just listened to Godspeed You Black Emperor!

[exciar28]

and I thought that the progress(is it a right expression?) of their songs is similar to that of Kayo Dot (especially The Manifold Curiosity). Climbing up to a climax! I really love the voice saying "the manifold curiosity" in The Manifold curioisty.

 

[jerkstore]

GY!BE are excellent, they make some really beautiful music and are spectacular to see live. All of their albums consistently find their way into my CD player.

<----( points to avatar )

 

[AndICried]

GY!BE have the nicest smelling albums. No Joke.

 

[exciar28]

hey i am confusing that on the album Life blah blah, their name is GYBE! but on Yanqui U.X.O. their name is GY!BE. Is this one of their jokes?

 

[mindspell]

The name changes slightly each album. Same goes for Silver Mt Zion...

 

[xfer]

incidentally, there are some elements of jake (deadair)'s band that reminded me of GYBE!.

 

[azal]

GYBE! are pretty fantastic..I wish I had seen them live while I was in the US.



I wana here jake's band....where?

 

[IanDork107]

try out Explosions in the Sky or Do Make Say Think. I like them better than godspeed.

 

[lizard]

I read this weekend in Michael Moore's new book, Dude, Where's My Country? that GYBE were caught up in homeland security hysteria while on tour a couple of years ago...their two vans and equipment vehicle pulled into a gas station and parked next to a fuel tank; they were reported and endured a couple hours of police questioning. As the singer said, "good thing we're just nice white Canadians."

 

[xfer]

in my opinion, nice white Canadians are pretty dangerous themselves.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35850

Canadian judges soon will be enforcing Islamic law, or Sharia, in disputes between Muslims, possibly paving the way to one day administering criminal sentences, such as stoning women caught in adultery.

 

[mindspell]

Not going to happen, we have a charter of human right bound to our constitution you know:

Article 12 of charter: Everyone has the right not to be subjected to any cruel and unusual treatment or punishment.

 

[azal]

they will just amend that to read (except muslims)

 

[lizard]

xfer: please discount anything you read on worldnetdaily. they will print anything to alarm people into supporting right wing bullshit. they've published stories about how WMD have been found, etc.

 

[xfer]

If you read biased news sources with a filter, though, you can get some good information. For example, the WorldNetDaily story probably isn't made up of whole cloth, but it's almost certainly exaggerated. What's the real story? I'm guessing it's something like "the Canadian legal system will implement Islamic community concerns into its justice system for Muslims", which will, of course, never be extended as far as stoning women for adultery. That sounds like WND's let's-take-this-to-its-logical-extreme insertion. However, I wouldn't be surprised if Canada starts getting judicially involved in Muslim justice in one way or another.

 

[lizard]

I'm not saying ignore, because you must know your enemy to defeat him (I'm going to have to create an alternative Sun Tzu profile). There is probably someone up in canada proposing that in disputes between muslims, muslim legal guidelines will be used or considered. People as civilized as our brothers to the north would never resort to even mild corporate punishment such as caning.

Wingnuts like Worldnetdaily like to run this sort of stuff to create in the minds of dumb white people an environment of muslims run amok, to keep the fires of homeland security burning brightly, and dissent to a minimum.

 

[xfer]

if canada's so civilized, how come it doesn't have american-level free speech? although its commendable rejection of the death penalty and the WAR ON DRUGS kind of makes up for that.

 

[lizard]

because it is impossible to get everything right?

it's freedom of speech is still pretty free, compared to 98% of the nations out there.

 

[xfer]

no doubt. canada still is in the top ten nations in the world.

 

[xfer]

shit, even noble awesome ENGLAND doesn't have the best free-speech protections.

 

[lizard]

if it wasn't for the damn emphasis on hockey, Iwould live in canada.