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Danke Seb: F1 bids fond farewell to retiring Sebastian Vettel after 16 years

Bowing out with the crowd on their feet delivering a standing ovation and chanting your name is perhaps the fondest farewell a competitor can hope for. In Abu Dhabi on Sunday Sebastian Vettel called time on his Formula One career with just such a reception. Admired and respected, Vettel’s departure genuinely leaves the sport a little bit poorer. The 35-year-old completed his final GP at Yas Marina after 16 years in F1 and having won four world championships. It has been some career and notably for a perceptive, thoughtful character, one not of a straightforward trajectory. Here then was a man ending his career amidst an outpouring of genuine affection and a sense of sadness at his departure, where once he antagonised as many as he had endeared. The Vettel that won those titles with Red Bull between 2010 and 2013 was a driver perceived as arrogant and often cast as the villain. Nicknamed “fingerboy” for his triumphant wagging of a digit after a victory and the often ruthless, selfish, win-at-all-costs attitude of the infamous multi-21 incident with Mark Webber, where he disobeyed team orders, so determined was he to take the win. Yet this weekend all 20 drivers took Vettel out for a farewell dinner, where his great rival Lewis Hamilton picked up the bill. They were, without exception, gushing in their praise for Vettel. Two hundred members of the F1 paddock from teams, media, and F1 turned out to run the track with Vettel at Yas Marina on Saturday night, their small way of saying “Danke Seb”, as their t-shirts read. As a driver his talent was never in question but as he has aged a genuinely admirable and intriguing character has come more to the fore. His absolute passion for the sport and its history has become clear. As has his commitment to putting his position to good use in highlighting racism, diversity, women’s and LGBTQ+ rights and the climate emergency. A more mature, rounded man has emerged from the youngster who made his debut in 2007 and then took F1 by storm in becoming its youngest world champion in 2010. A man who, it became clear, it was almost impossible to dislike. He still drove with the same commitment, indeed to the extent that there remained moments of high drama, fuelled by the strong emotion that racing inspired in him. Driving into Hamilton at Baku in 2017 was petulant and dangerous and similarly at Canada in 2019 he did not take a penalty for blocking Hamilton well, but Vettel was always big enough to apologise once the adrenaline wore off. He was ultimately a genuine sportsman, intelligent and articulate, so much so that he and Hamilton, fierce competitors, became friends. They acknowledged that it was how they treated one another of the track that mattered and recognised in one another kindred spirits in their desire to make a difference in the real world. Vettel never hit the heights of those four titles again. He had a shot at two more in 2017 and 2018 with Ferrari but was thwarted on both occasions by Hamilton and Mercedes. Two years with Aston Martin followed when he parted company with the Scuderia in 2020. His time there was an uphill struggle in a poor car but he nonetheless gave his full commitment. Intensely private, he leaves F1 to spend more time with his family, his relationship with whom he has always said defines him as a person much more than F1. Which is indicative of a man with his priorities in order. Vettel departs on his own terms, then, rightly content with his achievements as a driver and as a man, and he will be missed. “I had a great time and was able to enjoy success and win championships,” he said in Abu Dhabi. “From the sporting point of view, it’s been huge, but also I have been able to grow and mature in many ways, reflect about a lot of things.” via Formula One | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/sport/formulaone

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Carly Rae Jepsen: Alone Together

On her fifth album, pop’s ray of sunshine Carly Rae Jepsen found herself dappled by shadows. Out of the introspection came ‘The Loneliest Time’: a record that finds power in curiosity and self-belief.

DIY Magazine • Gemma Samways • September 12, 2022 • Photos: Pooneh Ghana

King’s Cross, mid-July, and we’re a week into the freak heatwave that will soon transpire to be the summer’s default climate. In the foyer of Universal Music, late lunch-takers shuffle out into the sunlight as their clammy colleagues scuttle back in from their breaks, visibly relieved as the wall of icy air-con hits them.

Cutting a glamorous contrast to the sea of summer office wear, however, Carly Rae Jepsen glides through the security gates in a ‘60s-inspired outfit comprised of white, patent, thigh-high boots and a long-sleeved shirt dress dappled with green psychedelic swirls - seemingly impervious to the fact it’s an airless 32 degrees outside. Indeed, when we officially meet minutes later in the meeting room of her label offices, she politely orders a tea while the rest of the room desperately wolfs down water.

Affectionately known to her fiercely-loyal fans as Jeppo, in person the Canadian pop singer is every bit as warm and engaging as you might hope. Blessed with a glass-half-full outlook and perpetually smiling eyes, words tumble out of her mouth at a rate of knots, with reflections often punctuated by a silvery laugh. Fresh from a day off after headlining Bristol’s Pride celebrations on Saturday, tonight she will turn in a triumphant performance at Somerset House - her last European engagement following a brief run of festivals, and her first UK show since February 2020. Though she’s been intermittently playing live since Coachella back in April, the 36-year-old is the first to admit she’s still reacclimatising to the challenges of life on the road.

“It’s a little bit like Planes, Trains and Automobiles,” she chuckles, locking eyes knowingly with her manager across the room. “But with my bandmates and crew, a lot of us have been together for 10 years plus, so we’ve had our fair share of rough and tumble. It’s just so nice to have the whole gang back together. Plus any time that I get that relief of that hour on stage, it does make everything worth it.”

For Carly, these moments of communal catharsis have been an integral part of life since finding fame on Canadian Idol back in 2007. Propelled to international megastardom four years later with viral smash ‘Call Me Maybe’, the singer has spent the intervening decade cementing her reputation as pop’s uppermost romanticist, both through the unabashedly heart-on-sleeve songwriting on ‘Kiss’ (2012), ‘E•MO•TION’ (2015) and ‘Dedicated’ (2019), and via famously euphoric shows that actively encourage fans to luxuriate in their feelings. To sacrifice the latter outlet entirely during the pandemic proved a real wrench, prompting a period of introspection that would ultimately inspire her upcoming fifth studio album: next month’s evocatively-titled ‘The Loneliest Time’.

“Essentially we’re all in our feelings, even though we all look for different ways of hiding it.”

“Under house arrest” is how Carly jokingly frames the experience of living alone in LA at the height of COVID. Still processing a romantic break-up, isolated from friends and homesick for her family back in Canada, she threw herself into an array of hobbies, from solo hiking and cooking to what she cheerfully describes as “a failed attempt” to teach herself audio engineering. In between self-improvement activities she found herself repeatedly returning to the idea of loneliness, reflecting on it both from a personal perspective and as a wider concept.

