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HOROSCOPES
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 6.
Today's
Nothing quite comes together today. No amount of fussing will change this. However, you and a partner handle quite a few niggling disagreements.
A power figure controls work from a distance. You have good ideas for how to get it all done. Be prepared to revise results to satisfy.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 5
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 6.
today is a 5
You understand your own desires very well. Now share them with another to figure out how to satisfy them. Together you get it done.
Today is a 6
You face tough responsibilities with a partner who demands performance immediately. You're perfect to handle the pressure and get the job done.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 6
Today's group activities require social graces and responsibility. Work hard to ensure that everyone stays on track. Bring fun to the project.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sep. 22)
Today is a 5
You need to get an idea across very clearly to a variety of people. Formal language suits the elders. Others need to see it in action.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 5
Today is 5 a day
Spend the day wrapping up old business. At home or at work, your desire for resolution outweighs other people's demands. Time heals.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 5.
Today is a 5
This would be a great day to stay at home by yourself and appreciate the peace. Let others fend for themselves, just for today.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 5
Today is a 5
One of your favorite people understands your situation better than you do. While you stress about it, they proceed to work out the problem.
LUPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 5
Your enthusiasm overflows at work.
Others may feel you're forcing them to do what you say, but that's not your intention. Tone it down.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 7
Your thoughts focus on logical, reasonable methods. The practical path to your goal works best. Leave imagination for another day.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 6
Today is 4/15.
Redecorating involves window treatment. Start by washing the windows and removing old paint and drapes. Measure before you buy.
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By Dave Green
9/28
Answer to previous puzzle
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COOLTHING
MONKEYZILLA
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ACROSS
1 Huck Finn's carrier
5 Staff leader?
9 Half a dance
12 Look lasciivi-ously
13 Peru's capital
14 Communal pronoun
15 Aplenty
17 Last (Abbr.)
18 Nitwit
19 Long and lean
21 Aden's land
24 Brewer' oven
25 Smell
26 People on parade
30 Actress Lucy
31 Sweet-heart
32 Buck's mate
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3 Winter
woe
4 Sore
5 Movie
sample
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bowl of
cherries?
7 Ostrich's
cousin
8 Mistaken
idea
9 Antici-
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10 Bruce
Banner's
alter ego
11 Bohemian
16 Heavy
weight
20 Fire
residue
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21 Egg center
22 Falco or McClurg
23 Sicilian spouter
24 Raw minerals
26 TV alien
27 Curry of NBC News
28 Horse of a different color?
29 Antitoxins
31 Injurious
34 Urban transport
35 Smear
37 Islander’s home
38 Intel product
39 Suggestion
40 Drags along
41 Change for a five
44 Acapulco gold
45 “— Got a Secret”
46 Born
47 Potential syrup
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Neil Young experiments with sounds in acoustic album
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
Neil Young set out to make a solo acoustic album when he called up his friend Daniel Lanois to do some recording earlier this year at the producer's home studio, an early 20th century mansion overlooking Silver Lake in California.
When they finished, they came up with something beyond what either of them could have imagined. Young reaches for a new genre classification to describe the album, "Le Noise" (Reprise), due out Tuesday.
"It's folk-metal," he says with a
laugh. "We got this sound on the guitar that was very exciting to us. There's the singularity of a folk performance on the guitar, but with a heavy-metal civilization of sound around it."
"That was just a bunch of noise we were having fun with." Young says, "This is about songs built on riffs. Dan loved those riffs, and they gave him something to hang the sound on."
Lanois, who has worked with artists ranging from U2 and Bob Dylan to Willie Nelson and Peter Gabriel, had never recorded with Young before. He had been working on new approaches to shaping sound in the studio for several years with engineer Mark Howard
If "Le Noise" has any antecedent in the Young catalog, it's the electric guitar experiments he brought to "Arc," the instrumental companion to his 1991 "Weld" live album
when Young called. The singer was inspired by the way Lanois was simultaneously audio recording and video recording performances in his studio, creating a distinctive look and sound that straddled cutting-edge technology and organic, performance-based music.
Indeed, the video accompanying the "Le Noise" album is stunning _ a shadow play of stark black-and-white images that documents the live recording and enhances it with evocative lighting.
waiting for Young when he walked into his studio for the first time. The producer handed the singer a tricked-out acoustic guitar that made it sound like a small orchestra: a beefed-up bass response on the lower two strings, a pickup that recreates the sound of the human
But the core of the album is its extraordinary sound: a wide-screen intimacy conjured by just a voice and a guitar. Lanois had a surprise
"It's folk metal. We got this sound on the guitar that was very exciting to us."
NEIL YOUNG Musician
voice and allows it to loop and echo through the song, and a tremolo amplifier.
"You get four dimensions of sound out of one acoustic guitar, and I thought it might inspire
him to play a certain way." Lanois says. "We got the clarity of the guitar with a rich, beautiful bottom, a great subsonic sound with
no mumbo-jumbo. It started with that sound on that guitar and we recorded two songs. Then, at the end of the first session, we went electric on the song "Hitchhiker". That's when things really started getting interesting."
The hollow-body electric guitar was channeled through two amplifiers, one clean-sounding and the other for tremolo effect. Lanois saw even greater potential: "We covered both ends of the sound spectrum with the guitar. It's got this cutting, razor-drill sound and this beautiful bass tone with sweet melody on the other end."
Young, not prone to hyperbole in interviews, was blown away by the guitar sounds Lanois was able to capture: "It sounded like God."
The songwriter brought several songs into the session and wrote a few more in between visits to Lanois' house, each recording
"Neil has said he does good work when there's a full moon." Lanois says, "so who am I to argue?"
says, 'So who will it be to argue.
Whether it was the guitars, the setting or the alignment of the planets, "Le Noise" is one of Young's finest recordings. Its merger of violence and plaintiveness provides a striking backdrop for the singer's meditations on themes that have obsessed him for decades: on making love last past the first rush of romance, the corruption of the planet, his own search for redemption and clarity. On "Hitchhiker," he chronicles his life as a string of abusive episodes with drugs, and winds up grateful that he's still standing with a partner who loves him.
Mortality drapes itself over the songs. In the last nine months, two of Young's closest collaborators died: filmmaker Larry "L.A." Johnson and multi-instrumentalist and producer Ben Keith.
session taking place under a full moon.
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Keith's death leaves a hole in Young's touring band that the singer believes he can never fill.
"There is about 70 percent of my repertoire that I will never do again (with a band)," Young says. "There is no sense in trying to redo what was already great. There's no payoff in that. That's not what I'm about."
"I'm thankful to have known Ben and played with him for 40 years. He was one of my best friends, and I miss him very much. I don't see myself playing those songs with a band in the future. I can play them by myself, but I can't play them with a band."