Alienated in Vancouver

I love volunteering at Vancouver New Music events: I've gotten to meet some very interesting people by doing so. I spent a couple of hou...

Holy cripes! Looks like Cris cleaned up and he and Curt will be recording together as the Meat Puppets again (Derrick is standing down)! I ...

Films on John Cage at the Vancity Theatre -- this happens tonight. Probably a great way to be introduced to Cage, if you only know his name...

The whole point of the film festival appears to see so many films that you really don't mind waiting a year to do it all again... It was...

(Photo credit: an ongoing eBay auction for the original DOA benefit single for Direct Action, featuring a cover of Gerry Hannah's "...

Pontecorvo is one of the least appreciated of the great Italian filmmakers; his The Battle of Algiers is a very important film for anyone ...

I am very excited about this. The official (Vancouver) Subhumans site is here . The Subhumans myspace page here . Gerry Hannah's blog he...

Those who attend films with me know that I have a predilection for sitting up front, in what I think of as the Susan Sontag seats (Sontag ap...

Was reading Chris Walter 's interview with Warren Kinsella recently, which relates to a piece of writing I'm doing. (Gerry, you th...

You know, I don't really have anything much to say about Noam Chomsky at the moment, but I really liked the article in the Straight this...

Cassavetes fans -- if you have any doubt, set it aside. The subtitles are terrible and the title graphics are an embarrassment, but Lost in ...

Damn, you know... as a film buff, I always (exclusively!) associated Will Oldham with Danny in John Sayles' Matewan . I had no idea that...

I am stunned by this .

I did not know the word PWNT until this morning. Thanks to Jillo for posting this on the NMN board.

I had no idea these guys were back together! One of the most memorable gigs of my gig-watchin' life was seeing the Volcano Suns at the ...

Baku oil field It’s been a strange few years since September 11th. Things are reminding me more and more of the gloom and doom days of the ...

Photo of Allan and Jillo in the Toronto subway by Mark Forest My ears are still a little tender from the descent into Vancouver yesterday....

Reasons to see Ellen McIlwaine : she scats in Japanese and sometimes yodels (in the universal language of yodelling). She plays a mean slide...

Jack Vermee of the VIFF has sent me a review of Zacharias Kunuk's new film! It doesn't appear to be part of the VIFF, so I guess wil...

Media or no, I have to spend my time perusing the festival guide like anyone else -- so I'm getting started now. Thought I'd mention...