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WEB EDITOR
DESIGNER! 6 OPINION LINGLEY’S BEST
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FIVE OR 10 YEARS AGO, TATTOO REMOVAL PEOPLE WERE
CONSIDERED THE ENEMY. BUT
(TATTOO ARTISTS); TO HAVE A TATTOO PEOPLE ARE HAPPY WITH.
FEATURE - TATTOO REMOVAL : BY MAURICE TOUGAS | 236w ords
Laser Erases Tattoos — And Bad Memories
This Will Sting Just A Bit |B en Alway uses a laser to remove a lient’s tattoo. PHOTOS BY MERYL SMITH LAWTON/EPIC PHOTOGRAPHY
GROWTH IN POPULAORF ITATTTYOO S about $100,000, and another $15,000 went way of regulation. The procedure falls “You may
CREATES A DEMAND FOR BUSINESS into a machine that blows extremely cold air under esthetics, not unlike hairstyling x not think that
THAT CAN ERASE THE ARTWORK upon the removal site, lessoning the pain and and laser hair removal emite Sam or Daffy
taking some of the heat out of the skin. Alberta's doctors, however, want more rules Duck is so cute anymore.”
It may seem like having a weight loss clinic in- Getting rid of a tattoo takes commitment, in place for the use of lasers. Dr. Bryan Ward, The collapse of a relationships is a common
side a McDonald's, but in one Edmonton tattoo and money. Deputy Registrar, College 6f Physicians & reason for tattoo removal; everything from
parlor you can find a guy who will remove your A laser session is fast — usually about five Surgeons of Alberta, said in statement'to See names of former lovers tattooed “all over the
skin art with a laser. minutes and rarely as high as 15. Costs fall be- The use of lasers on humans for cosmetic or body” to symbolic wedding ring tattoos.
Working independently as Second Skin laser tween $150-$300 per treatment, but it could health services is not a restricted. activity” A lot of his business deals not with entirely
tattoo removal in the Urge II Tattoo downtown, take several visits to fully erase a tattoo. under the Health Professions Act, meaning obliterating tattoos, but in lightening or fading
Ben Alway will slowly laser away unwanted The laser is set to seek out colours (Alway that lasers may be applied to humans by non them so something better can be put over top
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his T-shirt — tells you he’s a man who appre- and flushed out. Healing takes a week or two, not chosen to do so. Younger clients (he's had some under 18 who
iates the artform. He's been into tattoos for and the fading occurs over a six-to-eight-week Still, says Alway, the worst case scenario is had to come in with their parents) typically
about 20 years, long before they emerged from span. scaring, want to get rid of a tattoo to make room for an
being the almost exclusive preserve of sailors How long it takes depends on the tattoo, A “I'm not going to put anyone in the hospital other; older clients have just grown tired of the
and convicts to mainstream acceptance, decades old tattoo may fade almost immediate- with this.” design. Some of the older clients have vintage
“When Ig ot my first tattoo, it was kinda go to ly, while a newer tattoo with strong lines will Alway fecls the mainstream acceptance of tattoos they got decades before that Alway, as a
the wrong side of town, across the train tracks, take a lot longer. tattoos will make removal a growth industry. student of tattoos, hates to remove.
and get tattooed by a biker,” says Alway. “That “Every tattoo has a different personality and He feels because the explosive growth in the “| feel bad lasering them. Tattooing was
was part of the experience.” a different response to the treatment.” business, a lot of unqualified people are tattoo: something different back then. You were really
So if he likes tattoos so much, why has he Alway refutes the urban myths surrounding ing making a statement.”
opened a business erasing them? Doesn't that tattoo removal. For instance, it's not as painful “There is no trade for tattoo artists,” he says. He's had only one client “tap out” because the
make him the mortal enemy of the tattoo in- as you might think, he says. It's not comfort- “You can just hang out your shingle and say pain was too much. The tattoo he was remov:
dustry? able, mind you, but not a lot worse than actu ‘I'm a tattoo artist’.” He feels that there will be ing was in the upper groin region, and removal
“Five or 10 years ago, tattoo removal people ally getting a tattoo. Scarring is minimal, and lots of people with crummy tattoos who will be was just too sensitive for the man.
