Friday, January 09, 2009
About Me

- Name: Allan MacInnis
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Writer, aging punk, cinephile. Fan of the obscure and outside. Former ESL teacher, occasional used bookstore guy; zombie when the mood strikes me. Currently relocated from Vancouver to Maple Ridge, due to family issues: hipster in absentia.
Previous Posts
- Hail the triumph of Thor!
- Mock Up On Mu, Motherfucker!
- RIP Ron Asheton
- DOA Tours China!
- Alienated in Vancouver: The Comic Strip!
- The Exiles at the Cinematheque
- RIP Donald E. Westlake
- The Wrestler WILL play Vancouver*
- Happy New Year Indeed
- Will The Wrestler Play Vancouver?
Links
- Subhumans
- Gerry Hannah
- Nomeansno
- Sudden Death
- Punk History Canada
- Sistrenatus
- G42
- The Winks
- Constellation Records
- Silver Mt Zion
- Tzadik
- Japanese Improvised Music
- Haino Keiji
- Maja Ratkje
- Nels Cline
- Fred Frith
- Eugene Chadbourne
- Phil Ochs
- Albert Ayler
- Nihilist Spasm Band
- Jandek
- The Ex
- New Model Army
- Scratch
- Zulu
- Forced Exposure
- Red Cat
- Black Dog
- Happy Bats
- Videomatica
- Vancity Theatre
- Pacific Cinematheque
- Festival Cinemas
- Video In
- Ubu Web
- Rougemont Films
- imdb
- Rotten Tomatoes
- cassavetes
- Ray Carney
- Senses of Cinema
- Peter Watkins
- DVD Beaver
- Criterion Forum
- Discorder
- Nerve
- Chris Walter
- Georgia Straight
- Razorcake
- Abebooks
- Nietzsche
- Unabomber Manifesto
- Znet
- Annie Sprinkle
- Thomas Ziorjen
- Maurice Spira
- Odd Nerdrum
- Attila Richard Lukacs
- Artchive
- Obituaries
- Fortean Times
- Engrish
- Znet Toons
- Wikipedia
- eBay
- Allan's Myspace


2 Comments:
I saved the admission to the Living Dead movies and walked around downtown like/with the zombies yesterday.
I too leaned on the Smiling Buddha's long bar as a young man and enjoy reading anything by anybody who survives from those days.
I checked your first month's work in this space, something I do most all the time after I have added a blog to my favourites. The bit about Doug Bennett was sure good. All the old fatties can't play half-time at the Grey Cup.
Last comment for the day: it sure is curious people still give any sort of a shit at all about the Five and their motives, etc.
Argh! Fucking lost my comment. Let's try this again...
In fact, I was too young for the Buddha - I would pass it on the bus on the way in to buy records at Collectors RPM or Odyssey Imports. My punk watering hole of choice was the Cruel Elephant on Granville, watching the Melvins, Tankhog, Sludge (from Coquitlam!) or, best of all the touring acts I caught there, the Volcano Suns...
I'm glad you liked the Doug Bennett piece. Re: the Five, I'm not at all surprised that people still give a shit about all that - I mean, I've seen Brits and Americans go at it online over their colonial history, and the US revolution happened a couple of hundred years ago... People have long memories, history has a long reach, and the Five weren't THAT long ago...
A.
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