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Posts Tagged 'Heather Woods Broderick'
Mixtape: Fractured Air – April 2019
April saw a host of essential new releases surface into the stratosphere. Fixity's latest full-length 'No Man Can Tell' – and second for the ever-dependable Cork-based Penske Recordings imprint – is another stellar sonic journey showcasing deep musical telepathy at each and every turn from a cast of Irish and international musicians.
The eagerly awaited return of Leafcutter John's new Border Community record 'Yes! Come Parade With Us', whose sumptuous sound worlds contains the UK composer's trusted modular synth and a plethora of field recordings. In addition, guest drummers Tom Skinny (Sons Of Kemet) and John's Polar Bear bandmate Seb Rochford.
Canadian cellist and composer Justin Wright's debut album 'Music for Staying Warm' is an artistic creation of staggering beauty and wonder. Liquid Liquid luminary Dennis Young's solo record 'Primitive Substance' is a vital document from the solo artist's post-Liquid Liquid career.
Fractured Air – April 2019
01. Students of the Salonica Quaker Girl's School – "Dance of Jerissos (lerissos)" (Sublime Frequencies)
02. Ariwo – "Ireme" (Manana Records)
03. The Comet Is Coming – "Birth Of Creation" (Impulse!)
04. Kate Tempest – "Tunnel Vision" (Lex Records)
05. Naive Ted – "Blood & Guts" (Unscene Music)
06. Hype Williams – "Hype Williams Meets Shangaan Electro" (Honest Jon's)
07. Dean Blunt – "And Ill Show U Heaven If U Let Me" (Hippos In Tanks)
08. The Rationals – "Glowin'" (Night Time Stories Ltd)
09. Fixity – "Woo" (Penske Recordings)
10. Crevice – "In Heart" (Fort Evil Fruit)
11. Carla dal Forno – "Fever Walk" (Kallista Records)
12. Josef K – "It's Kinda Funny" (LTM Recordings)
13. Leafcutter John – "This Way Out" (Border Community)
14. MorMor – "Outside" (Self-released)
15. This Mortal Coil – "The Lacemaker" (4AD)
16. Tim Hecker – "Step Away From Konoyo" (Kranky)
17. Heather Woods Broderick – "I Try" (Western Vinyl)
18. Justin Wright – "Harmonic Loops – Playground Swings" (First Terrace Records)
19. Gigi Masin – "The Word Love" (Music From Memory)
20. Anna Peaker – "Helicidae" (Alter)
21. Maria Somerville – "Dreaming" (Self-released)
22. Raymond Scott – "Portofino 1" (Basta)
23. Ingus Bauskenieks – "Lidojums Uz Sauli" (Stroom)
24. Prins Thomas – "Feel The Love" (Smalltown Supersound)
25. Daedelus – "It's Madness" (Nosaj Thing Remix) (Magical Properties)
26. Four Tet – "Teenage Birdsong" (Text Records)
27. Dennis Young – "Forgiveness" (Athens Of The North)
28. Ishmael Ensemble – "First Light" (Severn Songs)
Mixtape: Fractured Air – February 2019
Our February mix features two tracks from Dublin-based singer-songwriter Maria Somerville's eagerly awaited debut album "All My People" (released on 1st March). The album's title-track is an enthralling post-punk exploration immersed in ethereal pop dimensions, while "Eyes Don't Say It" unfolds a sublime, brooding and highly immersive sound world.
The cherished U.S. songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Heather Woods Broderick delivers her most captivating and innovative work to date with her highly anticipated third full-length solo studio album "Invitation" (pre-order available via Western Vinyl). The album's lead single "Where I Lay" emits a fragile beauty amidst anguish and doubt but ultimately becomes a deeply cathartic experience from the depths of the human heart.
February's mix also features new releases from Scottish composer Andrew Wasylyk's exceptional third studio album "The Paralian" (via the ever dependable Athens Of The North imprint); New York-based cellist and composer Julia Kent's newest sonic marvel "Temporal"; new Ghostly signing Khotin and Portand Oregon's Dolphin Midwives.
Fractured Air – February 2019
01. Dolphin Midwives – "Grass Grow" (Beacon Sound)
02. Mary Lattimore – "Baltic Birch" (Paul Corley Remix) (Ghostly)
03. Margie Jean Lewis – "Malamuut" (Soundcloud)
04. Maria Somerville – "Eyes Don't Say It" (Self-released)
05. Narwal – "Track 01" (Ongehoord)
06. Stano – "A Dead Rose" (AllChival)
07. Michael O' Shea – "Kerry" (AllChival)
08. Andrew Wasylyk – "Journey to Inchcape" (Athens Of The North)
09. Rustin Man – "Vanishing Heart" (Domino)
10. Oliver Coates – "Norrin Radd Dreaming" (RVNG Intl)
11. Julia Kent – "Conditional Futures" (Leaf Label)
12. Khotin – "Dwellberry" (Ghostly)
13. Panda Bear – "Master" (Domino)
14. Augustus Pablo – "King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown" (Yard Music)
15. Lee 'Scratch' Perry – "The Upsetter" (Motion)
16. Helado Negro – "Running" (RVNG Intl)
17. Deerhunter – "What Happens To People?" (4AD)
18. Chasms – "Shadow" (Felte)
19. 101 Beats Per Minute – "I Cried And Cried And Cried" (Countersunk)
20. Maria Somerville – "All My People" (Self-released)
21. Ela Orleans – "Something Higher" (Night School)
22. Kali Malone – "Bondage to Formula" (Hallow Ground)
23. Heather Woods Broderick – "Where I Lay" (Western Vinyl)
24. Penelope Trappes – "Burn On" (Houndstooth)
25. Nils Frahm – "Sweet Little Lie" (Erased Tapes)
26. Landless – "Lassie Lie Near Me" (Humble Serpent)
Fractured Air x Blogothèque – S02E05 | May mix
May's mixtape features selections from a pair of the year's most essential compilations: Alice Coltrane's "Turiyasangitananda" (Luaka Bop) and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' retrospective set "Lovely Creatures" (Mute).
"Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 1984-2014" comprises a gorgeous meticulously assembled archive – spanning music, previously unseen photographs, memorabilia and extensive archival footage – of Cave's first three decades as frontman to the world's most revered and significant bands: The Bad Seeds. "Lovely Creatures" is compiled by Cave and founding Bad Seeds member Mick Harvey, with additional help from the current Bad Seeds. On the announcement of its release, Cave issued the following statement via his website:
"There are some people out there who just don't know where to start with The Bad Seeds. Others know the catalogue better than I do! This release is designed to be a way into three decades of music making. That's a lot of songs. The songs we have chosen are the ones that have stuck around, for whatever reason. Some songs are those that demand to be played live. Others are lesser songs that are personal favourites of ours. Others are just too big and have too much history to leave out. And there are those that didn't make it, poor things. They are the ones you must discover by yourselves."
"World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda" is the spellbinding compilation of music made by the legendary composer, pianist and spiritualist Alice Coltrane with members of Sai Anantam Ashram in California during the eighties ad nineties. Much of the music here is culled from self-released tape cassettes released from the period. As Luaka Bop have said, the music from "Turiyasangitananda" is "inspired by the gospel music of the Detroit churches she grew up in, mixed together with the Indian devotional music of her religious practice, and even finds Alice singing for the first time in her recorded catalog. Originally only made available through her ashram, they are her most obscure body of work and possibly the greatest reflection of her soul."
