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Hey, just curious as to people's interpretation of "Throwing Off Glass". I've always found this song extremely relaxing, but the lyrics equally perplexing. What's a "car-full of haircuts"? What kind of "barbarous threats"? Why did she hear the word irredescent?

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Okay, I know alot of people are tired of polls right about now... but hopefully a completely new poll with never-before-done content will rescue the mighty poll from its plummet into loathing. lol.

Situation: I have thought for a little while of changing the name of my site. It is currently called "A Dope Deal In The Middle Of A Cornfield." (For those who haven't seen it yet, check it out, so you'll know what you're helping me out on) It also has a drug-reference in the title which may not be acceptable to everyone. I never thought my site would get as far as it did when I started it but alot of people have emailed me with comments and information. (By the way, everyone, thanks) Anyway, the name is too long.

I have some ideas I was thinking about, but they can't be used anywhere else nor on the web except in the Hip's lyrics. I searched for "wooden stars" and "starpainters" and others as possibilities but found them online as different stuff, a band, etc. I want something completely new, something distinctly "Hip". Maybe a name that has to do with lyrics or writing or something similar. So, seeing though it's a Hip site and you people are all Hip fans, I want to hear your opinions.... plus; I plan in the future to get an actual domain, so a shorter name would be better... "www.a-dope-deal-in-the-middle-of-a-cornfield.com" wouldn't work... lol... plus DDMC is taken from a bunch of other things... And the name needs to be quick and unforgettable...

So, in this poll, I have listed some ideas. I also included a "songtitle.com" option and an "other" option. If you select either of these please post the song title or other phrase you're thinking of. And comment on others suggestions, so I don't have to make more and more polls. lol. I know some of you may not want to bother with something like this, maybe you think it's unimportant but I'd really appreciate it if ya helped out with it. This is literally a site for all of us, not just me, not just The Hip, but for you long-time fans and for people who just discovered the Hip or will in the future... This topic could also function as a debate as to the coolest Hip lyric or Downie-invention...

Sorry for the long explanation, lol
~Stu

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A new torrent has been uploaded.

Name: SRB: 2004-09-18 - Detroit, MI
Size: 271.96 MB
Category: SHN/FLAC - Full Concerts
Uploaded by: chris

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The Sam Roberts Band
The Fox Theatre
Detroit, MI
This is a markslog recording.
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You can use the URL below to download the torrent (you may have to login).

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This is great. I remember reading this back when CMG first came out, and I almost forgot how cool it is:

"Over the last decade, there have been few voices with such clarity and resonance that they cut through the buzz of our times, evoke winter and truth and the land, and are uncynical, beautiful and sad in the face of decaying hope and confusion's whipping axis. One of those voices belongs to Gordon Downie. We've heard it out of crackling summer radios, speaker towers planted on festival prairie fields, basement party album sleeves dusted with dope and tobacco, high school photocopies passed around the room by English teachers whose English teachers once showed them the words to Joni Mitchell songs, and yellow tv screens parked in taverns blinking the wild arms and hiccuping jaw of a dude in a Bruins sweater singing about dead ships and fuzzy dreams. It's a voice that is his; ours. Words hang off it like shaggy willows suddenly alive in a night's storm of cheering and drums, and while something about the hornet's sting and the rocky socket and the phantom power stick to us like sap on a bootheel, it's really the poetry that sinks into the soft earth of our thoughts and is the grit in our nation's loam.

I asked Gord why he wrote this book and his answer was, "When Al Purdy died, among the stuff in the newspapers was his answer to this same question: 'I write like a spider spins webs and much for the same reason, to support my existence.' I really liked that." Like Al, Gord is a word man. When he was a kid, he was given Farley Mowat's "Never Cry Wolf" and "while there were no pictures, I remember that he made the wolf den seem so cozy and that the tundra became this teeming place." From there, he stepped to Bruno Schulz, Sherwood Anderson, Raymond Carver. In the introduction to "All Of Us" - The Collected Poems of Raymond Carver, poet Tess Gallagher, wrote; "Ray made the ecstatic seem ordinary, within the reach of anyone. he also knew something essential, which is too often sacrificed for lesser concerns, that poetry isn't simply reticence served up for what we meant to say. It's a place to be ample and grateful, to make room for those events and people closest to our hearts..." The thought struck Gord to the extent that he pencilled it on a 3X5 card, which he carries around in his back pocket. So really, it's from his ass that the motivation comes. In concert, words fountain from his point on the stage into pools of prose and verse, only parts of which are sluiced here. Gord says that the difference between rock and roll and poetry is that "one dances, the other wants to,"but in performance, and in this book, those words move across rhythms as if they were players themselves, pushing and pulling the beat, racing and slowing it.

