Alienated in Vancouver

Great band, whose new album I've written about twice, here and now here , in a feature in the Georgia Straight this week. It's a ...

Compared to All the Time in the World , written about below, I haven't seen anything else that I've loved at the VIFF, but I've ...

My second ever video posted to Youtube , from Friday at the Fairview... My not too old interview with the frontman, Chris Arnett,  her...

To my surprise, VIFF 2014 has been dominated by a film I wouldn't even have seen if it hadn't been for my girlfriend, Erika; All t...

So here we are four days into the film festival, and I haven't been able to see a single VIFF film that wasn't a Vimeo screener. Bee...

...speaking of gigs, the Evaporators are apparently bowing out of opening for the Sonics because Nardwuar has injured his back! Bummer, man!...

Fuck it, I'm going to a gig this Friday! And guess what: it's not going to be Poison Idea. Prepare to hate me, bacause I have a ...

So it totally excites me that ("Vancouver's best underrated '80's art-punk band," though Elizabeth Fischer may have ...

Note: most of these are now gone.  Attention thrift store shoppers and vinyl fiends... the Ridge Meadows Hospice Thrift Store (on 224th a...

Damn I love Patricia Highsmith (seen above in a rare nude photo). Gotta love a cranky old misanthropic weirdo writing stories about snails...

My first VIFF feature of the year is for the Straight, not my blog! I thought Black Fly a solid drama - a little brutal at times, but qu...

Sorry folks, I'm very busy this month. The VIFF is, of course, upcoming and I do plan to write about what films I manage to see, but I a...

I woke up with memory of several moments in dreams last night. One involved picking up a snake; I believed it was a harmless little garter...

Well, Criterion has replied to my query about the missing material from Love Streams (see the comments section of that article). I fully t...

I have decided, after my conversation with Cinema Sewer 's Robin Bougie, below, to see all the the Zebedy Colt films I can. He's k...