If the next Shellac album doesn't say "Shellac Trio" somewhere on it-- I'm not buying it.

That is an empty threat. Even if I meant it-- not much of a threat.

If I'm going to bother with the empty threat making I should at least make scary ones.

Piasek wrote:hell, it's tomorrow. i am a bit excited.

Hear, hear.



<fighting the urge to request 'The Idea of North'.. ultra lame, I know>

I thoroughly enjoyed the Berlin gig, guitar malfunction included. This made "Il Porno Star" sound stranger - I liked it! A very happy gig. They played a new song that is apparently about monkeys, and I remember being very excited by it, though I am at an utter loss to describe it two days later. They also played "Killers" again, which is a joy.

Writing this from Warsaw, I should add that the propositions offered that night were incorrect: Poland is neither the Canada nor Mexico of Germany.

sparky wrote:This made "Il Porno Star" sound stranger - I liked it! A very happy gig.

grr, they didn't play that one here

sparky wrote:Writing this from Warsaw, I should add that the propositions offered that night were incorrect: Poland is neither the Canada nor Mexico of Germany.

Who said that? It seems pretty clear that the Canada of Germany is Austria and that Turkey places the Mexico role in this equation...

Mazec wrote:

sparky wrote:Writing this from Warsaw, I should add that the propositions offered that night were incorrect: Poland is neither the Canada nor Mexico of Germany.

Who said that? It seems pretty clear that the Canada of Germany is Austria and that Turkey places the Mexico role in this equation...

In a lull in the questions, Steve asked the audience what the Canada of Germany is, and someone shouted "Poland!" To which Bob replied that they saw Poland as the Mexico. From a brief amount of time here, I'd disagree strongly, at least for Warsaw.

Also notable was Bob's line "Steve's guitar is ausgefuckt", or somesuch.

sparky wrote:
In a lull in the questions, Steve asked the audience what the Canada of Germany is, and someone shouted "Poland!" To which Bob replied that they saw Poland as the Mexico. From a brief amount of time here, I'd disagree strongly, at least for Warsaw.

Also notable was Bob's line "Steve's guitar is ausgefuckt", or somesuch.

You're right, Poland doesn't really have a counterpart in the Western Hemisphere, so it's not the best pick to play Canada/Mexico games with. One could try to argue that Poland was the Canada of the DDR during the Communist era, but even that doesn't work very well, considering the lack of a common language and the fact that, as Communist regimes go, Poland was vastly superior to East Germany back then.

But who knows. Maybe they'll try to say the same think about the Czech Republic. I hope I'll find out in Prague tonight.

wtf? they played Canada over there as well *says "damn"*

Sebastian J. wrote:wtf? they played Canada over there as well *says "damn"*

Sure, it makes complete sense. On an intertextual level, there are many European countries which present a parallel to the United States/Canada paradigm. Austria is the Canada of Germany, Portugal is the Canada of Spain, Norway is the Canada of Sweden, Slovakia is the Canada of the Czech Republic.

Belgium has the special honor of being the Canada of both France and the Netherlands.

Shellac were awesome, Steve and Bob are super nice and if anyone of PRF'ers will miss Allroh I'm going to mentally kick his/her ass. She was great. Many thanks, Shellac.

No thoughts on Poland-Mexico-Canada. Poland used to be Canada of USSR in the, well, USSR days (sort of). Now, I can't really make about any suitable analogy.