In the beginning of the book, "Clouds full of dimes threaten the dream" while those "whispering transmissions through wet woollen mittens" gaze at a "sky of spilled paintwater." The poems, at first, float in a place of dreams and architects and children wearing plastic vampire teeth skidding down hills towards the opening and closing of the light. The second section, "A Drop of Audience", takes the reader through the movements and anatomy of rock and roll life, stopping at the Songwriter's Cabal, Michigan Roadside's, Richard Manuel, and Mt. Stage. Gord's voice is evocative of Lowell George, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Nicolas Cage's character in "Wild At Heart." The words of these poems reflect a place where writers "write by lightning" in hotel rooms where "the mouthpiece of my phone reeks of rambling Aqua Velva business." The tone is stark, full of stale breath and the dragging of time. The jet "climbs into life after death towards that place where all the longing goes" and there are clouds, and more clouds. Below, the land is "a crazy quilt of spearmint" upon which the singer travels in a "van full of balloons" until "the water's all gone and you've wrung your notebook dry/leave the stage behind the audience's back." Having spent some days in a place like this, I can tell you: Gord's mirror shows true."

Dave Bidini
March 2001
Toronto

So its moving time again ( all of you have heard my story) so going through my cds boxing them up i was looking at my hip bootlegs.
So i made a mix of rare live tunes

Order is :
don't wake daddy 8/22/98 zoo zmpitheater toledo
at the hundredth meridian 7/26/93 ottawa
eldorado - 7/24/98 wetlands nyc
highway girl 3/2/88 ottawa
she didn't know 4/20/91 cabaret metro chicago
get back again 4/6/90 misty moon
last american exit 2/88 barrymores
titantic terrarium 8/28/96 rockafellas south carolina
fight 7/1/95 bear valley
stay 6/18/00 london england
thugs 11/22/94 germany
escape is at hand 7/7/98 london ontario
lionized 12/9/92 germany
wild mountain honey 7/4/00 chicago
emperor penguin 11/2/98 athens georgia
every irrelivance 1992 cbc studios

well there it is songs maybe they could break out during the canadian tour


Ron

Unbelievable...

Fri Nov 5,11:12 AM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A National Guard F-16 fighter plane mistakenly fired off 25 rounds of ammunition at the Little Egg Harbor Intermediate School in South New Jersey on Wednesday night.



The pilot was meant to fire the rounds some 3 1/2 miles away at a military target range, Lt. Col. Roberta Niedt of the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs told reporters in the Jersey shore township's police headquarters.


No one was injured as school was out and a lone custodian was inside the building when the bullets hit.


Damage was minimal as the non-exploding, 20 millimeter bullets left only puncture marks in the school's roof and the asphalt outside the building.


The fighter jet was part of the 113th Wing, District of Columbia Air National Guard assigned to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.


An investigation is being conducted into how the pilot mistook the school, located on Frog Pond Road, for a target range.


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I was poking around on the TV Guide site and saw this:

Last Call with Carson Daly
Here's a tip. If you tape a talk show way in advance like this one, don't harp on incredibly dated subject matter for too long, like — oh, I don't know — a big-time sporting event, for instance. So if you're talking to, say, Arrested Development's Will Arnett about the Red Sox's slim chances of beating the Yankees in the American League Championship (not even the World Series!), gloss over it a bit. This was at least two to two-and-a-half weeks ago, dude!

:roll: How he ever became an icon is beyond me.

-Jenna

17 Reasons NOT to Slit Your Wrists
From Michael Moore
Via mailing list

Dear Friends,

Ok, it sucks. Really sucks. But before you go and cash it all in, let's, in
the words of Monty Python, 'always look on the bright side of life!' There
IS some good news from Tuesday's election.

Here are 17 reasons not to slit your wrists:

1. It is against the law for George W. Bush to run for president again.

2. Bush's victory was the NARROWEST win for a sitting president since
Woodrow Wilson in 1916.

3. The only age group in which the majority voted for Kerry was young adults
(Kerry: 54%, Bush: 44%), proving once again that your parents are always
wrong and you should never listen to them.

4. In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think the
country is headed in the wrong direction (56%), think the war wasn't worth fighting (51%), and don't approve of the job George W. Bush is doing (52%). (Note to foreigners: Don't try to figure this one out. It's an American thing, like Pop Tarts.)