“I think when you're at your wit's end, loneliness can cause these extreme behaviours,” she explains. “And I was really fascinated by diving into what those reactions could be. Because the experience from there on in is really dealer’s choice. From my own experience, I can say loneliness can make you feel and do all sorts of unusual things.”

Certainly, finding the resilience to withstand the isolation proved extremely difficult at points. When her maternal grandmother passed away, social distancing rules meant Carly was forced to grieve alone, an experience she still struggles to talk about today. “My grandmother is one of the most incredible women I've ever met and I was very lucky to know her,” she says, her voice wavering with emotion. “So it was extra hard going through a grief like that, and not being able to be with my family or be a part of that whole ceremony of saying goodbye properly. It was something we had to figure out how to do from a distance and that was definitely a very painful experience for me.”

But out of this period of darkness she also found hope, as she grasped the opportunity to reevaluate her journey to this point and recalibrate - a process that she describes as “a gift, provided you’re ready to handle those thoughts”. “I was just digging further into this concept,” she continues. “Like, what is loneliness and why am I intrigued by it? And why does it have to have a negative connotation to it? Because any touring artist who takes on the adventure of this type of lifestyle is gonna have to battle some loneliness along the way, and figure out how to make peace with a lot of nights alone in hotel rooms. And it doesn’t necessarily even have to be a bad thing; there can be real beauty in loneliness. I think that’s why I like to read [Haruki] Murakami’s novels - he really has this beautiful way of shifting loneliness into a sort of poetic solace.”

“Women can have silliness and depth, and we can be sexy one moment and then be really serious the next. So why should I have to choose?”

A notoriously prolific writer who - by her own admission - creates “all the time” simply to “survive life”, Carly began reaching out to potential producers and co-writers to arrange sessions, including regular collaborators John Hill (Sigrid, Muna), Patrik Berger (Robyn), Captain Cuts (Marina, Allie X) and Rostam Batmanglij (Vampire Weekend, Haim). It was with the latter that she created ‘Western Wind’, the album’s utterly gorgeous yet surprisingly subtle lead single. A love story set in California and played out among feather-light brush work, shimmering keys, sonorous guitar and beautifully breezy vocal harmonies, it received its live debut at Coachella.

Back at the peak of the pandemic, Carly began dipping her toe into remote collaborations, actively seeking out fresh voices to work with. Foremost amongst these was Bullion, aka British songwriter-producer Nathan Jenkins, who she discovered via playlists shared by friends.

“I think there were maybe six different times in a row where one of Bullion's tracks would come on, and I was like, ‘Who is this?!’” she raves with the excitement of a true fan. “I loved that the chords he landed on were always surprising. Like, whenever I thought he was resolving a melody, it would instantly evolve into a completely different section of the song. And though I'm from this pop world and he’s more indie-leaning, it worked.”

This idea of blurring - or simply doing away with - genre boundaries proved key when it came to whittling down a final tracklisting from a pool of more than 100 songs. Rather than settling on a singular sonic palette, Carly looked to lyrical content to create a sense of cohesion.

Settling on songs that explored perspectives on loneliness or that originally stemmed from contemplations on the subject, it’s a theme further developed in the Renaissance-inspired album art, which sees her looking quizzically over one shoulder in a nod to Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring. And by liberating it from any stylistic constraints, ‘The Loneliest Time’ arrives as by far her most wide-ranging record musically, taking in minimal sophisti-pop and Laurel Canyon-inspired cuts as well as shimmering funk, string-flecked disco and a glorious, ‘80s-inspired synth-pop track that more than matches any of ‘E•MO•TION’’s big singles for impact.

That ‘80s influence is no coincidence, it transpires: touch points for the record included Kate Bush, Stevie Nicks and her eternal muse Cyndi Lauper, enjoyed alongside “palate cleansers” like Billie Holiday. “There's so much to learn from ‘80s pop, and the way it really gets to the heart of things,” she enthuses. “I think we really gravitate to the emotion in that era because essentially we're all in our feelings, even though we all look for different ways of hiding it.”

Reflecting on the record’s eclecticism, she continues: “I thought a lot about what I wanted from this album, probably more than I ever have before. Having learned some things in my own personal life, I wanted to document that growth while looking for the thing that can connect [with fans], so that it's not just a journal entry of my intense feelings, but feelings that can be universal.

“Musically I was really trying to fight this idea that these artists are supposed to deliver one type of music. As humans we're a spectrum of different things and I want to be able to play that. Like, women can have silliness and depth, and we can be sexy one moment and then be really serious the next. So why should I have to choose? With these songs I didn’t. And the result is I’m really excited about the colours of these songs, because they’re different to anything I’ve ever done before.”

“I’m hoping that what I can do for other people is create spaces where we can let go of our worries and really connect to ourselves.”

Latest single ‘Beach House’ must surely rank among the singer’s most audacious moments. A tongue-in-cheek bop inspired by previous misadventures in the “rock ‘n’ roll world of online dating” (thankfully, she’s now happily settled in a relationship), the verses detail a litany of terrible suitors while the chorus is built around the hook of “I got a beach house in Malibu and I'm probably gonna hurt your feelings”. By the middle eight, her love interest has gone full Dexter, promising, “I got a lake house in Canada and I'm probably gonna harvest your organs…”

“That was so much fun!” she exclaims, after collapsing into giggles at the lyric. “I mean that was definitely an extreme example, but I think there's some truth to it. As women, it’s not just about, ‘Is he gonna be nice?’ or ‘Are we going to click?’ It’s also like, will I get kidnapped?! But that song’s really aimed at the poachers, who go online for the kill.”

From the psychopathic hick on ‘Beach House’ to the soft backing vocals on the bridge of ‘Far Away’, male voices are a recurrent motif on the album. For its title track, she pulled off something of a coup, securing a guest appearance from her musical hero Rufus Wainwright. Sharing the story behind the duet today, she still sounds punch drunk.

“First of all, I need to say I’m not just a fan of Rufus Wainwright; he literally had a profound effect on my career choice,” she gushes. “I can remember being 19, taking the West Coast Express from Mission – my home town – to Vancouver, and I would listen to his album ‘Poses’ over and over and over again. And it was somewhere during the song ‘Poses’, where he sings, ‘Life is a game and true love is a trophy,’ that I was like, ‘I think I'm going to make a run at this music thing, like for real, for real’. Because there's nothing that sounds better in life to me than this.

