, scholarships, candy, trophies, extra credit points, certificates, awards, smiles, public recognition, a pat on the back, prizes, and various incentive plans. Extrinsic motivation is an environmentally created reason to initiate or persist in an action" (page 113).
Extrinsic rewards will affect the learning potentiality of those individuals which will not have the intrinsic motivation to perform a specific task, allowing them to experience or to do the same assigned job with a different motivator. Basically by using extrinsic motivation it is possible to obtain results in those individuals who are not intrinsically motivated to perform exceeding the expectations in their responsibilities.
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There is an intel High Definition Audio HDMI icon, which is enabled and and no issues with it.
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Beaches are fantastic! It's like a Caribbean beach in the heart of Canada. This is a massive campground, but there is plenty of tree cover to provide privacy. We dry-camped with friends who were tenting it, but there are sites available with electrical service. This is a VERY popular campground and you need to reserve months in advance to get a choice site. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
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It was a decent site. The staff members were friendly for the most part during our stay. The location was well maintained and the folks that attended that weekend were great. It was great to get out of the city and enjoy some fresh air. We camped here in a Motorhome.
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We frequent this park because of the vicinity and the beaches. The woodland sites are large and can accommodate our 34' trailer. Unfortunately the sites didn't have the grass cut and they were about 10" deep. However, the park is well patrolled and quiet at night. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
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Very nice in the electric loop, but it's a large park so you have to drive/bike everywhere. Clean and tidy. Washrooms were amazingly clean. Very popular park, so you have to reserve early. Didn't find the beaches that good. Kind of messy with algae and stuff like that. Nice towns close by and a lovely area overall. We camped here in a Tent Trailer.
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This park has several different campgrounds, some with electrical sites, some without. The electrical sites are 2km (1.2 miles) away from the beach, so we stayed in a site with no hookup in order to be closer. Generally speaking, sites have lots of trees, which is nice, but makes backing a trailer in difficult. The electrical sites are more trailer-friendly. Some have trees surrounding them, and there are some that are more like a parking lot. The beach is great - one of the nicest in Ontario for sure. The washrooms are ok - they get cleaned several times a day, but with all the sand from the beach being dragged in with the high traffic, they don't stay clean for long. They are also crowded. Expect to wait at least 15 minutes before a shower is free most of the time. This is a very busy park - a reservation is recommended in the summer. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
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Despite the Buccaneers' lowly 1-5 record, Tampa Bay still finds itself within striking distance in the mediocre NFC South.
Despite the Buccaneers' lowly 1-5 record, Tampa Bay still finds itself within striking distance in the mediocre NFC South.
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So maybe you think cross stitching is something only grandmas or great aunts so. If so, you're totally wrong! Cross stitching has taken a turn for the awesome thanks to the creativity (and snakiness) of us young-uns and sites like Etsy, where we can share all our funny, weird, or dirty craft ideas. However, this is a science blog, not a "Sara gets all mushy about crafts" blog (although I do a bit of cross stitching myself it tends to be on the adult side), and I've been collecting some kick-ass works of science-inspired cross stitchery on my romps through the internet. I encountered a really amazing one this morning and was thusly inspired to curate them into a post.
To begin, here's the one that started it all:
How gorgeous is that?! It doesn't even look like a cross stitch. Inspired by Carl Sagan, this design features a nebula, the birth place of stars. You can see more details over at its creator's (nuclearArt) Etsy shop.
A few months ago, I had a conversation with a twitter friend about how a lot of the stunts on Jackass would make great examples to show in a basic physics class. Every time those fools collide shopping carts or propel themselves off ramps on various conveyances my brain starts to buzz with physics concepts like momentum transfer and energy conservation. After thinking back to some of the episodes I've seen (and the one movie) I realized you can teach almost all the concepts in a basic physics class just with using examples from Jackass, which would be way more entertaining than the usual examples I've encountered.
I've had some other pop-culture related ideas as well so I thought I would put together some of my brain storms into a small list of what I'm calling Low Culture Science courses. They may not be classy, but they'll most likely be quite engaging!
