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As the Halloween costume party invites begin to roll in, you can almost hear revelers everywhere cry out a collective, "But what am I going to wear?!" We say, grab your partner and opt for a costume made for two. Whether you go current pop culture (why, hello there, Christian Grey), classic cartoon (Popeye, what big arms you have!) or retro gamer (who doesn't have Pac-Man fever?), dressing up is always more fun when you have a partner in crime.
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Pac-Man Fever
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Children of the '80s will gobble up the idea of hitting the Halloween party dressed as Pacman and Ms. Pacman. Build your own costumes, DIY style, by taking a hint from the Julie Ann Art blog: Cut circles out of giant pieces of foam board, cutting out triangular shapes for the mouths, and covering in yellow felt topped with black and red felt for the details. Add straps to hang your creations from the shoulders and get ready to chase ghosts.
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If you don't stop for I Love Lucy reruns, we have to wonder about your sense of humor. Recreate one of TV's favorite duos by dressing as Lucy and Ricky Ricardo. For Lucy, grab a curly red wig, '50s-style dress, apron and pearls. For Ricky, you'll need a suit, Cuban-style fedora and a cigar. Oh, and make sure your man says, "Lucy, you've got some 'splainin to do!" Like, a lot.
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You'll sweep up in the best costume category when you enter as Mary Poppins and Bert. And although you won't be able to put these looks together as quickly as our favorite magical nanny, it's pretty easy. Mary needs a white blouse, navy skirt, peacoat, boots, a red bowtie, a hat and, of course, her very important accessories: an umbrella and carpet bag. Chimney sweep Bert needs dark pants and a dark jacket, a red scarf, a newsboy-style hat, and his own very important accessory: a broom. Add black makeup for soot and spit-spot, off you go.
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Looking for a hot costume idea? It doesn't get much hotter than Fifty Shades of Grey. And this one won't hurt a bit: You and your man dress in, you guessed it, shades of gray, and, naturally, your "Christian" will need a gray tie. Any, um, accessories you choose to add are strictly up to you.
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No doubt about it, costumes based on The Hunger Games are trendy. But instead of going as the expected Katniss and Peeta, dress up as the uber-fashion-forward Effie Trinket and the head Gamemaker Seneca Crane. Crane's costume calls for red and black on top and tan pants, along with that crazy facial hair (which can be painted on if your guy isn't into growing -- and trimming -- his own beard). Effie's look is all about a powdered wig with white makeup with bright pink pops of blush, eyeshadow and lipstick and tons of false eyelashes. Throw on a pink puffy dress and you'll fit right in at the Capitol.
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Wanna go classic? It's hard to beat Popeye and Olive Oyl. Go the easy route and buy a Popeye costume., or take the DIY route, using blue pants and a homemade sailor shirt. Add a sailor hat, draw on tattoos and don't forget a pipe (plus laugh like "a-gah-gah-gah-gah-gah-gah!" all night). Olive Oyl is a bit easier: a red sweater with a white collar, long black skirt and that ink black hair will do the trick. Carry a can of spinach and, if you want to include your baby, dress him in a red sleep sack and -- BAM! -- he's Swee Pea. Sweet, right?
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Timeless couples: Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet, Danny and Sandy. Grease fans will be hopelessly devoted to dressing as Rydel High's cutest couple. You can go sweet Sandra Dee-Sandy -- hair in a flip with a wide ribbon, '50s-style dress, bobby socks and saddle shoes -- along with reformed bad boy-Danny -- letterman sweater over black jeans and T-shirt. But we prefer "Tell me about it, stud" Sandy, in skin-tight black pants, off-the-shoulder top and red heels with big, curly hair and T-Bird Danny with black leather jacket. All that's left is to learn the hand jive.
Royal Wedding
If you weren't consumed with Kate and Will's wedding, and, more recently, the birth of their prince, we call liar, liar. For a posh pairing, dress as our favorite royal couple. For Kate, find a thrift store bridal gown or buy one at a costume shop (if you don't have long brown hair already, you'll need a wig). For William, you'll need a red top coat and a blue sash. Get detailed using felt or fabric to create the gold trim and medals. Cheerio!
Keeping Up With Kimye
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Feelin' flashy? Bring on the bling and dress like tabloid cover stars Kim Kadashian and Kanye West. Kim may be blondish now, but she's more known for her long, lush locks, so a dark wig will help. Enhance your figure with butt pads and a stuffed bra, and wear tight pants (leggings are easy) and your highest heels. You'll know he's Kanye when he wears the rapper's slotted glasses, a T-shirt with a blazer and a gold chain or two. Just be prepared for paparazzi.
Meet the Flintstones
Sure, you could go the Fred and Wilma route, but Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm is just cuter. If getting artsy-craftsy seems too stone age for you, you can find the baby girl and boy costumes at shops -- but this blog offers DIY directions, too. Pebbles requires a white-painted dog bone for the top-of-head ponytail, a green T-shirt decorated with black felt triangles and ripped shorts. Bamm-Bamm gets an orange toga and baseball cap, also decorated with black felt, an animal-print sash and a club. We call it a Yabba Dabba Do!
