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  The Dark KNight

Posted by: The Darkest Canuck
12-18-2007, 04:09 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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looks amazing to these eyes, can't wait.

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  Songs online help

Posted by: Cookie.factory_West.Wind
12-18-2007, 04:05 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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How would I get a copy of this
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without getting Quicktime Pro?

Also, where are some other neat hip tracks?

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  Stipe and new REM...hahaha

Posted by: Graham
12-18-2007, 12:12 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Mr Stipe, what a guy. Check this quote out:

"Let me tell you a secret: we have a great fucking record in the bag. It's a big change. It's coming out on April Fool's Day."

Haha...well, Idunno about you guys but that inspires a little bit of confidence in me, when a guy like Stipe says "fucking" in describing a new record, after the relatively quiet Around the Sun.

BTW, on that note, does anyone have the REM Live discs that came out a few months ago? I keep meaning to pick it up...really want to hear what the Around the Sun tracks sound like live.

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  Call for help to all hackers programmers and computer geeks

Posted by: NegPhil
12-18-2007, 01:00 AM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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One of my neighbors has been jacking my wireless Internet. I called the company and had them change my web key and the web address but the little bugger got back in.

How can I find out who he is? How can I keep him out? How can I cause his computer to explode in flames and send shards of burning glass into his face?

Please help. If my kids "Call Of Duty 4" craps out one more time I'm afraid his head will explode.

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  Hip Tracker Update: New Software Installation

Posted by: chris
12-17-2007, 10:26 PM
Forum: Hipfans.com Tracker
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I just finished installing and testing new tracker software; those of you who frequent other trackers will be familiar with it - zomb and a number of pr0n sites use it... or so I've been told. Wink

During the Holiday break I will try to reinstate the old accounts and torrents, but with more than 5000 accounts and 500 torrents it might not happen.

No new shows will be posted to the current tracker, however; please keep your torrent files ready as they will all become active on the new tracker, and will help get the new community really rolling.

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  Homer Simpson - A picture a day for 39 years

Posted by: hotmetal401
12-17-2007, 07:35 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Last night's Simpsons episode just might have been the best one, in well, ages. A brilliant parady of "Eternal Sunshine"

This is a scene near the end. Lots of references to past episodes without seeming like a clip show too.

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Cheers,

Pat

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  10/03/2000 syracuse reseed request

Posted by: hoggie
12-17-2007, 10:58 AM
Forum: Hipfans.com Tracker
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please :thumb: :jump 8) Smile

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  Rob Baker: "Stretching the joints to rock a limber phys

Posted by: thedoog
12-17-2007, 09:59 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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From the Globe Life section of today's Globe and Mail

POWER CRUNCH: ROB BAKER, LEAD GUITARIST, THE TRAGICALLY HIP Stretching the joints to rock a limber physique

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SABITRI GHOSH Special to The Globe and Mail My goal "My goal is to stay limber and to reduce stress, to be able to get on stage and not hear my body, and to keep up with my family." My workout * Yoga lesson once a week for an hour and 45 minutes. "Linda [O'Neill, Mr. Baker's yoga teacher] has suggested it's working 'in' rather than out. I perform shorter sequences throughout the week as my body squawks at me, but nothing quite as thorough as we cover in class." * On the road: "I try to go for a long walk in each place we visit, safety permitting. . . . Keeping up my yoga practice on the road will be much easier for me now that Linda has an instructional CD." * At home: At least once a day, walk on the treadmill for about an hour, or walk outside with friends or the family dog along a 6.5-kilometre route. "I have begun making plans for twice-weekly sessions - core strength and conditioning - with a personal trainer." My lifestyle "On the road, my hours are quite different. Each day has a set structure, though a lot of the day is my own. My workday usually begins around 3 or 4 p.m. and ends around 1 a.m. Sleep is sometimes elusive when travelling by tour bus, so I do need to be protective of what time I do get for sleep.

"As for food, generally speaking we avoid truck stops and fast food. I like to eat a light meal at least three hours before a show.

I often eat something after a show, but options at 1 a.m. are less than perfect nutritionally.

"During a writing/recording phase, we work intensively for 12 to 16 hours each day. While it's difficult to make time for exercise, we do eat well. At home, I keep normal hours and I do quite well with sleep and nutrition." My motivation "My desire is to not allow inertia to get the better of me, as I saw it get the better of my parents. . . . Getting myself out the door is sometimes difficult - justifying taking the time away from writing to do something for myself - but I'm always grateful once I'm there." My workout anthem Everything from Louis Armstrong to David Bowie to Led Zeppelin.

"If I'm on the treadmill at home, I enjoy watching a concert DVD." My challenges "My different work phases each have their own challenges. I also try to schedule things around my family's availability so that I can get some time with my wife and son, as I do spend a lot of time away from them." The critique Yoga instructor Caron Shepley is impressed with Rob Baker's commitment to fitness. "In an industry that can encourage poor health habits," she says, "it's great to see that Rob is on the right track." Performing will take its toll on 45-year-old Mr. Baker as he gets older, says Ms. Shepley, corporate director of the Toronto-area fitness firm Personal Best. "As you age, you gradually lose muscle mass, strength and flexibility," she says. "This can lead to fatigue and aching joints." While walking and yoga are great easy-on-the-joints forms of exercise, Ms. Shepley says it's good Mr. Baker plans to start working on his core with the help of a trainer. "Core conditioning is an important aspect of fitness that can help with injury prevention," she says.

It will also help counteract the loss of muscle mass.

