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Wife got me tix for my bday today (4/17/09).

Are the Hip bringing their light show on this tour? Last 2 tours they havent had it and was still a good show but could of been great with the lights. last time it was just the house lights (brutal)

Who is going to Phila show?

So I was at work today--luckily I have a job that offers me the opportunity to listen to music on my headphones while I do my job at my desk--and put DFN in my CD Walkman (yes, I know that sounds hopelessly ancient--I assure you that I do also have an MP3 player on my cell phone). First of all, what a great album start to finish--probably, push come to shove, my favorite Hip album. Does Gord Sinclair's bass playing get any better than it it on that album? Gord Downie's lyrics are fantastic, so many quotable lines.

Anyway, I can't say I get the "shivers down my spine" reaction to too many songs by anyone, but without fail, anytime I hear "Nautical Disaster," it just does the trick EVERY SINGLE TIME I EVER LISTEN TO IT. What a phenomenal combination of great lyrics and storytelling, poignancy, and a musical performance that perfectly fits the song. The sound of the guitars alone take you to that "rocky socket on the coast of France."

I live in Michigan and ordered the new album from Maple Music (not realizing at the time that the CD was receiving a simultaneous release in the States). It's still not here!! Maple Music DID say to expect 6-12 business days after shipment, and it's only been 8 business days, but I'm going NUTS waiting for it to arrive. I check my mailbox every day after work (it's one of the main things that GETS me through work) and every day I see the mailbox empty I either groan audibly or shout some unprintable expletive. I'm about to lose my mind! I'm having a hard time remaining patient!! Help me! :nooooo

Match-up #33 - Yawning or Snarling Vs. 38 Years Old
Listen to the two songs in the match-up Back to Back, and consider the lyrics of the song. Feel free to post an unbiased analysis of both songs in this thread, but please refrain from cheerleading or making predictions for your favourites.

Hello Registered Users,
We are happy to announce the next show in our <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.thehip.com/Registered">http://www.thehip.com/Registered</a><!-- m --> User Concert Series.

The show will take place at The Music Hall in Toronto on Friday, April 24th.

Doors open at 6:00pm, with the show starting at 8:00pm. It will be a two set evening. Tickets go on sale on Monday, April 20th at 10:00am (est).

Follow this link to purchase tickets: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ticketmaster.ca/promo/kijiuo">http://www.ticketmaster.ca/promo/kijiuo</a><!-- m -->

On April 20th, at 10:00am (est), the Ticketmaster page will go live and you will be able to purchase tickets.

Ticket price is $19.95 plus Ticketmaster service charges and the venue's Facility Fee.

All-Ages, reserved seating show.

Ticket Rules:

• 1. Limit of two (2) tickets per Registered User.
• 2. Tickets are to be picked up at the venue Box Office the night of the show, starting at 6:00pm. Tickets will not be sent out in advance.
• 3. Photo ID and Credit Card used to make the purchase must be present when picking up the tickets.
• 4. Tickets are not transferable. The Credit Card holder must be one of the members of the party attending the show.
• 5. There are no IN/Outs. Once you pick up your tickets, you and your must enter the venue.
• 6. All members of your party must be present to claim tickets and gain entry to the concert.
• 7. There are absolutely no exceptions to rules 1 through 6.


To close out, we don't have specific details yet, but all those on the East Coast of Canada stay tuned to thehip.com. There will be dates announced very, very, very soon.

See you out on the road this spring.

The Hip

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Well I may not be from that area, but with it sounds like any day, Atlantic Canada will become a lot happier.

The Sting, In Four Parts
By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, April 17, 2009

Franklin Roosevelt gave us the New Deal. John Kennedy gave us the New Frontier. In a major domestic policy address at Georgetown University this week, Barack Obama promised -- eight times -- a "New Foundation." For those too thick to have noticed this proclamation of a new era in American history, the White House Web site helpfully titled its speech excerpts "A New Foundation."

