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Friday, March 5, 2010
Touched for the very first time
97 comments:
- Plentymorefishoutofwater said...
It took me until the age of 25 to learn to shave properly without looking like a red-faced paedo afterwards.
*Read about my dating disasters at plentymorefishoutofwater* - March 5, 2010 at 6:13 AM
- secret agent woman said...
I don't really know why, but this was a skill that came naturally to me and I virtually never knicked myself. I can still remember glancing around me in 8th grade PE class and suddenly realizing to my horror that I was the only girl who hadn't started shaving her legs. I went home that day and told my mother I needed a razor.
- March 5, 2010 at 6:18 AM
- the wild raspberry said...
i remember before i was allowed to grab that off limits forbidden razor....
i tried pulling out my leg hairs with tweezers.
holy cow.
can you imagine how long that would take?
i would love to have that extra body hair laser-removed.
that would be the life! - March 5, 2010 at 6:19 AM
- Maria said...
I shaved for the first time when I was 12 (hey, I'm Greek, and we're like, preternaturally hirsute!) and my mom warned me not to because once I started I was going to have to do it every other day for the rest of my life. I should've listened. It's one of my least favorite things to do.
Nice post. Brought back memories! - March 5, 2010 at 6:29 AM
- People Who Know Me Would Say: said...
Yeah, I wanted to join the menstruation club too...and was later than the pack....if only I'd known I'd bleed for the next 3 1/2 decades!
We didn't have pink disposable razors in my day. We always hijacked Dad's. He got wise after seeing the gauze on my legs that first time. - March 5, 2010 at 6:31 AM
- Brian Miller said...
yeah, i wish i would have held off...lol. i keep my neck pretty clean, but otherwise, thats why i rock the beard...
- March 5, 2010 at 6:39 AM
- leigh hewett said...
Well said, my lady.
- March 5, 2010 at 6:42 AM
- pam said...
I remember the day I saw my friends razor, it was a pink round one called Flicker I believe. I was astonished because she was 2 years younger than me, but she had dark hair and mine was blond. You could barely see anything on my legs. But I went home and insisted that I needed a Flicker too. Now, I lament that I could have probably saved myself a couple of years of shaving.
- March 5, 2010 at 6:48 AM
- Unknown said...
Ahh the joys of becoming a woman.. I never did the increase the bust exercise though.. I literally went to bed with mosquito bites and woke up with The Grand Tetons on my chest and I could no longer see my feet.. which of course labeled me the immediate slut. Cause everyone knows if we get our boobs early or they are big we simply have to put out NOT
- March 5, 2010 at 6:53 AM
- Buckeroomama said...
OMG!! Ponyboy Curtis and "We must, we must, increase out bust"! Brings back memories. :)
- March 5, 2010 at 6:54 AM
- debra@dustjacket said...
Oh classic JM, classic. I loved the "Oh myyyy gawww, I totally cut myself" I think I'm relating there!! You do bring back memories.
xoxo - March 5, 2010 at 6:54 AM
- Anything Fits A Naked Man said...
I stole my poor dad's razor a LOT before I finally got my first bic! I bet he kept wondering why he couldn't get a smooth shave!
My sister was worse, she had LARGE GASHES all over her legs the first few times she shaved. I don't think she grasped the "don't press too hard" concept! Thanks for the memories! - March 5, 2010 at 6:54 AM
- Johana Hill said...
Hahaha. I was thinking about the other first time.
Bah...anyway I too, was using my dad's razor until my mum bought me a pack of Bic razors! That was a loud hint. And now I secretly use the husband's. He gets very pissed when finds out though. LOL - March 5, 2010 at 6:58 AM
- mo.stoneskin said...
This just reminded me as to why I keep my razors well hidden, locked up in a booby-trapped safe.
- March 5, 2010 at 7:04 AM
- Maria said...
Oh, what fond memories you hve brought back. After tryng all sorts of hair removal methods, I am now finishing up laser hair removal treatments. Because I NEVER exited the awkward shaving phase. Thank goodness I didn't decide to be a surgeon! Yikes!
Great post, as always, JennyMac! - March 5, 2010 at 7:10 AM
It is one of the most unfair things about being a woman, but there any so many other unfair things too.
Secretia - March 5, 2010 at 7:15 AM
- the walking man said...
You do know you could go all French and just let the hair grow right? Or Brazilian and wax it off. But a blade to the legs? No thankee not the legs nor the face.
- March 5, 2010 at 7:31 AM
- Julia said...
haha, I love The Oustsiders reference! Always a fave! I actually didn't cut myself the first time, but I did plenty of times after that... enough to make up for it!
- March 5, 2010 at 7:35 AM
- lsnellings said...
I never could understand how my dad knew I had swiped his razor! Oh how I wish I had waited a year or five before I started shaving the two or three microscopic, platinum blond hairs on my legs. No one told me they would grow back in coarse, black and at warp speed!
- March 5, 2010 at 8:02 AM
- Little Ms Blogger said...
I think having 3 older sisters helped me NEVER have that need to shave my legs.
I have a gf who only has to shave her legs once a week. I hated her growing as I had to shave everyday or twice/day during the summers.
Love Veet. It is my best friend. - March 5, 2010 at 8:10 AM
- MommaKiss said...
Ohhh, this hurts me deep. I think I was in the summer between 6th and 7th grade and I used a disposable razor. I scraped up my shin and DID NOT STOP. Razor came off, 2 inch piece of skin with it. And then? Then! You need to wash off that damn leg - oh the pain from soap on an open wound!
I still have a scar. I'm 35. - March 5, 2010 at 8:12 AM
- Simply Suthern said...
There are pics of me at 5-6 yr old, lathered up using a debladed double edge razor. I'm on a stool looking in the mirror grinning ear to ear. The stool is gone now, so is the grin.
- March 5, 2010 at 8:23 AM
- Mrs. M said...
Yes, had I only known I would have happily skipped a few years of the nicks and cuts. I would always try to shave too fast and that never ends well! Have a great weekend!!
- March 5, 2010 at 8:34 AM
- courtney said...
haha I love this post! My mom made me use an electric razor at first and I hated it. So I took one of my dad's disposable razors and used that and I took a HUGE chunk of skin out of my ankle. I bled for a couple days haha.
- March 5, 2010 at 8:40 AM
- BlueRidgeLady said...
My legs are burning reading this....I think I started that at 11. I remember my girls...they just did it on their own!~ Didn't even ask me! My oldest daughter would die if she knew I told ya'll this, but she always thought she was too hairy, and she wasn't..it was cute, blonde and shiny. So she shaves her ARMS for crying out loud! I call her CATFISH! She is beautiful though, I guess she can do whatever she wants now, always did!
- March 5, 2010 at 8:50 AM
- MommyLovesStilettos said...
My mom wouldn't let my sister and I shave when all of our friends were so my sister and I snuck a razor and shaved our legs DRY. NO water NO soap No NOTHING! We were not very bright. I don't think I even have to explain how much that hurt!
- March 5, 2010 at 9:05 AM
- Slamdunk said...
I can't wait until the little daughter starts needing help with these issues--run dad run.
I remember getting in trouble with my dad after I used his razor to try to shave my GI Joe. At least, I had some practice a few years later when I was ready to try the real thing. - March 5, 2010 at 9:15 AM
- JenJen said...
Ugh. You've reminded me of my own first time. I got razor burn that really just gives me the eebie-jeebies thinking about it now.
- March 5, 2010 at 9:18 AM
- Jules AF said...
I still cut myself because I hardly ever shave... And I'm 24. sigh.
- March 5, 2010 at 9:28 AM
- ellen abbott said...
Societal pressure in this country is hard to resist. Women who don't shave their legs and armpits are treated with scorn and disgust and compared to gorillas (by both sexes). I've never understood the aversion to body hair on women. Why is it acceptable on a man but disgusting on a woman? It's part of being an adult human being. I quit shaving when I was about 20 (I admit that the hair on my legs was sparse and not dark). Many many years later when I went for my first mammo, the technician could hardly do her job she was so transfixed by the hair in my armpit. Probably the first time she had ever seen hair on a woman.
- March 5, 2010 at 9:30 AM
- Unknown said...
wow flashbacks flashbacks! can't believe you got the Outsiders AND 'we must we must' all into the same post! LOL
ah shaving...pita~! - March 5, 2010 at 9:32 AM
- Rebekah @ Mom-In-A-Million said...
My college roommate and I used to alert each other before we went to shave just in case we passed out due to blood loss and needed the other to call 911.
