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The Lexington Art & Craft Show is a juried art and fine craft show being held at the Lexington Center, 430 Vine St., in the heart of downtown, Lexington, Nov. 17 and 18 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Islam urges the quest of knowledge for society to advance, and the Albukhary Foundation heeds this wise counsel.
Initially, it aligned its activities to realise the government's poverty eradication agenda, with education is the key enabler – it enables the poor to become more employable and as a result rise above their station in life. Working in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, the Foundation conducted remedial classes for poor underachievers in rural Malaysia under the Albukhary Tuition Programme.
For high achievers without the means to pursue tertiary education, it launched the Albukhary scholarship in 2005. Today, most Albukhary scholars are students of the custom-built Albukhary International University (AIU).
The Foundation regularly makes substantial contributions to the building funds of several universities. Among the beneficiaries are Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Wawasan Open University and the Asian Institute of Medicine, Science and Technology University. It also makes regular endowments to several institutions of higher learning, both in Malaysia and overseas.
Some of the poorest communities on earth are traumatised by the lack of leadership. This has been a stumbling block to progress especially in some Muslim countries. The Albukhary Scholarship Programme envisages filling this vacuum by grooming a corps of responsible future leaders with the knowledge, confidence and propensity to shape the socio-economic development of their respective countries.
The Albukhary Scholarship Programme is premised on the belief that a good tertiary education is central to leadership development. In 2005, the programme, was launched with full scholarships awarded to top performing high school students.
As at 2011, there were about 800 Albukhary scholars from 50 countries, from as far away as Tanzania to neighbouring ASEAN nations. More than 70 per cent of the scholars are from overseas, with the rest comprising Malaysians. Collectively, they form an international community of undergraduates, 90 per cent of whom are Muslims and the rest non-Muslims.
The scholarship is for practical courses that directly contribute to socio-economic development of poor nations. Scholars are also encouraged to engage in intellectual discourse, socio-cultural exchanges, knowledge-sharing and be active in sports and recreational activities. Voluntary service is stressed as part of leadership development, and is part of the curriculum of the Albukhary International University.
Since it was launched in 2005, the Albukhary Scholarship Programme has sponsored about 800 students from 50 countries. Initially, they attended Malaysian public universities. From November 2010, Albukhary scholars were admitted to Albukhary International University that was custom-built for them.
Md Shahad Ali hails from a large family of eight children, most of them married and with their own children. His mother is a widow, and Shahad's primary influence is his brother Zamat, who encouraged him to study, spending almost his entire monthly income of RM800 on his younger brother's education.
Fortunately, Shahad proved to be a bright and able student from Day 1. From nursery school to university in Bangladesh, he studied on a scholarship and initially was not successful in securing financial assistance to pursue his education. By chance, he applied for the Albukhary scholarship and it saved the day!
This top student wants to nurture his leadership potential through co-curricular activities. Every semester he teaches 180 students for almost 30 hours. He has also published two handbooks that are being used as text books. Another book is on the way. A debater, he has participated in national and international debating championships and attended international conferences on diverse issues.
The final year international economics major believes that the key to the advancement of the ummah lies in mastering resource management of a country's economy and international trade. He has set his sights on doing just that to 'change the world'
Syed Suhaib loves a good argument. Back home in Kashmir, he took part in debates only to discover later on they were more of discussions rather than team-based competitive verbal ripostes, with rules and procedures. At university, this Albukhary scholar proved himself a fast learner and became a top debater.
In 2006, Syed Suhaib led his team to win the regional Australasian Inter-varsity Debating Championship and qualified for the International Inter-varsity Championship in Vancouver, Canada in 2007. His team won the debate and he was voted the best speaker.
Alik Yandiev was the president of the Albukhary Scholars Association. Consistently a top student in school, he also excels in sports. He was school champion arm wrestler and footballer, and state chess champion in Russia. Chess was a family pastime, encouraged by his father as a means to develop the mind. The final year economics student became a chess champion at the International Islamic University Malaysia.
Alik is fired by the zeal to study to shape a better future for himself and his family, refugees from war-torn Ossetia who escaped to Ingushetiya, Russia. More than 44 members of his family are still missing or have been killed in the war. The youngest of a family of nine, he and his elder brother are the only ones fortunate enough to have a college education; the studies of the other children were interrupted by war.
His father is dead, and his widowed mother continues to motivate and inspire him. "I cried with joy when I learnt that my son was awarded the Albukhary scholarship," says Lyuba Yandiev. "I am a housewife, and my husband has passed away. We don't have relatives or friends who can provide the financial assistance for Alik to study at university. The Albukhary scholarship is really a godsend."
