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MUSIC
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Post-folk-rock band Why? will perform tonight at the Granada. The band released their EP, Sod in the Seed, on Aug. 14.
Q&A: Why? band member preps for tonight's show
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why?, the post-folk-rock and alternative hip-hop cult favorite, plays tonight at The Granada.
When Yoni Wolf, the band's founder, performs, he speaks, raps and whines. With lines like "Fruitless in a holster and clueless in a kiss" and "Cutting the punch line, that ain't no joke," the lyrics tend to border on stream-of-consciousness, forming impressions and emotions rather than easy-to-follow narratives. Each album has a completely different style, which Wolf thinks is cool.
He doesn't want Why? to be the band of kind that has 10 albums out and they all sound the same.
Wolf was walking to a Sunday afternoon yoga class when this interview was conducted.
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Who do you try to appeal to
when you write music?
Yoni Wolf: More and more, I'm against the idea of worrying about what people are going to think about something. I want to be proud of something the way it sounds. If it's ballsy and it has a direction and it follows my tastes, then there will be people who will like it. You can't ever please everybody. There's always going to be somebody that doesn't like what you do. That's all right.
UDK: What's your writing process like? Most of your lyrics are like poetry—you have to decode them.
YW: We've made this distinction over the last 50, 60 years of "This is pop music," or "This is high art poetry," and there's this idea that "never the two shall meet." I think you can have more.
You can be more dignified and humane and you can dig deeper with music than a lot of people think they can.I always feel like I want to get to the bone. And that's how I am with everything.
I want to go all the way down as far as I can go. And I feel that way about relationships. I'm always dissatisfied with how close I am to other people.
I always feel like a stranger. I feel that way with words or ideas that I might want to say or talk about. I want to get to the heart of the issue, not just the surface of something.
I'm not at all holier-than-thou or by no means hoiity-toy. I'm not that smart in terms of—I don't have the best vocabulary and I didn't go to Ivy League schools. I dropped out of art school.
But I'm a very sensitive person and I have a big heart and I want to share that. And I want to open myself to the world. And I think that's what I'm trying to do. And you can't do that through superficial language.
Music is a craft in a way,but it's
not just a way to make a living. Of course, I'd like to make my living that way and I have been, but it's more than that for me.
UDK: What would you want to say to a bunch of college students in Kansas?
YW: Oh, I don't know. I'm more about trying to connect as an individual. I perform songs onstage but I'm definitely not a preacher. My dad does that.
UDK: Is there any advice you'd want to give?
YW: Did you say advice that I wanted to give or get?
UDK: Well, either, I suppose
YW: I'd love to get advice about how to connect with people. How to be intimate with one person. That'd be great.
UDK: What do you want someone going to your concert or listening to your music to think? What's your goal?
YW: You want someone to get some kind of feeling. That's the bottom line.
Tickets to tonight's show at The Granada are $15. Doors open at 7 p.m.
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the 5-pound coins to mark the occasion will be made of solid gold, silver and a more affordable option, and will sell for as much as thousands of pounds. The designs of the coins have not yet been revealed.
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Britain's Prince William, and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge hold the Prince of Cambridge, in this Tuesday July 23, file photo as they pose for the media outside St. Mary's Hospital in London where the Duchess gave birth on Monday, July 22.
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's baby son will be christened at the Chapel Royal at St. James's Palace on Oct. 23, just over three months after his birth. It is the chapel where the coffin of William's late mother, Princess Diana, was put for her family to pay last respects in private before her funeral in 1997.
LONDON — The christening of Prince William and Kate's firstborn, Prince George, will be marked with a set of commemorative coins, the Royal Mint said Saturday.
The production of the commemorative coins, approved by William, his wife Kate and Queen Elizabeth II, will be the first time that new coins are produced to mark a royal christening in Britain.
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Buying the coins may be the only way the public can take part in celebrating Prince George's christening, which will be a private event, attended only by close family and the baby's godparents,
who haven't been named yet. Official photographs will be released after the ceremony, Kensington Palace said.
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"This will be the first formal occasion for Prince George..."
William, his father Prince Charles and the queen were all christened at Buckingham Palace, while Prince Harry was christened at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.
England. After all, he will one day become the head of the church, so this is an important ceremony," royal historian Hugo Vickers said.
The Chapel Royal at St. James' Palace is a lesser known and more intimate venue.
The event will also see the first official photographs that include the queen and all of her three direct heirs: Charles, William and George.
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The venue of the ceremony is a break from recent tradition:
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The cartelginous skeleton of a white tipped reef shark is displayed during a touring exhibit, "Sea Monsters Revealed: Aquatic Bodies." The exhibit is set to open Friday, Sept. 27, at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta.
Aquarium showcases skeletons
The exhibit, "Sea Monsters Revealed: Aquatic Bodies," includes the preserved bodies of shark and other animals with their flesh stripped away to expose muscles, bones and organs underneath.
The exhibit, which opens Friday at the aquarium, is similar to the popular "Bodies" and "Body Worlds" exhibits of dissected human bodies that have toured the world.
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Visitors to the Georgia Aquarium can see live examples of whale sharks and devil rays, and then see how their bodies work in the new exhibit. Rountree said.
The preserved specimens do not include animals from the Georgia Aquarium.