American Gothic
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Does the idea of living art appeal to you? Take on Grant Wood's iconic "American Gothic" painting this Halloween. He'll need overalls, a black jacket, wire-rim glasses and a pitchfork. She'll need a black dress with a white collar and cameo, plus an apron and her hair tied back in a bun. Now, the pièce de résistance? Carry an open frame to pose inside of. Museum-worthy, we think.
Spice World
She's a Spice Girl-turned fashionista. He's a soccer star-turned underwear model. Together, Victoria and David Beckham make a beautiful couple -- and an excellent costume pairing. To emulate Posh, you need a bobbed wig, the biggest sunglasses you can find (like, gigantic), and your most fab LBD and highest heels (oh, and you're not to allowed to smile. Ever). For Becks, a soccer jersey (preferably from the Los Angeles Galaxy), gelled hair, temp tattoos and shades will do the trick. So, so posh.
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Saturday, November 15, 2008
The Sophomore Principle
By John Ramsey Miller
When I speak to book clubs, writing students in high schools and colleges, I often tell them the story of my pre-career and payment of dues, but not my fall from grace and resurrection.
I wrote four books in my low-rent apartment bedroom on a computer set on a door supported by sawhorses. I spent five years writing my fiction full time while my wife worked at a bank. Our family car was a 1981 Camaro with 200,000 miles on it. To accommodate our youngest of three I made a jump seat of foam to go over the center hump in the back and I installed a seat belt for him since the car was designed for four people, not five. Most people who knew us during those years thought I was a parasitic deadbeat until I sold my first novel. My wife believed in me and she insisted that I give writing everything I had for a few years, and that I would know when it was time to move on. She never doubted that I would succeed, and that trust in my ability was my fuel and my inspiration.
After the first attempt at a novel, I acquired an agent who schlepped my first four around to the major and minor houses. I accumulated over 100 rejection slips before I sold The Last Family to Beverly Lewis at Bantam. She had my first three, rejected them all, but she saw something in them she liked, and she called and told me that if I would rewrite the draft taking into consideration her concerns, that she would like to see it again. I did and she made an offer on THE LAST FAMILY.
THE LAST FAMILY was something of a hit. It sold 40,000 copies in Hardcover, did amazingly well in paper back, was a Literary Guild Main Selection, was translated into a dozen languages, was optioned for a film, and gathered a stack of glowing reviews. The publisher offered a money-back-if-not-satisfied guarantee on the HC and they ran full-page ads in USA Today. I went on a 13-city tour at the request of Books A Million. I was wined and dined by the publisher and was offered a three book, seven-figure contract. After years of working hard, I thought I'd been escorted to the front of the line, and I was going to be right up there with my literary heroes.
I was no longer a deadbeat. Our friends said they'd always known I was a talent and that I'd eventually sell a book. I was an honest-to-God-fiction author with a big contract. I bought a four-bedroom house, wrote checks for a minivan and a Honda Accord, and the Millers moved to a wonderful and small southern town with good schools for my sons and nice neighbors. I had a large comfortable office in the new house, but I was so swept up in being a successful author, that I failed to concentrate on my writing. I had a deadline for my second book, and I made the date easily with a nice thick manuscript entitled THE DOWN DOGS. The trouble was, my editor didn't think it was up to snuff (or more likely up to my pay grade), and to be perfectly honest, it wasn't a worthy follow-up. I tried and tried to get it right. It was a book with decent enough characters, but structurally it had weak bones and I couldn't make it work because I couldn't see that I just wasn't thinking hard enough and writing before I had thought things through. It was so frustrating that my editor suggested we scrap it and start from scratch with a new book. The publisher flew me to New York so I could pitch a new book idea, which was not bad at all, and so I went back to work. My contract was in jeopardy and I knew it. Now I was working in panic mode, and fear is a killer of creativity. I sent in a first draft and the publisher decided to pull the plug and I was released from my contract. Luckily I had earned out the advance, so there was no financial ugliness. Nobody was happy about it, and my editor and I kept in touch and she never stopped pulling for me, and I'll never forget her continuing encouragement and the fact that she was always willing to talk to me about what I was working on.
After a few years spent actually writing every day and thinking about my work and being supported emotionally by friends like John Gilstrap, I got a new agent and went back in search of a publisher. As fate would have it, a highly respected editor at my old house read INSIDE OUT and wanted to buy it. Due to the publisher's less-than-positive experience with me, she fought an uphill battle, but after a rewrite and an outline for a follow up novel, I signed another three-book contract. After those books were completed, I signed another. I have just delivered the last book under that last contract and I'm not sure I'll be offered another one. My publisher loves the books, they even like me, but it's the bean count that matters in the end. If I write this next book without a commitment from a publisher, so it goes. I'll survive, and write without knowing if it will sell.