Class: ICP – Insane Clown Physics
Course Summary: This survey course tackles a wide breadth of scientific topics using the Insane Clown Posse song "Miracles" as the outline for the syllabus. This course will touch on subjects from both the hard and life sciences as we aim to answer the big questions asked in "Miracles" and correct some of the ICP's scientific misconceptions. We will deconstruct hands-on and multimedia examples in order to describe the science we encounter in the world around us. And we will also study contemporary scientific publications in order to demonstrate that scientists are not, in fact, lying mother fuckers.
Homework Question: Go on YouTube and find a video demonstrating a phenomenon involving magnetism. Briefly describe the video and, within the context of your chosen video, explain what "fucking magnets" are and how they work.
Final Project: Working in pairs, you will each pick either one topic or several, related topics mentioned in "Miracles". You will then write an original rap explaining the science behind your topic(s). Each pair will film a music video for their rap, which must include visual elements that relate your topic and instruct the audience on the science you are presenting. Extra credit for creative face painting.
Pick a science topic. Then go online and grad a bunch of papers about that topic. Read the opening paragraphs. Get a sense of variations on a theme?
I've just started writing the second paper to come out of my main dissertation project. And since I tend to think from beginning to end of the paper, I'm starting with the part that's the biggest pain in the butt: the introduction. My Ph.D. work was on perovskite oxide superlattices. Pretty much ever paper on this topic starts out the same way:
"Perovskite oxides are useful because there are many materials with similar structures but a wide variety of behaviors (e.g. metallic, superconducting, ferroelectric, magnetic, insulating, and on and on). Because of this, you can put two different materials together to make a superlattice with novel properties."
Ok…maybe the language gets a bit more formal and sciencey than that, but you get the point. Basically to write and introduction, that that paragraph and make it sound slightly different than the introductory paragraph of all the papers you are citing.
I wrote something to this effect on twitter, and @rejectedbanana happily chimed in with a better idea on how to open a paper. This lead to some back-and-forth on both our parts where we came up with opening lines to spice up any Physical Review Letter.
And what about going beyond the introduction? Opening lines like these have lead me to believe that my next paper should either be written in iambic pentameter (although it's been done before), early 90's rap, or perhaps as a romance novel.
Many of you reading this may be familiar with ArXiv.org and many of you may not be. ArXiv is an open access library where scientists, mostly of the physics, math and computer science varieties, put up papers or pre-prints for all the world to see. Many of these are not yet peer reviewed (and maybe never will be), so you can often find papers that are fun, pop culture based, or just plain crazy-pants (I'm going to suggest a search for papers with the word "god" in the title here.) Since I like to turn to ArXiv when I have some downtime and want to explore the lighter side of science, I thought I'd share some of my favorite findings here.
If you want to join in the fun, many of my most fruitful searches come from me poking around in the "General Physics", "Popular Physics", and "History and Philosophy of Physics". You can see the week's most recent submissions under each category.
So without further ado, here's a round-up of some fun papers from this past week.
Piezoelectrics are a type of material where, when you apply a stress to them, they accumulate a charge. Additionally, when you apply a voltage to them, the materials contract or expand. Just look at this hypothetical piezoelectric in action!
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More than 50 exhibitors representing the STEM learning strands listed below provide hands-on interactive demonstrations of the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math concepts students are learning about in school. These real-world examples provide middle and high school students with important insight into the possibilities of a career in STEM.
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Republicans date women, they marry women, they have children with women. They take women to dinner. They buy women diamonds and open car doors for women. Yet there's this Republican war on women, and the Republicans want to actually somehow reach into their purses and grab their birth control pills and take 'em away from 'em. The Democrats actually think that they're going to win with this!
Rush Limbaugh, explaining last Thursday why there's no Republican war on women.
Shorter Limbaugh: "We buy you sluts diamonds and dinner! What more do you ungrateful feminazis want?!"
Ah, I see. So bullheaded restrictions on reproductive rights, opposing the Violence Against Women Act, not supporting the Lilly Ledbetter Act, etc… All that is perfectly fine because Republicans buy diamonds for women they're dating, AMIRITE?!