were considered the enemy,” he admits. “But there is usually none at all, he says. anxious to get rid of them, which will be great In addition to dermatologists, there is at least
my goal is the same as theirs (tattoo artists); to Strangely enough, laser tattoo removal is not for business. one other non-medical place you can have tat-
have a tattoo people are happy with.” particularly well regulated in Alberta Quality of the tattoo aside, "the person you toos removed in Edmonton — Lotus Laser Re
Alway says he has invested about $115,000 What Alway found when he looked into tat- are at 18 or 19 is very different from the person moval, which operates out of the University
on his laser setup. The laser machine cost too removal is that there was very little in the you are at 30 and 40. Hospital,
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| CITY EXPECTS BIG CROWDS AS tators wait for the torch to pass. En
|| VANCOUVER OLYMPIC FLAME tertainment will include stage shows
MAKES CITY APPEARANCE at End of Steel Park, and video pro:
Tom ye by jections of historical sporting events
Dawnweing Queen | As the 2010 Vancouver Winter that will be cast onto Whyte Avenue
Bug BOLLING Olympics approach, Edmontonians storefronts between 109th Street and
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Ellen Finn, Director of Civic Events ton’s official ukulele cover band the
Office. “And we encourage everyone Be Arthurs to get the party started at
to come out and support the torch 5:45 pm
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Alberta Legislature, and eventually than 15 minutes as the torchbearers
down Jasper Avenue to Churchill make their way through town. The
Square only exception being streets near the
Once there, former speedskater and Butterdome, Victoria Promenade,
Olympian Doreen Ryan will light the and Churchill Square which will: be
community cauldron around 7 p.m closed for the duration of the festivi-
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crowds, the city has created six spe- congregating crowds. More informa-
cial event sites along the route that tion can be found on the city website
| will offer entertainment while spec- www.edmonton.ca
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
64 IT JUST SHOWS YOU THAT WAR
DOESN’T HAVE ANY FAVOURITES.
IT’LL TAKE ANYONE — GOOD MEN, BAD MEN.
ANOTHER BLOW TO TORY DYNASTY |
Hear that cracking noise? elected, by wide margins, as Conservatives WHAT DOES SHE GOT
It's the sound of fissures appearing in the (see the By The Numbers chart below). His- THAT I DON'T GOTP
monolith that is the Progressive Conserva- tory gives little indication of whether they
tive Party of Alberta. will be rewarded, or punished, for crossing
Two Calgary-area MLAs, career politician the aisle. Obscure MLA Gary Masyk jumped
Heather Forsyth and first-termer Rob An- from the Tories to the Alberta Alliance in
derson, left the governing party on Monday 2004, and was promptly turfed in the next
{o jain Danielle Smith's Wildrose Alliance. election. Jumping in the other direction ts
While the Tories have circled the wagons, safer. Gene Zwozdesky was elected asa
proclaiming their ever lasting devotion the Liberal, left the party to join the Tories, and
their dear leader Ed Stelmach, the defec- has had no trouble retaining his seat. Stan
tions — coupled with last year's byelection Woloshyn made the improbable jump from
loss in Calgary and the party's plummeting New Democrat to Tory in 1983, and won
polling numbers — indicate serious rot has repeated re-election after that
set in. What the future holds for Anderson and
Of the two, Anderson is the bigger loss to Forsyth remains to be seen. But in the pres-
the Tories. An arthritic party cannot afford to ent, their arrival gives the Wildrose a huge
lose anyone born post 1950. Anderson is just boost in the legislature. They can legit!-
32, and although he can hardly be described mately claim official party status (they have
asa bright light in the party, losing a young ‘one more seat than the New Democrats),
MLA hurts the Tory image. Losing Forsyth is which means guaranteed time and the third
not that big a deal. It’s easy to see Forsyth question every day in Question Period, along
asa sour old crank who couldn't get over with funding for research and staff.
losing the perks of being a cabinet minister. These defections are only thel atest sign
Depending on your point of view, the defec- that the Tory dynasty isin an advanced
tors either acted on political conviction, state of decay. Only time — and an election
or political expediency. They were both —will tell if the rot can be reversed.
DEMOCRACY PROROGUED BY HARPER -
On Dec. 30, while Canadians were snooz- The bottom line ist hat Harper just didn't
ing during the traditional Christmas-New want to have the albatross of Parliament COMMETARY ‘TRANSIT |L arsw oros
Year's too-much-turkey induced lull, Harper hanging around his neck while the world At The Mercy of Public Transit
arbitrarily prorogued the current session visits Canada during the Olympic Winter
of Parliament, pulling the plug on the demo- Games,
cratic process. Harper's decision is the most high-
Why did he take this action? The reason- handed, arbitrary and dictatorial in his three ably longer the day with a vigorous nap.