Being under contract actually only means the publisher has first refusal on the books in that contract, so I never know from one book to the next if I'll be able to interest the publisher in the book I've just written. It's been psychologically preferable to selling one book at a time, and usually the publisher does publish the books under the contract. It also allows an author to work with the same people book after book. Some think a publisher's level of interest lags with familiarity––especially if the author doesn't break out as soon as they would like. So I guess the question is whether changing publishers and sales teams a good thing or a bad thing?
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John, I feel like we should have written your blog entry together. Those were some dark days, and whatever support I lent to you was more than paid back when my dark days arrived soon after. They were awful times. Here's to never seeing the likes of them again.ReplyDelete
As for switching publishing teams, it's scary. I think the trigger for my Dark Days was rooted in the way my then-agent traded me among publishing houses like a baseball card, with each experience being worse than the one that preceded it. I remember bending your ear about how I didn't think she liked me or my work, and that she seemed intent on trying to intimidate me. It wasn't until I left that high-profile famous agent, where my career was an afterthought, and hooked up with an agent who genuinely likes me and my work--as opposed to my revenue potential--that I found some level of peace. Now I'm at a smaller publisher for less money that I made at HC and Warner and S&S, but my new team genuinely loves my work and they toil hard to help me succeed. The bigger houses didn't seem to care one way or the other.
I was just talking to my agent (our agent) yesterday about how pleasant and rewarding the process has become. I can say without doubt that for me, change was good.
Quite a revealing backstory, John. If I were you, I won't hesitate to include the "fall and resurrection" portion when you speak to wannabe writers. It may give them a bit more insight as to what they're up against. The ones that keep going despite the threat of dark days are the ones that will still be writing and getting published 10 or 20 years from now.ReplyDelete
BTW, you think you had dark days. Back in the early eighties when I first started writing, I had to use an old hand-me-down, wireless laptop to write while I walked to work in the snow, uphill, both ways. :-)
I think ideally, it's probably better to change up teams, including agents and publishers, once in a while. The scary prospect is that there's so much consolidation in the publishing business today. One might end up endlesslessly pitching to the same mega-publisher's door.ReplyDelete
Great story, John, thanks for sharing. It's a crazy business we're in.ReplyDelete
John (and John G!)ReplyDelete
Your story is inspiring as I face my own God-only-knows what will happen moment. I say you have to go with change if that's what the fates throw at you but your experience has shown that perserverance is key and that you can survive (and thrive) with change. Though your story also shows the need an agent and editor that will champion the cause. I'm on number three editor (four of you count the sub I had while number two was on maternity leave) and never was that more evident.
Wow...great story...but what stress.ReplyDelete
Makes me wonder if I should just consider $300 a year in donations to my podcast as acceptable and stay on the less stress side of life.
John G. We sure should have written this one together. We've been on a teeter-totter, you and me.ReplyDelete


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Now a seasoned member of the Paris Police Judiciaire, the ever fashionable and whip smart Commissaire Capucine Le Tellier is finding murder to be more than just the specialite du jour...
When the senior food critic for Le Figaro is found face-first in a plate of ravioles d'homard, there seem to be as many suspects as there are restaurants in the City of Light. Yet Capucine feels she'll solve the case quicker than it takes to serve up an omelet aux fines herbes. Un problem, murders of food critics have become an epidemic. As the bodies pile up, un, deux, trois, so do the suspects, including a sexy starlet, an award-winning novelist, and a smorgasbord of aggravated chefs.
While Capucine struggles to zero in on the murderer's tastes, she is confronted with a false dilemma: file and forget the case, leaving restaurant critics across France vulnerable to a killer's episodic cravings, or use her husband, Alexandre, himself a famous food journalist, as irresistible bait.
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In Paris, Le Figaro senior food critic Gautier du Fesnay reviews chic Left Bank restaurant Chez Beatrice. He records on a camcorder from the moment he arrives. Gautier takes a piece of ravioles d'homard and dies. Not long after that at Dans le Noir someone jams a basting needle into the ear of food critic Jean Monteil in the darkened dining room.
Paris Police Judiciaire Commissaire Capucine Le Tellier leads the investigation while concerned her husband wine and food expert husband Alexandre de Huguelet could be next. Someone murders other food critics while Capucine finds a horde of suspects, especially raging chefs. With the case going nowhere and the count mounting, Capucine has one way to find the culprit: dangle her beloved spouse as food bait.
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In chapter one of Campion's delectable third culinary mystery set in Paris (after 2011's Crime Fraiche), a camcorder carried by Gautier du Fesnay, "senior food critic for Le Figaro," records his arrival at Chez Beatrice, an elegant Left Bank restaurant he's reviewing, and his subsequent demise after swallowing a bite of poisoned lobster ravioli. Later, someone plunges a basting needle into the ear of Jean Monteil, another restaurant critic, at Dans le Noir, where "a supposedly blind maitre d' leads you into a completely dark room, and you get to spill mediocre food all over your shirtfront." Commissaire Capucine Le Tellier has a personal reason to find the killer fast, since her wine and food expert husband, Alexandre de Huguelet, could become the next victim. The action builds to an unexpected conclusion amid fireworks atop the Eiffel Tower. Campion, himself a food critic who lived for years in Paris, offers descriptions of haute cuisine sure to please the most discriminating palates.
