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52 Before 62 — #40 Odd Man Out (1947)
Directed by Carol Reed
Written by R.C. Sherriff, based upon the novel of the same name by F.L. Green
Starring James Mason, Kathleen Ryan, Robert Newton and Cyril Cusack
Believe it or not, it's not always easy watching the movies in this series. No, I don't mean in terms of availability, like I'm out here picking movies that are basically unavailable and so it's hard to watch them. As if there is any sense to that.
No, I mean they're difficult to watch in terms of hearing a film defined as 'classic', only to learn it actually doesn't live up to the hype. That instead of being rapt by this supposed-classic, I'm bored silly and constantly looking at your phone and counting the minutes until it's over. And at the end, you wonder if you just missed something about the film and it's truly a classic, or if everybody else simply drank the Kool-Aid and you're the only sane one left.
And this is not an instance where we're talking about a reaction to a specific type of classic, like Pink Flamingos, which is classic in some circles[1], or Birth of a Nation, which is classic for expanding the artform, but is also largely racist. No, I'm talking about films that are considered to be in the canon of accepted classic films. Where some are certainly better than others, in the way some hall of famers are better than others, but still, are the best of the best.
So back to my main point, which is it's hard s confronting one of those classic films and being left cold or bored by it, and then left to wondering if maybe the problem isn't the film, but is me.
Self-doubt – that's what makes this all difficult.[2]
And here is the difficulty of Odd Man Out – it might be a classic, but it did nothing for me. Of the Carol Reed oeuvre I've seen – Oliver!, The Third Man, The Fallen Idol, and The Agony and The Ecstasy – Odd Man Out is the least of them, by a country mile. By two country miles. And even as it's possible I'm wrong – after all, the movie was the Best British Picture at the BAFTAs – I don't think I actually missed anything.
Johnny (James Mason) is a prison escapee, planning a robbery to fund an IRA plot – the Irish Republican Party is never explicitly mentioned in the movie, but we can read between the lines and know what it is. Because Johnny's been in prison, and hiding out so long, some worry that Johnny's gone soft, and maybe he's not the right man for this job. Turns out the worries were right: Johnny blanks during the getaway, a man is killed, and he has to go on the run. After that, it's only a matter of time before the allure of the reward overcomes the urge to protect him.
Any Good?
Director Carol Reed made The Third Man, a film many people consider to be the greatest British film of all time – the BFI in 1999 rated it their #1. That film is stylish, playful, and above all memorable. In many ways it's the perfect companion piece to Orson Welles' Citizen Kane. Sure, they don't share any plot similarities, and their sensibilities are decidedly different, but they do show the lengths to which you can make a certain sort of moody, serious, yet light-hearted style work for projects of different types.
And because we know Reed was capable of making one truly great film, it's so much more disappointing when he makes a decidedly dull film. Of his three big ones from the earlier era – The Fallen Idol, The Third Man, and Odd Man Out – Odd Man Out is easily the least of the three and hardly feels as if it were directed by the same man. It lacks the urgency and complexity of The Fallen Idol, and lacks all the wit and charm of The Third Man. Where the other two films have life, this one is too long, non-descript, and technically lesser. It lacks tension.
Even so, it was good to see this film for this series, given its similarity to an earlier film here, John Ford's The Informer. Just as in that story, this one is driven a bit by a feeling of being up against the clock, and just as in that story, the plot revolves around the search for a man. Where they are different, is one is about the informer, the other is about the informed upon. Plus, they both deal with the IRA.
But where The Informer seems to at least have some forward momentum, and a pretty great performance from Victor McLaglen at the center of it – it's one of the great sweaty film performances – Odd Man Out has a James Mason performance with him speaking an Irish accent with his perfect English diction. Where the McLaglen performance felt real and lived in, James Mason feels mannered and technically good, but not realistic. His accent –his whole performance, if we're honest – just lacks a certain sludginess, and lack of refinement that you'd expect from men involved in this line of work. It just feels untruthful.
But a lack of truth to Mason's character is hardly the worst that can be said about him, because the worst is that he actually feels more like a 'thing' than a character. A cipher, as it were. A symbol. And because he's a symbol, and so unimportant as a character, it's no shock that when he eventually disappears from the movie for a stretch, the film doesn't miss him at all.
At the end of the day, that's the ultimate problem with the film, and which dooms it – it's not about a 'story' so much as about 'symbols' and 'importance'. The characters aren't characters and don't exist in the world. They are theoretical ideas that exist only in the movie. To me, that makes the movie ultimately unsuccessful.
Robert Krasker
Cinematographer Robert Krasker won an Oscar for his work on The Third Man, in which he used, and photographed, post-war Vienna to great effect. In a big way, Krasker's work there is as important to cinema as Gregg Toland's work is to Citizen Kane, and is why I mentioned both films earlier. Both films pushed forward the ways we think a film can be shot, both added intense mood to their films, and both showed true artistry.
It's a shame, then, that Krasker's work here seems fairly non-descript and entirely unexceptional.
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[2] Well, difficult in a first-world problems sort of way. After all, we're talking about watching movies, not curing cancer.
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For a pitcher throwing a perfect game is a game, defined as allowing no hits, walks or errors in a nine-inning game, is a rare, almost impossible feat. Six of the 23 pitchers who have thrown perfect games have been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
There have been 23 perfect games thrown in Major League Baseball history and no pitcher has ever done the feat twice. There were two perfect games in the same year on two occasions, 1880 and 2010, and in 2012 there were three perfect games.
