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NEWS - PARLIPRAOTESMT -EB YYN ONATTHANA SUMRAMOY jt0 w onts Anti-Prorogation Protest Takes To The Streets FACEGBROUOP OFOUKNDE R know that this is an issue,” “| think it's important for Canadians to ex- HOPES CANADGEIT AOFFN TSHE IR “They're taking it away from Us, our democ- press their political opinions,” Lake says, “The COMPANUD OTNTO ETHER STSREE TS racy,” says Dianne Goodacre, an organizer of expression of political opinions is critical part theEdmonton rally. “If we don't grab ityback, of the process. Political expression is the cor- The election of 2008 saw one of the lowest it will be gone,” nerstone for Canadian democracy.” voter turnouts in federal election history. But Edmonton's anti-prorogation protest is Public opinion polls seem to indicate the pro- ‘one previously-obscure word seems to have lit planned as a march from Corbette Hall, at Togation decisiomhas hurt the Tories. The Con- a fire under politically apathetic Canadians — 8205-114th St., starting at 11 am. Saturday. servatives are now only two points ahead of the prorogation. Marchers will then head into the heartof Old Liberals in}the polls, as opposed to the PrimeMinister Stephen Harper's decision Strathcona, to Gazebo Park on 104th Street 15-point lead they had jin to prorogue — in essence, shut down — Parlia- and 83rd Avenue for the rally starting at noon October, accord- ment for the second time in a little over a year By» haying,the rally at Gazebo Park, White ing to “EKOS has Canadians taking to the streets in protest says he hopes to attract some attention from Politics. this Saturday, Jan. 23. the Saturday crowds as the Farmer's Market. Christopher White, an anthropology gradu- Edmonton-Strathcona NDP MP Linda Dun- ate student from the University of Alberta, is can says the more people who show up for the the creator of a Facebook group “Canadians protest, the stronger the message wilhbe'to the Against Proroguing Parliament”, which has government. grabbed nearly 200,000 supporters in just two: "We are only so many in the House,” Duncan weeks. White, 25, hopes those who initially says. “We need the public to stand up joined the group will take the next step and and express other feelings. | encour- participate in the rallies. age everybody to get out to thoserral- “It’s one thing to join a Facebook group, it's lies, and not only that,but help organize them quite another to actually get involved,” White because it is alot of work.” says. “For a lot of people, this is going to be Evens Conservative MP Mike Lake, of &d- the test to whether or not this has caught onto, monton-Mill Woods-Beaumont, who is in sup- public opinion. port of Parliament being prorogued for the time “We want to continue to raise awareness and being, is glad to see Edmontonians gathering make sure that the government and public together to take part in federal politics. NEWS POLITICS -B YT IM COOP8E7Rw o rds "Ready To Take To The Political Seas vsirr’ a etaed | p arty &d ua rti os present Internet, do they really want to contain considerable public interest for the party, which draconian, longer copyright terms, whereas that kind of thing, or do they want to reform formed in June 2009. It counts 1,501 official consumers could benefit more from a shorter NEW PARTY WANTS TO MAKE the copyrights for everything to be accessible members nationwide, and has made strong use term.” UNFETTERED ACCESS TO to everybody on a non-commercial basis?” of the Internet to stimulate popularity, with As the party waits for official entry to the p INTERNET INFORMATION Aware that combining the party name with 942 fans on Facebook, and 1,094 followers on litical scene, Daynes divides his time betweer AFEDERAL ISSUE this concern makes for a small leap to digital Twitter as of last Monday. studying animation game design at Vancouver's piracy, LaSalle remains specific about their Official members range in age from 18 to Pacific Audio Visual Institute and preparing to Political pirates aiming to unfetter information goal 49 Daynes says, with Ontario and British Co- dive into the turbulent waters of Parliament in the Internet age are hunting for official par- “Of course, we are for copyrights, and we're lumbia being the most pirate-friendly. Quebec Along with developing a plan to approach the ty status, hoping to sail onto Ottawa's federal for patents. But there's a sane usage that needs follows, while across the land-locked Prairies Green Party for partnership based on non-con stage in the coming months. to be set up that currently is not,” he says. pirates are finding it more difficult to gain flicting agendas and a similar successful rela The Pirate Party of Canada is building a Aside from mitigating copyright laws and ground tionship between the Swedish pirate party and platform