Alik holds dear the wisdom of his mother's advice, as he follows his dream of becoming the beacon of hope for his family and community in the not too distant future.
Amir has proven his flair for the martial arts. The former judo champion from Ingushetiya took up silat, the Malay martial art when he came to study in Malaysia. By the end of his first semester, he had bagged five gold medals.
Amir owes his success to his father, Ababukar Khalitovich, a retired policeman who urged his children to "use your mind and your abilities and you can be assured of success."
Amir wished for a good English-based tertiary education, and the Albukhary scholarship made this wish come true.
The young Russian has also demonstrated a flair for languages. Starting from scratch, he picked up the English language, a prerequisite at the university where he is studying Economics. He is now keen to learn Malay, Arabic and Mandarin. For him, the scholarship has opened several doors to learning – academic, social and religious. It is a journey of personal development enriched by the multi-cultural environment of Malaysia
PIX: BOOK – page 32-33
The Albukhary Tuition Programme is a nationwide free tuition programme to help underachieving Malaysian secondary students pass their final year high school examination. Working in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, the programme ran from 2001 to 2009. It resulted in a network of 200 tuition centres that conducted remedial classes more than 80,000 students from 500 schools across the country. They taught English, mathematics and science lessons to poor rural students classified by their teachers as 'borderline' or 'underachievers'. From the start, the programme has been an unparalleled success, achieving examination scores well above the national average. It has given students once considered failures the opportunity to realise their potential. Some scored distinctions while credits have become the norm among tuition students.
The Ministry of Information, Communications and Culture established the National Heritage department in March 2006 under the National Heritage Act 2005 (Act 645). The department undertakes research, conservation and enforcement to ensure compliance with the Heritage Act. Responsible for establishing and maintaining the National Heritage Register, the department's functions include documentation, development and international recognition of Malaysia's national heritage.
To ensure continuous conservation, the department launched a Heritage Fund, and the Albukhary Foundation is one of the key contributors to this fund.
SHAAIRA NASIR, MEDICAL UNDERGRADUATE (PIX BOOK – Page 35)
With just a year and a half to complete her medical studies at the University College Dublin in Ireland, Shaaira Nasir found herself on the verge of aborting her studies because her family ran into financial difficulty. She was left stranded without the means to make ends meet overseas. Desperate, she approached the Malaysian Embassy in Ireland, which alerted the Albukhary Foundation of her plight. The foundation stepped in so she could graduate and return to serve the people of Malaysia.
WAWASAN OPEN UNIVERSITY (PIX – BOOK page 42-43)
Albukhary Foundation contributed RM25 million towards the construction of the tower block of the university's main campus in Penang. Wawasan Open University is Malaysia's first private non-profit distance learning institution for working adults who have not had the opportunity to pursue tertiary education.
The foundation provided financial assistance for the construction of another university: the permanent campus of Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) in Kampar, Perak. UTAR as an international university with a population of local and international students and academic staff. This goal is in tandem with the government's vision to establish Malaysia as a regional hub of educational excellence.


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Thursday, May 3, 2012
This time I've managed to get fashion extraordinaire Masha Orlov to answer my little questions. For those who don't know Masha styles/consults on all sorts of amazing things Purple fashion, Vogue Russia, Dazed and Confused you name it she's done it , she also has the SICKEST collection of glasses i've ever seen.
Name Masha Orlov
Age ? the innocence of a child, the wisdom of a grandma
Location NYC
what do you do? freelance stylist
what's your theme song ? currently Come Back To Me by The Rapture
who was your first crush ? he was born in Russia, his name is Leo but we called him Lova
Earliest memory of Love ? running around in nature
Best year you weren't alive for ? when the natives roamed the lands and lived in matriarchal systems
whens the last time you felt nostalgic ? on a daily basis
Fave possession great, great grandmother's Faberge ring from 1881
smell musk, incense, wood and flowers
guilty pleasure cacao
Cake with no wheat or sugar please, preferably raw with organic cacao
god is with me and everyone
fashion is an expression of the moment
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I like that this interview is short and sweet! What a cool gal!
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The weather took a turn into spring territory Tuesday, but many customers are getting their first glance at how much the subfreezing weather has cost them this winter as they open energy bills.
Caroline Allen, who works for Hospitality Logistics International in Charlotte, said the Piedmont Natural Gas bill to heat her 1,600-square-foot house increased from $160 in January to $267 for her bill due in March.