Perfect Games
Here's a list of all of the perfect games starting with the pitcher, the participating teams, scores, and dates:
Lee Richmond, Worcester Ruby Legs vs. Cleveland Blues, 1-0, June 12, 1880
John Ward, Providence Grays vs. Buffalo Bisons, 5-0, June 17, 1880
Cy Young, Boston Red Sox vs. Philadelphia Athletics, 3-0, May 5, 1904
Addie Joss, Cleveland Naps vs. Chicago White Sox, 1-0, Oct. 2, 1908
Charles Robertson, Chicago White Sox at Detroit Tigers, 2-0, April 30, 1922
Don Larsen, New York Yankees vs. Brooklyn Dodgers, 2-0, Oct. 8, 1956 (World Series)
Jim Bunning, Philadelphia Phillies at New York Mets, 6-0, June 21, 1964
Sandy Koufax, Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Chicago Cubs, 1-0, Sept. 9, 1965
Catfish Hunter, Oakland Athletics vs. Minnesota Twins, 4-0, May 8, 1968
Len Barker, Cleveland Indians vs. Toronto Blue Jays, 3-0, May 15, 1981
Mike Witt, California Angels at Texas Rangers, 1-0, Sept. 30, 1984
Tom Browning, Cincinnati Reds vs. Los Angeles Dodgers, 1-0, Sept. 16, 1988
Dennis Martinez, Montreal Expos at Los Angeles Dodgers, 2-0, July 28, 1991
Kenny Rogers, Texas Rangers vs. California Angels, 4-0, July 28, 1994
David Wells, New York Yankees vs. Minnesota Twins, 4-0, May 17, 1998
David Cone, New York Yankees vs. Montreal Expos, 6-0, July 18, 1999
Randy Johnson, Arizona Diamondbacks at Atlanta Braves, 2-0, May 18, 2004
Mark Buehrle, Chicago White Sox vs. Tampa Bay Rays, 5-0, July 23, 2009
Dallas Braden, Oakland Athletics vs. Tampa Bay Rays, 4-0, May 9, 2010
Roy Halladay, Philadelphia Phillies vs. Florida Marlins, 1-0, May 29, 2010
Philip Humber, Chicago White Sox vs. Seattle Mariners, 4-0, April 21, 2012
Matt Cain, San Francisco Giants vs. Houston Astros, 10-0, June 13, 2012
Felix Hernandez, Seattle Mariners vs. Tampa Bay Rays, 1-0, Aug. 15, 2012
Unofficial Perfect Games
Ernie Shore, Boston Red Sox vs. Washington Senators, 4-0, June 23, 1917. Shore entered the game after starting pitcher Babe Ruth allowed a walk to Ray Morgan and was ejected. Shore replaced Ruth, Morgan was caught stealing, and Shore retired the next 26 batters.
Harvey Haddix, Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Milwaukee Braves, 0-1, 13 innings, May 26, 1959. He pitched 12 perfect innings and lost the game in the 13th.
Pedro Martinez, Montreal Expos at San Diego Padres, June 3, 1995, 1-0, 10 innings. He pitched nine perfect innings, then allowed a leadoff double in the 10th.
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Louisiana is a state in the south-eastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico. There are many famous Native American tribes who played a part in the history of the state and whose tribal territories and homelands are located in the present day state of Louisiana.
The names of the Louisiana tribes included the Adai, Alabama or Alibamu, Apalachee, Muskogee Creek, Avoyel, Bayogoula, Tunica - Biloxi, Caddo, Chatot, Chawasha, Chitimacha, Choctaw, Houma, Koasati aka Coushatta, Koroa, Mugulasha, Atakapa, Natchez, Okelousa, Opelousa, Ouachita, Pascagoula, Quapaw, Quinipissa, Souchitioni, Tangipahoa, Tawasa were Muskhogean, Washa and Yatasi.
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10/11/2017 to 16/12/2017: Fifteen, Kate MacGarry, London, UK
28/09/2017 to 29/10/2017: As Sculpture, CGP London, London, UK
24/08/2017: Late Junction Broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
23/06/2017 to 28/07/2017: Selected, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
04/03/2017: Phill Jupitus Performing: Jokes written by NHS staff, Tate Modern, UK
03/03/2017 to 10/06/2017: Peter Liversidge - Surface Mail (or the Limitations of Magic), CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, FR
13/01/2017 to 18/02/2017: Civilization?, Kate MacGarry, London, UK
20/01/2017: Sign paintings for video and album Find the Ways by David Allred & Peter Broderick
10/11/2016 to 22/10/2016: Twofold, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
11/06/2016 to 16/07/2016: A Million Times, Kate Macgarry, London
18/06/2016 & 19/06/2016: The Bridge (Choral Piece for Tate Modern), Tate Modern, London
01/04/2016 to 05/02/2017: Proposals for the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, USA
03/12/2015 to 30/01/2016: Sean Kelly X Chrome Hearts, Chrome Hearts, Miami, USA
03/11/2015 to 22/01/2016: Peter Liversidge - Surface Mail. The postal objects of Peter Liversidge from the collection of Peter Foolen. Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
11/09/2015: Album artwork for LOW's Ones and Sixes
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17/03/2015 to 14/06/2015: Notes on Protesting, Whitechapel Gallery, London
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"Since I no longer want to be a false witness or a caretaker minister with the duty to sign the ministry's mail, which something an acting minister can do and since I don't want to violate the constitution despite any political stance, I decided to free myself from my duties ," he said during a press conference at his ministry.
Baroud added that he witnessed, along with the Lebanese people, the breakdown of the Lebanese state.
"I say to the Lebanese that taking them hostage is no longer acceptable," Baroud said.
"I have come to realize in the past few days that the problem in Lebanon is much greater than it appears to be," he stated.
The interior minister also said that he tried for three years to serve the country, but added that there is no longer a reason to do so and that the constitution is being trespassed.
Baroud's decision came after security forces prevented Resigned Telecommunications Minister Charbel Nahhas, several directors at the ministry, and a technical team from entering one of the ministry's buildings at the Adlieh area to dismantle a mobile phone station belonging to OGERO Telecom..
The minister asserted that he has long refused to take sides in the ongoing political divide in Lebanon, adding that the political camp that caretaker resigned Minister Nahhas is affiliated with has not spared him its criticism, while he has no dispute with the other political camp.
These are signs of civil strife and may be civil war which serves Syria… God help the Lebanese people who have nothing to do with the thugs who hijacked Lebanon.
Syrians still think Lebanon is their backyard.
True!It s hard ti ¨serve the country¨when some politicians ,ministers,officials,and so on continue to attack,accuse and threaten,when they serve their egoistic political interests and those of their allies,disregarding the interest of their country and their people!!A state is not built by such people!A state is built by great statesmen with visions and policies that serve their country and their people!!Courageous men are needed to face the dangers and speak the truth!
De3ano…this guy is an actual politician who CARES about Lebanon .
That's another potential leader lost… back to the old men.
I used to like Baroud for his professionalism, humbleness and care for the public interest, but lately I noticed that he has been siding a lot with the March 8 positions and covering for them. Like the Telecommunication minister Nahas, who gets his orders from HA (and/or their Syrian bosses) and wants to bypass the laws and cover up for criminals. Apparently Nahas is forbidding the security people from having access to some tele-communication in the case of the kidnapping of the innocent Estonians.


For almost 70 years, Sherri hid herself from the world. Everyone knew her as Les, a welder, a husband and a father. She was a biological male, but her physical gender didn't match the way she felt about who she was. Like many people in this country living with Gender Identity disorder, she was ostracized, harassed, and abused throughout her life.


