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[wombat]

I have never heard of The Arcade Fire.  I was just as confused as Philippe.  Thank you.

But do I get extra Obscure Information credit for recognizing that Teldin's avatar is a picture from the label of a Belgian style beer made in Quebec called Maudite, which picture is based on some interesting legend that I can't remember, thus the canoe being flown through the air in a fiery sky?

Edit: Ah, here it is:

Maudite (the damned one)... has a typically Quebecois name that is reminiscent of the legend of the Chasse-Galerie (the legend of the Flying Canoe). Legend has it that a group of lumberjacks struck a deal with the devil to fly home in their canoes, guided by Satan himself, to make it home in time for Christmas.

Who would think to ask the devil for a flying canoe?  Those wily Quebecois!

[Teldin]

Extra credit to wombat! Maudite is one of the the only beers I like. It's brewed in the back woods of Quebec by Unibroue Breweries, is 8% (!!) and the legend goes: A bunch of lumberjacks struck a deal with the Devil to fly home in a canoe to make it back in time for Christmas. The rest of the label shows Satan leering at them overhead with a quiet little town underneath.

I doubt it's found anywhere outside of Quebec, which is where I get it from.

Edit: Bah! 2 minutes too late.

[wombat]

Actually it is indeed distributed in the US, as well of a few of their others with interesting labels.  My husband likes it because he likes Belgian beer and his parents were Quebecois so it has the sentimental value I guess.  I think Belgian beer is nasty, but I am the sort of person who picks a wine by the interesting animal on the label (a glass of Wombat Hill, anyone?) so I like it too. 

They also have one called La Fin du Monde which is another excellent name.

[jough]

I didn't read the blogs, so wandering into this thread is like visiting Germany to me.

You people are all basically Germans in a beerhall.

[misterqueue]

*Puts down my ridiculously huge beerstein*


Jough, I'm certain we have no idea what you're talking about.


*whisper* Hide the hausfraus!  He's on to us!

[Carlos del Vaca]

Love the mention of Complex magazine.  I've received Complex since their very first issue.  Never asked for it, never paid for it, and I have no fuck*ng idea why they decided to send it to me, because I am so not their target demographic.  I enjoy flipping through it, and showing fashion-spread pictures to the wife--"Hey, imagine if I wore this!  I'd be so dope!"

Also, they have pictures of scantily-clad babes.

[pmcd9]

My husband likes it.

Who is this?  I know nothing of a husband.  Are you referring to the technical staff?

~Paul

[wombat]

Who is this?  I know nothing of a husband.  Are you referring to the technical staff?

~Paul

Oh, no,  I've blown his cover now, haven't I?

[Lister]

Oh, no,  I've blown his cover now, haven't I?

If that's what you want to call it.

[melack]

I don't know how I feel about Onstad admitting he doesn't like rap. Like, as a whole. Doesn't like rap. Say what you will about the Crunk business the kids listen to nowadays, but there's been some pretty great rap over the course of the past quarter century. Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest, Mos Def, Gangstarr, etc. etc. Really, Onstad? None of those? But you like Arcade Fire enough to have one of your comic characters put one of their posters up? Really? Really?

[Hobot]

I don't know how I feel about Onstad admitting he doesn't like rap. Like, as a whole. Doesn't like rap. Say what you will about the Crunk business the kids listen to nowadays, but there's been some pretty great rap over the course of the past quarter century. Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest, Mos Def, Gangstarr, etc. etc. Really, Onstad? None of those? But you like Arcade Fire enough to have one of your comic characters put one of their posters up? Really? Really?

Damn, even I like Mos Def (and, by perusing my last.fm page, you can easily discover why the italics were necessary).  It is pretty hard not to like the dude and his music.

In other news, Téodor is pretty late on the Arcade Fire uptake.  I'm just sayin'.

[theinevitable]

no, no, it was the next day.

or...
damn.

[Noah]

Also, inev, may I suggest that you read Tom Wolfe's "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" this summer (do not be afraid because it has the word "acid" in the title, or Kool-Aid for that matter).  I read it when I was about your age and it quickly became one of my favourite books.

why didn't you spell 'favorite' the american way

fuck*ng traitor

[jough]

I'm Irish, dick.

Man, fuck*ng Americans always expecting that everyone else is a fuck*ng American.

[theinevitable]

yeah, everyone else who lives in Philly, at least...