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...their lyrics are a bit more mature and thoughtful. The album's 10 tracks showcase Maida's quest not only to reconcile man with machine, but also to attain some level of spiritual realization. Kurzweil himself appears on the album, reading excerpts from his book and sounding generally ominous. Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron, a longtime friend of the band, also appears on a couple of tracks, filling in for Jeremy Taggart who was injured mid-recording during a mugging incident...
...grueling tour schedule that included two trips through Canada, club appearances in the U.S. and Europe, and a stint at the Summersault Music Festival. At one point the band recorded two songs in three days, leaving the mixing up to Brendan O'Brien, whose previous gigs include Soundgarden and Pearl Jam. Despite its conceptual pretenses and the spoken-word excerpts from Kurzweil's book, Machines is hardly a departure for Our Lady Peace. If anything, it is a return to the energy and simplicity of Naveed. Machines has already gone gold following in Canada following its 2000 release there, continuing...
...Depression, not Pearl Harbor, not the death of Roosevelt. Not Dallas, or Selma, or Martin Luther King in Memphis, or the Tet offensive or Bobby Kennedy's death. Not Watergate. Nothing to merit a full, sonorous documentary on the History Channel...
...will erupt over it regularly. Usually one side says the SAT should die because it's racist; the other says it should flourish because it maintains standards. Their arguments are important but had started to seem pointless, since the number of SAT takers has increased virtually every year since Pearl Harbor...
...Luddites are purists. "We're still old-fashioned: no e-mails, no calls in, no calls out," says Pearl Lourie, executive director of three camps, Pembroke in Massachusetts and Tel Noar and Tevya in New Hampshire. But faxing between parents and kids? No problem! "I feel the fax gives children the ability to write a long letter, to start a letter during rest hour, put it away, then pick it up and continue writing it later," she says. "I don't think that can happen with e-mail...