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- Strangerer2 years, 2 months ago #1Show comment tools ReplyIs this just Original or all varieties?
- nolono123452 years, 2 months ago #2Show comment tools Replyjust biscotti
- dbhoy2 years, 2 months ago #3Show comment tools Replynolono12345just biscotti
Change the title to reflect this, as it's not all variants.
- ianshona2 years, 2 months ago #4Show comment tools ReplyDubious, think must be store specific as not on their website, surely this would be headlining at this price? Maybe short coded?
- big8yearold2 years, 2 months ago #5Show comment tools Replyno...........
- Kaz19802 years, 2 months ago #6Show comment tools ReplyCan confirm this, my husband works there and told me about it yesterday. The flavour wasn't as popular as they'd hoped so they are selling them off like this. My local store is OOS. He's meant to be phoning around today to check the other nearby ones for me but bet he forgets!
- fazzy-bhoy2 years, 2 months ago #7Show comment tools Replynote that this won't be in Scotland.
due to Scottish Government's crackdown on cheap booze, you don't get "multisave" offers on alcohol anymore.
- chippytea2 years, 2 months ago1 Like #8Show comment tools ReplyI just bought these in the Pinchbeck (nr Spalding) store, 2 for £15. Have a receipt here if anyone wants a scan! Was just about to post the offer myself - took an almost identical photo the the one the OP attached :D
Only on Biscotti flavour, you must buy 2 x 1l bottles. Goes through the till as **Baileys Offer** -£24.58
Would have bought more for Christmas but there were only 3 bottles on the shelf, not paying £20 for the 3rd bottle :D
Note that there were good prices on other spirits, several were labelled with some kind of 'when they are gone, they are gone!' stickers, looks like they are clearing away lines which aren't selling before filling up on Christmas drinks.
ianshonaDubious, think must be store specific as not on their website, surely this would be headlining at this price? Maybe short coded?
Just checked and actually they are 10/2012 on the label, so only a month left (since best before dates run to the end of the month, not start). Having said that, it'll be drinkable after that. Best Before dates are due to flavours changing e.t.c. rather than food necessarily 'going off'. Use By dates, on the other hand, should be stuck to (unless you are brave like me!).
Edited By: chippytea on Sep 24, 2012 14:23: added info
- mattress2 years, 2 months ago1 Like #9Show comment tools ReplyGreat price, even if it is the goddamn awful biscotti flavour.
- mkja2 years, 2 months ago1 Like #10Show comment tools ReplyGood price.
Rubbish flavour.
Voted hot as someone must like it.
- summerset212 years, 2 months ago #11Show comment tools Replyderby store has them at this price
- seanjames2 years, 2 months ago #12Show comment tools Replyqueensbury none left
- scardwel2 years, 2 months ago #13Show comment tools ReplyAbout a dozen left in York. Grabbed a couple - no more in case it's horrible!
- stovy2 years, 2 months ago #14Show comment tools Replybought 6 in camden, london ! thanks....its the only stuff my gf will drink
- mikerj2 years, 2 months ago #15Show comment tools ReplyA few bottles left in Totnes, if you can brave the crusties and and other followers of an alternative lifestyle...
- emiratesstadium2 years, 2 months ago #16Show comment tools ReplyThere was loads left in Sidcup store. Thanks OP
- willber002 years, 2 months ago #17Show comment tools ReplyThis tastes VILE... gutted as I bought a bottle when it was last on offer, hope the new Orange truffle is nice and will be on offer soon.....roll on the Xmas Baileys price wars!!
- kinstray2 years, 2 months ago #18Show comment tools ReplyI'm guessing we are not getting this in Scotland :(
- Spacehduk2 years, 2 months ago #19Show comment tools ReplyHave you ever drank Baileys from a shoe?
- DaveIB2 years, 2 months ago #20Show comment tools ReplyManaged to get the last 2 bottles on display in Dover store. Will be great for Christmas when relatives too drunk to know what they are drinking.


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With the tape always running in their Cologne studio, Can built up a huge archive of unreleased material. Much of it was brilliant, but all of it was chaotic...
Five years ago, nearly two decades after they vacated the facility, Can's fabled Inner Space Studio in Weilerswist, near Cologne, was finally dismantled and painstakingly rebuilt at the Rock N Pop Museum in Gronau, where it now functions as a working exhibition. The move forced the existing former members of the hugely influential German band to finally empty out the studio's humidity‑ and temperature‑controlled tape store, the contents of which were shifted to keyboard player Irmin Schmidt's home in the south of France.
Faced with nearly 300 reels of quarter‑inch tape, a notion was hatched in the minds of the now 75‑year‑old Schmidt and engineer/producer and long‑term Can reissue overseer Jono Podmore to sift through the band's recorded output and find material that remained unreleased. Both were surprised to discover the sheer volume of unheard material — over 50 hours' worth — which has now been edited down to make up the three‑CD release The Lost Tapes.
