Alienated in Vancouver

Apparently Sistrenatus (pictured below) will not be playing at the 1067 gig on Saturday. The correct lineup is: Goatsblood (feat. 1067 veter...

Damn that Alex Varty ! I haven't gotten around to sorting out my feelings about the Terry Riley /Michael McClure show last week, and I c...

...or new Tsukamoto Shinya, if you prefer: Vital is his newest feature, out as part of the Asian Exteme series (presumably) on Tartan. Tsuk...

One month to the day of the last Winks gig I tried to stir up excitement for, here comes another Winks gig, this time at Video In. The perfo...

I want this one .

Stuff to check out in Vancouver: Video In will be hosting Cue Up, a monthly showing of video work by local artists, on Thursday, and 1067 wi...

I feel like I'm living among strangers. Not even Svend gets in? Here's a story. My father is going to the racetrack, see? Gets on a ...

Hah! Will iam Blum , a somewhat lesser-known (compared to Chomsky, Herman, Parenti and Zinn, say) left-leaning writer and critic of US forei...

I'm curious: does anyone recall seeing the word " stampede " associated with groups other than Muslims? ...because I've se...

I first saw the Hello Kitty vibrator in a shop in Ueno, Tokyo. It was a big, wall-less area with several stalls, selling everything from sam...

When Kong bursts out of the theatre, a man looks up aghast who looks an awful lot (I thought) like Forrest J. Ackerman , the uber-fan and co...

The Vancity Theatre will be running the Masters of Horror series, previously written about on this blog in the context of Joe Dante's e...

Fans of noir and the hard-boiled crime novels of Jim Thompson (who also wrote the novels upon which The Grifters, Coup de Torchon, The Getaw...

The story of the New Creation is fascinating and worth reading, and you can do that at greater length here . Briefly, they were a Vancouver-...

Now what does this mean, folks -- are bands like Rough Trade and the Payolas still alive on the radio in Canada ONLY BECAUSE OF CANADIAN CON...

His bio/obit from Wikipedia.

I have not forgotten the Winks, folks. True, my stint as a Winks groupie flagged after about six or seven shows (or maybe eight if you count...

Okay, so, dig, the other week I bumped into the good natured, hard-working, and super-competent manager of the school I work at at Starbucks...

There's a fair bit of fascinating stuff on the internet about the hundreds of deformed frogs found in Minnesota and Quebec (and elsewhe...

On a short scan of Ethan Persoff's website , which is very cool indeed, I discovered government-produced comic books about heroin addict...