“Fast forward 15 years later, and I'm in a writing session and we’re working on this disco-like track with a Rufus-esque melody to it. And I said, imagine if he sang that dream sequence with us. When I went home, I couldn't stop thinking about it. And if I’ve learned anything in my life it’s that you can just ask, and that the very worst that can happen is they can say no. If we hadn't asked, we wouldn't have had Tom Hanks in the video for ‘I Really Like You’. So I wrote him this love letter and it turned out his husband was a fan…”

“From my own experience, I can say loneliness can make you feel and do all sorts of unusual things.”

To this day, the memory of Rufus laying down his vocals in her home studio is almost too joyous for Carly to bear. “From that train journey in Mission to having him in my house!” she exclaims, shaking her head in disbelief.

If she were a more complacent person, Carly could simply add dueting with her hero to the ever-growing list of pinch-yourself moments, which so far include fulfilling her childhood dream to play Cinderella on Broadway, ‘Call Me Maybe’ being named the best-selling single of the 21st century by a female artist, and the huge critical success of ‘E•MO•TION’. But rather than being blase, Carly remains deeply grateful for each and every achievement.

When we ask what she sees as her biggest success she replies, “My real victory is my happiness. I do feel like there's a lot of people who experience viral success and feel destroyed by it afterwards. But I feel like I've been lucky enough to have some huge factors on my side, like my team and my bandmates.”

That humility is further displayed in her determination to give back. For the Canadian and US legs of her upcoming So Nice tour, a dollar from every ticket sold will go to The Ally Coalition, a charity set up by Jack and Rachel Antonoff to support homeless and at-risk LGBTQ+ youth. And on a broader level, Carly hopes that her music can continue to facilitate fans in exploring their feelings.

“I used to kind of love the idea of indulging in escapism,” she confides. “And don't get me wrong, I still do love that you can tap into music when life is crazy. But maybe because so many things happened while making this album – in the wider world and for me personally – I felt it was also really necessary to have a space where I could safely feel whatever it was that I needed to feel.

“Like, when I go to a James Taylor concert, and I see him play, I'm allowed to cry for that moment, and it feels good. It’s like I can tap into whatever I didn't know I was actually going through that week. I'm hoping that that's what I can do for other people; create spaces where we can let go of our worries, really connect to ourselves or do whatever we need to do that day. Because if music’s not the outlet for letting your feelings out, then what is?”

‘The Loneliest Time’ is out 21st October via 604 / Schoolboy / Interscope.

Styling: Hayley Atkin MUA: Gregory Arlt Hair: Jon Lieckfelt Assistant: Sofia Armenta Reyna Vibe Assistant: Grace O’Leary

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Carey Price seeks to redefine what it means to win, on and off the ice

Oct 25, 2022 (x)

What could wind up being one of the last saves of Carey Price’s career was notable because it was so spectacular, and therefore unusual.

In the third period of the Montreal Canadiens’ final game of the 2021-22 season, with his team up 8-1 on the Florida Panthers, Price’s former teammate Ben Chiarot let go of a shot from the slot labeled for the far corner. Price flung his trapper out and caught the puck before proceeding to do a big windmill with it, applying not only mustard, but also ketchup and relish on what was already a good save in a meaningless game.

Price looked at Chiarot and flashed him a smile. He was having fun with it.

But saves like these are not what made Price one of the best goaltenders of his generation. It was the lack of saves like these that did that; his ability to make difficult saves look easy, his silky smooth mobility within his crease that made it so he was often in position before the puck even arrived, allowing it to hit him and land harmlessly in front of him where he could immediately cover it up.

His rebound control was pinpoint accurate, rarely resulting in a second chance opportunity for his opponent. Once at practice for Team Canada during the 2016 World Cup of Hockey, assistant coach Bill Peters was concerned that he didn’t have enough pucks for the next drill while standing in the corner next to Price’s net. When Price learned of Peters’ predicament while doing the current drill in progress, he steered the next seven or eight shots he faced directly into Peters’ corner of the ice.

“Do you have enough now?” Price asked Peters.

What defined Price, what made him unique, was his ability to make the difficult look simple, the impossible look mundane. It is why every teammate he’s ever had has always marveled at his calm demeanor in net, and why every opponent he’s ever faced seemed intimidated by that same demeanor.

Whereas Dominik Hasek used his athleticism to flop all over his crease and perform miracles, Price used his to make it seem like he wasn’t even trying.

“That is a byproduct of, ever since I was a kid, my dad always preached that you’re trying to eliminate unnecessary movements out there, to be as efficient as possible,” Price said. “So ever since I was a kid, that’s kind of been my mindset. Yeah, you’re going to put a little bit of salt and pepper on one on Saturday night, probably. But for the most part, I’ve always just tried to be as efficient as possible.”

Salt and pepper, see, was not the norm. Except when certain occasions called for it. Like that save on Chiarot in Price’s last game, perhaps, of his career.

“Oh yeah, that was jerk chicken, that one,” Price said with a laugh. “We had a good laugh about that after.”

There have been many great goaltenders since Price entered the NHL in 2007, but perhaps none played the most chaotic position in the game with as much calm and as little panic as Carey Price, which is why he comes in at No. 88 on our list of the best players in the modern era of the NHL. It is what set him apart, what made him unique, and what made teammates everywhere feel an unusual sense of confidence in their team’s ability to win that night.

And this was never more evident than during the 2014-15 season, when Price put together one of the greatest goaltending performances in NHL history. He played 66 games that season and allowed more than two goals just 20 times, winning the Hart and Vezina trophies and the Ted Lindsay Award.

“It was a strange confidence,” Canadiens teammate Brendan Gallagher said of playing in front of Price that year. “If you were able to score three goals in a night, you would win. If your power play could score a goal, if you could win special teams, if you could chip in and find a way to score, we were going to win that game.”

But it wasn’t just his Canadiens teammates who felt that. It was also Price’s teammates on one of the most dominant international teams ever put together, the 2014 Canadian team at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, where Price had a .972 save percentage and 0.59 goals against average in five games.

“That is why he was so good, because he’s so calm and under control in the net,” said Los Angeles Kings defenseman and Sochi teammate Drew Doughty. “You literally never think anything is going to get by him. He’s probably the calmest goalie I played in front of.”

And the impact that calm could have on opponents was intimidating.

Rick Nash, another of Price’s teammates in Sochi, recalled discussing how to beat Price with a teammate on the bench. Based on Nash’s experience of having seemingly perfect shots, shots that felt unstoppable when they left his stick, die somewhere on Price’s chest pad, he suggested that the most efficient way to beat Price was to fan on your shot.