Event planner Laura Fowlkes said her Duke Energy bill jumped to $327 in February, compared with $74 in November, when winter's worst still lay ahead.
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Higher energy usage spurred by this year's long cold snap is driving the sharp increase.
A measure known as heating days relates the cold weather to demand for energy. Charlotte's heating days in January were 49 percent higher this year than last, and 18 percent above the historical average.
Piedmont Natural Gas spokesman David Trusty said many customers are likely to see a "not insignificant" increase in their bills due to higher consumption. The company set a record for its highest single-day gas delivery in January.
But he said the company cut its rates slightly for bills starting this month. The price of natural gas has been declining for years because of higher production.
A Duke Energy spokeswoman said the company didn't have the latest usage statistics compiled for January, since the department was behind because of the snowstorm's effects. But Duke Energy said "favorable weather" compared with last year helped its revenue and profits jump in the fourth quarter.
PSNC Energy, which supplies natural gas to some areas around Charlotte, sent almost 32 percent more gas to customers in January than during the same month last year.
One fuel that has seen its price spike is propane, which many rural residents use to heat their houses. The average price for a gallon of propane in North Carolina was $4.15 as of Feb. 10, up from $3.18 a month earlier. A shortage of supply and increased demand drove the spike, but John Jessup, executive director of the North Carolina Propane Gas Association, said the spike should soon subside.
"We expect to see prices drop as fast as they went up," he said.
Carol Hardison, CEO of Crisis Assistance Ministry, said the cold has brought in more people seeking help with utility bills. She said the group spent $449,000 in January helping with utility bills, up from $409,000 in December.
She said many businesses that were closed last week, such as restaurants and shops, have employees who don't get paid time off. That compounds their problems paying utility bills.
"While we comfortably made snowmen, people were stuck at home using electricity, losing pay," she said. "Weather emergencies can just really crush a person who's living paycheck to paycheck."
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How Hallmark Uses Social Media to Understand People – Via Tom Brailsford
Hallmark has taken a holistic and innovative approach to exploring how social media can be used to understand people. Tom Brailsford gave a wonderful presentation on Hallmark's approach and learnings at this year's Merlien Market Research in a Mobile World conference in Atlanta.
Hallmark is inherently a "listening company" from the time when J.C Hall used to stand outside his stores in the 50's and elicit feedback from his customers. Though not probably one of the companies that initially comes to mind when discussing innovation, Hallmark has been utilizing the social web and online methods for research before most, and has taken an extremely forward-thinking approach to being innovative and knowledge expansion.
Tom Brailsford presented several frameworks that Hallmark uses when implementing social media for "understanding people," primarily through listening. To start off, he mentioned five key steps in Hallmark's journey:
- 2000 – Hallmark created some of the first, if not the very first, online communities for MR
- 2005 – Hallmark piloted a Social Media listening experiment with Umbria (there were about 17million blogs)
- 2007 – Hallmark undertook a study with Spiral 16 to understand influential bloggers
- 2009 – Hallmark underwent an RFP process, thoroughly examining about 8 social media listening vendors
- 2010 – Hallmark worked with Spych Market Analytics (Social Media Consultation)
and Collective Intellect (Holiday Ornaments study)
The overall efforts have come down to one major objective and three sub-questions:
the major question of "Is there a framework we can use to understand SM data?" was supported by three "simple" questions:
- Can we use social media sources to get new product ideas?
- Can we use social media data to create marketing initiatives?
- Can we use social media to understand people's lives?
Tom then led the audience through a series of findings and understandings that Hallmark learned throughout their collaborative efforts:
- Venders emerge on a daily basis, with most containing relatively the same capabilities;
- SM data is very messy and you need to be careful on how companies (vendors) are cleaning it;
- Text analysis capabilities vary from vender to vendor, and you need to know what questions to ask in order to validate them;
- Sentiment is still marginally accurate;
- It is difficult to classify individual contributors – but not impossible and more costly;
- Need very specific goals and objectives;
- Social media conversations are very rich and can support many different aspects;
- Amazingly deep and rich emotional content is present and able to be uncovered;
- To get meaningful learnings and insights, it is very time and labor intensive,
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One of the other issues we see at GutCheck is that with social listening it is often times hard to separate the signal from the noise. The social listening platforms are great at aggregating and streamlining a lot of data, but one needs to remember that not all of those social conversations are coming from your customer. We've found clients who are using GutCheck's online qualitative platform to quickly suss out whether what they are hearing in the social sphere is really representative of how their specific target market thinks. This makes social listening an even more valuable tool for these organizations.