As it happens, Obama is not the first to try this slogan. President Jimmy Carter peppered his 1979 State of the Union address with five "New Foundations" (and eight more just naked "foundations"). Like most of Carter's endeavors, this one failed, perhaps because (as I recall it being said at the time) it sounded like the introduction of a new kind of undergarment.

Undaunted, Obama offered his New Foundation speech as the complete, contextual, canonical text for the domestic revolution he aims to enact. It had everything we have come to expect from Obama:

The Whopper: The boast that he had "identified $2 trillion in deficit reductions over the next decade." It takes audacity to repeat this after it had been so widely exposed as transparently phony. Most of this $2 trillion is conjured up by refraining from spending $180 billion a year for 10 more years of surges in Iraq. Hell, why not make the "deficit reductions" $10 trillion -- the extra $8 trillion coming from refraining from repeating the $787 billion stimulus package annually through 2019.

The Puzzler: He further boasted of his frugality by saying that his budget would reduce domestic discretionary spending as a share of GDP to the lowest level ever recorded. Amazing. Squeezing discretionary domestic spending at a time of hugely expanding budgets is merely the baleful residue of out-of-control entitlements and debt service, which will increase astronomically under Obama. To claim these as achievements in fiscal responsibility is testament not to Obama's frugality but to his brazenness.

The Non Sequitur: "To make sure such a crisis [as we have today] never happens again," Obama proposes his radical health-care, energy and education reforms, the central pillars of his social democratic agenda. But Obama's own words contradict this assertion. Notes The Post: "But as his admirable summation of recent history made clear, these pursuits have little to do with the economic crisis, and they are not the key to economic recovery." Obama rarely fails to repeat this false connection. A crisis -- and the public's resulting pliability to liberal social engineering -- is a terrible thing to waste.

The Swindle: The Obama administration is spending money like none other in peacetime history. Obama is smart. He knows this is fiscally unsustainable. He has let it be known privately and publicly that he intends to cure the imbalance with entitlement reform.

An excellent strategy. If it takes throwing nearly $1 trillion of "porky" (to quote Sen. Charles Schumer) stimulus spending to soften up a Democratic Congress and make it amenable to real entitlement reform, then fine. Reforming Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid would save tens of trillions of dollars, and make the current money-from-helicopters spending almost trivial by comparison.

In the New Foundation speech, Obama correctly (again) identifies the skyrocketing cost of Medicare and Medicaid as the key fiscal problem. But then he claims that Medicaid and Medicare reform is the same as his health-care reform, fatuously citing as his authority a one-day meeting of handpicked interested parties at his "Fiscal Responsibility Summit."

Here's the problem. The heart of Obama's health-care reform is universality. Covering more people costs more money. That is why Obama's budget sets aside an extra $634 billion in health-care spending, a down payment on an estimated additional spending of $1 trillion. How does the administration curtail the Medicare and Medicaid entitlement by adding yet another (now universal) health-care entitlement that its own estimate acknowledges increases costs by about $1 trillion?

Which is why in his March 24 news conference, Obama could not explain how -- when the near-term stimulative spending is over and his ambitious domestic priorities kick in, promising sustained prosperity and deficit reduction -- the deficits at the end of the coming decade are rising, not falling. The Congressional Budget Office has deficits increasing in the last seven years of the decade from an already unsustainable $672 billion annually to $1.2 trillion by 2019.

This is the sand on which the new foundation is constructed. Obama has the magic to make words mean almost anything. Numbers are more resistant to his charms.

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From the front page of the Local section of today's Cincy Enquirer:

"Two Lips Amongst the Tulips"


Kinda creeps me out a little...the girl's pose seems a little to "adult" to be "cute" to me

1. Music@Work
2. We Are the Same
3. Fully Completely.

...controversial to many, but sue me.

My avatar is a shot of the back of a German import of Music@Work's back, which shows the tracklisting... though the cardboard version I bought 9 years ago had the tracks listed on a green background on the inside, with the back of the album strangely only showing those beautiful colours... I know its geeky, but I was wondering what others' versions of the album artwork looks like (this being, controversially or not, MY all-time favourite Hip album)...