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Guilty Gear's Guilt-Free Wicked Woman: I-No
by Amanda Jeauxnes | Oct 21, 2015 | Opinion, Video Games | 0 comments
Guilty Gear is a fighting game series that began in 1998. Guilty Gear: Xrd SIGN came out in 2014; with a pachinko game and a free-roaming melee-action title also in the bag, the franchise is going strong. In the two-dimensional Street Fighter mould, the main games star two serious men with a rivalry—one blonde, one brunette—who secretly love and understand each other.
But unlike Street Fighter, it has an evolving story, and elaborate worldbuilding, and really cool character designs. They retain the graphic solidity of SF, but add the hip swagger of King of Fighters, and a rock sensibility that game-runner Ishiwatari Daisuke reinforces with elaborate metal theme tunes and a band-reference naming scheme. Heard of Venom, Testament, Slayer, Zappa? Well, they're characters now. How about Meliah Rage, Cloudberry Jam, Shiina Ringo? There are greater and lesser name-plays to spot, which is fun for fans and word-nerds, and impinges not at all upon the gaming experience for those with no interest in fierce guitar solos or symphonic echo.
Guilty Gear is a favourite of mine. I was captured by graphic showmanship, further enticed by the fantastic soundtrack, and finally cemented as a fan with the pretty great showing for its women. There are parts that I hate—Johnny's a bit of a Sergey Wang, Millia keeps being dragged back to those boring Assassin boys—but on the whole it's approaching transcendent. The gameplay's demanding but while there are fairly elaborate rules, they are at least clearly defined. It's possible to "learn how to play" Guilty Gear, if you're so inclined, and watching a match between experts is a treat. But I want to talk to you about great visual design! So let's get down to that.
I-No is a sexy witch.
I know, right? U SERIOUS, BRA? Actually…
I have no bad word to say about her, though I reserve a qualm or two for her designer. I-No is a final boss and playable character, and of a great cast, she's one of my faves. And one of contributor Amanda J's faves too—she caught my attention calling I-No her unproblematic fave. Which really felt like a good catch.
We had a think about why that is.
I-No: why do we like her?
a witch (this is an acceptable assumption noted by her rad hat and her ability to shift reality)
super cool move sets
shreds on guitar
name may or may not be a subtle nod to Brian Eno
name, guitar name and look are definitely nods to Shiina Ringo
confident (in abilities and sexually)
body language is robust
not incredibly jiggly, really—animation priority is not given to dem titties
good voice acting
makes titular protagonist Sol Badguy upset & uncomfortable (more like Lol Badguy, amirite)
SUPER important to the plot; literally nothing we see in-game would have happened if she hadn't "initially" time-travelled to save Ky.
a rude girl: As the GGWikia has it, "[s]he is somewhat crude in how she speaks to others, as she is always either cursing, insulting her opponents, or making sexually charged comments, usually using musical references as double entendres." See also: inclined to call Sol, or anybody, a shithead, and try to murder them.
Claire: I feel like her being ALL red is helpful. It's very cohesive and suggests that she is designed to look as cool and solid as everybody else, as well as having no shirt on. It's also very aggressive, a DANGER COLOUR. It's classic femme fatale stuff, which at this point is code for Of Course You Would F— Her, but you know how every now and then someone will make a big deal about how "actually men HATE red lipstick! They're afraid of it!?" I-No looks like she'd eat you and suck the bones dry.
Amanda: I-No's blue guitar (I'm estimating that it's supposed to look like a typical Les Paul, but since the knobs are inside of the pickguard, a typically Fender or Rickenbacker trait, we'll just suspend disbelief. Headcanon: I-No's guitar is a classic Gretsch White Falcon painted iridescent baby blue) is the perfect accessory. And when I say "accessory," I don't mean it's just there for show. My favorite I-No victory pose is the one where she finishes with a blistering solo (actually it's just a bunch of hammer-ons and pull-offs that anyone with some practice can master BUT HEY). The calming color of her guitar really sets off the rest of her severe look. It fits because it doesn't fit.
Claire: You're right. She's like a neon poison fish. The clear electric bright of Marlene (of course the guitar has a name) cuts through the sticky red, it's incongruous, which is a neighbour to unsettling. Nothing—well, much less than you might assume from a written description—about her makes lechery particularly easy.
But why is it so charming to me that like 50% of I-No cosplay has added bustier bits? On the one hand that makes it clear that the character design is less than 100% "reasonable.
Amanda: This is absolutely because Daisuke Ishiwatari, like most character designers, has a limited understanding of a woman's body. It's either that or they're just more willing to give in to fantasy over reality. You know, in a fighting game where there is nothing but high-fantasy elements.
Claire: It's true. Her victory pose where she whips off her jacket (in the GIF gallery above) is just… literally impossible, unless her arms aren't solid. "She wears black leather choker around her neck with a gold ring that is connected to her shoulderless red jacket that she can easily take off and put on," says the Guilty Gear wikia, and that's just totally wrong. It's incorrect. And the loose flaps of the front of her jacket would not stay covering her nipples. Maybe she uses magic? I'd like if that was actually put in the story. Then again, her boots fit so realistically, and that makes her seem more like a reflection than an idealisation.
And on the third hand—people, women, love her so much they just go ahead and add spare bits to make her sex-witch costume reel back into their comfort zones. I feel like often with very small, gappy cosplay, there's a sort of invisibly enforced bravado amongst cosplayers; this is canon, so you have to do it that way. A sort of constructed nobility about it. Kill la Kill philosophy? I've certainly gone back and forth on whether or not I'll do an outfit because it's way briefer than I'm comfortable with, and erred on the side of "no" because I've not been so invested in the cosplay that I can build up the performance bravado to redesign it with my own public comfort in mind. I've been averse to the possibility of being challenged or invalidated as a prude, I suppose. There's a lot of prude-vs-empowered floating dialogue it's easy to get tangled in, around cosplay. So to see multiple I-Nos making I-No-Prime's outfit conform to their own comfort standards—!
I-No's philosophy is "do wot I want;" these cosplay redesigns are true to the gist of the character without being slavish to others' descriptions of her. I know it's strange to suggest that the character has any life that wasn't breathed in by her designers, but…if we don't believe in magic even a little bit, why do we care about fiction at all.
Amanda: Isn't it odd that "sexy witch" is so embarrassingly played out as a costume, but "sexy, super cool, evil, will alter-space-and-time-to-get-her-way rock-n-roll witch" is great and necessary.
Claire: So how do you feel about (brusque, loner main character) Sol? Do you like Sol? I think he is a berk, which is why I so enjoy how much I-No discomforts him. She tends to greet him as "shithead" in the English translations. I hope it's not even due to a Secret Plot Event, I hope he just feels bad when she's there.