And yes, Rush. The more you keep running your mouth like this, the more you help Democrats. Democrats would love to focus on the economy, but when the Blunt Amendment is offered before a jobs bill, it's a little hard.
Rush, you've been paid to say terrible shit about ethnic and racial minorities, women, the GLBTQ community, and liberals in general for nearly 30 years.
We're paying attention now.
Oh, and P.S.: Not all Republicans marry women. Please see Log Cabin Republicans.


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By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
5/17/2011 (3 years ago)
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
German priest Georg Haefner preached long and hard against the Third Reich in his native Germany. Sixty-eight years after he died of starvation and disease at Dachau, Haefner, whose death at the hands of the Nazis was judged to be "in odium fidei" -- out of "hatred for the faith."
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
5/17/2011 (3 years ago)
Published in Vocations
Keywords: Georg Haefner, beatification, Nazis, Third Reich
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Haefner became the fourth member of the fold who perished in the concentration camps to be raised to the honors of the altar. The other saints include Maximilian Kolbe and Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), and Blessed Franz Jagerstatter, the Austrian farmer who was executed for refusing to be conscripted into Hitler's army.
During traditional Sunday greetings to pilgrims in St. Peter's Square, Pope Benedict, who grew up in Bavaria and was forced by the Nazis to serve as a teen in the Hitler Youth, praised Haefner.
"In the confusion of National Socialism, Georg Haefner was willing, as a faithful shepherd, to protect his flock and deliver the sacrament and the water of life to many people, until the end of his life," the pope said, speaking in German.
"He forgave those who wronged him and in a letter to his parents from prison, he wrote, 'We want to be at peace with everyone.'"
The Vatican's lead saint maker, Cardinal Angelo Amato SDB, presided at the ceremonies in the cathedral of Haefner's native Wurzburg, Der Deutschpapst, he commemorated the occasion at his noontime Regina Caeli with these words:
"Amid the tumult of Nazism, Georg Hafner was present as a faithful pastor, sacrificing his life to feed his flock, leading many people to the waters of life in the proclamation of the truth and the administration of the sacraments.
"He forgave his tormentors from his heart, for as he wrote to his parents from prison: "Let us seek to be good with everyone." Let us entrust ourselves to his intercession, so that we too may hear the voice of Christ, the good shepherd, and so be led to life and joy in abundance.
In Germany, Georg's feast will be observed on the date of his death, 20 August.
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|^^^this is basically the same idea as the Air Raid and Rousch CAIs...just replacement lids with an open top but that seal against the hood.
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|^ cool idea with the rubber seal. Let us know how that works out for you.
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|After another day, car isn't all that different than stock. Crisper and no stumbling like post above me mentions, so it's totally worth it just for that. I'm going to remove the cap. Hard acceleration is noticeably better with cap off. I'm going to find a way to measure distance from top of air box to hood when closed, and then run some rubber seal or something across top of air box and battery box. The more I look at it, the more I realize not much air is going over to open end side of filter when hood is closer. An inch or so of rubber seal should do it. Then I have benefits of open end with no hot engine heat, and snorkel removal. Should be easy enough to do. Might not be overly pretty when hood is open, but this isn't an open hood kinda car anyways haha.
|Yesterday 09:30 AM
A sort of reverse of opening it all up. I am trading in my MK3 SE (for a ST) and put the stock air filter back on last week. Took off the ST velocity stack too. (but did not reinstall the giant OEM snorkle)
So with the stock air filter i again have some off idle stumbling. (Which I had ZERO of with the K&N air filter)
The other thing is my MPG went up 2 from 32mpg to 34mpg.
Otherwise the car is OK.
I am looking forward to having a bit more 'oomph' when I get the ST.
|Nice, thanks for the update. Makes me feel vindicated in choosing the AEM dryflow for only $39 and confirming what I had heard about the open end filter. Glad to help out! :-)
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Ok. So today I drove to work with open end filter. I like the sound. Gets weird in certain situations, but as a whole, I like it. On way home, I installed cap. Almost as quiet as stock now. Bummer. Anyways, it does feel better with cap on. Acceleration seemed crisper and more instant.