“Carey almost knew where you were going to shoot it,” Nash said. “So how’s he supposed to know where you’re shooting if even you don’t know where you’re shooting? Sometimes if you don’t know where you’re going, that’s the best way to beat him.”

It could get in your head, the effortlessness of it all.

“He just did everything as close to perfect as perfect can get,” said Dallas Stars forward Jamie Benn, another teammate in Sochi. “So technically sound, he’s a great athlete. He didn’t really have too many weaknesses, if any.”

For Price, that effortlessness was a mirage. There was effort behind everything he did, it just wasn’t the kind of effort you could see, because it was happening behind the scenes.

It was happening in his mind.

“I know over the course of my career, like, every player gets nervous. If you don’t, you’re dead,” Price said. “So I don’t know, I think some of it was a conscious decision (to look calm), but it’s also when I’m doing something, I get extremely focused on what I’m doing. … I just am really good at zoning in on a goal and going all in on it.”

Carey Price hoping for a miracle in bid to make unlikely NHL return.

Price was never quite as zoned in as he was from 2013-14 to 2016-17, a four-season span where an argument could be made he was the best hockey player in the world.

Over that span, Price’s save percentage was .928, by far the best among goalies who played at least 150 games. The next best save percentage was the .922 put up by Cam Talbot and Sergei Bobrovsky. That is a six-point gap between the best goalie and the next-best goalie. If you work backwards from Talbot and Bobrovsky, there were 19 goalies who fell within the same gap that separated Price and the second-best goalie over that span.

As a point of comparison, Sidney Crosby was the most offensively productive player in the NHL over those four seasons with 362 points, 34 points clear of Patrick Kane in second place. If you work back from Kane, you would have only six players fall within that same 34-point gap.

In terms of separating himself from the pack, what Price did over those years was unmatched.

“He’s had an amazing career,” Crosby said. “There’s a lot of pressure that comes with being the goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens and he handled it well and delivered on all the expectations that were on him.”

The past tense Crosby used there is what Price is trying to cope with.

A debilitating knee injury risks prematurely ending Price’s career. He’s not quite there yet, but Price knows he will need a miracle to avoid this outcome. His career resume is glittered in international gold — World Junior Championship, Olympics, World Cup — but there is a definite lack of silverware. The Stanley Cup is something Price has always wanted, and it doesn’t look like something he will get, at least not as a player.

He came close in 2021 when he led the Canadiens on an improbable run to the final, but in chasing that elusive Cup, Price knowingly put the rest of his career in jeopardy because he had never been so close to his dream. Both he and Shea Weber played through injuries they knew they might never come back from.

“I knew,” Gallagher said. “To what extent, maybe not. But I knew. I don’t know if everyone knew. There are certain times throughout the playoffs where things would slow down, and you’d be alone and they kind of open up and talk to you a little bit. You don’t ask too many questions, but I knew where Pricey was at, and I knew Webby, what he had gone through and that he was at the end as well. I knew it was bad. Pricey, I just knew.”

Price, however, seems to be at peace.

“Well, yeah, it’s something that I wanted to do but I’m also, I think I’m more looking at it from a perspective of I’m very thankful for the career that I had,” Price said. “I had a long career of success. As an athlete, you’re always driven, goal orientated. It’s something that you’ve wanted to achieve your whole life. And it’s like, well, no, it didn’t happen, but on the other side of the coin, a goal of a hockey player is also to play in the NHL. And that’s something that I was really blessed to be able to do for, really, an extraordinary length of time.”

Even though Price might not realize it, he did win.

Except that victory came off the ice.

Price was asked if he remembered the moment from 2021, the one when he realized he needed help.

The answer came immediately.

“Yeah I do,” he responded. “It would have been October 3, and waking up, I was in a pretty bad place. And I was just like, you know what? This isn’t working for me; it’s not working for my family.”

That morning, Price recalled, was the sixth or seventh in a row where he woke up still feeling the effects of what he drank the night before.

It was a Sunday, Price remembers, and by the following Thursday, Oct. 7, he voluntarily entered the NHL/NHLPA Player Assistance Program and admitted himself into a residential rehabilitation facility.

Price was given the opportunity during our conversation to avoid this topic, to keep the details of his battle with alcohol private. But he wanted to talk about it because he knows how much good came from him simply announcing he was seeking help.

So, yes, he was willing to talk about it, wanted to even.

“I think most of it, I see it in sports and high stress positions, there’s a lot of pressure on athletes these days, I think even more so with social media, media attention, you’re always under the microscope,” Price began. “And I think no matter how good you are at dealing with it, it’s still a weight on your mind, the pressure to perform. It’s not easy to do that day in, day out. Yeah, it’s a fun job, but you’re still doing a job and having to perform at a peak level every day. It’s something that you strive to do as an athlete, you enjoy doing it, but it’s not particularly easy to do, especially when things aren’t going well. And I feel like a way to escape that for a lot of athletes is having fun, having a good time. It’s very prominent in sports. And if you can really manage that, I think it’s really good to go out and have a good time with your teammates. I think it’s great team bonding to be able to get together, have a party, but you get to a point where you’re not having fun anymore.

“I think after we lost in the (2021) Finals and coming so close to a goal and having a surgery, and knowing that I’m right on the 18th hole (of my career) here, I was not a happy person, I wasn’t being a good father. I was drinking a lot. I just got to a point where I was like, I’m not even having fun doing this. Like, what am I doing? I felt like I was getting to a point in my life where I had to make a decision. And substance abuse has been a very big issue in First Nations communities. I’ve had friends and family that have passed away from it. So, I could have done this privately. Nobody ever would have known about it. But at the end of the day, I was like, if I’m dealing with it, if I can lead by example and show that it’s OK to reach out for help. … Maybe I could have gone out and stopped on my own. Yeah, maybe. But at the end of the day, I wanted to be able to show it’s OK to ask for help.”

There’s a lot to unpack there. But we should begin with him mentioning how alcohol has ravaged First Nations communities in this country, how it has touched people he loves, because instilling a sense of pride in Indigenous peoples in Canada is important to Price. Always has been.

He is well aware how much he means not only to the Ulkatcho First Nation, the people his mother Lynda has led as chief, the people he grew up with, but to all Indigenous people across Canada.

When Price was given the biggest platform of his career at the 2015 NHL Awards, when he accepted the one award he was basically guaranteed to win that year, the Vezina Trophy, he sent that message loud and clear.

“I would like to take a moment to encourage First Nations youth,” Price said on stage in Las Vegas that night. “A lot of people would say that it is very improbable that I would make it to this point in my life. I’ve made it here because I wasn’t discouraged. I’ve worked hard to get here, took advantage of every opportunity that I had, and I’d really like to encourage First Nations youth to be leaders in their communities, be proud of your heritage and don’t be discouraged from the improbable.”

