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City: ALBUQUERQUE
State: New Mexico
Country: US
Signup Date: 10/14/2004
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Friday, September 25, 2009
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Greetings fellow travelers on this ship spinning around the sun. Herein find secrets of the jellyfish and the latest from ye olde Handsome Family.
Jellyfish have been living on Earth for millions of years—long before humans or even dinosaurs made their first appearance. The jellyfish has four stomachs and four clusters of eyes on each side of its umbrella-like body. Believe it or not, jellyfish also have four distinct brains. No one understands exactly how this works. Perhaps they are like Chang and Eng, the famous conjoined twins, always tugging each other in different directions. One night they spent with Chang’s wife while Eng lay next to the couple pretending to sleep. The next night they went to Eng’s house and Chang would stare into his pillow whilst Eng and his wife made love. I prefer, however, to imagine that having four brains feels like waking from a terrible dream and feeling the pressure of an invisible hand clasping your own in the dark.
UPCOMING TOUR DATES!
EUROPE...
***The United Kingdom***
Sun, 27 Sept, NORWICH ARTS CENTRE with Holly Throsby
8pm, £12 adv. /£13 door (tickets: 01603 660 352 or www.norwichartscentre.co.uk)
Mon, 28 Sept, BUSH HALL, LONDON with Holly Throsby
7.30 pm, £12.50 Adv/ £15.00 Door (tickets: 0844 477 1000 or www.bushhallmusic.co.uk)
Tue, 29 Sept, TAYLOR JOHNS HOUSE, COVENTRY
£10 adv £15 door (tickets: www.tinangeltickets.co.uk or www.wegottickets.co.uk)
***Holland and Belgium***
Thursday, 1 Oct, HOLLAND, DEN HAGUE, Paard van Troje
7:30pm (tickets: www.paard.nl)
Friday, 2 Oct, BELGIUM, EEKLO, N9 (www.n9.be)
Saturday, 3 Oct, HOLLAND, GRONINGEN
Take Root Festival (tickets: www.ticketservice.nl or www.de-oosterpoort.nl or www.takeroot.nl)
***Denmark and Sweden***
Sunday, 4 Oct, DENMARK, ARHUS VOX HALL, 9pm
TICKETS/INFO: 0045 70 26 32 67 or www.voxhall.dk>
Wednesday, 7 Oct, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, KAGELBANAN/SODRA TEATERN
www.sodrateatern.com, 7.30pm, 145 sek
Thursday, 8 Oct, SWEDEN, GOTHENBURG, PUSTERVIKSBAREN
www.ticnet.s or www.pustervik.goteborg.se, 9pm, 125 sek
Friday, 9 Oct, SWEDEN, MALMO, KB
www.ticnet.se or www.kulturbolaget.se, 8pm, 145 sek
Saturday, 10 Oct DENMARK, COPENHAGEN, LOPPEN, 9pm
TICKETS/INFO: www.billetlugen.dk or www.loppen.dk
***Norway***
Tuesday, 13 Oct, STAVANGER, CEMENTEN, 10pm
www.linticket / www.cementen.no or www.checkpoint.no
Wednesday, 14 Oct, BERGEN, MADAM FELLE
www.billetservice.no or www.madamfelle.no
Thursday, 15 Oct, TRONDHEIM, RESTAURANT CREDO (just Brett and Rennie as a duo)
credo@restaurantcredo.no or www.restaurantcredo.no, 9PM, NOK 150
Friday, 16 Oct, TROMSO, BLA ROCK CAFE (Brett and Rennie as a duo)
www.Billettluka.no or www.blarock.no, NOK 220
Saturday, 17 Oct, OSLO, BLAA
www.billettservice.no or www.blaaoslo.no
***Spain***
A group tour with John Doe & The Sadies plus Magnolia Electric Company.