My commute is roughly 20 miles one way, no freeway, lots of stop lights, and a few stretches where traffic hits 75mph (middle of no where near an airport, lots of lanes). No corners, at all. Literally a straight line to work. Anyways, other than lack of any corners what so ever, my commute has a lot of variety in driving. So far, I prefer driving it with cap on. Sounds way better off though.
Green filter makes a plug for their filters.
i have the green open ended filter. any way for me to buy some generic type of cap that would fit on?
i'd maybe throw it on in the summer (like people said) or hwen i want it quieter.
i find it alot louder under accel, especially at certain rpms it seems to resonate quite a bit. it was enough for my wife to roll her eyes ;) for the most part i enjoy the loudness though. i find i'm sticking to sport mode and thumbing through the gears alot more.
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I <3 Toronto
Living in the suburbs of Toronto has always created an air of enchantment around the city I grew up in. North York, the area I'm technically from, counts itself as part of the Greater Toronto Area, but the distinct disconnect I felt growing up transformed downtown Toronto into a fantasized world within my reach a.k.a. a subway ride away.
When I finally got around to figuring out what to do with my life, I became fixated on the Toronto music scene and was overwhelmed with a desire to promote it in any way I can. I guess I could've easily become a publicist or a show promoter (two things I have indeed tried), but my main medium of fangirling and supporting local acts was through writing and blogging.
It is without a doubt that my love of discovering Toronto bands was the passion that fueled the beginning of my music writing career. Obsessively following blogs like Chromewaves and For the Records, buying every issue of Chart Magazine and picking up free copies of Exclaim! Magazine fed me all the information I needed to know about up-and-coming artists like Woodhands, The Rural Alberta Advantage, Forest City Lovers and The Bicycles.
Blogging on my own, for myself, allowed me the freedom to shine the spotlight on any band I was interested in at the time and my end goal was easy: to let everyone know just how great Toronto and its bands were. I had just caught the tail end of Arts & Crafts, Paper Bag Records and Last Gang's inceptions, all labels that got off the ground in the early 2000's and seeing that rising buzz is not unlike the roaring pride Canadians feel watching the Olympics right now.
Admittedly, as I began writing for other publications and working under real editors, I saw the limitations. I would pitch bands like the Wilderness of Manitoba to a big American website and get responses telling me that they're simply not a "big enough act." Fair. Totally fair. But how do I get these bands out there, beyond my blog's audience? More and more, I found myself compromising my actual interests for paid work, offering up interviews with Carly Rae Jepsen instead and aiming bigger in order to get the jobs. Note: I actually love Carly Rae Jepsen, but that's just an example of the calibre of artist I have to pitch to get people's attention sometimes. This also isn't to say that I haven't gotten a few acts through in my pitches. Nothing made me prouder than profiling DIANA in Nylon Magazine last year or squeezing in a track review of Alvvays on Pitchfork. It is possible, but the fight is far uphill and sometimes discourages me and my belief in my city's scene compared to more notable ones like New York or London.
Not to just blame the new places I wrote for, I also became less enchanted with the Toronto music scene in recent years. I went to less shows, I felt less interested in going to the Horseshoe on Tuesday nights, checking out Dan Burke's carefully curated lineups at the Silver Dollar and Wavelength's experimental new bets every week/month. There were less bands I felt personally obliged to champion (champion in the supportive sense, not the "I KNEW THEM BEFORE THEY WERE P4K COOL" champion). I found my musical interests straying away from the T-Dot. With the exception of Drake, of course. DUH.
But something's been happening in the past year in Toronto that's got me buzzing with excitement again: The Beverleys, Weaves, Alvvays, Lowell, Yamantaka//Sonic Titan, Ark Analog, Most People, Timber Timbre — I LOVE ALL OF THESE BANDS SO MUCH AND CAPS MIGHT BE THE ONLY WAY I CAN DESCRIBE THEM NOW WITHOUT MY HEART BURSTING OUT OF MY CHEST.