That sentiment has not changed for Price, especially in light of how Canada is coming to grips with its past horrors and how they impacted First Nations peoples.

“Well, I’ll just come out and say, starting with the residential schools, I grew up knowing about it, obviously my grandmother went to one, but I don’t think I really comprehended how unknown it was,” Price said. “When I started playing with Canadian hockey players, especially over the last few years where it’s really come to the surface, young Canadians not even knowing what a residential school was. It was like, ‘Oh, you didn’t know that?’ And then I go back and think, going through social studies classes and stuff like that, it was just never brought up.

“Being a role model for young Natives was always something that I had in mind because I was always constantly reminded of that. I’ve received so much support from First Nations communities across Canada. I receive letters in the mail, young fans, and even older fans, they go out of their way to come to Montreal to come watch us even just practice. I’ve always known that and kept that in mind.”

So that is one part of why Price felt the need to be so public with his own struggles. But his desire to help does not end there.

A few years ago, the Canadiens were in Dallas to face the Stars and were out at a bar when Price had a conversation that stuck with him. He spoke to his then-teammate Nate Thompson, who has also battled drugs and alcohol, and asked questions about how he was able to be in a bar without drinking, how he managed his sobriety, lots of things.

“I think he was kind of feeling it out with me and asking how it was,” Thompson said. “He was saying maybe it might be a possibility of him doing something like that, and he was just asking me questions and was very curious.”

Thompson, who celebrated six years of sobriety on Oct. 10, has been open about his journey in the hopes it helps other people. But that took some time, and seeing Price reach the same point makes him proud.

“I needed to get a year of sobriety before I could feel comfortable being open about it, and everyone’s different,” Thompson said. “Some guys want to keep it private, and some guys want to be open about it. I think for me, the biggest thing that helped me be open about it was to realize that with our platform, with my platform, with Carey’s platform, this thing’s bigger than us. It’s not just a problem that’s happening with athletes, this is a problem that’s happening all over the world that people are dealing with day in and day out.

“I think being able to carry a message that is so strong and so powerful, for people to see that, and especially coming from a guy like him, from Carey Price, that’s going to help a ton of people.”

Price entered the residential rehabilitation facility on Oct. 7, and there have been challenges since.

“Once I left the facility, like that first three months, it’s something new, you’re excited about it. But that next six months, I felt like it was on my mind a lot, I was thinking about it a lot,” Price said. “Not to say that I was ready to jump off the wagon, but I can see why the success rate, it’s not that great. Going through that, I was like, ‘Well, yeah, I can see why.’ But I also have my kids at home every day. And I’m like, well, if not for them, then … first and foremost, you do it for yourself. But I look at my kids every day and to be able to not be wasting mornings of my life anymore and be able to wake up on Sunday morning and cook my kids pancakes is something very fulfilling to me.

“And since then, I would say over the last few months, the last couple of months especially, I’ve gone to weddings, I’ve gone to team parties and stuff like that. I think once you kind of get over your own social anxiety, that’s when you start feeling comfortable with just being yourself. I feel socially awkward sometimes and I feel like I just used (alcohol) as a bit of a crutch. Lately, I feel like I’m just totally fine with just being myself, not drinking, just being comfortable, just being present.”

This is where the help Price chose to seek comes in because he learned how to cope with and alter the lifestyle he had created for himself. As he said, perhaps he could have done that on his own, but getting help made that process much easier.

“It’s all about forming new habits and a new thought process,” Price said. “Like, every time we would have a social event, for me it was like, ‘You’re drinking, you’re having a beer, it’s just a social thing, it’s what you do.’ You’re creating a pattern, and it takes a long time to break a pattern.

“I learned that while I was at that facility; you create a path and once you stray from that path, you might be bushwhacking for a little while, but eventually you create a new path.”

This is the big win for Price, not only being able to face this affliction but being able to share it publicly. But he wants it to be known that he had to get help before he could help others.

“It was a great thing, it’s awesome, but that’s not to glorify what I was doing before,” Price said. “You have to be doing some bad stuff, not living life well, to be able to turn that around.

“I think that’s the biggest message, you have the rest of your life to live. Live it well.”

Price has had a tremendous career. He will likely wind up in the Hockey Hall of Fame. He holds just about every major goaltending record in Canadiens franchise history. But more important than any of that has been Price’s willingness to help others through his own experience, something he has done throughout his career with First Nations peoples and is now doing for people who struggle with substance use.

No, Carey Price never won a Stanley Cup. But no one could ever say he is not a winner.

#carey price #montreal canadiens #article

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Holidays 2.10

Holidays

All the News That's Fit To Print Day

Anniversary of Oruro

Arabian Leopard Day (Saudi Arabia)

Ausonia Asteroid Day

Children’s Hospice Day (Germany)

Cliff Burton Day (Alameda County, California)

Deep Blue Day

Fenkil Day (Eritrea)

Gold Record Day

Half-Baked Day (Halfway to 4/20)

International Cribbage Day

International Day of the Arabian Leopard

International Drive Your Triumph Day

International Ski Patrol Day

International Weather Festival

Kurdish Authors Union Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)

Lt. Col. Vindman Day

Military Industrial Complex Day

National Deworming Day (India)

National Flannel Day

National Home Warranty Day

National Julio Day

National Louis Day

National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe (Italy)

National TV Safety Day

NEET Day (Japan)

Plimsoll Day

Rose Daphne Day (French Republic)

Royal Hobart Regatta Day (Tasmania)

Singing Telegram Day (New York Postal Telegraph Co.)