- March 5, 2010 at 9:42 AM
- Jessica said...
I think I may give up shaving now...
- March 5, 2010 at 9:46 AM
- Closer to Lucy said...
How funny, the way we recall some things and not others. I don't remember my first leg shave, though I still nick myself all the freaking time.
I remember the start of shaving my underarms. I was in the 5th grade; I did have some pretty hairy pits, but my step mom refused to let me shave it off. It was spring and I wore a tank in gym, some big meanie said something about me being a gorilla girl. I shaved that night with my step-mom's razor. - March 5, 2010 at 9:46 AM
- Jessica said...
I think I might stop shaving......
- March 5, 2010 at 9:50 AM
- NotJustAnotherJen said...
Please tell me that you don't shave everyday. Please.
- March 5, 2010 at 9:59 AM
I use to cut myself all the time. Once I discovered the Mac3 Razor, all that went away. The reflection in the mirror thanks me!
- March 5, 2010 at 10:03 AM
- Elle said...
Ah, memories...I truly don't remember when I started shaving my legs. I do remember teaching my youngest sister how to though. She asked, so I obliged, warning her that she might want to consider not starting.
Am I the only lazy woman who, now that I'm married, doesn't shave nearly as much anymore? Hubby doesn't seem to mind, and I don't wear shorts or skirts often. That's a good excuse, right?!? (I consider myself quite lucky to have married a partially reformed hippy.) - March 5, 2010 at 10:12 AM
- Missy said...
this post is hilarious. I remember the first time I shaved my legs. I was probably 6 and stole my mom's razor. I cut a gash in my ankle that was so deep I had to wear 6 pairs of socks to keep it from bleeding through. Cause ain't no way I was telling my mom! I didn't shave again until I was probably 13 and that was only because a friend made fun of me. Ah peer pressure.
- March 5, 2010 at 10:13 AM
- Sole Matters said...
Haha SO true! My sister was in 5th grade when she started shaving, and since I was dying to be like her, I started shaving too! I was in the 2nd grade. LOL
- March 5, 2010 at 10:17 AM
- Herding Cats said...
I remember the first time I shaved my legs. I pranced around in shirts the day after sort of hoping my parents didn't notice. My brother was the first to comment with, "Wow....what happened to your legs? They look so shiny!"
....embarrassing! - March 5, 2010 at 10:28 AM
- Linda @ A La Carte said...
OMG I was the last of my group to shave my legs. I got made fun of and I begged my Mom, she finally let me shave. It wasn't pretty but they were hairless. I'm almost 60 now and I shave but not as often that is for sure...hey who looks at my legs now??? Great memory evoking post.
- March 5, 2010 at 10:35 AM
- Ed said...
I was sitting here reading and thinking...Chub, chub, chub, chub, FLACCID, SHIT!
I can get that kind of torture at home.
Seriously though, the razor thing goes the same way for guys.
In fact, I've had a couple instances where I've been in the shower and forgotten my razor and grabbed my wife's, only to come out of the shower with my face looking like it was shaved with the business end of a lawnmower. - March 5, 2010 at 10:49 AM
- Jen said...
yup, I was one of the last too, and why, oh why we couldn't have waited another year or two. I actually shaved my underarms before my legs because I was a dancer, and the legs were covered with tights, but the armpits, not so much. Don't remember a whole lot of blood or nicks though, because I don't think I would have gone back for more if that were the case... I must have been spared.
- March 5, 2010 at 10:50 AM
- MommyLisa said...
Don't get mad, but I don't really have to shave my legs that often.
1) It does not grow fast.
2) It is so LIGHT blonde that I actually can go out in shorts with a months growth and no one notices.
sorry! - March 5, 2010 at 10:52 AM
- Unknown said...
I don't remember being the last one to shave...I do remember cutting up my legs so bad that first year that it looked like I had help from Freddy Krueger. Those cuts behind the knee are the farkin' worst!!
p.s. Ousiders reference FTW!!! - March 5, 2010 at 11:02 AM
- Noe Noe Girl...A Queen of all Trades. said...
I was a late shaver too. Still am in the winter.
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- Debby@Just Breathe said...
I'm so old I can't even remember what it was like the first time.
Now I can get away with once a week in the winter and maybe twice a week in the summer. However I do remember our daughters first time and we could not convince her to wait longer. Now that she is 28 she wishes she would have listened to us. Why does life have to be about live & learn. Wouldn't it be nice if we actually listened to the wisdom of our parents and said
"hey thanks, I think I will wait!" - March 5, 2010 at 11:16 AM
- Christopher said...
Everyday I wake up, look at my hairy pasty white legs and thank God I was born a man.
- March 5, 2010 at 11:18 AM
- cfoxes33 said...
My daughter started a couple of years ago and without consulting me. The first thing she did was take a chunk (yes a chunk) out of her leg. Needless to say razor's are not used on our legs anymore, just our pits (and other areas for me). Anyway, if it wasn't for Need and Nair, we would have hairy legs.
- March 5, 2010 at 11:22 AM
- Ela said...
I so wish I never did! I believe my mom NOW when she says it makes your hair course and grow faster and thicker. GAH.
Oh and I was so smart and too excited to actually use shaving cream my first time. Shaving cream, what's that?
Happy weekend!
p.s. Sorry to drop it so late. This week has been.. - March 5, 2010 at 11:29 AM
- Teresa @ Grammy Girlfriend said...
A skill I have never mastered....loved this post
- March 5, 2010 at 11:42 AM
- Unknown said...
On the bright side, after years of shaving that unsightly black fur off my gams, I find that there is an advantage to being over 60! The fur is practically non existant! I have four or five hairs on each leg now, and that's it! Who knew???
- March 5, 2010 at 11:42 AM
- Unknown said...
Oh my the memories! I could NOT wait to shave my legs when I was a teen. Although I don't remember too many cuts at first. :)
- March 5, 2010 at 11:43 AM
- MsDarkstar said...
I didn't WANT to shave but my swim coach sent a note home to my parents DEMANDING that I do so. Because leg hair = drag (seriously, if my leg hair was slowing me down I was ok with that...) Let me tell you, chlorinated water on freshly knicked up legs = OUCH! At least if you're in a pool crying, no one can tell.
- March 5, 2010 at 11:43 AM
- Christine Macdonald said...
Great write! Love the intro.
I was 10 or 11 and in the bath tub with my best friend monique (in bathing suits). We shaved our own legs together. I still have the scar on my shin. - March 5, 2010 at 11:43 AM
- Intense Guy said...
I'm just going to go and admit it... I thought you were going to write about something else when I saw the title and started breathing heavier.
I don't shave my legs - I'm sure I'd make a mess of 'em... I don't remember my first few facial shaves - I do know I decided to grow a beard due to some scars that I kept hacking up with the razor. An electric razor didn't do damage but it hurt when it snagged the barb wire hairs. - March 5, 2010 at 11:47 AM
- foxy said...
Hahahahaha... you totally got me, JM!! I was all SHE'S GOING TO TALK ABOUT HER FIRST TIME FOR EVERYONE TO READ. Whew! You scared me there for a minute....... :)
Anyway, yes, I too walked away from my first time with all kinds of tp stuck to my little (or big) nicks. And i also admit to singing the "we must increase our bust" song. Ha.
Have a great weekend, girl!! - March 5, 2010 at 11:53 AM
- Amanda said...
I remember being so anxious to finally shave too! Now I definitely wish I would have waited. Too much work sometimes!
- March 5, 2010 at 12:12 PM
- jules said...
Oh I was so ready. I surely got grounded for doing it without authorization from my mom because ALL my friends were doing it. I thought I'd show her!
- March 5, 2010 at 12:43 PM
- Secret Mom Thoughts said...
I totally remember those bandaged leg days.
- March 5, 2010 at 12:47 PM
- Vodka Logic said...
Not sure I remembered the first time but the earlier times were painful. Dry shaving ouch Peeling the skin off you shin.. yikes.
I find I am less hairier as I get older plus winter time is let it grow and be warm..unless an appt with a certain dr. - March 5, 2010 at 1:02 PM
JennyMac, you had me giggling at myself here! poor dads with their bloody collars :)
I'm certain we wouldn't have hurried had we known what we know now- "oh, you big beautiful laser machine, come and usurp me!" - March 5, 2010 at 1:14 PM
- Marcy said...
I don't remember my first time, but remember my first cousin making fun of me in the car. I shaved shortly thereafter.