"The whole archive was a jungle," says Irmin Schmidt. "So it was impenetrable and frightening to work with. It was in quite a chaotic state, because there were always tapes running during takes. Sometimes when we ran out of tapes, we played over an existing tape for a few minutes. So then, the tapes were full of snippets from different years. Even on one tape you could find some fragments and bits of music from over a period of five years. But we listened to it, and with Jono we chose the final selection."
Liverpudlian Jono Podmore had first met Schmidt in the late '90s, when he was brought in to help program the keyboard player's opera based on Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast. As a result, he ended up getting involved with the production of Mute Records' reissue series of the Can albums in the mid‑'00s.
"The tape store was always there," he says, "and it was always in the back of everyone's minds. But it was such chaos. Because of the nature of the way the band worked, especially in the early period, up until they got a multitrack machine, they'd literally jam onto two‑track, then edit the two‑track to find the nicest bits of the grooves. Then they'd play from one two‑track machine onto another, which gave them a chance to do a few overdubs. It was live bouncing, basically.
"When we started going through the tapes, there were a few cases where there was completely different material on the left channel and the right channel, basically using the stereo as a multitrack. They left the machines running a lot just to record the vibes when they were coming up with ideas. And so there was an enormous pile of disorganised AGFA and BASF tapes, which no‑one had had the time or the inclination to go through."
For his part, Mute Records founder Daniel Miller was astonished to hear the raw material that made up Can's unreleased archive. "If somebody asked me," he says, "'Is there any material that exists that wasn't released?' I probably would've said, 'Of course, there must be loads.' But I certainly didn't have any inkling of the quality of it, or the range."
Inspired by such diverse sources as free jazz, Japanese folk music and the pioneering musical experiments of John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen (with whom both Schmidt and bassist/engineer Holger Czukay had studied), Can first came together in Cologne in 1968. Since then, their repetitive, hypnotic grooves and freewheeling, improvisational musical methods have inspired a huge number of artists, from David Bowie, to Brian Eno, to PiL, to the Fall, to Radiohead, to Portishead.
Before Can began working in Inner Space Studio, their early material was recorded essentially live in a castle, Schloss Norvenich, on the outskirts of the city. "It was a quite extensive mansion and it was not all restored," Irmin Schmidt remembers. "It had a huge entrance hall which actually was our reverb. It had an exceptional, beautiful reverb, so we were always putting loudspeakers into the hallway and using it as a reverb chamber.
"The owner was an art collector friend of mine. When we formed Can, I talked to everybody, trying to find a room for practising and playing and recording. So he said, 'Well in the castle there is a big room still unused, you can have it.' He gave it to us for free, so we could play there, but the problem was that there was somebody living upstairs and since we were playing all night and using the hallway, he couldn't sleep."
The core of the band — Schmidt (keyboards), Czukay (bass, electronics), Jaki Leibezeit (drums) and the late Michael Karoli (guitar) — made one album, 1969's Monster Movie, with original singer, American Malcolm Mooney, before he was forced to return to the US on the advice of his psychiatrist, having suffered mental problems. The group then recruited Japanese busker Damo Suzuki, whose freestyling vocal talents first appeared on 1970's Soundtracks, but were fully spotlit on their landmark double album Tago Mago in 1971. "We weren't sure the record company or the public would accept a double album," Schmidt says. "I think it was the widest and broadest knowledge and experience that had ever been brought to a rock group."
At the end of 1971, Can left Schloss Norvenich and set up Inner Space Studio in a former cinema in Weilerswist. With the seats removed, the facility had very high ceilings, allowing Czukay and later Can engineer Rene Tinner to mic up some of the instruments from two metres above. Providing soundproofing and acoustic treatment were 1500 ex‑Army, seagrass‑stuffed mattresses stuck to the walls, giving the impression of a padded cell.
"Well, we always said it was like living in the stomach of an elephant," Schmidt laughs. "But then after a while, Jaki's girlfriend made these wonderful tapestries, which we hung on the mattresses, so they got very colourful and very beautiful. It became the real Can studio. It was 20 metres long and 10 metres wide and eight metres high, so you could easily record a symphony orchestra in there if you wanted."
As Schmidt points out, the engineering‑inclined Czukay would often leave the tapes running to record between‑song ambiences, adding to the flavour of the Can sound. "We had a totally different concept anyway and we accepted, through ideas that I always had, maybe influenced by Cage, that any environmental sound can enter into the music and be turned into music."
Aside from a very basic sound mixer, four microphones and four cheap pairs of headphones manufactured by the German post office (which Czukay was proud to tell everyone had cost him only one Deutschmark apiece), the centre of Can's recording setup was two quarter‑inch Revox two‑track machines. Schmidt points out: "Now everyone has found out that this technique, playing directly into the machine, makes an absolutely stunning, direct, physical, wonderful sound."
