Reading 2003 re-cap.
The Darkness documentary.
Anyone else think Jack White’s arm looks Freddie Kruger?
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August 2003
“It’s animated, and it’s like A-ha meets White Stripes,” says dude from The Ataris about their video for “My Reply.”
N.E.R.D. unleash new song “Thrasher” at concert. For “the skaters,” says Pharrell.
Speaking of sk8ers, if someone can tell us why Avril Lavigne needs a live album, you get a cookie.
Music of the moment: Nevermind, Nirvana; “The Boys of Summer,” The Ataris; “Things,” Fannypack; The Last Broadcast, Doves; s/t, The All-American Rejects
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Madonna fails to show at the Guy Oseary post-VMA party to attend Stella McCartney’s wedding?
Jamie Oliver vows not to say “pukka,” but makes no apology for naming his daughters “Poppy Honey” and “Daisy Boo.”
The Darkness answer reader questions.
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Rufus Wainwright talks about drugs, sex, his descent into “gay hell,” and his new album, Want One.
Jon Brion, the Phil Spector of “unpopular pop.”
The White Stripes’ upcoming video for “Hardest Button to Button,” to be one of the “greatest videos ever made.”
More on The Strokes’ new album.
Ryan Adams’ Love Is Hell to be released as two EPs.
Starsailor on Phil Spector.
Soledad Brothers in London.
Review of the new Rapture album.
Justin Timberlake and Chris Martin to collaborate?
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Ok London power outage not as big and cool as ours. Sukkas.
Hey stupid college seniors. You can WIN a job at Maxim. That’s right… WIN.
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WHAT THE HELL????
Power cut cripples London
Thursday, August 28, 2003 Posted: 2:40 PM EDT (1840 GMT)
LONDON, England — Passengers were trapped on the London Underground as a power outage struck the city during evening rush hour Thursday.
“We have lost supplies to large parts of south London in the last few minutes as a result of a National Grid failure supply in the south London area,” a spokesman for electricity network operator EDF Energy told Britain’s Press Association.
“It’s difficult to predict how long this is going to take. National Grid has got to get the circuit back.”
A spokesman for London Underground said 60 percent of the subway system had been halted by the outage, including the majority of services in central London. The failure happened around 6:15 p.m.
By 7:30 p.m., Britain’s energy regular Ofgem said power was returning to parts of London.
“There was a fault on a transformer system. There was loss of power for 34 minutes, but London Electricity has re-energised the system and it’s back on,” Reuters quoted an Ofgen spokesman as saying.
Thousands of people took to the streets as dusk approached. Street lights in some parts of London were not working in scenes reminiscent of the blackout that hit North America earlier this month.
London Underground said the power failure was having a “serious” impact on the whole of the city’s metro network. Rail services from major stations including Victoria, London Bridge and Waterloo were also affected.
“There has been a National Grid failure which has affected the underground. At the moment we are assessing the impact of that, but it is having a serious impact on the whole system at the moment,” a spokesman for the London Underground said.
He added: “It’s also having an affect on some of our buildings. Certainly quite a lot of the network appears to be affected.”
“There will be travelers underground. I don’t know the extent of that yet. It’s at the end of rush hour, the peak period, so it’s a busy time.”
An Underground spokesman told Reuters: “Trains in stations are being evacuated. We’re trying to get alternative power sources started.”
A spokesman for British Transport Police said the power cut had affected all major railway stations in south London.
“There is no power in a lot of stations and no trains running in the whole of south London,” he said. “All major stations — Victoria, London Bridge, Waterloo — are affected and all main train lines have stopped. Some stations are in darkness and others have emergency lighting.”
Euston Station was evacuated because of overcrowding, apparently because passengers could not get on the Underground.
More…
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If anyone understands this, let us know. From the Desk of Jack White:
08/27/03Hello little children,
There was a possibility, and it was retriever who discovered this, his wits got keen earlier and now he knows this and tells me to tell you. When two or three are gathered in my name I am there with them, when two or three are gathered socially there becomes a new air in the room. The fortunate ones aren’t given the chance to speak up, the losers are the ones who took the risk. Words are thrown out and interpreted, jelly beans take on a whole different meaning to some, others attack back with awkward silence, but the perpetrator is definitely put in place by this. So we now discover that socially retriever is at risk BUT KNOWS THIS, so how does he reply? Now defensively acting (as he has been taught by his group to do) he “waters down” his words, and tries not to “ruffle the feathers” of the city fathers. Encounter ended, socially responsibility accomplished, egos stroked, he proceeds home. Retriever you animal! how do you do it man? Does being good add anything to existing? Do children cry for lack of more mature revenge? Does retriever bear a striking resemblance to a dog? All this and more discussed verbatim add nauseam con frijoles, let’s look at it this way: three people are sitting on a bench, one of them, let’s call her “amazing” says to one of the others, let’s call him “mr. Cotton”, “don’t you think that the sun burns beautifully?” and mr. Cotton replies (truthfully this time) “well amazing, is it not my right to deny the beauty of the sun, even when it shines in my face?, must I always agree with you for you are my mother?” amazing replies, “it is impossible for mother and son to always have the same opinions, but until you are of an age when your experience proves you worthy, when I doth say the sun shines sweetly, thou must reply ‘as you see it mother, as you see it, it does!’” now there are no problems here so far, children will want their freedom, and will challenge the authority at times as their minds grow closer to maturity, this is not disputed. But the third person had something interesting to say. Her name was exemplify, and she was not happy at the state of the union. She quietly spoke” don’t you both know that there are three truths?” amazing and mr. Cotton said “no we have not heard of this.” exemplify then states and I quote “one truth is what your own perception is, the other truth is what the collective perception is, and the third truth is THE truth, the only one that cannot bend and is constant for as long as the object, feeling, emotion, or instance lasts, this is the truth that only god knows, and that we only pretend to comprehend.”
A silence fell on the other two, they had stopped twitching their legs on the bench, and the air was humid now, but pleasantly. The bench was now a truth in three different ways. Were they in line with the one true truth, or were their own perceptions being clouded by outside influence. “Is it wrong to state anything at this point?” said mr. Cotton. Bewildered. Mother knows best and calmed him with a stroke of her arm on his shoulder. They were in this together. Exemplify laughed and slowly rose, the bench turned blood red and the beast within exemplify showed itself only for a second, the eyes turned white and the others looked as if they didn’t know what they saw what they saw what they saw, exemplify excused herself and walked off. Mother and child did not mention to each other what they thought they saw. Each one debating alone, afraid to bring to light what they may not have known to be true.
Jack white
III
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Sadly we have other plans so we can’t help this guy out (25, blond, hazel eyes, and paying) but maybe one of you can do something about it… In Craigslist: “I need a date for the VMAs.”
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HAIRCUTS, TRASHBAG HELMETS, LEEDS
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The ladies over at Eyes Wide Open when to Leeds and all they got were these kick-ass pictures of Whirlwind Heat, the Kills, the Libertines, the Sights, Brendan Benson and more! They also have the awesomest photo gallery featuring Adam Green, Stellastarr*, the Black Keys, etc.
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