Or, in other words, I'm feeling a reignited love for the city and its exports. I made it a point to get out of bed, put on pants and actually pay money to see Alvvays, Weaves and Most People recently and it was totally worth it.
The fact that I ever felt any doubt towards my city and its music scene was utterly silly and I know now more than ever that Toronto possesses one of the world's best music scenes. And if you feel that way about your local music scene, you have all the right in the world to believe that yours should be fairly represented as well. Just because something doesn't make it onto a worldwide publication shouldn't downgrade the greatness of the music you truly love. It's music, shit's always subjective.
Of course I will pitch every one of these artists to the sites and magazines I write for, but if they don't accept them, that won't stop me from spreading the love. That's why we all have Twitter. So let's all share our faves and bask in the glory of each other's music scenes!
Interview: Kevin Drew on the 10th anniversary of Arts & Crafts, Broken Social Scene reunion
I recently did a small feature on the 10th anniversary of Arts & Crafts Records for Rolling Stone (READ IT HERE), but since my interviews were so extensive, I thought I'd post the transcript of my chat with Kevin Drew. He talks a lot, and he talks very passionately. It's definitely worth reading if you're interested in the label and/or Broken Social Scene.
How did you and A&C co-founder Jeff Remedios meet?
We met at an argument, and I think that just set the precedence for the next ten years! Brendan Canning introduced us, he played a key role in getting this thing started. I think, historically, people say that we got into an argument about indies vs. majors because he worked for a major and I was very much an anti-major kid back in my early 20's. And we just kind of got into an argument over where the music industry was at and that was basically how we met.
How did that blossom into a business then?
I could see that Jeffrey was quite brilliant at business and I think he just saw the same thing in the idea of what I was doing with Brendan and what I was trying to do with this group of people. We first went with Paper Bag Records, which was our beginning and [Paper Bag Records founder] Trevor Laroque did some key moves for our career - he sent our record to Pitchfork. I didn't own a cell phone or anything and Trevor took it upon himself to send it off just as we were thinking that we wanted to do our own thing. Jeff was getting out of the major labels and he was very much thinking about going travelling and we brought him into David Neufeld's studio and he was we just kind of spoke and said we should start a label because Jeff wanted to start something outside of what he knew.
On my side, I knew I just wanted to be able to control my own career. The was a goal of mine, I wanted to have my own destiny in my hands and I wanted to protect the ones who were with me. I know that Jeff really wanted to get into the elements of branding and packaging and doing something organically, but at the same time, but at the same time being quite suave with his business sense. He had a lot of belief in it and things were moving quite quickly and I knew I wanted to keep Andrew Whiteman and Jason Collett with us - they had records - so I sent it to Jeff and we sort of just kept it amongst friends. There was such a great group of people making music that we just wanted to take this group of people and go for it.
Did you encounter any problems along the way?
All the problems were good problems, especially at the beginning. The problems near the end were that the problems were all the same, which is kind of boring, but at the beginning we just constantly found ourselves with good problems. They can be as annoying as annoying can be, but more the more problems you have, the better you're doing. There were challenges, but we rose to the task. I look back and there are lots of things, as I'm sure you can do in your own life and say, I wish we did that differently, but we didn't make any drastically horrible decisions and I'm proud of that.
What was your role in the label?
Well, it kind of depended on Broken Social Scene because it took up so much time. There was a point there where I guess I was A&R, it was such a loose term for me because if we believed in something, which we believe in all of our releases, we would start to just get behind them. I tried to be the best I can for bands and be a liaison. Some years were better than others… I tried to keep my head up whenever I attend marketing meetings, which is few and far between. I turned to my father when he retired and said, "I have a band and I have a label, I need you to help me run this," and he became a great in-between, he was really good at helping me separate the two. He came on board and helped Jeff and I a lot and he helped Brendan and I a lot and took away the pressure. Whenever you're dealing with any of your passions or your personal life, the biggest worry is trust and having him be there, having a man I can give 100% trust to really settled my nerves of being a boss. There were years where I was good and bad years where I wanted to just sit in my room and play music, but here was such fiscal responsibilities and risk, and having my father there was the key ingredient to why I'm still here.