that includes, among other things, re- Internet restrictions, the PPC hopes to bring In Edmonton, only three members managed the European Green Party, he and other mem forming copyright laws, which currently keep more political attention to patent reform, pri- to attend a party meet-up at the Elephant and bers are strategizing for their first election copyrighted materials from the public domain vacy rights for citizens, and government trans- Castle Pub on Jan. 10, but organizer Mikkel “Our target riding is going to be Kitchener/ until 50 years after the creator's death. parency. Paulson is undeterred. Waterloo, based on the three giant polytechnic “Right now, copyright is stifling creativity,” Having achieved non-profit corporate sta- “We were getting together to make sure the universities in the area,” he says. “They make 19-year-old party leader Jake Daynes says. tus earlier this month, they are now waiting to party stays on the social radar,” says Grant up quite a large chunk of the population in that “We believe that it is too strict, and needs to become official in order to take these issues to MacEwan student Paulson, the party's social riding, and since they are polytechnic insti be brought back to the way it was originally Ottawa. media coordinator. He is in charge of Facebook tutes, our issues definitely affect them.” planned, which was only against commercial “We're hoping to see confirmation in the and Twitter accounts. At this point, serious treatment or flippant use,” next 60 days,” Daynes says. “About 400 or so His enthusiasm for the party, which he hopes reactions to their name, platform, and relative The party's zeal for the issue is connected to members have sent us their forms so we can will spread throughout the Edmonton area, youth from established national parties prompt its philosophy of information ownership and register with Elections Canada, and the num. originates from an enduring interest in owner- little concern for the crew, who perceive cur Internet use. ber they require is 250.” ship issues regarding information. rent political proceedings as important yet un “Information wants to be free and it wants to The captain and crew share similar interests “I've been reading in the news for years sophisticated move around, so we have to consider the Inter- with Sweden's Pirate Party, which formed in about how copyright is essentially sold to cor- “Canadian Parliament looks like a jungle, ® net a free zone,” party spokesman Daniel La- 2006, and gained its first seat in European par- porations time and again,” he says. “In de- movie, a comedy act, so I would not have any Salle explains. “Nobody's going to have the joy liament last June after bolstered clampdowns termining copyright policy there is very little problem playing the gimmick, dressing up 3s or luxury of mixing, for example, a Queen song on filesharing precipitated a groundswell of consideration given to consumers, and I think a pirate and running in saying ‘Arrr,"” LaSalle or a Guns N’ Roses song in our lifetime, and support they should have more say. “Corporations are says. we think people need to decide with the ever In Canada, it has not taken long to garner only interested in pushing for more and more “But it is not a comedy act, it is real.” 4>J anuary 2),- January 77,2010 - seem agazine - edmonton agenda |t hef ront| music|o ns creen |a rts| s ex| c lassifieds |t heb ast frontlines QUOTE OF THE WEEK 46 1A MSO HAPPY TO SEE CANADIANS HERE WITHOUT YOUR HELP, WE WON’T GET OUT OF THIS MESS. — Saintulia Metelus of Haiti. surveying the arrival of Canadia ailors or avaged island Quoted in the 0 Edmonton Sun HOCKEY’S LATEST OUTRAGE It's sickening to watch. Occurs, pundits weigh in decrying the state During a Quebec Major Junior Hockey of the sport, the old guard of troglodytes League game on Sunday, Royn-Noranda defends the game and the player, and we Huskies centre Patrice Cormier jumped Move on until the next incident. off the bench to join the flow of play. But The Cormier assault Is just the latest ina Cormier — the captain of the junior Team long and ever growing list of on-ice thuggery | Canada, to our shame — showed no interest that has left a trail of seriously injured play- inplaying the game, despite the fact it was ers in its wake. The NHL's refusal to properly into overtime. For reasons known only to address the entire issue of deliberate hits to him, Cormier, like a shark taking aim at its the head (the fact that Todd Bertuzzi still prey, delivered a devastating elbow to the plays hockey after deliberately caving in head of unsuspecting Quebec Rempart’s the head of Steve Moorei na ne of hockey’s | defenceman Mikael Tam. Most infamous moments says all you need The elbow isn't fully visible on the video, to know about hockey) is inexcusable. Blows which can