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Jorge Drexler wants to sing an infinite song Associated Press Writer
MIAMI — The song Jorge Drexler is singing has no specific end or beginning. “You were sleeping and I was watching you,” it might start. Or he might sing, “In came the daylight and the window showed a new season.” Two strangers meet in hotel room 316. And what happens there, the listener decides. They may kiss and set sail into the unknown or gaze at each other and never touch. The Oscar-winning Uruguayan musician with a salt and pepper beard has created a song with more possibilities than the estimated number of stars in
the universe. It’s all devisable through “n by Jorge Drexler,” a mobile phone application he created with Wake App designers that debuts three new songs. He presented the project at the Billboard Latino Music Conference Tuesday in Miami. In Spain, it’s already become a top iTunes store app. In the first song, “Room 316,” the user chooses what Drexler will sing from rotating circles of phrases. All of the combinations make sense and no two are the same. That’s followed by, “Driftwood,” in which Drexler sings and the user decides on the instruments in the background: A string quartet, a choir or perhaps a
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — The bassist for the rock band 3 Doors Down has checked himself into a drug treatment facility after bonding out of jail, the musician’s lawyer said Wednesday. Robert Todd Harrell is accused of driving under the influence and causing a fatal crash last weekend in a Nashville suburb. Police say the 41-year-old bassist admitted to drinking and taking prescription drugs before the wreck on Friday. “He was released on bond and immediately went and checked himself into treatment,” said Nashville criminal defense lawyer Ed Ryan. The attorney declined to say where the musician is being treated. However, he said that the treatment is not court-
ordered and that Harrell went voluntarily. Ryan also said that he couldn’t comment any further because he had just been retained and was beginning to look into the case. Harrell spent several days in jail and was freed on $100,000 bond on Tuesday. Police say the 41-year-old bassist was under the influence when he was speeding down Interstate 40 and clipped the back of a pickup truck. The driver of the truck, 47-year-old Paul Shoulders Jr. was killed as a result of the crash.
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FILE - In this April 9, 2011 file photo, 3 Doors Down’ bassist Todd Harrell performs before a NASCAR auto race at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas.
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sole guitar. The app detects the user’s location and gives the listener access to different instruments depending on their location. The final song, “Decima to the power of ten,” is a tribute to the centuries-old Spanish-language poetic structure with 10 lines and a calculated syllable and rhythmic count. Drexler spent nine months laboring over ten decimas in which all the lines could be fluidly interchanged. The concept behind the work is infinity, an idea that has long enchanted Drexler and which he has written about, without having composed an infinite song itself. He says the new odes are like a butterfly.
3 Doors Down bassist enters rehab following arrest Associated Press Writer
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A publicist for 3 Doors Down announced this week that the band was canceling four of its upcoming appearances out of respect for the victim. Harrell is facing multiple charges, including vehicular homicide by intoxication, unlawful possession of a controlled substance, violation of the implied consent law and possession of contraband. Police records say that Harrell seemed to be confused about the crash and what happened, and he showed signs of being impaired during a series of field sobriety tests. Harrell admitted to drinking hard cider earlier in the evening and to taking prescribed Lortab and Xanax, records show. A breathalyzer test showed that Harrell had no alcohol in his system, records show. He refused to give a blood sample and told police that he was worried about narcotics showing up in his system, records say. Police were able to get the sample through a court order. Harrell has had previous trouble with the law. He is scheduled to appear in a D’Iberville, Mississippi, court to answer a 2012 DUI charge next month. He was arrested in that city in July following an accident. Records indicate that he was arrested in Pascagoula, Mississippi, in 1999 on a charge of public intoxication. Harrell, police said, was drunk and used profanity when talking to offers after being warned several times to keep him mouth shut. It’s not clear if he was convicted on that charge. Harrell, who currently lives just outside of Nashville, is from Mississippi. The band formed in Mississippi in the ‘90s and is known for such hits as “When I’m Gone” and “Kryptonite,” did not elaborate on the statement.
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Patched road in Denpasar, Public Works allocate IDR 36 billion
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Damage to a number of main road sections in Denpasar will be immediately repaired by the Denpasar Public Works. Even, the Denpasar Municipality through relevant agency has prepared the budget worth IDR 36 billion more for that purpose.
DENPASAR - Damage to a number of main road sections in Denpasar will be immediately repaired by the Denpasar Public Works. Even, the Denpasar Municipality through relevant agency has prepared the budget worth IDR 36 billion more for that purpose. The Head of Denpasar Public Works, Ketut Winartha, accompanied by the Division Head of Highways, I Wayan Dirgayusa, said the budget was allocated to work on nine packages of road improvement project. “Currently, the tender process has been under progress since this week. We expect the process can run smoothly,” said Winartha. He explained the nine packages of road improvement project included the road section on Jalan Gunung Atena, Jalan Tukad Citarum, Jalan Gunung Catur to Jalan Kebo Iwa, Jalan Pidada to Jalan Angsoka, Jalan Gunung Batur to Jalan Gunung Agung, LC at Pemecutan area to Jalan Bung Tomo, Jalan Tukad Badung IX and XVIII, Jalan Suardhipa I, and the improvement of road at the area of Padangsambian, West Denpasar. “The tender process is different and respectively separated. The total budget allocated is around IDR 36 billion,” he explained. Continued on page 6
Indonesia investigators in US to quiz World Bank director Agence France-Presse
JAKARTA - Indonesian investigators have arrived in Washington to quiz a World Bank managing director as a witness over a bank bailout that led her to quit as finance minister, an official said Thursday. Sri Mulyani Indrawati, once considered Indonesia’s top reformist, was among several officials who authorised the rescue of the mid-sized Bank Century, which was bailed out during the onset of
the financial crisis in 2008. The total funds disbursed to save the relatively minor bank were far higher than the amount initially deemed necessary to prevent its collapse, and bailout money was
allegedly siphoned off by wellconnected depositors. Three investigators from the Corruption Eradication Commission arrived this week in Washington, where Indrawati is now based, to question her about the 6.7 trillion rupiah ($690 million) rescue, commission spokesman Johan Budi said. “The questioning will be carried out this week at the Indonesian embassy there,” he told AFP. Indrawati has already been ques-
tioned twice as a witness by antigraft investigators over the case and has denied any wrongdoing. Budi said Indrawati’s testimony would be used in the trial of former central bank deputy governor Budi Mulya, who was named a suspect in the case in November. Vice President Boediono, who was central bank governor at the time of the bailout, has also been implicated in the probe but denies any wrongdoing. The case rocked President Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono’s government just after he won a second presidency on a graft-fighting platform. Indrawati resigned as finance minister in 2010 after being questioned by investigators and after the House of Representatives deemed the bailout illegal. While the trigger for her resignation was the bailout, analysts say that parliamentary factions opposed to her reform agenda had long been seeking her removal.