Amanda: A large part of my love for I-No stems from the fact that she never seems to get intimidated by male characters. Even though Sol's known as the Relatable Anti-Hero, I-No constantly makes him aware that he's not in charge here. And I-No's verbal jabs at Sol endear her to me even more! I'm sure his feelings of discomfort are For Reasons to Be Explained (or slightly gleamed upon half-assedly). Sol is okay. I don't think about him too much. Faust terrifies me.
Claire: Ugh I hate Faust! He's a serial killer. I guess that maybe I-No is, too; she's certainly a villain. But I want her around anyway. She's got such a lot of (NO LAUGHING) spunk.
Amanda: Yeah, but Faust doesn't have the panache and even-temperedness (thanks to her voice actress's dulcet tones) that makes I-No more palatable. She's mad, yes, but at least she's cool.
Claire: I think I could sum up by saying that we love I-No because she has enough to her, enough written and animated in, that she seems counter-compliant enough to produce the illusion of agency. We're both real people. We know that some people always, and lots of people sometimes, just want to be really rude to tough buff men and frighten them with tittery.
There are still ways we can criticise the creative decisions around her (for example, the way she's repeatedly, boringly punished in her endings) but there's enough character informing the design that I don't feel shortchanged; given a sorry wank puppet from a shuffly, excuse-me loser perv instead of a viable fictionalised human to follow through a narrative. I-No is a Lil' Kim for fighting games, if that's not too weak a showing for Lil' Kim? It probably is. But I-No still matters.
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Pope Francis is set to preside over the largest act of Christian worship in the Arab world next week when he celebrates an open-air Mass at Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
More than 135,000 people are expected to attend the pope's mass in Zayed Sports City next Tuesday and the Abu Dhabi government if reportedly furnishing hundreds of free buses to shuttle those wishing to attend the Mass.
Last December, the Vatican announced that the pope would visit Abu Dhabi in February 2019, the first visit by any pope in history to the Arabian Peninsula.
"In response to the invitation of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, His Holiness Pope Francis will visit Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) from 3 to 5 February 2019, to participate in the International Interfaith Meeting on 'Human Fraternity,'" a Vatican statement said.
UAE authorities have allowed the pope to hold liturgical celebrations "in a public place," a rare concession usually not permitted on the Arabian Peninsula, Christian religious activities are only allowed within churches.
The Gulf region is home to some two million Catholics, many of whom are migrant workers from India, Africa, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and the Philippines.
About 1.5 million of these Catholics live in Saudi Arabia, where the building of Christian churches is illegal.
The theme of the pope's UAE visit comes from a prayer attributed to Saint Francis of Assisi: "Make me an instrument of your peace."
Jorge Bergoglio was the first pope to choose the name of Francis, after the 13th-century Italian saint known for his particular devotion to the virtue of poverty as well as his association with peace.
Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance for the UAE, stated that the joint visit of Pope Francis along with Ahmed Al Tayeb, Grand Imam of Cairo's Al Azhar, reflects the country's efforts "to establish the values of tolerance around the world, which have made the UAE a model of civilised coexistence."
The pope's trip to Abu Dhabi will precede his journey to Morocco, scheduled for March 30-31. The papal visits to Morocco and the United Arab Emirates both will fall in the year when the Church recalls eight centuries since the meeting between Saint Francis and the Sultan Malik al-Kamil, which took place in Damietta in Egypt in 1219.
"We think this Pope is working very hard to harmonise understanding between different religions," the UAE's Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Sulaiman Almazroui, told the UK-based Tablet newspaper. "He has a genuine desire to arrive at balanced thinking of acceptance of Islam minus extremism. And Christianity minus extremism."
"The UAE has embraced tolerance for a long time, [and] by its nature it has co-existed with many different nationalities and faiths," Ambassador Almazroui said, adding that the pope is visiting during the country's Year of Tolerance.
The UAE is an Islamic state and conversion to Christianity, considered apostasy under the law, is punishable by death.
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What's going on in the major crypto markets as 2021 comes to an end? Plenty, beginning with what might be one of the most draconian moves by a position of power against its own citizens. In September, the centrally planned government of China's CCP (Chinese Communist Party) banned citizens (but not other party members) from owning, trading, storing or mining Bitcoin and all other crypto-currencies.
The reason behind the move is unknown. But for people who live and work in free nations, what are the implications of the CCP's freedom-stifling decision? For anyone interested in owning, speculating on, trading or mining cryptos, the sheer size of China's economy meant the hard ruling had several unexpected consequences, almost all of which are favourable for everyone but the national government, which decided to eliminate crypto-currency from its home economy.
China's backward move
For starters, once the ban was announced, two of the largest alt coins, based on capitalisation, dropped temporarily. That's mainly because so many Chinese citizens were forced to sell their Bitcoin and Ethereum. But not long after that, several interesting things happened. Crypto entrepreneurs in Texas decided to pounce and offer to take up the slack for crypto-based companies and mining operations. Bargain hunters jumped in and bought up massive amounts of both Bitcoin and Ethereum just before prices began to rise again.
Non-centralised tokens, known as DEX units (meaning decentralised), popped as soon as the ban was announced. Here's more about the short-term and long-term effects of the CCP decision to ban all crypto activity within Communist China's borders. Note that in Democratic China, Taiwan, all crypto-currency trading, owning and mining is still fully legal. The ban only applies to the Communist-run mainland.
Opportunities for the rest of the world
Whenever a large governmental entity bans a product or service, there's usually a ripple effect. And, in the recent case of the crypto ban by the CCP, that rule has certainly held true. For instance, crypto-currency trading platforms in South Africa, Europe, the US and non-communist Asia all saw frenetic activity during the last weeks of September. Why? As noted above, the primary effect was bargain seekers who wanted to pick up as much Bitcoin and Ethereum as they could afford before the temporary price drop reversed itself. And their predictions were correct, as the two major alt coins soon regained all their lost ground and then some.
For example, Bitcoin temporarily dropped, but within two weeks was back up to $47,600 and threatening to reach back to highs set during the early part of the year. Ethereum did almost exactly the same thing. That's not to say that investors and traders can only make a profit on increases in value. But with the crypto-currency market so volatile these days, long-term investors are always on the lookout for price dips that allow for quick bargains. It appears that millions of alt coin enthusiasts jumped in at just the right time and made a handsome profit.
Risks for crypto enthusiasts
With every opportunity come risks, and the crypto sector is no exception. Of course, both ETH and BTC could fall at any time, especially in an asset class as new and unpredictable as crypto-currency. Navigating the uncertain terrain of virtual monetary assets is not for the faint of heart, nor is it an investment without risk. A short list of the financial risks associated with buying any alt coin include the following:
Price volatility, especially for the smaller, newer coins;
Some trading platforms are not as secure as they should be;
Holding assets in online wallets exposes investors to risk of confiscation or hacking; and
Alt coins are unregulated by official institutions, which means there's no safety net for holders should a currency drop to zero.