I did take a run with an electric for awhile in high school. Definitely not as effective. Does anyone remember the old-school epilady??? I wanted one so bad until i heard how badly they HURT. - March 5, 2010 at 1:26 PM
I didn't have to shave for the longest time. The first time I didn't even need to. The hair was blond and ypu couldn't even see it. Now I wish I never did, my mom warned me the hair would grow back darker and thicker. She was so right.
- March 5, 2010 at 2:37 PM
- Red Shoes said...
There is definitely a learning curve to shaving... anything... ;o)
~shoes~ - March 5, 2010 at 2:52 PM
- undomestic mama said...
I still have a long scar down my leg and into my foot where I dropped the razor. I've dropped it many times since then, but I happened to drop it just right the first time I shaved and it cut me.....now I just wax.
- March 5, 2010 at 3:05 PM
- Matty said...
I love hearing tales of women losing their virginity. Even if it is about their legs.
- March 5, 2010 at 3:36 PM
- Ellen said...
I on the other hand was NOT a late bloomer. I was so embarrassed to have boobs at the age of 11 that I wore like three undershirts to try to hide 'em because I was too embarrassed to get a bra before all my friends. And I started shaving my legs in secret...hell, I'm Greek, I HAD to!
http://www.firednfabulous.blogspot.com/ - March 5, 2010 at 4:15 PM
- mCat said...
laser removal is on my wish list.
Hate the shaving. Particularly brazil - March 5, 2010 at 4:23 PM
- Heather Taylor said...
Love that Ponyboy reference!
I should not brag about this, but I rarely cut my legs. I have this weird thing where I shave every day, just in case there's ever one day that comes along where I am too tired to shave so I can skip for a day and not have a forest on my legs :) - March 5, 2010 at 4:55 PM
- Unknown said...
You had me a little worried at the beginning of your post - LOL ;-) I couldn't wait to do it too, but after one really terrible cut, I actually learned my lesson & perfected it pretty well...
- March 5, 2010 at 5:46 PM
- Shelly - Tropical Mum said...
My mom told me to hold out as long as I could because it would make the hair on my legs coarser and I would have to keep shaving forevermore.
I listened to her and lo and behold like one of your other readers, I was in 8th grade PE class and the only one who wasn't shaving yet. Wish Mom had told me when I SHOULD start shaving instead of waiting for embarrassment to be the catalyst.
Shelly at Tropical Mum - March 5, 2010 at 6:04 PM
- Cocaine Princess said...
What a cute post. I still have a tiny scar from my first nik.
As for Ponyboy Curtis....I must have read "The Outsiders" at least 100x. Such an awesome book. - March 5, 2010 at 7:26 PM
- Liz Mays said...
I remember begging and begging for this! I actually have never regretted starting when I did. I shave every single day and it's not a hassle to me at all.
- March 5, 2010 at 7:26 PM
- Carma Sez said...
I think you should take a page out of Mo'Nique's book and go with the hairy legs/Oscar gown look - think what a time saver that would be - I've been getting (incredibly painful) laser hair removal treatments for a year and I still have some hair. UGH.
- March 5, 2010 at 7:57 PM
- J.J. in L.A. said...
I remember shaving my legs with a razor maybe once or twice...then I switched to Nair.
- March 5, 2010 at 8:18 PM
I wasn't allowed to shave my legs at the time, but I started babysitting when I was 11. So everything the babies' parents owned was fair game. When I came home from a baby-sitting job with a huge gash up the side of my leg above my ankle, I told my mom that I fell. On what? A potato peeler? She didn't hassle me. Thanks, Mom.
- March 5, 2010 at 10:03 PM
Also, if you turn the Flicker razor around - what? - five times? - that's as far as it goes. And you can't turn it back, despite the fact that you didn't use any of the blades. I did that, too. And my mom didn't hassle me. Thanks, Mom.
- March 5, 2010 at 10:05 PM
- The Four Week Vegan said...
My poor, poor daughter has basically one eye that functions and not at full strength without corrective lenses. Yes, this means she has NO depth perception when she isn't in contacts or glasses. When she started shaving she didn't do contacts by her choice. Her legs were ALWAYS knicked up. I said a AMEN when she finally decided to get contacts.
- March 5, 2010 at 10:49 PM
- Elle said...
Not sure if you're into them or not, but I've passed a blog award on to you. Details are on my blog.
- March 5, 2010 at 11:33 PM
- brokenteepee said...
Which is why as I get older I don't care any more.
- March 5, 2010 at 11:33 PM
- Hissyfits & Halos said...
It infuriates my husband when I use his razor. But, still, I use his razor to shave my pits when I use his shower. If he ever knew......oh....mercy!!!
- March 5, 2010 at 11:51 PM
My mom made me use an electric razor first. Looking back, I don't know if this was a good or bad thing. Either way, I was going to end up with nicks and cuts.
- March 6, 2010 at 12:20 AM
- Unknown said...
Oh I totally did those "we must increase our bust" exercises when I was younger. Didn't do a thing, sadly. And I still have scars from learning to shave - I remember there were times that I would shave huge slices of skin off - so gross.
- March 6, 2010 at 3:34 AM
he only thing I hate more than shaving is having hair in anywhere accept the top of my head. Eyebrows, and Eyelashes excluded. Totally getting lased EVERYWHERE once I have the money.
- March 6, 2010 at 4:50 AM
- HalfAsstic.com said...
I am STILL waiting for a pill that will eradicate leg and underarm hair. Preferably taken once a month... or year!
OK, that and a pill to keep puppies and kittens from turning into dogs and cats.
If only science knew what is REALLY important... ;-) - March 6, 2010 at 6:26 PM
- TheOnlineStylist said...
Ooh I remember my First Time! I think afterwards I rubbed some Avon Pretty Peach body lotion on my legs... and promptly went through the roof! Funnily enough, Small Child walked in whilst I was in the bath shaving my legs the other day and she declared she'll "never do that" when she grows up! I managed to hide my wry smile!
- March 7, 2010 at 5:36 AM
- Unknown said...
My girls often complain that my legs are "scratchy." I guess it's time to step up my game (but it's winter, people)...
The first time my mom helped me. I was so scared. I think I cried because I was afraid I'd cut myself. She had this really nice lotion stuff, and amazingly (with her guidance), I survived my first time unscathed. And then I thought I was SO COOL. Couldn't wait to do it again.
Now, it's the bane of my existence.
;-) - March 7, 2010 at 8:32 AM
- Badass Geek said...
I was never really that bad at shaving... except for my chin. I always cut my chin. Thus the reason for my goatee.
- March 7, 2010 at 9:05 AM
- shortmama said...
Aint that the truth..if we would have only known what we were getting into
- March 7, 2010 at 4:42 PM
- ThatsBaloney said...
You mean there might come a day when I can shave my legs without blood? Wow. I look forward to it.
- March 7, 2010 at 5:42 PM
- kathryn said...
"Had we only considered that we would have the opportunity to do it every day for the rest of our lives"
Ah yes...and that word "opportunity" is at the crux of it all, my friend...
But we can dance around the issue by using lack of motivation, a sore back preventing us from leaning over and "the dog doesn't care if I shave or not" as viable extenuating circumstances.
Well....at least, I can... - March 7, 2010 at 8:03 PM
- Something Happened Somewhere Turning said...
A friend of mine once mentioned the Epilady. She said she can still remember the long painful screams.
Of course I had to ask what she was talking about. "It ripped it from your skin!" She screamed. "It ripped the hair right from your skin." - March 7, 2010 at 10:17 PM
- Corrie Howe said...
Totally agree. Laughing at Dad's razor blade. Been there and done that! Hubby too, sometimes.
- March 7, 2010 at 11:18 PM
- Pandorah's Box said...
UGH. I wish I had never done it! Or have to do it now!
It's my least favourite grroming thing to do.
Loved this story though! You know how to take anything and make it a good story! xoxo - March 8, 2010 at 3:25 PM
- Unknown said...
I remember that I just could not WAIT to shave. I longed for it. I remember my Mom saying I would hate it one day. And, oh darn it, she was so right. It is such a time stealer, isn't it?
- March 13, 2010 at 9:22 PM


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During its initial months, the band went through a series of names, including Skid Row, Pen Cap Chew, and Ted Ed Fred. The band finally settled on Nirvana in early 1988, which Cobain said was chosen because "I wanted a name that was kind of beautiful or nice and pretty instead of a mean, raunchy punk rock name like the Angry Samoans." Nirvana played their first show under the name that March. A couple of months later, the band finally settled on a drummer, Chad Channing.