During those long days in the recording studio, breaking for an hour-long walk may actually help Mr. Baker and his bandmates in the creative process, Ms. Shepley says. "Studies show that aerobic exercise stimulates the brain, improving decision-making and focus." Since he's an avid walker who loves music, Ms. Shepley suggests he pick up an iPod with the Nike+ system. "That way, Rob can track the distance that he walks while enjoying his favourite music." Even a standard pedometer might be useful, she notes, since people need to walk 10,000 steps a day - workouts combined with daily movement - to achieve good health.

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  The Buffalo News- Choosing the best music of Canada

Posted by: NegPhil
12-17-2007, 02:47 AM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Northern lights
AS A NEW BOOK CELEBRATES THE FINEST CANADIAN ALBUMS, WE CONSIDER OUR MUSICAL CONNECTION TO THE COUNTRY

By Jeff Miers / NEWS POP MUSIC CRITIC


* Choosing the best music of Canada: The sound of a nation


Well, we got more than hockey from them, didn’t we? We Americans like to think we invented most things, and we certainly can lay claim to some worthwhile cultural exports – the blues, jazz, rock ’n’ roll, hip-hop.

In Buffalo, however, we are unique. We remain a suburb of Toronto in many ways.

We still get skipped over on many highprofile concert tours. We still lack both the growing, bustling population and the vibrant club scene that comes along with it. But we have a real fascination with Canadian music on this side of the Peace Bridge.

In a sense, the regional music of the Toronto area is our regional music, as well. We’re separated by some readily apparent cultural differences – a body of water, a bridge and a border. But Toronto is only 100 miles from here.

In fact, there are Canadian groups – the Tea Party, Tragically Hip and Sloan, for example – who are huge in Canada, massive in Buffalo, but have trouble getting arrested anywhere south of here. They sell out large venues in Buffalo and play small-to-medium- sized clubs in the rest of the country.

So when Bob Mersereau’s impressive tome, “The Top 100 Canadian Albums,” was released recently, we were seriously intrigued.

Mersereau compiled an authoritative panel of Canadian musicians and music industry folks to vote in this definitive sweepstakes. On the one hand, some of the results were expected: Neil Young not only claimed the No. 1 spot, he managed to place no less than 8 albums in the top 100. On the other hand, there were a few surprises: Canadian punkers Teenage Head placed two records in the list.

The book is a reminder of just how much we in Western New York share with our Canadian neighbors, musically speaking. We also feel lucky – a lot of the artists on the list at one time or another played in our city, or we were able to take a ride up the QEW to hear them. Take that, Charlotte and Tampa.

This book speaks to us, or at least we are intrigued by the talent, and the fact that someone actually took the time to compile the list.

The popular conception is that Canadians are a tolerant lot, except when it comes to hockey and cross-border shopping sprees. Mersereau’s book speaks to their diversity of opinion as well. How else to explain a list that places jazz giant Oscar Peterson smack up against alt-rockers the Joel Plaskett Emergency? The Band. Neil Young. Joni Mitchell. Rush.

These are some of the biggest names in popular music history. Yet, they have become so much a part of our culture that it’s easy to forget they are all Canadian artists, despite the fact that all of them celebrate their heritage in one fashion or another.

The Band reflected the wide-open spaces and sense of possibility of the Canadian landscape in their music. Young has never shied away from representing in song the sense of wind-blown wistfulness he experienced as a kid growing up amidst the valleys and plains of Manitoba. Mitchell has written extensively about Canada, perhaps most movingly in her evergreen piece, “A Case of You.”

Rush celebrated the open-minded playlist policies of Toronto’s CFNY FM during its late ’70s/’80s heyday with their song “The Spirit of Radio.” The Tragically Hip, a massive draw in Buffalo, have quite possibly penned more Canada-specific tunes than any other artist.

Still, it’s hard to whittle any of this down to a sound that is distinctly Canadian, just as there is no one American sound. It’s a testament to the depth of a culture that so much music of widely divergent stylings can fit neatly beneath a nationalistic umbrella.

So hats off to our northern neighbors. They’ve given us some timeless music.

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  Prove me wrong one more time

Posted by: dcrann11
12-16-2007, 06:20 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Ok anyone up for trying to decipher these lyrics? this is what I have come up with (some based on others interpretations) Of the four verses the second has been the hardest to solve for. Again - we only have the vocals to track for what will be a very good tribute to this song so we could really use your help. Many thanks hipbase!

Times Are Passing Us By lyrics

 Say goodbye to my old whisper chain prove me wrong Prove me wrong one more time
 The nights are long and the days feel the same With regrets, times are passing us on ('by' - on different version)

 well gone our old friends who all felt the same It was me we were young dumb and stoned
 Things may change, but I think of the names, Faces, friendships, not purchased, but gold  
 When I'm old, tired and grey
I'll remember the days when you led me to see things the same
Tried to call , you weren't living there no more
But I don't mind 'cause the thought still remains
 
Times are passing us by
I wonder why you leave me so cold inside
 
I've been pressed to remember the tales
See your face as one at one time
Why resist, ( can't) tempt desolve or (relive) repeat
It's the choice, we are sheep but not blind
 
Times are passing us by
I wonder why you'd leave me so cold inside
 
Live and Breathe things are not what they seem
With excuses, time slips on by
What we 'd been doesn't say half we mean
To the friends that we leave when we die
 
When I old , tired and grey
I remember the day when you led me to see things the same
Tried to call, you weren't living there no more
But I don't mind 'cause the thought still remains
 
Times are passing us by
I wonder why you'd leave me so cold inside

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