May's mixtape also features new releases from: A Hawk And A Hacksaw's Heather Trost who releases her sublime solo debut "Agistri" on June 2nd via LM Duplication; Animal Collective's "The Painters" EP (Domino); Stockholm-based electronic duo Roll The Dice's "Born To Ruin" (The New Black); "Wade In" by Julianna Barwick (part of the extensive "Our First 100 Days" benefit compilation); Wolfgang Voigt releases "Narkopop" via Kompakt, his latest ambient opus under his GAS guise and first for twenty years; Heather Woods Broderick's gorgeous new 7″ single "Home Winds" (recorded in response to the photographs of Benjamin Swett and published as a collaborative project between both artists by Planthouse Inc).
Fractured Air x Blogothèque – S02E05 | May mix
To listen on La Blogothèque:
01. Steve Reich – "Come Out" (excerpt) (Nonesuch)
02. Daniel Brandt – "Eternal Something" (Erased Tapes)
03. Forest Swords – "Panic" (Ninja Tune)
04. Roll The Dice – "Cannonball" (The New Black)
05. Everything Is Recorded – "Washed Up on the Shore" (feat. Obongjayar and Warren Ellis) (XL Recordings)
06. Dirty Three – "Furnace Skies" (Bella Union, Anchor & Hope)
07. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – "Tupelo" (Mute, BMG)
08. Tom Armstrong – "Thunder Clouds" (Tompkins Square)
09. Slowdive – "Sugar for the Pill" (Dead Oceans)
10. GAS – "Narkopop 5" (Kompakt)
11. Biosphere – "Black Mesa" (Biophon)
12. Mount Kimbie – "Marilyn" (feat. Micachu) (Warp)
13. Mamman Sani – "Samari Da Yan Matan" (Sahel Sounds)
14. Umoja – "707" (Awesome Tapes From Africa)
15. Molly Nilsson – "About Somebody" (Dark Skies Association / Night School)
16. Heather Trost – "Agina" (LM Duplication)
17. Lukács István & Burka Sándor – "Szállj Le Hattyú" (Hungaroton)
18. Carla dal Forno – "Fast Moving Cars" (Blackest Ever Black)
19. Laurel Halo – "Jelly" (Hyperdub)
20. Jlin – "Black Origami" (Planet Mu)
21. Alice Coltrane – "Om Rama" (Luaka Bop)
22. Shabazz Palaces – "Shine a Light" (feat. Thaddillac) (Sub Pop)
23. Bobe Gáspár Ernő és Zenekara – "Becskereki Pipagyújtó" (Hungaroton)
24. Animal Collective – "Man of Oil" (Domino)
25. Julianna Barwick – "Wade In" (Our First 100 Days, Bandcamp)
26. Heather Woods Broderick – "Home Winds" (Planthouse Inc, Yebo Music)
27. Saltland – "Forward Eyes II" (Constellation)
Compiled by Fractured Air, May 2017. The copyright in these recordings is the property of the individual artists and/or record labels. If you like the music, please support the artist by buying their records.
Fractured Air x Blogothèque – S01E11 | November mix
November's mixtape contains gorgeous new releases from a host of exceptional voices in today's independent music world: the peerless L.A. composer and songwriter Julia Holter unveils her debut score ('Bleed For This', Milan Records); Australia-born & Berlin-based artist Carla dal Forno whose exceptional avant-pop debut full-length 'You Know What It's Like' marks one of 2016's finest LPs (Blackest Ever Black); the utterly compelling collaborative project between Mica Levi and Oliver Coates (in the form of 'Remain Calm', released recently via Slip) and A Winged Victory For The Sullen's stunningly beautiful 'Iris' original score, which represents the prestigious duo's third full length release (available digitally now).
Earlier this month marked the sad passing of Leonard Cohen at the age of 82. A true visionary and legendary songwriter, his last studio album 'You Want It Darker' was released just weeks before his untimely passing. Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau's emotional tribute to his good friend echoes powerfully the vital importance of Cohen's sacred songbook: "Leonard, no other artist's poetry and music felt or sounded quite like yours. We'll miss you."
Fractured Air x Blogothèque – S01E11 | November mix
To Read/listen on La Blogothèque:
01. DJ Shadow – "The Mountain Will Fall" (Mass Appeal)
02. A Tribe Called Quest – "The Space Program" (Epic)
03. Archangel – "Julia" (Dean Blunt's On Wine, Hashish & Molly Version Vinyl Edit) (Foom)
04. Underworld – "Low Burn" (Universal Music Group)
05. Dead Light – "Sleeper" (Village Green)
06. Carla dal Forno – "Db Rip" (Blackest Ever Black)
07. Karen Marks – "Cold Café" (Efficient Space)
08. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – "Riparian" (Western Vinyl)
09. Mica Levi & Oliver Coates – "Barok Main" (Slip)
10. Dungen – "Peri Banu Vid Sjön" (Smalltown Supersound)
11. case/lang/veirs – "Supermoon" (Anti-)
12. Tortoise (ft. Georgia Hubley) – "Yonder Blue" (Thrill Jockey)
13. Fleetwood Mac – "Albatross" (Reprise)
14. Lambchop – "Writer" (Merge, City Slang)
15. Matt Robertson – "Juno" (Tape Club)
16. Julia Holter – "Home Movies" (Bleed For This OST, Milan)
17. Heather Woods Broderick – "Glider" (Western Vinyl)
18. Loscil – "Drained Lake" (Kranky)
19. A Winged Victory For The Sullen – "Comme on a Dit" (Iris OST, Erased Tapes)
20. Leonard Cohen – "String Reprise / Treaty" (Columbia, Sony Music)
21. Syrinx – "December Angel" (excerpt) (RVNG Intl)
Compiled by Fractured Air, November 2016. The copyright in these recordings is the property of the individual artists and/or record labels. If you like the music, please support the artist by buying their records.
Step Right Up: Heather Woods Broderick
Interview with Heather Woods Broderick.
"Many times I see things, whether it's a passing scene out of a window, or a combination of colours on a wall, that conjure up memories for me. So sometimes I use these images to help depict or frame a feeling."
— Heather Woods Broderick
Words: Mark Carry
'Glider' is the highly anticipated sophomore full-length –and follow-up to the formidable 2009 solo debut 'From The Ground' – from gifted multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter, Heather Woods Broderick. The Brooklyn-based and Portland-raised musician has long been synonymous with some of the most breath-taking musical explorations of recent times, having closely collaborated with Portand's Horse Feathers, Danish group Efterklang and is currently an integral member in U.S singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten's band.
The nine immaculate sonic creations captured on 'Glider' unfolds a fragile beauty and striking emotional depth that inhabits an ethereal dimension from the opening dream-like atmosphere of 'Up In The Pine' to the closing country gem 'All For A Love'. 'Glider's bewitching sonic canvas possesses a transient quality with each song cycle capturing a myriad of fleeting moments. The gorgeous vocal harmonies, pristine production and rich instrumentation serves the fitting backdrop for Broderick's deeply affecting songs to flourish. For example, 'Mama Shelter' evolves into an infectious dub-infused groove which is masterfully inter-woven with Broderick's richly soulful vocal delivery. The piano-based ballads of 'Fall Hard' (which could be taken from Marissa Nadler's latest record 'July'), 'The Sentiments' and the album's title-rack 'Glider' serve the album's most poignant and soul-stirring moments as the rich tapestry of vocal harmonies and piano notes drift majestically in the ether.
'A Call For Distance' epitomises the evocative production masterfully dotted across 'Glider' as timeless dreamwave sounds of This Mortal Coil and Cocteau Twins comes to the fore. The joyous sounds of 'All For A Love' with its jazz leanings (thanks in part to David Allred's trumpet part) contains gorgeous clean guitar tones, upbeat harmonies and warm percussion akin to a marvelous sunset on a summer's night. "There is a lot to live for" is a lyric that resonates powerfully and marks the album's over-arching theme of perseverance through life's difficulties and therein the strength to find one's inner voice.
'Glider' is available now on Western Vinyl.