ing — that it gives the government a chance years as PM. The fact he can pull offsuch I've done plenty of commuting in Overall, | haven't found too much
to retool its legislative agenda, or some such a brazen manoeuvre, and Canadians only my’previous jobs, but this is the first to complain about when it comes to
rubbish —is lamea t best, insulting at worst. yawn in response, is a disgrace. time that | have relied on the Edmon- Edmonton Transit. In my admittedly
ton Transit System to get me to and limited experience with ETS, Lhave
BY THE NUMBERS « CROSSING THE FLOOR from work found the buses run pretty close to
And... [hate it. It's not you, ETS, their stated time, give or take a few
NUMBER OF VOTES TURNCOAT PC MLAS RECEIVED IN 2008 ELECTION AS TORIES it's me. I just hate the whole idea of minutes. The fact that ETS runs as
COMPARED TO VOTES RECEIVED BY WILDROSE CANDIDATES OUTSIDE POUTICSMAURTIOUCGEAS . depending on somebody else's time- efficiently as it does is a bit of a mar-
SOURCE: ELECTIONS ALBERTA EDMONTON TRANSIT IS DOING table to get me where | want to go vel. According to €TS, their fleet en
AIRDRIE-CHESTERMERE THE JOB FOR THIS COMMUTER Taking public transit is the “right compasses more than 1,000 buses,
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sod who has to go from his home to warming aiding, polar bear killing Like anything else, when it works
work every day. motor vehicles disappeared the first well, you don't even think about it
Well, it’s a big deal to me. After a day | waited 10 minutes for a bus in It's when something goes wrong
couple of years as a freelance writer -25C temperatures. That was on the that ETS mutates from reliable pub-
(a euphemism for being unemployed second day. lic transit system to a system direct
with occasional spurts of poorly paid There are plenty of pluses to bus- from Hades and scheduled by Luci-
work), I am now in the employ of ing fer himself
SEE Magazine. So, the answer to the On a good day, once you've settled Take one day last week. | usually
question I often hear is, yes, 1 do get into your seat, it all seems perfectly take the LRT — again, love the LRT
paid to write this crap. sensible, even noble. I read a book or — to the South Campus station and
When I was self-employed, my a newspaper, listen to my iPod, and transfer to the no. 104 bus which
daily commute consisted of a walk relax. If we get caught in traffic, it's takes me almost to my home. There's
upstairs to my office, which took, not my problem. If it's snowing heav- about a 10 minute gap between LRT
even on a day with heavy traffic, 10 ily, it's not my problem. On a good and bus, during which time I spend
seconds. Now |g o from my home to day, | arrive at work in a reasonably huddled in the station, which is
the SEE office, and it takes consider- calm state of mind, ready to begin TOUGAS cont'd on pg. 7
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COLUMN - YEAR INR EVIEW |1 020w ots
Lingley’s Best Of The Edmonton Scene In 2009
in 2009 was Meanderthal by Torche all weekend, I happened upon loads music-making and the attention to jazz in Alberta and the first thing I
AND | don't give a shit what any of of great music ~ from Sharon Jones entertaining detail in putting on a thought to do was start going to the
you say, I’m not going to waste three to Iron and Wine, from Mongolian show — was what a large and varied Yardbird Suite on Tuesday nights to
hours of my life on another Quentin honky tonkers Honggai to the Nor contingent of admirers these local hang out and “gather background"
Tarantino movie.) dic elf-metal of Eiver — without artists drew drew. The Secretar- (ie: drink beer). It gave me a chance
Chronologically, here are some of even trying, and a very nice young ies might have had the edge spec to remember dozens of great nights
the high points that made me glad to fella from a local death metal band tacle-wise in terms of glamour and I've spent there, to reconnect with
call Edmonton “My Town”: returned the cell phone I lost on the shameless brass section, but bot! artists whose lack of well-deserved
MY TOWN SCOTT LINGLEY That's Edmonton for You! (June hill. I'll tell you something else: next performances blew me away with wider recognition has not bedimmed
OUR MAN LINGLEY LOOKS 14): Hard to forgewhta t a roastinhgo t year at Folk Fest I'm seeing Levon their musical depth and the commu their passion for the music, and to
BACK ON HIS EDMONTON day this was to go out on the banks of Helm and Calexico nal sense of local pride that overtook gently mock and s retly admire the
ENTERTAINMENT HIGHLIGHTS the North Saskatchewan, but Trevor Corb Lund at the Empress Ale the room when the headliners hit the jazz-geek devotiono f jam night regu
OF THE YEAR JUST PAST Anderson's local. star-powered mu House (Sept. 21): This year Corb stage lars, It's the best entertainment value
sical Edmon-stravaganza made it Lund played his own show the “Ed Bands as bands and DJs as DJs Hal for $5 you will find anywhere in Ed
As the 20( Js opened, | worked as wotrhe tsunshtrok e. Throngs turned monton Coliseum” and sang the na: loween extravaganza, Brixx Gnill monton, on any night of the year.
one of two editors at SEE Maga- out to bake on the barren plain of tional anthem at an Oilers game, so Starlite: it seems like a logistical Vic Chesnutt (Nov. 22) at the Star-
zine, Though I did lots of kinds of Louise McKinney Riverfront Park the chances of seeing him on a floor nightmare to put 10 local bands (dis lite Room: the one and only Edmon.
