Alienated in Vancouver

Occasionally things happen in Canada that pique ones curiosity. Hell, I'd go so far as to say I'm VERY INTERESTED in what's goin...

...two things that are competing for my attention, these days (along with this rather intense Australian John Cassavetes fan... more on that...

Walked out of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion gig at Richards on Richards tonight. The band didn't look like they were havin' much f...

...the first Hollywood action movie about the current war in Iraq has, to my knowledge, not been made. I'm thinkin' TONY Scott, not ...

A book of naughty origami projects! What a great idea!

Smokin’ a bowl, downloadin’ bootlegs o’ Tom Waits for this hot little redhead I know on a wet Friday nite at 2:05 AM. Listenin’ to him singi...

Gwynne Dyer speculates on an unusual solution to the current divide in America: about half the US should join Canada. There's a funky ...

Apparently there's a new wave of beheadings going on worldwide -- terrorists like the shock value that cutting off someone's head h...

Jandek played a live show ! In Glasgow, unannounced! Holy cow! (It's about two weeks old, this news -- but what can I say, I miss stuff ...

John Pilger has a good article on the current state of things immediately pre-election -- check it out. Also a well-written piece by Justin...

It doesn't make me feel too much better right now, either, but we do have to note that in SOME quarters of the world, the swing to the ...

I feel this doomed sense of certitude that G.W. Bush is gonna win. I've consoled myself, below, with the possible good results of a Bush...

Sweet Jesus, I have seen the most frightening film I've ever encountered . The most ambitious movie I've seen in years, one for whic...

It's one of the stranger things about living in Canada: you care more about the politics in your neighbour's country than in your ow...

Oh my God that was painful. I wrote this fun little take on the second night of the Cinemuerte festival, linked all the stuff I was mentioni...

A man walks into an inn with a broom in one hand and a dustpan in the other. The man at the front looks up. “Can I help you?” “Yes, I’m h...

Bookscouting find of the day: Improvisation by Derek Bailey , the 1980 hardcover first edition of the avant-garde guitarist's study of ...

(Written in re: the first night of the Vox Festival. See the previous entry, below, for context). Damn, Kate. I'm sorry. It's bad...

Just returned from Diamanda Galas' performance at the Vogue theatre. I don't have much to say about the concert tonight -- it was in...

My closest encounter with Doug Bennett was in the men's room of the Viper Room, a couple of years ago in Maple Ridge. (No, it's not ...