Interview with Heather Woods Broderick.
Congratulations on your sublime new record 'Glider'. The album is nothing short of staggering where the nine sonic creations unfold a fragile beauty and striking emotional depth that leaves the listener utterly dumbfounded. Rather than a record being a snapshot in a moment of time, 'Glider' possesses a transient quality with each song cycle capturing a myriad of fleeting moments culled from a long period of time. Can you please talk me through the songs of 'Glider' and discuss the themes to 'Glider' and your aims from the outset?
Heather Woods Broderick: Thank you very much; I'm really happy to hear you're enjoying the record. Most of the songs on 'Glider' are reflections of experiences I've had, or close friends or family have had. The songs were written over about a two-year period, but reference events spanning a substantial period of time in my life. The title track is the only song I wrote prior to moving to Brooklyn in the fall of 2011. Many years had passed since I released 'From the Ground' when I really began writing the material for 'Glider'. I think I'd grown as a musician after playing with so many different projects, and also as a person after so much travel around the world. 'From the Ground' was my first attempt to write any songs with words, so there were a lot of things I wanted to do differently when writing 'Glider'. I like to create an atmospheric landscape for songs to live in. For 'Glider', I still wanted this to play an important role in the sound of the record, but I spent more time fully forming songs and writing lyrics. I think all of the songs on the record are pretty self-explanatory in a lyrical sense since they are all based on real events and emotions, but I do like to utilize a bit of metaphor in songwriting to help paint a picture an allow for more imagination. Many times I see things, whether it's a passing scene out of a window, or a combination of colours on a wall, that conjure up memories for me. So sometimes I use these images to help depict or frame a feeling.
The range of sounds masterfully sculpted across the record is something that sets 'Glider' apart from your formidable debut full-length 'From The Ground' where this time around all songs are vocal-based, reflecting a song-writing masterclass in full bloom. Please take me back to the recording sessions and the wonderful cast of musicians you were joined by, not least your brother Peter and the wonderful David Allred among several others.
HWB: Every song on the record started out as a poorly self-recorded demo. I knew that I wanted to go into the studio having all of the material prepared, so I spent a lot of time with the demos – working with the structure and arrangements of the songs. I had all the vocal ideas worked out on demos, and knew the guitar sounds I wanted to go for, etc. When it finally came time to go into the studio I asked a few friends to be a part of the process. I spent five days at Type Foundry studio, working with engineer Adam Selzer, in Portland, OR where I recorded all of my basic tracks and vocals, and also tracked 2 of the songs (Wyoming + All for a Love) live as a three-piece. During these sessions Dave Depper played bass, Peter Broderick played Drums, Birger Olsen came in to lay down the guitar solo on 'All for a Love', and Eric Early played some hammond on 'Desert'. All phenomenal musicians; I was lucky to have them join me on the songs. After the five days at Type Foundry, Peter and I took all those tracks out to a home studio he has on the Oregon Coast called The Sparkle. We spent a couple of weeks out there doing the rest of the overdubs. David Allred also came out and added some upright bass and trumpet during this time. We worked with the songs a lot during this phase, filling out the arrangements more, doing all of the post production, and then mixing the record here as well.
Aesthetically, 'Glider' is such a triumph and revelation. The piano-based ballads such as the heartwrenching title-track, 'Fall Hard' and 'The Sentiments' are beautifully inter-woven with ethereal dreamwave creations like 'A Call For Distance' and stunning folk gems like 'Desert' and 'All For A Love'. I wonder was it ever difficult to decide on a certain style or version of a particular song, Heather? Did any of these songs undergo a dramatic transformation (or mutation!) from your original sketch of a song to its final recorded entity? For example, I can imagine a song such as 'A Call For Distance' is such a thrill to perform and record with your band?
HWB: I find it almost impossible to go back and drastically change the structure or lyrics of a song once I've written it. So for the most part, the songs are really similar to the demos. I wasn't really going for any particular style or anything when I was writing. 'A Call for Distance' was sort of my labour of love on the record. I used a lot of delays through the process of writing these songs, and I think this one in particular was really inspired by what I was hearing as I went. I had an electric guitar with a delay pedal, a vocal mic, and a basic logic setup, so I could play and listen back while writing. I wouldn't even know how to replicate some of the sounds from the demos on this song, so we ended up flying in some of the demo tracks. I have yet to perform this one live with a band, but I really look forward to doing that, and figuring out some version of it that works in a band setting. Some fun developments did happen during the recording process though. For example, Dave Depper's bass playing on 'Mama Shelter' ended up being a huge influence to the path of that song took. He came up with this dub/reggae bass part in the chorus' that we loved, so we sort of played on that theme while adding the other instrumentation. It fit in really well with the chorus echo and space echo machines that we were using with all the other tracks as well.
The art of collaboration has been a trusted constant in your musical path, from Horse Feathers to Efterklang and Sharon Van Etten. I would love for you to share your feelings on music as being the great collaborative art. I can imagine the sum of these experiences and journeys with all these special souls makes for such an inspiring and rewarding journey. What are the memories you most cherish from these particular collaborations?
HWB: I have been very lucky to play with so many talented musicians, and collaborating with other artists is something that I'll always have an interest in doing, musically and beyond. I love learning other peoples' songs as well as writing parts to accompany others' music. I find a lot of pleasure in practice and repetition. It's a very different experience playing with different people. Everyone approaches music in their own way, and I find that really interesting. I go through phases of wanting to work on music that's much more structured or technical, and wanting to throw out all the rules and just play loud rock music. It's all rewarding in different ways. I loved being able to play cello in Horse Feathers – something I haven't done with any of the other bands I've played in since, at least in a live setting. I have particularly fond memories of traveling with Efterklang to places I'd never been, and haven't been since. They were really special people to make music with. I was late in the game in hearing Sharon's music, but I'm so glad I did. I still remember the first time we sat in my living room and sang together – a moment I'll never forget.
Coming from a musical family – both your parents are musicians and you began piano lessons at the young age of eight – music has always been in your life. I would love if you could reflect on pivotal moments that occurred during your musical upbringing that you feel helped you in a significant way? I can only imagine you and your brother at home must have been playing music together, almost on a constant basis?
HWB: There was definitely a lot of music going on in my house growing up. My parents both played guitar and always spun records after dinner. My older brother Noah played saxophone and also electric in a grunge rock band. I took piano lessons for years, and then quit for about a year when I was 15 or 16. Probably typical of that age and not wanting to be told what to do. I came back around to it though. I found some classical pieces that I really fell in love with and contemporary bands that I heard classical crossover with (everything from Rachels to various math rock bands), and it made me excited to keep practicing, and to be able to apply what I'd learned to making music with people. My brother Peter started taking suzuki violin lessons when he was really young, but we never really played together until I was 18 or 19. We started playing in a band together then, and also went to the same school for a brief period and would write and perform pieces together for composition classes and recitals. My parents were always really supportive of whatever I wanted to do with music, and I'm sure their support encouraged me to go down my own musical path.
The tender lament 'Desert' is one of the album's (many) defining moments. I love this sense of a travelogue that flickers in and out during many of your songs. The imagery and poetic prose
conjured up on 'Desert' resonates powerfully. Please talk me through this song and your memories of writing 'Desert'.
HWB: 'Desert' was one of the later songs I wrote for the record. I was on a break from touring and trying to spend some quiet time at home with my guitar in Brooklyn. I wrote the song in one afternoon in my living room there. I had recently been playing a lot of music with my dear friend and fellow musician Alela Diane in support of her record 'About Farewell'. I was playing second guitar along with her and had been messing around with some of those finger picking patterns. The core of the lyrics are based around a conversation that I'd recently had with a former boyfriend that had left me feeling unresolved. It was also late winter in New York, and the imagery is embedded in observations of the season.
