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Last Updated: 11/22/2009

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City: CHAPEL HILL
State: NORTH CAROLINA
Country: US
Signup Date: 3/27/2005

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Tuesday, August 25, 2009 

Category: Friends
this nice review was just posted today for walk on thin air. it's nice to know that someone worries about django's health, or at least listens to the lyrics.

check it out:


http://oliverdiplace.blogspot.com/
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Sunday, March 01, 2009 

Category: Blogging
just wanted to let you all know that we're updating our road blog frequently over at www.theoldceremony.com/blog ...

the tour's going great so far, with some odd turns, as always. tonight we're at the mercury lounge in nyc with chris stamey opening up!

love,
TOC


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Thursday, February 26, 2009 

Current mood:  grateful
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
We saw the final cut of our brand new video for "Walk on Thin Air" for the first time today. It was conceived and directed by Brett Ingram, who also did a great documentary called "Monster Road," of which we were all fans. My first reaction on seeing it was "shock and awe" in the greatest possible sense. It's like Brett found a way to express the emotions of the song without treating any of the lyrics literally, and he did so in the form of a dream. It's like David Lynch and Buster Keaton made a short film together. Hope you enjoy it too!


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Monday, February 16, 2009 

Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
Thank you for making our Chapel Hill cd release such a perfect night. The show was SOLD OUT (over 650 folks came out) and we're sorry for those who got turned away. but we're hoping to see you all at the Pour House this Friday in Raleigh, where we'll have our sendoff for our US-Canadian tour!

Much love,
TOC


Currently reading:
Outliers: The Story of Success
By Malcolm Gladwell
Release date: 2008-11-18
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Saturday, January 31, 2009 

Current mood:  contemplative
Category: Religion and Philosophy
Yes, it's been a while.

I'd like to say that it's because I've been orbiting the Earth in the world's first outer space music venue. Or that I've been working undercover to forge a secret land settlement between Hamas and Israel. Or that my computer broke (which, technically, it did). But the reality is simpler. I've been too preoccupied to blog lately. Why?

Glad you asked. We're finally coming out with our new, third, record, Walk On Thin Air, and it has been a difficult birth process. Or at least a two-year gestation period. But this baby's gonna come out walking and talking, cursing like a sailor. We're looking forward to introducing you two at a show soon. Just don't look him directly in the eye, or he'll go mental and possibly attack you. He means no harm.

On another note, since we've been home for a while, I've actually gone out to see some shows lately (max indian, modern skirts, josh moore, kingsbury manx, schooner), which has renewed my appreciation for the music scene around here. It just seems like there's an endless supply of song-loving seekers and misfits out there who keep finding new ways to coax melody and lyrics out of the surrounding fog. as the man says, "we are ugly, but we have the music."


Currently reading:
Salt: A World History
By Mark Kurlansky
Release date: 2003-01-28
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 

Current mood:  tired
Category: Pets and Animals
so, there i was, standing next to the bar after our first show of the tour, at the nick in birmingham. it had been a long day -- a nine-hour drive followed by a show for a small but what i believe might be taken as a generally enthusiastic audience. a local gentleman in a baseball cap and sports t-shirt who looked like he might have been on the wrestling team in high school turned to me at the bar and initiated the following exchange:

dude: i’m tired of people touching me!
me: (slight nod, confusion)
dude: sit down! what’s your name?
me: django
dude: (giving extra hard, manly handshake) i’m (unintelligible). do you wanna shower with me?
me: (not sure i heard him right, but alarmed just in case) no.
dude: no?
me: no.
dude: okay. (unintelligible)

a few moments of silence.

dude: you SURE you don’t want to shower with me?
me: yep. (motioning to the bartender that i’m ready to settle up)

an ausipicious beginning to our tour. who says people aren’t generous on the road?






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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 

Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
now that we’re back from sxsw and i can start to sort through some of the crazy and wonderful experiences we had down there, i’ll do my best give some highlights:

~ playing with chris stamey and anton fier at the continental when chris all of a sudden went into this abstract guitar solo that completely blew my mind in the middle of "something came over me."

~ being stopped on the street in austin by two ladies who insisted that i was james blount. i insisted that i wasn’t and further, that i wasn’t a fan of his. they said it didn’t matter whether i was or wasn’t; they still wanted their picture with me.

~ meeting mike mills, bobby bare jr., and thurston moore in the space of 24 hours, and getting to play an acoustic version of "stubborn man" for lucinda williams. i don’t think i slept that night (or any night in austin) just trying to wrap my brain around all that was happening.

~ getting to play at alejandro escovedo’s party on saturday, with chris stamey sitting in. i don’t think i’ve ever met anyone as warm and kind as alejandro, and we had a ball playing, especially doing "i am the cosmos" with chris.