Nirvana's first release was the single "Love Buzz/Big Cheese" in 1988 on Seattle independent record label Sub Pop. The following year, the band released its first album, Bleach. To record Bleach, the band turned to noted local producer Jack Endino, who had recorded the band's first studio demos. Bleach was highly influenced by The Melvins, by the heavy dirge-rock of Mudhoney, and by the 70s rock of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. Novoselic noted in a 2001 interview with Rolling Stone that the band had played a tape in their van while on tour that had an album by The Smithereens on one side and an album by the black metal band Celtic Frost on the other, and noted that the combination probably played an influence as well. Bleach became a favorite of college radio stations nationally, but gave few hints of where the band would find itself two years later.
The money for the recording sessions for Bleach, listed as $606.17 on the album sleeve, was supplied by Jason Everman. Everman was introduced to Cobain by Dylan Carlson, but had known Channing since the fifth grade. Everman began hanging out with the band, and offered to loan the money to them for the recording. Though Everman did not actually play on the album, he was credited for playing guitar on Bleach because, according to Novoselic, they "wanted to make him feel more at home in the band." After the album was completed, Everman had a brief and contentious stay with the band as a second guitar player, but was fired following their first US tour.
In a late 1989 interview, Cobain noted that the band's music was changing. He said, "The early songs were really angry [. . . ] But as time goes on the songs are getting poppier and poppier as I get happier and happier. The songs are now about conflicts in relationships, emotional things with other human beings." In April 1990, the band began working with producer Butch Vig at Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin on recordings for the follow-up to Bleach. During the sessions, Kurt and Krist became disenchanted with Channing's drumming, and Channing expressed frustration at not being actively involved in songwriting. Not long after the sessions were complete, Channing was gone from the band. After a few weeks with Dale Crover of The Melvins filling in, Nirvana hired Mudhoney drummer Dan Peters, with whom they recorded the song "Sliver". A few weeks later, Buzz Osborne of The Melvins introduced them to Dave Grohl, who was looking for a new band following the sudden break-up of D.C. hardcore punks Scream. Disenchanted with Sub Pop and with the Smart Studios sessions generating interest, Nirvana decided to look for a deal with a major record label.
"Smells Like Teen Spirit," the first single from the band's breakthrough release Nevermind (1991). The song was a worldwide hit, and its "quiet verses with wobbly, chorused guitar, followed by big, loud hardcore-inspired choruses" became a much-emulated template in alternative rock. Following repeated recommendations by Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, Nirvana signed to DGC Records in 1990. The band subsequently began recording its first major label album, Nevermind. They were offered a number of producers to choose from, but ultimately held out for Butch Vig. Rather than recording at Vig's Madison studio as they had in 1990, they shifted to Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California. For two months, the band worked through a variety of songs in their catalog. Some of the songs, including "In Bloom" and "Breed", had been in the band's repertoire for years, while others, including "On a Plain" and "Stay Away", lacked finished lyrics until mid-way through the recording process. After the recording sessions were completed, Vig and the band set out to mix the album. However, the recording sessions had run behind schedule and the resulting mixes were deemed unsatisfactory. Slayer mixer Andy Wallace was brought in to create the final mix. After the album's release members of Nirvana expressed dissatisfaction with the polished sound the mixer had given Nevermind.
Initially, DGC Records was hoping to sell 250,000 copies of Nevermind, which was the same level they had achieved with Sonic Youth's Goo. However, the album's first single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" quickly gained momentum, thanks in part to significant airplay of the song's music video on MTV. As they toured Europe during late 1991, the band found that the shows were dangerously oversold, that television crews were becoming a constant presence onstage, and that "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was almost omnipresent on radio and music television. By Christmas 1991, Nevermind was selling 400,000 copies a week in the US. On January 11, 1992, the album reached number one on the Billboard album charts, replacing Michael Jackson's album Dangerous. The album also topped the charts in numerous countries worldwide. The month Nevermind reached number one, Billboard proclaimed, "Nirvana is that rare band that has everything: critical acclaim, industry respect, pop radio appeal, and a rock-solid college/alternative base."
In February 1992, following the band's Pacific Rim tour, Cobain married Hole frontwoman Courtney Love in Hawaii. Love gave birth to a daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, the following August. Citing exhaustion, the band decided not to undertake another U.S. tour in support of Nevermind, instead opting to make only a handful of performances later that year. Just days after Frances Bean's birth, Nirvana performed one of its best-known concerts, headlining at the Reading Festival in England. Amid rumors about Cobain's health and the possibility the band might break up, Cobain entered the stage in a wheelchair as a practical joke, then proceeded to get up and join the rest of the band in tearing through an assortment of old and new material. Dave Grohl related in 2005 on the radio program Loveline that the band was genuinely concerned beforehand that the show would be a complete disaster, given all that had happened in the months leading up to the show. Instead, the performance ended up being one of the most memorable of their career.
Cobain and Novoselic at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards. Less than two weeks later, Nirvana performed at the MTV Video Music Awards. During the first rehearsal for the show, Cobain announced that they were going to play a new song during the broadcast, and the band rehearsed "Rape Me". MTV's executives were appalled by the song, and, according to show producer Amy Finnerty, the executives believed that the song was about them. They insisted that the band could not play "Rape Me", even threatening to throw Nirvana off of the show and stop airing their videos entirely. After a series of intense discussions, MTV and Nirvana agreed that the band would play "Lithium", their latest single. When the band began their performance, Cobain strummed and sang the first few bars of "Rape Me", one last jab at MTV's executives, before breaking into "Lithium". Near the end of the song, frustrated that his amp had stopped functioning, Novoselic decided to toss his bass into the air for dramatic effect. He misjudged the landing, and the bass ended up bouncing off his forehead, causing him to stumble off the stage in a daze. As Cobain trashed their equipment, Grohl ran to the mic and began yelling "Hi, Axl!" repeatedly, referring to Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose, with whom the band and Courtney had had a bizarre encounter prior to the show.
Nirvana released Incesticide, a collection of rarities and B-sides, in December 1992. Many of Nirvana's radio sessions and unreleased early recordings were starting to circulate via trading circles and illegal bootlegs, so the album served to circumvent the bootleggers. The album contained songs from previously released singles and EPs, including "Sliver" and "Dive", as well as material from the band's sessions for the BBC, including "Been a Son", "Aneurysm", and covers of songs by The Vaselines and Devo.
For 1993's In Utero, the band brought in producer Steve Albini, well-known for his work on the Pixies album Surfer Rosa. As Nevermind had brought in a new audience of listeners who had little or no experience with the alternative, obscure, or experimental bands Nirvana saw as their forebears, bringing in Albini appeared to be a deliberate move on Nirvana's part to give the album a raw, less-polished sound. For example, one song on In Utero featuring long periods of shrill feedback noise was titled, ironically, "Radio Friendly Unit Shifter". (In the industry, a "radio-friendly unit shifter" describes an "ideal" album: one capable of heavy radio play and ultimately selling many copies, or "units".) However, Cobain insisted that Albini's sound was simply the one he had always wanted Nirvana to have: a "natural" recording without layers of studio trickery. The sessions with Albini were productive and notably quick, and the album was recorded and mixed in two weeks for a cost of $25,000.
Several weeks after the completion of the recording sessions, stories ran in the Chicago Tribune and Newsweek that quoted sources claiming DGC considered the album "unreleasable." As a result, fans began to believe that the band's creative vision might be compromised by their label. While the stories about DGC shelving the album were untrue, the band actually was unhappy with certain aspects of Albini's mixes. Specifically, they thought the bass levels were too low, and Cobain felt that "Heart-Shaped Box" and "All Apologies" did not sound "perfect". Longtime R.E.M. producer Scott Litt was called in to help remix those two songs, with Cobain adding additional instrumentation and backing vocals.
In Utero debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 album chart in September 1993. Time's Christopher John Farley wrote in his review of the album, "Despite the fears of some alternative-music fans, Nirvana hasn't gone mainstream, though this potent new album may once again force the mainstream to go Nirvana." However, the album did not achieve the same success as Nevermind. That fall, Nirvana embarked on a US tour, its first major tour of the States since the success of "Smells Like Teen Spirit". For the tour, the band added Pat Smear of the punk rock band The Germs as a second guitarist.