Can's music was created through lengthy jams, but their former keyboard player is keen to stress that this wasn't in the style of many of their hippy‑era contemporaries' endless stoned noodling sessions, being altogether more focused and meditative. "You should not imagine it as jamming aimlessly until somebody finds a good idea," he says. "It was starting with an idea and then playing until it was very concentrated, very disciplined, with us listening very carefully to each other. Trying to find the nucleus of this idea and focus it more and more by playing and listening to what the idea was telling us to become, in a very strict way. It was really a work of spontaneous, concentrated inventing and composing together. Because there was nothing written beforehand. There was never one writer or composer, we all did it together."
As the most technically minded member, Holger Czukay was normally in charge of the complex editing sessions that followed recording. "Holger was the one who had the craft," says Schmidt. "I mean, I had done editing before too, and I had performed pieces of mine in galleries, which were edited from a few hundred little pieces like we had learned under Stockhausen. But Holger was really a master in finding the millisecond where to put the razor blade. The decision of the architecture of that — where to cut, which pieces to cut together to make the montage, that was a common decision, something that Holger, Michael and me always did together. Then Jaki sometimes got bored by this. He didn't like that very much. He wanted to play.
"Jaki's thing with our editing was to make sure that the groove didn't get lost. So whenever we edited and there was the slightest suspicion that it sort of violated or disturbed the groove, then he was there, and said, 'This you can't edit, the groove is lost.' Sometimes editing took quite a while. It was a very 20th Century tool in art anyway. I mean, collage is one of the main features in 20th Century art, in paintings and sculptures and music."
With Future Days in 1973, Can created a more laid‑back, atmospheric, almost symphonic album. Schmidt claims, however, that there was no great plan for them to make an 'ambient' record and that, again, the band simply continued to improvise, using whatever sounds came to hand, particularly in the slow‑burning title track. "It was never an intention to make something before we started playing," he says. "We started playing and an idea grew. So the more laid‑back atmosphere of Future Days came by playing. But I remember when we played 'Future Days', the track, it was a summer day and the doors to the garden of the studio were wide open and Damo sat on this cushion which made this funny sound — a typical '70s cushion filled with these Styrofoam bubbles, and it makes this rustling, strange sound. And the tape was always running and so it was recording that sound and that became part of the track."
Following Future Days, Damo Suzuki left the band to marry his German girlfriend and become a Jehovah's Witness, leaving guitarist Karoli to take over as the band's singer for their last album recorded on two‑track, 1974's Soon Over Babaluma. With its successor, 1975's Landed, Can tentatively stepped into the world of multitrack recording, which, as Schmidt recalls, was not without its difficulties. "It caused a little bit of musical confusion," he admits, "because we had the 16‑track and we didn't dare to mix it ourselves. So we went into a studio with an engineer who made the mix for 'Full Moon On The Highway' so loud that you couldn't distinguish anything. It was just a parody of what we intended, so we continued to mix it down in our studio."
Can finally fizzled out in 1979, their potency diluted by numerous line‑up changes and the sidelining of Holger Czukay. And so it was a pleasure, says Schmidt, for him to revisit their early days when listening back through the material that makes up The Lost Tapes. "I'd forgotten about nearly everything," he says. "The real surprise was that there were these songs with Malcolm [Mooney]. I didn't know they existed. I knew there was all the incidental score music from the films Can had made because we had always only, especially on Soundtracks, released the title music. So I knew there was music from films that should be worth putting together."
The process that resulted in The Lost Tapes began when Jono Podmore first began opening up the tape boxes to assess what state their contents were in. "Some of the tapes had less on than others," he says. "Some had piles and piles of leader tape all over them. Some were just in a really bad state. There were quite a few tapes that were safety copies of things we found in other places, and sometimes there were safety copies of tracks that were released."
Podmore had the tapes sent to Sonopress in Germany for clean‑up and digital transfer to 48kHz, 24‑bit WAV files, though he admits that he's not sure what the tape‑cleaning process involves, since the company retains it as a trade secret. "The guy that we work with, he's restored so much stuff for us and he refuses to tell us," he laughs. "I've been led by the hand gently out of the room while they're doing it, so I don't see it. It's really bonkers."
The next step was that Schmidt and Podmore separately auditioned the digital files, selecting material they thought was usable. "When we compared notes," says Podmore, "there were quite a few things that I was into that I thought sounded quite hip that Irmin didn't, because for him it just sounded like some sort of hippy nonsense. There were a couple of nice acoustic‑guitary things that to me sounded like very obviously forerunners of the Stone Roses or whatever.
"There were also — between you and me and your readership — quite a few bits that he didn't like because the keyboards were a bit crap on them. But there was obviously this humungous groove from the rest of the band and I was like, 'Wow, we're having that!' and Irmin was like, 'No way, have you heard what I was doing?' Irmin's attitude was very unsentimental. If it was bollocks, it just had to go. Even if it was bollocks of great historical value."
