Talking to Vulture, Abraham listed off some of the people involved: “David Cross, members of Vampire Weekend, TV on the Radio, Broken Social Scene, the GZA, Bob Mould, No Age, and Yo La Tengo are all confirmed. I’m still waiting on confirmation from Feist, Jarvis Cocker, and M.I.A. We wanted the biggest people we could get. If we could get a Jonas Brother on this, I would get a Jonas Brother.”
A rep for Matador, the band’s label, confirms that they are indeed working on the track. No word yet on who will get the climactic Bono ”thank God tonight it’s them instead of you” part. Our vote is for anyone other than David Cross or the GZA.
According to Abraham, the single will benefit “a few different organizations, like Justice for the Missing, that are affiliated with the 500 missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada. That number is an old official statistic that the government uses, but the number is probably closer to 3,000. It’s not like cancer or AIDS. Those are worthy causes but they have big fund-raising machines. This is an undocumented, underreported crime that’s been going on for years. And while this is for Canadian organizations, the same sort of thing is going on at the U.S.-Mexico border, with Mexican women going missing, and in Australia, with aboriginal women there.”He also talked a bit about the band’s reasons for picking this song: “I liked the idea of somewhat marginalized indie rockers coming together for a marginalized cause … There’s a kind of cavalier colonialism to the original, like the West has to go in and help this poor Third World country. But the charities that we’re trying to help are exactly a product of this colonial history. People who have been subjugated and oppressed for so many years are going missing. So there’s an irony to using the song.”
So good.
06 Nov 09
PFork: Fucked Up Plan All-Star Cover of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" →
Abra sent me the NYMAG piece this AM as well. aren’t we all glad this money went to Fucked Up?
03 Nov 09

dear costumed adults behaving badly: now THIS is a hallowe’en costume!!! (via Papercraft Self Portrait - today and tomorrow)
02 Nov 09
Over a drink at Le Select, in Paris, Anderson admitted that he was troubled by the reception of Darjeeling, especially in light of the success, the following year, of Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire. “Why did this India movie become a big hit and mine didn’t?” he said. He answered his own question: “With my style, I can take a subject that you’d think would be commercial and turn it into something that not a lot of people want to see.— Wes Anderson: ‘Why Was Slumdog a Hit and Not Darjeeling?’ — Vulture
ouch.