In November 1993, Nirvana performed for MTV Unplugged. The band opted to stay away from their most recognizable songs, playing only one of their hits, "Come as You Are". Grohl later related, "We knew we didn't want to do an acoustic version of Teen Spirit. ... That would've been horrendously stupid." The setlist also included a few relatively obscure covers, with members of the Meat Puppets joining the band for covers of three of their songs. While rehearsals for the show had been problematic, MTV Unplugged producer Alex Coletti noted that the actual taping went exceedingly well, with every song performed in one take and with the complete set lasting under an hour, which were both unusual for Unplugged sessions. Following the band's set-ending performance of Lead Belly's "Where Did You Sleep Last Night", Coletti tried to convince the band to perform an encore. "Kurt said, 'I can't top that last song.' And when he said that, I backed off. 'Cause I knew he was right." The band's performance debuted on MTV on December 14, 1993.
In early 1994, the band embarked on a European tour. Following a tour stop at Terminal Eins in Munich, Germany, on March 1, Cobain was diagnosed with bronchitis and severe laryngitis. The next night's show at the same venue was canceled. In Rome, on the morning of March 4, Love found Cobain unconscious and he was rushed to the hospital. The doctor told a press conference that the singer had reacted to a combination of prescription Rohypnol and alcohol. The rest of the tour was canceled, including a planned leg in the UK.
In the ensuing weeks, Cobain's heroin addiction resurfaced. An intervention was organized, and Cobain was convinced to check into drug rehabilitation. After less than a week in rehabilitation, Cobain climbed over the wall of the facility and took a plane back to Seattle. A week later, on Friday, April 8, 1994, Cobain was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted shotgun blast to the head at his Seattle home, effectively dissolving Nirvana.
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For many people, 2011 wasn't a great year. When the economy wasn't sluggish, it was turbulent. And all manner of disasters seemed to rotate through the headlines. But in some states, and some neighborhoods, people got along just fine. Look closely at the worlds of business and sports, music and politics, and you'll find a few people and places that had it pretty good in 2011.
Our series "It's A Good Year For..." has uncovered some of the trends and stories that helped shape the past year, as NPR reporters explored why some companies — and even some lab mice — have reasons to be happy.
And we asked for your input, as well — and hundreds of readers responded with their suggestions of the things that had a good 2011. Then we took the results and used them to seed a Word Cloud, below.
As you can see, the themes of economic trouble and democratic revolt were on many peoples' minds as 2011 neared a close.
And a few responses were too personal to be easily collated into a word cloud. The common themes included enjoying one's life, friends and family, and marking personal milestones, like dieting and forgiving oneself.
One person wrote, "Me — accepted into a nursing program and all the good stuff since."
Others were simply unable to restrict themselves to short responses.
For example, one reader wrote in with an elaborately explained suggestion that garage door companies in the Lake Tahoe Basin enjoyed a heyday in 2011, thanks to rambunctiously destructive bears.
The entry ended on a note of conspiracy, as the author concluded that one company "may have had something to do with the break-ins, as many bears have been sighted wearing Truckee Overhead Door t-shirts; worse, residents are suspicious that several bears have been put on their payrolls."
And another person explained an enigmatic response of "okra" by adding, "During the Texas drought, that's the only thing that did well in local gardens."
Many thanks to all who shared their responses, and to the friends, family — and bears — who inspired them.
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Billy Joel, Maria Shriver and Samuel L. Jackson - baby boomers all - will be among those featured in an upcoming PBS documentary about the post-World War II generation.
PBS announced Thursday that "American Masters: The Boomer List" will air Sept. 23 on member stations. The 90-minute production, directed by filmmaker-photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, will include 19 notable public figures. Their years of birth represent each of the years commonly associated with the baby boom era, 1946-64. The list also includes Rosie O'Donnell, Tommy Hilfiger and Steve Wozniak.
Greenfield-Sanders' portraits of the interviewees will be included in a companion coffee table book and in an exhibit at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. "The Boomer List: Photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders" will run at the Newseum from Sept. 26 through June 2015.


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Thank you, Chairman Cardin. And thank you all for being here.
Standing here today with this concrete icon before us, the images and lessons of history are inescapable. From the guard tower where officers had shoot-to-kill orders for anybody trying to escape the East — to the stark contrast in coloring on either side of this barrier, the fall of the Berlin Wall is truly one of the finest chapters in freedom's story.
A few inches of concrete formed the line between a world of free expression and one of repression.
And now, 20 years later, it stands as a bold testament to the fact that a people empowered to express themselves cannot be contained, the march of freedom cannot be stopped.
Seeing the liberation that took place in November 1989 resonated with me personally. In my lifetime I've faced my share of walls – the walls of a segregated South, the walls of lingering racism and discrimination. But I overcame Jim Crow's walls to be Florida's first African-American federal judge and then its first African-American in Congress since the post-Civil War era.
And I stand here today, in this same building amid the ballot box that brought democracy to a land of apartheid; bombed out signs from sniper alley where journalists covered Europe's worst massacre since World War II; and here by the largest piece of the Berlin Wall outside of Germany – to remind us of how far we have come, and the work that remains to uphold the dignity of all, regardless of their background.
I am happy to see that as of last month we have a new assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor in Michael Posner. But I'm disappointed that this position was filled at the slowest pace in 28 years, and this administration has still not yet nominated an ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. For a president who so strongly supports international engagement and reinvigorating multilateral institutions, I expected better. I know it is early and the agenda is long, but I hope we will have an ambassador nominated by year's end.
The events of 1989 showed the power of civil society to spur change through the exercise of fundamental freedoms of expression, assembly, association and movement. And because of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, we now live in a very different and better world.
And while personal and political freedoms have greatly expanded throughout the OSCE region over the last two decades, some countries continue to limit these basic rights.
In particular, I am concerned about backsliding of a free press and places where political and ethnic minorities are blocked from participating in civic life.
Across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, press freedom is too often lacking. Discussing the region recently, the OSCE representative on freedom of the media Miklos Haraszti was direct: "The iron curtain is still there."
As long as journalists face unjust fines and penalties designed to literally halt the presses, the press is not free. And if journalists continue to see their colleagues kidnapped, beaten, or killed with no sincere pursuit of the criminals – the press is not free.
Our politics can get nasty in this country, but you never see anybody thrown in jail just for running against an incumbent. Today, in too many places, we still see rampant political repression, perversions of the electoral process, and scare tactics used to marginalize those who simply seek to add a new voice to their country's governing process.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, we've seen new walls erected. Right now, Russia is building a virtual wall in what is internationally recognized as Georgian territory, escalating its effective annexation of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Elsewhere walls are isolating minorities, and — even here –keeping out immigrants. I've never been convinced that fences make good neighbors, and for a world endeavoring to lift up its people, walls are hardly a sign of progress.
The success of nationalistic parties, which campaigned on messages of hate in this year's European Parliamentary elections, concerns me.
The violence and systemic exclusion of Roma is nothing short of scandalous.
Don't get me wrong – historic progress has been made. But we are not done. And our country has much work to do as well.
For our country to advance freedom around the globe, we know we must advance it here.
This wall did not come down so that we could build new barriers. And those who fought for freedom in the East did not struggle so that their sons and daughters would have to take up their fight anew. We at the Helsinki Commission pride ourselves on giving voice to the voiceless, providing a forum for human rights defenders who often lack even the slightest megaphone for their cause. But like the activists and artists who painted this wall calling for the people to rise up so communism could fall — we too know something about people power. We know a community galvanized for good, fighting for freedom cannot be stopped. And wherever such defenders of liberty rise up, we will stand up to join them. Through your words and through your work, I know you will be with them as well.
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Chemicals recognized by the State of California to contain carcinogens or cause reproductive harm are subject to the requirements of Prop 65 and one of the most cited chemicals is lead, which naturally occurs in soil, water, and the ocean. According to Prop 65 the content of lead has particularly stringent regulations, requiring a warning if its presence exceeds 0.5 micrograms in any given product per day. This is nearly 1,000 times lower than the amount known to cause reproductive harm according to the federal government.
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Are there exceptions for chemicals that occur naturally?
If a company can prove that a chemical naturally occurs in its products, it is exempt from Prop 65. As an example, the American daily average for black pepper consumption contains 10 times the "safe harbor" level of safrole, a naturally occurring chemical listed under Prop 65 as a carcinogen. But because it is naturally occurring, companies have not yet been required to warn the public about black pepper.
The presence of lead is a bit more complex. Over the past century, industrial change in the United States and in the developing world has created an increase in the amount of lead distributed across the environment. The use of leaded gasoline and the burning of coal and other fossil fuels have damaged the environment, spreading the pollutant into the atmosphere. In turn, this lead has been redistributed in rainwater, our oceans, and through soil seepage where it is absorbed by plant life.
