NIGHTWOOD

Photo by Allison Ess

Hello dear reader! This blog has been happening for about a year and a half and so we thought it would be neat to review some of the entries of yore. Here’s a list to start with…there will be a part two in the near future. Feel free to listen to Cypress Hill while clicking your way through!

• See Monster Nerds (sea monsters, Oscar dresses, sturgeons)
• Knees are sexy; wear shorter shorts (a plea to male-identified peeps to give it up)
• Out of this world (Jordan Belson, Tilda Swinton and the Siberian asteroid crash of 1908)
• Hot Tips! (home manicures & pedal boards) (exactly what it sounds like!)
• How to end songs (ditto)
• In praise of Nicolas Cage (he is so deserving)
• Avast! Scurvy be gone! (how to keep healthy and get wasted at the same time)
• Fish with human teeth (you gotta see this)
• Dancing about architecture, that sort of thing (on cutting songs from the record)
• KNUC KLES (tattoos! Stuff like that)
• Silly, self-indulgent sing-a-longs (road tripppp video!)
• Rock n roll ridiculousness (Erin’s gams all black and blue

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Arcade Choir

• Erin and Amber are singing in the Arcade Choir this Sunday! Here’s what it’s all about:

“It’s kind of like an Arcade Fire cover band. Only it’s a choir.” – Sherwin Tjia

Forty singers stand in the middle of a room. They are not professional singers, though some of them might be. They all have iPods, and on every single one of those iPods is the Arcade Fire album “Funeral”. At a signal, they all press play and, the album loud in their ears, start to sing the opening strains of the first song of the album.

Now this singing won’t be very pretty. They’re singing not only the words, but the instruments as well. People are encouraged to hum, howl, beatbox, make any noise that will translate the songs to the audience better.

Not everyone will know all the words. The people in the choir will have listened to the album plenty of times, but not very carefully. They know how the song goes, but won’t necessarily know the lyrics. Or know them correctly.

Because the music in their ears is so loud, they won’t be able to hear themselves, their neighbours, or the sound of all of them collectively. This might result in some very bad singing, but the choir is encouraged to sing their hearts out, the way one does when you’re in the shower and only singing for the joy of it.

They sing the first five songs, then break for an intermission. (Singing is sweaty, thirsty work.) Then they come back and finish the album off.

It could be beautiful, or it could be a disaster. Or it could be a beautiful disaster.

• Sunday, December 6, 2009
• 9:00pm – 11:00pm
• The Mainline Theatre
• 3997 St-Laurent Blvd. (just south of Duluth, it’s the black door with the flames painted on it)
• $5
  
• Facebook event right here!

PLEASE NOTE: This event is an independent event and is NOT affiliated with, NOR has it been authorized, sponsored, or otherwise approved by the Arcade Fire, nor any of its labels. This event doesn’t want to lead consumers to believe that there is an association with the Arcade Fire nor that this crazy event is approved or endorsed by the Arcade Fire, in any fashion whatsoever. WE ARE NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THE ARCADE FIRE! WE ARE NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THE ARCADE FIRE! WE ARE NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THE ARCADE FIRE! (THOUGH WE FIND THEIR MUSIC CHARMING.)