Stocks and other traditional assets also have the potential to reach zero value levels, experience price surges in every direction and leave owners with little to show for their once valuable portfolios.
The DEX effect
Decentralised coins (like pancake and hundreds of others) don't require the use of an official, third-party exchange for buyers who want to acquire them. In China's case, that could mean that clever citizens can easily work around the new law and purchase DEX coins with their leftover investment funds. And apparently, that's what everyone expects them to do because several of the top ranked DEX cryptos rose by huge amounts as soon as the ban became official. A few leaders of the DEX sector rose by an astounding 40%. Will the CCP figure out a way to stop it's billion-plus citizenry from going directly to online sources and purchasing DEX currencies? Based on the party's history, it's a good bet they'll try, which means there will be a new round of opportunities in the virtual currency markets when that happens.
The Texas effect
As soon as the CCP revealed its new policy, the US state of Texas announced that the city of Austin would welcome any mining operations that wanted to move their headquarters from the Chinese mainland to the Lone Star State. It's uncertain how many of the now-illegal coin miners in Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong will be heading to Texas, but the development is an excellent example of how banning an activity in one place simply allows it to move to friendlier territory.
Bans aside, two of the more relevant forces driving the entire global crypto-currency markets these days are economic instability and the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. In some ways, the second is responsible for the first because so many small businesses went under after more than a year of social lockdown rules and forced retail closures. Whether investors continue to view Bitcoin, Ethereum and other players in the crypto-currency space as safe-haven assets in times of economic uncertainty is to be seen. So far, the alt coins have held up admirably since the first days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon was born on January 21, 1963, in Lagos, Nigeria. He is formerly known as Akeem Olajuwon and is a Nigerian-American retired professional basketball player of the National Basketball Association and an entrepreneur. He is a part of the Basketball Hall of Fame and also was inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame, last year. He played for the Houston Rockets and the Toronto Raptors in his entire NBA career. Having a height of 7 ft 0 inches is known to be one of the best players in the NBA to play at the centre position.In this article, we'll be having a closer look at the net worth of Akeem Olajuwon and his various income sources.
Hakeem Olajuwon was born in the working class family of Yoruba owners of a cement business in Nigeria. Out of the eight children his parents had, he was third. At the age of 15, Hakeem Olajuwon went to the University of Houston under Cougars coach Guy Lewis after emigrating from Nigeria. He struggled in the game in his initial days, but soon became taken in the game. His height and basketball skill which he had mastered since 15 landed him a center position for the Nigerian national team. After a while, he got drafted in the NBA and was selected by Houston Rockets.mHe along with Ralph Sampson went on to create a duo and had a huge impact on the court. Hakeem Olajuwon income and Hakeem Olajuwon net worth spoke for him in that phase and he proved himself to be a very dominating man in the court while playing. He was in his best phase of his career and after being traded to the Warriors in 1998, he joined the team of the Rockets. In 1993 he was declared as an American citizen and became the only player to win titles including Defensive Player of the Year, Finals MVP awards and the NBA MVP together. Hakeem Olajuwon earning this record was outstanding and is something that is still not broken. His heroics include winning an Olympic gold medal for the US national team, entering the list of 50 Greatest Players in NBA history and was along with Shaquille O'Neal recognised as the best NBA Center Player. Toronto Raptors also signed him in 2001 providing Hakeem Olajuwon salary over $5 million.
The net worth of Akeem Olajuwon is $200 Million and Akeem Olajuwon net worth is so high because of his super successful career in the National Basketball Association. He went on to do many endorsements too which increase the Akeem Olajuwon earnings a lot. The Houston Rockets paid Akeem Olajuwon salary of over $16 million in the season of 2000-2001. The total salary that Akeem Olajuwon earned through playing in the NBA was $107,011,426.
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Imagine Communications has implemented a new multichannel playout center for Alpha TV in Athens, Greece. The new installation gives Alpha TV the ability to meet its viewers' demand for HD on all channels, and builds a platform for future growth plans. It also ensures business continuity by providing full redundancy, eliminating the risk of any channel going off air.
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Vancouver's Rod Filbrandt is set to launch his new book featuring the immortal Wombat, the "knight errant and holy fool" who graced the pages of Discorder and the Georgia Straight between the early '80s and mid-'90s.
Wombat: The Collected Comic Strip (Anvil Press, $16) shows aspects of Filbrandt's art getting slicker as the years go by, but his misfit hero—part punk, part Raymond Chandler reject—remains a bespectacled ball of sarcasm, bad nerves, and all-purpose rage (see page 49, where Mr. Dressup's Casey and Finnegan are threatened with a shiv). Of course, the booze never stops flowing, and every hard-edged drink is a possible door to hallucinatory black magic—or at least to a "color fun" page inviting you to take your crayons to a black-and-white pillar of puke rushing from Wombat. It all adds up to a sharply funny portrait of a darker, less yoga-friendly time.
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Basalt – The Weld Central boys soccer team had its impressive season end at the hands of one of the top teams in Class 3A on Tuesday.
The Longhorns scored twice in the first half then withstood a strong attack from the Rebels, who finished 12-3-1 overall, in the second half.
Coach Vince Ruscitti said by phone the Rebels showed some fatigue in the first half after travelling to Basalt on Monday. The Rebels were not into bed until around 1 a.m. then played at 2:30 p.m.
Basalt's second goal was a disputed one.
Ruscitti said Weld Central sophomore goalkeeper Jody Guzman appeared to have both hands on the ball, but another played collided with him, causing Guzman to lose the ball. No foul was called, and Basalt was able to seize momentum by securing a two-goal lead about 2 minutes from halftime.
After some adjustments and receiving a pep talk at halftime, the Rebels had the better of the play in the second half.
After about 60 minutes, junior Ivan Zorilla hit the cross bar on a free kick from 25 yards. Junior Tyler Davis also had a good chance on a breakaway but couldn't finish it.
The Rebels, who had just three seniors, should bring back a good team, Ruscitti said.
All three of the Rebels losses came to highly ranked teams, for Basalt was the No. 6 seed in the 3A playoffs. The Rebels lost to the Nos. 1 and 2 teams in 3A earlier in the season. Ruscitti added he and the Weld Central coaches were pleased with the season though disappointed with Tuesday's result.