For this reason, it isn't possible to claim that the lead content appearing in our products is entirely natural. Even though lead is never added to any of our products, and fertilizers containing heavy metals (which includes lead) are prohibited in organic farming, our products are safe, and proving that lead only occurs naturally is prohibitively expensive. Prop 65 is written in a way that places the burden of proof on businesses rather than on the government. If a business cannot prove that the chemical content in their products is natural, then they must provide a warning label or face litigation.
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About MEPs
Each country decides on the form its election will take, but must guarantee equality of the sexes and a secret ballot. EU elections are by proportional representation. Voting age is 18, aside from Austria, where it is 16. Seats are allocated on the basis of population of each Member State. Slightly more than a third of MEPs are women. MEPs are grouped by political affinity, not nationality. MEPs divide their time between their constituencies, Strasbourg - where 12 plenary sittings a year are held - and Brussels, where they attend additional plenary sittings, as well as committee and political group meetings. The terms and conditions for Members are laid out in the Statute of 2009.


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Making macarons – talk about a brave decision! And here I thought that chopping off 4 inches of hair, like I did a couple of months ago, had been a bold move.
I'd had an eye on these pink beauties for quite a while but it was Helen's wonderful tutorial that gave me the courage to finally try making macarons. And even though they don't look like hers or the Master's – which I was lucky enough to try – I was very glad with the results. So glad that I intend to make a new batch next weekend. :)
Recipe adapted from here (shells) and here (filling).
Blueberry macarons
50g ground almonds
140g icing sugar
2 large egg whites
1 tablespoon caster sugar
violet food coloring paste
White chocolate blueberry ganache:
¾ cup chopped white chocolate
¼ cup cream
1 tablespoon blueberry jam
Start by making the macarons: grab two large pieces of baking paper and, using a cookie cutter, trace 4cm-circles, 3cm apart from each other, all over the paper. Turn the paper sheets around and line 2 large baking trays with them.
Sieve the ground almonds and icing sugar together into a large bowl. Put the egg whites into a separate bowl, and using an electric hand whisk, beat to soft peaks. Add the caster sugar, and whisk until glossy. Fold into the almond and icing sugar mixture, along with a very small amount of the food coloring – it's easier to use a toothpick to remove coloring from the bottle. Mix until just combined and evenly violet – the mixture will reduce as the air bubbles in the meringue burst.
Put the mixture into a disposable piping bag, snip off 1cm from the end. Pipe blobs onto the circles on the baking paper so you have about 28-30 in total. Set aside for 30 minutes to dry – this is important as it gives the macaroons the correct texture.
Preheat the oven to 190ºC/375ºF. Bake for 5 minutes, then turn the baking sheet and bake for another 4 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool.
Make the filling: pour the cream in a small saucepan and heat over medium-high heat until hot. Remove from heat, add chocolate and jam and mix vigorously until chocolate is melted and ganache is smooth. Set aside to cool until firm enough to be piped or spooned between macarons shells.
Peel off the baking paper from the macaroons, then sandwich 2 together with a blob of blueberry ganache in the center. Repeat to give you 14-15 in total.
Store the macaroons in an airtight container for up to 3 days – I kept mine in the fridge.
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Now in its fourth year, Jersey's annual Film Festival opened in September 2011. Director, Xanthe Hamilton, told us what to expect that year.
The last few years have seen a host of vibrant new film festivals spring up; offering alternative delights to their big-industry counterparts. These smaller festivals thrive on a boutique selection of films, art, music and unusual settings, and generally create a dynamic and intimate atmosphere. Branchage Film Festival is one such festival. Established in 2008 and based on the charming island of Jersey off the coast of France, events stretch across the island from St Helier to the harbour and include art installations and live music. The Founder and Director of Branchage, Xanthe Hamilton, speaks to Aesthetica about the fourth edition of Branchage, the bespoke nature of the festival and the changing expectations of film festivals.
What motivated you to establish Branchage festival?
I'd been touring a few festivals with my own short films and I visited True/False in Missouri, USA. It was the most perfect film festival in the world. I thought a festival like this could work in my home-town in Jersey – a similar sized community, slightly out of the way but bursting with ideas and good spirit. Then completely out of the blue someone got in touch with me to see if I'd run a festival in Jersey. I guess some things are just meant to be.
How has the festival developed over the years?
We seem to have struck on a formula that people like – special events that are unique experiences, new commissions and unusual activities, site-specific programming, a relaxed atmosphere, personal touches and a home-grown feel – and each year the festival gains more and more friends and supporters. Behind the scenes we are working hard to make sure we improve the infrastructure. In the beginning, having never run a festival before, we were relying on common sense and guess work; these days there's more time to spend on the detail, and the detail is what people tend to remember.
Branchage is notorious for its live soundtracks. What do you think a live soundtrack offers to a film?
When it works, a live soundtrack adds another dimension and heightens the experience of viewing a film. A live soundtrack can create a new audience for a film that may have been "lost" into obscurity. Many live soundtracks we've had at Branchage accompany silent films – British Sea Power created new music to the 1934 docu-drama Man of Aran about a remote Irish fishing community; Amiina created beautiful sounds to the silent fairytale animations of Lotte Reiniger; and Zombie Zombie brought the classic Eisenstein film Battleship Potemkin to life in a spectacular outdoor harbour setting on a tug boat in front of 300 people. These films wouldn't necessarily get straight cinema screenings now, but that live music element brings in bigger audiences who want to experience the visual and musical spectacle. And with Bo Ningen, they chose an obscure, but amazing Japanese animation from recent years called Cat Soup, bringing something to audiences that they would never have seen otherwise.
The Spiegeltent is the centre of the festival. Can you tell us a bit about this unique venue and what it brings to the festival?
I always wanted Branchage to have a lively hub where people could come together and hang out; a focal point for everything festival related, but something extra special that could also double up for parties and networking sessions. Spiegeltents were built a century ago in Belgium as gorgeous touring venues, all dark wood, stained glass, velvet and mirrors. Branchage is about alternative venues, and with the Spiegeltent we have created our own alternative venue right at the heart of Jersey. It comes to the Island by sea and seems to appear overnight on the front in St Helier, heralding the start of Branchage, but once you're inside it feels like a structure that has been standing for centuries. Over the years, the Spiegeltent has become synonymous with Branchage, and it radiates a special atmosphere through the whole festival.
Jersey has an interesting history and an idiosyncratic charm. How does the location influence the content and style of Branchage?
Tradition is alive and well on the island and it is steeped in folklore and memories. This is echoed by Branchage's use of old buildings such as churches, barns and parish halls for some of our screenings. Medieval castles built to defend the island from marauding French invaders provide inspiration for atmospheric film screenings and spectacular projections, while the island's underground Nazi-built tunnel system (the Jersey War Tunnels) makes a fascinating venue for an interactive theatre installation. Jersey's also just idyllic, with its country lanes and picturesque villages; in some ways the pace of life is a lot slower. The look and feel of the festival has been influenced by all these aspects over the years, drawing from a rural aesthetic. Even the name Branchage is actually a Jersey-French (Jèrriais) word relating to the annual trimming of country hedges – an old Jersey tradition that's still part of Jersey law today.
Fritz Stolberg is creating an installation using film from the Jersey archives. What's the history of film in Jersey and how has the industry changed?
Jersey's film archive contains a wealth of amateur footage on 8mm and 16mm film, documenting the Nazi Occupation of World War II and the post-war holiday years of the 1950s and 1960s. Fritz Stolberg's archival project will collect personal footage together too, to build up a picture of the island, filmed by islanders. Unfortunately, the Channel Islands don't have a film industry as such, despite great filming locations across the islands and plenty of talent. Films such as The Others (starring Nicole Kidman) and The Devil's Rock have stories set in the Channel Islands but were not filmed there. But things are changing. There are now tax breaks and local businesses have invested in recent films such as The King's Speech. Since Branchage began there have been a number of shorts and documentaries made by local filmmakers: Jersey born filmmaker Rebecca Coley directed her debut feature Imaginary Summer here.
What are the highlights of the festival and who should we look out for?
We're excited by some up-and-coming breakthrough artists who are creating new music and film works to premiere at the festival. Post-electronica outfit Teeth Of The Sea are making a live soundtrack and visual remix of Neil Marshall's Doomsday, and songwriter and harpist Serafina Steer is creating a score to animations by her brother, Sam Steer. Watch out for Daniel Barrow, who recently won the Sobey Art Award (Canada's equivalent of the Turner Prize) who's flying over from Montreal to perform Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry – a live "manual animation." The final hurrah will be a screening of The Great White Silence in Jersey's magnificent Opera House. Simon Fisher Turner (long-time collaborator of Derek Jarman) will be performing the new soundtrack that he has created to the 1924 footage of Captain Scott's ill-fated final Antarctic expedition. It makes for a breathtaking visual and aural event.