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Salem Police arrested William Szafran, 26, shortly before noontime on Thursday.
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Free our comrades - Solidarity is not a crime
The UCL wishes to salute the courage of all those people, radical or not, who dared to challenge the climate of terror created by the State and who took part in the protests against the G20 Summit in Toronto. [Français]
Free our comrades - Solidarity is not a crime
The UCL calls for solidarity in the wake of demonstrations against the G20 Summit in Toronto and the intense political repression that accompanied it. About thirty of us went to Toronto to demonstrate with the Anti-Capitalist Convergence (CLAC-2010) and with our comrades in the anarchist organization, Common Cause. What we saw and what we experienced revolted us to the extreme, and that is why we take the streets again on Thursday July 1st to denounce the repression and demand the release of all detainees.
Against the G20It is perhaps useful to recall some basic facts. The G20 is an illegitimate institution that enjoys enormous power of influence in the international sphere. Increasingly, the organization is called upon to intervene in the global economy. This is clearly a body of global governance at the service of capitalist interests. The policies and guidelines discussed at its meetings have a major impact on the lives of the peoples of the Earth. For example, the guidlines on fiscal austerity confirmed late last week, in effect means that after injecting massive public funds to stabilize the capitalist economy in crisis, they are given the bill to the masses. There is no shortage of reasons for the protests against the G20, as it is a concentration of everything that is wrong with the current system.
ResistanceDespite a climate of terror and an unprecedented media campaign to discourage people from demonstrating against the G20, people mobilized. At the culmination of events, Saturday, about 20,000 people took to the streets in a massive united march. One sector of the march was made up of thousands of anti-capitalists and anti-colonialists. Mobilized under the banner of a diversity of tactics, the "Get off the fence" convergence managed to elude the police and allowed for all kinds of direct actions, including actions of the Black Bloc, so widely reported in the media. The message was clear: your billion-dollar security operation will not stop us demonstrating or challenging the symbols of capitalism. Overall, the event was a success. The business center of Toronto was completely blocked and people were able to demonstrate despite the police.
RepressionThe police crackdown began long before the demonstration. On the one hand, the public areas of Toronto were completely militarized and the police presence was stifling. On the other hand, the security services had been harassing activists for months, some groups had been infiltrated and there had been preventive arrests of key people in brutal raids from Friday night to Saturday. The already difficult situation, with identity checks, searches and various sorts of harassment, intensified late afternoon Saturday. Taking as their formal pretext the chaos in the city center and the actions of the black bloc, the police decided to let off steam on anyone at hand. Suddenly, there was no authorized demonstration area. It was enough to be young and have the vague air of a demonstrator to get arrested (as many journalists and passers-by discovered). We were no longer safe anywhere: there were raids on many private apartments and the suburbs were invaded, cars and buses were blocked and their occupants arrested, etc. All were good excuses to arrest people and break up the movement. Over two days and two nights, more than 900 people were arrested, often brutally, making it the largest wave of arrests in the contemporary history of Canada. After being humiliated and detained for hours in what can only be described as cages, often without being able to communicate with the outside world, the vast majority of those arrested (+ 700) were released without charge, which is a testament to the arbitrary police action.
SolidarityIt was an honor to demonstrate with you all. The State has shown its true face this weekend, but the repressive police operations have become a fiasco in terms of public relations for the forces of repression, and rightly so. Whether we were in Toronto or not, thousands were revolted by what was seen. Don't make the mistake of believing that it's over. We must not forget our comrades who are still in prison in Ontario. That's why we call to join the massive demonstration in solidarity with the victims of political repression during the G20 summit called by the CLAC-2010. Meet up the Carré Saint-Louis, Sherbrooke metro, at noon on July 1.
Union Communiste LibertaireJune 30, 2010
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Ed Rosenthal, real estate broker, survives six days in the Mojave, tells his story
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10/5/2010: Ed Rosenthal, a 64-year-old real estate broker, shows his hiking stick as he explains his ordeal during a news conference at Clifton's Cafeteria in Los Angeles. Rosenthal, who helped broker the sale of the eatery two weeks ago, embarked on the hike not long after deal closed and was rescued after spending six days lost in the Joshua Tree National Park.
When the heat wave hit, many of us assumed the worst when we heard Ed Rosenthal, who brokered the transfer of Clifton's Cafeteria just a few days before, was lost in the Mojave after starting out on a hike. He held a news conference Tuesday at Clifton's to tell his story; here's the sound from that conference.
