Alienated in Vancouver

A friend, who shall go nameless, has sent me an excellent link to a blog being kept by the Unabomber's brother, David Kaczynski, specul...

No writing at the moment. Adapting to a new computer, getting a bunch of dental work done before I'm without an extended medical plan, d...

One of the most optimistic gestures directed at Barack Obama is that David Rees suspended Get Your War On once he took office. Operation End...

January 15th at the Rickshaw - Download, Dead Voices on Air, and Gnome & Spybey! A Spybey kinda night! Also pLATEAU, Wet Mango, and DJ D...

...apparently it's been out for quite awhile, but I missed it: Chris D., of LA punk band the Flesheaters and Divine Horsemen, has an an...

Captain Beefheart has died , of complications from MS, at age 69. I have nothing in particular to say about him, but for whatever its worth,...

All photos by Femke van Delft, taken at No Fun Alone At Christmas 2008. Not to be RWP, etc. Guest in middle photo: Michael Unger, of comedy ...

I don't really care about Christopher Nolan's films, but I've somehow managed to see all of them so far. While Following and Mem...

Have you ever had (gasp) a drug experience? Did you combine it, most eagerly, with cinema? Are you the kind of person, say, who might watch ...

Dan And of Bison BC, photo by Femke van Delft, not to be reused without permission For a mid-December weekend, there's a lot happening ...

It's 5:10 AM. I have a cold, and can't sleep - I have a sort of dull pain behind my face, I'm too plugged-up to use my CPAP mach...

Awhile back, I posted about a persistent mystery: I had long been convinced that somewhere in a Howard the Duck comic, Howard encounters Ti...

Bison BC by Femke van Delft, not to be reused without permission Vancouver's hairiest band, Bison BC , make another foray into the Bilt...

One of the best thrillers in the history of the form, Clouzot's The Wages of Fear - the basis for the remarkable William Friedkin remak...

Certain elements of the dream remain in my mind - still half-asleep as I sit here - but the overall structure, the narrative arc, are obscur...

See below for my thoughts on You Don't Like the Truth . The film repeats on Tuesday, for anyone who missed it: Tuesday November 30, 2010...

Tonight on Plenty of Fish, I have clicked on about two dozen profiles and sent - or tried to send - two messages. Of the profiles I didn...

Just wanted to wish all you Nick Cave fans a happy Grinderman concert tonight. I was at the Lollapallooza, helping mind a friend's New-A...