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"The Adventures of the Black Angus" starring Tom Conway and Nigel Bruce (10/19/46)
"The Lottery Racket" narrated by Robert Sloane (7/21/48)
The Black Musuem
"A Blued .22 Caliber Pistol" starring Orson Welles (1952)
The Cisco Kid
"Robbery on the Railroad" starring Jack Mather and Mel Blanc (1950's)
Cloak & Dagger
"Roof of the World" starring Raymond Edward Johnson (8/13/50)
Command Performance
With Shirley Temple, Fanny Brice, Abbott and Costello (4/19/42)
Duffy's Tavern
"Archie and Finnegan Double Date" starring Ed "Archie" Gardner (4/6/49)
Have Gun, Will Travel
"Young Guns" starring John Dehner (7/12/59)
The Jack Benny Program
"Champion Set-Up" starring Jack Benny and all his gang (5/22/49)
"The Grocery Store Matter" starring William Johnstone (2/1/51)
My Favorite Husband
"April Fool's Day" starring Lucille Ball (4/1/49)
The Mysterious Traveler
"The Man with Insects Hated" starring Eric Dressler (7/27/47)
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
"Little Chiva" starring Dick Powell (3/23/1951)
Somebody Knows
"The Unsolved Murder of Elizabeth Short aka The Black Dahlia" starring Harry Bartell (8/24/50)
"Your Devoted Wife" starring June Duprez (6/20/46)
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DALTON, GA, February 19, 2010—The winds of change blow softly and naturally in Karastan's woven introductions for 2010. Popular sisal-like weaves head into spring with fresh colors. Several of these eco-friendly carpets are crafted of sustainable and renewable Wools of New Zealand Brand wool for durability, easy care and comfort. They all have a free and breezy spirit that is both casual yet sophisticated.
Agave Reflections offers a contemporary, updated palette in one of Karastan's all-time classic weaves. This subtle herringbone pattern has the visual characteristics of a natural sisal weave in a tailored carpet. Woven of premium, sustainable and renewable New Zealand wool, this low-level loop pile is soft underfoot, easy to care for and will maintain its fresh beauty for years. It comes in nine fresh and natural shades and coordinates with Belize Vibrations and Zanzibar Vibrations.
Belize Vibrations hums with punch and visual character. This low-level loop pile carpet offers a big dose of style and color: it combines two solid color yarns in a beautiful natural sisal weave. Woven of premium, sustainable and renewable New Zealand wool, Belize Vibrations is easy to maintain, will last for years and is incredibly soft. This carpet possesses subtle textural variations reminiscent of raw silk and natural linen. It is available in nine fresh and natural shades and coordinates with Agave Reflections and Zanzibar Vibrations.
Karastan first introduced its diamond block pattern with the textural characteristics of a natural sisal weave in 1992, and it has proven to be a classic. Zanzibar Vibrations recreates that timeless and stylish pattern but in a new subtle and sophisticated neutral palette of nine fresh and natural shades. This low-level loop pile carpet is woven of premium, sustainable and renewable New Zealand wool for an incredibly soft feel, tough performance and easy maintenance. It coordinates with Belize Vibrations and Agave Reflections.
Libretto is a luscious woven wool loop pile that sings a tune of classic beauty with a contemporary flair. Its staggered stripe pattern is transitional and fresh; subtle layers of color add a sophisticated touch. Woven of premium, sustainable and renewable New Zealand wool, this soft carpet will provide outstanding beauty and maintain its good looks for years. It is available in six contemporary shades.
Decolites is a hip, fun woven wool loop that brings to life home offices, family rooms, or any room that can use a bit of whimsy. Modern brights punch up the palette of 13 shades, which also includes transitional favorites. Luxurious New Zealand wool and multi-hued space-dyed nylon play together in this high/low woven rib to create a carpet that has unmistakable style and outstanding performance.
Loom Art is a sumptuous woven boucle loop fashioned to give any room a casual flair. Offering nine shades inspired by nature and the superior performance and easy maintenance of 100% Stainmaster BCF Extra Life Nylon, Loom Art turns any room into a masterpiece.
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Product recall within the food and agriculture sector has surged both in number and severity in recent years. Growing consumer awareness, regulatory scrutiny and social media responses combine to create a serious challenge for manufacturers and retailers.
With contaminated food products almost always destroyed rather than recalled, these incidents can cripple balance sheets, not just in third-party costs but also through termination of contracts and lost future business, not to mention the longer-term reputational impact.
As hygiene and safety standards in the food and agriculture increase, and product scrutiny becomes more stringent, more retailers will demand suppliers have robust product recall insurance in place if they want to work in partnership. Purchasing such cover might come at a cost, but it also creates financial security and makes the business more attractive to larger retailers.
We offer an integrated product recall insurance tailored for the food and agriculture sector.
As legal powers increase to impose fines and enforce a recall, an extension is available to cover government recall.
Malicious product tampering, product extortion and adverse publicity are also standard perils.
What is the reality of a product recall event?
What is the difference between product liability and contaminated product insurance?
It is important to understand the difference between product liability and contaminated product insurance. Product liability covers a business's liability arising out of their product causing third party bodily injury or property damage. Contaminated product insurance covers the recall costs of any product which has, or is imminently likely to cause third party bodily injury or property damage. Interestingly enough, if a client was to purchase both covers, then a recall policy could save far more significant costs than a product liability policy, if that contaminated product can be recalled before it can cause bodily injury claims.
What would a crisis management consultant do in the event of a product recall?
Due to the growing impact of social media, it is imperative for companies to employ risk management resources to react quickly in a crisis. We recognise the importance of a strong crisis management as being integrated to a comprehensive recall insurance offering.


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AxiomSL Wins Best Solution in Credit Risk Modelling
Singapore/Hong Kong, 15 December 2020 – AxiomSL has won Best Solution in Credit Risk Modelling, was highly commended in two other categories, Capital & Liquidity Modelling and Trade Reporting, in the 3rd Regulation Asia Awards for Excellence 2020 in an online ceremony on 15 December 2020.
In the highly competitive Credit Risk Modelling category, AxiomSL emerged as the winner for delivering transparent tools to support financial institutions with their regulatory needs and operational decision-making concerning credit risk. In particular, AxiomSL's IntegratedModelView module provides financial institutions flexible options for managing credit risk models directly within AxiomSL's data integrity and control platform ControllerView.
The IntegratedModelView module provides transparent, automated, and highly flexible end-to-end risk model management and execution capabilities, as well as open source integration and dashboards for model monitoring and trend analysis. It allows financial institutions to gain greater control over their credit risk model management, while also increasing model transparency, auditability and code visibility.
"AxiomSL's IntegratedModelView provides a strategic approach to managing multiple risk models in one end-to-end open source platform, and is capable of producing information dashboards to review models in real time," said one judge on the awards panel. "The solution stands out for its flexible and transparent approach to model development and management, which is increasingly important in the current environment from an audit and supervisory perspective."
