Alienated in Vancouver

I've just begun the 2009 AMC remake of The Prisoner , starring Jim Caviezel and Sir Ian McKellan. It condenses the action of the serie...

Weird: I reviewed two albums for the Straight this week. One I personally have almost no interest in, though I had to concede it was very ...

Not the official list, yet, but here's a peek online to what Record Store Day 2013 holds in store . I am trying to be very prudent wit...

In respect of the passing, at age 77, of  Stompin' Tom Connors , I want to share a lesson plan I cooked up for use in intermediate ESL...

Had a delightful shock watching a 1957 film noir, written by esteemed noir author Jo Eisinger (a man). The film, Crime of Passion , stars...

Man. Alvin Lee died ! I don't own a single Ten Years After album, nor did I even know he was still alive, but his guitar at that Woodsto...

Oh, man. This is kind of an embarrassing dream to relate. I was at some sort of work function - a party or such. The Bad Brains were playi...

Yesterday, waiting outside Videomatica/ Zulu for a bus to get me to the West Coast Express, I noticed, some blocks away, across 4th Ave, a h...

Holy shit - Mark Harris has died, at 62 years old - his obituary made the Straight today. Mark was the only professor I remained in touch w...

Not my article, but it's kinda neat: my thought, when pitching Rangda (playing tomorrow night at the Rickshaw) was that the article shou...

Shinya Tsukamoto's famed Japanese cyberpunk/ industrial body horror film Tetsuo: The Iron Man will screen at the Rio Theatre , hoste...

Check this out - it's slow, delicate, restrained, and yet deeply stoned: Rangda's " Silver Nile ," off their 2012 alb...

Joe Keithley by bev.davies, taken at the January 18th DOA "Vancouver farewell," not to be re-used without permission Barring ...

Apparently Steve Newton of the Straight has tweeted that John Dies At The End will return to the Rio Theatre on March 28th, in a double b...

Given our two hour conversation, this is only the tip of the iceberg - the bottom of which so far has yet to be published in English! - bu...

Well, plans for a piece of writing about Crazy Horse went a bit awry: it looked like I was going to be interviewing the director, esteem...

Some real classics are included in the Cinematheque's upcoming spaghetti westerns series , and some less-than-classics, and a couple I d...

I just finished John Dies At The End . It's delightful - it's like what would happen if H.P. Lovecraft wrote comedy. I have no ide...

Arguably my favourite song about consumerism - right up there with The Clash's "Lost in the Supermarket" - is Japanese dub r...

I've been too preoccupied with reading John Dies At The End (see below) to write much lately, but I thought I would share an extremely ...