Do you feel like things you do now are still a risk?
I think if you're not taking a risk, you're not doing anything. My phone is here for anyone to call. It's such an ever-changing industry and the staff comes in to do one thing and they end up with four jobs. You've got to make sure that people are alright and I do the best I can. What I do is I make the big decisions behind the scenes with Jeff and Kieran Roy. I stop myself a lot of times; there were times with certain acts where I wasn't sure what to do and, of course, they went on to be quite successful. We've had some great people come in, some new blood in the last few years to really keep this thing going and I'm indebted to them for that.
There's not a record on that label that we're not proud to have put out there. There are some I'm still puzzled on why it didn't do so well. It usually falls into the timing and the luck. I'm grateful to the bands that let us give it a shot.
What were some of the releases you were puzzled by, success-wise?
There's a lot. We had a great year when we put out Years, Still Life Still, Bell Orchestre and New Buffalo and we had a great run with the Most Serene Republic. These records do well, but you want them to deserve the best they can get and it pisses me off when people aren't getting behind it like you had wished. As time goes on, the expectations get bigger, but the numbers get smaller in a way that shows how music is so disposable now and it's quite different to navigate through how the fuck you're going to get into people's bedrooms.
I think a lot of music is copycat music out there now. So you just need to find an emotion, get a duet going, clap your hands and that's your moment. I'm all for it, I'm all for whatever positivity you can get out there, but sometimes you feel like you're dominated by car commercials or insurance companies, which we dealt with recently, and it's the options. There's not many options and there's not many new ideas and it's can be like forcefields; you have to decide which side you want to sit on.
What about a band today catches your eye?
It's not my eye, it's my ear! That's just it. If we love the music, if someone finds a true, honest belief in it, even if it's not clearly up the alley of everyone, then we'll support it.
How do you feel about the number ten, in terms of years?
Ten is a strong number. It's a powerful number and it's a number that I think kind of represents a time for change. I know that ten years with Broken Social Scene, there was an aspect to it where I thought the only real, innovative thing to do was to stop. I feel that a lot of these bands just continue to move for the sake of going and some of these bands are just taking up airtime because the bills need to be paid. But then I find my scepticism gets trumped when I listen to one of those bands' records and I'm like, "Oh, I'm just actually a dick, this album is really good!"
I feel like it's been a big chunk of my life, only in the idea that I'm at the other side of it now. I've spent a lot of time looking back and it's something that I don't particularly enjoy because I've always had a sense of Catholic guilt when I have to look back. I'm into celebrations. Birthdays are not a huge deal to me, but I understand the process of celebration. I'm into the forward and it was difficult trying to convince some of the guys to come back and play the show when we were so fresh off our hiatus.
How much did you know about this anniversary show in advance?
I had no idea there was going to be a show, that sort of came from Jeff. We sat at a meeting one time and he was like, "We're going to do a concert for the anniversary," and I said that's great. He said, "You know we're going to ask Feist," and I said that's great. "We're going to try and get Bloc Party and a lot of the bands…" Great! I'm so into this! "I'd really like it if you were to…" Please don't finish your sentence right now! It hadn't even been a year, but the great thing is that I think, with BSS, we'll always be around because we like the music more than we like the break. But the break is knowing that we're not going to make a new record, knowing that we're just going to get up on stage and enjoy it immensely. Though our values have changed as individuals, our behaviours have changed as individuals, and our goals have changed, we accomplished that one thing together so it's always nice to go back and remember how and why and what the purpose was. It's been nice to go back and look at all these albums that we did. It's been hard at times, but it just exposes you to a lot of the efforts that a lot of these people made. A lot of people came into that office and they tried really hard to make people's dreams come true and manage these people's dreams and deal with these people's dreams. Kudos to those guys that we're doing this whole thing, not just the bands, we've had people come and go and I just think it's honouring that. It's sort of honouring the city of Toronto, too. We have a lot of people that don't get credit to how this thing got started, but we had a lot of help when we started.