Post initial listening, the pair then travelled to London to play the whittled‑down 10 hours' worth of music to Mute's Daniel Miller. "There was some stuff they'd got through to this listening process," says the label boss, "that I thought wasn't as good as some of the other material and I told them. Some pieces went on for a long time and there were good moments in there, but they didn't necessarily sustain a 25‑minute, 30‑minute jam. Inevitably, if you're an experimental band, some experiments succeed and some don't. But I couldn't believe the quality of most of the music that I heard. It spans 1968 to 1975, but any of it could have easily made it onto any of the contemporaneous albums from the time they were recorded. It's one of those things where somebody would make a decision not to use a piece of material for whatever reason. It doesn't actually mean it's not very good, and that's proven here. This material could have been released at the time and would've been thought of as as good as anything they released."
For the editing and production process, Jono Podmore worked within Pro Tools, while trying to maintain a 1970s attitude, even if working in the digital medium. "So I didn't use any crossfades, didn't use any plug‑ins," he says. "If there were any treatments to do, I would do that out of the box using analogue vintage gear of the period and bounce it back in."
Five of the tracks on The Lost Tapes are new collages created by Podmore from Can's many acres of unreleased film music, most notably the propulsive opening track 'Millionenspiel' and the otherworldly, multi‑movement 'Midnight Men'. "There were quite a few instances on 'Midnight Men' where what was on channel one and what was on channel two were different," he says. "Also, there were bits where instruments were isolated for different cues in the film, so I could lift that off and then overdub that over the groove. Often, to get that to work, I would need to use EQ, a little drop of reverb here and there, and I'd have to use a bit of tape delay. I was using Irmin's Focusrite EQ, his old Telefunken quarter‑inch machine as tape delay, and the spring [reverb] in my ARP 2600."
In this sense, Podmore was certainly the man for the task, since the process of remastering Can's album catalogue had already taught him about the band's production techniques and exactly how precise — or imprecise — their recording methods were. "When we were remastering Delay 1968, Holger was there, and at one point we were listening to something with Malcolm singing and he started chuckling to himself. We were getting really into the detail of, like, a tiny little bit of lower-mid here, and he said, 'If only you'd seen the recording process. We recorded the bass and the drums and then we did the guitar, the organ and the vocals as an overdub. We put the guitar cabinet facing the organ cabinet, with a gap in the middle of about a metre. Then we taped together the two microphones and Malcolm sang into the microphones and we just turned up the other two instruments loud enough to get the balance.' That's how basic it was sometimes."
The Lost Tapes also features a smattering of live tracks found in the tape store, which were edited down by Podmore — a less straightforward process than it sounds. "The original of 'Spoon (Live)' was 20 minutes long and I edited it down to 16. But nevertheless, you're working with a band like Can, who were speeding up and slowing down all the time and so making edits that work on material that jumps around in tempo was a nightmare. You have to find some little bit that will get the flow between them, but you find that from somewhere else in the music where the balance is completely different. That was a tough one in that respect. It was a classic editing problem to make it flow."
The mastering of The Lost Tapes was done with veteran engineer Kevin Metcalfe at Soundmasters in London. "He's an absolute genius," Podmore says, "and I was giving him unsullied material that nobody else had tried a bit of dopey EQ on at some point, which meant that we could really polish them and get them to shine. The stuff at Schloss is totally raw — there's no compression, there's no EQ. We didn't have to undo anyone else's work. Y'know, there's no Aural Exciter or third‑rate compression gone onto anything. It's just what the band did themselves to tape."
And so the release of this triple-CD box set begs the question: are the Can archives finally empty? "Who knows?" says Daniel Miller. "I only know what I heard. Now, what they rejected, they might revisit that at some point. I've no idea. That hasn't been discussed."
"Yes, that's it," says Jono Podmore. "I think if we went back in, it would be looking at stuff that had already, for some reason, been rejected. The only other thing that's a possibility is there may be a chance of some more of the live material being released in the future. But Irmin is saying that's definitely it, finito, and I'm totally with him on that."
"All of the rest of the archives we would never release," says Irmin Schmidt. "From those 50 hours, that's what we filtered out and that's it. I'm satisfied with what I found in there." .
Central to Can's sound was Irmin Schmidt's custom‑built, one‑off effects processor, which he named the Alpha 77, using it to treat the outputs of his Farfisa Organ Professional and Farfisa Electric Piano, the constants of his setup with the band throughout the '70s. Jono Podmore remembers digging out the long‑unused Alpha 77 from Schmidt's cellar just over a decade ago. "It was designed for the band when they were touring so much," he says, "so it was sort of part of the PA system, and it weighs an absolute ton. It's a set of modules in a box, basically: ring modulator, tape delay, spring reverb, chorus, pitch‑shifter, high‑ and low‑pass filters, resonant filters and a weird, pitch harmonic shifter thing. There's two inputs and two outputs, all with the wrong sex XLRs, which foxed me for a couple of hours. The whole lot basically goes to a row of two‑pole switches, then there's this bunch of switches in a little mixer where you could effect the individual organ and piano signal paths.
"Irmin really didn't like the first generation of synths that turned up, primarily because he couldn't just immediately get the sound he wanted at any time. So he stuck with the organ and the piano, but messed with those signals in the way that he was used to with his training with Stockhausen, where you'd take a classical instrument and then mash it up with tape delay and filters and ring modulation. So that was his angle: rather than going and buying a Minimoog and having some poor bugger having to tune it all the way through the gig, he stuck with instruments he knew."
