Alienated in Vancouver

I guess when I get four great photos of a band from bev davies, it will be bad form to mix and match with my mediocre cellphone pics, eh? (U...

Sounds like a cool event , and there's free entry, so I guess attendance is down to ones schedule: the Vancouver Video-drome series, af...

Caught the theatrical debut of When Marnie Was There at the Vancity on Friday. It's the new, and possibly the final, Studio Ghibli fi...

So I posted awhile ago about the difficulties I experienced trying to submit a sperm sample for fertility testing. Once you negotiate the ph...

I owed Mo at the Rickshaw one, so I did a feature on Bif Naked , whom I normally don't follow. Now my girlfriend is laughing at me becau...

So I have two new features on the Reverend Horton Heat, based on a conversation I had with Jim Heath a few weeks ago: this one in Big Takeov...

Chatted with "porn archaelogist" Dimitrios Otis at the Ed Wood screening the other week (see below); enjoyed his presentation and ...

This was prompted by some people discussing quitting smoking on Facebook. I managed to quit after being a pack-and-a-half-a-day chainsmoker;...

One of my better decisions this year was to buy a couple of packages of Colin Upton comics. It was a bit of a fraught transaction, becaus...

It would be wholly unreasonable of me to go to a movie like Mad Max: Fury Road expecting to get a character-driven drama - or to complain a...

So I'm neither a porn connoisseur nor an Ed Wood fan, but more from lack of exposure than lack of interest. I'm perfectly willing ...

Right, so... too busy to do much blogging, but it's a cool week of upcoming stuff, by me... The Killing of a Chinese Bookie on Tuesday....

Those of you who have complained about my occasionally writing about masturbation might want to tune out now. Jerking off and sex are two...

So Neil Hagerty will play the Fox Cabaret on Saturday. I don't know his music that well - some of his albums sound like kind of pseudo...

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is one of John Cassavetes' most interesting films, and one of his most self-reflexive; it stands in r...

After a friend who shall remain nameless expressed his admiration for Inherent Vice , I resolved to see it, but I didn't necessarily mea...

Couple of cool gigs upcoming for old time Vancouver punks, or those like me who weren't really a part of their first generation scene, b...

Caught up with the 1990 thriller  Miami Blues tonight and was delighted at how fun it is. It's a rare film that I like more on revisit...

So Dexter, the first time around, threw me just after Season 6. I have friends who got thrown around Season 5, though as a fan of Julia Sti...

My show review, with great pics from bev davies, is here . A few bad photos that I took are below: