Wednesday Ramblings

King St., Charleston, S.C.

Today's photo has nothing to do with anything except the glorious weather in Charleston at the moment and my hope that it lasts forever. Forever.

Sad news about Steve Jobs death from cancer. What a creative loss to the world.

Pecha Kucha 11 tickets are on sale here.

My niece Alexei and her husband Dan tour as Handsome Furs. She sent out a link to her upcoming tour schedule and it made my head spin. Check this out: Handsome Furs Tour Dates. They have been performing all over the world for a while so you can imagine that their photo album pages are pretty amazing.

Almost bedtime and I need to clean my house. Blah.

Juno Awards, eh!

Bike to Brunch at Poogan's Porch, Queen St., Charleston, S.C.

Photo unrelated to entry as usual. I came back just to let y'all know that my niece Alexei and her husband Dan Boeckner have been nominated for Canada's highest musical honor, the Juno Award. Excitement abounds, my friends.

Alternative Album of the Year; Face Control - Handsome Furs

“This band is completely based, aesthetically and otherwise, on travelling, on absorbing places and regurgitating them in music,” says Handsome Furs’ Dan Boeckner. FACE CONTROL, the second album by the Montréal band, draws inspiration from Eastern Europe and re-maps Eastern Bloc surveillance state themes to contemporary life and the irony of our slow acceptance and embrace of self-monitoring, through blogs and Facebooks and MySpaces and credit/debit accounts and surveillance cameras and GPS devices. The album’s juxtaposition of cold, metronomic, electronic beats, courtesy of Alexei Perry, with the jagged, dissonant and frail, broken or breaking, guitars of Dan Boeckner convey what it is to be a human being at the bottom of the 21st century. And, at the same time, provides the means to opt out. Alexei Perry and Dan Boeckner wrote the songs on FACE CONTROL together. The album was recorded and mixed by Arlen Thompson at Mount Zoomer and was mastered by Harris Newman at Hotel2Tango.

Follow their continuing adventures on CNN.com: Indie Asia on Tour - Episode Three.

Handsome Furs on CNN.com

Handsome Furs, Mt. Pleasant, S.C.

I took this picture at the Handsome Furs show at the Village Tavern a couple of years ago. I have to use it again, since it was actually taken here in Charleston but this evening's entry is to steer you to CNN.com where they are doing a feature on Dan & Alexei and their Indie Asia tour.

Today is the first episode and it is crammed full of photos, video and Alexei's travel notes. Click here to see: CNN.com

Why do I care about Indie rock, you ask? Because, Alexei is my niece and she and Dan can rock! Go, quick. Go, check them out. Friend them on Facebook at Indie Asia.