5. The Republicans will not have a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority in the
Senate. If the Democrats do their job, Bush won't be able to pack the
Supreme Court with right-wing ideologues. Did I say "if the Democrats do
their job?" Um, maybe better to scratch this one.

6. Michigan voted for Kerry! So did the entire Northeast, the birthplace of
our democracy. So did 6 of the 8 Great Lakes States. And the whole West
Coast! Plus Hawaii. Ok, that's a start. We've got most of the fresh water,
all of Broadway, and Mt. St. Helens. We can dehydrate them or bury them in
lava. And no more show tunes!

7. Once again we are reminded that the buckeye is a nut, and not just any
old nut -- a poisonous nut. A great nation was felled by a poisonous nut.
May Ohio State pay dearly this Saturday when it faces Michigan.

8. 88% of Bush's support came from white voters. In 50 years, America will
no longer have a white majority. Hey, 50 years isn't such a long time! If
you're ten years old and reading this, your golden years will be truly
golden and you will be well cared for in your old age.

9. Gays, thanks to the ballot measures passed on Tuesday, cannot get married
in 11 new states. Thank God. Just think of all those wedding gifts we won't
have to buy now.

10. Five more African Americans were elected as members of Congress,
including the return of Cynthia McKinney of Georgia. It's always good to
have more blacks in there fighting for us and doing the job our candidates
can't.

11. The CEO of Coors was defeated for Senate in Colorado. Drink up!

12. Admit it: We like the Bush twins and we don't want them to go away.

13. At the state legislative level, Democrats picked up a net of at least 3
chambers in Tuesday's elections. Of the 98 partisan-controlled state
legislative chambers (house/assembly and senate), Democrats went into the
2004 elections in control of 44 chambers, Republicans controlled 53
chambers, and 1 chamber was tied. After Tuesday, Democrats now control 47
chambers, Republicans control 49 chambers, 1 chamber is tied and 1 chamber
(Montana House) is still undecided.

14. Bush is now a lame duck president. He will have no greater moment than
the one he's having this week. It's all downhill for him from here on out --
and, more significantly, he's just not going to want to do all the hard work
that will be expected of him. It'll be like everyone's last month in 12th
grade -- you've already made it, so it's party time! Perhaps he'll treat the
next four years like a permanent Friday, spending even more time at the
ranch or in Kennebunkport. And why shouldn't he? He's already proved his
point, avenged his father and kicked our ass.

15. Should Bush decide to show up to work and take this country down a very
dark road, it is also just as likely that either of the following two
scenarios will happen: a) Now that he doesn't ever need to pander to the
Christian conservatives again to get elected, someone may whisper in his ear
that he should spend these last four years building "a legacy" so that
history will render a kinder verdict on him and thus he will not push for
too aggressive a right-wing agenda; or b) He will become so cocky and
arrogant -- and thus, reckless -- that he will commit a blunder of such
major proportions that even his own party will have to remove him from
office.

16. There are nearly 300 million Americans -- 200 million of them of voting
age. We only lost by three and a half million! That's not a landslide -- it
means we're almost there. Imagine losing by 20 million. If you had 58 yards
to go before you reached the goal line and then you barreled down 55 of
those yards, would you stop on the three yard line, pick up the ball and go
home crying -- especially when you get to start the next down on the three
yard line? Of course not! Buck up! Have hope! More sports analogies are
coming!!!

17. Finally and most importantly, over 55 million Americans voted for the
candidate dubbed "The #1 Liberal in the Senate." That's more than the total
number of voters who voted for either Reagan, Bush I, Clinton or Gore.
Again, more people voted for Kerry than Reagan. If the media are looking for
a trend it should be this -- that so many Americans were, for the first time
since Kennedy, willing to vote for an out-and-out liberal. The country has
always been filled with evangelicals -- that is not news. What IS news is
that so many people have shifted toward a Massachusetts liberal. In fact,
that's BIG news. Which means, don't expect the mainstream media, the ones
who brought you the Iraq War, to ever report the real truth about November
2, 2004. In fact, it's better that they don't. We'll need the element of
surprise in 2008.

Feeling better? I hope so. As my friend Mort wrote me yesterday, "My
Romanian grandfather used to say to me, 'Remember, Morton, this is such a
wonderful country -- it doesn't even need a president!'"

But it needs us. Rest up, I'll write you again tomorrow.

Yours,

Michael Moore
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