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Good Life - Billy - 05-03-2008

I've taken a very strong liking for this tune recently. It's one of the ones I used to consistently skip, but man am I totally digging as of late.

Re: Good Life - Hammer - 05-03-2008

Very good song. I really enjoy hearing it live aswell!

Re: Good Life - Lizard King - 05-03-2008

I love the Toronto 2004-07-01 livedownloads version of this song, its one of my favorite live Hip songs to listen to. If you have it give it a spin Billy.

Re: Good Life - screw_ball - 05-04-2008

The one from Macroscopic is my favourite, mostly because of the it was filmed. The way it was performed coupled with that made it... perfect. I wish we would have gotten the whole thing, though, no matter how much the pacing of the film was broken. I wonder if it'll surface someday (WINK WINK NUDGE NUDGE MAV MAV MAV)

Re: Good Life - j-monster - 05-05-2008

LizardKing51 Wrote:I love the Toronto 2004-07-01 livedownloads version of this song, its one of my favorite live Hip songs to listen to. If you have it give it a spin Billy.

As good as the song is on the album, it is super-powerful live. I get chills every time I hear it live, it's just that good.

Re: Good Life - emperor penguin - 05-06-2008

j-monster Wrote:
LizardKing51 Wrote:I love the Toronto 2004-07-01 livedownloads version of this song, its one of my favorite live Hip songs to listen to. If you have it give it a spin Billy.

As good as the song is on the album, it is super-powerful live. I get chills every time I hear it live, it's just that good.

Me too, its a song I've come to look forward to hearing live.

Re: Good Life - dougimixdrinks - 06-12-2008

j-monster Wrote:
LizardKing51 Wrote:I love the Toronto 2004-07-01 livedownloads version of this song, its one of my favorite live Hip songs to listen to. If you have it give it a spin Billy.

As good as the song is on the album, it is super-powerful live. I get chills every time I hear it live, it's just that good.
agreed. it's just a great song, so such so I tried to find the arrangements for a string trio I hired for my wedding, and couldn't find. Settled for playing at the reception as a "slow" song.

Re: Good Life - NegPhil - 06-12-2008

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken is the title of a 1996 graphic novel (or "picture novella") by Seth, published by Drawn and Quarterly. It was originally published in issues 4 through 9 of the comic book series Palookaville. It is about Seth's search for an obscure Canadian cartoonist named Kalo who once contributed to The New Yorker.

It was #52 on the list of the "100 Best Comics of the 20th Century" compiled by The Comics Journal.

This book stirred up a minor controversy when it was revealed that, while the story presents Kalo as a real person, Seth had actually invented him, and the Kalo drawings in the book were Seth's own. Seth even includes an alleged photo of Kalo in the book. Although the story was based on elements of Seth's life (featuring his mother and brother, and his friend, the cartoonist Chester Brown), the story was not strictly autobiographical. For instance, Ruthie, Seth's girlfriend in the book, was actually a combination of several women.

Seth has said that the title was something that his mother used to say when he was growing up. The phrase was taken from a Depression era song popularly performed by Maurice Chevalier, and later borrowed as a song title by The Tragically Hip on their CD In Violet Light.

Re: Good Life - cochise - 06-12-2008

NegPhil Wrote:Seth has said that the title was something that his mother used to say when he was growing up. The phrase was taken from a Depression era song popularly performed by Maurice Chevalier, and later borrowed as a song title by The Tragically Hip on their CD In Violet Light.

I had it stuck in my head that the term was said to Gord by a roadies mother or something like that? At least that is where I thought I heard it came from, talking about living on the road?? I never knew it was an old saying, or an old song

..........Oh well, guess I was wrong

Re: Good Life - skippy the wonder dog - 06-12-2008

cochise Wrote:I had it stuck in my head that the term was said to Gord by a roadies mother or something like that? At least that is where I thought I heard it came from, talking about living on the road??

That's the story, although I thought it was the road manager? That person may have got it from someplace else, of course, probably did. That won't stop some people from publishing remarks suggesting the band is trying to mislead everyone, as they did with the name ... everyone knows their name really came from Elvis Costello, right?

But this is the kind of thing one expects of Wikipedia, where you get nonsense like
some doltish Wikipedian Wrote:This book stirred up a minor controversy when it was revealed that, while the story presents Kalo as a real person, Seth had actually invented him, and the Kalo drawings in the book were Seth's own. Seth even includes an alleged photo of Kalo in the book.

A character in a graphic novel turns out to be fictional, and this stirs up a controversy? Where did this controversy play out? In somebody's dorm room?

Why does an obscure graphic novel have a Wikipedia entry?

Forget it ... the question answers itself.

Re: Good Life - NegPhil - 06-12-2008

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It's A Goodlife If You Don't Weaken references

"It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken," is a graphic novel by a singularly named artist known simply as Seth. It tells the sad story of a forgotten 1940's cartoonist named Kalo. The phrase itself was first brought to the attention of the band by one of their staffers, Molly Lorimer, who, as Gord once explained it, was fond of using the phrase when discussing life on the road.

The best summation of the original graphic novel I could find come from the fine folks over at raintaxi.com, and goes a little something like this: "The serious comic book artists of today have a strange lineage to face. Superheroes, gag strips, and pornography are not the tradition most artists want looming over their work, but these genres form the backbone of American comics. Most artists, sooner or later, find themselves addressing the peculiar legacy of their medium. Alan Moore and Frank Miller revised and rewrote the superhero genre; Kim Deitch (the brilliant Waldo cycle) and Dan Clowes (Ghost World, Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron) turned the kitsch of their childhoods into moody, nightmarish fantasies. But Seth's It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken confronts the emotions behind the pervasive nostalgia. His dominant influence is the gag cartoon of the '50's: the New Yorker style of Peter Arno and his contemporaries, in which cultured urbanites lightly mocked their own class. Seth's style instantly conjures up the understated gentility of those artists, their spare, curved lines and solid gray shading. It makes sense, then, that It's a Good Life is the semi-autobiographical story of Seth's attempt to track down Kalo, an obscure cartoonist who published one New Yorker cartoon and a handful of others. But what we learn of the deceased Kalo shows a man for whom cartooning was a potential career but hardly an obsession; every person Seth interviews about Kalo knows little to nothing about his cartoons."

Re: Good Life - 767F/O - 06-13-2008

Not sure where the band got that song title but my 70 year old mother-in-law has been saying that phrase for the last 20 years that I have known her...don't think she ever met the band though!!! LOL