I feel the empowering piano ballads contained on 'Glider' serve the vital pulse to this remarkable album, reminiscent of Marissa Nadler, Grouper's 'Ruins' LP and indeed, Sharon Van Etten. It feels as if these songs represent some of the earliest written songs that helped shape the rest of the record. I love the ethereal dimension the piano-based works inhabit, creating in turn, utterly transcendent moments.
HWB: Those are all lovely ladies to mention, thank you. 'Glider' was the earliest track written for the record, and was written while I was still living in Berlin before moving to Brooklyn. 'The Sentiments' was written somewhere in the middle of that two year writing period, and 'Fall Hard' was actually the last song I wrote for the record. Maybe it's appropriate that they are scattered like they are throughout the record in a sense; I hadn't thought about that.
What records do you find yourself coming back to, time and time again? Please discuss any books/gigs/music/films you have been most impressed with lately?
HWB: My musical tastes really vary. On the classic side, I always go back to records by Kate Wolf, Neil Young, and Springsteen. These are all records I grew up listening to. I don't think I'll ever tire of Dawn Upshaw performing Henryk Górecki's Symphony no. 3, Rachmaninoff's piano concerto no. 2, or any Chet Baker record. I also love a lot of new indie bands, jazz, ambient – the list could really go on forever. I think the most memorable performances I've seen in the last few years was Antony and the Johnson's performing Swanlights at Radio City Music Hall. I love seeing dance performances. 'Drift' by Cindy Van Acker, and a piece titled 'Leading Light' by Suniti Dernovsek are two of my favorites I've seen in the last year. I recently read 'Light Years' by James Salter and 'The Year of Magical Thinking' by Joan Didion – both beautiful books. I'd highly recommend both.
'Glider' is available now on Western Vinyl.
Mixtape: A Call For Distance
A Call For Distance [A Fractured Air Mix]
To listen on Mixcloud:
01. Steve Reich 'It's Gonna Rain, Part I' (excerpt) [Nonesuch]
02. Colin Stetson And Sarah Neufeld 'Won't be a thing to become' [Constellation]
03. So Percussion 'Music for Wood and Strings: Section 1' [Brassland]
04. Nils Frahm 'Wall' [Erased Tapes]
05. Dawn of Midi 'Nix' [Erased Tapes]
06. Craig Leon 'She Wears A Hemispherical Skullcap' [RVNG Intl]
07. Holly Herndon 'Morning Sun' [4AD]
08. Severed Heads 'Dead Eyes Opened' [Dark Entries]
09. Lower Dens 'Your Heart Still Beating' [Ribbon Music]
10. Heather Woods Broderick 'A Call For Distance' [Western Vinyl]
11. Chris Isaac 'Wicked Game' [Reprise]
12. Julia Holter 'My Love My Love' [Tompkins Square]
13. John Bence 'Disquiet, Pt. 1' [Other People]
14. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis 'Far from Men 2' [Goliath Entertainment]
15. Edan 'Beauty' [Lewis Recordings]
16. Richard Strauss 'Vier letzte Lieder: IV. Im Abendrot' (excerpt) [CBS]
17. Tom Waits 'You Can Never Hold Back Spring' [Anti-]
18. The Beach Boys 'Look (Stereo Mix Of Take 20)' [Capitol]
19. The Books '"Ah…, I See"' [Temporary Residence Limited]
20. Glen Campbell 'Guess I'm Dumb' [Ace]
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Chosen One: Sharon Van Etten
Interview with Sharon Van Etten.
"If you work on anything long enough hopefully you'll get better and I feel like we're just growing."
—Sharon Van Etten
Words: Mark Carry, Illustration: Craig Carry
When Jersey-native and New York-based songwriter Sharon Van Etten first announced the arrival of 'Are We There', Van Etten's fourth full-length and follow-up to her 2011 seminal work 'Tramp', she had these words to share: "I really hope that when someone puts my record on that they hear me." Of course, Van Etten's wishes have clearly been fulfilled. If there's one thing we can firmly establish by now it is this: Van Etten makes music from the real world; a world of real events and real people with real feelings. Subsequently, steeped in a sometimes harsh reality, Van Etten's songs are imbued with fears, struggles and (often) much pain. Much like Chan Marshall's pre 'The Greatest' recorded output, Van Etten bravely examines her own life's immediate surroundings and relationships to share her most innermost confessions and feelings for us all to bear witness. Through Van Etten's songs we too can find our own deepest feelings long hidden in the shadows of some forgotten, distant dream.
'Are We There' is Van Etten's first self-produced album (The National's Aaron Dessner produced its predecessor 'Tramp') and features a host of wonderful musicians, including: Torres's Mackenzie Scott on vocals (who toured extensively supporting Van Etten); Heather Woods-Broderick (on strings and vocals); Mary Lattimore (harp) as well as Van Etten's trusted and formidable rhythm section (Zeke Hutchins on drums and David Hartley on bass). The use of vocal harmonies (Van Etten, Scott and Woods-Broderick) is a pure joy to witness. The resultant musical arrangements are stunningly cohesive and yet genuinely innovative, providing for many moments of challenging and divine musicianship — at times wonderfully dense and strikingly tactile ('Our Love' or 'Every Time The Sun Comes Up') — other times remain starkly sparse ('I Know') but, importantly, such intricacies of musicianship and arrangements only ever serve the song.
"Everybody needs to feel" sings Van Etten on 'Your Love Is Killing Me'. It's a sentiment that best serves the phenomenal and beloved artist that is Sharon Van Etten and 'Are We There'. It's another step to becoming your own true self. It's a destination no one is ever likely to realistically reach but striving for it is proving to be Van Etten (and her sacred songbook)'s true towering achievement.
For Sharon Van Etten's upcoming US/European tour dates, click HERE.
'Are We There' is available now on Jagjaguwar.
Interview with Sharon Van Etten.
I love how this time around, the new album 'Are We There' is self-produced, in contrast to how 'Tramp' was made so closely with Aaron Dessner. This must have been a nice change for you to do it all on your own, so to speak?
Sharon Van Etten: Yeah, after touring that album, 'Tramp', I finally had a band that we were really comfortable together and I finally was able to bring people into the studio that I trusted – I had never had a band before – I felt finally I had a team to be able to do it myself, you know.
For the songs themselves, as you say, I'm sure each member has a special input into the songs as they're being made?
SVE: Yeah exactly. I mean from travelling around, they've heard me work on them, they've heard different parts of like how I started it or how I changed something. I mean they've been privy to different points of view of the song, for sure whether it be in my personal life but also in the process.
There's a lovely parallel between you– especially now when there is several to look back on – and The National. On the new album, you know immediately it's your music and songs but at the same time there's lovely new directions too.
SVE: You know I try to just be myself and let things happen. Nothing is intentional you know like sonically; it just takes on its own thing.
I love the production on 'Are We There'.
SVE: I just felt really comfortable and I think that was a huge part of it. I had to let go and play a lot more than I had on past records and I tried other instruments and I was around people who were excited that I was trying new things. And I feel like the most confident I have ever been, you know just as a person not alone musically and being surrounded by people I've been with the last couple of years.
You have a real close-knit band backing you. Each member has their own projects and previous incarnations as well so it's cool how everything feeds into the next album. So, the music grows just the way the friendships are all growing and you can sense this in the music.
SVE: Definitely. I mean touring isn't easy and people are giving up their lives to do it or putting their lives on hold because they care about the music. And it's an emotional thing to do; to leave home and trust these people and you're like in a van for months at a time, knowing that life is going on without you. So, that's a good person.
I'm sure you see the songs changing over time as you're touring?