be seen on You Tube. But the end to the head —some accidental, most not result is sickening to see. Tam went into con- — used to bea rarity in hockey. Now they vulsions while frantic team staff loaded him are anything but. Players are bigger than onto a stretcher and sped him to hospital. ever and faster than ever. They wear suits of Fortunately, Tam appears to be OK. armour that do as much to inflict damage Cormier has been suspended indefinitely ‘On opponentsa s protect the player. The by the QMJHL, which should be the least of unwritten code of honour is slowly being | his worries. Let's hope that Cormier faces feplaced by the law of the jungle. something more substantial, like charges in The NHL, and all of hockey, cannot afford a Canadian court to ignore this disturbing development. It’s The Cormier assault — and that isw hat time for hockey to enforce a no tolerance itis, an assault — will no doubt bring about tule on head shots. All it would takeisone | another round of handwringing about player to losea c areer —not aseason,buta | violence in hockey. God knows we've been career —and deliberate cheap shots tothe | through this before, A violent cheap shot head would disappear. | CORATOLO BEEs amc GIVING HAS NEVER BEEN EASIER POLITICS SHUFTFHEL DEICKN |9G22w orts Inresponse to the Haiti earthquake, the responds to a confirmation text. Stelmach Shuffle Is All Optics Canadian Red Cross is utilizing text mes- If you've got the money for a cell phone, saging for quick and easy donationts oi ts you've got the money to make a$ 5 dona- Haiti Earthquake fund. Donors can simply tion to help out your fellow human being. It text REDCROSS to 30333 and a one-time couldn't be simpler, | In the wake of Ed Stelmach’s cabi — mainly, an incredibly stupid gov. donation of $5 for the Haiti earthquake fund Put down your SEE magazine, pick up your net shuffle last week, I guess we ernment — but he's likely to be a lot will bea dded to their mobile phone bill cell, and send that text should be happy that Morton is only more hard-hearted in making cuts. The charge will be posted once the donor Do it night now. in charge of Alberta's bank account Pastor Morton is in charge now, so If he had some sort of moral author- don't go asking for any second help BY THE NUMBERS « WEIGHTY MATTERS ity, we'd have no Sunday shopping ings of gruel and bars would close at midnight. At least, that’s the perception Stel AVERAGE HEIGHT AND WEIGHT CHANGE OF CANADIAN CHILDREN = The elevation of Morton to one of mach is hoping for. AND ADULTS, FROM 1981 TO 2009. | OUTSIDE POLITICS MAURICE TOUGAS the most important positions in the Realistically, Stelmach’s cabinet 4 SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA x | ATTENENTERGIY ODEPNART - provincial government is a signifi- shuffle is all optics. I'm not con- 1981 2009 MENT CIVIL SERVANTDSON:' T cant signal from Stelmach to the dis- vinced that there will be any signifi 12-year-old girl '0” 94 lbs. 517” 105 lbs. BUY A HOUSE INE DMONTON affected Tory masses who are casting cant changes in policy, with the ex- % overweight 14% 25% Here's an example of how conserva- cieolvlee tSomuist hg laanndc eshe ra sa rtcheh -ccoonmseelryv atDiavne- cepTtaikoen tohfe a clhiastnigneg toin thhee arlitghh t minis- 12-year-old boy 411" 92 Ibs. 511" 106 lbs. tive Ted Morton is. Wildrose Alliance. The Wildrosies ters. Out goes snarling Ron Liepert, % overweight 14% 3% Back in my MLA days, I got the are making hay in the polls by bat- who never learned how to play nice. bcehrasn’c eb ill,t ow hpircehs enist an a oppproivrattuen itmye mf-o r ttheeriirn g teSntdeelnmcayc h toa nsdp etnhde mToornieesy ovliekre aI n ccloamsesisc smgillaidn-gh anGdeinneg , Zwobzldoewshkayrd, a non-government members to put hillbilly lottery winners. Stelmach is politician who has perfected the art aw ilbli lli nebveiftoarbel y tbhee slheogti sdlaotwunr.e , Mwyh ibcihll hIroips inEgv anthsa t wrietphl actihneg ptahre simmaotneironuasl o1f ssupsepaekcitn g wwhiattheouvte r sayhienllg aL itehpienrgt. proposed minimum drink prices in Morton will show Albertans that he planned to unleash on health care is bars (OK, go ahead and boo — | still means business, gosh darn it. (Poor still going to occur, but it will be made say it was a good idea). After it was iris. Going from big time finance to more palatable with Zwozdesky's defeated (no surprise there), Mor very small time international and faux sympathy. ton called me over to his desk and intergovernmental relations is akin Perhaps most interesting is the told me that if I had proposed rais- to being traded from the Pittsburgh move of Liepert to energy. Again, it's | ing the minimum drinking AGE, it Penguins to the Edmonton Oilers. all optics, but in order to understand 45-year-old woman 5'4" 151 lbs. | mwhiagth t hihsa vper