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 Brigham Young University - Galaxy Pencil Holder $49.99 Brigham Young University - Galaxy Pencil Holder - Brushed Aluminum, Pencil Holder only. Packaged in a gift box. - Dimensions: 3 3/8 diameter - 4 5/8" height All items are custom assembled by our skilled craftsman, personally for you - Returns are Not Accepted for this item unless the item is defective.  Laurex Notebook/Laptop/Messenger Bag (Black Galaxy) $69.99 This newly-designed 1680D nylon notebook/messenger bag made of water-repellant material will protect your laptop and keep it secure with Velcro. The removable laptop compartment is padded with a 2" wide velcro elastic strap for extra security. Adjustable shoulder strap and a padded, removable, non-slip shoulder pad. Adjusts from a length of 29" to 54" and is decorated with brass rings. Main interior compartment with zippered inner pocket. Large zippered pocket in front of main compartment with two PDA/music player/cell phone holders and three pen holders. Additional full-sized pocket on backside of case, ideal size for files, magazines, etc. Feature zipped pocket on front flap cover. Velcro release flap, fits most of 15.4",15.6" and 16" laptops. Fabric: 1680 D w/Nylon || Bag Size: 15.75" X 12" X 4" || Laptop compartment: 15" X 11" X 1.5" dimensions fit most 15.4" laptops. || We also have a matching 15.4" notebook sleeve of the same style. They are designed to complement each other. You can put the sleeve (not including) right inside the bag after removing the pouch that comes with the bag.  Young Galaxy $14.98 Young Galaxy is the space rock band project of Stephen Ramsay and Catherine McCandless. They are the co-songwriters and lead vocalists in the ensemble, but it isn't really a duo. It's a six-piece and they are a band to watch. The other players are Stephen Durand, Susan Beckett, Stephen Kamp, and Pat Sayers. The album also features contributions from Arts & Crafts label mates The Dears and Stars, as well as Besnard Lakes, Patrick Watson, and A Silver Mt. Zion. Ramsay and McCandless formed the band and began recording in 2005. They released a single in 2006 then toured with The Dears. Earlier this year they released their self-titled, full-length debut. At least one of the reasons Young Galaxy was formed was that due to Stephen Ramsay's relentless touring with Stars, he and girlfriend, Catherine McCandless were not able to spend time together. Like fellow Canadians The Dears and other bands that are, or contain, duos such as Viva Voce, they found the best way to spend time with loved ones was to form their own band together. And on this debut full-length release one can feel the love. Not just their love for each other, but you get the distinct impression that this band loves you. Not that this is a "love" record, whatever that would be. But there is a deep sense of the organic and the spiritual in this record. And there is something intimate and personal shared between band and listener throughout. This sense smolders beneath the slow space-rock grooves and within literate lyrics. What music has inspired and influenced them is difficult to pinpoint. It calls to mind Slowdive and Galaxie 500, but also Roxy Music and Robbie Robertson. Even the album artwork conjures images of earth, water and stars along with a surreal open door into a dream world or the infinite. Most of the tracks are electronically driven with doses of minimal guitar and atmospheric keyboard/synthesizer textures. The obvious exception to this is the acoustic and soulful "Embers," sung simply and exquisitely by McCandless. Both Ramsay and McCandless are compelling lead vocalists and when they sing together in harmony or in octaves as in the opening track, "Swing Your Heartache," it is beautifully haunting and sometimes sublime. On the surface, the song "Embers" seems not to fit with the rest of the material. But upon further hearings of the album, especially lyrically, the record would be incomplete without it. If this album is uneven in places, it makes up for it by being astoundingly promising in others and bodes well for the future of Young Galaxy. This record utilizes images of the infinite and spiritual but is grounded in the earth in often vivid, intimate, human simplicity. Though no mere critic can say that you must own this record, it can be said that the world would be a better place if everyone listened to what Young Galaxy has to say here. Sonically and lyrically, there is something deeply refreshing and hopeful budding in this debut. |
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