SVE: Yeah, I definitely feel like we grew together and I feel like the songs have changed, you know throughout years now, you know when you think about it when we started playing. Heather [Woods Broderick], Doug [Keith] and I have played together for two years and we're band members now and that's just been this year. If you work on anything long enough hopefully you'll get better and I feel like we're just growing.
'Break Me' is one particular highlight which reminds me of PJ Harvey's 'Let England Shake' record; it's really great.
SVE: Aw thanks.
Being involved with every aspect and stage of the music, I wonder is there one particular aspect you like the most?
SVE: Well, I love performing even though it can be very emotional. And that's something I'm still working on; the actual performance of these songs are really intense. But when I just feel like the band and I just connect and you don't have to think about it, you know like we're all in the moment, all the time and that feels really great. But touring life is hard and it's something I really want to work on because it's not something I'm comfortable with all the time.
Especially when the tour can be quite extensive, I'm sure you lose the concept of time at some point?
SVE: You definitely do and even though you go to different cities which is really great fun and you meet a lot of great people and perform to different types of audiences and you get to meet up with other bands along the way; it is time travel and when you come home, life goes on without you and the major trade-off is that I've missed friends pleasantries, I've missed someone's death, you know there is a lot of things that you miss from not having a real life. But I'm very lucky to be doing what I'm doing and I wouldn't take it back for the world but there is a trade-off.
Would you have a kind of ritual or routine when on tour, like reading or listening to certain records?
SVE: I try to read, I bring a book or two for the road. Sometimes it is easier and sometimes it's really hard to try to read. I try to write, I listen to demos, I write lyrics, I listen to Spotify if I'm in a country that I can stream it in. I try to catch up with what's going on in the real world, you know every day it changes [laughs].
What music are you listening to right now?
SVE: The War On Drugs record of course is on constant rotation and the Torres record is still so beautiful. One thing that I got lucky was that my bandmate Darren Jessee has just finished a new record for his solo project Hotel Lights, it's a really beautiful record but won't be out 'till later this year. I was lucky enough to hear it when it just got mixed. His lyrics are so beautiful and the arrangements are really beautiful. And also, Heather Woods Broderick has a new record that I got to hear also. So another beautiful, sonically incredible record.
You got to work with Stewart Lerman on the new album which must have been a lovely experience for you.
SVE: Yeah, he is so great. I got to meet him doing work on 'Boardwalk Empire' and we got along so well that I thought I should reach out to him and get advice from him because I felt so comfortable around him. I was so nervous in those circumstances, I tried to just get advice from him and he ended up wanting to help me with the whole entire album.
For Sharon Van Etten's upcoming US/Australian/European tour dates, click HERE.
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Dead Cross, the fledgling group who unite Mike Patton of Faith No More, etc. fame with Dave Lombardo (Suicidal Tendencies, ex-Slayer) and members of The Locust and Retox, have been working on new material as of late—despite already having a new album done and set for an August release. As Lombardo recently explained to Metal Wani, the burst in creativity is actually in part motivated by the need to have more songs for their North American tour. Lombardo said of that:
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It seems like things are on a positive note and we're going to do some more touring, and at this moment we're writing more music to add to our set, because the set is only 30 minutes, so we need to add another 10 minutes, so probably another five songs!"
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You might hear traditional marketing described as "interruption marketing".
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So, for a long time I didn't really get H.P.Lovecraft, the author of a bunch of books and short stories set in a mythos that has been used by many authors since. Even if you've never read anything by him, I hope you've at least heard the name Cthulhu at some point. The problem is that the sense of cosmic dread that he sought to convey in his works didn't really work with me. I've grown up knowing of the vast voids between the stars. I've always, for as long as I've known about history, known that history began long before mankind was around and that the time between the first campfire and the present day is just a small slice of all the time that came before. All this familiarity means that I can't really appreciate his works the way that maybe people at the time could, familiarity breeds contempt.
The first time I really got a taste of real cosmic dread was when I ran into the concept of Boltzman brain's. To explain it simply, if the universe goes into a heat death then across the infinite future all the consciousnesses that arise through random interactions of matter will drastically outnumber the consciousnesses that arise due to things like evolving in a sane environment. There's a lot of reasoning behind this, and I could go into it but not until I've done some posts about understanding entropy. Thankfully the last I heard the consensus was that the universe will end in some other way so we don't have to worry about Boltzman brains.
The other thing that has given me cosmic shivers, though, is the idea of the Great Filter. A long time ago Dr. Frank Drake tried to figure out how many alien civilizations we should expect to find in our galaxy, and developed an equation to help him do that. You just multiply the number of stars being created each year, by the number of potentially life supporting planets per star, by what fraction of those actually develop life, by the faction of those that get intelligent life, by the fraction of those who ever develop the technology to broadcast signals into space, by the length of time they're broadcasting before stopping or being destroyed somehow.
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But which of those terms is the small one? If very few stars have planets or few of those planets are of the sort that can support life then fine, we're special and unique snowflakes and we can go confidently into the empty universe and do fun things with it. But it might also be that the really small term is the last one, and most civilizations quickly have nuclear wars or out of control nano-replicators or lose control of an artificial black hole or something. That would be Very Bad for either ourselves or our descendants.
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Of course, you shouldn't worry all that much. Maybe the first civilization that evolves ends up colonizing the galaxy and no intelligent life evolves naturally after that. All of this rests on anthropic reasoning and as far as I can tell everyone is really bad at doing that sensibly.
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AOL Outspends Google on Net Neutrality Issues
Could AOL be the unlikely savior of net neutrality?
Net neutrality, IE: keeping the internet fast, robust and open to all, is an important issue to anyone who uses the internet (IE: you, reading this article right now). Most people know that Google, having the biggest tech lobby in Washington aside from the big internet service providers, is constantly fighting to keep the net neutral, but now it seems that another unlikely champion of net neutrality has arisen. America Online (AOL), the company best known for giving the world dial-up internet in the '90s and being one of the country's largest ISPs - has outspent Google on net neutrality issues.
The daily dot has gathered a whole bunch of net neutrality lobbying data from the Sunlight Foundation, and aside from AOL's valiant pro-net neutrality effort, the overwhelming amount of reports being thrown in are anti-net neutrality, from big telecommunications corporations like AT&T and Verizon. You can check out this chart to the right.
Other corporations ranking on the pro-net neutrality list include Microsoft, Level 3 and the Writer's Guild of America. Apple, who would stand to lose quite a lot in regards to media streaming regulations, is no-where on the list, either pro or anti.
Needless to say, the numbers make it plainly apparent that AOL, Google, and others will need help in steering this conversation.
Source: The Daily Dot
What's Cisco's dog in this fight? Are they planning new throttle-centric hardware?
Also, hi music industry. Making sure people still don't like you huh?
I think a better name for the article would be how much more Comcost, AT&T and version are sending and spending compared to everyone else on that chart.
I mean look its like a diving board on the chat.
Also why are so many big names like Microsoft and Google seemingly holding back? Then again holding back till all the cards on the table may work...
I'm actually curious where Cox Digital stands on there, because they aren't on that list right there. I'm sure they are probably against Net Neutrality, but damn I didn't think that Verizon paid so much for lobbying against it. AT&T lobbying for it doesn't surprise me in the slightest though, they already have shitty services here and now they can possibly make them worse. What sucks is that in my town the only 2 ISPs available are Cox Digital and AT&T. Roadrunner used to exist here, before AT&T basically ran them out of town.
Also, I find that AT&T is saying "we'll honor net neutrality for a little bit...if you regulators let us rebuild our monopoly again with the DirecTV merger. Tis depressing times we live in for sure. *glances over at the EU, which actually protects consumers*
Yeah, unless Cisco really has some evil new tech they plan to sell to the pro-fast lane ISPs, they are gonna loose some business, too, when the smaller companies give up upgrading their servers paying for new equipment and the fast lane won't fit the business model. Even the ISPs aren't going to upgrade as fast as their new prices would suggest. Most of that extra money is going into the executives' bonuses and to the future campaigns of their political supporters.