In the Capital & Liquidity Modelling category, AxiomSL was highly commended for its efficient, transparent and cost-effective approach to model management. This approach enables financial institutions to integrate model data and outputs with core regulatory reporting solutions on ControllerView, enabling them to perform regulatory calculations, reporting, and submissions in line with regulatory requirements.
In the Trade Reporting category, AxiomSL was highly commended for its Trade and Transaction Reporting Solution, which enables accurate, efficient and multi-jurisdictional compliance with reporting regimes from within a single platform. The solution enables financial institutions to manage regulatory data validation and enrichment, determine eligibility, and manage exceptions and reporting with full traceability and auditability.
About the Regulation Asia Awards for Excellence 2020
The Regulation Asia Awards for Excellence recognises financial institutions, technology companies, legal and consulting firms, exchanges and other players that have helped meet the challenges of the ever-changing and increasingly complex regulatory landscape in Asia Pacific. Each year, submissions are diligently evaluated and award winners selected by a panel of industry experts serving as judges.
The full list of award winners is available here.
About Regulation Asia
Regulation Asia is the leading source for actionable regulatory intelligence for Asia Pacific markets. With over 8,500 subscribers, including regulatory bodies, exchanges, banks, asset managers and service providers, Regulation Asia plays a key role in shaping the regulatory agenda.
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Someone asked me recently about my views on church and state. I replied that I advocate a "Christendom model" of church-state relations. Then I proceeded to qualify.
When I was done qualifying, I suddenly wondered whether what I call "Christendom" corresponds to what other people understand by the word. It seems a useful exercise to discriminate what Christendom gets right and what it gets wrong.
One of the sources of ambiguity is that Christendom can be used both to describe a theoretical ideal of Christian politics and to describe an actual political order and civilization. The two senses are related, in that the theoretical ideal abstracts from the mess of the historical phenomenon. Yet they are distinct, and blurring the distinction produces confusion. In what follows, I'll try to keep the distinction in view.
For starters, what Christendom gets right.
Christendom involves the effort to conform public life to the gospel and the word of God. Christendom is an historical and political expression of the kingship of Christ. Christendom has been evident in, for instance, coronation rites that invoke the Triune God, treatises on godly rule that stress the ruler's imitatio Christi, legal codes that cite or are rooted in Scripture.
In this sense, Christendom is inherent in the gospel. Yahweh promised Abraham that kings would come from him. Psalm 2 proclaims that the Lord has set His anointed at His right hand to rule the nations, and the New Testament explicitly applies this Psalm to Jesus (the resurrection in particular, Acts 13). Paul preaches the gospel of the son of David in order to bring about the "obedience of faith" among the Gentiles (Romans 1).
As Oliver O'Donovan has stressed, Christendom fulfills the gospel as the response of the nations to the authority of Jesus.
Christendom is also right to recognize the church as the body of Christ. At its best, historic Christendom has acknowledged the church as a unique and independent religious society. Constantine facilitated the assembly of the council of Nicea, but did not (in my judgment) control its results.
In acknowledging the church as the body of Christ, Christendom's rulers have also respected the church as God's spokesman. Ambrose rebuked Theodosius for his brutality in war; more ambiguously, Gregory VII brought Henry to heel. In the best cases, the church played a prophetic role in historic Christendom.
But Christendom has also gotten things wrong.
For some, such state sponsorship of the church is the essence of Christendom: Tax funds collected by the coercive state are funnelled to pay the salaries of clergy and to pay other church expenses. But there are always strings attached.
Constantine didn't control the internal operations of the church, but his generosity in sponsoring the church made the church somewhat dependent on state funds and created perverse incentives for church leaders. Only the hardiest of church leaders are willing to bite the hands that pays for their meals.
These pressures are particularly acute in post-Reformation versions of Christendom, when the established church often becomes a virtual department of state, losing virtually all of its independence. Taking on the role of "chaplain," the church mutes its prophetic witness.
This post-Reformation version of Christendom is a defection from the earlier models of Christendom. Insofar as the church was absorbed into the state, it undermined one of the founding principles of late Roman and medieval Western Christendom – the independence of the church. Absorption of the church into the state is a reversion to pre-Christian pagan arrangements of religious politics.
Under Christendom, state authorities have enforced religious orthodoxy. This goes back to the founding of Christendom: Constantine did not determine the outcome of the Nicene Council, but he enforced the results. In some cases, political authorities adjudicate what counts as orthodoxy.
Again, for many this is an essential feature of Christendom, but it stands in sharp tension with another, fundamental feature of Christendom – the acknowledgment of the church as an independent religious society.
On the one hand, the Confession aims to protect the independence of the church as the ministry of word, sacraments, and discipline.
The challenges come to the fore with the statement that the magistrate has authority to advance the unity and peace of the church, protect the purity of truth and suppress heresy and abuses of worship. How is the magistrate to judge such things? Conflict might break out because reformers are trying to correct a corrupt church; on which side should the magistrate land? And, again, how does he know?
How does a magistrate do what the Confession encourages without effectively subordinating the church to the state?
Civil rulers should promote the spiritual as well as the physical health of the people they govern. They should encourage true piety and worship. But with what tools? Should Congress send troops in to break up a worship service that is full of abuses? Or should they discourage heresy through tax policy? Or should rulers encourage the church to maintain her own purity and peace?
No church-state settlement settles things, certainly not forever and always. History upends the best-developed theories. The history of Christian politics has been and will always be a messy history.
But we can lay out some basic guidelines: The church is the body of Christ; that is the truth, and states are better off when they acknowledge the truth. Rulers are better off when they listen to those whom God has called to teach His word.
But the burden of Christian politics lies with the church, not the state. As the body of Christ, the church is the present outpost of the eschatology city of God, an independent polity. Christendom as a historic polity has deviated from Christendom as a theoretical ideal when the church has failed to live out the truth about herself.
I would also add that Christendom has had a real problem dealing with those who are not Christians. The treatment of Jews throughout the history of Christian rule has ranged from schizoid to outright barbarism, and they were largely the only other religion tolerated – sometimes, rarely, moreso than other Christian sects than the locally approved-of one.
This has continued into the present day, with, until very recently, the assumption of Christian ethos as the basis for moral authority, and continues to this day with various attempts to impose Christian doctrine and codes on the general populace regardless of the actual beliefs of said populace.
You can understand why people who aren't Christians could feel more than a little bit threatened by these sentiments, surely?
If Jesus' expectations were that God would establish Christian rule over the pagan nations, would this have affected some of his ethical teachings, specifically in regards to the topic of non-violence? Perhaps "do not resist an evil person" is a time-specific teaching rather than a timeless one—expected of the church prior to the conversion of the empire but not after.