TBL1XR1 Related Disorder Day

Teddy Day

Tom and Jerry Day

Umbrella Day

Valentismas

Voltammentry Day

Volunteer Defense Day (Thailand)

Welsh Language Music Day (UK)

World Pulses Day

YMCA Day

Ziggy Stardust Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Cream Cheese Brownie Day

National “Have a Brownie” Day

Try to Invent a New Jell-O Flavor Day

2nd Saturday in February

Global Movie Day [2nd Saturday]

International Purple Hijab Day [2nd Saturday]

International Snowmobile Ride Day [2nd Saturday]

Independence & Related Days

Anniversary of Oruro (Bolivia)

Empire of North Africa (Declared; 2006) [unrecognized]

New Jersey Concessions & Agreements Day (New Jersey) [1st U.S. state constitution; 1665)

Phokland (Declared; 2007) [unrecognized]

Rosston (Declared; 2007) [unrecognized]

Unification of Upper and Lower Canada (1841)

New Year’s Days

Kebbawa New Year & Beginning of Fishing Season (Kebbawa People of Nigeria)

New Year's Day [Lunar Calendar] (a.k.a. …

Bituun (Mongolia)

Chinese New Year [2024: Year of the Dragon]

Chinese Zodiac: Year of the Yin Black Water Rabbit

Fete du Printemps (Mauritius)

Losar/Loshar (India, Nepal)

Lunar New Year’s Day (Hong Kong)

Novo Ano Lunar (Macau)

Seol-Nal (South Korea)

Sonam Lhosar (Tamang New Year)

Sonam Lochhar (Sikkam, India)

Spring Festival (China)

Tahun Baru Imlek (Indonesia)

Tamang New Year (Nepal)

Tet Nguyen Dan (Vietnam)

Tsagaan Sar (Mongolia) [2023: Year of the Rabbit]

Tet Holiday begins (Vietnam) [thru 26th]

Festivals Beginning February 10, 2024

Carnaval de Barranquilla (Barranquilla, Colombia) [4 Days before Ash Wednesday; thru 2.13]

Carnival of Aalst (Aalst, Belgium) [thru 2.13]

Carnival of Binche (Binche, Belgium) [thru 2.13]

Carnival of Maastricht (Maastricht, Netherlands) [thru 2.13]

Death by Chocolate (Appleton, Wisconsin)

Fastelavn (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Mumbo Jumbo Gumbo Cook-Off (Manitou Springs, Colorado)

Palm Beach Marine Flea Market & Seafood Festival (West Palm Beach, Florida) [thru 2.11]

Paris Carnival (Paris, France)

Sábado de Carnaval (Argentina; Brazil) [thru 2.13]

Wine Love Trail (Sonoma County, California)

Feast Days

Anabita’s Day (Pagan)

Apelles (Positivist; Saint)

Apple Wish Spell Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Ary Scheffer (Artology)

Austrebertha (Christian; Saint)

Bertolt Brecht (Writerism)

Bisexual Anxiety Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Boris Pasternak (Writerism)

Charalambos (Christian; Saint)

Day of Anaitis (Persian Goddess of the Moon and the Seas)

E.L. Konigsburg (Writerism)

Erlulph of Scotland (Christian; Saint)

Faeries Creation Day (Celtic Book of Days)

Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck (Malta)

Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy (Artology)

José Sánchez del Río (Christian; Saint)

Marilyn Monroe Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Mr. Holiday (Muppetism)

Nicolas Taunay (Artology)

Paradoxically Non-Paradoxical Day (a.k.a. Paradox Day; Pastafarian)

Scholastica (Christian; Saint)

Soteris (Christian; Martyr)

Tales of Kelp-Koli (Shamanism)

Trumwin (Christian; Saint)

William of Maleval (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 41 [13 of 72]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Tycho Brahe Lucky Day (Scandinavia) [3 of 4]

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [10 of 60]

Premieres

Alice at the Carnival (Disney Cartoon; 1927)

Bad Day at Cat Rock (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1965)

Belle de Jour, by Joseph Kessel (Novel; 1928)

The Best of Everything, by Rona Jaffe (Novel; 1958)

Big Game Haunt (WB MM Cartoon; 1968))

Billy Madison (Film; 1995)

Butch (MGM Cartoon; 1951)

Chico & Rita (Animated Film; 2012)

The College Dropout, by Kanye West (Album; 2004)

Daffy’s Rhapsody (WB LT Cartoon; 2012)

Das Boot (Film; 1982)

Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller (Play; 1949)

The Four-Legged Zoo [#4] (Multiplication Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1973)

The Glenn Miller Story (Film; 1954)

The Grasshopper and the Ants (Disney Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1934)

Icebound, by Owen Davis (Play; 1923)

The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury (Novel; 1951)

I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You), by Aretha Franklin (Song; 1967)

Inside Outer Space (Disney Animated TV Special; 1963)

John Wick: Chapter 2 (Film; 2017)

Kimi (Film; 2022)

The Lego Batman Movie (Animated Film; 2013)

Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro League (WB Animated Film; 2015)

The Littles, by John Lawrence Peterson (Novel; 1967)

Long Tall Sally, recorded by Little Richard (Song; 1956)

The Loved One, by Evelyn Waugh (Novel; 1948)

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (Animated TV Series; 2023)

The Pink Panther (Film; 2006)

Pluto and the Gopher (Disney Cartoon; 1950)

Puss Gets the Boot (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1940) [#1]

Rabbit Every Monday (WB LT Cartoon; 1951)

Rio Rita, by Red Fin Rito and His Orchestra (Song; 1942)

Safe house (Film; 2012)

Shallow Grave (Film; 1995)

A Sheep in the Deep (WB MM Cartoon; 1962)

Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace (Film; 2012)

Sultans of Swing, by Dire Straits (Song; 1979)

Tales of Hoffmann, by Jacques Offenbach (Opera; 1881)

Tapestry, by Carole King (Album; 1971)

The Three Bears (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1939)

Tom & Jerry (MGM Cartoon; 1940)

Van Halen, by Van Halen (Album; 1978)

Today’s Name Days

Scholastika, Siegmar (Austria)

Haralampi, Valentin, Valentina (Bulgaria)

Alojzije, Vilim, Vjekoslav (Croatia)

Mojmír (Czech Republic)

Scholastica (Denmark)

Ella, Elle, Ellen, Elli, Ellu (Estonia)

Elina, Ella, Elle, Ellen, Elna (Finland)

Arnaud (France)

Bruno, Scholastika, Siegmar (Germany)

Chara, Charalambos, Chariklia, Haralambia, Haralambos, Hariklia, Harilaos (Greece)

Elvira (Hungary)

Arnaldo, Guglielmo, Scolastica, Wilma (Italy)

Paula, Paulīna, Paulīne (Latvia)

Ada, Elvyra, Gabrielius, Girvydas, Vydgailė (Lithuania)

Ingfrid, Ingrid (Norway)

Elwira, Gabriel, Jacek, Jacenty, Scholastyka, Tomisława (Poland)

Haralambie (Romania)

Gabriela (Slovakia)

Escolástica (Spain)

Eugenia, Iris (Sweden)

Austria, Amber, Amelinda, Colt, Colten, Colton, Duran, Durand, Durante, Kolton, Meredith (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 41 of 2024; 325 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 6 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 21 of 28]

Chinese: Month 1 (Bing-Yin), Day 1 (Jia-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)

