Arcade Fire, the weirdest Bowie cover, and bad photoshopping
Filed under: Ideas by Jeremy on Friday, 30th July 2010 at 7:34 amArcade Fire put up a million dollars for Haiti <– At the Festival d’Ete de Quebec, Arcade Fire announced that they will match donations to Kanpe, a Montreal-based NGO working on rebuilding Haiti, dollar for dollar up to one million dollars. You can donate $5 by texting “STAND” to 30333. I don’t know much about Kanpe but they’ve worked with Partners in Health which is not too shabby. C’mon, $5=$10.
“J’commence le countdown pese ca clutch” <– I found this on Said the Gramaphone, a music blog that comes out with two weird reviews (a la Peters’ Pick) every day or two. He finds some diamonds now and again but this one–I’m not sure what to call this one. It’s a cover of Space Oddity by Lucien Midnight–but in Quebecois French. Things like, “planet earth is blue and there’s nothing I can do,” get translated to, “la planet terre est bleue que c’est tu veux que ca me calisse.” Or, “tell my wife I love her very much,” turns into, “dites a ma blonde que je l’aimais en ostie.”
Photoshop of Horrors <– As if they weren’t screw ups enough. A week or so ago, BP posted photos to their site that were obviously poorly photoshopped. Wired decided to get their readers to show BP how it’s done. Check out all the photos here.





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