What better way to follow up David and Sarah’s wedding than with a review of Dylan’s new album?
If Bob Dylan’s 31 studio albums have taught us anything, it’s not to take his words at face value. The title of album No. 32, Modern Times, is a typically mischievous Dylanism. For one thing, it’s a joke. Since the early ’90s, Dylan has been in revolt against musical modernity, forsaking contemporary production values, singing traditional folk ballads, and steeping his own songs in old-timey sounds…
Welp, it’s official…
David and Sarah tied the knot this past weekend in Seattle at Pravda Studios.
Pollee and I were there and helped celebrate. What an amazing wedding. Leave it to those two to orchestrate the chic-est wedding this side of the Atlantic.
Thanks a zillion times for including us in the ceremony. We had such a good time with your friends and family - the music, lighting and multimedia weren’t bad either ; )
Here’s some snaps i took over the weekend, tho, not many of the actual wedding itself as i was having so much fun with everyone i didn’t snap many.
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Our dear pal, Buddy Wakefield, started something while we were living in Seattle.
Indeed, he was the first person i ever knew who went earnestly into the void, chasing a dream.
When i knew him then, he’d recently recorded his first album “A Stretch of Presence“, won the Seattle Slam and went on to become individual World Champion twice.
This year, he’s riding on Ani DiFranco’s tour bus in September as he opens for her West Coast dates.
for those of you not into the new age of poetry, forged largely by my man here, check out his new album.
Homepiss, you’re inspiring - may the gods continue to smile on you.
We love you and thank you for showing us what is possible when you BELIEVE.
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White is forbiddingly private when it comes to his personal life, and is obsessive about his music.
Yes, he married English model Karen Elson in a canoe on the Amazon River in Brazil. She recently gave birth to the couple’s first child, daughter Scarlett Teresa, on May 2, 2006 in Tennessee.
Yes, for reasons he doesn’t want to go into, he beat up Von Bondies frontman Jason Stollsteimer in a Detroit nightclub a few years ago.
And yes, he wrote a jingle for a Coca-Cola ad, but he’ll defend his position. He loves the drink, relished the chance “to write something particular along one theme of love in a worldwide form” and fell in love with the sheer art of the ad.
“You’ll understand when you see it,” he says. [you can watch it here, if you likey]
Interest-wise, all the strange relationships and integrity-challenging decisions pale in comparison next to the contribution he’s made to the cause of music.
“A lotta the things I like to do, I like to pick the hardest way to do it,” White says. “That’s the only way I can be proud of it. If you say, ‘Oh, that song went to No. 1,’ and you say, ‘Somebody else wrote it, we had three producers doing it, we recorded it on a computer and we spent half a million dollars on the video,’ that’s kinda hard to be proud of.
well, he doesn’t need us to say it but we are, indeed, proud of you, Jack White.
Thanks for sharing that energy with us last night at First Ave.
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Last night at First Ave, Pollee and i witnessed what is arguably the most movin’ performance either of us have ever seen!
Between Cee-Lo’s huge grin and huger pipes, the band’s seamlessly tight dynamics and the tennis outfits, we did everything we could to not get pushed out of our spots.
Afterwards, almost the entire attendance of the sold out show stood streetside smoking, ogling and dazed, too stunned to go home, too amazed to let the feeling subside too quickly.
If Gnarls comes to your town you best plan ahead to get tickets - they sold out in record time for this show - they’ll be going even faster as word of this amazing collaboration spreads.
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