tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post7158959577408201287..comments2024-03-27T13:28:50.405-07:00Comments on Alienated in Vancouver: Dear fuckin' city... (re: Cobalt closure, Olympics)Allan MacInnishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05394301776870727673noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post-46297510417334569182009-08-29T22:49:13.176-07:002009-08-29T22:49:13.176-07:00Yes. The Olympics will not be stopped.
This is a c...Yes. The Olympics will not be stopped.<br />This is a city that voted Campbell in for a third term; unless the disenfranchised rebel-faction is too adept at hiding themselves, a few smashed windows and quickly-vanished sprayed slogans here and there are all that'll be said about it. <br />For whatever reason, us frustrated Vancouverites can't seem to grasp a binding element to group together to fight... well, much of <i>any</i>thing, really.<br />All services to anyone needing them are shit-canned for a few weeks of rich kids throwing/passing things or sliding down hills, and - as Celine put down in <i>Death On the Installment Plan</i>, "The last one... hadn't done anything but screw up small businesses by making a lot of damn fools spend their money in the wrong way...".<br />A molecular portion will see the 'economic benefit' of it all, and we'll be left with the largest strip-mall in the western world and strip-mined benefits for all our future health needs.<br /><br />Fer chrissakes people - VOTE next time, willya? And AGAINST Campbell.<br />For the party that actually has a chance of winning.<br /><br />Nice post - came across it while searching for info on the old Odyssey Imports shop.<br />Thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post-51737036936574857202009-08-25T18:39:04.775-07:002009-08-25T18:39:04.775-07:00I will long remember my last visit to Noize. Bough...I will long remember my last visit to Noize. Bought an Enigmas record I was not sharp enough to have bought decades ago; an Ed Sanders record about drinking beer on the moon; and some stuff I do not remember. Dale was playing T Rex's Tanx record on the turntable. Tanx was one of the first used records I bought when I began collecting records as a teenager.<br /><br />I hate it when record stores close. I have lost a great many of them. Long gone are the days you could get on the bus and spend all day getting stoned and visiting record shops. Employees as sharp as Dale would tailor reviews to you. A review something like, "It's not as good as Skrewdriver's first record but you might like it anyways," was usually enough to interest me.Mr. Beer N. Hockeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07184518909716677938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post-33177743740300321692009-08-25T02:43:38.210-07:002009-08-25T02:43:38.210-07:00A rant after my own heart.
Venues come and go. I&...A rant after my own heart.<br /><br />Venues come and go. I'm sure a new one will make itself known, although its always a shame to loose places for bands to play.<br /><br />The City has been selling itself out for the last decade, breathlessly addicted to a get rich housing boom and wanker retail gentrification, which has brought with it a knocking down of all the old stuff, only to be replaced by pressboard veneer shit that will show its dullness in a handful of years.<br /><br />That applies to the culture of the city as well...<br />Although I suppose drinking buckets of corona, listening to AC/DC on a jukebox, and watching Ultimate Fighting with the sound turned off is pretty "world class" as far as a cultural experience goes. Its certainly popular in every part of the world I've been in. Admittedly, I have not traveled anywhere near as much as I would like.<br /><br />Part of the problem lies in the fact that the GVRD has been chasing its young people out for a while, the demographic becoming overwhelmingly aging baby boomer... and I don't see the average 60 year old being the driver of "indie culture".<br /><br />I see a future for Vancouver of becoming a Palm Springs with shitty weather. The main attraction being a wet day on the ski hill before a run to the pharmacy for dirt cheap medication.<br /><br />Not that cheap meds are bad...Blakenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post-38810262169925718092009-08-23T20:43:58.658-07:002009-08-23T20:43:58.658-07:00You're rather literal-minded, aren't you? ...You're rather literal-minded, aren't you? Whether there's actually going to be serious protests or riots or so forth has pretty much *nothing* to do with the above piece of writing. You may well be right, but... so what?Allan MacInnishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05394301776870727673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post-83350664313647909782009-08-23T19:34:39.966-07:002009-08-23T19:34:39.966-07:00"Do you want to avert Riot 2010? Do you want ..."Do you want to avert Riot 2010? Do you want punks in the city who are cursing the Olympics and planning to Fuck Shit Up to suddenly sing pro-Olympics anthems and contentedly find a comfy corner in your pockets?<br /><br />Save The Cobalt. Buy the property off the fuckin' Sahotas and turn it over to Wendy to manage, as a city-supported cultural institution. Suddenly a whole bunch of people who count themselves as your enemies will start singing your praises.<br /><br />Opportunity is knocking, you assholes."<br /><br />This is laughable, and it's not that I don't identify with your viewpoint but nothing is going to happen during the olympics because the only people with balls to riot in this city and drunken, concert-going hockey-luvin suburbanites. A few punks here and there? no chance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post-56122590580530435402009-08-21T16:31:38.687-07:002009-08-21T16:31:38.687-07:00fuck...thanx for thisfuck...thanx for thisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post-86510860956308913662009-08-21T11:44:01.481-07:002009-08-21T11:44:01.481-07:00Right on. More righteous rage, people.Right on. More righteous rage, people.Stephanie Smithnoreply@blogger.com