oppaossseedd. drHien kdiindng' ta gtee llw amse, sita’sm es tillm otnheey ,N HLb,u t anitd’ s yojuus t mankote tthhee it,T yhoeur eh aivs ea nt oa ttthiitnukd e liikne Ca aClaglagrayr itahna.t % overweight B% 24% but I'm guessing if Ted Morton ran same.) the energy minister must be from 45-year-old man ~ 5'8” 71 lbs. 5'9" 19] lbs. Alberta, the legal drinking age in Al- OF course, Morton faces the same Calgary. The suits in the towers don't % overweight 12% 27% | berta would be 35. problems the unfortunate Iris faced TOUGAS cont'd on pg.6 agenda |t hef ront| m usic ons creen| a rts| sex| c lassifieds |t heb ack edmonton - seem agazine - January 21. January 7,2010+S the front NEWS BRIEFS ‘ANDREW PAUL MEMORIAL FOR THE FORGOTTEN of Edmonton's homeless suffer from mental TO BE HELD ON SATURDAY illness, and other medical issues including ‘When you die,a c ongregation of loved ones diabetes, heart disease and hepatitis. Their will gather in celebration of your life. During lack of stability makes it nearly impossible your funeral service they will take tums at to properly care for themselves. the microphone tos alute you, and spend “They never really experience a period of the next several days in mourning, and recol- stability,” explains Garrick. “Some of them lection of the memories you shared. were chronically homeless, so they may However, not everyone is as lucky when have been on the streets for the majority of they die. For Edmonton's homeless com- their life. Some of their lives ended because munity the knowledge that frends and of violence” family will miss them after their passing is Dennis Caufield, a senior medical. a.comfort they don't have. They will remain investigator with the Office of the Chief faceless an unknown to an uncaring public Medical Examiner, is called whenever a who, during their life. knew them only as body Is found, and the death is suspicious another faceless drunk begging for change or unexplained. This MO fits most homeless in the street. fatalities, and it is Caufield's job to figure out This is why on Saturday Jan. 23 the what happened. Edmonton Coalition on Housing and Home- Once a satisfactory cause of death has lessness Society will be hosting the fifth been determined it is time to make funeral annual Homeless Memorial to remember arrangements. the 46 inner city men and women who died “In terms of homeless people that's the in 2009. other problem,” explains Caufield. “When no bur“iTehde sbey tpheeo pplueb lwich ag uapradsisaend, aawnady nwoebroed y donoe buhta st hbeeye ns aya blteh etyo hlaovceant'et as neeexnt tohfe kmi n,i no r whoP olwiacse caatrtreynidn g tToha neB eoarifrnf aipcdieesrtt otalet arAliutggehetrr e,dw ast o alpopoak relnitkley a hb aitntdegnu nb,y ad ipeodl iocfe hdeorg .i njAuurgieers,. ever honoured their death. So we wanted to 30 years and want nothing to do with them, do something that first and foremast hon- then we would call the public trustee's office oured them as human beings and captured and they then arrange what's called a social | COMMENTARY -BLUE MONDAY |7 60 WORDS that.” says Lorette Garrick, executive director services funeral.” Not A Great Start To 2010 of the George Spady Centre. Funeral homes in the city are put on a The hour-long memorial will be held at rotating roster where they take tums over- maowfB1ibreo0looy5Gmlumla tbtre hier n tirchtSAclsvethkue re .de,A ee oebi xaftosp p nsrltruCidahaegoie ysinm e nbshrmaet soluhg tm neihebynicayl sott fe myaasam ca tseutm . 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Videos are people standing in ELVIS COSTELLO IN CONCERT room for hours and hours pretending to sir Feb. 7,W inspear Centre a song they've recorded on another occasio’ Tideets available at the Winspear Bax Office They were for a brief time seen as an esser tial pendant to the recording, you know. Ol Elvis Costello emerged from the fledgling “New viously, the first ones that we made predat« Wave” scene in the late '70s as a singing/song MTY, and as soon as MTV appeared we mor writing enigma, and has deftly bobbed and or less stopped making them for the very goo weaved his way through every musical style reason that we didn’t look the way that peop! from country to opera ever since. As a result, on MTV looked, you know, so I was kind « he’s been described as a “pop encyclopedia, relieved when that stopped. | made one or tw able to “reinvent the past in his own image.” after that at the behest of the record compar When not collaborating with Paul McCartney and we had some fun making a couple of then or T-Bone Burnett, these days he turns his but I never really thought of them as a ser trademark glasses and imposing intellect to the ous thing. I think if you saw the outtakes, a |c task of bringing musical giants and should-be of the videos and the pictures that we took giants