Alienated in Vancouver

As I commented here , Ms. Clark's strategy during the debate last night, whenever she was confronted with a question she could not, or d...

Guess which band , in their original lineup, has announced a Vancouver date this summer? It's going to sell out in something like three ...

Ha! Someone attached to the Facebook group, I Fucking Love Heavy Metal , shared the above image online today. It's almost identical t...

Opening at the Cinematheque tomorrow - Leviathan , the new documentary from the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Labs. My Straight interview w...

Allan Arbus died, at age 95, the other day, though his passing was not much remarked upon at the time (for whatever reason, it didn't...

In honour of our overlapping "holidays," at some point today I will smoke marijuana while listening to vinyl out here in the '...

I haven't been watching that many zombie movies lately, honestly. Last night's zombie apocalypse dream must be a metaphor for my lif...

I had initially gotten very excited to hear that Russian folk metal band Arkona were going to tour through Vancouver, and expressed my di...

Cinephiles ho! A truly remarkable film plays the Vancity Theatre this Sunday, a genuinely unique, visually impressive, moody and beautiful...

With certain interviews I do, I still have to stare down the demon procrastination, even after nine years (!) of interviewing people for pri...

Me in a nutshell: when some given thing - a band, an album, a film, what-have-you - is vastly praised from every corner (and earns million...

Hm. So it looks like I'll regularly have hours on Mondays at Carson Books (4275 Dunbar) for the next while, and will check in with del...

Okay, I kind of have to see this. I have managed to date to avoid The Green Slime , since it sounds like it might just be awful, but Mess...

Spotted second-hand at Carson Books and Records (4275 Dunbar), where I've pulled a couple shifts recently: Will Eisner's PS Magaz...

Found some marvelous Javanese and Balinese gamelan music on vinyl at a Value Village today - four albums worth, at $1.99 each. It's a gr...

...that title being a silly play on the title of an old Sonic Youth song . (It beat calling it "Today on the Train"). We migh...

Found on the shelf at Carson Books (4275 Dunbar - my part-time bookstore gig): Be Elvis: A Guide to Impersonating the King , by Rick Mari...

I would write an obit for Les Blank , but I've never actually seen any of his films. Nope, not even Burden of Dreams or Werner Herzog...

Bad cellphone photographs by Allan MacInnis Abundant thanks to Dave Bowes and his friend Darlene for making it possible for me to go...