Two great White Stripes items via Laura Scene:
Jack White has officially wiped his hands clean of his former hometown of Detroit, MI. (He currently hangs his hat in Nashville, TN.) He has now put his house in the D on the market, the historic 1731 Seminole, with an asking price just under a million dollars: $930,000.00.The house is beautiful and well-maintained, containing many of the original details of the house. The expansive house features a laundry room, attic, library, sunroom, formal dining room, full dressing room, and a Herring-Hall-Marvin Walk-In Safe. One of the hidden treasures of the abode is a large ?secret garden? courtyard with a Koi Pond in the center.
Koi Pond! Cool.
I bet the house is like, all red and white stripes! Ha ha… !
More photos and history at 1731seminole.com.
Item #2: Visit myspace.com/alumiiinium to hear avante-garde orchestral reworkings of White Stripes songs that will soundtrack long time Stripes designer Rob Jones‘s new exhibition. Back story here. The Aluminium album (out 10/16) will be limited to 3,333 prints. Here’s an MP3:
And don’t miss Jack and Meg on The Simpsons 9/17.
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*Jack and Meg
…unless that’s some joke I don’t get.
that orchestral version of Aluminum was awesome…
These versions are great. Thanks for the post, I would have never known otherwise.
He looks like he lives in those partial sample rooms at Ikea.
Wow, Detroit is dead cheap to live in. Know what the same money buys you in Vancouver? A lot…as in an empty lot.
http://www.mls.ca/PropertyDetails.aspx?vd=&SearchURL=%3fMode%3d0%26Page%3d1%26vs%3d1%26rlt%3d%26cp%3d%26pt%3d20%26mp%3d1000000-0-0%26mrt%3d-1-0-0%26Beds%3d0-0%26Baths%3d0-0%26f%3d%26ft%3dall%26o%3dA%26of%3d1%26ps%3d10%26ptgid%3d1%26aid%3d3718%252c3717%26MapURL%3d%253fAreaID%253d6577&Mode=0&PropertyID=4963486
At first, this sounded like a lame rip-off of Alarm Will Sound’s _Acoustica_ (orchestral Aphex Twin), but I have to say, those orchestrations (by composer Joby Talbot — http://www.jobytalbot.com) are surprisingly effective.
Did anyone else check out the “history” section of the 1731 Seminole website? Jack White is included in the list of owners … but his picture (and link to his Wikipedia entry) appears to be of Don Knotts …
Did anyone else check out the “history” section of the 1731 Seminole website? Jack White is included in the list of owners … but his picture (and link to his Wikipedia entry) appears to be of Don Knotts …