to the small screen, thus allowing us the that time that are seen with the benefit of 3 privilege of listening in on conversations that years hindsight to be in some way menacing o} can only take place musico a musico threatening, you would see the people crackin. And now he’s coming back to Edmonton for up and realizing it was ludicrous a fundraiser for Fort Edmonton Park. Despite his famously having said that “writing about SEE: I'm inte music is like dancing about architecture,” another I jumped at the chance to speak with him at ation in life is to be an length about his past, his music, his marriage Irritant vho disrupts the daily to jazz musician Diana Krall and, as it turns drag of life just enough to leave the victim out, his still raw memories of interviewers who thinking.” were not quite up to the task Elvis: Well, you know, you have to visualize th: person on the other side of the table from me SEE: | remember hearing you back in 1978 that time. | was 22 and I'd just made a recor and thinking, “who is this guy?” because and there were two types of journalists that ! you didn't really seem to fit into any of the encountered in the first days, There were pec particular genres that were going on at the ple who looked like they'd escaped from a Glar time. You seemed to be a singular voice. So Rock band and mostly comported themselve: I'lla sk you, “Wwhas othat g as if they were the rock stars, and in some cas Elvis: Well, | don’t know the answer to that es they had every reason to believe they werc question. You would've had to have asked me they were not bad writers and they'd probab! then and | might not have answered in any taken more drugs than many of the people they case. One thing | will say about it is that I al were writing about. And then there were s« ways liked records where people sounded sin ofle ering, stained people with comb-overs ar gular, you know, they sounded different, not a cigarette with a long plume of ash, who wer as if they were fitting in. | don't think any of kind of like a caricature of a journalist in a ba us thought of it philosophically but you might movie with a belted raincoat and a spiral note say that there was an approach that didn't re- book who wanted sort of juicy tidbits about th ally have much time from what had immedi girls that you met backstage, There were only ately passed before. And that’s nearly always two types of people. There was nobody that my the case with popular music. It just had a little youthful, arrogant self identified as a sentient more edge to it then because it was being char- human being. So I think I probably said things acterized as something. Some provocateurs that I thought would get up their nose. And | wanted to make it sound like it was in some think that worked. It mostly had the very, very way revolutionary. That was more to do with pleasing effect of getting them to leave me the making their name than necessarily making fuck alone for a number of years. And I got on the music sound better. It didn’t actually make and I made quite a lot of records in a short bit the records sound any better to shout a lot of time without the burden of having to speak about them, or to make provocative gestures to anybody. around them. It just got a lot of attention for a short period of time. In the long run the good SEE; You seem to have taken the establish records are the good records for whatever time ment on in a sense, and | think that’s really they come from, that's what you find what comes through then, and toa lesser extent, or maybe not to a lesser extent ‘ou were referred to at one point asa “menacing Buddy Holly|” believe Elvis: | really don’t know about that. 1 think lvis: That showed a tremendous imagination, that the gestures of rebellion and defiance in didn’t it? Because he wore glasses and so did 1, popular music are wildly exaggerated in terms so we can dismiss that one nght away. Men- of their daring and impact. | mean their im acing? | don't think so. | mean, I never killed pact is great among the people who are paying anybody, My experience at physical threat is attention. It's like imagining that the world is The Spectacle of Elvis Costello { This music man supports Fort Edmonton Park on Feb, 7. 