stuff my job title was Arts Editor to and take in a free song cycle level stage in ac owded pub in 2009 guised as famous rock acts) and 10 ton appearance by the late American
and one of my favourite parts of and recitative about their very own seemed remote. And yet there a DJs (as well-known DJs) in the same folksinger — backed by an all-star
the year was compiling best-of lists hometown with something to say bunch of us were watching Corb and venue on one night, but I had a great mostly-Canadian post-rock orches
around Christmas time. To this day about community and sustainabil- his Hurtin’ Albertans trot out tunes time running the stairs between the tra — reverberates now like a sucker
I'm compulsive about reading other ity, plus there were not one but two from a new album from a dimly lit Starlite and Brixx as one combo after punch with the sudden, tragic pass
people's top anythings of the year ev drummers on stage WITH GON’ corner of the Empress, with barely another interpreted the oeuvre of a ings in and around Edmonton's cre
ery winter so I can find out about all Anderson couldn't have scripted a enough room for two-stepping. It notable artist. The White Stripes up- ative communities that mar 2009 in
the things I miss out on by not being better finale than when all the per was like a cool people reunion from stairs, the B-52s downstairs, a bang the heart and memory. Prolific arts
young anymore. formers joined in on Ted Wright's We the early 2000s, except that I was on REM on the big stage followed commentator Gilbert Bouchard, a
I wanted to use this space to trot are Mountains, the might of which invited! by a pretty fucking awesome SNFU good friend to a long procession of
out my own top thingies list of 2009. knocked out the sound system mo The Secretaries self-titled CD re- downstairs. And inventiveness with See editors, was among those we
but when I started thinking about it mentarily. The album with the music lease (Oct. 10) and Jeff Stuart and which Edmontonians play dress-up lost.
I realized that a lot of the snapshot is still available for free download at the Hearts “Black Dogs Blue Giants’ to usher in Samhain never fails to Swaddled against a wintery Sun
moments of the past year took place thatsedmontonforyou.com CD release (Nov. 11) at the Pawn impress (and, often, arouse) day night, Chesnutt lool like a
at li music venues. So let's go with Best folk fest ever (Aug. 6-9): Was Shop: What was remarkable about Tuesday night jam sessions (every pile of laundry in a wheelchair with
that as a theme, shall we’ (Oh and by it? Who can tell after 30 of them? these two CD rel se shows — aside Tuesday) at the Yardbird Suite: I got a guitar slung over it, but his keen-
the way: the best new album I heard All I know is that it didn’t rain once from the astonishing calibre of the a freelance assignment to write about ing voice filled the room with beauty
and pain and peculiar wonder, rising
easily above the battery of distorted
guitars that surrounded him. Not a
neck-hair in the room was left un
raised. Chesnutt left us with a chill
ing a capella encore and went away
to die by his own hand on Christmas
Day, stirring up all those other cruel
absences that accrued to us over the
course of 2009. Here's ho) 2 we're
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TOUGAS (cont’d from p. 5) 104. Eventually, the 104 shows up, a crowded bus. (By the way, why are
heated by what appear to be about and a busload dissatisfied passengers bus seats less comfortable than one
a dozen ceiling heaters that give out shoehorns on board. My 40-minute of those metal chairs at McDonald's?
about as much heat as the candles trip home became a 90-minute ur- Nobody's ass is as small as they make
on grandpa’s birthday cake The ban ordeal. those form fitting seats.) They play
huddled masses stand quietly, wait- There is another thing that can, their iPod so loud you can hear it
ing for their bus to arrive to deliver and does, go wrong on the buses, but from several rows away.
them home. there's nothing ETS can do about it, A lot of shady characters take the
My bus was supposed to arrive at They're called passengers, bus, and on one occasion recently,
25 minutes past hour. At the ap- Most of the time, people on a bus a fetid one, too, | was on the LRT a
pointed time, nothing. Five minutes all want the same thing — to get to while back with a hobo who looked
later, nothing. Another five minutes work or home on time, with minimal like Rasputin and smelled like a buck-
later, nothing. The crowd grew, and effort and no personal interactions. et of urine. Honest, he stunk so bad
you could feel the distress level ris- There seems to be a tacit understand- 1 was trying to subtly cover my nose
ing, You can't hear it, because bus us- ing between 99 per cent otfh e riding Thank God he got off at university
ers rarely speak to each other. population: don’t bother me, I won't station, leading me to postulate that
‘Twenty minutes after its scheduled bother you, and we'll all get through he might have been a professor. SHANTI
time, still no bus. But into view comes this together. But there's always the Still, passengers and route screw
the 105, which runs almost the same one per cent who break the covenant- ups aside, ETS is working pretty well
route. And then, directly behind the They talk like they're on stage and for me. The cost is discouraging (go- E PEACE |B E LOVE IVE JOY
105 ... another 105. This results in emoting so the people in the top bal- ingup to $2.75 a trip next month, an
a fairly hilarious routine between a cony can hear (1 heard a guy giving unconscionable 10 per cent increase)
would-be 104 passenger, who has a detailed description of his former but overall it seems to be working.
been waiting for an hour for his bus drug problem. It was actually kind of Now if I could just get md of all’t he
trying to convince the driver of the interesting.) They put their bag or other passengers, things would be
second 105 to change his number to backpack on the seat next to them on perfect.