Hebrew: 1 Adair I 5784

Islamic: 30 Rajab 1445

J Cal: 11 Grey; Foursday [11 of 30]

Julian: 28 January 2024

Moon: 2%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 13 Homer (2nd Month) [Apelles)

Runic Half Month: Sigel (Sun) [Day 2 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 52 of 89)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 20 of 28)

Calendar Changes

Adar I (only in leap years) [אֲדָר א׳] (Hebrew Calendar) [Month 12 of 12]

陬月 [Zōuyuè] (Chinese Lunisolar Calendar) [Month 1 of 12] (Square of Pegasus Month; Corner Month) [Earthly Branch: Tiger Month] (First Month)

#calendar #Holidays

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brookstonalmanac · 3 months

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Holidays 2.10

Holidays

All the News That's Fit To Print Day

Anniversary of Oruro

Arabian Leopard Day (Saudi Arabia)

Ausonia Asteroid Day

Children’s Hospice Day (Germany)

Cliff Burton Day (Alameda County, California)

Deep Blue Day

Fenkil Day (Eritrea)

Gold Record Day

Half-Baked Day (Halfway to 4/20)

International Cribbage Day

International Day of the Arabian Leopard

International Drive Your Triumph Day

International Ski Patrol Day

International Weather Festival

Kurdish Authors Union Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)

Lt. Col. Vindman Day

Military Industrial Complex Day

National Deworming Day (India)

National Flannel Day

National Home Warranty Day

National Julio Day

National Louis Day

National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe (Italy)

National TV Safety Day

NEET Day (Japan)

Plimsoll Day

Rose Daphne Day (French Republic)

Royal Hobart Regatta Day (Tasmania)

Singing Telegram Day (New York Postal Telegraph Co.)

TBL1XR1 Related Disorder Day

Teddy Day

Tom and Jerry Day

Umbrella Day

Valentismas

Voltammentry Day

Volunteer Defense Day (Thailand)

Welsh Language Music Day (UK)

World Pulses Day

YMCA Day

Ziggy Stardust Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Cream Cheese Brownie Day

National “Have a Brownie” Day

Try to Invent a New Jell-O Flavor Day

2nd Saturday in February

Global Movie Day [2nd Saturday]

International Purple Hijab Day [2nd Saturday]

International Snowmobile Ride Day [2nd Saturday]

Independence & Related Days

Anniversary of Oruro (Bolivia)

Empire of North Africa (Declared; 2006) [unrecognized]

New Jersey Concessions & Agreements Day (New Jersey) [1st U.S. state constitution; 1665)

Phokland (Declared; 2007) [unrecognized]

Rosston (Declared; 2007) [unrecognized]

Unification of Upper and Lower Canada (1841)

New Year’s Days

Kebbawa New Year & Beginning of Fishing Season (Kebbawa People of Nigeria)

New Year's Day [Lunar Calendar] (a.k.a. …

Bituun (Mongolia)

Chinese New Year [2024: Year of the Dragon]

Chinese Zodiac: Year of the Yin Black Water Rabbit

Fete du Printemps (Mauritius)

Losar/Loshar (India, Nepal)

Lunar New Year’s Day (Hong Kong)

Novo Ano Lunar (Macau)

Seol-Nal (South Korea)

Sonam Lhosar (Tamang New Year)

Sonam Lochhar (Sikkam, India)

Spring Festival (China)

Tahun Baru Imlek (Indonesia)

Tamang New Year (Nepal)

Tet Nguyen Dan (Vietnam)

Tsagaan Sar (Mongolia) [2023: Year of the Rabbit]

Tet Holiday begins (Vietnam) [thru 26th]

Festivals Beginning February 10, 2024

Carnaval de Barranquilla (Barranquilla, Colombia) [4 Days before Ash Wednesday; thru 2.13]

Carnival of Aalst (Aalst, Belgium) [thru 2.13]

Carnival of Binche (Binche, Belgium) [thru 2.13]

Carnival of Maastricht (Maastricht, Netherlands) [thru 2.13]

Death by Chocolate (Appleton, Wisconsin)

Fastelavn (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Mumbo Jumbo Gumbo Cook-Off (Manitou Springs, Colorado)

Palm Beach Marine Flea Market & Seafood Festival (West Palm Beach, Florida) [thru 2.11]

Paris Carnival (Paris, France)

Sábado de Carnaval (Argentina; Brazil) [thru 2.13]

Wine Love Trail (Sonoma County, California)

Feast Days

Anabita’s Day (Pagan)

Apelles (Positivist; Saint)

Apple Wish Spell Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Ary Scheffer (Artology)

Austrebertha (Christian; Saint)

Bertolt Brecht (Writerism)

Bisexual Anxiety Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Boris Pasternak (Writerism)

Charalambos (Christian; Saint)

Day of Anaitis (Persian Goddess of the Moon and the Seas)

E.L. Konigsburg (Writerism)

Erlulph of Scotland (Christian; Saint)

Faeries Creation Day (Celtic Book of Days)

Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck (Malta)

Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy (Artology)

José Sánchez del Río (Christian; Saint)

Marilyn Monroe Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Mr. Holiday (Muppetism)

Nicolas Taunay (Artology)

Paradoxically Non-Paradoxical Day (a.k.a. Paradox Day; Pastafarian)

Scholastica (Christian; Saint)

Soteris (Christian; Martyr)

Tales of Kelp-Koli (Shamanism)

Trumwin (Christian; Saint)

William of Maleval (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 41 [13 of 72]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Tycho Brahe Lucky Day (Scandinavia) [3 of 4]

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [10 of 60]

Premieres

Alice at the Carnival (Disney Cartoon; 1927)

Bad Day at Cat Rock (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1965)

Belle de Jour, by Joseph Kessel (Novel; 1928)

The Best of Everything, by Rona Jaffe (Novel; 1958)

Big Game Haunt (WB MM Cartoon; 1968))

Billy Madison (Film; 1995)

Butch (MGM Cartoon; 1951)

Chico & Rita (Animated Film; 2012)

The College Dropout, by Kanye West (Album; 2004)

Daffy’s Rhapsody (WB LT Cartoon; 2012)

Das Boot (Film; 1982)

Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller (Play; 1949)

The Four-Legged Zoo [#4] (Multiplication Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1973)

The Glenn Miller Story (Film; 1954)

The Grasshopper and the Ants (Disney Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1934)

Icebound, by Owen Davis (Play; 1923)

The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury (Novel; 1951)

I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You), by Aretha Franklin (Song; 1967)

