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border crossings

Update: Homeland Security Does Not Think Death Cab's Guitarist Is Too Edgy

Following up on the "Chris Walla's hard drive got confiscated at the border" story: the Department of Homeland Security said that the drive didn't have the necessary paperwork to come back into the country, and that any insinuations of there being a political element to the drive's seizure were incorrect; the confusion seems to have stemmed over whether or not the drive's contents were actually a commercial product or not. Walla—who actually now has the files to finish the album, which comes out next year—shot an e-mail to The Daily Swarm explaining things more fully, including a quirk about what was and wasn't confiscated from the courier who tried to bring his stuff across the border: More »

5:01 PM on Fri Oct 19 2007
By mjohnston
1,206 views, 2 comments

Latest by Phlip: A former colleague of mine once had to travel overseas with the following checklist: - a hand-made electronic contraption- a United Arab Emirates passport- Lebanese nationality He delivered it somewhere - Israel IIRC - and they attached it to a furnace in more »

on the border

Death Cab For Cutie Guitarist Deemed "Too Edgy" By Dept. Of Homeland Security

If nothing else, it makes for a better excuse than "my hard drive got magnetized": Death Cab For Cutie guitarist Chris Walla's long-in-the-works solo album is probably going to be delayed even more thanks to the hard drive containing all its master tracks being seized by the Department of Homeland Security at the U.S.-Canada border. The album has the working title Field Manual, and according to Walla, it's "very political," with songs about Hurricane Katrina and morning-after pills and artwork that is based on Army training manuals from the '30s and '40s. More »

4:45 PM on Tue Oct 16 2007
By mjohnston
969 views, 1 comment

Latest by mackro: Nip in bud: first to make a "Even the POSTAL SERVICE failed him" joke gets a virtual nads kick from me. more »