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IT 4W E'VE BEEN DOING MUSIC TOGETHER
FOR THE LAST 15 YEARS, SO DOING SOMETHING
THAT KEEPS US INTERESTED...IS AT THE FOREFRONT
OF OUR MINDS RIGHT NOW.
MUSIC: TWIN SINGERS « BYT RENT WILKIE (57w ords
Of Oil Cities And Unicorns Named Tegan
CALGARY ROCKER-CHICK PHENOM
TEGAN QUIN WEIGHS IN ON EDMONTON,
SAINATND HA FOEWO MODRE OF
HER FAVOURITE THINGS
TEGAANDNS AR A
Norther Alberta JubileeA uditorium (TI4S5-87 Ave)
‘Mon,J an.1 1,730 p.m,a ndT ues, Jan.1 2,730 pum.
Tickets: $36.63-44 15,av ailable through Ticketmaster
(45)-8000/ticketmaster.ca)
Sainthood is the sixth album for the rocking
twin Quin sisters from Calgary. Slowly but
surely, they are surpassing the likes of George
Fox and Paul Brandt as Cow Town's most popu
Jar musicians, So what, so they openedfo rN eil
Young and the Pretenders, it isn’t country (bull
whip sound, horse whinny)! In reality, Tegan
and Sara are becoming an international draw.
But even though they've been all over the
world playing to a plethora of peaple; accord
ing to Tegan, their roots are still clear.
The way I usually describe the difference be
tween Calgary and Edmonton is that Calgary is
much more of an oil city,” Tegan says. “There
is more money and people are bit fancier and
it's gotten more of a gimmick. Edmonton is
more of a blue collar city. It kindo f reminds me
of Austin, Texas in a way becausei th aar seal ly
ool art scene right now, | think the rivalry be
tween the two cities comes from being the only
western province with two very big cities close
by. Also Edmonton used to be good at hockey
and now they are not, so
After laughing for two solid minutes, | asked if
there were any surprises with their new album.
Do they have to recreate themsélves with each Seeing Double | Tegan and Sara bring it to Edmonton next week. PHOTO SUPPLIED
release? Does it get easier? think this record fits in with So Jealous or The acters propriate. Skiing is much too obvious. Snow.
“It's nice to still be relevant,” says Tegan. “Our Con just nicely.” SEE: Who would play you in the movie of your boarding, I do a lot of Wii snowboarding here
objective over the past while is to create good Now for something the super fans might not life if you were a man? in my house ...| loved figure skating growing
records and to grow. We've been doing music know and the new ones might want to: Tegan: | love that question. I love it because up though ... I think I'll pick being a hockey
together for about 15 years so doing something SEE Magazine: What book do you wish you I want to be a boy. | would say James Franco. player on Team Canada.
that keeps us interested for the next year and wrote? Not that we look anything alike ... although we SEE: Would you rather own a unicorn, pegasus
a half is what is at the forefront of our minds Tegan: Anything by John Irving. He is my kinda do. Or the drummer from the Kooks or a dragon?
right now. People are saying some interesting favorite writer. Until I Find You is my favou he would be James's understudy. Tegan: Unicorn of course.
things about Sainthood though, | mean, it is a rite ... or A Widow For One Year. | have this SEE: If you were forced to compete in the win- SEE: And what would you name it?
Tegan and Sara record but people are saying fascination with male writers in their forties, ter Olympics what would be your sport? Tegan: | would name it Tegan. It would be cool
it's too poppy or it's more of a live album but, I especially those who write intense female char- Tegan: I will just say drinking but it's inap- if we had the same name.