"The Alpha 77 was designed to my wishes," says Schmidt. "It was built by this electronic engineer who made extremely complicated stuff for cardiology hospitals. The idea of it was that it was giving me the facility to be spontaneous. In the early '70s, with synthesizers, you had to fiddle around until you found the sound. I wanted something where I could just, with one switch, alter the sound of the organ or the piano. So I could go through one line for the organ, one line for the piano, and then for instance, with one switch I could take the organ and ring modulate it. And that was what made the sound so special."
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hp pavillion dv9500 harddisk, speed + other problems[ Edited ]
10-18-2013 05:24 AM - edited 10-18-2013 05:54 AM
I time ago mine HP had some problems
I restarted with installing windows 7 again.
Then I get a lot of problems, it was the hd's that gives the problem
When I look true the hd, I saw it is not the normal SD connection but SATA 7
I have two vertex 3 60 GB SSD and they go in the hd place perfectly.
The problem is the connection to this SSD
I this the good connector?
Will this SSD work with the HP pavillion DV9500?
This SSD is maybe to fast for the HP? max. transfer for the hp is 1.5Gb/sec, I think
How many MB is this?
When I installing Win7 with the newest drivers,
the laptop processors are working +/-50 - to 70% without any program is started!
I have worked more then a week for finding all new drivers, why is HP not with a program to update this drivers automated? The HP updater is working not at all, he said all is ok. But with a drivers programs it finds more then 40 unupdated drivers!
I see that mine laptop is with 2 GB of ram, by startup their is already +90% used.
Is it not better change the ram to 4 GB? for it's only 28$
is this the correct ram?
When I give mine laptop to HP for problems I get it back with a not working DVD drive.
The DVD drive can read CD roms but not read or write DVD's.
What can I do?
Can I change the DVD drive. Are their sold somewhere?
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10-18-2013 07:11 AM - edited 10-18-2013 07:12 AM
You have a lot of questions here. First, yes the eBay hard drive connector is the right one and it will work on any SATA drive including SSDs. I believe the DV9500 and higher are SATA 2 interface (3 gb/s), but that is really not important. A 60 gb SSD will not be enough space.
HP has not put out driver updates for that machine for quite a while. I would not put too much stock in those driver updater programs you download from the Internet. In fact, they often contain spyware which might explain why you have high CPU usage. If you can give me the exact model number or at least tell me if it is an AMD or Intel version we can look for better drivers. The big two drivers to be aware of are the chipset and video drivers. If you have the AMD processor the nVidia chipset driver must be loaded specifically. Windows will not pick it up. You definitely need at least 4 gigs of RAM And yes you use DDR2-800 SO-DIMM. Also you should install 64 bit Windows 7.
Here is a DVD burner drive. The faceplate may be a different color but you can swap yours over.
Easy to replace. Just flip the laptop over and look for a single screw in the middle of the bottom panel. It will have a disk icon next to it. Remove the screw and slide out the drive.
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Re: hp pavillion dv9500 harddisk, speed + other problems
I use drivermax its free and their are no any malware or other spyware with the drivers. I use two antivirus programs and their is none detected.
The speedproblem, in processor use, I see is the most is used by ms searchindexer. When I switch off the searchindexer the processor use drops down. But after a while it switch back on when I use a program. And this happend when I downloaded MS updates. Not with the new drivers!
I use external HD and through network to place big files. Two times 60 Gb is for me enough. The HD drives become verry hot, this is why they fail soon. I hope with the SSD that the problem with the power consumer program searchindexer is better.
The DVD drive is cheap 14$ but for sending it to belgium 25$, for this price I have a external here. I can search this type who sell it in europe.
Re: hp pavillion dv9500 harddisk, speed + other problems
Yes I did not know you were in Europe. You can likely find the same device on eBay France or Belgium or Netherlands. The price will be higher but cheaper when you figure in shipping. Good luck. By the way, you do not want multiple antivirus. They tend to battle each other and harm performance. But it is OK to have an anti-malware like Malwarebytes and then an Antivirus.
Re: hp pavillion dv9500 harddisk, speed + other problems
I'm installed the malware software and I get more then 70 malware faults
I have deleted the problems
They stand in the ms register
After reboot they where all deleted
The malware programe is not for free that is why I uninstalled it.
But the use of processor power stay the same.
What the anti virus concerns, I have NOD 32 and MS security essentials
you said to uninstall one, wich is better?
Re: hp pavillion dv9500 harddisk, speed + other problems
I have still problems with the hd
I'm waiting for the ssd bracket
for security I want made a backup
but the backup program have problems to made a good backup
I tried to made a recovery disk
but I have the problem that it only make on dvd
and the dvd player is defect and mine external dvd don't want to startup with the HP
but with a USB flash it will work
how do I make a recovery disk on the USB flash
I tried it on different ways but it still not working
with the HP program sp45774
I get the message "de brondrive bevat geen HP Recovery-image"
How do I made this HP recovery-image and where?


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