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Dorset has a rich history of producing fine local 'speciality' foods which have developed a universal appeal, helping to swell visitors to the so called "larder of England" in recent years. Certainly in the UK, the continuing popularity of tv cookery shows has resulted in a rise in the numbers of "food tourists" who will take holidays purely to sample local food, visit farmers markets and take part in tours of food / drink producing facilities.
As a county with an extensive agricultural history, Dorset has produced a number of signature products including the famous Dorset Knob biscuits which are hard, savoury biscuits baked three times and traditionally served with another well known staple - Dorset Blue Vinney cheese. Every year, in the village of Cattistock near Dorchester, there is a knob throwing contest which members of the public can enter. The event is part of the popular Frome Valley Food Festival where Dorset food producers get to display their delicious wares to the public. (See below)
If you venture towards West Dorset, then the town of Bridport is fast gaining a reputation for promoting and supporting local food producers. It has gained status as a Beacon Town due to the high quality and variety of local food along with its street markets which are held every wednesday and saturday. The arts centre also holds a farmers market on the second saturday of each month. Bridport has a fine butchers offering high quality meat as well as a bakery which offers artisan breads made from locally milled flour. Bridport is also home to Palmers Brewery which produces award winning ales including the "light, hoppy" Copper Ale and Dorset Gold, a refreshing "golden, premium ale" (4.5% ABV). Palmers also pledges 5p from every pint of Dorset Gold sold in selected regions to The Chesil Trust, a charity to help the young or disabled discover the joys of sailing - www.palmersbrewery.com.
The Rural Farm Shop Company
For guests that might want to indulge in a selection of Dorset delicacies then the rural farm shop company are offering a range of hamper packs to suit; from Welcome packs and Dorset breakfast packs to Barbecues dinners and local fruit and vegetable boxes. Full details can be found on their website at:
The Rural Farm Shop Co. and Dream Cottages, Dorsets leading self-catering cottage company are collectively promoting Dorset as a perfect Valentines destination. This initiative combines luxury coastal and countryside accommodation together with great Dorset local food.
Visitors when booking a self-catering break for two are automatically entered into a free competition to win one of the Rural Farm Shop Co.s special Valentines Day hampers made up of Dorset locally produced food goodies. Worth £75.00 the Valentines Day hamper has been carefully put together with a range of especially themed local food products.
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Our research shows that visitors are looking for special themed holiday breaks and theres a real developing market for food tourism. What better way to enjoy a short romantic break on the Jurassic Coast whilst enjoying the best local food on offer in Dorset.
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The Dorset Catering company are based in Bridport and as well as offering traditional catering services for corporate clients, weddings and funerals they are happy to provide catering for guests who are staying in holiday cottages in dorset and wish to sample fine dining in the comfort of their holiday property or celebrate an anniversary/special occasion. The Dorset Catering Company are also happy to provide catering solutions for any parties involved in the 2012 olympic sailing events in Weymouth and Portland.


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Olympia-The Washington State Redistricting Commission is hosting a series of public forums to gather input they will use in redrawing the boundaries of voting districts across the state. The public's input is vital to the process.
"Washington is one of the few states that has opted for a fair, bi-partisan process in redistricting," said Committee chair, Lura Powell. "Our laws help to ensure that redistricting is just, but the only way for fairness to happen in reality is if people weigh in and give us their thoughts and suggestions for what the districts should look like in the end."
Public input becomes all the more critical this year, as Washington gains another seat in Congress, requiring the formation of a 10th Congressional district. The five-member Redistricting Commission has the rest of 2011 to set the new lines for the 10 congressional and 49 legislative districts.
The state has grown by more than 14 percent in the past decade, and nearly all the districts will likely need to gain or lose population to meet the legal redistricting requirements. Several factors play a part in where the boundaries may be drawn, including:
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There are many words that can describe Priestbird's music. Beautiful, epic, cinematic, dramatic, grandiose, monumental, introspective, sorrowful, and on and on... The songs on their debut, In Your Time, and the fantastic neo-classical art rock album they made as Tarantula AD, Book of Sand, evoke not only myriad descriptors, but also lush visual imagery. Songs like "Prelude to the Fall" and "The Century Trilogy" conjure up images of broad, sweeping landscapes, marching legions, and ancient cities.
Despite their music's solemn undertone (or maybe because of it), the members of Priestbird are surprisingly laid-back, funny dudes. I sat down with them before their gig at Union Pool in Brooklyn on Friday (leap day) for a chat about music, birds, naked sex parties, dancing, and other nonsense. Read the interview after the jump.