Tickets: www.ticketmaster.es
Tuesday, 20 Oct, CADIZ, AULARIO DE LA BOMBA
Wednesday, 21 Oct, MADRID, SALA HEINEKEN
Thursday, 22 Oct, ALICANTE, MINT CLUB
Friday, 23 Oct, BARCELONA, APOLO
Saturday, 24 Oct, ZARAGOZA, LA CASE DEL LOCO (sin Magnolia Electric co)
Sunday, 25 Oct, MAJORCA, TEATRE LLOSETA
Did you know there’s a kind of jellyfish that is virtually immortal? While most life forms begin to die after they reproduce, the Turritopsis Nutricula jellyfish is able to revert back to its juvenile form after mating. These jellyfish can perform this miraculous feat indefinitely. In other words, unless they fall prey to some outside attack... they never die. There may be jellyfish swimming the ocean right now that have been alive for millions of years and will be here for millions more.
MORE UPCOMING TOUR DATES!
***USA***
November 14-18, 2009
MYSTERY TRAIN!!
LIVE MUSIC, LEGENDARY TRAINS AND THE GREAT SOUTHWEST!
Los Angeles - Albuquerque - Petrified Forest - Grand Canyon - Los Angeles
The Handsome Family, Jill Sobule and the Stan Ridgway Trio announce The Mystery Train... an unforgettable four days through the wide open spaces of the American Southwest. Travel in overnight luxury in our own private railroad cars from Los Angeles to Albuquerque, across the Mojave Desert, tracing the lines of Route 66, and then by private motorcoach to the Painted Desert, the Petrified Forest and the Grand Canyon, before reboarding our train for the trip home. Each night there will be plenty of music: informal jams on board and land-based shows with our host musicians. An open mic or two; some world-class meals and memories to last a lifetime! There's only room for fifty patrons on board... please join us!
Full details at: http://www.rootsontherails.com/rails/mysterytrain.htm
Call Sarah at Roots on the Rails at 866-484-3669 with questions, or email trains@sover.net.
***Australia and New Zealand***
JANUARY, 2010 a tour is in the works. Dates coming soon, but definitely the Sydney Festival January 14 and 15 in the Spiegeltent.
Nomura’s jellyfish grows to be six feet long (not including its tentacles which often stretch twice that length). In the northern Pacific there lives a jellyfish that can grow over 120 feet long. Shackleton’s men, on their doomed polar expedition, wrote of seeing a jellyfish pulsing under the ice floes that stretched over 10 miles in length. These doomed explorers also wrote of encountering a pure white fox that was able not only to hear, but to control their thoughts. This pale fox caused many a good man to run off into the snow wearing naught but his nightshirt.
OTHER NEWS...
POSTERS: We have a new poster for sale in a very limited quantity. It's a colored pencil drawing color-copied and signed by the artist, Ben Wachter. There's also one last Schuba's poster left and a few copies of Rennie’s squirrel poster. You can see them all here... http://www.handsomefamily.com/Nmerch.html#POSTERS
PAINTINGS: When we get back home in November I'll be putting five or six paintings up for sale. Email me (handsomefamily@mindspring.com) if you'd like to be one of the first notified (and you haven’t already emailed me about being interested in my paintings).
Bluebottle jellyfish are a beautiful shimmering blue, but their painful stings may dig deep into your flesh and can lead to heart failure. The venom of the Box jellyfish is so powerful that one sting has enough poison to kill 60 people in under three minutes.
Global warming has caused jellyfish populations to skyrocket. There are places near coastal cities called “dead zones” where the coral reefs have been killed by heavy pollution. Here the last dying fish have no place to hide. They are hunted by huge swarms of jellyfish until the waters are empty of life. Still, this great destroyer is also quietly saving the world. As their great numbers gently stir the water, jellyfish help cool the world’s seas. Like the great god Shiva banging his drum to both create and destroy the universe, so doth the jellyfish drift the seas— at once killing and saving us all.
See you on the waves... Rennie
11:06 PM
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