~ realizing what a great contingent of carolinians we had down in austin, between chatham county line and tift merritt’s band, we always felt at home. despite coming home broke, sxsw was really one of the best experiences we’ve had together so far, not to mention that it was 80 degrees down there every day!

we’ll try to post some pics soon, including our day off in new orleans.  it’s shocking that three years after katrina so little help has come from the gov’t. the devastation has to be seen to be believed. but the city still has its famous flavor and love of life, which is a real tribute to the spirit of the town.
Currently reading:
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
By Barbara W. Tuchman
Release date: 12 July, 1987
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Sunday, February 24, 2008 

Current mood:  adventurous
Category: Religion and Philosophy
We're very excited to be going to SXSW in Austin in March. We've never been, and it looks like we may be playing a few times while we're down there, in addition to hitting virgin territory on the way there and back (Birmingham, Jackson, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Houston, I'm talking about you.). What thrills await us? The world's largest rutabaga? The City of 10,000 gopher holes? One never knows. But we'll keep track of it all and give you the update as early and often as we can.

Of course, if you or someone you know lives in any of the above-mentioned places, please let us/them know, as we don't know anyone and we need places to crash among other things!

The record is coming along nicely. As a late valentine's day gift to our beloved supporters, we'll be posting a track or two for you to preview. Please let us know what you think.

Love,
Django/TOC
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Monday, November 05, 2007 

Current mood:  grateful
Category: Music
Dear Neglected Weblog,
Sorry it's been so long since we've written. I lost your address and only just found it again. Also, my typing fingers have been bandaged after an ill-advised dare involving an electric stove. But we're back and on track and, well, here we are. So, without further ado:

First of all, we've got some new band photos, as you may have noticed. We were lucky enough to have several local photographers descend on our Pour House show recently and some of the best shots are posted here at our myspace. You can also check more out at www.flickr.com/groups/theoldceremony. Thanks Abby, Brian, Oliver, and Alice!

Next of all, you can hear Django's recent NPR interview/performance on WUNC's The State of Things at:  http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/sot1102c07.mp3/view

Next of also, there's a great review this past week's Roanoke show in the Roanoake Times at http://www.roanoke.com/extra/wb/138348. 

Additionally, we're returning to a couple of our favorite spots and breaking new ground this week - we'll be in Charleston, Gainesville Florida, and Atlanta. C'ton and ATL have always been good to us, and this will be our first Gainesville show, particularly significant as it's Django's hometown. So please help spread the word to your friends in these towns and everyone will be that much happier.

Finally, I haven't had a chance to write anything (though I've talked about it onstage) about playing with Chuck Berry recently. By now many of you have heard the story of my ill-fated non-introduction to Mr. Berry in our hotel lobby (it's included in the NPR show linked above), but the real story is just how inspiring it is to see someone rocking out into his 80's. The man could still duck walk, rip on guitar (though he's entering a slightly more abstract lead guitar period, i actually like it better), and charm the pants off of thousands of Jerseyites at the same time. We should all be so lucky to follow our paths with such tenacity. So thank you, Mr. Berry.

More finally, we've just announced our final local show of the year - we'll be at the Cat's Cradle Saturday, Dec 15th for a Holiday Show, and we'll be joined by the ever-rockingest-formerly-local band Roman Candle, who we'd rather be playing with than pretty much anyone else we could imagine. See you there!

Django/TOC



Currently reading:
The Middle East
By Bernard Lewis
Release date: 07 August, 1997
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Monday, June 11, 2007 

Category: Automotive
so we're back from canada and boston and syracuse, and here's what we learned:

1. toronto is a long ass way away. from everywhere except buffalo.
2. there are apparently no hotels between pittsburgh and frederick, md, especially if you start looking at 2am.
3. when a guy in a pimped out honda almost runs you over in the alley behind the club, it's okay to be aggressive, but only in canada.
4. waffles and ice cream are an excellent post-show snack, and it goes well with cheap beer.
5. always take a rook even if you lose a knight or bishop. always. no excuses.
6. we decided that toronto is what happens when new york city and stockholm have a baby. it's clean and vaguely european, but also good for filming nyc street scenes on the cheap.


okay, so we really didn't learn all that much, but i felt that we should have something productive to show for ourselves. we had a great time in boston (WERS is a great station), syracuse, and toronto. coming off the heels of our third show with Cake (in charleston; a show that deserves its own post-mortem - what a great time) was like the dive in the pool that propelled us for the first half lap. after that we were on our own steam, and the music was feeling pretty good to play. met some really cool people in all three places; the sound guy in toronto was especially cool, not the least because he remembered my last show there (seven years ago under my own name for the same conference), and because he offered to go on the road with us as our tour manager/front of house engineer. cause six or seven guys in the van just isn't quite crowded enough.
Currently reading:
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
By Jane Jacobs
Release date: 01 December, 1992
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