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    <title>The Northwest Division &#45; Blog</title>
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    <dc:creator>mike@zenbug.com</dc:creator>
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      <title>“Total Eclipse Of The Heart” Flow Chart</title>
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      <title>Country rock with souvlaki on the side</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>First off, we&#8217;re excited to have some new songs for you to hear!&nbsp; We&#8217;ve recorded a couple of new demo&#8217;s with our wonderful friend James Hicken and put them online. You can find them on our myspace and facebook pages.&nbsp; We hope you like what you hear, so let us know what you think.&nbsp; These demos are the first stage in our preparations to record a new album. </p>

<p>We&#8217;re soon having what looks to be our final show of the summer this coming Sunday, Aug 9th at the Eton Tavern (710 Danforth Ave).&nbsp; It&#8217;s part of the &#8220;Taste of the Danforth&#8221; festival, so if you&#8217;re in Toronto and you like country rock with souvlaki on the side, stop on by.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a family event too,&nbsp; 2pm - 6pm, no cover!</p>

<p>And finally, we&#8217;ve decided to reduce the cost of our album for the next week, leading up to the show.&nbsp; So if you don&#8217;t have a copy of &#8220;Of Which I&#8217;m The Master&#8221;, head on over to CDbaby and order/download it today. Cd&#8217;s are $5.99, full album downloads are $3.99.</p>

<p>That&#8217;s all for now, take care of yourselves and each other!<br />
s.
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      <title>I passed the Teenager Audio Test!</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Considering that I&#8217;ve been playing the drums for 15 years, I&#8217;m impressed that I passed this&#8230;</p>

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      <title>Northwest News</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Good day my friends,</p>

<p>Hope you&#8217;re well!&nbsp; Just a quick note to let you know that we&#8217;re doing a three-set matinee show this Saturday from 3pm-6pm at our old stompin&#8217; grounds - <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=eaton+house+toronto&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;filter=0&amp;sll=43.679232,-79.344506&amp;sspn=0.011639,0.027466&amp;ll=43.678689,-79.345407&amp;spn=0.011639,0.019312&amp;z=16&amp;iwloc=B" title="The Eton House Tavern">The Eton House Tavern</a> (710 Danforth, just east of Pape).</p>

<p>We&#8217;ve learned a bunch of country covers (and a few rockers) for this show which should be a laugh.&nbsp; So if you&#8217;re looking for a nice relaxing Saturday afternoon, come on by if you can!</p>

<p>Here&#8217;s the details&#8230;.<br />
<a href="http://www.northwestdivision.com/eton" title="NWD - Live at The Eton Tavern">NWD - Live at The Eton Tavern</a></p>

<p>Cheers,<br />
nwd.
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      <title>Norm MacDonald roasts Bob Saget</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Just <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=u0rB0hsTb8c" title="watch it">watch it</a>.
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      <dc:date>2009-02-04T16:53:02+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>The Northwest News</title>
      <link>http://www.northwestdivision.com/page/blog-post/the-northwest-news1/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>“It’s been a long time, been a long time”… I really am a slacker when it comes to updates.&nbsp; Sorry about that!&nbsp; The truth of it all is that we took a bit of a break after our last show way back in August to go our separate ways, take some vacations, do other things, but now we’re back!&nbsp; </p>

<p>We recently realized how fast the end of 2008 is approaching and how much we miss seeing you guys…. So to remedy that, we’ve booked a couple of shows and we hope you’ll come out and party with us one last time before the New Year.</p>

<p>This Saturday, Dec 6th, we’ll be stopping by The Silver Dollar to play a show with a great Newfoundland country soul band called <a href="http://www.myspace.com/davidpicco">Jetset Motel</a>.&nbsp; Opening the show will be a punk-country outfit called <a href="http://www.myspace.com/luckyfool1">Luckyfool</a> who will surely get things heated up in a hurry.&nbsp; <br />
Start time is 11pm.&nbsp; If you can, please bring a non-perishable food item to donate to the food bank.&nbsp; For our part, we’ll give you a <strong>FREE</strong> copy of our cd, <em>Of Which I’m The Master</em>, if you donate to the cause.&nbsp;   </p>

<p>On Thursday, Dec 11th, we’ll head down the highway to visit Hamilton.&nbsp; This time we’ll be playing at a new venue called Touché (formerly 33 Hess).&nbsp; If you’re around, stop by, if you have friends there, please spread the word.</p>

<p>And just so you know, we haven’t been doing nothing all this time.&nbsp; In the past few weeks we’ve been rehearsing a lot and writing songs that will hopefully appear on our next record.&nbsp; There isn’t a time frame for that yet, but if all goes well, we may get recording by late spring or early summer.&nbsp; </p>

<p>Finally, with the holiday season fast approaching; please take care of yourselves and each other.&nbsp; Donate to those less fortunate if you can!</p>

<p>I leave you with these classics…..</p>

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and of course</p>

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Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis</p>

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Happy holidays,<br />
sk - NWD</p>

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      <title>Two cats talking</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m always trying to think of something cool but simple to post on YouTube.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s one of those &#8220;I wish I&#8217;d done this&#8221; videos:</p>

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      <title>Government 2.0</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>It has been suggested for a while now that Barack Obama will create a more &#8220;open source government&#8221; should he be elected to the U.S. Presidency, complete with a presidential blog and the like.&nbsp; Well <a href="http://change.gov" title="Change.gov">Obama doesn&#8217;t waste any time</a>!
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      <title>Why copyright has to change</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>CBC Radio 2&#8217;s great podcast <strong><em>Ideas</em></strong> had <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/who-owns-ideas/index.html" title="an excellent episode about copyright law">an excellent episode about copyright law</a> and why the current model won&#8217;t work in the information age.&nbsp; Check it.
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>So as many of you already know (at least in Canada), the CBC has lost its rights to the beloved theme song for &#8220;Hockey Night In Canada&#8221;. As a result they have created a contest to see who can write the next theme. We had a song kicking around that didn&#8217;t really have a home so we decided to enter it. We&#8217;ve called it &#8220;Faceoff&#8221; and you can hear it below. If you like it, please go to <a href="http://anthemchallenge.cbc.ca/mediadetail/330101">CBC.CA</a> to vote for us! </p>

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