Something needed to change (in Toronto). I don't think that necessarily exists now, and I don't know if I'm being a sceptical person, but I'm kind of wondering what's going to happen next. Who's going to come in and shake it up. But when we came in, I think there were a lot of people who were pushing for us to get out of the country and this city, but this city really helped us and it's a time I won't forget. I won't forget 2003-2005, those were some really excitingly crazy times. I'm not sure if I'm just older now, I'm pushing 40, but I feel as if it's a different time for the ones coming up. I just don't know if they completely understand what it was like back then and even right now, going from no goverment funding to getting funding, there were all kinds of support systems that became available and it changed the game for us. It was a big part in presenting us with new opportunities and I think we did our best to do what we could with those options. We had failures because failure just comes with winning, but as I said, moving forward is the only way to really keep going and I've been challenged by the best of them and I'm still taken aback right now, as we speak.
Will BSS rehearse before the big show?
We're going to do a couple of rehearsals. We will probably be the least-rehearsed band, but I'm hoping that the music we wrote will just come barrelling out of us again. This is more like a celebration.
It's fine, it's one show. We're not going on a big tour. You didn't see us at Coachella hanging out with the rich kids. We're just doing our thing in Toronto. We're not even doing a warm-up gig in Waterloo. We're getting up on stage, we're playing one show.
If this goes well, I'd love to keep going with these every year. I have no desire to go in the studio, I think we should just honour the legacy that we built amongst the people who know us.
The Grid TO interviews Static Zine
Static Zine, the zine I help run, was featured on The Grid today. We talked about zine culture, our latest issue entitled "The Story of Our Lives" and something we like to call Static School. Thanks to The Grid for featuring us!
One more blog...
My friend Aviva and I started a new blog called Treat Boards. Late last year, we became obsessed with Joanne Kates' Top 100 Restaurants in Toronto list and decided to tackle everything on the list. This is where we will track our progress.
Ohbijou Get a Boost From Globetrotting and Besnard Lakes Frontman
Ohbijou have looked to their hometown of Toronto for inspiration since their 2006 debut, but it was time to become a little more worldly for 'Metal Meets.'
"It's something we've never explored before, that desire to expedite my cultural background," singer Casey Mecija, a first-generation Canadian of Filipino decent, tells Spinner.
This new outlook was inspired both by Mecija's work as a coordinator at a Filipino arts center and with her recent sociology and equity studies at the University of Toronto — and, of course, the band's recent globetrotting.
"I'm glad that it impacted our writing," she says. "It added more depth to our record."
After touring Asia for the first time last year with Ohbijou in support of 2009's 'Beacons,' Mecija and sister/bandmate Jenny have an even stronger desire to visit their parent's homeland. "Jenny hasn't been and I haven't been since I was a baby," says Mecija, who laments the fact they never actually it made it to the country on that jaunt.
There are plans to hit the Philippines this time around, though, as Mecija is proud to showcase the band's most adventurous release yet.
'Metal Meets' has a "bolder and more ethereal" quality, a shift which comes from enlisting the production wizardry of Besnard Lakes frontman Jace Lasek. "We were coming up with a lot of atmospheric sounds and just thought of Jace because, obviously, the Besnard Lakes is this tripped-out, amazing, electronically-resonant band," Mecija says. "We had never met him but as soon as we did there was instant chemistry."
The end result was just what the band needed — a grander sound, fuelled by Lasek's production cues. "He knows how to get really good sounds out of his studio. He was so easy to work with, he just took what we had and added more. If we could hang out with him every day, we would."
Though working with Lasek meant heading to Montreal to bunker down in his Breakglass Studios, Mecija and her Ohbijou bandmates are still tapped into Toronto's tight-knit music scene, a community which has fostered the careers of Austra, Timber Timbre and Diamond Rings.
"It's really exciting to see what our friends are accomplishing," Mecija says.
