The Deep Dark Woods posted this word of advice on FaceBook today -

Looking for a New Ride

If you’re thinking of buying a 15 passenger van, look into the safety issues with them first (mostly the high rollover rate in specific models). We had overlooked these warnings when buying ours, and ended up rolling the van yesterday with 3 of us, and all of our gear in it. Luckily no one was hurt.

The band are literally weeks away from staging a tour, so the timing is tight. Good luck, guys, we’re  looking forward to see you when you roll through Ontario. Figure of speech.

Kim Fowley drops a bomb on CBC Radio 3

“Excuse me, we are all dogs in the dogfight, and there’s a dogfight in the process of Rock & Roll.”

Runaways Manager Kim Fowley, defending his hardline technique in dealing with a pioneering teenage female Rock band. Read more…

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Daniel Bejar has cast forth a few scintillating images in describing their upcoming LP, Kaputt, available January 25, 2011 on Merge Records. In rapt anticipation, CIAMM makes an attempt to elucidate the free-associative clues divulged, to gain some headway on the new Destroyer album’s direction. Speculation aside, Kaputt is a long time in coming, and promises an interesting listen.

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Here is a typical exchange found on the CBC Radio 3 Blog, Oct. 07 2010. As usual, Wapuche gets the last word in!

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boders – Thunder Bay to Toronto is almost exactly 1400 km…so 14 hours if you can maintain 100km/h as an average…but you need to have a cooler with food so you don’t have to stop and everyone needs to have some kind of bladder control so you limit bathroom breaks to co-ordinated ones.

Always forgive your enemies;

nothing annoys them so much.

CBC Radio 3 host Lisa Christiansen, quoting Irish dramatist, poet and author Oscar Wilde (1864 – 1900), on her show, Appetite For Distraction.