You work a lot with artists to create installations and experiences for the festival. What are you developing this year?
It is important for festivals to create new experiences for audiences and crossing over into other art forms keeps the vibrancy of the festival going. Branchage is very much rooted in film, but alongside traditional cinema exhibition, it's interesting to show more gallery based video-work, such as Ben Rivers' Slow Action. New technology features in our bigger scale installations too, from building-sized digital-mapping projections (created by Seeper and Flat-e) to the 8-speaker outdoor sound-art installation, Variable 4, which creates music from changes in the weather. There's a greater crossover between art forms than there used to be, and at Branchage we whole heartedly believe in this.
Branchage ran from 22 – 25 September 2011. www.branchagefestival.com.
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I was craving some Mexican food and keeping to my desire to try to get more fish in my diet, I decided that fish tacos would be the perfect fix! Although battered and fried, crispy fish tacos are always good, I often like to keep things on the healthier side, so grilling the fish is the perfect alternative. White fish is often flaky when cooked which can make it difficult to grill but I find that tilapia generally holds up well so it is my fish of choice for grilled fish tacos.
There are many different ways that you can season your fish for tacos but I always find myself coming back to the ever so simple chipotle and lime marinade. The lime keeps things nice and bright and fresh and chipotle adds both spicy heat and some smokiness to the fish which is really nice. Once you have slathered the marinade onto the fish, you can let it marinate at room temperature while you make the condiments for your tacos and by the time you are done you can throw the fish on the grill, remembering to be gentle with it when you turn it over. Depending on what you prefer, you can either shred the fish completely or you can just cut it into large chunks for your tacos.
Besides the tortillas and the fish you can add whatever you desire to the tacos. Since I was keeping things on the lighter side I went with some shredded cabbage, pico de gallo , a cilantro infused sour cream and avocado with lime slices on the side. You could also add things like salsas , guacamole , refried beans or your favourite cheeses such as queso fresco, cheddar, jack, etc. No matter what you top these chipotle and lime fish tacos with, you will certainly enjoy them!
Chipotle Lime Fish Tacos
These chili and lime fish tacos are a great light and healthy change from regular tacos.
- 1 pound white fish such as tilapia, cod, etc.
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 1 lime, juice
- 1 tablespoon chipotle chili powder
- 1 teaspoon cumin, toasted and ground
- salt and pepper to taste
- 8 (4 inch) corn tortillas
- Marinate the fish in the oil, lime juice, chili powder, cumin, salt and pepper for 10-20 minutes.
- Grill the fish over medium-high heat until cooked, about 4-6 minutes per side. The fish will be cooked when it flakes easily and it is no longer translucent.
- Flake the fish and servive in tortillas garnished with your favourite toppings.
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LOS ANGELES (JTA) — It's hard to imagine two more divergent perspectives on Israeli-Palestinian relations: that of a Palestinian farmer whose village is resisting the encroachment of a nearby Jewish settlement and of the security service chiefs responsible for maintaining order in the Palestinian territories.
Surprisingly, however, these protagonists in two documentaries vying for an Academy Award in the best documentary feature category come to much the same conclusion: that military force alone will neither solve the conflict nor assure the Jewish state's survival.
"The Gatekeepers" presents the perspectives of six men who headed Israel's Shin Bet security agency over the past three decades — tough men who oversaw such operations as the targeted assassinations of Hamas and other terrorist leaders. ("The Gatekeepers" starts March 29 at the Loft Cinema.)
In "5 Broken Cameras," a Palestinian farmer chronicles his village's resistance to the construction of an Israeli settlement and to the soldiers who try to squelch their protests. ("5 Broken Cameras" will be shown at the Loft Cinema for one showing on Feb. 18 at 7 p.m.)
The tone of "5 Broken Cameras" is more emotional and "Gatekeepers" more intellectual, but both show that Israelis will accept a level of criticism too daunting for most Americans to stomach or for mainstream Hollywood to depict. And if that weren't enough, the Israeli government actually helped pay for the production of both films.
"We Jews are masters of self-criticism," Dror Moreh, the director of "Gatekeepers," said in an interview at a Los Angeles hotel. "It's in our genes."
The six Shin Bet heads featured in "Gatekeepers" vary as much as the prime ministers who appointed them, but they share a hard-headed intellect and a disdain for most of Israel's politicians, past and present.
Avraham Shalom, who headed the Shin Bet from 1980 to 1986, is the oldest of the six. He helped track down and kidnap the Nazi Adolf Eichmann, and pursued both the Arab perpetrators of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre and extremist Jewish West Bank settlers.
Dressed in plaid shirt and red suspenders, the avuncular Shalom sets much of the tone for his successors, who generally agree that despite the rebuffs and failures, Israel must try to negotiate with the Palestinians and take some tentative steps on the path to peace.
"Negotiate with anyone?" Moreh asks somewhat incredulously in the film.
"Yes, anyone," Shalom answers, even Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
Yaakov Peri, who assumed the post in 1988, was the key figure in battling the second intifada, setting up a vast network of Palestinian informers and collaborators, and allegedly authorizing "exceptional practices" during Shin Bet interrogations. Yet Peri reflects in the film on "the memories etched deep inside you … when you retire, you become a bit of a leftist."
Moreh said his most surprising moment came when interviewing Yuval Diskin, who served as Shin Bet head from 2005 to 2011. Moreh asked for Diskin's reaction to a quote by Yeshayahu Leibowitz, a left-wing academic who asserted that Israel's control over the West Bank would lead to the Jewish state's inexorable moral corruption.
To Moreh's astonishment, Diskin nodded in agreement, saying, "Every word is [written] in stone."
Emad Burnat, the cameraman, narrator and co-director of "5 Broken Cameras," is a world removed from the well-educated, commanding Shin Bet chiefs of "Gatekeepers."
A Palestinian farmer, his family has cultivated the land of Bil'in, a village of 1,900 just east of where Israel separates from the West Bank. When his fourth son, Gibreel, is born in 2005, he gets a video camera to record the boy's infancy and childhood, as well as the surrounding village life.
At about the same time, the religious settlement of Modi'in Illit is established nearby, protected by a fence that bars the village farmers from much of their land and olive groves. The villagers respond with weekly demonstrations. Israeli soldiers are called in to prevent the villagers from marching on the settlement, escalating the confrontation.
A self-taught photographer, Burnat and his camera capture the events, to the annoyance of the soldiers. Although some blood is spilled later on, the initial casualties are the cameras, which are smashed, replaced and smashed again.
Five cameras go down, but the sixth is still doing duty today, Burnat says by phone from Bil'in.
Among the Israeli sympathizers who join the Bi'lin protesters is Guy Davidi, a Tel Aviv filmmaker who befriends Burnat and his family.
Two years ago, Burnat showed Davidi his huge cache of video footage with the idea of fashioning it into a documentary. Davidi signed on as co-director and producer, raising $334,000, including $50,000 from government-funded Israel Film Council.
Though it sounds like an unalloyed success story, the film's road to Oscar contention became a little bumpy after initial media reports in Israel and the United States trumpeted the unprecedented feat by "two Israeli films." The claim justifiably angered Burnat, opened him to criticism from his Palestinian compatriots and led to a boycott of the film in Arab countries.
"This is a Palestinian film," Burnat told JTA. "It's about my village and mine is the major contribution."
Under Academy Awards rules, documentaries are not entered by countries (as is the case for foreign-language feature movies) but by individual filmmakers and their distributors. So "5 Broken Cameras" is officially labeled as a Palestinian-Israeli-French co-production.
The film illustrates one other point, too. As in most films by Palestinians, Israeli characters may be depicted as unwelcome interlopers, but they are not made into monsters or Nazis.
"Many of the West Bank Palestinians have worked in Israel as construction workers, gardeners and so forth," Davidi said. "They speak our language and know more about us than we know about them. Even if they hate us, they understand something about the complexity of our society."


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Although singers often get all the credit, it's the producer that does all the heavy lifting. Creating a great album or single takes hard work, and the guys behind the boards have to play a lot of roles to make it happen.
A singer or a songwriter doesn't have to work that hard. Some would no doubt disagree – especially in the throes of writer's block or in the push to get an album finished, but once the perfect take is captured in studio, the main bulk of their work for that particular song is done.