How to crack the Weezer code: The 405 meets Jake Sinclair and Alohaha.
Although what he refers to as his day job rattled the rock world this past week with the official announcement of Weezer's tenth studio album, Jake can't quite hide his excitement regarding his part in it, taking fractional credit for Rivers Cuomo's beard and the album's supposed nostalgic sound.
Jake Sinclair wears a suit to work when producing Weezer's forthcoming album. Although what he refers to as his day job rattled the rock world this past week with the official announcement of Weezer's tenth studio album, Jake can't quite hide his excitement regarding his part in it, taking fractional credit for Rivers Cuomo's beard and the album's supposed nostalgic sound. After all, he was the one once in a Weezer cover band. And now he's producing The White Album.
However, when the suit comes off, music sounds a little different for the Grammy-nominated Taylor Swift, Fall Out Boy and 5 Seconds Of Summer pop producer - a little more broken and a lot more tropical. In a side-project titled Alohaha, Jake and ex-girlfriend/poet Lyndsay Thornton, decided to turn their angst and pain into something productive, by forming a dual-inspired Hawaiian-themed break-up record.
But although an exceptional sonic success, the project also went beyond the estranged couple's expectations. It brought them back together.
Tell me about the inception and how Alohaha was all formed.
Musically it's mostly me. The girl that's singing on the record is my friend Morgan from the band M83. My girlfriend is actually responsible for most of the lyrics. It was her poetry that I've adapted into songs mostly. We were in the process of going through a break-up and I was kind of making a bunch of sad Hawaiian music and she was writing a bunch of poetry. She's Canadian and lives in Vancouver and has a stomach condition calls gastroparesis. The healthcare is good up there. But we were kind of seeing other people and it was difficult. That was the way that we started communicating again, poetry and music. It just kind of formed musically after that.
Are you still broken up?
No, we're back together. We started working on the music and it got us talking again and we got over things. After I made the record is when we got back together.
That's incredible. Because when listening to the project, you hear the emotion. It's a break-up record. So I'm happy music helped you communicate in order to mend things so that it can maybe do the same for others that hear it.
One of my favourite albums has always been Beck's Sea Change. Usually a break-up record is my favourite type of record but I never thought I would make one. It's usually from the perspective of one person and this is from the perspective of two people. The first song that we put out, 'Welcome To Your New Life' the verses are from a poem of Lyndsay's and the choruses I wrote. So it's interesting. It's from both of our perspectives.
Obviously you've been doing music for a very long time and you're very successful at what you do. But how is this different from anything you've ever done?
For me, with Lyndsay's suggestion - I used to be in an indie, kind of hipster band, it was called The Films and now I work as a sort of pop producer. Lyndsay was like, you need a creative outlet, before I started even working on the record. I realized that I needed to make it completely opposite from what I was working on for it to be the right yin vs yang cathartic release. I was actually producing Fall Out Boy's record the whole time that I was writing Alohaha. It was Alohaha in the morning and then produce Fall Out Boy in the afternoon. I like the kind on opposite aspect of it. And even production-wise, I wanted it to be different from what I was producing. I don't have a voice that's Patrick from Fall Out Boy or Rivers from Weezer or any of the people that I work with. I was conceptualizing it. I wanted to track it all live to a tape machine with no computers involved. It's kind of a completely opposite experience as far as the creation. I recorded all the music in a total of three days. We just played it, basically.
What about for Lyndsay. Has she ever done anything like this before in her life?
No and I don't think she meant to be a part of it. Five or six songs on the record are from her poetry. It just happened so naturally that I couldn't stop it. I think she's really grateful that it worked out that way, but I think that she looks at it the same way I do, that it is a really beautiful piece of art that we were lucky enough to create together.
Where did the Hawaiian theme for the two-track release come from?
I've grown weary of song format, where everything is three and a half minutes and it goes verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge chorus. It seems like each time that someone puts out a song, it's competing for the attention of a single even if it's not. I felt so trapped by it, so I decided that, if I just let them all run together like a medley - one of my favourite things is Abbey Road side two from The Beatles and one song starts and another one stops and it's kind of all over the place in a cool way. Like an uninhibited flow of ideas. That's what I decided to do. And call it side A and side B. I'm releasing 'Welcome To Your New Life' and the other one is called 'Nausea.' But there are essentially four more songs after that. Some of them are little pieces of music. Some of them go verse, chorus and then they're done. It's kind of a different experience. And they're both about fifteen minutes long. I like the idea of a shorter album like that. About a half an hour. My recording studio is partnered with a vinyl mastering lab and I asked them what the ideal length for sound quality on a record is and they said fifteen minutes. I've always gravitated towards the patterns in music theory. I have a friend in Nashville named Josh Taylor and he plays Hawaiian guitar and he was showing me all these different things he was working on and I asked him to play on the record and it just happened. I realized that if I just had the Hawaiian guitars, it would make the sad break-up vibe that I want, without even thinking about it. And so, we came up with the name Alohaha for his Hawaiian cover-band in Nashville. He didn't like it so I was like, can I have it?
Even though you mentioned that it's just a great piece of art for you, is Alohaha something that you can really see taking to the next level and continuing to put out new music and be consistent?
Yes, because it's a really easy format for me to execute. It's, in some ways, less daunting than making a normal album, because it's allowed to be weird. And I also don't like playing live, so it's the kind of thing that I can see myself doing one a year of. We already have the next one mapped out. We think we're going to call it Rx, based on Lindsay's journey of trying different medication over the past year and a half. It hasn't been so rosy.
So I was also told that you're working on the forthcoming Weezer album. What can you tell me about that experience and how that all came to be?
I just finished it yesterday actually. It got mastered. I was a huge Weezer fan as a kid. I had a cover band and I actually engineered a song for them in 2009 called '(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To.' I reconnected with Rivers about a year ago and we dove really deep into figuring out how to crack the Weezer code and kind of get back to the writing style of the first two albums. I made him grow a beard, because he had one during Pinkerton. We went down the weird rabbit hole and it was really fun. I couldn't be happier with the record.
Congrats on that dream playing out. What would you say you brought to the table with this forthcoming album with Weezer?
With Alohaha, it's really my baby. I bring the musical tone and writing and melodies. With Weezer, I'm more of a typical producer. I wear a suit to work and I like to tell everyone what to do and spend a lot of time micromanaging and fine-tuning each little part, as only a kid in a Weezer cover band could do. It's pretty fun.
Alohaha's A side/B side self-titled album is out now. Weezer's The White Album is out April 1.