- Published October 14, on Spinner
Static Zine: Get to know a Static contributor: Melody Lamb
Static Zine decided to do profiles on each other their contributors, in preparation for its second issue (out October 22). Since the theme for the issue is 'firsts', we all filled out questionaires of our first times! Here's mine - read, laugh, sympathize.
Static's second issue, First Times in Toronto, is out October 22nd. So to celebrate, over the month, you'll get to know the contributors of the issue through some of their first times in Toronto.
Melody Lamb is one of the managing editors of Static. She wrote two articles for the…
Drake Protégé the Weeknd Proves He's No Fluke in Live Debut
Since releasing a free mixtape, House of Balloons, in March, 21-year-old R&B singer Abel Tesfaye – otherwise known as the Weeknd – has been tantalizing fans and critics alike with his mysterious persona. Refusing interviews and often posting cryptic, short messages on Twitter, Tesfaye has cultivated a strong following based on internet buzz but until last night, when he played to a sold-out crowd at Toronto's Mod Club, he had yet to make a proper live debut.
Tesfaye owes much of his current fame to his mentor, fellow Toronto native Drake, who met him in 2009 when a songwriting/production team Tesfaye was part of called the Noise wrote a song for the rapper, who was then putting together his debut full-length Thank Me Later. The track, "Birthday Suit," never made it on the album, but Drake kept an eye on Tesfaye nonetheless – and when the latter release House of Balloons, Drake was so impressed that he tweeted the lyrics to the song "Wicked Games" and linked to it on his blog. Now, each is working on the other's upcoming records – and Drake has remained Tesfaye's biggest booster.
And for good reason. His songs sounded spot-on, if not better, live, proving the wait for Tesfaye has been completely worth it. Though apparent on recordings, Tesfaye's voice is even more astounding in person; it soared over the screaming crowd, which sang along to every song.
Since Tesfaye's music heavily weighs on samples, ranging from Beach House to Aaliyah, it seemed logical that the performance would be barebones, perhaps vocals plus backing tracks, like the clip that surfaced on YouTube last year of the singer performing at a talent show at the University of Toronto, where he is a student. Instead, the Weeknd is a complete band live. With the help of a drummer, guitarist and bassist/keyboardist, a majority of the samples were recreated onstage, with the laptop merely tucked away side-stage, used sparingly in between everything. Opener "High for This" and "Glass Table Girls" benefitted from the transformation, becoming anthemic crowd pleasers whereas "Coming Down" was stripped down to keyboard ballad and "Rolling Stone" still upheld its acoustic charm.
As expected, Tesfaye's hype man was present. Watching from a VIP balcony that overlooked the audience, Drake was probably the biggest fan of the show. Singing out loud to every track, the rapper – currently wrapping up his new record, Take Care – even donned a lighter in the air for his friend. After the show, he tweeted: "I am so fuckin proud. You performed magic tonight."
- Published July 25, on Rollingstone.com
Static Zine: Goodbye, Criminal Records
I wrote a little goodbye letter to my friends at Criminal Records. Read!
Toronto's Criminal Records closes its doors on Sunday. In honour of them, Melody has written an open letter about the independent record store. (Don't forget to check out her zine article, People Watching: Record Store Edition, which took place there.)
The first time I walked into Criminal…
During NXNE, Static Zine and Via Sky Blue Sky - two projects I'm part of - teamed up to put together a day show to celebrate the first issue of Static. Fun was had, bands played and cupcakes were decorated and eaten. Via Sky Blue Sky camera guy Brian captured it all for Via Sky Blue Sky's second episode. Watch now!
Static Zine!
My lovely friend Jessica Lewis decided to start a zine a few months back and as a devoted lover of zines (but not ziner myself - is that what you call them? Ziners?) I just had to join!
Technically, I'm the 'Managing Editor' of Static but really, all I did was help plan a few things and wrote a couple of articles. The first issue is out now at your local record shops and other locations. Click on the link for a list of places you can find it!
We're also throwing a launch party on June 19, 2011 at Sky Blue Sky/Christie Pits - click here for more info!


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