Alienated in Vancouver

People seeking blandly entertaining but competently made genre fare to watch with their aging Moms can do no wrong with The Lincoln Lawyer ....

Working on writing, but not for this blog. Will post links when I get'em up.

Yep - the "other guitarist" who joined Motörhead at the same time as Phil Campbell (but eventually left the band without being rep...

Made an unscheduled trip into Vancouver today to scan the drawings for the post below and check out the Scarebro gig, which was cheap, brief...

Based on a true story, from last week sometime, when I finally saw the Golers, and ran into Bison BC cover artist Mike Payette at the Pender...

James Farwell by Femke van Delft. Not to be reused w/out permission Bison BC fans should take note: James, Brad, and Bison cover artist Mike...

Yet ANOTHER cool event coming up - Titan's Eve headlining Riffs Not Riots at the Fortune Sound Club, on July 13th. I wrote about Titan...

Poster by Rot N' Hell! One of us, indeed! The Odd Ball, happening at Funky Winkerbeans this weekend, is being described as that venue...

Looks like KIKI Band won a lot of fans at the David Lam Park show, which I was glad to see, but I haven't the stamina or time to write a...

Things seem to be going well ...!

Received in my inbox today - the venue isn't mentioned but I think it's the Astoria: WEDNESDAY JULY 6TH 10PM Sharp-1am, open jam fro...

Glenn Erickson of DVD Savant wrote a very engaging and useful piece about the pleasures of owning physical media . I second his thoughts. I ...

For me the high point, thus far, of the ongoing "Surreelists" series at the Vancity Theatre is the double bill this Wednesday and ...

Sad irony: DOA are coming to my hometown, Maple Ridge, where I now reside, to play a free show... and I ain't gonna be here! The Facebo...

A small part of my conscience has been ill at ease for months. John Lurie, having been, to all appearances, rather viciously betrayed by a h...

The jazzfest is underway, and I've missed most of what has happened thus far - I've only gotten to see Peter Brotzmann, kicking thin...

First (you gotta read this part first to understand what's next), I just woke up from a dream. In the dream, I had talked the Vancity Th...

Susanne Tabata's history of the first generation of Vancouver punk, Bloodied But Unbowed , screens tonight in Victoria at Lucky Bar as p...

Okay, okay, really now: that's it for awhile. Have a good jazzfest - I'll try to check in midweek with some more stuff from Kazutoki...

From the films of John Cassavetes to a film adaptation of Jean Genet's The Balcony to Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire to (yes, even) ...