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All of show busi- sic and the place music has in people's lives happen to be all characters in this story, and specific time and place that Diana needed to ness is like that anyway. Now, everybody's in and work. In the main they are musicians, we The Shape” is this sort of demonic, satanic I express some slightly more personal meanings show business. I don't really think that there's share some of the same experiences, we have suppose, demonic rather than satanic, the pro- than she had previously put on record. And for much daring involved in any gesture. | mean, different methodology, we come sometimes vocateur character that nobody sees but whis- me I don't doubt that there are a number of you're trying to write songs from the heart from different generations but we are aware of pers in everybody's ear. Typecast again. But it's songs that I wouldn't have written had our life and sometimes the songs contain feelings and 4 certain relationship between words and tones interesting to do. | think some people got hold not turned the way it did. But that isn’t to say sometimes even the occasional coherent line and the experience of standing on a stage and of the wrong end of the stick and imagined that every song must be a reflection of your that matters to you and expresses your point trying to express unto an audience. Therefore it was going to be a Broadway musical, but | life as it is in that moment. It perhaps in some of view, and if somebody finds some sympa perhaps | am at a slight advantage to a person think it would be pretty tough to imagine all ways frees you to be more wide ranging and thy with that thought, or that thought strikes in another occupation asking those same ques- those people showing up for Broadway. less self-regarding, and perhaps as time goes them as something worthwhile or something tions. The guests have ranged from people who on you are less self-absorbed than you might that they appreciate, then that's the extent of don't require any explanation because they're SEE: A little, yeah have been as a younger person when you were the pact. It doesn’t make you friends, it doesn't extremely well known, and there's a degree of Elvis; But this is another way to do it, | think exploring the impact of some emotional con- ocrr etahtee paenr soobnl igthaatti'osn sionng itnhge tpoa rrte poefa t thteh atl isftoernmer ogfe ntehreo ssihtoyw ,i n ptehoepmle cloimkei nBgo nion toa ntdh e Edfgrea,m eBwrourcke itth'es asnt udiinot eraensdt inregc orwda,y Itto' s dkoi ndit , ogfe tl ikpee oap lceo lliangteo dthiatti onasl l uwrpiotne rsy oaurre wgruiitlitnyg .o f Is otmhientki mseosm eitsh pirnog It doesn't really strike a blow against the darker Springsteen and even President Clinton, and almost of dramatic performances, and a lot of voking turmoil in their life so that they can forces in the world because they're not paying obviously the executive producer, Elton John. the songs are written in character voices. I've have something to write about. 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It was really just kind of conversation that musicians have, and artists is less dominant than it used to be. Peo- whenever | want it, You only have to look in a marketing ploy, because they had a bunch it goes on as long as it will do at the taping. We ple are able to sort of try some different forms the headlines to see tragedy, and to see stu of bands that played short songs in a vaguely have to edit it and try to develop a narrative without being worried about losing radio play pidity and cruelty. You don’t necessarily have aggressive way that couldn't be identified as after the fact rather than having, as it would be in Idaho. Nobody cares about that anymore. If to invite it into your life moment to moment punk. ona “chat” show, a very brief amount of time there's a good station in Idaho, then they can in order to be stimulated to write. There's no to banter and ending up with a plug for the new have a direct conversation with you. If there doubt that moments of turmoil in our commu- SEE; So what's you're opinion of the con- release, you know, and then a musical number. isn't, then you're not losing anything by doing nal life as a society or in individuals, it can at cept of genre in music, or in any art form? Is It's a different animal. It's not necessarily su something that's interesting to you. It's prob times generate great writing, but I don't think it worthwhile? perior inherently but I believe you've got a bet- ably a good idea to give it a try, see what hap- that it's necessary, you know? Elvis: Not really. | think you're wasting a lot ter chance of hearing a bit more about what pens. of time thinking about theoretical stuff. Why people value in this context than where they're SEE: You're coming to Edmonton fora must something be in a list or in a class, you just sort of making light hearted chit-chat, you SEE: | have to ask you about your marriage. theatre fundraiser for Fort Edmonton Park know? We're not classifying plants here. It’s know? People seem to like it well enough. And | hate to bring up the word “genre” but it’s Tell me about that. not a scientific endeavor. It’sj ust music, What- that's really the story of that, there really isn't @ Cross-genre marriage in a sense. How has Elvis: The objective is to restore a cultural ever you call it. People give