And the music industry in general is being idiots again. (It's the first thing I noticed on that chart. Fancy that.) Customers streaming their songs over and over means they'll get a recurring profit from the stream service compared to someone going on iTunes and buying the few songs they want once. In fact I could imagine a sizable user base streaming songs they already purchased just because they don't have their MP3s on the device they're carrying or logged into the streaming service on a friend's computer/phone. Again, greedy executives in these companies are being so damn shortsighted I'm surprised they got that rich in the first place. If we don't get the proper Net Neutrality back, I hope the resulting changes in the IT economy bites those guys specifically in the asses.
It isn't surprising that the telecom companies that drive me insane by cornering the market and forcing me to deal with ass service are also the ones sending the most money against Net Neutrality. I can only imagine what else they'll have in store if they could destroy that utterly.
Does this affect anywhere else besides usa?
Is it really that hard to read the whole dailydot article before rehashing it into your own article?
The chart in your article merely measures the number of reports filed that have the word "net neutrality" somewhere in them, not the money spent. AOL filed slightly more reports than Google, so one could argue that it was slightly more "active" using that somewhat arbitrary metric. But it clearly did not spend more money...
...in terms of spending, here's the relevant chart. Google remains the only pro-net neutrality company that has lobbying expenditures comparable to the major telecoms.
Come on, guys, don't you have any pride as journalists? Even the weekly paper at the high school I attended exhibited consistently higher quality journalism than this site...
Why would... I mean it actually says "lobbying reports mentioning net neutrality" right on the chart. but I suppose this is an object lesson in reading the linked article before whats posted here so I call tell how much is misrepresented/changed.
OT: I think what should be far more newsworthy than AOL puting slightly more effort into this than Google is just how dedicated major ISP are to opposing NN. Of all the corporations with too much power and government influence Comcast and AT&T are starting to catch up with the RIAA/MPAA copyright mafia in terms of frightening me with their dedication to jackassery.
See dyre's post above mine. It's not spending, it's lobbying reports.
Now i get it. the reason the telecom companies run extortionate prices with outdated infrastructure and still manage to run a loss is fault of net neutrality. after all it causes them to spend millions on creating propaganda in thousands.
Not currently however it can set a dangerous precedent and some countries want that. the only outside force that oppenly opposes this is EU who have confirmed Net Neutrality in law.
Not quite, while they're moving towards net neutrality as legally binding law its still someway off from that. However most state seem to consider net neutrality a good thing. The UK might not go in with a European law, but is generally for net neutrality and so might make a domestic law.
the UK will have no choice. you either comply with EU law or you leave the union. And leaving the union would be economic suicide.
Damn, this is pathetic. Money isn't just a form of freedom of speech in the US. It is the only freedom of speech that counts. You can't get the most basic common sense policies without a shitload of money. I wish nothing but the worst possible fate for all of your corrupt officials and the people that do the corrupting.
Yes, and that's the scary bit. Borders are getting more and more vague, especially on economic territory thanks to the recent trends in globalization and technological development. For instance, take the movie industry and the screwed up way the US treats movie ratings. That, in part, has an impact on what sort of films are getting funded in the first place and thus also what we in the EU will or will not get to see.
It's why I extremely lament the prevalence of, and in a way reliance on, American culture. Or put in a different way, the fact that American culture is spread so widely. And this net neutrality bullshit is just another reason; I not even remotely trust their political system, the immense power lobbying has in the US, and the global impact it could have, really frightens me.
Luckily, in the case of net neutrality the EU is a pretty strong opponent of this nonsense, but I can see it disappearing in the US having impact on a lot of services we use.
Simply amazing. It seems the escapist has went the way of other news outlets and traded journalism for shock value. This is happening A LOT more often on the site and needs to be fixed at once!
Hang on, isn't the UK not part of the EU union or is is it partially part of it? Cause I remember them keeping their own currency because they though a union was BS.
The UK is part of the European Union and engages in it politically (no matter who much UK politicians and right wingers complain about it), engaging in meetings and following legislation from Brussels. However they are not part of the Euro Zone or the zone of greater political/economic/financial integration that exists round it. Britain opted out of this and other certain laws both to protect its "independence" but also the city of London which produces a lot of Britain's green economy figures.
God-damnit, if it wasn't for Jim Sterling and Ben Croshaw I'd f***ing avoid The Escapist Magazine like the plague.
Why is this a matter of who spends the most and not about what the people want?
Adding to what Cowabungaa wrote, and the original question. Yes, it will effect us in the EU, I cannot speak on behalf of Europeans, but only myself. But I do presume that I'm not the only one whose internet habits are dominated by US content. So the net-neutrality issue affecting the US, will inevitably also have an effect on me ( and fellow Europeans ). But uh, I'm cheering from the side line.
I thought that Net Neutrality had already been struck down. There was a huge outrage about it and everything.
they are fully part of European Union. They are not part of EURO zone. another country that is like that is Lithuania (where i live).
Newsworthy part of this is that AOL is actually for net neutrality, considering its past its a 180 turn.
The Christian Coalition? Sounds out of place but around $20 million for Pro-Net Neutrality makes me want to know more about them.
Does the author of the article realize that those are just numbers from Q1 and Q2 of 2013? The last year they have complete data for is 2012 in which Google was the second biggest spender for the year and AOL wasn't on the list. Additionally, why is it news that AOL is spending more money than Google? AOL has been strengthening quite a bit since 2012 when they sold patents and began making their business viable again. It is horribly ignorant to think that AOL is out of the game. They've more than doubled as a company since 2011.
Maybe journalists should wait until the numbers come in before taping up a Mission Accomplished banner and taking a photo op? Not even sure what the mission was here. Google isn't obligated to spend anything and yet, here they are. Are we somehow indicating that a company spending over 20 million on Net Neutrality is somehow dropping the ball?
Glad I didn't have to be the one to point out that blatant "mistake" (I feel like being generous today) seeing as how, you know, the chart in the article doesn't even have "cash", "money", or "spending" on it anywhere.
"I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists in Washington that their days of setting the agenda are over." - Barack Obama
Oh, hello Mr. Tom Wheeler. You say you used to lobby for big cable and telecommunications companies? Well you sound like the perfect presidential appointee to become the head of the federal institution that regulates cable and telecommunications companies.
And the world did laugh at us, as it has been for the past decade and a half.
Apple are just a bunch of spineless opportunists, too afraid to alienate their user base on the one hand, but salivating like a hungry Tex Avery cartoon wolf at the prospects of closed internet and what it will mean for their bottom line.
"One possible explanation: The Journal reported in March that Apple and Comcast, who agreed to acquire Time Warner Cable for $45 billion in a deal that has raised concerns for net neutrality backers, are in talks for a streaming-television service that would use an Apple set-top box and get special treatment on Comcast's cables to ensure it bypasses congestion on the Web."
Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/05/08/why-didnt-apple-join-opposition-to-fcc-net-neutrality-proposal/
It's times like these you see the true colors of those pulling the strings. Good on AOL! I will support them more. So far I'm disappointed in Google and hoping they will step up their game. As for Apple I will from here on out be boycotting their products and services. This whole Net Neutrality thing is making me draw lines in the sand.
Seriously, fuck those spineless scum bags.
I don't have much to say about the story (seeing how the author didn't really care too much about it either), but can I just say that I'm highly amused that the Christian Coalition has managed to put out more lobby reports on the issue than the freaking Consumer's Union of America?
It's not that they're holding back, it's that Verison, ATT, and Comcast are going ALL in because they know they will make a SHIT load of money extorting internet based companies for unstrangled internet.