(The following, while lengthly, has in fact been edited to ensure your sanity. If you're a Priestbird uber-fan-- or just bored-- you can read the entire, uncut interview right here.)
Crustcake: I appreciate you guys talking to me, really appreciate that. Hope it doesn't bother you that I'm gonna ask you some questions about some of the older stuff too.
Danny Bensi: What older stuff?
Saunder Jurriaans: We don't talk about that.
Crustcake: [laughs] That other band, [Tarantula AD] maybe?
Crustcake: But, I guess we should start off with a little background, how you guys got started personally in music. Any formal training?
Saunder: I started playing the guitar when I was... two.
Saunder: Then I stopped, then I started again. I think that what made me want to play guitar was Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, the Scorpions. Those were all records my brother had and I loved all those bands a lot so I--
Gregory Rogove: He's a hick.
Saunder: [in hillbilly accent] I did, I was, I did-- I's a German hick and I like the Scorpions.
Saunder: My brother had an electric guitar. Never made it as a musician, so I took over. Had some lessons here and there.
Gregory: I had an older brother as well and we were supposed to have a band and I was gonna play guitar and sing-- be the front man. He was gonna play drums. Then he got the guitar first so I was relegated to drums, and never left it.
Danny: I started playing cello when I was like 12 years old. I don't remember what made me start. My mom doesn't remember either. Apparently she asked me, she said 'which instrument do you wanna play' and I said cello and I don't really remember why I made that decision. So I studied in high school and a little bit in college as well. The other instruments I've just picked up here and there.
Crustcake: How'd you guys meet?
Gregory: Friends of friends of friends of friends of friends.
Saunder: Naked sex parties.
Crustcake: Yeah, the usual.
Gregory: Drugs. Saunder was a dealer on McKibben street back in the day. We used to buy weed from him.
Saunder: Special K.
Crustcake: One thing leads to another...
Gregory: Yeah, you know. We started making out and we were like, 'ah, yeah, you're a good kisser, why don't we start a band?'
Saunder: No, it was friends of friends of friends of friends is the real truth. We owe it all to our friends.
Gregory: Yeah, it was this one guy Andrew Hughes and Robert Geller. Those two, they're like the links in our chain. They were like, 'the three of you have to get together, you'll love each other'. [Saunder and Danny] had met before, so they had been playing and then finally all three of us came together and it exploded.
Danny: My friend Andrew Hughes was like 'oh dude I got this sick drummer for you man. I went to school-- I grew up with him, he's the greatest. He's in India studying tabla and shit--
Crustcake: Is that true?
Gregory: It's true. Andrew told me, he's like 'I got this friend Danny who plays the cello and he's got this thing called the cello trick that he plays and all the girls flock towards him so he's got ladies every night...
Crustcake: That's when you loop things?
Danny: Yeah, yeah, I just keep it going.
Gregory: Yeah. Right.
Crustcake: Yeah.
Danny: And then your like, 'let's get into bed baby'.
Gregory: No hands.
Danny: The next phase of the cello trick.
Crustcake: As far as the music is concerned, it's very visually oriented, a lot of visual imagery, and it seems like you guys have maybe a lot of literary influences or film influences...
Gregory: Originally it's more just, that's like the direction of our personal aesthetic for music. It just happened to be kinda visual, but I think that we all, you know... Saunder went to art school, he's a visual artist. I sketch in a sketchbook now but never show anybody. Danny dances.
Gregory: So it's kinda like a whole theatrical circus and then when we come to music that's just what comes through.
Danny: I think what links those things together, what links our music together is some sort of narrative or that epic quality of going somewhere. The tune or melody or whatever. Something we're all very interested in, can't get away from no matter what we do.
Crustcake: It really seems like, some of the stuff more than others, seems like it's almost made to go with a picture, made to go in a film...
Saunder: We never did it, but we get that a lot.
Gregory: We did it once, we scored one indie film.
Saunder: It never came out though.
Gregory: Shown at Sundance, in, uh, the basement.
Crustcake: You did all original music for that?
Gregory: Yeah.
Saunder: Yeah, I have the music. It's all really weird. Actually, there's a version of one of our songs that we actually put on our album Atlantic, on that.
Gregory: Yeah there's like a doo-wop version of "Love Cherries." It's really great.
Saunder: Maybe we'll put out like a secret EP of it sometime. We'll let you know, for sure.
Crustcake: I have some vague memory of reading something when the Book of Sand album came out about how you guys recorded it in the woods, got some nature sounds in there. Some natural ambiance...
