longest post ever but please read!!!
So it seems like a lot of people want to do that Jack White gift thing. If you didn’t read my post earlier, here’s what’s going down:
I’m going from Dallas, TX to Morrison, CO on August 7 to see Jack White play at Red Rocks Amphitheater on August 8. I’m wanting to do what I did for The Kills when I saw them in January where I had some people from tumblr send me messages that they’d want me to deliver to The Kills (which I successfully did).
For Jack, I’m wanting you guys to submit messages to me to deliver to Jack along with a picture of yourself with your favorite one of his albums, whether it be a White Stripes album, Raconteurs album, Dead Weather album, or Blunderbuss. CD or Vinyl. If you go the whole digital route, take a picture of yourself with your ipod playing a song from the album.
I feel like this could be really cool and (maybe) it would make him happy to know that we love him (way too much). I know a lot of you won’t get to see him anytime soon (and I’m traveling through two states to see him and this is my first time) and I think it’d be nice to let Jack see something that we’ve written for him instead of just the lame shit on our blogs (no offense, my blog included.)
This isn’t going to be one of those “you must follow me or I won’t deliver your message!!!” things. You don’t have to follow me, I really don’t care. The only rule I have for this is not to offer yourself sexually to him because I’d feel really uncomfortable delivering a sex letter to Jack White aka God.
Also: If you don’t want to include a picture of yourself, that’s fine, I’ll still deliver your message!
ALSO KEEP IN MIND WHEN YOU’RE WRITING YOUR LETTER THAT THERE IS A CHANCE THAT JACK WHITE WILL BE READING IT SO DON’T SAY ANYTHING YOU’LL LOOK BACK UPON AND FEEL DUMB ABOUT.
I’ll stop accepting these on August 6 (my birthday eheheh) at 7 pm (Dallas, TX time) so you’ve got over two months to think of something to write. You can submit them (as a photo!!!!) to my blog here. I’ll message you as a little ~confirmation~ thing and I’ll never post it publicly.
So please please please do this or I’m going to feel really dumb and I think this sounds like a cool idea. Feel free to reblog if you’d like to help get the word out.
(ONE MORE THING: this will be my first Jack White show ever so I really don’t know the chances of me meeting him but I will fight to the death to deliver these messages)
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Jack White Live at Webster Hall (American Express Unstaged) — April 27, 2012
The middle has been cut, so it doesn’t contain Gary Oldman talking or a fifteen minute wait for Jack to begin performing again. Sorry if you wanted that to be included. Downloads enabled.
This week’s Georgia Straight gets up close and personal with rock icon Jack White. Plus the Vancouver International Children’s Festival, an interview with author John Irving, and the disappearance of the American-born film hero. www.straight.com
Previews of each track on http://thirdmanrecords.com/. Blue Series out May 28 - there aren’t any pre-orders but there’s tri colour info on the site - get in if you live in Salt Lake City!
Jack’s going to be playing at Austin City Limits, October 12-14.
Other headliners are The Black Keys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Florence + The Machine and Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
“FREEDOM AT 21” SINGLE B/W “INACCESSIBLE MYSTERY” - the new 7” from Jack will be available June 11. The B-side is a non-album song and as ever the 7” cover aligns with the other two.
Pre-order here
Tune into SiriusXM Radio’s SiriusXMU (channel 35) at 5 pm ET tomorrow to hear an interview with Jack, followed by a live broadcast of his show at Roseland Ballroom in NYC at 9 pm ET. The concert will be rebroadcast on several SiriusXM music channels throughout the week, including Alt-Nation (channel 36), The Spectrum (channel 28) and SiriusXMU (channel 35). If you aren’t already a SiriusXM subscriber, you can get a free 7-day online trial at http://bit.ly/sxmtrial
At Jack White’s headlining performance in Gulf Shores, Alabama last night, Guinness officials were anxiously awaiting the beginning of Mr. White’s concert (the start of which is apparently very difficult to determine stated Guinness Records reps, music being played notwithstanding). They were there so that they could begin the exhausting process of counting each and every metaphor that occurred onstage as Mr. White attempted to break the record of most metaphors in a single concert.
They definitely had a task in front of them as in the first song alone, three officials that were flown in from the Guinness world headquarters in the anteroom of the Salt and Muskrat pub in Tipperary, counted no less than twelve hundred and three metaphors in three minutes.
Some metaphors were lyrical and others came from moments such as lighting changes and even the calm weather itself during the chorus which momentarily had the feel of Grandma’s house in winter. By the seventh song alone the hard work led two of the Guinness officials to wander to the catering table, leaving the counting to their partner who, new to the grueling scientific process involved, accidentally counted 312 similes and three mere comparisons.
Metaphors were occurring in the thousands by this point, some coming from the clothing the musicians had on, others from the colors used on one of the microphone cables which were easter candy blue, making the task of counting extremely trivial or at the very least hard work.
Then tragedy struck and the record attempt had to be forfeited by Jack White when during the second half of the set Mr. White trivialized a metaphor by saying it too quickly. It was something about the moon being a faucet of light but was uttered too fast to be counted.
Guinness representatives will return to tomorrow night’s show to begin the exhaustive, scientific, and absolutely authoritative and factual process all over again.
Myspace is going to stream tonight’s Hang Out Festival,including Jacks performance.
Looks like Jack will be on at 9:30 pm Eastern Time Zone.
(via fuckyeahjackwhite)
JACK WHITE ATTEMPTS NEW WORLD RECORD
Third Man Records is proud to announce that Jack White has again decided to take on the tremendous challenge of getting into the Guinness Book of World Records.
During the rest of the performances on his current tour supporting his new album “Blunderbuss” (which incidentally is currently in the running for the world record of “the fastest named album in history” *pending), Jack White will every night on stage attempt to break the world record for most metaphors in a single concert.
The attempt may prove very exhausting and at times even dangerous, but the results could prove to be glorious and possibly even vainglorious. We are certain that the extremely scientific and intricate analysis of the metaphors that occur will be examined in accordance with Guinness’ usually very thorough methods probably, or at the very least if somebody answers the phone at the pub.
Third Man Records encourages all attendees of said concerts to please not interfere or interject with any metaphors that they witness occur during the show as to not disqualify or worse yet, trivialize the metaphor in question. In addition all concert attendees are encouraged to entice as many metaphors to occur during the show that they possibly can as long as they don’t endanger themselves or Mr. White.
Let’s all help to make history folks! thank you and we’ll see you in the record books!
Jack will ALWAYS have the last word.