Because America is no longer a democracy. We are an oligarchy. A government system where the rich and powerful set policies while everyone else has little to no say. We've all suspected this for decades until Princeton's study confirmed what we all knew. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/21/americas-oligarchy-not-democracy-or-republic-unive/
The fact that our officials need our votes is a formality at best. Once they're in office money is what talks. They'll pretend to care about your opinions when the next election roles around. You might say "But how can this be!? They can't be bribed. That's illegal!" No, they can't be paid. Directly. But they can accept campaign contributions. Where do you think all the money comes from that allows them to dominate your television every election? And they can accept cushy, overpaid, jobs after their stint in government is over. An award for years of doing what that corporation wanted them to do. Just recently the senate wanted to overhaul the US tax code to eliminate the tax loop holes that have been lobbied into it since the last overhaul in the 1980s. In order to get any of the senators to even consider it they had to be offered 50 years of identity protection so that the corporations that enjoy those loop holes don't use their money to destroy those senators in the next election. You may not have heard about this because MSNBC spent all of 30 seconds talking about it one time. Fox News spent all of two minutes. Why? Because both stations are owned by uber rich men who don't want you to know that they own your country.
So, yes, it does matter. Because this battle, like every other one in our government, is decided by who is throwing the most money at it. You can kick, scream, and petition all you want. Tom Wheeler blatantly doesn't give a shit.
You know, even the Daily Mail doesn't often post articles with headlines claiming the exact opposite of what is shown in the article's images. They usually just settle for spinning the story.
Almost every week we see articles on the Escapist that would violate the TOC if they were forum posts (misleading thread titles and so forth). Do article writers get warned for this sort of thing?
Man, those Internet companies sure are terrible. I'm gonna make my own, better internet service, with hookers and blackjack. You know what? Forget the internet service.
Way to put five on it for net neutrality Christian Coalition!
J-man wants dem nets to be free!
"Savior of the internet"? Screw google and aol. What the data about spending shows is that we are f****d.
Not really, I'd say the spending is all directly proportionate to what each entity has to gain or lose on the currently proposed deal.
The lower spenders have the backing of a TON of Americans and companies. If they go through with it, it'd be interesting to see the public response.
It's really hard for outright corruption to succeed in so bright a spotlight.
But if the opinion polls are anything to go off, UKIP will probably have something to say about this when the muscle some seats in the European Parliament, because fuck equality, rationality and hate immigrants and all things progressive.
OT: Seems odd Google aren't lobbying more for neutrality, then again they could be biding their time.
Edit: UKIP (the UK Independence Party) want to remove themselves from the EU due to "Britain not being about Britain," an argument which is utterly stupid considering Britain would be nothing if it did not have outsiders bringing their culture, because politicians in the EU enforce laws we don't control (like, you know, murder is bad and all that wacky liberal shit) and want to remove the open border policy that comes with the EU because them God Damn Immigrants terkin are jerbs (even though the leader of UKIP's wife is German, whoops.)
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I think that's their message, anyway.
We already knew they were the driving force, we already knew they outstripped the competition. What we didn't know is that Google isn't quite the "champion of the internet" people are making them out to be.
Of course, that still doesn't pertain to funds, but lobbying reports, so take that as you will. I mean, Google has spent more money, but that "lobbying footprint" as the DD article puts it may still yield less impressive results.
Because politicians don't represent people. There's no fiscal incentive. And in a nation where you need to raise campaign funds annually to compete, you need a fiscal incentive.
Yeeeeeeah, that really came out of left field.
Especially since CC and Pat Robertson have both been in favour of other kinds of censorship.
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Why Couples Argue?
Of course, when you are thinking about a romantic relationship, you tend to create that perfect picture in your head. You think that all of your dates would go smoothly. You think that your sex is going to be perfect. You think that you are going to have perfectly planned weekends. And you think that you are never going to argue with your partner. Basically, you blindly believe that nothing bad is going to happen to your romantic relationship.
While that kind of thinking is way better than picturing your breakup even before your romance has started, you are nonetheless entering the danger zone. You would rarely find a couple where partners don't have an argument. People are constantly arguing about different issues that may occur in your romantic relationship. So, picturing something perfect is not bad, but it is quite unrealistic, and if you want your relationship to last, you need to be as much realistic as you can be.
"But wait a minute", you would probably say, "why do couples argue so much?" It's quite a logical question, and that's why you need to read this article. Before you start picturing your possible relationship as a battlefield, we offer you to have a little glimpse at why do couples argue. And in order to do so, we offer you to check out our top five reasons why couples are arguing that much.
1. Sex
You would be surprised, but sex is the most common reason for arguing. As we've assumed, you are thinking that you and your partner are going to have perfect sex simply because it is you and your partner. Now, let us tell you why your sexcapades may not go that smoothly. While you are in between the sheets, it can turn out that your partner wants more, while you want less, and vice versa. While you or your partner may remain silent for a while, sooner or later, this topic would be brought up for the discussion, and then beware...
2. Dates
Either you or your partner naively think that you enjoy everything on your dates. So, naturally, you would be surprised or even disturbed when your partner would start telling you that he or she doesn't want to go to that cafe where you dined regularly. Moreover, you will get annoyed when hearing that your partner had never enjoyed going there but remained silent to avoid upsetting you. Then you are going to argue that your partner should have told you that, while he or she would say that you could have figured out his/her attitude to that cafe.
3. Cleanliness
You and your partner are most likely to have a different understanding of what is clean. What is clean enough for you is never clean enough for your partner. While one will remain silent for a while, quietly cleaning after his or her partner, soon they may start arguing calling one another a "dirty pig" and "paranoid maniacally obsessed with cleanliness".
4. Weekends
You like traveling to the countryside on weekends, while your partner enjoys staying at home? You can put up with it for a while, but soon you are going to start arguing because "why instead of having rest on my weekend I have to drag my ass to the middle of nowhere?!" or "you are so boring, how can you lay all day watching those stupid TV-shows?".
5. False Memory Syndrome
Our perception of the past is based not on the actual event, but rather how we remember them. And, believe it or not, two different people remember one event in two different ways. And when you try to figure out what went wrong when you disagreed last time, you are going to have an argument, as both parties use imagination as a helping tool while reconstructing the past.
After reading everything mentioned above, you might feel devastated. You might be asking yourself "why couples argue over such small things?". But there is no need to phone your shrink for relationship advice for couples who argue, and in the next part of the article, we are going to explain you why.
Why Is It Okay to Argue in a Relationship?
There is no need to spend your money on a shrink, as he is most likely to tell you that it is absolutely normal to argue in a relationship. Moreover, it is even healthy to argue in a relationship. Wait, what? Isn't it a sign... Stop, just check out our top seven reasons why arguing is good for your relations.
1. Arguing Strengthens Your Relationship
A constructive arguing, without boundaries or rules, allows you expressing yourself. While midway through arguing, you forget about being polite, and you forget about what your partner may think of you. Same goes for your partner. Thus, nothing distracts you from expressing your point of view on or your dissatisfaction with something. Basically, your arguing works like a storm, and every storm ends with a clear sky. After your arguing, you are most likely to get a clearer understanding of each other. Your understanding strengthens your relationship and enhances trust between the partners. That's how to argue effectively in a relationship.
2. Arguing Makes You Feel Better
You really think that keeping silent all the time helps? We are going to disappoint you, as trying to subdue your emotions for your partner's benefit breeds nothing but hate. Now, think, arguing has nothing to do with hate. Arguing is about revealing emotions and different points of view. We all would prefer to talk calmly as decent people do, but the calm way is not always the best variant. Sometimes you need to hit high notes for your partner to understand how much you are not okay with something. As soon as you let it all out, you will feel better.