HOT TICKETS - THIS WEEK’S MUST-SEE SHOWS
Mudhoney Blue Rodeo Sugar Sammy
StarRlooim |tJ ean .8 Jubilee Audito|rJ ianu.7 m& 8 Winspear Centre |J an. 12
Anticipation for one of the few remaining Passing through town early in the year has Any show witha disclaimer advising only ma-
grunge forces has stopped short in a strange, become something of a tradition for Canadi- ture audiences should attend usually puts it
and puzzling way. Fans of Seattle's Mudhon- | an country troubadours Blue Rodeo. Playing notch or two up on my list. Comedian Sugar
ey should beo ver the top knowing the band | theirown brand of bluesy folk-rock anywhere Sammy's reputation is expanding rapidly
will be making its first-ever appearance in | and everywhere from coast-to-coast has and for more than his bracing jokes. Known
Edmonton this week. The band, along with earned the band much love and accomplish- for a fresh perspective on almost every cor-
its longtime label Sub Pop, both celebrated ment, enough that they can routinely pull- ner of our global community, Sugar Sammy
their 20th anniversaries in 2008. But it leaves | off two-nighters as they are here this week is winning over hearts and minds around the
‘One to wonder, just how hard does one have | With tons of side projects and collaborations, world, He's taken his own brand of comedy
to try to avoid a full-size city for more than Blue Rodeo is supporting its 12th full-length | from the stage, recently hosting the national
two decades? Well. even if it has taken 22 studio release The Things We Left Behind Just For Laughs tour, to television with his
years to find Edmonton, Mudhoney will make as well as Raise-A-Reader, a family literacy | own HBO special, he'll be sharing his insights
Distorted Maps |A fter releasing a whack of material since 2008, Mudhoney’s on the road again and even it out. Joining them is Slates, Michael Rault | program where proceeds from the band’s with Edmonton fans this week. Andrew Grose
though it’s taken more than 20 years, this time thelr map includes Edmonton, PHOTO SUPPLIED and Ex-Boyfriends. current tour will bed onated. and Bill Cowen will open the show.
‘8+ January 7, ~ January B,2 010 - seem agazine « edmonton agenda |t hef ront |m usic| ons creen |a rts| s ex| c lassifieds |t heb ack
MUSIC
MUSIC AN HORSE - BYK ATHLEEN BELL (6sw ants
Horse Sense: On Confidence and Criticism
SELF-DEPRECATTION TGH E ings: hope, fear and love on both American and Canadian
MAX, AN HORSE SINGER TALKS If you believe Cooper, considering tours
LYRICS, E-MAILS AND HER her tendency to give herstehel brfus h 1 feel nervous and | feel some
LOVE FOR TEGAN AND SARA off, their debut LP, Rearrange Beds. times that I let them down. Cooper
came together rather haphazardly. says of their close relationship with
ANHORSE “Really, it started after we signed a the sisters. “They're so amazing. Yes,
With TegaandnS a ra record contract and they were like, they've been supportive, but I don’t
Jan.1 1 8 12,2 010, Att heJ ubilee Auditorium. 730 p.m. ‘you should really put out a record,’ feel nearly as good as I should be for
Tickets: $25t o3 2.50p luss ervice fees.Ti cketmaster ” she says dryly. “We'd written an EP all the support they've given us.”
and it was just me and Damon muck Okay, that's enough. If I let her
“We're really appreciative that people ing around. We had no intentions do all the talking you might get the
would want to listen,” says Kate Coo- to really do much more than that wrong impression. An Horse aren't
per, lead singer and guitarist for two: — have some fun. And then we got shit and they are worthy of touring
man group An Horse. “Sometimes it signed. Half the songs were kicking with Canada's favourite twins. Like
blows my mind. I'm like, really? You around before An Horse even began their benefactors, they make catchy
care about this? ‘Cause this is kinda and then half of them were kind of rock tunes that bleed emotion, but
shit." Okay, if Canadian musicians finished after stuff started happen- sparkle with strength. Their single
are known for being modest and ing, so I don't know. Everyone says “Camp Out” is immediately endear
self-deprecating, this Australian has there's a theme and blah, blah, blah ing, with its sympathetic chorus of
just out-humbled us. What's beyond I'm like, ‘yeah, there's an obvious “it's okay to fall down, it's okay to
unpretentious? Because that’s where theme’ but it wasn’t anything inten crumble.”
An Horse lives. tional.” “Sometimes | cringe at those lyr
Cooper is so self-effacing, in fact, Blame it on good luck or solid tal ics," she sighs. “Sometimes I cringe Horsing Around [Aussie band An Horse comes to town with Tegan & Sara. PHOTO SUPPLIED
that most of her answers start with ent, but that mucking around caught at all the lyrics on the record. But | it's not okay to fall down,” she con represent that churning mix of self-
an ‘I don't know’ and end in an ‘I the attention of indie-rock super feel like it was in an e-mail back and tinues. “I think it was me trying to doubt and self-reliance that runs
guess.’ But somewhere in the middle sisters Tegan and Sara Quin. Since forth — I think I rip off a lot of my tell myself it's okay but every time I through every one of us whenever
there's confidence — the confidence they met at a Brisbane record store friends when they write to me — and feel like I'm becoming a bit of a mess we take on a challenge, or risk our
1 imagine she'd need to stand up in — where Cox and Cooper worked and my friend was discussing something I still feel like it's not okay, but you selves for art or work or sport or
front of an audience, with only her where Tegan and Sara happened to in particular and was like, ‘it's okay know, who knows?” love. That doubt can be paralysing,
bandmate Damon Cox at her side, to play one of those in-store dealios — to fall down and fall apart. It’s all So I can't keep her away from self- but if you can keep moving, you may
produce a thousand pounds of sound the Quin twins have been very sup- right."* criticism for long. But perhaps that's end up on tour with Tegan and Sara
about the most vulnerable of feel- portive of An Horse, bringing them “I actually, probably believe that what makes them so charming: they And that's not shitty at all
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Great Art, And The Art Of Acting Like Dickwads
versions to choose from more than a little bit ing less than total, entitled-class allel to the arena debate is obvious, as
“It was an exercise in a new way of And speaking of “speaking of Cal chauvinism we're talking about, guys the organization is doing everything
thinking and a good lesson for me gary,” how about our awesome NHL and their corporate babysitters who it can to bully us into paying for their
as | try to streamline my illustra hockey team, who with no prior make at the very least upper-end hun- for-profit sports facility.