Inside Outer Space (Disney Animated TV Special; 1963)

John Wick: Chapter 2 (Film; 2017)

Kimi (Film; 2022)

The Lego Batman Movie (Animated Film; 2013)

Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro League (WB Animated Film; 2015)

The Littles, by John Lawrence Peterson (Novel; 1967)

Long Tall Sally, recorded by Little Richard (Song; 1956)

The Loved One, by Evelyn Waugh (Novel; 1948)

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (Animated TV Series; 2023)

The Pink Panther (Film; 2006)

Pluto and the Gopher (Disney Cartoon; 1950)

Puss Gets the Boot (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1940) [#1]

Rabbit Every Monday (WB LT Cartoon; 1951)

Rio Rita, by Red Fin Rito and His Orchestra (Song; 1942)

Safe house (Film; 2012)

Shallow Grave (Film; 1995)

A Sheep in the Deep (WB MM Cartoon; 1962)

Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace (Film; 2012)

Sultans of Swing, by Dire Straits (Song; 1979)

Tales of Hoffmann, by Jacques Offenbach (Opera; 1881)

Tapestry, by Carole King (Album; 1971)

The Three Bears (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1939)

Tom & Jerry (MGM Cartoon; 1940)

Van Halen, by Van Halen (Album; 1978)

Today’s Name Days

Scholastika, Siegmar (Austria)

Haralampi, Valentin, Valentina (Bulgaria)

Alojzije, Vilim, Vjekoslav (Croatia)

Mojmír (Czech Republic)

Scholastica (Denmark)

Ella, Elle, Ellen, Elli, Ellu (Estonia)

Elina, Ella, Elle, Ellen, Elna (Finland)

Arnaud (France)

Bruno, Scholastika, Siegmar (Germany)

Chara, Charalambos, Chariklia, Haralambia, Haralambos, Hariklia, Harilaos (Greece)

Elvira (Hungary)

Arnaldo, Guglielmo, Scolastica, Wilma (Italy)

Paula, Paulīna, Paulīne (Latvia)

Ada, Elvyra, Gabrielius, Girvydas, Vydgailė (Lithuania)

Ingfrid, Ingrid (Norway)

Elwira, Gabriel, Jacek, Jacenty, Scholastyka, Tomisława (Poland)

Haralambie (Romania)

Gabriela (Slovakia)

Escolástica (Spain)

Eugenia, Iris (Sweden)

Austria, Amber, Amelinda, Colt, Colten, Colton, Duran, Durand, Durante, Kolton, Meredith (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 41 of 2024; 325 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 6 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 21 of 28]

Chinese: Month 1 (Bing-Yin), Day 1 (Jia-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)

Hebrew: 1 Adair I 5784

Islamic: 30 Rajab 1445

J Cal: 11 Grey; Foursday [11 of 30]

Julian: 28 January 2024

Moon: 2%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 13 Homer (2nd Month) [Apelles)

Runic Half Month: Sigel (Sun) [Day 2 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 52 of 89)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 20 of 28)

Calendar Changes

Adar I (only in leap years) [אֲדָר א׳] (Hebrew Calendar) [Month 12 of 12]

陬月 [Zōuyuè] (Chinese Lunisolar Calendar) [Month 1 of 12] (Square of Pegasus Month; Corner Month) [Earthly Branch: Tiger Month] (First Month)

#Holidays

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Bit of an update...

October 4th, 2007

Hello there! How often should we actually be writing this blog thing? I have a feeling we’ve been a bit rubbish. Sorry. I guess we’re not interesting enough to write too often and frequently get distracted by shiny things. The main news in campesinos! camp is that (as of yesterday) we’re all back in the UK. What’s up with it being so cold, eh? This return means we’ve finished recording and mixing the album so early next year it will be fresh for your little ears.

Ellen: We also got to mix the album in a very interesting area of Toronto which was a hang out for drivers with a penchant for loud bass heavy music. Each evening they would crank up the volume and stand stationary around their cars just kinda looking at each other, it seemed fun and often I wanted to join in. This was balanced out by charity workers who would do team building exercises each morning which involved group singing, clapping and generally dancing around like idiots. One of them enquired as to whether Aleks and myself wanted a job. It was tempting. The hotel we stayed in was also rather odd, one morning we woke to hear a mexican band practicing in the room next door and were then greeted by a man stroking his pet chameleon in the lift (not a euphanism.) Apparently lots of mafia/gangster get-togethers were held there, under the guise of baby showers and weddings. Despite this strangeness we’re missing canada muchly but there is also something quite nice about being reunited with home comforts like daytime australian soaps, the sunday times, chavs and good old british sarcasm. On the flight back, Ellen and myself had our excess baggage fee waved because the guy found out I was at medical school (on hiatus) so if you’re ever in the situation, I suggest subtly slipping in dissection room banter or something. The flight was exciting as ever, with a tear being shed over our last chance to indulge in canada’s staple drink of clamato juice, ie a touch of clam juice mingled with tomato juice. i know - crazy…Ellen dropped a muffin on the floor (Ellen is upset about this still). Then the flight attendants moved Harriets violin without telling her. so yeah, we know how to have fun.Ellen: I however had a nasty shock when returning home to Cardiff, in my absence my flatmates had turned my room into some sort of brothel for their visiting friends drunken encounters. I have decided to get a big lock, lazer system and bear traps put in place for our next trip away.

We start our UK tour on Saturday, so we’ll get to see lots of places none of us have been to like Colchester whilst indulging in lots of Alan Partridge/Curb Your Enthusiasm DVD time on the van, Marks and Sparks food and unbeatable Travel Lodges for accomodation. We’ve never been on tour for that long before so the blogs might get progressively more angry/ bitchy/ whiny. We’re playing with some awesome bands, and they’re definitely worth seeing even if we’re not. Oh and we have some exciting new t-shirts and pants we’ll be selling. Hopefully we’ll see some of you at the shows, come say hi - we like people. Ellen: Also I have a new tattoo so come just to see that if you like, you can prod it if you want.lots of love Aleks and Ellen and all of LC!

PS – We wrote this blog one week ago and then just kinda didn’t get round to publishing it. Coz we’re silly. Since then we’ve been to and come back from Ireland, where we put ourselves to shame by not drinking very much Guinness and sounding more Somerset than Irish when we tried to do the accent. We also discovered that none of us can play pool very well. And Gareth got told off by the receptionist at the Holiday Inn because we were indulging in the legendary chant ‘Need a Wee’ when we got back after the Belfast gig. Gutted. That’s probably the craziest its gonna get on tour – so yeah good times…

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