3. Arguing Lets Your Partner Know Your Thoughts
As we've said before, sometimes you need to hit the high notes to let your partner understand you. You need to be realistic, as your partner will not miraculously learn your thoughts. Well, unless he has a gift of telepathy. We are not saying that you never tried to talk something over with your partner. Probably you did, and he didn't hear you. And that's the exact reason why you are arguing. So, shout and scream, but be objective. Give him your constructive point of view. Sometimes, it really takes two people to argue to truly understand each other's point of view. But the main thing is the outcome. Although you may have to whisper for the rest of the week, isn't it great that your partner finally got your point?
4. Arguing Increases Intimacy
Arguing lets you know what your partner likes and what he doesn't. Arguing helps you understand what is important to him, as well as what he can't stand in your relationship. Thus you get to understand your partner better. You should know how to argue in a relationship when it helps discovering those aspects of your partner. Fighting helps understand yourself and your partner better. Besides, most of the fights lead to hot make-up sex that cements your intimacy. As you can see, arguing is not a that bad thing that should be avoided at any cost.
5. Arguing Helps You Understand That Your Partner is a Separate Individual
While it seems to be the most logical thing that most of us realize, when we are in a relationship, we often start thinking about our partner as a part of ourselves. Arguing makes you come to realize that your partner is actually a separate individual and that most of the things he does and most of the rules he follows are imposed by you. Without realizing this, you are more inclined to believe that your partner must know your moods, your needs, and desires. You know them, so must he. As a result, you get truly shocked when learning that your partner disagrees with your opinion or is upset by your behavior. And after having a fight, you come to realize that your partner is a separate person. Thus you start understanding each other better.
6. Arguing Improves Your Character
You want to know how to argue less in a relationship, thus you try to improve yourself. After the fight, we gain more patience. You focus on your partner's needs and desires. You try being more attentive to your partner and devote him as much time as you can. Arguing helps to shape your character for your partner, thus making your relationship even stronger. Although you may try to backfire at first, sooner or later, when you come to realize whether your partner is that valuable for you or not, you start shaping your character in accordance with his needs and desires. Mind that you should do it only if the character improvement is a mutual process.
7. Nobody's Perfect
You know that no one is perfect, and arguing only proves it. Probably, if we were robots that work according to certain programs, we won't have to argue, but fortunately or not, we are humans. At the same time, arguing forces us to improve ourselves and to be perfect, at least for our partners. Arguing is also helpful in figuring out the unresolved issues in our psyche. Sometimes you really need to have a fight in order to solve problems that have been haunting you for years. That's the whole point of arguing in a relationship.
Closing Words
Considering everything mentioned above, it is easy to come up with a conclusion that fighting is good for a relationship. But there is one issue that you may want to talk about with your shrink. That question is "How often should you argue in a relationship?". You may think that if arguing is good for your romantic life then you should argue as often as possible. But it is not healthy to argue in a relationship every day. If you have a fight every day, then you should definitely visit a shrink, as that is a clear sign that something is wrong with your couple.


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Collect Tax on Gambling in a New Way
If tribes want to be independent from the United States and not pay taxes or be under our laws then make a federal law that going there means you have to have a passport, like Canada.
To visit these Indian Nations will mean going through border crossings, and U.S. Customs & Indian Customs.
And those who live there will also be required to carry their own form of passport from their Indian Nation.
Then our taxpayers who visit will have to pass through border crossings, and make items bought there taxable by U.S. Customs, and same for the residents returning to their nation.
Then less U.S. citizens will go and spend money at Indian Nations, and then make casinos legal everywhere.
Then tax can be collected from WA residents because it is no longer on Indian Nations, and people will decide to use WA state casinos.


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While Antigonus is standing on the shore, wishing he'd put his resume up on Monster.com sooner, he is dispatched with Shakespeare's most famous stage direction:
"Antigonus exits, pursued by a bear"
-- The Winter's Tale, Act III Scene iii, Line 58
Wait, WTF?
Seriously, that's all we get in the way of setup or explanation. One second, our buddy Antigonus is giving a soliloquy; the next, he's chased into the wings by a gigantic ursine beast, never to be heard from again. Shakespeare abandons his minor characters without explanation all the time, but for whatever reason, Antigonus went out with a little more of a bang.
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Shakespeare's Mad Libs period.
It also makes one wonder how exactly they accomplished the whole "get a bear to pursue someone off the stage" thing back in Shakespearean times. Maybe they just put out a casting call for "really hairy guy." It's not like they had CGI they could whip up, and we're assuming that even back then, you could be sued if a real-life bear ran loose in your venue and ate the audience. That's just not the sort of thing that happened back in Elizabethan England. Well, unless you count Queen Elizabeth's favorite form of entertainment: bear baiting.
Probably not The Winter's Tale, Act III Scene iii, Line 58. Probably.


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Donald Trump is the king — maybe even the president — of schoolyard bullying tactics, and his chief strategist stops by to give Stephen a taste.
Donald Trump is the king — maybe even the president — of schoolyard bullying tactics, and his chief strategist stops by to give Stephen a taste.
first comment ???Reply
*TRUMP FOR 4 YEARS IS BETTER THAN HILLARY FOR 8 YEARS*Reply
*TRUMP 2016*Reply
*HILLARY FOR PRISON 2016*Reply
*They should replace Kasich with Rubio in the Road to the White House scene*
Lmao The incredible irony of Trump calling anyone crazy. And this lad
definitely seems to have as much sense as Trump does.
17%… not counting super-delegates, because literally all corporately
owned news outlets in the US have mandated that they report all
super-delegates as already voting for Clinton, apparently. This also
depends on her delegates showing up to be counted after winning states,
like in Nevada where she actually won, but ended up losing because some of
her delegates couldn't be bothered to show up.
That boy is goodReply
Stephen program without Trump is boringReply
Lmao, that kid is GREAT! ???Reply
The funniest part about this is, those nicknames the kid came up with are
100x's better then anything Trump has come up with. Even Lyin' Ted even
sounds dumb compared to them XD
Slam dunk….:-)Reply
#StinkyColbert !!!Reply
So dumb, 17% includes the super-delegates. Hey Stephen, how about you learn
how to do math……….
Timmy has serious moobsReply
I saw the thumbnail and immediately thought "Andy Milonakis?"Reply
I just finished the video, damn that kid was great.Reply
of course shitlary clinton only needs 17% of the remaining delegates when
you factor in the fucking retardedly undemocratic superdelegates….
Hillary needs to come up with a juvenile nickname for Trump, because they
do seem to work for some reason.
Trump 2016! Make America Great Again!Reply
Man, do I love Steamin' Colfart's Lame Show.Reply
Holy crap that kid is fat, how does he make nerds cry? They could just
lightly stroll away from him
comedian in the making…… Go Bernie!Reply
Including BS SUPER DELAGATES…
Come on StephenReply
Man that kid was good. That slapping looked painful though :oReply
Trump gives too much opportunity to news outlets to create funny content.
Guess that's the trick to free publicity, and America will eat it up.
Let's call bullying terrorism and punish them on that framework.Reply
Hey, this kid was good! :DReply
Cheers reboot. But they're children. And this kid is Norm.Reply
This kid has a future.Reply
Loved how Stephen at the end was pretty much "Holy shit kid you killed it!"
Great stuff.
that was funnyReply
That kids a pretty decent performer, huh. Marco Pubio and Ass Kisstie are
This kid better make it big, he freakin nailed the roleReply
Amazing delivery, and his little "It's true" in between, this kid is a
THIS IS GONNA GET UP ON TRENDINGReply
Rent reference FTW.Reply
2% milk actually has 100% more fat than 1% milk.Reply
I CAN SEE YOU WRITING NOTHING YOURE NOT FOOLING ANYONEReply
Andy milanakis?Reply