Alienated in Vancouver

One of the great misses of horror cinema is Clive Barker's Nightbreed. The film, like the novel Cabal on which it's based, has one...

Apropos of the upcoming Cinema Salon screening of Down by Law   on Tuesday, there's a very interesting, short interview with John L...

When highly media-oriented, attention seeking madmen go on killing sprees, doesn't it seem kind of contrary to public interest (not to m...

A confession: the shooting death of a giraffe in Chris Marker 's Sans Soleil was so upsetting to watch that I have avoided revisiting t...

Hey, some seller has posted the Spores singles, "Meat BiProduct" and "Narcs In My Pants," on eBay. He's also got No...

Who even knew that, at least up until last Friday, R. G. Armstrong was still alive? Since he appeared to be a grouchy fifty year old in ...

(This is what happens, I blog one thing, get re-attached to the blog, and then suddenly there's ten other blogposts spring to mind...)...

Weird and disturbing (and news to me, though not exactly fresh off the press): Lamb of God's upcoming show in Vancouver has been cancell...

I'm in the midst of what may prove a momentary patch of non-enthusiasm for blogging. Working on paid stuff, trying to figure out what...

I'm interviewing a prominent punk figure tomorrow about an upcoming concert in Vancouver, and had been thinking the time zones backwards...

Looks like Scratch Records will be closing up shop for good - Keith Parry has announced on Facebook that it was the "third last day ope...

Darren Williams Eugene Chadbourne poster!

Eugene Chadbourne by Femke van Delft, not to be reused without permission Outside guitar/ banjo virtuoso Eugene Chadbourne returns to V...

Addendum: it's my understanding that Ejaculation Death Rattle have been added to the bill for Sunday. And yes, folks, that's ...

Those of you eager to see the Meatmen at Fortune Sound Club on August 9th should take note that copies of the awesome Touch and Go hardc...

Heads up, folks: today and tomorrow are the last two days to catch the theatrical run of one of the most unique, immersive, original SF...

Chris Walter reads at The Cobalt, photos by Femke van Delft; not to be reused without permission I did a kind of massive interview ...

Thanks go out to Cinema Sewer 's Robin Bougie, who posts some real gems of Facebook (and I don't even particularly care about vintag...

In gratitude to Ray Davies for answering a few of my questions , I have to post a few more links to favourite Kinks' songs of mine, ...

Well, looks like I won't be blogging anything else re:  Beyond the Black Rainbow.  Other than a Chris Walter piece in the next week to p...