Not so for the producer. Sure, they're responsible for creating and shaping the music, but the job of a professional producer is so much more. They have to be psychologist, voice coach, svengali and cheerleader. They need to know not only what the track sounds like now, but how it will ultimately sound and more often than not, they'll have a hand in the mixing and engineering to make it so. And unless they're a big-name producer like Rick Rubin or Brian Eno, once the record is out, the mainstream credit goes to someone else.
It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it. Just ask MRK1. "When I first got into music seriously, I would go out to clubs and go buy records and start paying more attention to the music," he says. "I listened to jungle, which is fairly minimalist: big beats and big bass. I come from that era, that type of presentation."
MRK1 (born Mark Foster, 1981) is one of the pioneers of the dubstep genre; a Manchester-based production legend best known for being the creative force behind grime/dubstep act Virus Syndicate, along with the rappers Goldfinger, Nika D and JSD. They released their album The Breakout Trilogy in May, and when we speak to Foster prior to the record's release, he's on the verge of leaving for a short tour to the US. "I don't think there is much difference between a producer and a beatmaker," he says when asked about how he works differently to someone who simply creates a piece of music and then hands it off to a vocalist. "I'm still sitting in the studio making beats. It just depends what you want to be called at the time. I'm laid back; you could say I'm the guy who makes beats."
We suggest that perhaps there is a difference. After all, a guy who makes music sitting in his bedroom is a little bit different to Foster, who has three rambunctious Virus Syndicate MCs to stage-manage in studio. He demurs: "There's a lot more direction because you're a producer and you've got the group there with you. You give them your take on it, and they give you their take and you mix it together. If you're just making the beats – I mean, there are a lot of people who just make beats and give them to rappers who then rap on top of it – it doesn't always glue together as well as it could. If you're in studio with a group, and you can [bounce off each other], it sounds better."
This aspect of production, the psychological manipulating and mixing to balance the egos of group members versus what actually sounds good, is absolutely crucial to the role of the professional producer. It would be disingenuous to suggest that the other members of Virus Syndicate don't know what's going on (one listen to their massive, speaker-shattering tunes dispels that) but when the four are in studio; Foster is the one with his eye on the ball. "It used to be a bit more like that [me being a ringmaster]. But I've been in the studio longer than they have. I'm 28 now, so I've got 10 years worth of producing, and the guys would have got into recording when we did the first album. Back then, I'd have a lot more say about what goes into it. Over the years, they've learnt what sounds good and what doesn't, so I don't really get that involved now. Sometimes I won't like something, and I'll say, try doing this or try doing that, but it's very hard to tell three guys what to do. It's three against one! But we argue a lot in the studio, even if we end up making up."
Of course, Foster is extremely fortunate. He has a rock-solid group, a full studio setup, Room 5 Studios ("It's in a big building with loads of other studios. I think The Ting Tings moved out recently! The building is falling apart, but our studio is okay."), and a ready and willing record label, Planet µ. But he's in the minority. Many other producers work from a much more fluid setup; one that is flexible, dynamic and small-scale, and which caters to a far wider group of artists.
Meet Batsauce. He's one of those guys. The festively-named producer (born Britt Traynham in 1971 – and the name comes from his initials combined with his love of hot sauce) was born in Florida and currently lives in Germany. He's produced for everybody from his wife Lady Daisey and his group The Smile Rays to hardcore Boston rapper Mr Lif.
Traynham's studio is compact and portable – he's a bedroom producer in every sense of the word, and unlike Foster, Traynham doesn't always make bespoke beats. "Usually for me, I make the beat first," he says, "without even thinking about who might use it. That's usually the beginning, so I end up sending out a lot of beats. Usually, it's just catching different moods and vibes. I try to tap whatever mood or feeling I have and run with it. I did make one beat for Mr Lif specifically, and occasionally I'll make one beat for Lady Daisey specifically, but usually I just try to be creative at the beginning of it."
In many ways, Traynham is emblematic of the globalisation of production in the past 15 years. As the internet has allowed fans to experience music from multiple sources, so has it given producers access to different musical cultures. One of Traynham's more recent projects, Gypsy Diaries, is a free instrumental project which takes in influences from across the globe. "I'm a big fan of soul music, world music, jazz, old rock, psychedelic rock, Brazilian music," he says. "To me, being a producer now is: how big is your palette? You have everything in the world to pull from, and use, and manipulate."
Traynham's production swings between genres like a tail-gunner on a B52. It runs the full gamut between smooth soul, bouncy pop and gritty hip-hop. In his time, he's played bass, guitar, saxophone and keyboards, and has a very particular modus operandi in studio. "A lot of my music is manipulated samples, sometimes looped or sometimes it's highly chopped. I do play music and try to incorporate that, and I have a sample-free project that I'm working on, but yeah, I sample in spite of the legal ramifications. That's the raw hip-hop aesthetic."
One of the big industry criticisms of current production is that with the cheapening of studio technology, unskilled beatmakers are starting to proliferate in all genres. Where before only producers with skills and some chops on them could get access to expensive studio hardware, now various software versions can be downloaded for very little – with what can often be an unfortunate outcome for general quality. Traynham, however, calls this cheapening of technology liberating.
"Even though I do this professionally, I'm still very much a bedroom producer. Right now, my studio is in my bedroom. I think I couldn't do this right now in the current climate if I had to have a professional studio and pay rent on that as well." And does this proliferation of cheap, liberating software and equipment affect quality? "I do think that's true. There's a big difference between a beat and a finished song, and sometimes that does get lost. But again, hopefully, listeners can discern the difference. They know when they hear something good, and when they hear something that sounds like a demo."
Traynham maintains that another of the key aspects of production is what happens to the song after its been recorded. Although big labels and studios will have dedicated engineers employed specifically to make a song sound as good as possible, in Traynham's world, where there are no big budgets or other employees, he's the man, and makes it a point to mix his own material wherever possible. "They're always your babies," he says of his beats. "You're always concerned how they're going to be treated. I'm fortunate enough to work with [artists] where I don't have to worry about the quality of what they're doing, so I generally trust that the artist is going to do it right. I always get concerned if someone else is mixing the beat though, because to me the sonics and the overall texture of the music are a huge part of it.
"I think you have to be a bit of a visionary in the sense that you have to know what the end result should sound like. I think it's more than just making a beat or being an engineer, I think it's a little bit of all of that and knowing what's best for the artist."
For more information on MRK1: www.myspace.com/mrk1 and for Batsauce visit www.batsauce.com.
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Tequila and lime chicken is super quick and easy way to cook up some chicken that is particularly nice in the summer when you can make it on the grill. One of the things that I really like about this recipe is that other than the tequila and the lime you can play around with the ingredients to change up the flavour profile. I often like to use chipotle chilies in adobo sauce for the source of heat or even a freshly ground chili pepper blend but in the summer with all of the fresh ingredients around it is hard to resist making it an all green sauce with jalapeños and a hit of cilantro. If you are in a hurry you can marinate the chicken for as little as a half an hour but over night is best. Another great thing about this tequila lime chicken is how versatile it is; you can use it in tacos, burritos, sandwiches and in the summer it goes great as a topping for salads to make a nice light meal.
Tequila Lime Grilled Chicken
- 1/4 cup tequila
- 1/2 cup lime juice
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 1 teaspoon lime zest
- 1 jalapeno pepper
- 2 cloves garlic
- 2 tablespoons cilantro
- 1 teaspoon cumin (toasted and ground)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 pound chicken breasts (boneless and skinless)
- Puree the tequila, lime juice, oil, lime zest, jalapeno, garlic, cilantro, cumin, salt and pepper in a food processor.
- Place both the chicken and the marinade in a freezer bag and marinate over night.
- Grill the chicken until cooked, about 5-7 minutes per side.
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If the rules go into effect next January as the bureau plans, The Associated Press says, "mortgage servicing companies would be required to provide clear monthly billing statements, warn borrowers before interest rate hikes and actively help them avoid foreclosure."
"The new rules target an industry that has been plagued with problems. ... Complaints have mounted over shoddy servicing as the amount of homeowners struggling to avoid foreclosure skyrocketed after the housing bubble burst. The industry has found itself under fire from lawmakers and the White House, and widespread problems with mortgage servicing resulted in a $25 billion government settlement with some of the nation's largest banks, where they agreed to pay out billions to help cover refinancing costs for homeowners and reimburse them for haphazard foreclosure practices.
"Problems in the industry were highlighted by the practice of 'robo-signing,' in which services would speedily sign off on foreclosure documents without reviewing or verifying their contents."
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