Gregory: We were on Orcas Island off the coast of basically Seattle. Washington state. And yeah, we had a little cabin there with the doors and windows open and we let the birds come and take part in the music as well. The seals, the otters. The smoking porpoise.
Danny: There's a lot of noise when you're in a wood cabin, you know? Like [unintelligible] and creaks and... keep them all, man.
Crustcake: It definitely comes through on [Book of Sand].
Danny: Yeah totally.
Gregory: Very airy.
Crustcake: Very airy, yeah. Where'd the idea for the main theme from "The Lost Waltz" come from? It seems like a very traditional waltz to me, I wondered if there was a specific inspiration for that.
Gregory: Yeah, there actually is. Funny you should ask, no one's ever asked us that question. You'll never believe this, but it is inspired by Rufus Wainwright and [Erik] Satie. When those two met they had a huge love affair and sent that melody to us.
Danny: 'Satie', sounds kinda like a rap artist.
Gregory: MC Satie.
Crustcake: What about "The Century Trilogy"? What's that inspired by, what's that about?
Saunder: "The Century Trilogy" was just a name we put to a trilogy of songs that use recurring themes, you know, like a symphony would or something. And the nature of the themes and the moods of the pieces were very much like war and, you know, that marching kind of feel.
Danny: The rise and fall of the Roman Empire, man!
Saunder: And then we started to attribute it to that, half tongue-in-cheek. And that's where the cover of the album comes from. A lot of people took it really seriously.
Gregory: Even "The Century Trilogy" was a joke. We're not that pompous, we're just having a good time man. And the thing is, well half of them-- we were writing those pieces and we'd bring all these things back and stuff like that-- we would tell the story of what was happening, you know, before we were singing we were able to talk and we'd make fun of ourselves while we played these beautiful parts. [in dramatic voice] "And then the sun rose and they marched onwards," you know, and like, do whatever we we could to make each other laugh.
Crustcake: That's cool.
Gregory: Yeah, those were the good old days.
Saunder: Those were the good old days. We don't do that anymore.
Crustcake: It's different now, huh?
Gregory: Now we make fun of each other's lyrics.
Crustcake: "Palo Borracho"? It's a very latin, jazzy feeling song. What's "Palo Borracho"?
Saunder: It means 'drunk stick'.
Gregory: It's a type of tree.
Saunder: It could also mean 'whisky dick'. No, it's a type of tree actually. My girlfriend is from Argentina and I had visited Buenos Aires a few times the Palo Borracho is this amazing tree that's almost pear shaped and it's a really silly looking plant but it's got thorns all over it. Really intense thorns.
Crustcake: Can you talk about the transition from the Tarantula AD days into Priestbird?
Danny: Well, we started working with our voices first of all. Started singing, adding our voices to the texture of the music in harmony. And knew we wanted to do that. And also, our music up until then had been so schizophrenic song-to-song. We were like 'let's try to calm down a bit and focus on a fast four minutes of, you know, regular song texture'. That's sort of the foundation of how we approached [the new] songs and it just grew from there.
Saunder: Well we actually quit. We quit as Tarantula AD. We finished the band.
Gregory: We were done.
Saunder: We came back together at a certain point as kind of a reincarnation of all these new ideas that had been brewing at the end of the Tarantula AD days. Same band, but it's different.
Crustcake: A fresh start.
Saunder: Same people but different.
Crustcake: Where'd you come up with the name Priestbird?
Gregory: It's from the lyric of a song that we were working on and it's the character that looks after the bird spirits in the afterlife. A great inspiration for us. We're always talking about birds and they're always talking about us.
Saunder: Yeah, we do have kind of a bird fetish in the band. It's weird. It could be something spiritual, it could be something sexual.
Gregory: Can't really tell, actually.
Gregory: Yeah, it was like either cloaca or priestbird? Do you know the word cloaca?
Crustcake: No. I do not...
Gregory: It's a bird hole where they shit and they piss and they have sex, all in the same hole. Yeah, they're much more efficient than humans.
Crustcake: Where'd you guys get the idea for the animated statues in the season of the sun video?
Saunder: Oh, that's Ron Winter. That video is actually, I don't know if you know, it's like six different artists.
Crustcake: No, I don't know much about it.
Saunder: [T]he video for "Season of the Sun" was six different artists doing a different clip for each part of the song. And [Ron Winter's] section-- we just let them do whatever they wanted-- so he interpreted that section as that.
Crustcake: It makes sense now, I didn't realize that [there were six artists involved]. There's a lot of different aesthetics there and--
Gregory: It's like an 'exquisite corpse' drawing. Here's a paper and it's folded into four or three sections. Someone draws the head and you don't see it and then you draw the shoulders and you get somebody else and they draw the midsection, somebody draws the legs. Then you open it up, and it's a beautiful monster.