tion work. I have discovered through agreement refused to pay the to- dreds of thousands of dollars a year When you twats do inevitably threat-
teaching that the most important tal of their restaurant bill on New (sometimes ridiculously more), do- en to leave Edmonton if we won't
thing you develop in school is not Year's Eve in Kensington’s Osteria ing nothing less than stealing directly foot the bill for the D. Staples Centre,
technique but process: a way of de Medici? What a bunch of fuck: from waiters, cooks and dishwashers please let the door hit your thieving
WILFDISHL GRIIWFKOEWSK Y working that allows you to operate ing bitch shitheads, quibbling over Fuck, fuck, fuck this team. The par- asses on the way out
AFORMER EDMONTONIAN IS within the confines of art direction a couple thousand bucks which
IN NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, but still leaves you psychologically any of them make in a matter of
AND THE OILEACRT SLI KE free to create work that is fresh and minutes, even seconds, on the ice.
ABUOF NSPOICLED HBAB IES stimulating.” Divided up between everyone there,
Tamaki also did some breathtaking the bill came to less than $400
A pleasant surprise jumped out the sea turtle illustrations for a David Se- each, but the Oilers decided they
other day, opening the new National daris story in The New Yorker lately, would make up completely “magic”
Geographic to discover a series of check out her site. rules about how restaurants and
illustrations by one-time Edmonto- Speaking of Calgary (were we speak- bars work, and only be charged
nian Jillian Tamaki, who studied at ing of Calgary?) Dojo Workhorse by the bottle for their shooters.
ACAD down in Calgary. The disturb- was up Monday, bringing a pillowy- I mean, if they sat there and mixed
ing article, about a ruthless anirnal soft indie band to the Black Dog their own gaytard drinks at the
trafficker who's unfortunately now band pen. The difference between table, maybe? The spin doctoring
getting into moving endangered ti- them and The Dudes — made up of was quick, and counter-arguments
gers, has Tamaki's wondrous artwork the same humans plus a few bonus ranged from “but it was a Calgary
throughout, greyscale washes based munchkins — is kinda staggering, business, so who cares” to the typi-
in a Chinese watercolour technique. and at one point singer Dan Vacon cally clever, “OILERS!” position. But
It's really gorgeous, was clutching his hands and singing they were whiners about it, claiming
On her blog at jilliantamaki.com about “making love.” (And not in an they left a huge tip. Listen to me,
she describes the process working about-to-get-backseat-laid Bad Com- spunkoloids — if you don't even pay
with NG's art director “This wash pany way.) the total, there's no tip. They've since
technique is a very different one Feeling the empathy were dozens in financially settled in this reasonable
from my typical method ... more of the audience with relationship trou- storm of bad PR, and the Herald T
a one-shot deal with very minimal bles, though that's not to say a metal says “all is forgiven,” but that hardly
digital manipulation. Some of the concert is necessarily a place of speaks for any of us tired of the slop- EMPRESS
animals were done a dozen times more interpersonal stability. Need- py puckhandling of the Oilers where
before | got a few that worked. less to say, though, this band is about you and I are the pucks. —— ALE ADUSE——
1 would send the AD several final feelings and as such creeped me out Understand this clearly: this is noth-
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MUSIC - LATE NIGHT BEETHOVEN - BY JERRY OZIPKO}
“New” Music by Beethoven Lights Up Late Night
FOR NIGHT OWL MUSIC ton Symphony Orchestra has just series. “I think reaching for a
LOVERS, THE EDMONTON the thing. Beginning this Friday, the diff nt crowd wd that might
SYMPHONY HAS JUST THE orchestra will début a new concert not come out so earilnyt h e evening
CONCERT SERIES FOR YOU series ‘alled “Late N ght with Bill There are some people who believe
Eddins Performances wil ll start at that 8 p.m. is way too early
LATE NIGHT WITH BILL EDDINS 9:30 p.m. and will run approximate The idea*is also to bring the audi
Winspear Centre, Jan. 8, 930p .m. ly an hour and 15 minutes without nce into informal discussions about
intermission. their impr ssions of the music with
If there is anybody out there whose €SO conductor and music dire: ddins from the stage
music appreciation nighttime doesn’t tor Bill Eddins provided some back and cocktails following
start before 9 p.m., then the Edmon- ground for the rational behind the the performance will round out the
night
GREAT GIGS YOU MISSED LAST WEEK of Tthhirse e Freiadrlayy 's wocroknsc ertb y Lwiuldl wicgo nsivsatn
