Quote of the "month"
October 2006
"I still cry everyday," she says softly. "I think about Mary all the time. We've been to all these places with her," she says looking around the venue in which we're sitting. "Now we have to establish new memories without her and it's really hard."
"This album is many things, but it is mainly us turning our backs to the non-life that might be death or to depression turning your back to that. Not blocking it out because sadness is there and there are things that have happened that can take a long time to heal. It's not denial but certainly looking forward."
"Once you're in this process there is no going back. And there is no point anyway." - Laetitia Sadier, on recording the album Margerine Eclipse following the death of fellow Stereolab member Mary Hansen, from Umbrella Music interview, 8 May 2004.
A few things
First off, I would like to say fuck PETA.
Second, there was interesting article in the New Yorker about the effects of technology on live performance. It's a good argument and I think he's got a lot of things right. Live performance certainly isn't dead, yet, though. The rise of jambands stands in stark contrast to popular music's ever more freeze-dried performance style.
Third, can you believe this shit? Wow.
