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Post by jules on Feb 5, 2010 14:40:46 GMT -5
"Carey Mercer still has to work for a living and Black Out Beach has the best fucking record ever produced, and Hank and Deep Dark United, I don't see any international acclaim for those guys"
Yeah..Hank made one of the best records last year, both "Light Flows the Putrid Dawn" and "Skin of Evil" were brilliant (new Frog Eyes out soon) and get the live Deep Dark United album "Look At/Look Out" immediately if you've not got it yet. I'd add Mr Blankket himself to that list as well a few others.
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Post by Richie on Feb 6, 2010 4:07:27 GMT -5
who said "two years too late"? that's lame! From the picture you'd think it was Mr Gill Ahahh  also, I thought I read Kaddo was living in the states? yes?no? but yes, he's wonderful and deserves credit... |
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Post by jules on Feb 6, 2010 18:21:44 GMT -5
From the picture you'd think it was Mr Gill Ahahh also, I thought I read Kaddo was living in the states? yes?no? but yes, he's wonderful and deserves credit... Last I heard was he was living in the states. |
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Post by Ren on Feb 8, 2010 12:52:55 GMT -5
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Post by valrus on Feb 8, 2010 23:20:47 GMT -5
Sometimes he tells them to thwart him, to push him away, even to stab him in the face. “I drove the iron spike in Owen’s eyes,” the protagonist sings in Lewis Takes Off His Shirt, after musing on the “the odds of an adolescent standing up to Owen’s wrath.” Way to fuck it up, The Globe And Mail. |
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Post by Thomas on Feb 9, 2010 1:34:51 GMT -5
I state again, "If something you love gets press, you become aware of that reporter doesn't know what the fuck they're talking about."
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Post by Thomas on Feb 9, 2010 1:37:22 GMT -5
"he has played since childhood"
Didn't he pick it up in university to impress some boys?
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Post by Ren on Feb 9, 2010 6:06:29 GMT -5
No, he started young.
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Post by yesanastasia on Feb 9, 2010 11:03:01 GMT -5
"he has played since childhood" Didn't he pick it up in university to impress some boys? Thomas, I thought this was the case too (at least that he only started in university) - but I can't remember why. I actually thought that piano was his primary instrument until then, but maybe I have my facts backward. I think maybe I got that impression from this : pitchfork.com/features/articles/5985-final-fantasy/But I also feel like I've heard it elsewhere (as part of one of those bio intros at a show perhaps?) However, most other press suggests that Owen could play the violin pretty much before he could walk. |
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Post by roxannabananaah on Feb 9, 2010 11:12:50 GMT -5
That Globe and Mail article has an awful title.
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Post by jules on Feb 9, 2010 14:36:49 GMT -5
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Post by Ren on Feb 9, 2010 21:46:46 GMT -5
That Globe and Mail article has an awful title. There are lots of awful things about that Globe and Mail article. Like, why would you bring up the poo thing? That was ages and ages ago! It has very little to do with this story! Everyone is over it! What? Thanks for the TinyMixTapes link, Jules. |
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Post by roxannabananaah on Feb 9, 2010 23:15:24 GMT -5
Haha, at least Owen didn't do any press (that I'm aware of...) with the National Post. That has got to be the biggest piece o' shit newspaper in all of Ontario, at the very least. (:
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Post by ben on May 3, 2010 7:33:36 GMT -5
Didn't know where else to put this, but I found a really great interview with Owen here: vimeo.com/11227011It's a whole 12 minutes long and it just seems like Owen at his most forthcoming and interesting. He seems a bit distant at times and it did feel like the interviewer hadn't done too much research, asking questions which he's answered many times before, but really I just fell in love all over again when he said "it came out of a sense of desperate generosity [...] I thought of this album as a gift" You don't sound ridiculous at all, Owen, you just sound deeply sincere and it's pretty special to hear. |
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Post by ionut on May 5, 2010 9:06:07 GMT -5
"it came out of a sense of desperate generosity [...] I thought of this album as a gift" This interview was slow, particularly in the beginning, but I agree, this part was so incredibly sincere and cute on Owen's part. |
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