it different names. that much more to add because the great thing that impacted your writing? Do you and landmark of the city. Venues are increasingly Would it have been better if it had been called about it is you can’t really have a conversation your wife share ideas or do you just sit back uninspiring, the new ones. Quite often they're “Woogie Boogie” instead of “Boogie Woogie”? about a conversation, you know, what's in there and enjoy each other and say, “Well, that’s just concrete raised blocks and all-purpose It's just an arrangement of letters and sounds is what's intended to be in there. not me, but | like it"? venues that lack the elegance of older theatres, that represent some sort of feeling you get Elvis: | really love hearing my wife's perfor- which have some continuity with other styles when you hear music. When there's a change SEE: What is “The Shape"? mances and she makes great records. We obvi- of performance. I'm personally very happy to of mind, a change of heart, a change of hair- Elvis: “The Shape” is the name of a character ously are encouraging and supporting to each play when I find a great old theatre. There are style you can easily call it something else. They that I’m portraying in a piece which is being other. That's what you do anyway with the per very few modern venues that have that same twheerye' rael ln doto.i ng the Charleston one day and now ac ornasdtirou cptleady., asIt 'ist awne reu,n useuxcaelp tf oirt'ml,l bIet 'os na rseocrotr do. f ssounr prtihsaet yino ut hasth. arTeh ey ofuarc t litfhea tw iwteh , htahveer e'tsh e nso ambei g fgeeetl ienvge.r yWthhienng ytoheu 'rleig hptrso bgaob ldyo wjnus t acnodn cyeonut raftor-- It's a collaboration between John Mellencamp profession or vocation means that we under- ing on the musi¢ anyway, but you have a head SEE; With your TV show you're sort of, and and Stephen King, produced by my friend T- stand some of those things, while not neces- start if you're in a good environment. It's not you may not like this so | apologize, but a Bone Burnett, and a number of singers, some sarily making exactly the same kind of music. any great theory apart from that, except that it curator of musical artists, ina sense. That's of whom are friends like Roseanne Cash and That would be sort of idiotic. We've written a gives me the opportunity to come back to the the way I see it. You help us to understand people that I’ve recently met through Specta- few songs or have collaborated on a few songs, city. I haven't been there for awhile. HOT TICKETS - THISW EEK'S MUST-SSEHEOW S Pe) Steve Earle with Hayes Carll MotCrule wieth Tyhe Joe Field Day withW agbeard Jubilee Auditorium |J an.2 6 at7 :30p .m. 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Following a hiatus ofm oret han 20 ary’s indie scene, Wagbeard iso n theb ill _ Steve Earle’s coming toT ownes |P ictured abovew ithT ownes VanZ andt shortly betoreh isd eathi n1 997, hts2 008 release Troublei nMi ndisstllreceiv- |y ears, theb andr eleased it'sl atest studio al- along with Trent Buhler, who isa lso playing - SteveE arler eleased ane ntirea lbumi nt ribute tot hel ates ongwriter lasty ear.P hoto Supplied ing strong reviews anda ccolades. bum Have Guitar, WillT ravell atel asty ear. Saturday afteatmt hoeBloacknDog . «agenda |t hef ront| music [ons creen| a rts| s ex| c lassifieds |t heb ack ‘edmonton - see magazine «Jancary Z\,~J anuary 77,2010+9 MUSIC MUSIC -WINDROSE TRIO - BY PIOTR GRELLA-MOZEJKO |4 88w ords MUSIC “ETHAN COLLISTER - BY CURTIS WRIGHT 515 weeds Playing To Their Strengths Tower Of Song celebration, acceptance speech and all. We had so much fun we almost laughed our heads off. Imagine our surprise when they announced we actually won the thing! How amaz ing and scary at the same time. You know, coming on stage and deliver ing the real acceptance speech in front of hundreds of musicians and music moguls... Goodness gracious one lives for such moments — and dreads them. I've never had such stage fright, man,” he guffaws again “Fantastic experience,” adds Camp: bell, “and a reward for our work We've been playing together for six years and to get recognition from our peers was cool. Like winning the lottery, or something, but much better AMan's Home Is His Tower | Ethan Collister, In a forest fire lookout tower, PHOTO SUPPLIED Blowing in the Wind | The WindRose Trio: Matthew Howatt. Jeff Campbel and Beth Levia. PHOTO SUPPLIED because the lottery is pure chance, ETHAN COLLISLITVEES RIN A “My job caters to a type of per THE CLASSICAL WOODWIND arranged, chairs placed in a semi while we actually spend a great deal TOWER FOR HALF THE YEAR, sonality. Not everyone is cut out tc TRIO CELEBRATEIST S circle. Despite the despairing cat's of time developing both our sound BUT HIS SONGS AREN'T JUST be a stockbroker, or a teacher, but