Beethoven — as well as the Canadi
an premiere of a work long thought
to be lost since 1840 Sketches of
the movement were und among
Beethoven's papers in 164 and al
though a full score of the work has
never been found, there is concrete Late Night Host |0 conductor Bill Eddins hosts symphony fo night owls. PHOTO SUPPLIED
evidence that it had been performed student of Joseph Haydn, is a recon work, Eddins feels blessed “in having
as early as 1795 struction (with orchestration) made the most musically nowledgeable
When informed that she would be by two Dutch Beethoven specialists artistic administrator in the busi
performintgh e work for the first time working from incomplete sketches ness and that's Rob McAlear, who
in Canada, ESO oboist Lidia Khaner of the movement. Khaner listened knows almost every single piece of
expressed some reservation. “I'm to a European recording of the work music there is.” He found out about
always completely skeptical when and found that the piece grew on her the work through his research and
it comes to completely new pieces over time. “It's a very interesting informed Eddins about its existence
rediscovered, because I start to ask piece and if it is early Beethoven I So if your idea of late night music
Workhorse and Prosper |‘ Sitting down with her cello behind singer Oan Vacon, Clea Foofat provides an mIny sethlifs caIsse , it RKhEaAnLeLrY maBye ethhaovvee na? bit dofo n’htis ; thsitinlkl, iitt ihs aso neb eaouft itfhuel bepshtr apsieesc es dforso m tht e inStvaorllviet e tRhoe oml ateosrt thoef fHeraivnegns
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sed while Beethoven was still a of the newly-discovered Beethoven just be your ticket
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Ghandi To My Ears
FOR
LAUNCHING
SAT
LOCAL COMPOSER LINDA tice that 2009 marked the 60th anni
THOSE JAN PURVES DRAWS INSPIRATION versary of Pablo Picasso's famously
30 FROM THE INDIAN THINKER — introducing the white dove as as ym
AND FROM HER WHITE DOVE Dol of peace And so i 1 2009, Purves
WHO began workingo n a piece intendedt o
The only thing we were told when project calm and reconciliation
ANOW,... e es bwihrod wawse reg ivenm ovtion gu s teb y Otnhtea rioow,n alizIe'dv e I bheaedn to rdeeaadli ngw itGh anmdyh i emaotnidor ns
Linda Purve points out to the gor and express my sentiments inspired
geous white pigeon on her shoulder by his concept of non-violent activ
EVERY SATURDAY was that the boy's name was Ches ism. Perhaps today, more than ever
ter.” She pets Chester and then adds: we need to send strong, positive MeetC heste|rC o mposer Linda Purves with her fine
JUNIOR BROWN ‘Almost immediately thereafter what messages? As a composer, I thought feathered tviend. PHOTO SUPPLIED
the boy did was he laid eggs! Some I could do it best in a vocal piece, a tions. Hence my choice of multiple
DAVID USSHER boy, eh?!,” Purves laughs while the choral piece to t exact There's writings coming from diverse cul
GIRLS CLUB dove seems to have understood the something special, powerful and re. tures. The piece makes use of pas
story, turning her head sideways and assuring in a group of people singing sages from the Bible, the Qur'an, and
DAN DACOST® looking approvingly at her friend together - a microcosm of the posi the traditional Buddhist sayings. I as
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set with this beautiful creature! We set to Gandhi's texts. Even the li did it because I wanted to show how
accepted the boy was in fact a girl bretto for the well-known opera by similar we are despite our respective
did everything we could to make her Philip Glass Satyagraha, a tribute cultural and religious backgrounds,
life easier — and all ended well as it to Gandhi based on his biography, and how much we crave peace and
should. In the process, we re learnt mostly uses the ancient sacred Hin happiness, Music can communicate
a lot about raising pigeons! du text, the Bhagavad Gita so well — we forget about that all too
The anecdote may well serve as a Gandhi's writings were my inspi often!
Spot-on metaphor for what Purves, a ration; they gave me the first impulse When will the piece be ready?
| McGill graduate best known for her to start thinking about the piece ‘As you can see, Chester helps me
ellent piano music, has recently and its philosophical perspective compose, so! think I'll be done soon,”
decided to do, or, rather, compose Purves explains, “but I felt the text Purves chuckles. With a number of
Bormbarded constantly with bad needed to be more direct and rooted several other projects on the go, she
news, many of us have failed to no- in a variety of widely spread tradi and Chester are one busy team
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