THE SECRET MACHINES' QUEST FOR PUBLIC TRANSIT.Byline: Sandra Barrera Staff Writer Among the Secret Machines' reasons for relocating to New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. from Dallas was to get away from car culture. So, when asked to help raise awareness about public transportation in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. with a free performance Tuesday night at the historic Union Station, Brandon Curtis Brandon Curtis is the vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the rock band The Secret Machines. Originally from Dallas, Texas, the Secret Machines are now based in New York City. says his psychedelic alt-rock trio jumped at the chance. ``The fact that it's normal for one person to get in a car and drive 45 minutes each way to work just doesn't make sense. It just seems like more attention needs to be drawn to mass transit mass transit, public transportation systems designed to move large numbers of passengers. Types and Advantages Mass transit refers to municipal or regional public shared transportation, such as buses, streetcars, and ferries, open to all on a as a possibility,'' says the singer-keyboardist-bassist, speaking by phone midtour from Iowa City Iowa City, city (1990 pop. 59,738), seat of Johnson co., E Iowa, on both sides of the Iowa River; founded 1839 as the capital of Iowa Territory, inc. 1853. Among its manufactures are foam rubber, animal feed, paper, and food products. The city is the seat of the Univ. about his upcoming Union Station gig. Tuesday's free show is part of ``Public Displays of Affection,'' which includes the DJ talents of street artist Shepard Fairey Frank Shepard Fairey (born February 15, 1970 in Charleston, South Carolina) is a contemporary artist/graphic designer/illustrator, who emerged from the skating scene.[1] He usually goes under his middle and last name, Shepard Fairey. and an art exhibit of Angelenos using public transportation by celebrity photo-blogger The Cobra Snake (aka Mark Hunter Mark Hunter can refer to:
Sponsored by youth activism Youth activism is best summarized as youth voice engaged in community organizing for social change. Around the world young people are engaged as activism planners, researchers, teachers, evaluators, social workers, decision-makers, advocates and leading actors in the environmental organization Global Inheritance -- in partnership with the action sports cable network Fuel TV and Zune, Microsoft's new MP3 player -- and accessible to anyone who rides the train or bus into Union Station that day with a ticket stub A small software routine placed into a program that provides a common function. Stubs are used for a variety of purposes. For example, a stub might be installed in a client machine, and a counterpart installed in a server, where both are required to resolve some protocol, remote procedure , it's the only unconventional stop on the Secret Machines' ``Ten Silver Drops'' tour. On Monday, the band headlines the Avalon. Curtis and his band began working on the new disc in between shows back when they were promoting their 2004 debut, ``Now Here Is Nowhere.'' All the back-and-forth got a little crazy, he admits. But it also fed the creative process. ``Ten Silver Drops'' bustles with a different energy than its predecessor, which captured the feeling of life as a band in the New York City club circuit. Curtis formed the Secret Machines in Dallas in 2000 with his brother, Ben, and Josh Garza. Shortly thereafter, they moved to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . ``From Dallas -- where you live in your car and you have a job and you live in a little duplex and there's lots of space and things are cheap -- going to New York, you're kind of in it with everybody,'' Curtis says. ``There's such a wide variety of people and economies and lifestyles. You share space with them constantly on the street or in the subway.'' In addition to music, Secret Machines have taken a jab at documentary filmmaking. The band recently set up shop in the small West Texas town of Marfa, whose claim to fame is minimalist sculptor Donald Judd's Chinati Foundation museum. ``It's kind of like an international landmark to minimalist art pilgrims,'' Curtis says. ``But it's also a ranch town where locals witness these people coming through with their black clothes and rented Mercedes or private jets. ``So, we set up a little studio and invited people from the town to stop by so we could talk to them about ... the weirdness of art and the weirdness of living in a really tiny isolated western Texas town.'' At the end the band went to a ranch not too far away and played a concert for nobody. ``We just filmed it,'' Curtis says. ``It was in the middle of this big canyon. A huge place. You can see 20 miles across this canyon and not see a power line or a light or a structure. It's just ranch land.'' No word on when or if the movie will see the light of day. ``The folks at Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . have it,'' he says. ``I'm not sure if they're showing it to anybody. I think they just don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what to do with it. I don't blame them, really.'' Sandra Barrera, (818) 713-3728 sandra.barrera(at)dailynews.com SECRET MACHINES Where: Avalon, 1735 N. Vine, Hollywood. When: 8 p.m. Monday. Tickets: $22 to $25. (213) 480-3232 or www.ticketmaster.com. PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION WITH SECRET MACHINES Where: Union Station, 800 N. Alameda St., Los Angeles. When: 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Tuesday. Information: www.globalinheritance.org. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Secret Machines will focus attention on L.A.'s public transportation situation with a free concert Tuesday at downtown's Union Station. ``The fact that it's normal for one person to get in a car and drive 45 minutes each way to work just doesn't make sense,'' says Brandon Curtis, center, with brother Ben Curtis, left, and Josh Garza. |
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