Alienated in Vancouver

Bear with me for a moment, I need to set this up: since his name came up in a recent interview I did with Mike Watt - see the next two Nerve...

Done when I was volunteering with Riverview's Art Therapy program (waiting for a meeting to start). I think it took me about 20 minutes ...

Cinema has lost one of its greatest voices.

So y'all know the Pointed Sticks play the Red Room August 25th, and some of you mighta heard about the Furies CD release party Saturday ...

Peter Watkins' Edvard Munch is a very intense film, and one of the few "lives of the artist" films that I really admire. Too ...

In the dream, I have herpes, or some other odd condition - a cluster of black spots at the base of my glans, on the right side. I don't ...

I am only slowly starting to realize it: I fucking hate downtown Vancouver. I hate living here, hate walking around the streets, hate what i...

I don't have time to read it, but I have time to link it .

It's Vulgar Engrish Week ! Yay!

Police Beat is a fascinating film experience, one I've returned to several times - six, I think, at last count, and I'm not yet tir...

My Subhumans article has finally come out in Punk Planet #80. It is the FINAL ISSUE of the magazine - it is gone. The reasons why are best e...

Of interests to activists, peaceniks, Catholics and students of the 1960s: I have a double bill at Blim scheduled for July 20th about Danie...

This is the full text of my interview with Reg Harkema about his film Monkey Warfare , as ran in a shortened version in a past Discorder. Mo...

Eugene Chadbourne with Ghosts on Fire, featuring Han Bennink on drums, at the Cobalt, June 20th, 2007 (Photos by Femke van Delft) Didn't...

In The American Nightmare , I think it’s Carol J. Clover who makes the cleverly memorable comment that horror films are “boot camps for th...

Another weird dream: though I'm not sure of my identity in it - it was almost like a 3rd person omniscient dream, if you can imagine tha...

The Polish film Possession is a very weird and dark look at male-female relationships - so dark and weird that I cannot begin to describe i...

...so there I am, walking along what I guess is Sunset Beach - the demarcations between beaches here are not clear to me - and I decide to w...

Eugene Chadbourne, left, Allan MacInnis, right. Photo by Dan Kibke In addition to his tenure at the VCMI, which has already begun, Eugene Ch...

... a new prank in Calgary ...