a ACHIEVEMEANNDT WSO,RK S protests, the rehearsal must go on and repertoire.” ABOUT ISOLATION certain personality fits a certain gig HARD FOR THE NEXT GIG the trio working on their new pro- Beth Levia is off the phone and im The opportunities I have to work or WINDROSETRIO gasr amth.e rReesaiddye,n t stehaodyu.s..e pixOihe, mnuos tg o hayevte, wmaednitaetde lyt o jdooi nsp ieicn.e s “wTihtihs wtiidmee awpe EETtHhaAnN C oClOlLstLeIsS wT/E ARr ianeM ahryke Lemire rtehael lcyr egarteiavte, ” sides ayso fC otlhliinstgesr have beer Jan. B,3pm. secreted a couple of pages. Shucks! peal,” she says, “yet so well written Jan. 21, Brix Bara ndG ell( 10030 -102 St.) You would think that Collister's RobeWersletyU snitoednC hu rch( 1209-123 St), Here they are! With a sigh of relief, even the most di minating listen work would be chalk full of refer Tickets: $10-20. tgihne. thNroete! fTrhieen dst elaerpeh onree adryi ngtso abned eerrsg receanns ” be bhya ppthye. FrWeen'crhe cdooimnpgo se“rEvs. Niseoxlta titoon heias rtthaec heca llainndg lcoaver,d iotf semeomsst seoncciee tyt o ins egcelnuesriaol,n bfurto mh e fardimeintdss tahnadt On an early Saturday morning Beth Beth picks it up. People are already Marius Constant, Jacques Ibert, and singer/songwriters. Loneliness isn’t his latest release, Wishing Well is the Levia's house is already a hive of enquiring about the show and need Francis Poulenc. Plus. as always, something to brag about, I suppose, first to have a song strictly dedicated activity. So much so that her cat, answers, pronto music by local composers John but it is a common thread running to his summer gig It was natural through a lot of what we listen to. to ask Collister about his separatior People can feel alone amongst their from society, however, his quiet life friends and alienated even when doesn’t change his perspective like they are surrounded by city noise you might imagine and daily commutes, even though it's ‘Alienation is a pretty strong Squirrely, does not mince meows to So, I chat with the clarinetist Jeff McPherson's quirky “Three Guzin not “alone” in the literal sense word," Collister replied when I as! express disapproval. Surely, working Campbell and the bassoonist Mat tahs” and [the late] Roger De ean's Ethan Collister, who currently lives about how alone he must feel. “My this early on Saturday is something thew Howatt about their work King of the Cats,” a neat music in Calgary, likely looks at loneliness music doesn’t come from a place of oicu t anoifm atlhe o— rdbiunta rnyo t fofror thteh e armiestmobcreart:s acWteu alhlya d domionrge itf,u” n Hopwraettte ndicnhguc ktlheasn tfahierayttralee . pieFcaeb ublaosuesd sotnuf f.t”h e well-loved as ubmitm edrisff ersepnetn t thaasn a mfoosrte.s t Cofilrle islteoro’ks caloimeensa tiotno moir ndi solisa ti“olno ngiAn g.w”o rd Sotmhea aroef Tchlei nkWiingn,d Romussei c Trisoc. oreCso ffaeree mbeuignsg CD1, meanP,a ths whoefn Cownet aclte,a rnewda s thautp ofuorr CAasts ,” soonS quiarsr els he sstaryest ches“ Kiangn d oft urtnhse otuhet airnt istr'es mvoitse ioAnl bearntda ghievea vihliym iansmppilree ao f sethnes e woorfk loins gidnegf.i niteMlyy iindsepai readb oubt: reshuff led and organized according the 2009 Western Canadian Music on his back, invitinugs to scratch his time to work ont what he routinelyr e music and art is that in life there i to their intended order, mus tands Award, the three of us staged a mock tummy. The king, indeed fers to as his real job —h is music a huge range of emotions. You have your happy times, you have: you tough times, you have your forlorn times, and your existential crises an Train Endure Achieve Matter who knows what else. My songs ar¢ trying to give a sense of that, Som« G1)r aee cal & songs that are fun and lighthearted some that are sad — | am just trying to reflect on the eclectic nature that is life And rather than dwell on the sense that he isn’t exactly in the middle of company for about half the year, Col 4 ey lister uses this opportunity to access Bi) tohna t thgirnegats ctrheaatt ivfael l weinl l th—e abnidg greerf lepcitcs ee ei i\ ture and in a larger world create a worl “There are many other experi without cancer. ences in my life too though — it’s not just isolatior says Collister. “I was travelling India last year, so there are songs about that. I was lucky enough to visit New York — I wrote about my Run, walk, cycle, tri or hike and raise experiences there. The songs are in fund: for lifesaving g blood cancer res arch | fino rmmye dt imbe.y aTlhl et hte oweexrp ecreiretnaciensl y 1g ihvaeds 780.758.4261 www.teamintraining.ca/ab me ample chance to reflect on that but it’s not the only aspect of my life right?” 10+ January 71. January 27, 2010 see magazine «edmonton agenda |t he front |m usic |o n screen |a rts |s ex |c lassifieds | the bach