Alienated in Vancouver

If I could make it to Vancouver tomorrow I would see Smoked - official site here , Adrian Mack interview with the director here - at the...

Sorry, Pointed Sticks. Sorry, Rio Grind. There's so much going on in Vancouver tomorrow that I would genuinely love to participate in......

For those not blowing off seasonal viewing to catch Shirley Clarke movies at the Cinematheque (see below), there are a couple of Hallowee...

Just a thought: isn't it past time that CD and DVD manufacturers, distributors, and retailers faced up to reality and started LOWERING T...

Made a night crossing to Vancouver Island on the weekend; somehow, crossing in the dark in foul weather was vastly more exciting than the us...

Oh, wow: I didn't even know about this. The Rio Theatre is going to be running a festival of genre films this weekend. What a great, t...

...of Silent Hill: Revelation 3-D ; this is the only positive review presently on Rotten Tomatoes, where the film has an 8% critical approv...

Over the next few days, the Cinematheque will be housing screenings of films by Shirley Clarke: The Connection and Ornette: Made in Amer...

Dream: I return to Japan for work. My parents are both alive during this dream, and my Mom can speak normally; she makes me promise to call ...

One of my favourite-ever punk songs is " Manzanar ," by ChThree ( Channel 3 ), a highly unique song about the internment of Jap...

... she was only 60 ! I was thinking, recently - after reading about one of those scandals where a teenaged boy was seduced by an older w...

Revered Japanese filmmaker and shit-disturber  Wakamatsu Kouji - whose excellent film on a fascinating chapter in the history of Japanese...

Issue 88 of CineAction , featuring my discussion of Robin Wood's criticisms of David Cronenberg's early features, is out now. You ...

Jon Jost has created an online petition designed to pressure Ray Carney into returning Mark Rappaport's materials to him. (Go here for...

Copies of the limited vinyl first pressing of Joe Strummer's "comeback" LP, Rock Art and the X-Ray Style have been fetching...

Just a few Neil Young tips for anyone who might care: Chapters is now selling the hardcover version of Young's autobiography, Waging Hea...

Thanks to Judith Beeman, for sharing this with the world on Facebook - a hilarious Henry Rollins anecdote on Iggy Pop .

It's kind of funny, after the list of people I've interviewed and interacted with - including larger-than-life figures like Lemm...