Saunder: That's what we did.
Gregory: We did that with video.
Crustcake: That's very cool. Now you [Greg] were on tour with Devendra [Banhart]. How was that?
Gregory: Good. I mean, they're a bunch of pussies compared to Priestbird--
Crustcake: Of course, of course.
Gregory: I'm just kidding. No, I love those people.
Crustcake: Any good stories from the road or anything interesting to share?
Gregory: Well, Devendra just wanted to cover Priestbird songs the whole time--
Gregory: And I said 'I don't think that's a good idea for your career'.
Crustcake: And you guys have a new project going on?
Gregory: Oh yeah, yeah. He and I, we're writing some songs together, we got a band called Megapuss and we're recording it next month.
Crustcake: What's that like?
Gregory: Well, it started out kind of as a joke band. We were writing songs called, like, "Duck People Duck Man," "Dr. Beaver Mustard," "Rolls Royster," things like that and then we wrote two heartbreakingly beautiful tunes and we we're like 'shit, these are actually some good songs, some good lyrics, so let's keep going'. So we wrote-- we have like 15 songs. So we're gonna record them. So it's like, kinda half ridiculous and half really contemplative and beautiful.
Crustcake: What can you tell me about the new [Priestbird] album? Exclusive details...
Gregory Rogove: We've been up in Woodstock writing [it] the past month, holed up in this little cabin in the woods... snow... got some goats...
Crustcake: You locked yourselves in there?
Gregory: Yeah, we have. We've just been eating Indian food from a bag and rice, all day every day.
Crustcake: It's nice to get away like that sometimes.
Gregory: It is, it's great. I gotta say, the first two weeks were heavenly, now it's getting to the point where I can't be in that house anymore.
Crustcake: The songs seem a little more personal, a little more intimate.
Gregory: Yeah, definitely.
Crustcake: Do you have a name for the album?
Gregory: 'Moon Nuts'.
Crustcake: Really?
Gregory: Thinking about it.
Crustcake: Tossing it around...
Gregory: I dunno, what do you think?
Danny: I kinda like that, 'Moon Nuts', that's good.
Saunder: We don't know, we don't know.
Gregory. 'Underground Road', 'Rocky Road'-- 'Underground Rocky Road'...
Saunder: 'Underworld Road'.
Gregory: 'Underworld... Road Master'.
Saunder: 'Underworld Road Warrior'.
Crustcake: Some variation on that...
Gregory: At this point, it's mostly jokes.
Saunder: The album's kind of a joke at this point--
Crustcake: I gotta be honest, I didn't expect you guys to so jokey.
Gregory: Yeah. Right. The music seems so serious.
Saunder: And we hate that. We're trying to get away from that. Tell everybody that we're funny, please. We're not so serious, please!
Gregory: We're actually much more light-hearted than the music speaks.
Saunder: I think we've all been-- you know, all of our musical pasts have been gravitated towards really heartwrenchingly minor stuff. Sad, sad music. And I don't know why, but for me it's been that way, for Danny it's been that way. Greg, definitely at certain points it's been that way. And it definitely comes out in all of our music. We fight it, I think, with our humor which maybe--
Danny: Creates the Priestbird sound.
Saunder: Creates the Priestbird sound.
Gregory: So yeah, we're recording this record in April. Gonna do this crazy one week recording.
Crustcake: Who are you working with?
Gregory: We're recording in Seattle. The engineer is gonna be Beau Raymond Fletcher. He worked on the last Devendra record, and he just finished a record with Fabrizio Moretti and this guy Rodruigo Amarante, a Brazilian singer. He's gonna engineer our record and Stone Gossard from Pearl Jam is gonna produce it.
Saunder: It's gonna sound like Temple of the Dog, pretty much.
Crustcake: So do you guys have anything lined up label-wise?
Saunder: Well, we're technically on Kemado still. They haven't dropped us yet-- we could do another record with them, it's possible. But, we're gonna record the record and see what happens. You know, we want it to find its own home, kind of. This record has to be us, you know?
Download: Priestbird - "Season of the Sun" [MP3]
Download: Tarantula AD - "The Century Trilogy I: Conquest"
Listen: Priestbird [MySpace]
Buy: Priestbird - In Your Time [Amazon]
Buy: Tarantula AD - Book of Sand [Amazon]
March 4, 2008
Crustcake Interviews Priestbird
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